WHEN the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders opens the doors at the National Exhibition Centre to trade visitors on...

CHRISTMAS stock traffic has surged in the last two weeks and looks like keeping express carriers busy until the end of...

SCOTTISH hauliers will meet Transport and General Workers Union representatives in 10 days to consider a £10 acrossthe-board...

PARCELS carrier TNT has moved into yet another market by launching a motorcycle courier service in London. TNT Courier is...

EEC EXPENDITURE on transport could be slashed next year as the hard-up Brussels authorities struggle to reduce their budget...

A JOINT venture between two hauliers at either end of a Railfreight journey is poised for expansion — after just three weeks of...

THE LONG-RUNNING Road Haulage Association campaign to establish a due diligence defence for overloading offences has been taken...

A FREIGHT handling system designed to encourage traffic to go by rail has been developed with assistance from the Greater...

TNT OVERNITE has added a Before 10.30am guaranteed next morning delivery option to its range of services. The company says its...

THE MOTOR SHOW opens next week against a backdrop of continuing decline in new commercial vehicle registrations. Society of...

CONDITIONS have been imposed on a West Yorkshire operator's base, following representations by a residents' action group....

THE ROAD Haulage Association is sponsoring a course on management in the road haulage industry at Ashridge management college...

FULL details will soon be available of the competition in which entrants are asked to speculate about the development of...

Sir Robert Lawrence SIR ROBERT LAWRENCE, first chairman of the National Freight Consortium and the man who steered NFC from...

FORMER marketing director of Daf Trucks, Ian Metcalfe, has set up a new partnership with the design and print group SPS. The...

DIRECT responsibility for the sales and marketing team of Victory Bodies, the Portsmouthbased subsidiary of Tozer Kemsley and...

PERCY ALLAN READ, a Liphook, Hampshire, cattle haulier for more than 50 years, died recently on the eve of his 99th birthday....

NEW group finance director with the National Freight Consortium is Hugh Mellor. He replaces J. V. Lewis, who joins NFC...

FRANK SAVILLE, sales director for Boalloy Equipment, the Congleton trailer and commercial vehicle bodybuilder, died suddenly on...

by JOHN AMOS, traffic manager with Transcare at Stansted, Essex. The award, which carries with it a £2,000 cash prize, is made...

and A Keith of Cominestown, Aberdeenshire is to cease its daily carrier service between Aberdeen, Oldmeldrum, Fyvie and Turriff...

PHILLIPS Truck Services of Sheffield is Leyland Trucks, and Freight Rover's new dealership for the Sheffield, Chesterfield and...

SEALINK is introducing revamped services from Portsmouth and Weymouth to Cherbourg and the Channel Islands next spring. All...

SEVEN drivers and a haulage firm were fined a total of £1,500 by Felixstowe magistrates on October 1 for 53 tachograph...

DETECTIVES are treating as arson a blaze which gutted the offices of a Tyneside haulage depot. The fire, which caused...

ANTHONY CARRIMORE is to market a range of packaged drop-on 'tipping gear kits to suit popular truck chassis. "The concept has...

ALCOA'S extended five-year warranty, on its range of forged aluminium disc wheels for trucks and buses, applies to all wheels...

MOVEABLE coverings and sliding roof and body covers for lorries are now being imported from a Milan company Copriscopri....

THE LATEST SAF WRZM 11035 low-loader axle which is available from Industrial Machinery Supplies of Bishops Meadow Road,...

BOURNEMOUTH bodybuilder Pam Trailers has been bought by the Highshares Group of companies whose other subsidiaries include...

RENAULT has expanded its range of British market vehicles with the introduction of its first three-axle tractive unit, a rear...

MULTIPART financial guarantee against late deliveries of (VOR) parts orders for Leyland vehicles above 6.0 tonnes gvw...

LONDON Regional Transport is putting 13 suburban routes out to competitive tender. Twelve are operated by London Buses, LRT's...

SOUTHDOWN Motor Services is the latest National Bus operator to reorganise its central engineering workshop into a separately...

TOYOTA has stepped into the British coach market with the launch of the Gaetano Optimo midi coach based on the Toyota Coaster...

A LINCOLNSHIRE independent, Enterprise and Silver Dawn, must wait indefinitely for authority to increase its operator's licence...

ANOTHER EEC initiative aimed at making coach travel safer is on the way. The Commission has been asked to make it an offence...

Bradford has been an oasis of crew operation, with only 15 per cent o-m-o until the latest changes, whereas in Leeds around 90...

AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS, the Leamington Spa-based vehicle component manufacturer, is preparing to supply Leyland with more than...

SINCE I discussed with the editor my idea to promote better operation of our products by introducing a driver's award scheme,...

IN THE ARTICLE on training services (CM Deptember 221 the statement is made that "Transport companies sending trainees there...

OH DEAR, here we go again, about the oldest chestnut in road transport — replacing pneumatic tyres by solids — resurrected by...

UNFORTUNATELY, The Hawk's Bird's-eye View of September 22 must have been obscured. Far from Railfreight being "bullet-proof"...

NOW is the time to enrol for the CM Special Offer courses for the Certificates of Professional Competence in either road...

A DESIRE to be helpful is a terrible cross to bear. Ask any of the seven operators who work on a rota to maintain Greater...

A SATELLITE is taking a lot of leg work out of communication between Ford engineers and executives in England and Germany. They...

JIM HAYDEN, who drives a Oaf 3300 ark for J. and C. Finney, of Tyidea*, Manchester, can never have imagined that he would one...

ANEW GOVERNOR of the North Warwickshire College of Technology and Art is a former student and Lax Wilkinson's regional...

IT WAS a °hampers welcome for Christopher ThorneycroftSmith when he returned last month to OAF Trucks (GB) 88 marketing...

It's an exciting time for transport engineering. Computerised design and manufacturing techniques are starting to be used...

In spite of modest recovery in the British commercial vehicle market, manufacturers are not slackening in their efforts to...

Leyland Bus is returning to the Motor Show in strength, the first-ever all-Volvo coach makes its British debut, and some...

Whatever your views on truck racing, it's here to stay and the transport industry must learn to live with it, reports Jack...

SPRINT MOTOR Accessory Service will have many new lines on display for the first time at the Motor Show under the Sprint and...

SPRAYBAKE is once again well represented at the Show. It is launching a new generation of spraybooths, involving a new lighting...

KALAMAZOO is launching two motor trade computer packages, one for forecourt management arid the other for workshop control....

GUYSON is presenting its Galaxie blast cleaning machine and putting on demonstrations. It has been produced and fabricated in...

BLACKHAWK Automotive is exhibiting body-repair systems and services on its stand. The Blackometry training system, introduced...

EUROBEV will display two drinks dispensers which have received "1984 Awards for Hygiene" from the Royal Institute of Public...

The 1982 Act in Action— Jonathan Lawton WHEN the 38-ton vehicle appeared, it was seen as some relaxation of the rigid...

Traffic Movement in Cities — Dave Wetzel THE PAPER by Dave Wetzel in the manual is an aide-mornoire which he will use to put...

The Other Environment — Garry Turvey ENVIRONMENT does not just mean sleepy villages and leafy lanes. Environment means the...

One Voice for Transport? — Len Payne THE TRANPORT links that our industry has produced have enabled movement of people and...