ALMOST a third of all roac transport operators say the plan to cut their worldorces according to contract drivinE agency...

THE ARMITAGE INQUIRY ha: abandoned plans to inspect thr York Trailer company's 40-tonni trailers, due to the pressure having to...

HAULIERS should make more use of market research, according to National Freight Corporation chief executive Peter Thompson. Mr...

IGHTER control has helped ave the Home Office £80,000 a ear in vehicle hire charges. Speaking in London this week, lame Office...

LEYLAND VEHICLES last weel renewed its appeal for type ap provel to be used to tighten ui on importers standards, wher Industry...

HE FIRST road-haulage perator due to appear on iarges of breaking the new UK whograph regulations is now ) plead not guilty....

TWO pickets were jailed and five others given suspended sentences last week after they admitted causing £5,000 damage to eight...

BRITISH and West-German lorry manufacturers are leading the Common Market in research designed to lower levels of engine noise,...

WILCOX YOU build a quality product and people think it costs the earth. That's the myth that has grown up around the superb...

- change jobs! They're sick of deadly carbon monoxide or choking diesel fumes pumping into their service bays and their...

NE SHOULD not be too obsessed about lorries and the apparent misance they cause, Greater London Council assistant chief 3Ianner...

could caus delays. Most have been advise to us by the Automobile Ass: ciation. Scotland: M8 has lane ell sures on the...

AN OPERATOR setting up business in North-east England has been granted a 12-month 0-licence, despite its connection with a...

SODIUM CHLORATE should be stored away from ignition sources, flammable solvents and combustible materials to avoid the danger...

I. MODULAR collection system, which features significant ad antages in catching, translofting and off-loading live multry, has...

ROAD system costing £4,475m : 1979 prices will be needed by le early 1990s if London and le South-east is to overcome its...

RATES of as low as E5 per 100kg are being offered by Northdown Freight Services on groupage between Britain and Italy. The...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association points out that, contrary to CM September 27, it is not against a possession tax for light...

MAKING their debut at the Paris Show are Bedford's van and lorry ranges which replace the CF-Series. new light Contrary to...

MERCEDES-BENZ has plugged two gaps in its UK model line-up with the introduction of the 16175 tractive unit and the 1213 13-ton...

Mirror washer TRICO-FOLBERTH Ltd of B ford, Middlesex, has introduce what it claims to be the world first rear-view mirror...

A NEW speed-control system for heavy commercial vehicles (including coaches) has been developed by Econocruise Ltd of 180 Wood...

ONDON TRANSPORT's much-heralded XRM bus project is to get he chop, if the Greater London Council agrees. So said LT manag19...

THE DIESEL bus is so energy efficient that it will probably last until at least the beginning of the next century. That was...

PASSENGER Transport Executives are unnecessary, unsatisfactory, undemocratic, and should be abolished as separate entities,...

WIDELY expected to be the flagship of its bus range, Leyland Vehicles finally launched its Olympian double-deck chassis this...

TI Metsec Ltd's ckd vehicle dill sion's trade and assets hal been bought by Duple Intern. tional Ltd. The acquired singlean...

LONDON TRANSPORT has ar flounced it plans to take on th British Airways Central Londo to Heathrow Airport bus servict In what...

iCANIA's BR112DH double-decker bus chassis has been revealed bodied for the first time, and looks like becoming one of the most...

WESTERN NATIONAL is taking advantage of the Transport Act on October 6 by launching a two-hourly Exeter-Plymouth express...

month VOLVO is launching two models at the Motor Show this the Ailsa 3 double-decker and the B1OM coach. The Ailsa 3, which...

BORDERS Regional Council says its Border Courier combined Passenger and goods public transport service, run in cooperation with...

SCOTTISH Bus Group operators are to receive 225 new buses and coaches worth about £10rr during next year. Orders placed...

COACH DEALER Baker West i to dispose of its entire stock a used coaches and is to with draw from the coach sales busi ness....

has been published, updating those given in CM December 29, 1979 and February 23, 1980. them Traffic Area: Union Truck - s My...

)/CE AGAIN The Hawk (CM, igust 16) has a go at unions U lorry drivers. He accuses ith of causing serious inflation • ridiculous...

IN CM August 2 issue, there are two letters about tyres — one from Michelin and one from Dunlop. And in both of them the same...

I REALISE CM will have had letters from the usual tail-end cranks that plague any controversial campaign, but I take this...

Roadtrain's making it at the top end of till market, but how about other models in Leyland's extensive range? To find out wha...

The lady loves a lorry S Deidre Rayson the only voman driver of a 32-ton-gross anker? She works for Tankreight and is quite a...

"THE UK needs an entirely new infrastructure for robots," according to Brian W. Small and Peter Foyer. They are to make their...

"ALCOHOL without water is virtually non-existent," says Perkins. This was certainly not my impression after spending a Saturday...

• WHAT WILL the backroom boys get up to next? Those in International Paint's vehicle finishes division in Birmingham, as far as...

AMONG the effects of a wealthy man of my acquaintance who died at the age of 90 was a tin box labelled "pieces of string too...

You don't often see that kind of headline, but unusual indeed must be the operator who can't find what he wants in the psv...

Tim Blakemore visits what's claimed to be the most advanced of its kind in Europe: [V's multimillion-pound Moss Side technical...

Just for once, the expression the greatest thing since sliced bread" ; no cliché. 24-tonners are used !xtensively for...

There's been big changes in LV's quality control and backup services, writes Steve Gray, the most revolutionary being the...

WHO has the best bus or coach livery in Britain? We will know on December 6 when we publish the results of our 1980 livery...

lain Sherriff talks to LV's Frank Andrem BRITISH civil servants play village-green cricket while their Japanese counterparts...

Leaving Foster on the shelf 'Armitage expectations, in a kind of optimists' auction, have risen from 36 tonnes to 40, and then...

Closed shops by Douglas Amley THE CLOSED SHOP is not liked by this Government, although it is a fact of our industrial life...

Joining the staff of Abels of Watton to carry out advanced market research is Carole Toole. Miss Toole joins the East Anglia n...