confrontation with almost every other European country — East and West. In retaliation against the Swiss imposition of taxing...

NEXT WEEK CM focuses on the South East, long seen as the honeypot of haulage_ The most profitable part of the country it may...

by Alan Millar THE GOVERNMENT looks likely to bow to British hauliers' pressure and impose a tax on Swiss lorries running into...

THE SOCIETY of Motor Manufacturers and Traders is sticking to its belief that only 56,000 commercial vehicles over 3.5 tonnes...

LIQUEFIED petroleum gas is the latest commodity into which the National Freight Consortium has diversified to strengthen its...

THE PRESENT Government's policy of planning for tax reductions rather than investing in new roads amounts to no more than...

THE PILOT study of bridges designed to asses the costs of strengthening necessary for 38 tonne lorries should be finished by...

THE GOVERNMENT has put off the i:45m scheme to improve the A20 between Folkestone and Dover, because of the possibility of a...

FROM June 17, Severn Bridge users can buy discount books of pre-paid vouchers which will cover the toll increases that take...

GRAMPIAN Regional Council convener Councillor John Sorrie is to open the threeday road transport exhibition and conference CVX...

SOME much-needed visibility has been added to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders motor industry campaign with the...

THE THREAT of strike action no longer hangs over Lex Wilkinson's parcels business (CM, June 1), although it has still to settle...

NEXT YEAR'S International Motor Show at the National Exhibition Centre will run from October 15 to 26, with the commercial...

TRANSFLEET Services has failed to win an absolute discharge after it pleaded guilty to running a lorry without iii operator's...

UNITED Transport Distribution has opened a new two acre distribution centre in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. Business from the...

THE OFFICIAL liquidator .of F1 and G European Ltd, the freight forwarder which. started trading late last year and has since...

FIRST signs of Renault Vehicules Industriels' moves to curb its multi-billion Franc losses have come with the an1101111Ce Men(...

BH GROUP has bought a one-and-a-half acre site at Dover's Corner roundabout, in Rainham, Essex, from York Trailer, and is to...

A FULL RANGE of Chartered Institute of Transport evening courses will be run next winter by the City of London Polytechnic,...

WINCANTON Transport is providing Unipart, the Leyla nd-o wned car spares supplier, with a tanker to deliver bulk oil. Until...

A WEIGHBRIDGE site at the Leatherhcad Interchange on the M25 in Surrey should be completed this year, Transport Minister Lynda...

GRAHAM HAINES, business development manager of Hunter Saphir, has joined Whitworth Food Group as deputy chief executive....

NEW sales and marketing director of Leyland parts is Franek Low. He was previously the BL subsidiary's finance and systems...

BILL G1LLIHAM has been appointed by Renault Truck Industries as director of commercial operations, succeeding Guy Caunegre, who...

ADVERTISERS in Commercial Motor will soon by adding a new business card to their collections. Neil Stiles joins CM on July 8 as...

NORTH-WEST/SouthEast transpu;i specilist Harris Road Services has appointed Bob Greca as UK business dt. elopment inanaget Mr...

'I"HE BRAKL manufacturing operation of Rawly OwenRockwell has two new personnel. Graham Dawson is appointed biake application...

FASHIONFLOW — the National Freight Consortium subsidiary which provides a totally dedicated distribution service to Marks and...

A CORONER has warned that butane gas heaters should never be used in confined spaces after the death of a furniture van...

ECCLES Transport, a Faber Prest trading group subsidiary, has opened a £400,000 warehouse and maintenance centre at Primrose...

THE PRIVATISED Immingham ro/ro terminal is being developed to cope with 2.5m tonnes of cargo each year. The Exxtor Group,...

EUROPEAN FERRIES' operating profit climbed last year from 1983's £39.5m to £4 5m, despite a fall in turnover from £323m to...

A VISIT to NFT Distribution in Chobham depot has led Metropolitan Licensing Authority Anthony Robertson to reserve his decision...

by Karen Miles AS MORE operaters find themselves in the new environmental strait-jacket, the Transport Tribunal is gearing...

A WATNLY MANN brew.. ing subsidiary has used demountable drawbar lorries to 'eut its Scottish warehousing space and streamline...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association is among the top earning trade associations in Britain. The 1984 annual report of the...

FOUR ports will have an 1-IM Customs-approved direct trader computerised input _system for Customs entry in operation by the...

RECORD lorry traffic is flowing through the Frejus Tunnel, the Franco/Italian Alpine link opened in 1980. The tunnel company...

by a special correspondent ENVIRONMENTAL condition s that would have prevented a Lancashire haulier from . carrying on its...

SHOREHAM's attraction as a Channel freight port is to be enhanced next year when a fully equipped container berth is...

FREIGHT traffic through Ramsgate climbed by nearly half in the first four months of this year. Sally Line, which operates...

FREIGHT Software Systems, a distribution industry computer software specialist, has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Davies...

SOUTI-1121 El.l )S Coachworks of Loughborough has dispensed with lashing straps in the development of its Captive full-length...

RECENT overload prosecutions of refuse collection vehicle operators have prompted three local authorities in Southern England...

BANBURY poultry and produce merchant Faccenda Farm Fresh has taken delivery of three new Seadykeequipped 9.75m (321u) Wilcox...

by Tun Blakemore PRE-PRODUCTION prototypes of Detroit Diesel-Allis o n 's new four stroke engines, the 60-Series, are expected...

- 11115 YEAR'S fuel economy trials organised jointly by the Institute of Road Transport Engineers and the Brewery Transport...

THE LIPE Clutch division of the Lipe-Rollway Corporation has been sold to another American group, Echlin Incorporated, which...

THE INSTITUTION of Mechanical Engineers and Institution of Production Engineers intend to amalgamate. No new name has yet been...

FORD has established a direct computer link with one of its major parts suppliers, Bendix of Bristol. Three terminals linked...

THE PROPOSED rural bus grant scheme lacks funds and will be too thinly spread around for it to prove effective after...

MAINTENANCE problems at four of London Country Bus Services' 24 garages led to the company appearing before the Metropolitan...

COMEDIAN Ernie Wise launched thc Weston-superMare minibus service (CM, May 25) last week. The service, operated by the Bristol...

CONTINENTAL PIONEER of Richmond. Surrey has moved from its bus depot at Cedar Terrace because the site has been sold for...

THOSE interested in selling to or buying front bus operators and manufacturers should find the latest edition of ,Jane's Urban...

by Noel Millier BRITAIN'S newest independent bodybuilder has completed its first vehicle. Optare, which has taken over the...

DRIVERS HOURS and tachograph offences have led the Eastern Traffic Commissioners to cut the duration of the 30-vehicle psv...

PARENTS complained last week about the state of a coach sent on a school trip to Italy when Excelsior Coachways (Telford)...

EUROPEAN public transport pressure gfoups have foPmed a Federation of Public Transport Users which met in Brussels, last...

FOUR MONTHS after its European debut the Brussels Show, Ma?do's latest pick-up 2,39 tonne gvw 13::).000 — avail able in...

A folded-panel Luton body, called the Victory Van, has been developed by Victory Bodies of Portsmouth. The van side walls are...

LIGHT VEHICLE bodybuilder Walkers of Watford has completed the first of two high-roof County crew cab conversions for Brighton...

EXTENSIVE prototype trials have persuaded Esso Petroleum to spend over £200,000 on 50 dealer-converted Austin Metro pick-ups...

DACIA, the Wiltshire-based importer of the Romanianbuilt range of Duster 4x4 vehicles and the Dacia oneton pick-up, is now...

by Brian Weatherley RAYCHEM is about to begin full production of a new range of light commercial vehicle diesel fuel line...

A TEN-SEAT personnel carrier has been added to AllTerrain Vehicles' line-up of low ground pressure eightwheel-drive...

THE ELECTRIC Vehicle Association is organising two trade shows for 1985. The first — Electrafleet '85 — will be held at...

INTO VAN DESIGN Tom Karen of commercial vehicle design specialist Ogle gives Brian Weatherley a glimpse of the shape of vans...

I WAS delighted to see that you devoted your editorial (CM May 25) entirely to complaints regarding the Dartford Tunnel. and no...

YOUR roadtest of the Mercedes 30713 was excellent. I can confirm the fuel filter does freeze, as does the washer bottle. The...

SOME years ago we purchased sonic oil filtration equipment marketed by FiIterflow of Bolton. 'Hie purpose of this equipment was...

MAY I bring to your attention the advertisements featured in Commercial Motor, (May 18, 1985, page 61), by Strathclyde...

WI I EN my Ford Sierra 1,6L needed a new carburettor after only 13,000 miles the Ford main dealer who titted it and charged...

OF SPACE AND STYLE Austin Rover's newest challenger in the fiercely contested car-derived van market is a more than worthy...

RECENTLY my articles seem to be offending the trade associations. First the Road Haulage Association's Freddie Plaskett hit...

FOR DISABLED PASSENGERS Can a service life-expired Leyland National be successfully reincarnated as a welfare bus? Noel...

of dery later this year, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' seminar on diesel fuels in London on June 14 is highly...

IRE engine enthusiasts have a golden opportunity later this month to combine their interest with what must he one of the year's...

Chalk Pits Museum, which nestles in the South Downs on B2139 from Storrington. Howard Stenning, of the museum, emphasises that...

manoeuvre which will be performed by an acrobatic team supporting Unipart's distribution network. A 10-minute aerial ballet has...

direction well known to Shakespeare fans, but it came alive the other day for one of the Department of Transport's senior civil...

necessary part of highway maintenance which does rely on a surplus of chippings and the movement of traffic to push the...

a motor manufacturer. But, Stanley Thomson, director of finance, warns, "Unless we do something pretty soon to reverse our...

RENAULT TRAFIC 'A' SERVICE F AST distribution companies such as London-based Churchill Express rely on speedy yet effective...

TRANSPORT Commissioner Stanley Clinton Davis wrecked Minister's hopes of adopting the eagerly awaited amendments to the...

BODYBUILDERS are likely to remain a volatile sector of vehicle manufacturing, with the largest companies depending on massive...

White Arrow delivers 60 million parcels a year mainly using diesel engined Transits. David Wilcox reports on how this volume...

ON THREE AXLES Anti-lock braking, precise steering and an air suspension system which give an exceptionally smooth and stable...