TRANS P0 1 RT and distribution services employ 10 per cent of Britain's workforce. That figurE ? clearly illustrates how...

BRITISH hauliers are demanding early Government Continental operators from running into the country permits. action to stop...

CONCERN over police officers' rights to seize tachograph charts has been intensified by the recent spate of accidents in bad...

THE COUNCIL of the Freight Transport Association has expressed bitter disappointment at Britain's failure to follow its EEC...

NORTHERN IRISH hauliers have broken beyond the £5.50 norm for basic wage increases this year to take their 32.5 tonne rate in...

INDUSTRY, Government and the environmental lobby are to cooperate in a series of studies of how to solve environmental problems...

TALKS between Roadline management and trades union representatives over the troubled parcels company's job-cutting survival...

The first set of figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders shows that overall commercial vehicle sales last...

LEYLAND will launch a vehicle leasing scheme called Leylease at the end of next month. The official announcement is being...

LEYLAND TRUCKS is complaining to the Advertising Standards Authority about a Bedford Commercial Vehicles advertisement which...

TIMBER CARRYING trailers require sideguards unless specially constructed or adapted for the carriage of timber of exceptional...

A MEMBER of a trade union operating as a closed shop who resigned because of the union's alleged oppressive behaviour was not...

TWO MAJOR customers have returned to Southampton, following the end of the container dock dispute. Lured back by a 25 per cent...

THE POST OFFICE tachograph appeal decision (CM, February 91, does not give the Post Office carte blanche to carry goods other...

LABOUR MEPs have welcomed the announcement of an EEC Commission offer to fund half of the costs of a Elm study on a second...

THE GREATER London Council officer responsible for planning the controversial night and weekend lorry ban in the capital has...

TWO new management appointments have been made by BRS Western following the appointment of Steve Abel as managing director of...

IMPERIAL Tobacco subsidiary Bond's Delivery Service has a new financial director. Jim Lan caster succeeds Peter Horseman, who...

Richard Steenberg RICHARD STEENBERG, chairman of R. Steenberg and Son, the 1 50-year-old Newcastleupon-Tyne warehousing and...

SEAMUS SWEETMAN, a nonexecutive director of MercedesBenz (United Kingdom), died on February 1. He was 70. Mr Sweetman, who was...

A COMPUTER services manager has been appointed by the warehousing company McGregor Cory. He is Stephen Blackman, and he moves...

FOLLOWING the Government's announcement to commission four studies into some of London's main traffic corridors, the Greater...

SEALINK and 13+1 Line are rationalising their Irish Sea mho ferry services to conserve resources. Sealink is to withdraw its...

THE BANKRUPTCY hearing of a former haulage proprietor has been adjourned pending a report to the Director of Public...

THE CONCERN of a lady in her seventies led to Eastern Licensing Authority Kenneth Peter placing conditions on Nottinghamshire...

LINES of waiting lorries stretched for 12 miles when drivers blocked all Swiss frontier posts for 12 hours last week in protest...

By David Wilcox Organiser Gordon Carlton said this was a reflection on the industry and the pallet business in particular,...

SPICER has expanded its range of Chelsea power take-offs with the introduction of the 530 series, This model's 400Nm (300Ibft)...

KLOCKNER Humbldt-Deutz is reported to be about to purchase a controlling interest in Motorenwerke Mannheim (MWM). Both...

TEC, the original equipment trailer components supplier, which was established as a subsidiary of York Technical Services last...

TYPE APPROVAL has been granted on the Renault R310 tractive unit, converted by J R Engineering of Bury St Edmunds, using the...

STILLAGES for loading stacked two high, using the Joloda elevated skate system, and for up to four tier racked storage have...

TEMPERATURE controlled distribution specialists, Rokold European Transport has increased its fleet with three of the recently...

y Alan Millar THE GOVERNMENT is moving fast to stop its Transport Bill from being wrecked on the altar of the Tyne and Wear...

NO APPEAL is to be lodged against the Scottish Traffic Commissioners' decision to grant Mackies of Alloa a licence to continue...

THE reopening last week of the frontier with Spain presents Gibraltar's few coach operators with new opportunities. Regular...

COUNTY COUNCILS will be able to take emergency keep a bus service running if an operator pulls out lated route, Junior...

MPS HAVE approved the first step in the Government's battle to compel the Greater London Council to hand over £258m to London...

THE NUMBER of vehicle examiners should be well up to complement by the middle of the year following efforts to re-cruit another...

LIMEBOURNE, the operator of London's Gloucester Road coach station, has lost an appeal against an enforcement notice issued by...

THE BUS and Coach Council circulated a briefing to MPs this week, highlighting aspects of the Transport Bill which it feels...

REGULATIONS permitting the use of audible reversing alarms THE LICENCE battle over stage services in Warwickshire between Heart...

COUNCILLORS in Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council have refused to pay the Scottish Bus Group any increase in its Lim...

UP TO six of the 28 drivers at the Stonehaven depot of the Northern Scottish bus garage could be declared redundant towards the...

GREATER Manchester Transport has signed a deal with the Post Office to provide an extra 700 outlets for pre-paid bus tickets....

types of vehicles, including large passenger vehicles with more than nine seats, have been laid before Parliament. The alarms,...

What will dereg mean to the punters? Will operators sit back and do nothing? Noel Millier thinks things will work out but...

DURING the month between now and Budget day the press will be full of leaks, hints and guesses about what the Chancellor of the...

Dedicated distribution need not be abandoned to large firms like BRS. David Wilcox talks to one of the smaller companies...

Some people like to play chess with their computers. Others, like the traffic foremen at Lowfield Distribution's Newport depot...

WE ARE now accepting entries for CM's 1985 Vehicle Livery Competition. This is the eighth year of the event, which grows in...

Katherine Weir previews Truckfest 85 — a family weekend at Easter for everyone in road transport. It's attracting increased...

A NEW YEAR also means a new edition (the 15th) of the Transport Manager's Handbook (Kogan Page; £16.95). With legislation...

Heinemann; £8.95) covers the complete management of an export order once that order has been won. Author Gary Davies, a...

TRANSPORT ECONOMICS (Allen and Unwin; £6.95 paperback) is one of a series of 19 books dealing with specialised aspects of...

THE EVER-upward spiral of road transport costs has forced some small own-account operators to branch out into the hire and...

warehouse marke While too much space is available on contract, it is not always in the right spot for distribution purposes....

FOR MANY years now planes have had automatic pilots and I wonder if we will see the day when road vehicles have automatic...

WE WERE interested to read the article by Peter Stonham in your issue of February 2, 1985. You mention that Percivals and...

I WAS APPALLED to see that you carried a most misleading advertisement, placed by Bedford, in your issue of Friday, February 8,...

DURING 1985 CM is organising and sponsoring a number of events worth a note in readers' diaries. Some are long-established —...

Business expansion led Peter Lane Transport away from its cramped base in the centre of Bristol to a new purpose built...

AMINE in Africa has focused ttention sharply on the esparate plight of millions and as pricked many consciences. .haritable...

AN de ROOY, the 41-year-old iant who drove a twin-engined 60hp Daf, known as the Bull, Ito first place in the class over 0...

MORE than half the NFC employees (13,514) now hold shares in the consortium, but the directors want to spread its • ownership...

PROPERTY sales, formerly vital to the NFC's profits, are now merely the cream on the cake, says Sir Peter. The company is no...

BUS operators who give insufficient or out-of-date information to passengers, particularly at stops and railway stations, have...

THERE'LL BE some glasses raised in Lowfield Distribution's depots this month as the company celebrates a new national drinks...

The combined I Mech E/IRTE seminar on commercial vehicle fuel consumption considered many more ways to improve it than just...

HAD Daf's manager of engine testing, Ed Sluyter, been at the I Mach E seminar I feel sure that one aspect of fuel efficiency,...

David Wilcox talks to some distribution consultants who believe in pooling expertise in a newlyformed professional association...