THE PRIME Minister has, no doubt, already drafted her cabinet re-shuffle. Hopefully, she will take a serious look at her...

THE Transport and General Workers' Union is to claim £7 on all grades in next winter's haulage sector pay round. The...

THE POINT-OF-ENTRY vat payments system should be delayed for three months, the Freight Transport Association has told the...

HAULAGE TRAFFIC has doubled in the past year on Brittany Fer. ries' Plymouth-Santander ro/rc service. The company has added a...

AUDIBLE WARNING devices are to be legalised on commercia vehicles — many years aftei operators started to fit them. The...

THE CLIMB in new commercial vehicle sales is slowing up, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor...

TRANSPORT MINISTER Lynda Chalker has promised that the problem caused by alkali-aggregate reaction on some bridges on motorways...

'THE GREATER London Council has confirmed today that it will oppose Government plans for an East London River Crossing and that...

TO HELP operators reduce the threat of load-shedding on heavy goods vehicles the British Standards Institution has updated its...

JAMES LOCKHART, managing director of the Transport Development Group and chairman at this year's CM Fleet Management...

IF YOU have something to say about the transport busin then say it first to CM's news team. We aim to give you best weekly news...

DJS HOLDINGS has bought another company in the South West of England. Coupled with its own Spartruks (the Mercedes-Benz...

A REFUSAL to co-operate with vehicle examiners has led to the revocation of a licence of Manchester haulier Arthur Jennings....

RECEIVERS have been called into the Cowlard Group of companies based at Barking, Essex, following liquidity problems. The...

FOLLOWING the promotion of Mike Tarrant, Geoffrey Eales has been appointed sales director of National Carriers Contract...

GARY NOBLE, editor of Motor Transport, our sister newspaper, has been appointed a publisher with our parent company, Business...

GENERAL MANAGER from September 3 of London Transport's Abbey bus district is Richard Hall, following the recent retirement of...

NEW HEAD of Roadline Management Services is David Hickmott. He has been promoted from computer systems controller and succeeds...

A NEW sales director has been appointed by Ratcliff Tail Lifts of Welwyn Garden City. He is Campbell McKee and he replaces Neil...

PSYCHOLOGIST and marketing consultant David Clark-Murphy has joined Fraikin, Europe's largest commercial vehicle contract hire...

SEVEN HUNDRED Road Haulage Association members and their friends travelled to Wallsend from all parts of Britain for a surprise...

A SOUTH LONDON company has launched an electronic load matching information service aimed at small fleet operators who are...

THE MID-WALES Development Board has recommended improvements to road communications to and within MidWales. The statement...

AS THE Greater London Council lorry ban becomes more contentious (CM August 4), Southampton City Council is also looking at the...

the option of transferring their vehicles to railway wagons which will carry them piggy-back from frontier to frontier. The...

SMITHS Transport Services (Gatwick), its transport manager and six of its drivers appeared before Crawley, Sussex magistrates...

ROAD HAULAGE ASSOCIATION Computer Services (RHACS), the RHA-associated company, which is part of the National Freight...

in the first half of this yew compared with the same polo last year. The figures, which pre-dat the dock strike last month,...

ARTICULATED lorry Gordo McDougall was driving a load I paper to an Aberdeen mill whe it overturned taking a rouns about, an...

FOLLOWING in the footsteps of the Nova Nobel (CM, July 28), Audi/VW dealer Windrush Garage of Slough has produced a light van...

A NEW TYPE of radiator shutter designed for use on light commercial vehicles and vans has been introduced by Kysor Industrial....

HILLINGDON Borough Council has taken delivery of three Dodge S46 crew-cab tippers fitted with Reynolds Boughton bodywork, Edbro...

LUCAS SERVICE UK has appointed bodybuilder B. Walker and Son as service agent for its range of light vehicle-mounted cranes....

RESTALL BROTHERS has extended its range of folding rear passenger seats for light vans with a model for the new Nissan Sunny...

TRANSPORT ' SECRETARY Nicholas Ridley has called on London Regional Transport chairman Dr Keith Bright and British Rail...

DESPITE the declared intentions of the Government to deregulate stage carriage operations, an independent bid to provide...

HESTAIR Duple has facelifted its Lasers and Caribbean coach' bodies and is to launch its new integral coach at the Motor Show...

THREE limited-stop bus services have been authorised to Warwickshire independent Burman, by the West Midland Traffic...

YORK TRAILERS has introduced a more basic range of grp trailer vans to meet fleet specification requirements. The Ensign range...

LINKS between Neville-Charrold and the French Trailor company have been severed. The agreement made in 1981 ran into trouble...

ELEVEN new Mercedes-Benz L608D 6.5-tonne frozen food delivery vehicles commissioned by Spring Valley Foods, are said to have an...

CLAYTON DEWANDRE warns against fitting sub-standard replacement braking equipment and offers genuine exchange spring brakes. A...

ONE of the proposals in the White Paper on buses which is not likely to arouse much excitement, but may be very dangerous if...

IN REPLY to D. Armishaws' letter (CM July 28) "HGV; It's not fair". I can only agree with him on one point. The hgv test fee is...

MR P. BAKER will be interested to hear (CM, July 7) that the efforts of his father in introducing a split step into the rear...

WAS MOST interested to read an article in Bird's-Eye View (CM, July 7) about truck racing and was pleased to read at the end of...

AM PLEASED to be able to say that lain Sherriff's criticism of the Road Haulage Association in the matter of national strikes...

SOME of the problems in enforcing road transport legislation were pointed out in a leading article (CM June 30) and I would add...

THE REPORT "Door-to-door selling — the Thomas Scott case" (CM July 28) suggests that the case has now been lost. This is not...

Like many of his countrymen in politics, Glyn Samuel is a skilled communicator. For a prospective chairman of the Road Haulage...

SOUTH YORKSHIRE public transport policies are probably among the least liked by the Government with their artificially low...

Having sold its Boalloy subsidiary and closed its loss-making Andover plant, Craven Tasker has started to see improvements in...

Anyone who has had to drive pigs into a transporter knows that they are not the most co-operative of passengers. David Wilcox...

Demand for Volvo's F6 tractive unit in right-hand drive form is now considered by the manufacturer to justify starting...

EUROPE'S first cable tramway was opened on Highgate Hill between the Archway Tavern and Highgate Village, London, 100 years ago...

THE ROAD haulage industry should make sure that two gallant South Wales operators, Richard Read Transport, of Longhope, and...

JOHN PALMER, an 18th century Bath theatre manager, complained bitterly that his business was suffering because mail to London...

IF THE GOVERNMENT had not heeded John Palmer's protest, the Post Office would have been able to celebrate the 200th anniversary...

IT IS time somebody took the smug smiles off the faces of the staff of retail stores, wholesalers and others who refuse to...

GAZING for a moment at the patch of clover, daisies and buttercups that I laughingly call a lawn, I reflected on the lengths to...

is still two months away, interest in the event has already been considerable. Nearly 300 transport managers, operators,...

As its market revives, York Trailers has moved back into profit. Much of the credit for the company's resurgence must go to its...

As a former transport officer-in-chief of the army, General John Carpenter has an extensive practical understanding of the...

WEBBING EQUIPMENT manufacturer Brycraft of Bristol has introduced a square section adjustable shoring pole into its range of...

BRITOOL has introduced two flare-nut spanners for brake and fuel system servicing on British, Continental and Japanese light...

AVW-WILCOMATIC has introduced a new commercial vehicle washing machine. Two support columns each carry twin-pivoted brushes...

DEBIQUIP has extended its range of workshop equipment with the Portrop, a trolleymounted pressurised cylinder with a variety of...

CARGO AIDS of Bexhill has 4 introduced a quick-action shortener for freight restraint systems using a chain with its Ctype...

EXPOSED and expensive commercial vehicle batteries are a regular target for thieves, but now a specialist security company has...

BRITOOL HAS developed a range of sturdy and versatile castored chassis in three sizes that will suit most tool boxes, allowing...

AUTOSMART HAS introduced a mobile vehicle wash called the Turbo 2000 Plus. The cold water pressure cleaner has a 121 litre/ min...

A NEW heavy-duty battery, specifically designed for commercial, construction plant and agricultural vehicle use, has been...

COMMA HAS expanded its range of Cleaning Products with Klean Dry granules. Supplied in Bkg (171b) cartons, Comma claims its new...

IAN SAYER, co-author of Nazi Gold (CM February 25), now runs a transport consultancy company working for courier companies and...

THE LATEST Financial Survey and Directory of Commercial Vehicle Dealers (ICC; £85) is now available; it shows the...

WHEN A NEW type of bus appears, it is difficult to forecast how successful it will be. Will it be popular with operators,...