3ING the week ahead thousands of spectators will watch our sixteen 38 - tonneice economy cavalcade on its journey of more than...

TOUGHER tachograph checks are to be instituted, Junior Transport Minister Lynda Chalker has announced. As part of the random...

DRIVERS who commit traffic fences in Scotland are r offered the chance to pay tl fines without having to go court. A fixed...

THE PROPOSALS for abolishing EEC travel permits within the European Community (CM July 9) will be considered by the European...

FELIXSTOWE services to Zeebrugge, Europort and Northern Ireland are still out of action folowing strike action by 740 seamen....

DESPITE earlier fears, the Severn Bridge is open to 39-tonn although the current single lane restrictions on both...

GROWTH of commercial icle sales has continued 3ngly according to the iety of Motor Manufacturers Traders' sales figures for the...

ROADLINE has taken TNT's place in the seven-nation European Express, a consortium of large overnight parcel carriers from...

F. ROAD Haulage Association this week joined forces with the RAC and the Royal Scottish Automobile Club to petition against...

Mont Cenis to go MI BETTER road links and new customs and haulage facilities are due to be opened soon for the France-Italy...

up to the 1983 Lorry Drivl the Year competition. T class winners go through ti national finals to be hel Cranfield,...

TWO lorry bans in Folkes and Braintree, Essex, are Ii to be in force within the nex months. The Shepway District Cot is...

ALMOST EXACTLY one year after careered down a hill in Ironbridge, restrictions aimed at preventing posed. Despite strong...

LOCAL AUTHORITY rates are crippling this country's public warehouse operators says the National Association of Warehouse...

ROAD HAULIERS sending vehicles to Switzerland face a big increase in overheads as a result of plans to charge motorway tolls...

all types of dangerous loads through their areas, said the Association of Metropolitan Authorities. Jack Graham, chairman of...

A SECTION of the A68 E burgh to Newcastle road subsided and a weight limi 1.5 tonnes for all vehicles ill north has been...

P&O SUBSIDIARY Ferrymasters has added a further 40 38-toi three-axle tractive units to its fleet, bringing its 38-tonne fleet...

COUNTY councillors in Shropshire are being recommended to give the go-ahead for automatic road condition warning systems on the...

LORRIES fitted with Windfoil air deflectors and under-bumper airdams now qualify for a discount on their insurance premium. On...

LONDON's South Circular Road (A205) is an "environmental nightmare", says the British Road Federation, which is launching a...

:s bridge inspection vehicle has been hired by five local authori; to check that their bridges will support 38 tonnes....

TYPE APPROVAL is imminent for right-hand drive versions of MAN's 22.321 FVLT and 22.281 FVLT twin-steer tractive units for...

BEDFORD has a problem with one of its Detroit Diesel-powered tractive units. The problem is how to convince operators that a...

LEYLAND yesterday !mind the first products in its aero namic aids programme. They are a cab-top fairing an under-bumper airdam...

THE WELL-PUBLICISED change in the financial structure of Daf has had a positive effect on customer reaction according to Phil...

%LE TANKERS of Solihull commissioned what it beis is Europe's largest prelion and spray painting t for commercial vehicles at...

FORD has added to its series of fleet efficiency guides with a new booklet on fuel economy for commercial vehicles. The...

The SP811's technical characteristics are claimed to exceed original requirements. Tests show that the tyre is capable of a...

THE "WORLD TRUCK" is a good achieved in practice according marketing director at Cummins. He told CM that in practical terms,...

DAF TRUCK chassis for the will have fully synchromesh rboxes as standard by early 4. le last constant mesh gearto remain in...

SOME COACHES are nothing more than "high speed mobile greenhouses" a Tory MP has claimed. New Northfield Tory MP Roger King...

THE GOVERNMENT is cc ering introducing seat be the front seats of coaches. Junior Transport Min Lynda Chalker told MPs week...

BR SPIES are out checking express coach loadings in the battle for business, revealed British Rail Inter-City director Cyril...

3 HTS Coach Travel, of rlsworth, Birmingham, and f its drivers were last week I a total of £6,900 plus 30 costs for breaking...

TAYSIDE Region transport committee has approved a rationalisation of the criteria for elderly persons' concessionary travel...

A FULLY commercial bus network for the Romsey area in Hampshire would cater for only 36 per cent of existing passengers and...

THE CERTAINTY of an employee buy-out of the National Bus Company now seems closer than ever, after Junior Transport Minister...

JOHN LOVILL, a member of the East Sussex County Council, has beea elected chairman of the Association of County Councils in...

DAF TRICKS BV has taken on Cor G Bean to the newly-expanded Daf Board of management in Eindhoven, Holland. Mr Bean, who was...

We record with regret the de of Keith Wickenden, Wa Haigh and George Crowe. Mr Wickenden, chairmai European Ferries, was...

-I reference to the article on very in CM, June 25, I feel the reported comments by Veils on Avro could be a misleading. No...

HAVING read T. Carruthers' "Recovery — dreams and the reality" letter (CM June 18), I agree with every word. It's perfect,...

ONE OFTEN hears and reads of complaints against the "Juggernaut" as a so-called menace to modern society. As a regular user of...

I WAS DISTURBED to read your article on "Election '83" (CM May 28) in which you state "The current Labour-controlled GLC has...

MONDAY the Daniels of transport move into the 's den of the general public. 1.30am 16 38-tonne "Juggerts" will move off from...

iBlakemore has the mical low-down on R310 and G260 4x2s ich have been dified for operators he United Kingdom T-HAND drive...

The 1633 is the most powerful right-hand drive unit to date from Daimler-Benz, and is probably the best yet, in Tim Blakemore's...

Marlboro is heavily involved in this expensive sport and one aspect of its sponsorship is a lavish hospitality unit that goes...

FROM THE 1947 Transport Act onwards, right up to last month's General Election, the Labour Party has advocated an integrated...

ES in Malta are not allowed ertake another moving ir vehicle. With a limit of )h in built-up areas and )1 - 1 outside, however,...

100' wishing to be a nometric Canute, I ask only a watch shall have hands tell me the correct time. I t want it to tell me the...

GOODYEAR is in the numbers game. It has produced 3 billion tyres since 1900 and now has 44 tyre plants in 27 countries. The...

SEVERAL hundred "priceless items from private and public collections. .. from all over the country" are to be asem bled by the...

FINES are an occupational hazard and normal business expense for Benny De-Vries, secretary of a Port Talbot market traders'...

BULGARIA aims to be the world's biggest maker of industrial trucks by 1990, with an output of 150,000 a year, says the Sofia...

AT FIRST BLUSH the idea of a motor manufacturer spending nearly four years in planning to get cars off the road is, to say the...

'without costs' • MANY COSTING systems are now available to fleet users, all wrapped up in different packages tied with...

succumbing the invitation these lys. You don't even we to know 'Open 3same' to get into an laddin's cave. Make ire it's not...

uble on the buses many unfortunate notations these s, as Noel Millier nd out when he nt an evening lising for a bruising' h an...

will see the public 3miere of an unusual heavy ulage vehicle developed and ilt by KFM, of Neunkirche, ar, a new German company...

NEW regulations in effect in Sweden intensify enforcement of vehicle licensing and taxation laws. The police and road traffic...

BY THE END of the year road transport in Belgium may be able to take advantage of revised Construction and Use Regulations...

Staff selection is a vital process, for bad apples can make things very sour at work. lain Sherriff offers some shrewd advice...

A gigantic crime wave is sweeping through hire car fleets, and cruising on its crest are villains who hire and don't return....