his privatisation plans for bridges and tunnels. Already both the Road Haulage and Freight Transport Associations have voiced...

THE NORTH of England is the theme of next week's Commercial Motor. We look in on haulage contractors in the Carlisle area,...

by our Parliamentary correspondent OPERATORS with previous convictions for overloaded goods vehicles could face bigger fines...

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Nicholas Ridley has raised the possibility of privatising estuarine bridges and tunnels, with the third...

by Alan Millar FIGURES for the first half of the year do little to show any serious recovery in the market for new commercial...

GENERAL MOTORS is no longer a UK company, claims the author of a controversial report on the impact of imports on the British...

VOLVO TRUCKS (( Britain) increased its I last year by 23 per cei £2.7m, the company's a. report reveals. It shows group sales...

ROBSON's Distributior vices opened a new dec Avonmouth last wet serve customers in S West England. The sit eludes a 50,000 sqft...

_AND is dosing its Irish iiary, Leyland Vehicles :d, but it will continue to the Irish market. tails of a new sales and .ce...

EIFICATE of ExempNo 1 of 1985 has been by the Health and Executive under the erous Substances (Conice by Road in Road cers and...

LEYLAND TRUCKS is joining the growing band of European commercial vehicle builders seeking a share of the new market in the...

by Brian Weatherley ,HAULIERS using ATP Class C registered thin-wall refrigerated vehicles into Italy must sign a three-part...

by Karen Miles BRITISH RAIL and the West Yorkshire County Council have forged links in an attempt to get more freight off the...

FEARS of hours of delays on the MI in Hertfordshire have failed to materialise as lorries and cars have stayed away from the...

INDUSTRY still waited the High Court judgment this week on whether the Greater London Council's proposed night and weekend...

MPs have thrown out Iof Lords proposals to s strategic authorities for ways in the Greater Lc Council area and the rr politan...

THE NATIONAL Fr( Consortium's original n subsidiary depot in She is unlikely to be replaced. This week, BRS Nor. formally...

SUPERMARKET chain gyll Stores opened a i5rr pot at Wakefield this wee replace its site at Sr Kirkby. Wakefield is one of Si:...

BRITANNY FERRIES bought Truckline Fer which runs a freight-onl! ro service between Poole Cherbourg. The Trucl name is being...

UK SALES manager for Plaxtons Coach and Bus Body Building Division, Rob Harrison, has taken on the additional responsibility of...

INTERNATIONAL haulier Dow Freight Services has appointed Maxwell Cartledge as a sales executive in its fleet management...

A MAN with a commercial and military transport operations background has been appointed secretary of the Institute of Road...

EASTERN National has pointed managers for the new districts which formed as part of a man ment reorganisation. Maurice Jordan,...

SALES and distribution director for Unigate subsidiary Sr Ivel is Mike Burbage. He succeeds Gilbert Cooper, who has become...

NEW CHAIRMAN of north-western area branch the British Association of movers is Alan Mansfi Maxted, a director of Manchester...

OPENING of the DartTunnel's three new toll is will only postpone traffic delays for a few according to Movefor London. opening...

LESS THAN a year after it was bought by its own man agement, Silcock Express is expanding its car transport operations in...

RESIDENTS attempts co block an increase in the number of lorries operated from a Surrey distribution depot have been thrown out...

NOISE NUISANCE blocked part of an application by Sam Longson Ltd to add five vehicles and 15 trailers to the 65 vehicles and 15...

THE NATIONAL Asso non of Warehousekeeper: to continue pressing the G eminent to repeal entirely National Dock Lab( Scheme which...

TNT TRISTAR has veloped a self-assembly p for use with palletised load In the style of many of I Australian company's m...

EEC is to open exploraalks with Vienna after L ustrian authorities tied to limit — by quothe amount of heavy inonal road...

NAGE carried by the 's inland transport — road, rail and invaterways — jumped by :imated seven per cent ear, the largest...

A PARTY of 13 Dutch trade officials is visiting Dundee this week to assess the potential of Dundee Ferries, Scotland's new...

A. TUELOCH and Sons (Holdings) Tulloch of Aberdeen have sold its entire operation in five divisions to the London based Alfred...

THE INSTITUTE of Road Transport Engineers has put forward a compromise solution to the oil companies' plan to lower the cetane...

TEXACO has specified the AE group's Econocruise cruise control system on 14 of its new Rolls-Royce 300Li-engined Leyland...

MAN diesel engines are built under licence in garia. The licence agreernen tween MAN's Munichcommercial vehicle diN and the...

BP OIL'S distribution Sion is pressing for temi lure to be taken into ace when measuring volumc motor spirit. All BP Oil's...

:E fade and heavy linear are continual probfor Ken Longthorne depot at Hebden, near on is surrounded by some vehicles he has...

AND TRUCKS is ating to increase its share nmercial vehicle sales in er London and has just d a service centre at a rway...

A RANGE of heavy-duty polyethylene nets has been introduced by Polynet of Colne, Lancashire offering a lightweight alternative...

OPERATORS reading through CM's tractive unit specification tables may have found misleading entries for certain Volvo models....

FIRST 4x 2 Seddon At n 401 tractive unit fitted a 245kW (328hp) Rolls • 340Li diesel has en I service with Smith Lets of Owston...

THE GOVERNMENT has changed its plans for the transitional stage of bus deregulation, but it has dismissed backbench MPs'...

UNIONS representing London Buses' platform staff are talking to management about changes in their agreements which are linked...

NEW COACHES regi in Britain will soon hi have stronger roofs, • port Minister Lynda C has announced. She told MPs that an...

SOUTH Yorkshire Pi seeking an approval for to build a light rail "s tram" system in Sheffieh The PTE is to prom Bill before...

EREFORD trial area intdent, Dennis D. Bucha was cleared by the n's magistrates of hing coaches sent in for il test with intent...

THE RULE awaiting legislation to ban alcohol at football matches makes it clear that supporters going to matches on coaches and...

OWING to a printer's error in our June 29 issue, we reported that Volvo Bus (GB) had obtained an order for four Volvo B55...

ONCE again, I step back in amazement at yet another change in the law detrimental to the lorry driver. I refer to the proposed...

I AM pleased to see the price of dery is falling, long may it continue! Unfortunately the old cliche is correct — what you gain...

WITH reference to Topic (CM, June 8), the accusation that I "mean, poor, or stupid" (not to join a transport association) is a...

WE refer to your article in CM, Ma regarding the IRTE Show wherein y make reference to the webbing side guards displayed on a...

IN my letter (CM, June 15) you sho. the final paragraph my service with t RHA as being 12 years, but this shot be 27 years as...

Edward Pearce, the int Parliamentary sketch writer of Daily Telegraph, as "The Iron iy", doubts whether Nicholas .7, her...

TAKE STOCK OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS Computatruk, purpose designed by Process Computing for UB Distribution Services, means that...

When it comes to daily vehicle scheduling, there is no substitute for the human touch. David Wilcox describes how computer...

FCS is the National Freight Consortium's computer company. Its package for computerised daily scheduling is DiPS (Distribution...

fhe company's first customer for yload was Vaux Breweries in iderland. Now there are 10-12 npanies using Dayload and a further...

The program runs on a minicomputer although there is also a more basic version that can go on a micro. The range of Mover...

original scepticism was unfounded. Pactel, Rochester House, 33 Greycoat Street, London SW1P 2QP. Tel: 01-828 7744. Scicon...

it is bought at the same time as the computer hardware from Scicon. Suitable hardware such, as the HewlettPackard 3000...

REMEDIAL COURSE Jack Semple joins a mixed group of Wincanton employees on a course to give them confidence to use their own...

) V ER the next five years the application of computer and microprocessor technology to cle design and operation will ;form...

Once they have mastered the knack of entering the rather cramped cab of Bedford's recently introduced Midi panel van, drivers...

WATCH THIS VIDEO You think you may need • a microcomputer? What can you do with one? How do you choose one? How do you buy...