GOVERNMENT proposals to make employers pay an employee's first eight weeks sickness benefit could bankrupt small hauliers,...

EIGHTEEN lorry drivers who made false entries in their record books while employed by WBS Transport Limited, of Plough Way,...

MAJOR motorway schemes in Glasgow have been delayed and cancelled by Scottish Secretary George Younger in a package of...

STONEFIELD VEHICLES suffered a body blow last week when Tozer, Kemsley, and Millbourn decided not to take up a £120,000 option...

THE DEPARTMENT 4 Transport is planning to eat endorsement sanctic against 18to 21-year-ol drivers. It has told the Road...

HE EUROPEAN COMMISSION has roposed a 25 per cent increase in the :ommunity quota for transport author- , iations next year, but...

ROM NEXT January srages which sell fuel by the tre will have to indicate the luivalent price per gallon in idition to the litre...

THE TOTAL number of vehicles of 32.5 tonnes gross or more will be reduced by about eight per cent within a few years of any...

IN normal circumstances, the thought of giving a Second Reading to a 357 pagelong Bill at 1.40 in the morning would have even...

LOAD HAULIERS have reacted vitriolically to the Manpower iervices Commission's proposal that they should bear all operating...

:UMBRIA County Council is eady to issue certificates of !xemption now that its A591 hree-ton lorry ban will start in September...

AMENITY LORRY bans are being introduced at a faster rate than ever, according to the Freight Transport Association. But comfort...

LORRIES will pay up to £8 to cross the Humber Bridge, under proposals agreed by Transport Minister Norman Fowler. He has...

THERE is still no date for the implementation of the law prohibiting the parking of vehicles on verges, central reservations...

AT GRAYS Magistrate: Court last week a haulag: company from Romford, Es sex, pleaded guilty to over loading one of its vehiclel...

MANSPORT and distribution companies stand to gain from a being marketed by Scicon .ange of computer programs :omputer...

HAULAGE COMPANY from Evesham, Worcestershire, was . ined £75 by magistrates at :.'Irays. Essex, last week for )perating a...

David Davis is the new divisional managing director of Tate and Lyle Transport. Thirty-one year old Mr Davis, who is...

FOLLOWING Junior Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke's warning in the House of Commons (CM, July 12) on tyre sealants, more fuel...

CRAVEN TASKER has extended its TaskTilt TIR range of semitrailers, and includes additional features aimed at increased...

EVERCLEAR, an American product, is now being marketed in this country by Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Ltd of Huntingdon. It is...

SEDDON ATKINSON hat moved its parts distribution organisation to a new £2.5rr centre at Walton Summii near Preston. The move...

A £1m PAINT PLANT is the latest addition to Buckstone Motor Bodies Ltd's 2.25 acre factory at Shaw in Lancashire The...

1ENAULT Trucks & Buses (UK) Ltd has introduced an exended warranty scheme for new and used vehicles of any nake. Called...

/EEDER-ROOT has expanded it :hain of installers and distribuors for tachographs. A total of I 77 distributors and installers...

FOLLOWING its introduction of the Low Maintenance battery last year, Chloride Automotive Batteries, makers of Exide and...

MAN-VW is to launch a new 6x6 dumper truck at the Motor Show in October. Designated the 45,320 DFAK, it has a 45-tonne gvw and...

THE projected MAN-VW 8x8 heavy haulage tractive unit will be built at the Vienna factory of OAF-Graf und Stift, the MAN...

THE DETROIT Diesel Allis° division of General Motor has released details of its est industrial engine — th 1 2V-92. Available...

DAIHATSU UK has introduced the 55 pickup based on ti twin cylinder 547cc (34cuin) powered 55 van. It has a payload capacity of...

INTERNATIONAL Harvester and Spanish manufacturer ENM.. have extended the deadline for final completion of talks on thr joint...

JEST Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, fighting jainst falling passenger levels, rising costs and service xtbacks, has...

UNIOR Transport Minister :enneth Clarke has put forrard a scheme which he opes will change bus and Duch travel after the...

THE QUESTION as to' whether a new stage carriage type city bus will have to be fitted with a tachograph is worrying many...

FINANCIAL restrictions continue to force smaller municipal bus operators to buy secondhand buses as an answer to vehicle...

EASTERN Scottish is running a new bus service for tourists in the Borders region. The service, financed by Borders Regional...

NORTHERN IRELAND is to have its own Transport Act as soon as the Government can find time. Norman St John-Stevas, the Leader...

MINIBUSES may be used to replace Garelochhead Coach Services' stage routes when the company closes on August 31 (CM, August...

WALLACE ARNOLD'S Euroways network is continuing to develop and now includes a regular Athens service operated with the...

EASTERN SCOTTISH bu driver Andrew Gilmour Livingston, West Lothian ha been told to pay his employe £50 for the presentation of...

READ with interest Mr Burke's tter in Commercial Motor for uly 11. The Board, of course, relcomes the fullest possible ebate at...

YOUR ISSUE (CM July 19) carries some rather strange comments. First, in your own Editorial you infer that the current...

WITH REGARD to the news item, "Metal fatigue blamed for smoky exhaust" (CM July 12), while not wanting to make an issue of the...

THERE WERE TWO comments made in your "the case for the retread" (CM July 1 9) which I believe require correction at least as...

LIKE IT OR NOT, employment legislation is here to stay. This Conservative government will not bring back the mythical gol-, den...

AT FIRST GLANCE there would appear to be no connection whatsoever between 700 acres of Bedfordshire countryside, Belgium and...

SINCE their introduction to the UK market in 1931, over three million Bedfords have been built. This milestone was reached in 1...

by ne Hawk LV down to brass tacks in Japan LEYLAND VEHICLES men were not amused by satirical jokes about the export of the...

WHEN the first models in the TM range were introduced at the 1974 Commercial Motor Show, Bedford had every reason to be...

BEDFORD developed the 4x4 M-type primarily to meet a mili tary requirement. While a civilian version is available, it reflects...

THIRTY YEARS ago Vauxhall Motors introduced a new normal control ''Big Bedford" coach chassis to take advantage of new...

iE ELECTRICAL equipment on Ddern motor vehicles appears first sight to be very complex. mass of wire and switches innect...

THE LEGAL requirement to provide first-aid facilities at places of work is contained in no fewer than four Acts of Parliament...