T HE PROJECTED London weekend and night-time lorry ban may well bc, as many suspect, the product of political dogma disguised...

ICHELIN is accusing the etread Manufacturers Assoc ation of "protecting their n interests at the expense the UK haulage...

HE NUMBER of heavy oods vehicles involved in iccidents has slumped over he past 20 years, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium's loss-ridden parcels group wants to merge its two trading arms — Roadline UK and National...

YET ANOTHER new parcels carrier, Tramps Trucking of Birmingham, has advertised for county-based franchise holders and aims to...

LEYLAND has developed a completely new 16-tonne chassis cab for local refuse collection, aimed at breaking the domination in...

CAMPAIGN to cast road uilding and road transport in n environmentally favourable I ght was launched last week y the British...

NEXT WEEK sees the launch of the Commerrin/ Motor-Eberspacher Winter Warmth competition. with a first prize of a week for two...

HE TRANSPORT and yeneral Workers' Union has odged wage claims for drivrs employed by National reight Consortium comanies. The...

[HON JOHN thought all is birthdays had come at nec last week. On Wednesday (October 0), which was his birthday, e came to...

SEALINK British Ferries made a dramatic: last-minute appearance on the fixed link scene for the English Channel. The biggest...

ONLY 300 lorries and coaches and 1,6(() cars an hour would be allowed through each tunnel, m order to maintain air quality...

WHILE all the talk is about a Channel link, a private enterprise group headed by civil engineering contractor John Mowlem...

ABERDEEN NORTH Labour MP Bob Hughes is to be Labour's new chief transport spokesman, but he may not be in the Shadow Cabinet....

NEWLY-appointed financial controller for National Bus's Bristol Engineering is Stephen James, who joins the company from HAT...

BRIAN ALCOCK, formerly sales manager for TEC Trailer Equipment and Components, has been appointed as the new general manager of...

TANKEIZEIGHT, the gational Freight Consortiun's bulk tanker subsidiary, S looking for 40 per cent note productivity from the...

LEX WILKINSON has further refined Wilkontrol, the computerised documentation and parcels monitoring. system first introduced...

A NEW dealership has been established near St Helens to provide sales and services for MAN-VW commercial vehicles on...

FHE COMPLETE reorganisation of Argyll Stores' distribution network should raise the supermarket chain's retail profit margains...

cut after overloads CONVICTIONS on overloading and other offences led to seven vehicles and two trailers being cut from Stan...

ACCUSATIONS against Dow Freight Services Ltd, two other companies and six directors involving fraudulent use of vehicle...

WORLD FREIGHT, the international freight industry conference and exhibition, is being staged next year at London's Barbican...

THE FREIGHT capacity on the Townsend Thoresen service between Europoort (Rotterdam) and Felixstowe is to increase by almost 25...

EUROPE'S most expensive police radar trap, erected on a bridge over the West German autobhan north of Frankfurt, may he...

YORKSHIRE haulier Thomas Longthonte and 12 of his drivers being ordered to pay fines and costs totalling c:3,380 when Skipton...

OPERAl'ORS must be warned against the "illegal and anti-social practice of causing drivers to make false record sheet entries,...

EREIGI IT ROVER'S adoption of GKN composite springs for the latest Sherpas (CM November 2), has been followed by Mitsubishi's...

GKN ias developed an automatic iechanical lash adjuster (AML) which could make norma valve clearance adjustment a thing of the...

SOLtX, the carburettor manufacturer, has gone into receiqrship. Michael Jordan and John Powell of accountant Cork Gully were...

1 II E FREIG11 - 1 l'ransport Association has responded to the continuing wheel fixing failure problem by publishing a guide...

THE MOTOR PANELS Herm-Tech concept cab made its final European show appearance last week at Autotech, the Institution of...

GREATER LONDON'S bus services are likely to be deregulated within two years, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley predicted last...

THE BID by Sealink British Ferries to build twin-bore tunnels between Dover and Calais (page 6) assumes that 50 per cent of day...

THERE IS no danger or threat to the accrued pension rights for National Bus Company or local authority bus employees, Transport...

LIMEBOURNE Coaches of London is now operating a non-stop Plymouth to London express coach service. Charting and ticket sales...

A PROTOTYPE of the strikingly-styled Van Hool A280 city bus was a star exhibit of a Van Hool display at Carlyle. The show,...

TYNE AND WEAR PTE's three-year public transport plan gives a generally pessimistic view of its operations after deregulation....

RESEARCH into the fire risk in coaches is being stepped up, Transport Minister Lynda Chalker has told MPs. As the Commons came...

TRANSPORT Secretary Nicholas Ridley has warned London Regional Transport that he expects to see rapid improvements in its bus...

. 1HE BUS and Coach Council took its late bid to amend the EEC drivers' hours review to the Department of 'Fransport this week...

PERM independent Stagecoach was fined ti800 when it appeared before Perth Sheriffs court accused of drivers' hours offences....

M E RC ED ES-14 EN Z's longawaited 3025K eight-wheeled tipper chassis has been launched formally in Britain — and a significant...

TWO companies — working independently — have produced methods of stabilising tipping vehicles. To combat the effects of bad...

We've test driven Volvo's lighter FL6s over the worst of Belgium's roads — we liked the new cab and the vehicle's ability to...

by David Wilcox MICHELIN has long had the reputation of being a rather secretive company, closely guarding its tyre-making...

J UST Over a year ago Ford introduced its Cum T11 ins L hi engine Cargo range. When we tested the 3224 tractive unit in the...

F OUR years ago Leyland replaced its ciydes.„ 16-tonnerS with the T45 Freighter models. Since then more power has been added...

U NTIL September 1984 MAN did not compete effectively in the I6-tonne market. True, it had a two-axle rigid model, but it was...

S EVERAL major changes have been made to the Mercedes-Benz 1617 since we tested the model 18 months ago (CM March 3, 1984). Its...

IN YOUR October 26 issue you quote from manufacturers' questions and answers at the Fleet Management Conference Jeff Lemons'...

YOUR correspondent A. R. Gross (CM, September 14) is right to draw attention to the state of London's roads. The GLC is...

CONGRATULATIONS on your reporting of the Fleet Management Conference, and particularly your coverage of the public inquiry....

1 READ with interest your editorial (CM, October 19), on the subject of motorway accidents and fog. Having spent the last 20...

TOP SERVICE I N ITS first year's trading Scantruck at CoInebrook has wasted no time in establishing a versatile non-stop...

I . )BODY expects recently re shuffled Government ministers immediately to be familiar with all the fine detail of their new...

SNOWCHAINS has extended its range of truck and coach chains with a new design specifically for light commercial vans and trucks...

(;REASE, carbon, rust and paint can be removed from engine parts and other components in 30 minutes by a new multi-stage...

AN ELECTRONIC device designed to help keep drivers awake on monotonous stretches of motorway has been introduced by a Danish...

A HANDLE has been added to the rubber R E Gripchock by R E Tyre and Rubber Co to produce a new version which is easier to...

W I 1ATEV ER potential changes in transport regulations are discussed, the need to possess a Certificate of Professional...

Perfecta Bedding chose drawbars to beat town-centre lorry controls and allow a high cube, and has now hit on an unusually...

European managing director Jim Cleary explains the TIP policy that has evolved since the company launched the trailer rental...

Allan Winn looks at the reasons for renting or hiring trailers, with help from European Marketing Manager Colir? Barr T railer...

Angelo Salmasi heads the TIP sales operation, welcoming customers from all over Europe who can bid for virtually any trailer in...

Technical director Pat Berridge has the job of drawing up the best specification for the fleet. Here, he tells David Wilcox...