LATER this month, 1,000 independent bus and coach operators will be bidding for franchises on 500 loss-making routes. That is...

operator licensing could cause unnecessary confusion, the Freight Transport Association warned this week. It has become...

THE FIERCE court battle between Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley and the Greater London Council over its proposed lorry ban...

PICKFORDS Removals has set up a new company, Homespeed, to offer a national home delivery service to manufacturers and...

OVERNIGHT Bag, the express delivery company which took British Rail to the Office of Fair Trading after it was chased off...

ROAD LAW is a new journal aimed at both lawyers and "concerned operators". It will appear eight times a year and aims, without...

LEYLAND Trucks has launched the municipal vehicles market. Over 500 local authority and public utility transport managers and...

A MANUFACTURER-fronted finance scheme was launched this week by Leyland Trucks. In the past Leyland has been one of the few...

TOWMASTER Transport, the Arthur Bell Scotch Whisky group's road haulage subsidiary, increased its profit last year from...

A DARLINGTON haulier who turned up late to a public inquiry has had his case sent back to the North Eastern Licensing Authority...

THE THIRD Accessories and Components Exhibition, sponsored by CM last week, attracted almost 3,000 visitors. This was an...

SEALINK UK broke even in the fourth quarter of last year, according to its new parent company, Bermuda-based Sea Containers....

Figures released by the Dover Harbour Board show that 1,288 haulage units passed through the port, and other roll-on/roll-off...

A POOR servicing record meant that a company's appeal against a two-month suspension was dismissed by the Transport Tribunal...

DRIVERS face some long delays because of this summer's motorway repair programme, but they will receive more warning, Transport...

THE BORDER crossing on the German autobahn from Frankfurt/ Oder-Swiecko between East Germany and Poland will be closed until...

BRITAIN is to provide a team of specialists to advise the People's Republic of China on its transport problems. The team, led...

TO STRENGTHEN its sales in the original equipment manufacturing and retrofit markets, Econocruise of Rugby has appointed...

TWO further divisions of the Freight Transport Association have elected officers for 1985/86. Notts and Derbys Division is to...

MANAGING director of Bedwas Bodyworks is Derek Painter. His appointment follows Jim Greenhalgh's move to Locomotors (CM...

HEATHER HARPIN has been appointed as a marketing assistant by TIP Trailer Rental, Europe's leading trailer rental company. she...

THE BRITISH subsidiary of the Portuguese coach builder Salvador Caetano has increased its sales force with the appointment of...

AN ENVIRONMENTAL representation from one member of the public led to an application by Sunblest Bakeries to renew its...

THE BECKTON and Canning Town flyovers on the A13 in East London will be subject to traffic closure on nine Sundays in the next...

A ONE-WEEK haulage management course is to be run for the Road Haulage Association later this year. It will run from December...

THE ROAD Haulage Association's insurance cover for international operators has been increased from £150,000 to E200,000. Cover...

A COMPANY which admitted operating without a licence for 12 months since its formation, lost a plea for the immediate grant of...

ENVIRONMENTAL conditions on shire haulier from carrying on Western Licencing Authority Roy In a letter to Ken Abram granting an...

A REPRESENTOR was too late last week to state his case against the renewal of the licence held by Sidney J. Edwards Transport...

THE BRITISH Standards Institution has added a section on selection and care of tyre inflation valves to the code of practice BS...

GILBRAITH Commercials' Carlisle depot offers an unusual service for its customers. It has the first walk around self-service...

ORDERS for two horse transporters, each valued at £100,000 have been secured by Arden Horse Box Company of Southport. Mounted...

THE FIRST full year of Perkins' ownership of the Rolls-Royce diesel engine manufacturing business, now called Perkins Engines...

YORK Truck Equipment forecasts a growth in the market for non-hgv articulated vehicles following the introduction of...

SOME leading figures from European tyre manufacturers are to speak at a London seminar on the European tyre industry in...

VACU-LUG, the tyre retreader based at Grantham, Lincolnshire, has taken over the distribution of Bearcat industrial tyres....

BUS OPERATORS will be able to claim rural bus grant from April 1 next year, Junior Transport Minister David Mitchell announced...

THE TRANSPORT Bill is a serious threat to the future of Britain's bus manufacturers, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and...

IT IS A fundamental objective of the Transport Bill that taxis should be permitted to expand into new markets, Junior Transport...

THE FIRST 20 Bova Futura sixwheel coaches have been sold to an Australian customer. A company based at Perth, Western...

been started to develop more locally-based services with a greater emphasis on rail feeder routes. LRT announced the review...

drivers during the summer season caused a controversy among MEPs last month, with Labour members branding the plan "potentially...

EXCESSIVE hours worked by Stagecoach of Perth's drivers were described as "staggering" by Sheriff John Wheatley at Perth last...

DIAL-A-RIDE minibus services for disabled people should continue to be provided on a London-wide scale after the Greater London...

THE NATIONAL Express Rapide luxury coach service network will be doubled from the end of this month, adding 105 towns and...

VOLKSWAGEN is about to launch a front-wheel drive Polo van in the UK. Right hand-drive models have already received British...

D. A. WERBER of Harrow, Middlesex, has introduced a range of demountable refrigerated bodies designed to fit Honda Acty,...

A TOUGH two-piece glass reinforced plastic interior body liner for Austin Maestro vans is now being offered by Armadillo...

RUMOURS of a joint micro van venture between Bedford and Suzuki continue to circulate, following the latest news from Japan...

AUSTIN ROVER main dealer Bletchley Motor Group has made up for the lack of any factory-built Maestro pickups, by offering its...

TOYOTA is now offering a fourspeed automatic gearbox as an option on its Land Cruiser 4x4. The new automatic box has a 0.717:1...

SEVENTY Ford Transit frontline ambulances, equipped with Wadham Stringer's new Pioneer Modular Interchangeable Ambulance Body...

FIAT is actively developing its light commercial vehicle business in the UK. Following the recent launch of the 2.5-litre...

MR DOWSETT (CM, February 23) really should get his facts right and see matters in context. The GLC scheme is not a "weighted...

WHILST I am in agreement with the sentiments expressed by Mr M. J. Brown (CM, March 16), regarding speeding by lorry drivers, I...

THE NEWS item about the ANC Courier service with Sherpa diesel vans (CM, March 16) says "Each courier can expect an annual...

THE CM report in March 23 stated that a Suffolk councillor, Mr George King of Ipswich Borough Council, says haulage firms that...

REGARDING your article "Express Partners" (CM February 2), I would stress that we, along with Premier Travel, are not...

CM's own show, the Accessories and Components Exhibition held at Wembley last week, gave our 'ACE' reporter Jack Semple the...

ONE of Britain's less admirable characteristics is its ability to get the worst of both worlds. The most striking instance of...

FODEN vehicles are individually specified to a customer's operation. This entails holding a wide range of driveline options;...

Nominate your favourite café, overnight stop, motorway service area or ferry and help raise standards all round TODAY we...

Noel Millier samples "Hospitality on the Move" on Leyland's most luxurious coach in the company of 24 rugby players IF TWO'S...

THE RAC brings the day of the flying pig no nearer with its recent call for "a fully thoughtout, long-term policy for all fuel...

SHOULD the Lorry Driver of the Year Association put the clock back to an esoteric final in the backwoods or should it aim for...

THE HAWK may have been around for a long time, but he can still spot a rat. London Regional Transport has not only failed to...

IS ARTHUR Metcalfe of Thirsk CM's longest surviving reader? Eighty-two-year-old Arthur rang me up the other day after seeing...

TEN-YEAR driving licences issued in Northern Ireland now carry portraits of the holders. Half a million plastic cards with...

NO SIGNIFICANT change to the Government's policy of reducing capital allowances came with the 1985 Budget so the trends evident...

The Cranfield Centre for Transport Studies aims to bring fleet operators and suppliers together. In this series, Derek Wright...

illiGiffEST Entries flood in. Five hundred trucks from home and aboard and may celebrities are expected at this premium...

NEXT month EEC Transport Ministers will assemble in Brussels, meeting as the Council of Ministers. On their agenda will — again...

AFTER more than two years of negotiations to revise the present regulations, the differences between the EEC countries have...

for the next CPC Exam NOW is the time to begin your studies for the next Royal Society of Arts examinations for the...