On the hustings in rural constituencies, there will be resolute promises by prospective MPs to improve bus services and divert...

IS THE fuel shortage became more and more apparent this veek a CM survey on Britain's major roads revealed that up to 0 per...

iE Government is to hold lks with the police about the ture of vehicle registration cords prepared at local xation offices....

LONDON'S most famous bus, the 40-year-old RT, made its final run last Saturday, and received a big send-off. Watched by...

AS CM went to press on Mo day, pickets were blockadii the Perkins diesel engine pla at Peterborough. The siege follows the wal...

CONSERVATIVES will be standing by their transport policy document The Right Track at the General Election, confirmed Tory...

LEYLAND Vehicles has won a E5m order to supply the Post Office with more than 800 vans. The order comprises 420 EA345 vans and...

WHICHEVER political part; forms the next Government, i should think twice abou commissioning inquiries intd road transport....

LIVERPOOL'S proposed £.40m inner ring road is to be th , subject for joint talks between Liverpool City Council an+ Merseyside...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association has called for modifications in goods vehicle rear lighting legislation and for amendments to...

HE LEX Service Group is anning to expand into merica in the replacement trts market for commercial hides and cars. The group,...

ROAD HAULAGE Association direcior-general George Newman accused the Freight Transport Association and Sainsbury distribution...

GHER STANDARDS of food, value for money, cleanliness The first step in these iprovements took place last eek, with a cut in...

Enfield haulier sells out HOWE (EUROPEAN), the international road haulage contractor based in Enfield, Middlesex, has been...

lIEVES uncoupled a 40ft flatbed trailer and stole it, complete th its load of apples valued at £4,000, last week. l'he...

THE Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway is to be asked to take stronger measures against speeding heavy lorries on the...

Two new warehouses have been opened by Butler's Warehousing and Distribution of Greenford. A new 70,000sqft site at Widnes in...

THE SWEDISH Government is banning goods vehicles above 7.5 tons on certain days within prescribed times, on highways with E...

FREIGHTLINERS h. appointed Vic Burks general manager of its Id container services. He joined Freightliner at birth in 1968 as...

YORKSHIRE owner-driver Gordon Havercroft had his Dperatoes licence renewed last week, but only on condition that he organises...

axis for a nine-mile western lief road for Lincoln were mounced by the Department Transport last week. Construction of the...

MERSEY DOCKS and Harbour Company went into the red last year, mainly as a result of declining general cargo traffic. Its...

HAMBURG is planning t world's biggest internatior transport exhibition this sui mer, but road transport take only a...

Commissioners turn down Berks appeal AN APPEAL by Berkshire County Council against a 25 per cent fares increase approved by...

A TENFOLD increase in the number of buses with top-deck music tapes should help yield over £28,000 for Greater Manchester...

THE FIRST Alexander-bodied Metro-Cammell Weymann Metrobus is being handed over to Scottish Bus Group's Alexander (Midland)...

NEW BUS services introduced in Watford are being publicised under the banner name of Watfordwide. London Country introduced...

GARAGE modernisation fig ures large in West Midland. PTE's 1979/80 capital pro gramme. It is devoting £800,00 , towards the...

BRITAIN'S commercial vehicle industry is strongly -epresented in this year's Deign Council awards. Six manufacturers have been...

OR THE SECOND time a BoaBoy body has won a Design buncil award. In 1976 Boalloy's Tautliner curtain-sided body received an...

HE FIAT 900T light van is mning equipped with a slot-in idio as standard. An Italian Voxson manually ined AM radio similar to...

Ingimex aluminium tilt body ALUMINIUM KIT bod specialists Ingimex Ltd of Te ford, Shropshire, has intr( duced an all-aluminium...

Certain points about the tachograph need to be clarified: Tacho failure: who is "responsible?" Would the driver be penalised...

MAY I SUGGEST that your Mr Gray, in his road test of the Leyland Clydesdale (CM, March 16) was a little hard in his criticism...

THE ARTICLE in CM about th Sentinel steam wagon, which have just read, brought bac happy memories. This vehicL was coal-fired...

IGH STANDARDS of todern luxury coaches at last eekend's National Coach ally in Blackpool contrasted ith the sheer misery of a...

Steve Geary report e business sessions at e Tipper Conferen( DELEGATES to the Road Haulage Association's 13th innual Tipping...

Bill Brock takes you round ne stands at the RHA's Tipper Conference held last weekend in Harrogate EXAMPLES of the recently...

The new Secdon Atkinson 300 tipper is built for economy. As Bill Brock finds, it is capable of delivering. Pictures by Brian...

ALTHOUGH the United Kingdom has more vintage commercial vehicle enthusiasts to the hectare than anywhere else, the movement...

MEANWHILE, Dutch supporters of the MUSA collection of city and intercity buses are resotring several vehicles of makes with...

FILM and television work is done also by some of the vehicles in Leyland's historic collection and fees from this and toehr...

THE WORLD'S first truck advertisement was written in 1897 describing the world's first "hgv", a four-horsepower Daimler,...

The compression ignition engine, 9 ON MANY diesel engines it is sufficient to provide excess fuel when starting from cold and...

t 'HE - STORY of Magirus Deutz started at Ulm where Conrad Dietrich Magirus was the head of the local fire brigade. Bothered by...

The weighing of vehicles, 2 IN THE LAST article it was established that it was a good defence to a charge of overloading to...

trols. Two yea id Twelve brilli Which one c products. elp you? he Fidus Top Speed Governor. The Fidus Electronic...

CM "s European correspondent Bill Godwin reports, 4 ERMAN HAULIERS are getting a bigger share of international traffic to id...

Take care to be on the right side of le law in Germany regs enforcement is strict, advises John Durant. 9j. ' N OPERATOR...

Wilhelm Dreskornfeld, president of ne Federal Association of german Long Distance Road Haulage Describes ne structure of he...

Major international truck manufacturers, DAF Trucks, are currently following a planned expansion programme in the Middle East...