IF THE Central Electricity Generating Board switches much of its coal traffic from rail to road, as it has said it would, it...

PRIME MINISTER Margaret Thatcher is now ready to throw her weight behind a road/rail link across the English Channel. There is...

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Police are trying to trace the driver of an articulated lorry which failed to stop after being involved in a...

CLAIMS by the Greater London Council that London-based hauliers may benefit from the proposed night and weekend ban for lorries...

HEAVY GOODS traffic is set to grow even faster over the next 30 years than the Government had reckoned only four years ago....

FOR THE FIRST time a British Commissioner is to be in charge of EEC transport policy in Brussels when the new Commission takes...

HAULAGE drivers in Kent and accept Scottish-style £5.50 wage highly unlikely in the West of En Transport and General Workers...

FURTHER increases in the multilateral quotas for international haulage were agreed by the 19-member European Conference of...

THREE directors, two traffic clerks and 21 drivers of two Lancashire hauliers, Charter Roadways and Sableglow, have been...

NEW MAR Oil Services of Altens, Aberdeen, is to open the first tanker certification centre north of Stirling. When the...

KILMARNOCK and Loudoun District Council has imposed a ban on heavy lorries running coal from Hunterston to Ravenscraig. It is...

REGISTRATIONS of new commercial vehicles this year are likely to end up less than one percentage point ahead of last year....

A SENIOR management reshuffle has been carried out by Renault, the French stateowned vehicle builder which has been fighting...

MIKE KNEEN, the Road Haulage Association's technical officer, is to retire on February 15 next year when he reaches the RHA's...

THE END of the year sees the retirement of Ken Birchall as managing director of Gilbraith Tankers. He joined the Accrington...

TWO DEPUTY Traffic Commissioners to the South Eastern Traffic Area have been appointed by Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley....

A DIRECTOR West Pennines has been appointed by BRS Northern, the National Freight Consortium haulage company formed last year...

A NORTHAMPTON haulier which moved to a new operating centre in an industrial area has had restrictive conditions placed on its...

vehicle to the four vehicles and three trailers he already operates from a farm at Llanbradach ran into stiff opposition from...

THIRTY PER CENT growth is planned for Systemline, Lex Wilkinson's contract distribution division which is making a major bid...

SHREWSBURY councillors have said that a penalty imposed on a local firm which failed to deliver a vehicle on time should be...

'Sort yourselves out' LOCAL AUTHORITIES could meet demands for more efficient transport services without recourse to private...

GOVERNMENT plans to compel local authorities to accept the cheapest tender for parts of their transport business were attacked...

GOVERNMENT ministers are hitting back at anti-deregulation campaigns, with Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley speaking at a...

NATIONAL Bus Company fears that some counties may lose up to 50 per cent of their bus support cash when Transport Supplementary...

TORBAY magistrates last week ordered seven part-time drivers employed by Wallace Arnold Tours (Devon) to pay fines and costs...

OVER 300 coaches are carrying about 10,000 commuters a day into London, according to the latest survey by the Polytechnic of...

THE CASE for deregulating bus transport and strengthening safety control is very strong. Well-known transport academic Dr John...

VAN HOOL and Belgian electric traction equipment maker ACEC are being financially supported by the Belgian Ministry of Economic...

LOW FELL Coaches' cross-Tyne coach service has now been accepted as part of the Tyne and Wear transport network. Conditions...

THREE major chassis manufacturers — Daf, Foden and Ivaco — have taken up an option on 250 pre-production new generation Eaton...

MOORE AND WRIGHT, the Neill Tools subsidiary which manufacturers precision marking and measuring tools, is looking for the UK's...

WESLEY has updated its range of pressure washers, making them lighter, more compact and easier to operate. It exhibited them at...

IN EXCHANGE for publicity for Courage's lager on London Regional Transport, the brewer is to pay for bus and train services to...

IT WAS the night of the short knives when an eastbound stretch of M62 had to be closed after a lorry had shed its load. The...

WORKING on the principle that the early bird catches the worm, the Road Haulage Association has already told Nigel Lawson,...

IF, as Nicholas Ridley, Transport Secretary, has said, the twin Dartford Tunnels are raking in money so fast that their debt...

THE GOVERNMENT may have been forced by a backbench revolt to climb down on cuts to minimum grants to students, but it still...

MOST ORIENTAL four-wheeldrive vehicles have a well appointed sporty style that seeks to ensure continued interest from a market...

there can be no mistaking the world famous Land Rover shape. Less obvious, perhaps, are the recent technical improvements...

ALTHOUGH Mercedes-Benz has been selling its 4x4 G-range (Gelandewagen or "go anywhere" vehicle) in Britain since late 1981, the...

groups: commercial and pleasure. When a manufacturer aims to compete in both groups with one model, is it possible to satisfy...

JAPANESE vehicles have made major inroads in the luxury side of the four-wheel-drive market, but at the more rugged...

by Keith Vincent Still unfinished A YEAR AGO, under the title "Unfinished tacho business", I showed that the Government had...

Volkswagen advertisement had upset several importers of Japanese vans — those who products were compared with the Volkswagen...

I WAS GLAD to see CM report Dave Wetzel as saying "The GLC would also be flexible over the need to fit hush kits" when he was...

WEIGHT distribution is a common headache to all hauliers and I feel it unfair that only readers of the leading meat trades...

THE REPORT "Van ads rumpus" (CM December 1) indicates that comparative advertising is permitted in this country but not in...

WE WERE interested to see part of one of our shareholder information posters reproduced in your current issue. But I would just...