The industrial relations ad hoc committee formed by the RHA and TGWU could soon become more important than the two bodies first...

ERNATIONAL transport's !nt growth has been so it, Transport Minister liam Rodgers told the rtered Institute of Trans:...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport is considering new exemptions in the drivers' hours regulations to allow express carriers to...

BY THE end of December a new company, Trailerent Ltd, will have a fleet of over 300 trailers in the field of trailer rentals,...

NATIONAL platform to air problems including wages and iditions between unions and employers is being set up by the ad Haulage...

A SWITCH to diesel power should be encouraged by setting, diesel fuel tax at a more favourable rate, says the Lorries and the...

SCOTLAND'S troubled fleetof 25cwt Bedford CF280 ambulances was taken back off the road last week after a recurrence of the past...

WE ARE looking for a News Assistant to replace Alan Millar who is now one of our features writers. If you are sitting at a...

CHRYSLER'S Dodge commercial vehicle-interests still look like one of the biggest prizes for Peugeot-Citroen, now that the...

expects others t follow FURTHER co-operation tween the major Europ commercial vehicle mant turers is likely in future a( ding...

BRITISH Association Owner Drivers secretary l■ Wells has warned that ov drivers risk being classe( cowboys if they stay out the...

LLENGES to the Government's five per cent pay policy are ng from drivers and garage staff in two important sectors ottish road...

FIONAL Travel's improved Ji services between Lon'and the North West and 3t Midlands are being sted by complimentary y...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers has laid a new set of regulations to cover exemptions from the EEC and UK drivers' hours...

IN CM NEXT WEEK we start a series of three very special issues packed with information from the first NEC Motor Show. We will...

ALL for British Rail to join the British Roads Federation and Road Haulage Association in a campaign for more investit in urban...

SHORT HAULS Tough role A GOVERNMENT department has taken delivery of a 4x4 Stonefield vehicle for drilling work. The...

liter is Iridged E.'9.75m bridge across the y at Perth has added a ther link to Britain's trunk id network. Ile 831m Friarton...

CONFIDENCE in the road haulage business is now greater than it was this time last year and around 18 per cent of employers in...

Bangor date WELSH Secretary of State John Morris has ordered a public inquiry into proposals for a Bangor by-pass. It will be...

LONGTON Transport (Holdings) Ltd chairman Alfred Dale is confident that profit levels will continue to improve. fie told...

THREE European agents have been appointed by intermodal transport operator Eurobridge International Transport Ltd for its...

THE DEPARTMENT of Energy is offering information kits to help industrialists stage seminars on energy saving. These films,...

GREATER London Council has pledged itself to improve road freight companies' operating conditions in a policy document Freight...

DAIMLER-BENZ engineering development director Artur Mischlie criticised UK vehicle makers for being too weak to achieve an...

MOST exhibition space for next year's Unit Load Shoi Wembley Conference Centre has already been taken up. • To be held from...

INVESTIGATION into imercial users of a car park lilt Lane, Burscough, Laniire is to be made by West cashire Council Technical...

LEYLAND Vehicles lost around Elm worth of lorry sales due to the seven week stoppage at its Bathgate plant, but efforts are...

EXTENSION to the Meres Benz Consultancy Serwas launched last week in atreaux. Traffic Simulation gramme by Computer is an to...

Tadao centres FURTHER additions to the Department of Transport's list of tachograph calibration centres are: (L) Lucas...

_ _ _ _ THE EXEMPTION from the plating and testing regulations of vehicles operated under trade plates, has been criticised by...

GOVERNMENT "ci placency" over expenditun roadworks has been critic by the Asphalt and Coz Macadam Association. ACMA chairman...

E Moseley Group is nching monthly secondid coach auctions from the ;inning of next month. ntended to complement the sting...

Cheaper travel? GREATER Manchester Council wants bus and train fares to be reduced on seven days before Christmas. Following...

tANSPORT Secretary Mani Rodgers will be guest honour at the now-annual Inference of Passenger ansport Operators of Enind and...

MERSEYSIDE PTE's increased bus fares took effect last Sunday, but three increases have been deferred until April 1 next year....

AS LONDON Transport prepares to introduce the second stage of its short-term bus plan later this month, the London Transport...

GREATER Glasgow PTE is planning a shuttle midibus service between Queen Street and Central stations in central Glasgow. It has...

SPARE parts for Leylan non-current models will manufactured at a new fact in Charley. The Common Bank ph costing Ellm, is due...

MAINTENANCE standard public service vehicles h not got any worse in the year, but room for imprc ment still exists, say the T...

TURDIER streamline chassisless box trailer is the claim by ttor Tidd for the new Golden Strongbox announced today. 'he rounded...

Narrow MP cab to be at Brum A NEW "narrow cab" from Motor Panels of Coventry will be unveiled at the NEC in two weeks' time....

CARRYFAST is continuing its expansion programme by appointing three new operations managers. Geoffrey Ellis takes over at the...

loel Millier reports on the NBC d-d survey Gardner-engined Bristol RT has come out top in a vo-year bus comparison trial...

ANOTHER manufacturer to announce a new model at the Birmingham motor show is Renault Trucks and Buses with the Berliet TR 305....

A NEW VERSION of MaxCess — a maximum access van that can be built to give up to five-way accessibility — is being unveiled at...

COACHWORK Conversions, the Colne, Lancashire-based body-builder is showing an entirely new side loading body at the NEC this...

k LARGE capacity skip or .:ontainer loader with doubleointed arms for extra reach is o be introduced by Edbro at .he Motor...

A DISPLAY celebrating three million Bedfords built since 1931 will provide a theme for the 20-vehicle display being mounted at...

SCHWITZER is to invest over Elm in a 1,800sqm (20,000sqft) extension of its premises in Bradford. This will employ 70 more...

NO LESS than five models of varying degrees of 'newness' will be on display from Magirus Deutz. Designed for both haulage and...

Tasktip is lightweight A NEW lightweight Tasktip body, that will reduce the tare_ weight for eight-wheelers, is to be unveiled...

TI CHESWICK Silencers Ltd is spending 050,000 on an expansion scheme at its Risley plant in Warrington. The scheme, due for...

a logical development of its predecessor rather than a completely new design. The type number denotes the capacity of the...

How to meet growing demand THROUGHOUT Britain and mainland Europe a growth in demand for road haulage services will last well...

Mr Fawdrey (Letters, September 1) claims that the transfer of freight from road to rail would produce significant accident...

I have recently returned from Romania, and I believe readers may be interested in the transport scene there. The load carriers...

i.„701,••• mounted the bus at the terminus in Mamaia to find one of the floor hatches (unsecured except by gravity) lifted and...

I refer to the CM report in th issue of September 8, regardin a case at the Fenton, Stafforc shire, magistrates' court, i which...

F BUSMEN know one thing, t is that they must court local raffic. That can be the local oub, the women's institute, iearby...

WITH MORE than a suspicion of irony, somebody has given the latest tangle of legislation the label of "Drivers' Hours...

EFORE you start reading is, count the number of .aches you have standing le. None? You don't need to ad this article — in...

There was an object lesson in how to stay in business and be happy, handed out in Aberdeen last Saturday when G. T. Fraser Ltd...

The winner of a mini driver of the year competition, open to customers and members of the press who attended the launch of the...

"The possibility to adapt the vaulting of the backrest to the respective driver's backbone individually in infinitely variable...

Did you know that an ordinary office typewriter has more parts than a 24-ton-gross lorry? The manager of an office-equipment...

Nothing teaches like failure as International Harvester found when they started to build lorries in Doncaster in 1965, They...

Six colourful Underground railway posters issued in the first quarter of the century and just re-printed suggest something that...

Impressive spec OFTEN during CM tests, a vehicle will put up a good performance on most of the various test stages but will...

era. As well as being a review of the past year's test vehicles over 31/2 tons gross, it marks the end of our famous Scottish...

Operator's vehicle AN OPERATOR'S vehicle rather than a driver's vehicle was our verdict on the Rollspowered Scammell Crusader....

Fast runner LEYLAND is well represented throughout the whole commercial vehicle weight spectrum with the maximum capacity...

Excellent mpg THE full test report of the then new "Big Cam" Cum mins was a long time coming owing to the heavy snow which...

Disappointing WHEN a vehicle is presented for test, the manufacturer usually prepares it to give the best possible account of...

Meaty torque THE PERFORMANCE of the Berliet TR 280 was one of the surprises of the year and I am not being rude when I say...

Tremendous flexibility ALTHOUGH we have tested both "conventional" versions of the DAF 2800 which are available in the UK, the...

Economy plus APPROPRIATELY enough the last vehicle to be tested over the existing Scottish route turned out to be the most...

Good payload . DURING the course of the past few years we have tested just about every size and shape of F86 which Volvo has...

Hard work THE Ford DA 2818 artic represented an interesting alternative to the 32-ton machine for carrying a 20ton payload....

Power trend FIAT'S contender in the fiercely contested 16-ton market, the 159, is a good example of the trend towards more...

On-road tipper THE other 16-tonner which came our way during the last 12 months was a tipper version of Ford's D1614 model....

Consistent THE RESTYLED G-cab for the middleweight Leylands was announced at the Amsterdam Show earlier this year. Our first...

Upalin3 LIFE at CM is nothing if not varied as proved by our next vehicle, the Saviem crosscountry SM8. This was a 4x4 machine...

CALCU LATING the productivity factors for a tractive unit has been made easier by our standard test trailer so the payload...

FOR MORE than a decade Volvo has exported vehicles to the UK. During the same period Ailsa Trucks imported Volvos to the UK....

A new range to succeed the F86 AS A REPLACEMENT for Volvo's incredibly successful F86 range comes the new F7 — as with the F10...

by Graham Montgomerie Bearings with a higher load capacity have been specified and the synchronising cones are now made of...

event in the vehicle business, and one that doesn't happen all that often. Even more unusual is for a factory to replace its...

case of the Club vehicles, only the first digit denotes the engine capacity with the second two digits referring to the gross...

NO MATTER how good we may think a product is today, ways can and will be found to improve upon it. With both the invention and...

IN THE CASE of a new vehicle or vehicle range. Volvo will go out and study the market, and, via the product planning...

No lorry ever starts off from a clean sheet of paper — there are always production and financial constraints when trying to...

Steve Gray interviews Stan Bachelor, chairman of the Volvo Independeni Distributors' Association WHEN Volvo trucks were first...

before 3pm will virtually ensure delivery by 10am next day' parts are delivered to the distributors rather than their having...

Irvine set-up by CM reporter THINK of Volvo and you naturally think of a Scandinavian company which exports trucks, buses and...

THE TD70 F-engined F7 is going to be a very strong contender in the European tractive unit market — especially so since a...

N O LESS than £80m a year is spent by Volvo in Britain on buying component parts and material for its lorries and cars. In...

. eighted, it bears the cost. 's a system that seems to fork very well. In an average ear around 500 tons are air . eighted...

THE company name of AiIse Trucks Ltd—UK concessionaire for Volvo Trucks—is to change this month. Volvo Trucks (Great Britain)...