HE National Freight Company's decision to sell a stake n the business to its management and employees has net with all-round...

THIS is the height of the summer coaching season and next week we look at aspects of the coach business. Noel Millier has been...

ALL for a £100 basic wage for a 35-hour week and a return to . tonal wage negotiations will be made when Transport and Gen1...

HAULIERS have called on the major oil companies to adopt a more favourable pricing policy towards them during the recession....

THE PROPOSED sale of National Freight Company shares to management and employees (CM, June 27) could leave the Labour Party on...

THE GOVERNMENT's plan to transfer hgv testing stations to the private sector is by now "a firm proposal", according to Junior...

THE SOCIETY of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has added its voice to those in the industry protesting against the Government's...

THE GLOOM of the trailer manufacturing sector was lightened this week with news that York has secured over Elm worth of export...

THE PROPOSED 7.5-tonr weight limit on lorries enteri a 50 square mile area of Enfie and Barnet in North Lond looked set to be...

RESULTS of the CM Lorry Drive of the Year heats at Bristol are: Class A: D. R. Heath, Briti. Telecom; Class B: D. T. Marti Post...

THE SPORTS MINISTER has disturbed Scottish hauliers by suggesting that the Armitage proposals call for larger lorries. In...

NO SOONER has a new fuel consumption record around CM's Scottish route been set (MAN 16.240 road test page 41 this week) than...

JUNIOR Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke says he thinks that private horseboxes and trailers attending sports events should...

BRITISH European MPs have given a cool reception to suggestions that the Common Market may pour as much as £22m into new...

WINCANTON Transport's £5.5n transport and maintenanci centre at Darlaston, in the Wes Midlands, was opened last weel by Unigate...

TRANSFLEET claims that it is offering British operators the most comprehensive money-back guarantee scheme for commercial...

FROM TODAY the correspondence course on the Certificate of Professional Competance previously run by CM and Transport Driver...

HAULIER'S appeal against Maidstone Borough Council's planning nforcement notice requiring the company to stop using its The...

k NEW BRANCH of the TIP ['railer Rental business is to be )pened in Dublin. The Watford-based company, vhich has 50 branches...

THE AMEY Roadstone Co poration is providing a new or fleet to take on a contract t move household and ins waste from Greater...

TWO employers were treated as being associated if one company'. had indirectly or directly control of the other, or both...

A PROTOTYPE lightweight curtainsider built by York Trailers at Northallerton has been delivered to Joshua Tetley & Son, the...

THE British Standards Institution has published BS 6107 Roller Bearings: Tolerances, Part 1 which is identical with the...

A NEW RANGE of flow contro and flow divider valves for us( with its hydraulic gear pump( has been introduced by Dowti Hydraulic...

AMEY ROADSTONE has ordered 39 Leyland Constructor 30.25 chassis from the London Truck Centre at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. The...

IE PRINCIPLE of the Van Doorne Transmatic automatic transmisms system has at last been adapted for road vehicle use, but it iII...

k GUIDANCE Note on reducing he risk of fire and explosion in he operation of vehicle inishing units has been pubished by the...

DATSUN has introduced a new 2.63-ton panel van giving a payload capacity of 1,320kg (26cwt). The E23 Urvan is said to have a...

A LOCKABLE filler/breather fro UCC International Ltd of That ford, Norfolk, is claimed to en sure a high degree of protectio...

THE INCREASING trade in cheap imitation products from Sou east Asia bearing well-known trade marks has caused gra concern in...

OODYEAR'S revolutionary radial steel cv tyre with self-adjusting read is now available in the UK following an intensive...

A MOBILE demonstration unit built for Switzerland will be used to exhibit Du Pont's Automatic Clinical Analyser to hospital...

DETAIL modifications suggested by drivers have been built into the latest 40 Boalloy Localiner bodies made at Gongleton,...

AFTER long-term trials, Lancashire Police have joined the 19 police forces in Britain which have vehicles fitted with Clear...

THE BIGGEST single problem facing operators in London is that of congestion the Confederation of British Road Passenger...

REPRESENTATIONS made by the Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport following a number of cases at the end of last...

A GLASGOW bus driver wh was surprised by two men whi he was trying to prise mon from his Fast Fare sealed cor vault, claims he...

FTER it was revealed that a conviction on drivers' hours and cords offences related to the operation of heavy goods vehicles nd...

DUE TO the large numbers of coaches expected to visit London for the royal wedding on July 29, the Metropolitan Police has...

Bus driver goes to pot A BUS driver whose public se vice vehicle driving licence wi revoked after he was convicte of growing a...

CROSVILLE has specially adapted a Bristol RE single-deck bus to cater specifically for wheelchair-bound passengers. The bus,...

YOUR issue of June 6 you rried a letter from Geoffrey Steel of Wallace Arnold in which e comments on a speech I ecently made....

APTIVE audience of hauliers II endure a good deal of iting. Any one of the various perts invited to address them .ill agree...

UCCESS has to be won and ictory goes to the perceptive d experienced man and if he s the strength of character to ke a...

ticular market — as far as the VW 3ide was concerned it was certainly very different to the high volume integral van market....

synchromesh and constant mesh, though there is now a noticeable trend towards the use of the former in MAN chassis....

[OUTSTANDINGLY g9od fuel economy but journey times on 1 ' the slow side sums up the results of our road test of the MAN 16.240...

// I / No.14,1981 ill performance Economical and quiet the enine may be, but one thing it oesn't have is an abundance of nque....

MAN, or Maschinenfabrik Augs-, urg-Nurnberg AG to give the ompany its full title, has what is ossibly the best advert of any...

FOR COACH operators the 25 to 29-seat category of vehicle is one that many manufacturers have long seemed to neglect. Only the...

irivers' locker is incorpoin the engine cover, but I arnewhat concerned to see the oil dipstick was only sible via the engine...

NEW heater—model D31 11,200 .3TU diesel-fired — has been introduced by Eberspacher (UK) Limited. It is the stretched verq,ion...

to take place over the t three months. Please send letails of forthcoming events /like Rutherford at CM, Room , Quadrant House,...

by Douglas Ainley QUAL opportunity policies n't work without good emloyment practices and the qual Opportunities Commis- , ion...