THE EAST OF ENGLAND is regarded by many as a middle-class holiday playground. At one end is Constable Country, and at the other...

Motor Show PREVIEW THE MOTOR SHOW at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham may turn out to be the last one to feature...

A CONTROVERSIAL proposal to allow hauliers to transfer vehicle excise duty discs between vehicles has been made by the Road...

IN JUST under three weeks since the last round of diesel price increases (CM September 22), the major oil companies have...

ACTION on raising rates will be discussed with new urgency at the Road Haulage Association's Northern District committee later...

FROM JANUARY 1 next year, permits for unaccompanied trailers going direct to France will be available on demand. In addition,...

A MAJOR new force in the national distribution market has been created by the merger of two of British Electric Traction's...

THE TRANSPORT industry's campaign for a public inquiry into the planned night and weekend lorry ban in Greater London is being...

THE START of the second sheep dipping season and slaughter in Britain this week left British hauliers involved with lamb...

THE CUMMINS B-Series range of three, four and six-cylinder engines, the former Family One range, which was to have been...

OVERDRIVE, the contract driving business which supplies temporary drivers, claims that there are continued signs of a recovery...

FOLLOWING a successful nine-month pilot scheme in Scotland and Wales with 47 of its dealers, Ford is now offering a "lifetime...

THE TRANSPORT Tribunal threw Midlands' Licensing Authority last As a result, from next Monday, R. A. and P. R. Troughton...

RESIDENTS making representations in two licence applications to come before the acting Western Licensing Authority, Sir John...

CONTAINER and trailer freight rates in the busy UK short-sea unit load markets are "virtually certain to increase" over the...

COMMON MARKET Commission plans to remove fuel checks at Community internal borders have been welcomed by members of the EEC's...

THE ROAD Haulage Association's conference in Malta from November 3 to 11 will have the lorry, the environment and society as...

ENGINEERING and traffic staff are being changed at four National Bus Company subsidiaries, London Country's chief engineer, Len...

ALEX TROTMAN has moved up within the Ford Motor Company to president of Ford of Europe. Previously he was president for Ford...

NEW NATIONAL fleet sales manager at Avon Tyres is ERROL FLOWERS, a former regional sales manager. He has been with the...

FORMER Blackwood Hodge managing director Stuart EdenSmith is now marketing director with Lyka, the Preston-based manufacturer...

A SECOND senior board member is leaving London Regional Transport, this time to join British Rail. Following LRT bus managing...

TRANSPORT officer with the Western isles Council since 1977, John Maciver, has been elected an associate member of the...

RENAULT Truck Industries has made Charles Matthews general manager of its wholly owned London dealership, WestIon Trucks. Mr...

FORD's Phase Three Cargo goes on sale from January powered by the compact lightweight Cummins LT10-250 turbocharged in-line...

A good Finnish A SIX-AXLE 22m double tipper is being used on aggregates haulage in Finland. The tipper body on the lorry is...

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Nicholas Ridley's attempts last week to persuade annual conference delegates in Blackpool of the virtues of...

THE COMPLETE free-for-all on lo Government's White Paper on Conservative-controlled county c Kent County Council wants the...

Cummins L10 CUMMINS has introduced a horizontal version of its LT10 turbocharged engine already used by a growing number of...

Leyland's Lynx LEYLAND Bus has introduced its long-awaited B60 low-floor rear-engined city bus chassis, which is also to be...

PORTUGUESE coachbuilder Salvador Gaetano of Oporto — now part-owned by Toyota — has confirmed that its newly established...

ALEXANDER has supplied the first of four RDC double-deck luxury coach bodies to the Scottish Bus Group. The coach, in modified...

GRAMPIAN Regional Council has launched a new service over the Cabrach to Aberdeen to be operated by E. Glennie of Newmill near...

Gardner: new units GARDNER'S three new engines will be on public display for the first time at the Motor Show. The 5LXCT and...

THE SPICER Transmission Division of Dana is developing a new range of synchromesh gearboxes for European 16 to 24-tanners. A...

FREIGHT ROVER will be showing the first all-British, factorybuilt crewcab on a Sherpa 350 chassis at this month's Motor Show....

FORD has cut the price of its Transit van overdrive unit from £312 to £194 (plus vat) following its adoption as a regular...

BRITISH Car Auctions' Measham, Staffordshire branch is holding a sale of over 60 petrol and diesel engined four-wheel drive...

THE TREND towards dealer-converted hatchback vans continues with two more models based on the Vauxhall Nova and the Fiat Panda...

VICTORY Bodies of Portsmouth is now offering a range of high capacity glass reinforced plastic and ply Luton van bodies...

with CM'S September 8 Editorial regarding a change of venue for the CM Lorry Driver of the Year finals. Potentially, the Lorry...

THE HOURS of work laws are unnecessarily complicated and the sooner they are simplified the better for all concerned. Your...

'EE, I WAS VEXED when I read CM's Editorial "Dangerous game" on September 22, Please let us see this truck racing before we...

look at the Leyland Roadrunner. If you've seen the TV commercial for the Roadrunner you'll know Leyland have proved that their...

Fewer retailers want delivery vehicles at their stores but demand bulk deliveries at central warehouses CHIEF EXECUTIVE of the...

PALLETISATION is a subject that the IGD identified as a topic worthy of consideration over a year ago when it set up a working...

THROUGHOUT the East Midlands and East Anglia, steady flows of tipper lorries, dropside artics and other vehicles less easy to...

KAJ SANDELL, Scania's information director, said at the launch of the company's 92Series that Scania believes that no more than...

manufacturers for some time turnover which fell from Sch 15.56bn in 1982 to Sch 15.1bn in 1983. In the USA the market started...

WOULD the transport industry be better off if Whitehall — and more specifically Marsham Street — were more open about its...

AROUND 2,500 lorries make for the Port of Felixstowe every working day — mainly carrying or collecting containers: it's the...

FELIXSTOWE has a variety of general dry warehousing facilities. The port is one of the UK's largest centres for the import of...

A system of documentation control has been developed by the dock company. The five-part Internal Delivery Order (100), issued...

PASSENGER operations began as recently as 1974. During that year 55,000 people were carried; by 1981 the figure had raced to...

FOR the passionately patriotic Italian crowd at Monza, it had been a seemingly hopeless opening to the Italian Grand Prix....

and Sons of Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester, announce that it has a wholly new engine to show the world. The last time it did so...

FOUR enthusiasts — two Leyland men, a local government officer and a student — are forming the Guy Owners Club. Anyone who is...

IN THE 50 YEARS spanned by the Cleansing Service Group, of Botley, Southampton, waste disposal has progressed from something...

A 72-YEAR-OLD Coventry pensioner who is a systematic and dedicated drinker of Black Country ale travels 600 miles a week in...

IT'S ALL happening on British Rail. The board is to spend £9m on improving its reputation and has engaged three advertising...

A BUILDER and his family in Codsall, Shropshire, are going off the rails. They have agreed to exchange the two 67-year-old...

THE CITIZENS of Hull have won a victory over the beastly 24hour clock. Municipal bus services are now timed according to the...

SAID Dave Wyse (right) afterwards: "It was the most exhausting thing I've ever done, but the feeling at the finish is...

PAULS MALT's buy-British policy was forsaken when it decided to purchase an extralight tipping semi-trailer. Specified at...

BOALLOY was until recently part of the John Brown group where its interests overlapped with those of Craven Tasker. Since...

TRADITIONAL demand for second-hand buses by fairground equipment owners is these days joined by a wider cross-section of...

IF DR DAVID QUARMBY, London Transport's bus managing director, and Benito Mussolini have anything in common, it is that they...

PERMITS, that bane of the Continental haulier's life, were again discussed last Wednesday by the Road Haulage Association's...

LOOK THROUGH section 7 of the classified columns of Commercial Motor most weeks and you will find a long list of secondhand...

THE EAST ANGLIAN roots of Crane Fruehauf date back to the mid-Nineteenth Century. The William Crane company first began...

WHEN I TRIED to summarise what I had been told about the success story that is the history of the development of Mercedes-Benz...

ABOUT a quarter of western European commercial vehicle output above six tonnes is produced by Daimler-Benz and around 60 per...

THE NEW Mercedes-Benz 7.5 tonner began its life on the drawing board seven years ago, a time scale which emphasises how much...

ALL COMMERCIAL vehicle maufacturers in Western Europe are well aware that the acceptance of their products depends as much on...

FINDING a vehicle capable of replacing Daimler-Benz's LP light commercial vehicle range cannot have been an easy task....

any driver travelling at 70mph that his engine was running anywhere near flat out as the in-cab noise levels are unbelievably...

THIS YEAR, Mercedes-Benz (United Kingdom) Ltd, a direct subsidiary of the worlds largest commercial vehicle manufacturer...

FOLLOWING THE announcement earlier this year of improved warranty terms for all Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles sold in the...

answer many , fleet cost questions IS IT the make of vehicle, or what you make that vehicle do. that has the greatest bearing...

ARGOS DISTRIBUTORS became one of the first UK operators of a new Mercedes 814 almost by chance. Not that fleet engineer Bob...

TETBURY is not the sort of place where you would expect to find an international haulier. A small, picturesque Gloucestershire...