IN THE LATE Sixties when the then Labour Government introduced the Transport Act, which abolished the semi-protective carriers'...

THE ROAD Haulage Association is urging Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson "to be fair to hauliers" in his spring Budget....

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport should be given more responsiblity for building and managing conurbation roads if the metropolitan...

TRANSPORT and General Workers jected wage offers by employers in England, and the East Midlands. Union negotiators have rethe...

THE NUMBER of deaths and serious injuries suffered by light andheavy goods drivers fell again last year, according to...

CRANE Fruehauf has launched a new high-specification monocoque design refrigerated semitrailer available with tandem and...

Remitting a case back to Eastern Licensing Authority Ken Peter for further consideration, it ruled that a driver may be...

EUROPEAN and American manufacturers have agreed to co-operate formally to counteract the sale of counterfeit vehicle parts and...

LEYLAND Vehicles managing director Ronald Hancock was committed for trial at the Old Bailey when he appeared before Guildhall...

IT IS QUICKER and easier to use the M25 at night than drive lorries across London, according to the Freight Transport...

A PROMOTION arid new appointment are announced by WIncanton Transport Group. Alastair Elder has been promoted to operations and...

THE SALES force of rental and contract hire specialist Trailerent has six new personnel. Three of the new recruits join from...

A MEMORIAL service for the late Sir Robert Lawrence, the first chairman of the National Freight Consortium who died two months...

JACK WINN, chief engineer of East Yorkshire Motor Services and Lincolnshire Road Car Company, died last weekend after a short...

commercial vehicles, Colin McMorine, has joined Commercial Motor as a sales executive. He is based at our Manchester office and...

SCOTTISH Road Services' new branch manager at Inverness is Cohn Fraser, a 24 year-old honours graduate from Glasgow who joined...

AN EAST ANGLIAN haulier who appealed against Eastern Licensing Authority Ken Peter's decision to revoke his licence and refuse...

MANY hailiers, especially oneman operators, still do not know how to word the newspaper advertisements of their application for...

FREIGHT FORWARDERS and agents have been given a boost by the Government's shake-up of regional aid. But hauliers have been...

FIVE DEFENDANTS charged in connection with the theft of containers from Felixstowe have been committed by magistrates for trial...

SHROPSHIRE County Council is taking advantage of the environmental controls on operating centres to clamp down on the parking...

FIFE tipper rates are not as bad as indicated in the feature on p47 last week. Eight-wheeled tippers can earn £17.50 to £18 an...

COMPUTER company Hoskyns has introduced what it describes as the first fully-integrated distribution computer system. Hoskyns'...

DON-BUR (Bodies and Trailers) and Ets Jean Chereau, (France's largest manufacturer of temperature controlled bodywork), are to...

PERKINS ENGINES' extended range of power-exchange factory remanufactured diesel engines covers more than 650 different engine...

BROCKLESBY and Son (Haulage) of Great Heck in North Humberside has won a contract to transport bran to Kelloggs at Wrexham...

Hans Tauscher managing director of Mercedes-Benz UK at the official opening of Normand Eurotrucks (Heathrow). Normand, part of...

BRIDGESTONE has filed for 11 patents on its Rolling Contour Optimization Theory (RCOT) in Japan, USA and Europe. When...

The newly-built facility is on a site adjacent to the Bell container terminal at Newport, Gwent. It can carry out repairs and...

THE BRITISH anti-spray regulations will be ineffective in reducing the spray nuisance, according to MAN technical director, Dr...

PARKERFARM equipment of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, is manufacturing a range of Inaxle weighing platforms, 3.6m, 4.6m, 5.0m and...

MAN's vehicles of the Nineties will have computer-controlled mechanical gearboxes coupled to diesel engines of similar design...

AVON Tyres has produced two new design tyres, one which has been approved by Land Rover. The other one is still under...

By Noel 'AiHier LONDON Country's Green Line coach operation will enter the competitive market with "the vigour usually...

SOUTHDOWN MOTOR Services is being reorganised into four separately accountable divisions to trasfer much of the decision-making...

PHOENIX Coachlines, one of the companies controlled by Wakefield businessman Harry Tranter, appealed against the refusal of the...

DEREGULATION will be postponed for nine months, and National Bus Company privatisation will not happen until later, NBC's...

AN EMBRYONIC company is being formed by some of the redundant workforce from the Charles Roe body-building works in Leeds. It...

THE ONLY reason for "ending Britain's bus services" was ideology, Shadow Transport Secretary Gwyneth Dunwoody told a rally of...

The coaches are to be similar to the coach exhibited at the Motor Show although they will not be fitted with full air...

PASSENGER BUS journeys in the metropolitan counties will have shown a marginal increase between 1981/82 and 1984/85 on the last...

By Brian Weatherley THE SHAPE of vans to come has been revealed in a series of futuristic light vehicle designs produced by...

STRONG INTEREST in the Ebro vehicles displayed at the recent NEC Motor Show, has prompted UK importer Nissan Ebro to seek new...

MERCEDES-BENZ UK has reinforced its attack on Land Rover's lucrative home market with a pickup version of the GWagen. The...

A NON-HGV Dodge S46 mini artic running with three specially designed Lynton Commercial Minitran semi-trailers has allowed Gwent...

FORD TRUCK specialist dealer Trimoco Trucks of Dunstable has been demonstrating a 12seater two-litre petrol-engined ICY 160...

"TRANSPORT is an area where worthwhile economies have been made by many authorities and where improvements in the efficiency...

WHILE Nigel Breeze was referring to the truck chassis manufacturers when he lamented the lack of commercial vehicle exhibitors...

I SEE there is a notice in the Manpower Moves page (CM November 17) which, of course, I ready assidiously, that I have...

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

THERE can be little doubt that the Local Government Bill, the Government's instrument of abolition of the Greater London...

REVOLUTION, chaos, catastrophe — these are just some of the words used to oppose the proposals in the Government White Paper...

WHETHER the Road Haulage Association should or should not take its annual conference abroad is an argument that will no doubt...

FROM bouquets to 810Ms: a background as a florist is not an obvious entree into the coaching industry, but that is how Ralph...

BUS PURISTS may pooh-pooh the idea of minibuses making a major contribution to the British urban public transport scene. Yet it...

FEAR of the unknown and having to plan for an uncertain future are certainly behind the real opposition to the Government's...

MORE money should be spent on special secure prison vane, says the Prison Officers' Association. This might prevent escapes by...

ALMOST everyone except piggy-bankers has called for substantial spending on crumbling roads and sewers and other vital works,...

LEGISLATION on the quality of goods and on warranties has been tightened to protect the consumer, but those responsible for...

IF BRITISH managers are as effete as Sir Michael Edwardes, Dunlop's new head, says they are, it is just as well that only about...

"PATRIOTIC" hauliers are "to be enlisted in the Thatcherite campaign for final victory over organised labour in Britain," says...