SUNDAY sees the culmination of 11 months' hard work by more than 2,000 volunteers when the finals of the Lorry Driver of the...

THE RHA has asked Transport Secretary Nicholas investigation into the unfair competitive advantage Office enjoys in its parcels...

THE TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union card check, which was due to start at docks on Monday this week, was postponed due to...

THE GLC has condemned Department of Transport plans to set the Government up as "a dictator of London's road network." it...

DRIVERS' hours and records offences cost Lancashire hauliers, Arthur Rodney Rudge and Sons and three of the company's drivers,...

THE METROPOLITAN Traffic Commissioners have refused to hear applications for licences to operate four London sightseeing tours...

A DOZEN hauliers who met in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, last week are considering taking joint action to lodge winding up petitions...

AN OPERATOR, who was offered a subsidy by the Highland Regional Council and invited to apply for stage services presently run...

"SATISFACTORY progress" is being made by Iveco UK, according to its chief executive, Alan Fox. Speaking in London last week, Mr...

THE VEHICLE inspection scheme set up by the Freight Transport Association in the early part of this year, is now taking care of...

TNT, the national parcels carrier, is bringing its employees and their families together at the Atherstone hub this Sunday for...

McGREGOR CORY Warehousing has expanded its "wet" bonded warehousing facilities. In February the company acquired Storemasters...

FOUR new contract sales executives have been appointed by National Carriers Contract Services as part of a drive for new...

JIM FISHER, a bodybuilder with Walter Alexander (Coachbuilders) of Falkirk received on behalf of his firm a cheque worth £1,000...

PROMOTION of the full range of transport services at BRS Midlands 26 operating branches is the task of David Fletcher. He has...

AFTER only eight months away from Daf Trucks (GB), Christopher Thorneycroft-SmIth has returned to the company. When he left...

THE SACKING of a driver by R. T. Leech and Sons for using his vehicle to travel to and from his home without permission, has...

DOW FREIGHT boss Roger Dowsett has been left unsure of the effect on potential customers of police action at his company. Five...

SMITHS Transport Services (Gatwick), its transport manager and six drivers will appear at Chichester Crown Court for trial by...

THE PETER Lane Transport Group says contract hire is a growth area for them. Peter Lane, the managing director, said: "More...

A COMBINED, high volume jetter/sludge tanker supplied to the London Borough of Harrow by Buckingham Vehicles is distinguished...

A TAILOR-MADE partition system provides flexibility in carrying mixed loads of feeds in a Wilcox bodied eight wheeler for Pauls...

CONTINUING its policy of producing specialised chassis based on its range of 16.18 Delta trucks, Hestair Dennis of Guildford is...

FASTER road speeds, less tyre wear and better braking are among the benefits claimed for the latest step-frame semitrailers in...

THE GOVERNMENT has introduced legislation sumer Safety Act 1978(a) which will prevent the tyres with a slow speed rating. under...

DUNLOP TYRES has added a new high performance tubeless commercial vehicle radial tyre called the SP321 to its existing range of...

RAY SMITH of Peterborough is exporting tail-lifts to Hong Kong. The oneand two-tonne capacity lifts have been fitted to...

SWITCHING TO lift-up curtain roller-siders from platform bodies has helped South Yorkshire operator Barber Road Services to...

KOGAN PAGE has published the eighth edition of its Shell Commercial Vehicle and PSV Buyers Guide, which provides a complete...

33 Macaulay Road, Clapham Common Northside, London, SW4. 01-720 2242. Car and Commercial Vehicle Spares Specialist. Cannon's of...

IVECO will probably stop offering Deutz air-cooled engines in its heavyweight tractive unit range within the next year. The...

VOLVO has introduced a guaranteed parts delivery scheme which applies to the UK mainland (including Northern Ireland). Under...

SCANIA has confirmed that it is range in the USA. It is not yet clear precisely when sales will begin or which models will be...

MAN HAS begun to sell its MT range of nine to 13-tonne gvw vehicles in the USA and, depending on how well they are received,...

CHELTENHAM independent operator Swanbrook Coaches, has succeeded in getting the Cheltenham and Gloucester standard picking up...

WEST MIDLANDS PTE has ordered 100 Metrobus Mark Ils worth Vm from Metro-Cammell Weymann. They will be manufactured at Washwood...

BUS SERVICES in the Mearns in North-east Scotland have had a major shake-up. W. Alexander and Sons (Northern) withdrew several...

OPPOSITION from the Scottish Bus Group and British Rail to plans by Clan Garage (Kyle) to operate a service between the Isle of...

THE DIGBETH National Bus Company coach station at Birmingham may be replaced by another on land adjoining Moor Street Station....

WE respond to Mr Bidmead's letter in Commercial Motor, July 28, 1984. We would like to make the following points: 1 The report...

DO ANY CM readers recall a company of light to medium commercial manufacturers called Burford? As I remember they operated...

IN RESPONSE to the letter from Miss Richards (CM August 181,1 will ask: how lucky can one be? First of all, how much did Miss...

WE READ CM with interest each week; the article by Bob Greenwood (CM August 18) regarding the warehouse complex at Paddock...

I WRITE concerning the road test report on the VW Golf van in CM (August 18). Once again it seems that if it's foreign, it must...

FURTHER to your article "Brake Test Failures" (CM August 25) in which you discuss the high rate of tailer test failures on 38...

AS I ARRIVED at the Watermen's Hall in the City of London to be let into Ivaco UK's plans, I was greeted by an usher in...

ALAN B. FOX, lveco UK's executive, was in an optimistic mood, although he complained that profit margins were "taking a knock"...

WHEN IS a road accident not an accident? When it is the result of negligence or folly, which, according to an abrasive Nick...

WEST MIDLANDS Passenger Transport Executive can afford to splice the mainbrace, thanks to two bus inspectors, Jim Evans and...

NOW is the time to enrol for the CMSpecial Offer courses for the Certificates of Professional Competence in either road haulage...

Iveco is wooing the long-distance haulier with roomier cabs, improved suspension and low-revving powerful engines. Tim...

LAST MONTH an episode of the BBC2 television programme A Moment to Talk featured lorry drivers chatting during a break. Advance...

With its LT45D Volkswagen has strengthened its presence in the UK market commercial vehicle sector between 3.5 and 7.5tonnes —...

THOSE working in the transport industry always complain, with some justice, about the amount of legislation to which they are...

TRANSPORT Development Group is moving into the computer age — not just for standard functions like accounts and payroll, but...

The cream of Unigate IT IS SURPRISING what is revealed in company reports — especially those of companies which you do not...

WE ALL KNOW who is number one in Europe, who tries harder with self-drive car hire, and there is a difference at MacDonalds —...

year by CM and Volvo to commemorate a young man killed in a road accident before he could achieve his ambition of becoming a...