THIS IS the year of Big Brother according to George Orwell. Fortunately not all of us are purveyors of doom and despair. We...

THE NEW YEAR is upon us with prospects of several exciting major vehicle and engine developments and there are promising...

NEW COMMERCIAL vehicles will have to have dim/dip lights from October 1986, Transport Minister Lynda Chalker said. Dashboard...

BRITAIN's first new commercial vehicle for 1984 — the Bedford CF electric one-tonne van — has gone into full-scale production...

SkPeterThornpson Hugh Featherstone, CBE. PETER THOMPSON has been a knight in the New Year's Honours List. Mr Thompson,...

THE STRICTER environmental controls on operating centres take affect from May 1. To explain the changes the Freight Transport...

AN ANTI-THIEF device connected to the petrol pump has proved an effective weapon in the war against lorry-thieves who have made...

THE ROYAL MAIL is buying nearly £3m-worth of Leyland trucks, to help maintain its position in the competitive parcels market....

A SHERIFF in Dundee has criticised as "highly dangerous" lorry loading procedures at a soft drinks factory following an...

turnover down NEWS OF a capital expenditure freeze at Leyland, pending the results of a top management review of truck...

DAIMLER-BENZ's German commercial vehicle plants manufactured 173,000 vehicles in 1983, a fall of 7 per cent compared with 1982,...

the group's two UK subsidiaries, ERF Trucks and ERF Plastics, for the six month period ended October 1 1983. ERF (Holdings)...

SCANIA (Great Britain) will be offering factory fitted anti-lock braking systems as optional extra equipment on its 4X2 and 6x2...

MR NEIL INKLEY has been appointed bus and direct accounts parts sales director with total responsibility for the bus and direct...

NEW AREA sales manager for Wadham Stringer Victory in Southern England is Roy Leaks. He joins the bodybuilding company after...

DAVID PRESTON has won the 1983 Avril Hardy Award for the best overall result in the Newcastle course. Mr Preston achieved the...

FRANK CARTER, chief engineer of Northern General, has been made general manager of Yorkshire Traction from February 1 1984 and...

W. S. YEATES has made Ian Soden fleet sales manager. His appointment follows a very successful period as Area Sales...

WE RECORD with regret the death of Frank Garland, transport manager for Grimsby Fish Merchants Association (CM July 23, 1983)...

LESS than three months since the introduction of its light van range into the UK, Yugo Cars has redesignated its van models to...

SUZUKI now claims that its SJ410 range of four-wheel-drive vehicles is the third best selling 4x4 vehicle in the UK behind Land...

TOYOTA GB has introduced contract hire and leasing for all Toyota vehicles sold in the UK including its range of light...

BRADFORD-based security specialist Ameco Security has taken delivery of five Fiat Morino 1050 high-top vans for use by...

an STRATHCLYDE Passenger Transport Executive has been granted short-term licences to operate for the disabled two Metroliner...

WARD MOTORS of Shepley near Huddersfield is now in receivership. The receiver was called in on December 19 and the company...

THE FIRST guided busway in the world to use double-deck buses is to be introduced within six months by West Midlands Passenger...

A BUS COMPANY in Telford New Town, in East Shropshire, is starting up a new service in the heart of the town in direct...

THE GREATER London Council's fight for survival against Government plans to abolish it has taken to the streets, with two...

THREE SURREY independents have drawn up proposals for them to act as a consortium to replace subsidised National Bus services...

NATIONAL BUS COMPANY chairman Lord Shepherd has told the state group's 60,000 staff that he does not expect any moves to be...

THE STRATHCLYDE Passenger Transport Executive, which has just won its battle to operate special services for the disabled, now...

Slow road to progress LAST NOVEMBER a vicechairman of the Road Haulage Association, Albert Neely, complained that the...

The Fiat Fiorino has a lot going for it if the town's your patch. Payload, handling and manoeuvrability are its strengths in...

EXCEPT for the general level of industrial and commercial activity, the most important thing affecting the lives of lorry...

Eye View Let's have no truck with trucking HOW PLEASING it would be if those who are doing their best to promote the British...

I can't imagine why anyone should want to spit on the live terminal of an electric grinding machine — an anti-social habit at...

A "raindrop-detecting automatic windshield wiper" has been introduced by Nissan in Japan. This will be welcomed in a country...

market, according to Bryan Jarvis, who enjoyed all but its braking performance WITH A car-derived van, the manufacturer adds...

by George Malcolm Coming out of the recession IT IS AN appropriate time to take stock of the industry. To do so is to...

This VW minibus in its converted form will certainly help the aged. Noel Millier found little to fault in it EIGHTEEN MONTHS...

TOM CURRAN of Roadline won the 1983 Mark Vane Memorial Award. He received his award for courage, but there were other entries...