HARMONISATION OF European transport law is as far off as it was 20 years ago. Last week's announcement that a 40-tonne weight...

EEC Transport Ministers managed last week to shore up their shaky agreement on lorry weights and dimensions, quota arrangements...

STRATHCLYDE Regional Council may take blockade-running hauliers to court for damage caused to country roads. Bill McAlonan,...

A LIST of hauliers which have crossed miners' picket lines has been distributed to some local authorities and trade unions in...

RICHARD and George Read, the two Gloucestershire hauliers who have taken out an injunction against the Transport and General...

TRANSPORT and General Workers Union jected Liverpool employers' initial wage both sides return to negotiations later...

how Road Haulage Association chairman Bert Neely has' described the haulage drivers' £10 pay claim in the West Midlands. The...

LEYLAND VEHICLES' managing director, Ron Hancock, and a former BL executive are to appear before Guildhall magistrates later...

THE STATE of the haulage industry is difficult to assess, Road Haulage Association chairman Bert Neely said in Malta last...

EUROPEAN commercial vehicle production is now running at its lowest for 15 years, and British production is only half the level...

THE COMMON Market vehicle manufacturing industry is threatened with massive job losses unless action is taken on a European...

IMPROVED sales figures for September and October are reported by Freight Rover, with the wide-bodied Sherpa taking 10.1 per...

LEYLAND'S Roadrunner made its first significant impact on new commercial vehicle registrations last month, with 42 vehicles...

By David Wilcox THREE representatives from British truckstops and three drivers will be visiting Sweden early next month on a...

A RANGE of subscription arrangements is being offered by the Lorry Driver of the Year Association after CM withdraws its...

ESSO and BP tanker drivers were expected to receive their employers' offer on this year's wage negotiations by today...

APPOINTED to the new post of regional sales manager north with Pickfords Removals is Robert Clarke. He joins the National...

the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. She succeeds John Weinthal, who is returning to his native Australia. Mrs...

UNITED Transport International, the transport subsidiary of British Electric Traction Company, has appointed three of the...

FIVE general managers have been selected to run the new operating companies being created next year by the Scottish Bus Group....

AFTER 48 years in the transport industry, John Jepson, chief engineer of Eastern National Omnibus Company, is to take early...

FORMER sales and marketing director of ERF, John Bailey, has joined SRI International as an automotive industry senior...

FINES AND costs totalling E28,000 imposed on Smithtran International of Blackburn and six of its drivers in July were cut to...

DISTRIBUTION contracts won by the own account sector in recent weeks include four won by two National Freight Consortium...

A REVISED Code of Practice on the safety of loads on vehicles has been published by the Department of Transport in an effort to...

HAULIERS can now get insurance cover against loss of profits directly attributable to a strike at their customers' premises....

The new company, which has a 60-vehicle trunking and local delivery fleet dedicated to its activities and also uses BRS's...

A ONE HUNDRED per cent pass rate has been attained by Certificate of Professional Competence students who sat the examination...

ENASA, the Spanish Stateowned manufacturer which earlier this year purchased Seddon Atkinson from International Harvester is...

LEYLAND TRUCKS is among the four finalists of this year's Willis Faber Manufacturing Effectiveness Competition with its C44...

FORD in the USA has been running an experimental, single cylinder, uncooled direct injection diesel engine. It reports a four...

SOUND ATTENUATORS of Colchester has reached an agreement with an American company, International Technology and Electronics,...

Largest is the one-tonne Slimline which is available in three widths: 2.5, 2.44 and 2.28m (98.2, 96 and 90in). There will also...

RATCLIFF Tail Lifts has further expanded its activity in the cantilever lift market by acquiring Hydrolift of Sweden....

DRIVERLESS electric trains, collapsible roller containers and new high speed picking trucks will be improving efficiency at...

LAST MONTH'S new coach and bus registrations were down by a quarter on October 1983, according to the Society of Motor...

NONE of Scotland's regional or island councils believes that the Government's deregulation proposals is well conceived. The...

LONDON Regional Transport's bus operation, London Buses, is introducing an experimental bus service specifically designed to...

JUNIOR TRANSPORT Minister David Mitchell has told management at Metro-CammellWeymann in Birmingham that the provisions of the...

WHICH way distribution? Nobody, of course, can answer that question with absolute certainty, but if you can present well...

Tunnel thoughts AN ESSEX surveyor has sent details to Essex county authorities for a north south road link direct from and to...

WE WERE pleased to see the Eastern Scottish MCW Metrobus given a mention (CM October 20) and flattered that our design...

LONDON'S Lord Mayor's Show, to celebrate the start of Sir Alan Traill's year of office, included this float by Charterhouse,...

FURTHER to your excellent publication of September 22, I wonder of on the next occasion you publish a list of training centres...

WHEN Sir Peter Thompson, chairman of the National Freight Consortium, began as a Unilever trainee he cannot have imagined that...

ANOTHER example of Sir Peter's far-sightedness occurred when the railways, which were handling all Bird's Eye movements,...

ONE of the fears of opponents of road schemes may be that property values will be reduced. The reverse has happened as a result...

THE POST Office had an energy drive earlier this month. It was to launch the first of 80 new British-built electric Royal Mail...

ZIP-FRONT jackets, anoraks and macho Service-style pullovers with patched shoulders and elbows are to be issued experimentally...

The TDG's Sir James Duncan dealt with costings and also called for increased support to give professional road haulage a strong...

THE RHA should learn from the 1979 haulage strike, otherwise the leap-frogging which occurred at area level will be repeated as...

HUGE shortcomings in the amount of attention and expertise applied to hauliers' finances were uncovered in Malta by RHA...

HAULIERS were urged to take an initiative on quiet driving through London by Dave Wet zel, Greater London Council transport...

TRANSPORT Minister Lynda Chalker flew out to Malta last week to stress the Government's commitment to reducing the...

Behind the podium: Jack Semple sums up and meets some new faces THE RHA 's conference in Matta got off to a bad start. Within...

If you've seen the TV commercial for the Roadrunner you'll know Leyland have proved that their new 7.5 tonne truck can take a...

Half of the population of England's most sparsely populated county lives in five per cent of its total area. For bus operators...

When the Cowie Group acquired the Hanger Group it was able to introduce Interleasing to the North East. Jack Semple visited the...

While flexibility is the strongest suit of Consett haulier Elddis Transport, changing market conditions are testing this...

employee and a haulier have combined in an enterprise to build all-welded tipper bodies in extruded aluminium. Jack Semple went...

from the EEC — the Sir Humphrey Applebys of Whitehall will find a plausible peg on which to hang an announcement of an expanded...

far out, but these manufacturers-to-users meetings can help bridge the gap between operators and suppliers ON ONE DAY of last...

A lorry driver can pass his Class I test on a four-speed synchromesh box with a 150bhp engine towing an unladen 25ft...

The Audi 100 is aimed at the top of the company car hierarchy. Will it please the company accountant? THE growing choice of...

THE FIRST Bristol buses appeared in 1908, though to find the origins of this vehicle builder it is necessary to look further...

CHRISTMAS will soon be here and the first 1985 annual has arrived in the CM offices. Gavin Booth's Buses Annual 1985 (Ian...