the Prior Committee of inquiry into motorway service areas has been highly critical of the service provided for Britain's long...

Commercial Motor's Lorry Driver of the Year for 1978 is Tom Kerr of Esso at Bowling, Strathclyde, who beat his nearest rival...

TWO NAMES have already been mentioned as possible successors to Road Transport Industry Training Board chairman Kenneth Turner...

FE ROPOSED light cornTci 1 vehicle plant for Colt ty ot be sited in Britain er 11. Ph company has said that it pr pared to...

HESTAIR Dennis has announced that it is to re-enter the general haulage market and is looking for around 20 dealers spread...

REVISED coach control structions for Heathr Airport London have n been issued by the Brit Airports Authority. As in the past...

PROPOSALS for Britain's first door-to-door dial-a-ride midibus service for disabled passengers are being advanced by Merseyside...

HIGH intensity rear foglamps must be fitted to most new vehicles after October 1, 1979, but they must not be attached to the...

iSI RANCES from Peugeottr en that it has a good co ery ahead of it have il to stop 2,500 Chrysler in table workers from going...

A NEW M25 London orbital motorway is essential to speed the flow of commercial vehicles around London — especially with the...

SCOTTISH haulage eonwtor has come to the rescue fellow operators who were fined by offers of Middle 1st irtunes. Bill Wright,...

INDUSTRY would save E3.2m each year if an AberdeenDunblane motorway is built to link north east Scotland with Britain's trunk...

fRICTER European exhaust emission standards will be :ceptecl in this country on petrol-engined vehicles. The provisions of...

OST of the 1978 Transport A's provisions became law st week, with powers ng ng from county council ans to EEC drivers' hours id...

NATIONAL Freight Corporation chairman Sir Dan Pettit will chair this year's Centre for Physical Distribution Management...

A NEW orange and black livery and logotype has been chosen by National Freight Corporation for Cartransport Ltd. The fleet of...

WORK is proceeding on a 0.75m extension to Stonefie Vehicles Ltd's on/off-road vehicle factory at Cumnock, Ayrshire. Intended...

.TI NAL Freight CorporaEn drivers have been ran ed a Schedule 11 wage ran by the Central Arbitran lommittee. rh five per cent...

SANCTIONS against the Huntly haulage firm of Gordon and lnnes, which have been in operation for the past fortnight, have been...

Casualties rise ROAD casualty figures for Great Britain rose by two per cent in the second quarter of this year, compared to...

DISCUSSIONS between a Dutch-owned company and a vehicle examiner led to Nedu Export Ltd of Harwich giving undertakings to have...

PALLETISED glass contain( will be handled at North El tern BRS Ltd's new Barnsl warehouse in South Yor shire. Redfearn...

FREIGHTLINERS is facing its first major round of uni negotiations since the handover of the company to British R by the...

PILCHER-Green of Burgess Hill Sussex, specialist in field ambulance bodywork, has just completed the first ambulance body to be...

MURPHY Brothers Ltd of Melton Road, Thurmaston have completed their first body using 19mm (0.75in) Glason it panels. It will be...

FREIGHT Bonallack has announced a new 12.2m (40ft 6in) long grp dry freight trailer. Called "Freightervan" its main feature is...

SISU of Helsinki, Finland, has just announced a new type of multi-purpose chassis using a modular structure. This is to satisfy...

Our Farnham branch can provide you with a complete commercial/coach preparation and maintenance service. Teams of experts ready...

FIRST-AID kits on buses and coaches must be brought up to new standards by next year, but two items now considered dangerous...

NATIONAL Welsh is applying the National Bus Company market analysis project to services in the Rhymney Valley. The company has...

TWO recently-launched Scania single-deckers will be exhibited at next weekend's Bus Driver of the Year national finals at High...

BRITISH coachbuilder Walter Alexander of Falkirk looks set to win a E1.1m export order from Singapore Bus Company. Alexander...

!OLAND'S first auction of secondhand local authority buses II b,: held in Glasgow this month. Greater Glasgow PTE has hired...

WITH OVER £500,000 , government money so far vested in the developmei stages for a new Germ standard city bus — VOV IV II — two...

PAINT fog has been reducl by a new paint sprayii method at London Transpor Aldenham overhaul works. LT has been using tl...

THE FIRST new Ford Transit to be used for postbus services in Scotland has entered service on the Isle of Luing in Argyll....

fulfilled by willow , ESSO'S Tom Kerr is the 1978 Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year, beating his nearest rival Tom...

THE ATMOSPHERE was tense as the eight finalists waited to take their turn, not only in the driving tests, but in the...

SUNDAY started in the cold light of dawn for most of this year's entrants. While the 25,000-plus spectators made a more...

THE SCOTTISH success in the main competition was matched by 20-year-old Stuart Davidson of Aberdeen, who won the Edgar Williams...

TITLJTE of Traffic Administm award for rigid vehicle ?.rs went to T. L. Goodwin lational Carriers, Swindon; Crane Fruehauf...

Class A: 1st, Brian Mott (Post Office, Reading) the Leyland Cars Trophy; 2nd, B.D. Cellier (Post Office, Leeds); 3rd, A.D....

royota Hi-Ace panel van looks difficult to service ALTHOUGH the period under consideration for our light vehicle testers'...

BY CONTRAST, the Mercedes Benz 207D, which we tested on March 3, was a delight to service. A short bonnet on the Mere lifts for...

WAS hard to believe that elve years had passed since 4 tried a version of the Dodge ommer) PB Spacevan. But ne they were. and...

FACELIFTS seem to have been a feature of 1978, as the next van to be tested was the modernised Ford Transit 80. However, the...

LETHORA of small vans de by the simple expedient of ding in a panel in place of an 3te car's side windows have the market since...

THE SECOND of our - conversions"' was the Fiesta 1.1 L van which, unlike the Peugeot, comes from using the Fiesta car as a...

WE USUALLY manage to include one odd-ball test in any year and this year was no exception. This particular - oddball - , the...

urier Express takes the judges' decision on ioints after a closely run competition CLASS A of CM's Livery Competition 1978 has...

COMPANIES seem to be a patriotic bunch when it comes to buying fleet cars, in the main preferring British to imported vehicles....

Ronnie Gordon, advertisement manager of Commercial Motor has an unkown ally in eightyear-old Paul Edwards, of Trench, Telford....

hat mechanical monster is ncerned in recommendations the British Standards I nstitun covering the ':co-efficient of ction of...

Mack Trucks are to sponsor the American Athletic Union's international weight-lifting programme which, along with the annual...

Jim Smith is a self-made man, as the saying goes. He started a hire-car business with a Ford Anglia in 1961. Npw he is head of...

A book entitled "Chemical and Bio-chemical Aspects of ElectronSpin Resonance Spectroscopy" has been dedicated to Midlands Red...

I hope the dinner held on the eve of the silver jubilee Lorry Driver of the Year Competition at Cranfield on Sunday will become...

New regulations strike a savage blow at defenceless Barra Drivers of 65 and over will lose their licence fee concession on May...

The Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund is still banking on a white Christmas but its greetings card for this year replaces...

The Sun reports "a crisis meeting of Linwood stopstewards." My thanks for that unintentional glimpse of the truth.

Moscow's transport system is planning to handle more than 30 million people a day during the Olympic games — if they are held...

MECHANICS FINAL DRIVES, 3 REAR AXLE hub bearings are of three distinct categories, semi-floating, three-quarter floating and...

e are concerned that, the phograph of three Nottingham lanteans, together with. the ption (CM Aug 4, ''Automatic Jjust cuts...

lion H. T. Harvey refers to in' s letter (CM August 4), I feel I ust point out certain.facts to Ir Harvey. Firstly, he accuses...

I am a regular reader of CM for five years and have always enjoyed reading it. I have always believed that it is the duty of a...

Ref - Poles march into Japanese Market" by Steve Gray in CM July 7, 1978. It's not so difficult to know where to mount the...

ets Davies directorship Mike Edwards has moved from Tor Line to become a director of Davies Freight Forwarding (Hull) Ltd. He...