Tough enough for Everest There are places where your old, rugged van can look a touch van ordinaire. Places where it looks...

7 indsor legal e Windsor Cordon is le g al. -d Dennin g has thrown out joint RHA / FTA/ NFU appeal einst Berkshire County Couns...

THE THREAT from the Greater London Council to ban roadtrains from London was as predictable as the emotive language used by the...

E WINDSOR CORDON is legal. Master of the Rolls Lord nning ruled last week that the scheme which keeps heavy es out of a 40sq...

IN THE WAKE of the Windsor Cordon judgment, local authorities' cordon plans are being dusted down ready for blanket...

UNION LEADERS have reacted angrily to British Road Services group managing director David White's suggestion that haulage wages...

Its most immediate effect was the birth, on July 1, of the National Freight Company Ltd, the Companies Act enterprise which,...

cent cut across the board, and includes production-line, administrative, and managerial staff , He pointed out that, while...

AT LEAST 100 jobs . will be created when White Truck Concessionaires open their Merseyside factory (CM June 28) in September....

AN UNECONOMIC fixed Channel link could lead to restrictions on ferry services, says the Freight Transport Association. In...

JAPANESE commercial vehicles are poised to take on world, according to a £1,000 report just published by Economist Intelligence...

THE DEMAND for laboui road haulage is down, an is likely to go on droppi says Overdrive, the contt driving subsidiary of M...

RRY WEIGHTS should go up to 44 nes, according to the Society of Motor nufacturers and Traders, but its cials are prepared to...

iE LONDON Boroughs ;sociation wants to see awbar vehicles banned 3m the capital's roads, though the Association res accept that...

COMMON MARKET officials are now more optimistic that their controversial proposals for harmonising EEC lorry weights will lead...

AT FIRST it seemed that Labour MPs were going to stick firmly to their principles and try to throw out almost all the...

!CREASED LORRY weights will not affect the Governent's trunk road programme until after the Armitage Inquiry is reported in the...

see whether vehicles over 3.5 exempted from the tachograph HE Transport Minister is to letric tons liveweight can be...

the Deailment of Transport to give rivers and operators a clear iew of how they are Ffected by the regulations. It ; available...

FURTHER CM Lorry Driver of the Year results have been announced for the following areas: Bristol. Class A: A. Clark, Avon Area...

A REVISED VAT leaflet entitled Cancelling Your Registration, details new turnover limits which were introduced on June 1. The...

THE INSTITUTE of Transport Managers has broken with the previously Dublin based organisation and has set up 14 new regions in...

LIFE without the lorry is the theme of a new film from the Freight Transport Association titled Delivering the Goods launched...

NEGOTIATIONS with the Finnish Ministry of Communications have resulted in the abolition on a reciprocal basis of the UK/Finland...

LOANS ranging from £5,000 to £250,000 for up to 10 year are available in a new Midland Bank Venture Loan Schein, specially...

A NEW COMPANY, Ca, wright Freight Systems L of Deansgate, Mancheste has been formed to hand the design, manufacture ar...

HUMBERSIDE operator has been given a stay of execution !lowing a hearing before the Yorkshire deputy Licensing uthority N. F....

THE 12.8-kilometre-long Frejus Tunnel — which will cut the journey between France and the Northern Italian industrial area...

ON'T regard tachographs as necessary evils — make the ost of the information they provide. That was the message at came across...

THE carriage of goods on ownaacount between the UK and Italy was freed from all quota and permit restrictions from July 1,...

A DOUBLE-TRACK Channel tunnel would attract most freight traffic, according to Professor Christopher Foster, who has undertaken...

George A. Brazier was stopped at Tankhill Road, Purfleet on March 3, 1980, in his threeton lorry, loaded with scrap. He failed...

ANTRAK FREIGHT h moved its headquarters Towers Road, Globe Indu rial Estate, Grays, Ess( from Hayes, Middlesex. T company,...

AT GRAYS magistrates' co last week, Keith Graham Siv , was fined £15 for not having operator's licence, and a furtl £15 for...

RTHCOM I NG noise limits will be met by such vehicles as British Quiet Heavy Vehicle, says the Noise Advisory uncil's working...

MOTAPRODUCTS Automotive Ltd of Kings Norton, Birmingham has announced a new range of timing belts to cover 95 per cent of all...

SU-Butec has introduced an internally regulated, 32 amp, 24V alternator to meet the service requirements of operators using AC5...

RANSQUIP INTERNATIONAL has developed a special type ailer to carry indivisible loads due to weight, bulk or as a )mbination of...

The trailer Company, York .ailer International, and oirk Rentals remains unianged at Corby 3561. DAVCO announces a built-in...

A NEW NYLON road marker, developed by John Bjorlund Co, of Gothenburg, Sweden, is claimed to aid road safety and reduce...

A NEW AIR deflector fl mounting on box bodies lohn launched last week by BE Permali RP Ltd, tF Gloucester-based compar which...

ATKINSON'S of Clitheroe Ltd is marketing a snowplough as an approved attachment to the Stonefield range of trucks and...

E. M. WILCOX Ltd, the Peterborough bodybuilder, has introduced a range of smaller tipper bodies to suit vehicles from 3.5 to 16...

'HE FIRST bank of a complex of computer controlled engine est cells has been commissioned at Perkins Engines Ltd's eterborough...

THE PROPOSED merger between Rolls-Royce Motors and the engineering group Vickers will give the diesel engine division of RR a...

A SPECIALISED air brake centre was opened in Liverpool last Tuesday by A. E. Edmunds Walker. It shares premises with the...

THE TRANSPORT and General Workers Union has launched an eleventh hour campaign of action against the 1980 Transport Act, and...

London bus services, it was suggested in the Commons last week. Robert Adley (Con., Christchurch and Lymington) backed up his...

GOVERNMENT plans for fare paying passengers to allowed to travel on local authority school buses were pass last week, despite...

BUS CREWS' leaders h back this week at Great London Council claims th they have been holding hal on productivity on Lon&...

THE DOLMUS may one day be seen on British roads; Norman Fowler, the Transport Minister, seemed to be somewhat taken by the idea...

THIS Willowbrook-bodied Leyland Leopard bus has been almost completely rebuilt by National Bus Company subsidiary Yorkshire...

IN CM June 14 it was reported that Bournemouth-based Excelsior European Motorways had placed orders for two Jonckheere-bodied...

THE Transport Act's road servicing licence provisions are to be brought into effect from October 6. Announcing this in the...

DESPITE the Transport Minister's inspector recommen- ding that an appeal by G. Liversedge, trading as Morris Green Coaches,...

INFRASTRUCTURE is one of those words which gives the European Economic Community a bad name. Laymen, and even professionals...

All in favour of CB radio I HAVE READ and thought about your comments in your editorial of May 24 entitled ''Dangerous toys -...

WITH reference to your edition for week ending June 21 I would like to comment on your report in respect of the R M A...

I WAS AMAZED to read your editorial comment in the issue of May 24 regarding Citizens' Band Radio. May I ask you to reply...

ALTHOUGH British industry is often derided because of its less than happy industrial relations record, there are bright patches...

THREE Dutch companies, each one an acknowledged leader in a special field of business, have founded a joint consultancy...

WEST BERLIN now operates a total of 42 specially equipped minibuses for the transport of handicapped passengers. Sponsored by...

A GERMAN hydroelectric power station at Schluchsee, in the Black Forest, has become the latest member of the electric vehicle...

Steve Gray road tests the latest Haulmaster 6x4 tipper,weighing in at just 6.18 tonnes. Brian Weatherley took the pictures...

DOES anyone know a driver who has lost a dog? A white collie bitch with a black patch over one eye has been found by one of...

AS PART of its efforts to wean a prodigal public away from petrol, the US Federal Government is to meet about a quarter of the...

A ROSS electric milk float lent by Express Dairy has made the 262-mile journey from Bebington, Wirral, to Brighton. It carried...

IS THERE an idea for coach operators in the new AA Book of British Villages? It records in words and pictures life in 700 of...

DRIVERS who think they are hard done-by might change their tune after reading the valediction to George Gains, of Dor to Dor...

Joking apart, nis company is winning exports through its expertise in Middle Eastern and European mar,ets. By Bill Brock SMALL...

THE HIGH-SPEED diesel for automotive use is the subject of the majority of these conference papers although one or two are...

GM's Britis, ommercial AS ITS NAME suggests, this is a history of the Bedford Company, and it starts off by making an...

THE AUTHOR of this soft-cover book is an American and much of his text is devoted to experience gained with electric vehicles...

IF tachographs are inevitable — and they are — sit back and make the best use of them. How? David Lowe has thought of that and...

ONLY a proper costing exercise will prove whether it is cheaper for an international haulier to accept higher ferry rates and...

When it comes to overseas sales, manufacturers have a strong ally in he Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders John Durant...

In the cut-throat overseas mar,et, Leyland's performance spells life or cean to the UK bus indus - ry. Noel 1Vililier assesses...

For operators the Roadtrain can be a winner but cab nod and noisy splitter will lessen its appear to criyers, says Tim...

Consider your routes. An Allison Automatic Transmission in your delivery vehicle can help you deliver more goods and save you...

TOPIC Confidence trick 'While the Government is receiving three times as much in road tax as it disburses, the exact division...