...or 7,000 drivers will know the reason why by CM reporter A TACHOGRAPH strike by 1,000 drivers paralysed the delivery of...

THREE HUNDRED drivers will be battling it out on Sunday for the coveted CM Lorry Driver of Year title. And this year the...

emergency service drivers fight the drought, following a request from the Road Haulage Association. In its letter to the...

A REPORT by an independent firm of business consultants on the National Freight Corporation is to be kept secret.. A spokesman...

THE CM Fleet Management Conference is almost sold out, but a few places are still available. This one-day conference during the...

k CALL for some quick decisions about Britain's future transport policy has been made by the RAC. And at the same time Sir...

ANDY THOMS, Ford of Britain's truck sales director, has forecast that 1976 would prove to be a record year for Ford commercial...

ITALY has been given a sharp rap over the knuckles by the European Commission for going it alone on legislation governing the...

NO PROGRESS has been made -towards getting fresh supplies of Hungarian and Italian haulage permits for operators going to the...

y Graham Montgomerie NEW ENGINE option is eing offered by British LeyInd in its Buffalo range in a Id to attract sales to...

It seems that the world and his wife have written to the Minister for Transport expressing views on the Transport Policy...

"SHORT-SLEEPER" cab version of Leyland's top-of-theange Marathon has been announced for the Earls Court show. Available for...

the other way for the Boxer by adding a , turbocharger to the Bathgate-built 98-series engine. Designated the 6-98TV, it...

A FO spokesman told CM that a local lawyer has been appointed to act for Mr Barnes, who was unlikely to come to trial for at...

DAVID BARNES, the British driver in jail in Jeddah after an accident in which six Arabs died, is being kept supplied with food...

Army moves PICKFORDS have opened a new office to serve Rhine army personnel moving between Britain and Germany. The new depot...

A SCOTTISH driver who claimed that he had been sacked by his employers had his claim for wrongful dismissal rejected by the...

THREE DRIVERS got a mixed reception when they appealed against heavy goods vehicle licence bans at Newcastle last week. In the...

10 YOU SUPPLY materials nd equipment to UK odybuilding and repair pecialists? Then the Vehicle Iuilders and Repairers...

VIAN Concessionaires (GB) _Id has signed a reconditionng contract with Inrad Ser/ices Ltd to service all radia:ors on new MAN...

A BIG improvement in the commercial vehicle market has meant that Crane Fruehauf has been able to announce an operating profit...

bulk liquids operations of P&O Road Services tanker haulage companies under one banner. P&O Tankmasters will be based mainly...

A NEW top of the weight range Transit — the 190 — has been introduced by Ford. Although it has a gvw of 3.5 tonnes (3 tons 9...

lew range of coach and bus )odies for the Commercial Vlotor Show and it includes the all-new Dominant 2 which is being added to...

A FURTHER £208,188 in financial assistance to Scottish Bus Group operations in the Lothian Region during the present financial...

operate daily express coach services between the. east coast of Yorkshire and London met strong opposition before the Yorkshire...

OXFORDSHIRE County Council is largely to blame for the delays in bringing about bus service alterations in the county (Oxford's...

NATIONAL TRAVEL has added two new express routes to its Supercoach network; they start on September 26. a The new services will...

CARLISLE City Council is to consider a recommendation to drop its appeal against an application to reduce services run by...

position can carry several days' simply of perishable goods. When raised the cooker Ad acts as a splash guard. FORD has...

... Long Haul option for Middle East runs by Graham Montgomerie For the almost non-existent roads to be found in some parts of...

THE LATEST addition to the Contractor range of heavyhaulage specials is the 244-tonne (240-ton) gtw model announced today by...

TO COUNTERACT one of the main criticisms levelled at the EA van — body drumming — Leyland has replaced the flat panel body...

'wins for the UK by Graham Montgomerie TWO new trucks from Fiat for the British market are unveiled today. They compromise a...

Some of the worst driving' in Britain can be seen most days on the M2 London to Dover road. This is especially true on Fridays...

familiar enough with the time "The fifth column". It was explained to me thus — ahem. "The fifth column was an unidentifiable...

Three Dundee bus drivers find themselves the embarrassing centres of attraction among their colleagues. Apparently the hapless...

Harold WiTion has bought the first Ailsa double-decker in England. No, no not him; there is at least one other. This Harold...

I passed a worried, blushing and confused driver the other day on the Thames embankment. He was worried because a member of the...

Roddy MacAskill has increased his fleet by 600 per cent in the worst two years of this decade by Ian Sherriff HOW MANY of the...

The figure of 60 additional deaths per annum, given by the BRF in their comments on road cuts and quoted under the headline...

Glasgow monopoly I refer to the report headed ''Glasgow sorts out monopoly - . I do not know the source of your information...

subject of Industrial Democracy. Could you say whether this is so and, if so, what is the background and the likely outcome?...

must be used exclusively very shortly. What is the date from which only this type of book will be accepted by DoE enforcement...

which they say was making excessive exhaust noise. A hole was discovered in the exhaust where the pipe joined the silencer....

being operated at over 7.38 tons gross then I must have an hgv licence. If I buy this vehicle with the intention of operating...

by Stephen Gray LIKE MOST other UK volume production truck manufacturers, Chrysler too makes a vehicle which is designed to...

F, HE BUYS IT! ITS AMAZING the number of people who have become hauliers quite by chance. It seems that a large proportion of...

tested by CM, offers a useful payload advantage over the existing 175 model. This extra load amounts to 140kg (3091b) on the...

THE MAJOR categories of public road transport could be reclassified into two fundamental designations of carriage: regular and...

But they are extremely cautious about it. They want both the experiments and the machinery by which they are introduced...

RADIATOR filler caps tend to be the forgotten components of the cooling system — if they seem to fit, people assume that they...

By Les Oldridge, T.Eng.(CEI), M.I.M.I., A.M.I.R.T.E. THE LAW has always regarded forgery as a very serious crime punishable...

LABOUR PARTY politicians who were active in the run-up to the 1968 Transport Act may be flattered, and also a little bemused,...