the Earth as a bunch of loonies, and their latest anti-lorry campaign ("Cities for People") as a load of nonsense sponsored by...

it) in Britain, with a 7.5-tonner. We have been to Sweden to find out how the newest and smallest member of the FL series, the...

E FREIGHT Transport ociation's long promised npaign for a 40-tonne [gilt limit has run into timer opposition even before as...

DLLS on major river cross;s should be scrapped, MPs manded this week in a real calculated to cheer lorry ■ erators. The...

1)11) YOU KNOW that over 70 per cent of all operators in Britain run fewer than three vehicles? Did you know that the most...

'INE FIRST signs of a recovery in the fortunes of British road haulage have been detected by the Transport Development Group in...

LEX SERVICE's transpi • businesses — some of wh are still up for sale — coin buted only 123.7 million to I group's 1 . :23.6...

YORK TRAILER, now ix of United Parcels in the Bur paper group, has reorganisi its after-sales back-up. A new company, Yoi...

IL GOVERNMENT was week looking for a way satisfying demand for Land ver to remain in British ttrol while involving the ancial...

.YLANI) Lrocks has nullified its possibly artificial dership of the British truck irket with a 16.4 per cent are of last...

A NEWLY-launched TNT hanging garment delivery service has scooped two major contracts front chain stores British Home Stores...

OCK WELL has reached an ;memoir with the French utomotive component roup. Valeo, for Rockwell t purchase its Soma truck Id...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has come under heavy attack from the road transport unions over its draft proposals for changes to...

OPERAToRs can expect better value for money in testing. and also higher enforcement levels on the road when the Department of...

DRIVERS have been urged to boycott Greater Manchester's Barton Bridge on the M63 for up to three years. Roads Minister Peter...

JACK ASHWELL, the TGWU national officer, was this week meeting with TNT to discuss the sacking of Terry McCabe. the first TNT...

MEMBERS of the Equipment Leasing Association spent £609 million last year on commercial vehicles compared with 3:450 million...

BRITAIN is losing a key job in the transport directorate at the EEC C:ommission in Brussels with the early retirement in the...

FODEN TRUCKS' parent company, Paccar, has signed an agreement with Volkswagen's Brazilian factory to distribute 11 and 13-tonne...

THE appointment of a new marketing manager has been announced by National Carriers Contract Services, part of the National...

GEOFFREY WEBB, manager of Hampshire Bus, is to take early retirement on October 31 after 44 years' service to the bus...

A NEW CHAIRMAN is to run what is left of BL once the Land Rover-Leyland Group is sold. Graham Day, the c.100,000-a-year...

ROGER HOWSMON I become president of Perk Engines' United States a Canadian operation. He will be based at Perkii Wayne,...

FREIGHT Computer Se vices, the National Freig' Consortium's computing sul sidiary, has promoted bun:: services sales manager...

JOHN RATCLIFF, chairman of the Ratcliff tail-lift group, has been made an internacional ambassador of Variety Clubs...

STAN PRINCE, former owner of a haulage business at Northwich. Cheshire, has joined Longton Storage and Transport as its...

1V1RONMENTAL condiis imposed on a freight warder's operator's licence Ne been cased by Eastern puty Licensing Authority .mphrey...

)RRY TRAFFIC in Lonii has dropped by more in 20 per cent since most of e M25 has been open, nior Transport Minister ter...

A LONDON lorry driver was awarded S:100 out of public funds at the end of a five-day trial at Ipswich Crown Court of three men...

CAMBRIDGE Crown Court has slashed fines of i:10,400 imposed for false tachograph offences on haulier J. W. A. Spicer and Sons...

DAVIES TURNER, the London-based freight forwarder, has started a four-timesweekly road freight service to the Netherlands in...

NEW EVIDENCE that UK hauliers are the highest taxed in Europe has been brought forward to persuade Chancellor Nigel Lawson to...

THE POST OFFICE is now offering a computerised proof of delivery (POD) for the parcels sent by its business customers. The new...

THE FORMER managi director of Haynes Potat of Hereford, now in liq dation, is likely to be gran a licence for a 12-moi period....

OPERATORS who wish to support the Department of Transport/Chartered Institute of l'ransport joint study into UK freight...

URE of the 'Lige industry's wage negoion machinery is being revved by the Road I laulagc sociation following (lends for an end...

A N S PO RT ope tato rs L-ssure on the Government the only way to increase ad building, the industry is told last week....

THE GOVERNMENT'S review of the signposting on main roads has been completed and changes are to be announced shortly, Junior...

MANAGEMENT buy-out ill appears to be the most cely outcome for trailer rent specialist TIP. The Watford-based co iiimy is up...

BRI1A1N's international hauliers are becoming alarmed by the prospect of more liberalised European transport. Clifford Wilson....

MPs SHOULI) debate the planned abolition of Common Market road haulage quotas once the European Commission comes up with...

A EORMER Charter Roadways driver rose to the defence of Gordon McLeod, the company's general manager, last week in the eighth...

NAULT Truck Industries ; replaced the naturally asated six-cylinder Perkins 47 engine in the Dodge 50it's with a 14.38...

TWO MORE demountable tanks have been added to the Polytanker range made by PD Technical Mouldings of Thornton Heath, Surrey....

'1TZER Dry Bulk UK, the est German bulker ecialises British sales consny has devised a means of :Teasing the useable volume a...

S. CARTWRIGHT, the Altrincham, Cheshire, bodybuilder has supplied to 126m 3 close-coupled drawbar trailer outfits for an...

TRAILERS with air-operated handling facilities and maximum loading access are being offered for rental by Rentco. On a trial...

RUBERY OWEN-Rockwell's plant at Llay, near Wrexham recently produced its 500,000th axle. The company, in which Rockwell and...

WIN DFOI L, the L.it I ham, Norfolk Norfolk bodybuilder, has developed high top and low line sleeper cab conversions for the...

YORKSHIRE Electricit Board's new fleet of Bedfoi 7.5 tonne delivery vehicle re-equipped with Abel d mountable body equipmen is...

CENTRAL Nottirighanishii Health Authority has found cash-saving solution to th. carriage of clean and infecte linen in Neville...

: IRELAND, whose first Lir the British market has gone into service, is benit into liquidation. occedings to wind up Ires only...

LONDON BUSES crews were understood to have voted three-to-one this week to strike in protest at service cuts And the loss of...

It.EE MEN, including :ohm and Alan Margo. been committed for trial .ewes Crown Court on gcs of fraudulent trading wing four...

HON AL 1101.IDAYS is the first National Bus Company idiary to he advertised for sale by NBC and its financial set, Barclays...

THREE sites have been pmpointed as London coach terminals to replace Victoria Coach Station in the early Nineties. London...

MAJOR British co; operators running schedi services to destination: Europe are to merge op dons under the Euroli Ila MC already...

LONDON BUSES has four more routes in the la round of London Regic 'Transport tenders. Of six routes on the H fordshire...

SCOTTISH Citylink Coac is sponsoring the 1986 G gow marathon. The cc pany, a Scottish Bus GrL subsidiary, is invcsti £45,000 in...

BUS FARES in Sou Yorkshire are set to rise 250 per cent from April Members of Sheffield C Council on the South Yo shire...

ACTIVITY in the truck contract hire business is nearing fever pitch nov.• that the new financial year is almost upon us. The...

THE BRITISI I Overseas Trade Board is urging international hauliers to seek its help in developing exports. The BOTH directs...

TRANSPORT managers who also have responsibility for their company car fleet often say that it is the cars, not the lorries,...

LES ROUT1ERS inspectors have been checking establishments which offer bed and breakfast for "around ill 1 per person, per...

TO HELP drivers keep a check on their driving hour a new device called Tach:T has been launched. It looks like a hand - held...

Gill Transport 2iation/Chemical ;tries Association courses ingerous goods are heing this spring to provide illation for...

MOTOR Agents ■ ciation reports increased .tss with its sponsored th Training Scheme ces last year. f the 1,534 motor trade...

.LOWING MAN's recent stment in a cathodic paint t two years ago MAN k cabs are now available a the factory in a wide ;e of...

A NEW Certificate of Exemption has been issued under the road tanker regulations by the Health and Safety Executive. It is...

MAN-VW: Road Haulage Association North-West chairman Dennis Kirk recently opened Kilbuck Commercials' new Merseyside...

• M4 Severn Bridge. The lefthand lane of the eastbound carriageway will be closed between 7pm on Friday March 14 and 3pin...

HAVING read in recent issues the ongoing arguments for and against raising the gross weight limit to 40 tonnes, I feel...

I NOTE from Commercial Motor, February 22) that Texaco disposed of its current fleet of commercial vehicles to Tankfreight....

UNFORTUNATELY the Hawk is a little behind the times when it comes his suggestions (CM February 22) for naming our locomotives....

I NOTICE that you have (Commercial Motor, March 1) interviewed the new "chair" of the pressure group Transpc 201Xf. My company...

Freight Rover has made several revisions to its bread-andbutter narrow-bodied panel van, particularly in the areas of handling...

Peter Lane Transport ied its Portbury headquarters into an gallery for two evenings and raised 0 for the National Society for...

SHAPES and sizes of vehicle can cleaned by two new automatic ishcrs introduced by Ardrox for rerators of mixed fleets. Both...

PEED, simplicity and detailed accuracy re claimed for a new microprocessorased weighing terminal made by Salter. The terminal...

A LOW-COST abrasive blasting kit, designed to he used with an industrial vacuum cleaner, has been introduced in the UK by P. L....

A LOW alkaline cleaner for signwriting on vehicles has been introduced by Mayvil Chemicals. Mayvil TF95 has a pH level of...

0 AN Y long-distance operators who have ever wanted to use conventional domestic appliances in their trucks or coaches can now...

Low cost is by no means the only reason why many local authorities want reconditioned air-cooled Magirus Deutz trucks from J...

While the law on who can recondition tachograph heads has still to be clarified, tacho manufacturers are hardening their...

TURN ROUND Bill Brock looks at what goes wrong with turbos and sees how one company has built up a sizeable business...

Spares manufacturers have succeeded in keeping counterfeit parts off the UK Market, but their international battle to protect...

Cracked block? Warped head? Or is your van's engine just worn out? A remanufactured unit is a quick solution offered by...

Five-year-old trucks can be as good as new ones, according to a Dutch Daf dealer which specialises in refurbishing them W HEN...

Foden has become the first lorry builder to introduce the American concept of glider kits to the UK. Brian Weatherley finds out...