NIGEL LAWSON joins a long queue of Chancellors of the Exchequer who have decided that a tax on transport is a dripping roast....

NEXT WEEK CM looks at specialised and interesting articulated combinations designed to make food distribution as efficient as...

CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson's Budget on Tuesday may be a "Budget for iobs and for enterprise", but initial...

ROAD Haulage Association spokesmen were not available for comment after Mr Lawson's Budget speech. In contrast with the...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport defended its stance on heavy goods vehicle speed limit increases this week by pointing out that 89...

ROADLINE UK has imposed a 3.2 workforce following the breakdow port and General Workers Union. The company, which is part of...

JANUARY's growth in the new commercial vehicle market was sustained last month, and there are signs in Society of Motor...

THE SPREADING miners' strikes have added a new dimension to the tottering wage negotiations in parts of Britain. In North-East...

LONDON politicians should stop conning their electors with their lorry ban proposals, the Freight Transport Association has...

NATIONAL CARRIERS Contract Services has made three appointments in its distribution, publication and engineering departments....

JOHN WHONE has become company secretary for the United Counties Omnibus Company with effect from May 1. He succeedes Frank...

VOLVO GREAT BRITAIN has made four appointments at its Irvine headquarters in Ayshire. Bruce Green, previously truck field...

AN EX-NATIONAL Bus Company employee and a Transport and Road Research Laboratory officer have received medals awarded to them...

DEREK POTTS has been appointed north area marketing manager with Greater Manchester Transport. Mr Potts started work in...

PROPOSALS for a general tightening up of procedures for transporting dangerous packaged substances by road have been issued by...

A AND N REMOVALS, the London-based storage and removals company which the National Freight Consortium bought from House of...

FEARS that a proposal to overhaul the vat system for imports could lead to Irish-style delays has prompted the British Shippers...

BRITISH RAIL has broken into the groupage market by launching a distribution link between Oxfordshire and Glasgow. Its...

HAULAGE TRAFFIC through Dover harbour has started 1984 as it continued through last year. It is up by over 15 per cent on...

THE CENTRAL Regional Council's calibration centre in Stirling is to close. It has been open since 1981 and has been used by...

CARPET EXPRESS's new depot at Glasgow Airport was opened last week by Topham Brinton, president of the British Carpet...

RECONSTRUCTION work has started on the M6 between junctions 32 and 33 in Lancashire and will continue until early November....

THE ROAD HAULAGE ASSOCIATION has succeeded in its opposition to an application for a new international licence by Wilkinson...

LONDON vehicle owners are able at last to relicence their vehicles by post to 20 post offices in the capital. The change,...

GROWING in demand for freight space on Belfast Car Ferries' Liverpool-Belfast route has led the company into participating in...

SCHIAFFINO LINE has started its Ramsgate-Ostend service with three weekday, one Saturday, and two Sunday sailings of the...

CHARTHIRE SERVICES has bought a 9,000sqft depot at Beeston, Nottingham. It is near the city's Freightliner depot and five miles...

THE AE GROUP has developed w cal design" of insulated piston adiabatic engine. Details of it were revealed at last month's...

GKN HAS REACHED an agreement in principle with an Italian manufacturer of four-wheeldrive axles to form a Joint venture company...

ATTEMPTS by the Greater London Council's Greater London Enterprise Board to take over the manufacture of Ward Dalesman bus and...

LONDON Regional Transport-style bodies to co-ordinate local bus and rail services in other parts of England and Wales were...

ASSOCIATED Minibus Operators (Amos) could end up running double deckers in London, director Anthony Shephard hinted last week....

WEST MIDLANDS PTE's guided bus scheme for Birmingham has passed its first major hurdle, after successful tests at the Mira test...

TRATHENS HOLIDAYS, a subsidiary of Trathens Coaches of Plymouth, has joined the Association of British Travel Agents and is to...

BUS AND COACH Council staff were planning to have talks with the Department of Transport this week to establish whether tax...

IF THE Bus and Coach Council's efforts to ensure that the new speed limits are not obeyed, the Government will consider stiffer...

HAPPIER NEWS for Strathclyde is that its proposals to operate microbus services as an expt. - !Tient are in the public...

TOYOTA has updated its UK light commercial vehicle range with the introduction of revised Hi-Lux and Hi-Ace models powered by...

DON-BUR (Bodies and Trailers) has supplied 10 lightweight curtain sided semi-trailers fitted with SAF air suspension to soft...

AS LAST YEAR'S Internationally Materials Handling Show was cancelled and there was no Storage Handling Distribution (SHD)...

Garry Turvey talks to Alan Millar IT WAS AS NATURAL as Tuesday following Monday that Garry Turvey should succeed Hugh...

LORRY TAXATION is a sensitive subject. Last December I commended the Department of Transport's consultation document on track...

prices the Chancellor has put to Mr Ridley's menu. At the time of writing I can only speculate. And although certain signals...

Developed over five years at a cost of over £150m, the new mediumweight range will, in the opinion of Bill Brock, substantially...

Brian Weatherley followed a typical Luton body through the building and fitting process at the Draycott depot of cv bodybuilder...

AS SYNTHESISED sound moaned, howled and squeaked, the Wembley Conference Centre was plunged into blackness. Suddenly Sir Peter...

NOT ALL NFC shareholders are enthusiastic about the board's intention to increase overseas activities. The doubters are...

A WEST MIDLANDS Passenger Transport Executive 1i-frontentrance bus is to be painted all over with men's underwear. This is what...

Frank Tinsdale argues that Brass Tacks needs a pointed reply from the whole industry before it's too late WHAT A FUSS some...

Metro-Ca mmell Weymann is now well placed to capture an even more significant sector of the public bus market. Noel Millier...

The Portsmouth bodybuilder has never been busier in its 50-year history. Refrigerated and dry freight bodies make up the bulk...

Ron Cook's new business was borne out of recession. Jack Semple learns how he did it RON COOK, best known for TIR bodywork,...

BBC — redress the balance I HAVE written a letter of complaint to the directorgeneral of the BBC about "Heavier Metal", its TV...

SPECIALLY BUILT rigid vehicles, about 14m long, are used in one of several similar refuse disposal schemes now being introduced...

THE MILITARY all-wheel-drive version of the lveco Daily, the 40 PM 10 4x4 vehicle with a payload of 1,500kg (29.5cwt), has...

THIRTEEN years after the closure of Belgium's last trolleybus system in Liege, the city of Ghent has decided to convert several...

lorry loader of allaluminium construction, the new Alu-Kran 7200, now manufactured by SAG of Salzburg, Austria, has a capacity...