OODS VEHICLE operators will be refused authority to run rivatised heavy goods vehicle test stations, Transport Uner Secretary...

VOLVO's world-wide commercial vehicle sales rose by 34 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared to the same period...

MANAGEMENT OF Manchester-based Blue Dart Transport has agreed to buy the company's goodwill and certain of its assets from the...

THE GOVERNMENT is determined ment for heavy lorries. That was the message from Transport Under Secretary Reginald Eyre when he...

PROFIT before tax and certi transfers to reserve for t Saab-Scania Group amount to £100m for 1981. Scania product sales were...

YORK TRAILER Holdings has ported a group net loss £821,502 for the year ended comber 31, 1981, compared film net loss in the...

TV-SIX per cent of Scottish sinessmen who participated • survey want more roads and otorways to be built. rhe survey by the...

THE OIL industry will have to invest over f:200m during the next three years to reduce the lead content in petrol to 0.15...

TOZER Kemsley & Millbourn (Holdings) which recently sold its 37 per cent capital share of MAN-VW to Lonrho-owned VAG (UK) Ltd,...

VEHICLE recovery operator Anthony Turner of Sedgefield was given an absolute discharge by the Hebburn-on-Tyne Magistrates on...

DEFENSIVE Driving is the subject of a two-hour briefing to be held on July 13 at the Digbeth Civic Hall, Birmingham. The talk...

PRIME MINISTER Margaret Thatcher has officially opened Michael Gerson Ltd's new portal frame warehouse in Whetstone, North...

TRANSPORT is very much under-rewarded, said Brian Hayward, group managing director of National Carriers, at the Chartered...

A GLASGOW lorry driver was sacked a few hours after he parked his vehicle on waste ground and spoke to a stranger. The stranger...

THE FREIGHT Transport Ass ciation favours the A1/M1 lb route that brings relief to Harr gate, Knaresborough and Ripot At a...

ABERDEEN PARCELS Limited, which has 10,000scift of warehousing at Spurryhillock Industrial Estate at Stonehaven, is to develop...

ZANYA Distributions of Reading has joined the Hollis Transport Group. Zanya runs a courier and express service operation on a...

It provides a regular service for Turkish imports, especially for textile industry cargoes being shipped to the North of...

PANDORO, the Irish Sea ferry and road transport operator, has opened a new Republic of Ireland headquarters and operations...

TIP TRAILER Rental has moved its base in the Nottingham area to a new site at the Freightliner Terminal in Beeston.

WELSH SECRETARY Nicholas Edwards has accepted tenders from Glyn Davies of Kidwelly for road improvements in Powys and Dyfed. A...

\TIONAL CARRIERS has )ened a new £100,000 letcare centre for servicing lors, vans and cars at Plymouth. r,ill have facilities...

FOLLOWING the introductim a goods vehicle national t , approval scheme last year, Department of Transport hel series of...

BET OMNIBUS SERVICES has appointed WILLIAM BOULTON a director. He is chairman of the company's plant hire subsidiaries,...

:ORD-APPROVED conversion of the Transit to all-wheel drive has an announced by County Commercial Cars Ltd, of Fleet in Hempire,...

The Jimp is based on the Reliant Kitten chassis and has a Reliant 850cc, ohy petrol engine, driving through a standard Kitten...

RENAULT Vehicles Industries has introduced a new gearbox, the B9, for use in heavy commercial vehicles. This gearbox is...

MECHANICAL Engineering Publications Ltd of Bury St Edmunds has announced the publication of "Turbocharging and turbochargers"...

BRITISH SAFETY COUNCIL awards have been made to Karrier Motors Ltd for achieving an accident rate well below the national...

The new plant will take over part of the production of the old factory at Lundby, also in Gothenburg, and will have a maximum...

CRAVEN TASKER has produc a new development of its Ta lift low-loader known as 1 Tasklift RN. The RN stands for raisi neck, and...

UMBRIA County Council has failed to persuade the Divisional suns that former Transport Secretary Norman Fowler acted unwfully...

BRITAIN would suffer if purely commercial bus and coach services were operated by a different organisation from those which...

David Howell with "an interesting package of proposals" that involve the private sector in the development and improvement of...

(PRESS COACHES will increasingly be operated by the private ctor, London Transport chairman Sir Peter Masefield predicted it...

says Govt EIGHTEEN Months of investigation and adjourned court appearances ended last week when International Coach Lines of...

BOVA Autobusfabrik, the Dutch manufacturer of integral rearengined coaches, won two prizes at an award ceremony in London. The...

THE GOVERNMENT is monitoring the Readibus dial-a-ride system in Reading (CM, October 24, 1981) to see if it offers an effective...

ma its commercial documents avi able to the public failed in t House of Lords last week. Lady Birk moved — and !al withdrew —...

C. S. DUNBAR (whose familiar style of address has been changed to Charles Dunbar for his book reviewed on page 56) is a...

SIR NOEL COWARD, who was moved to hilarity by mad dogs and Englishmen going out in the midday sun, would have been equally...

THOSE who avoid being run over in Crawley may be indebted to the dedicated Bernice Briggs, chairman of the local road safety...

THE HAWK'S award for the British Prevaricator of the Year — a 15ft liquorice statue of Galtieri — goes to Ian Scott, of the...

IN SELLING his Sussex hotel a becoming Edbro's marketing director, Bob Turner has merel exchanged one tipping husine for...

More and more drivers are travelling to thl beat thest days, for cassettes and radios ca help the motorway miles sweep by almos...

It's Information Technology year but when it comes to using two-way radio to reduce dead mileage, coach operators lead the wal...

we look at what you get Five companies lent us radio cassette players for our staff to try in their cars. Some had drawbacks,...

CLARION made available for testing its Model PE971 (ETA3) auto-reverse cassette audio stereo with long-wave, mediumwave and FM....

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC markets a range of three radio cassette units for the UK, designed for either spindle or snap fitting. The...

THE Radiomobile 5365 is a cor bined auto-reverse stereo ea sette player with a radio coy( ing L, M and FM wavebands. T1 radio...

HITACHI says its CSK 413D is the ultimate car radio/cassette unit and it was this model the company fitted to my Capri. Two SB...

No end of entertainments are now available for the delectation of coach passengers. Films, cassettes, radio and television may...

THIS IS TOPIC'S 30th birthday so I have decided to look at some of the aspects of the road transport industry over these 30...

The International Road Transport Union ranged far and wide in its discussions in Montreal last week. lain Sheriff gives his...

Countdown to victory TWO HUNDRED and sixty-four finalists are expected at the CM. Lorry Driver of the Year finals on Sunday,...

WHO is better equipped than Charles Dunbar to describe the development of mechanical road goods transport during its formative...

DAVID LOWE is one of the best respected authors of transport management books. His Transport Manager's Handbook, currently in...

WHAT'S New Guide to Transport Cafes (Hamilton House, 95p) is claimed as the first major attempt to list every transport café in...

THE SIXTH edition of the International Directory of Published Market Research ha been published by the British Overseas Trade...

:XT WEEK the EEC Council of nisters (Transport) meets in xembourg. Not the "Council Transport Ministers," because theory there...