manufacturers. It is true in Europe, North America and Japan, but Britain is uniquely different. Despite being home to no fewer...

• One dealer network will sell Ford and Iveco trucks in Britain after the companies' UK truck activities are merged later...

• Despite increasing its sales volumes by 23 per cent since the beginning of the year, General Motors' troubled Bedford...

• Bridge engineers estin that it will cost £500 million, possibly twice that, to bring many of the country's brido up to the...

icottish hauliers suffer i a Government whose inst stops at Watford, Road lage Association vice-chairGlyn Samuel claimed last...

• An 18m length limit will apply to lorries and trailers using the Channel Tunnel, the concession agreement between the...

• Despite selling 40 per cent fewer trucks in the UK last year than in 1984 Foden Trucks is understood to have made a trading...

From May 1 operator nce fees go up, but the mrtment of Transport has pped unpopular plans to rge for marginal extra ides. t...

needed: EEC • Massive sums are needed from private investors to improve Europe's patchy transport infrastructure, says a...

• MI's on all sides have called for agricultural tractor drivers to be made to pass a proficiency test before being allowed...

• The major event at Britain's first truck race meeting of 1986 was won by Swedish driver Rolf Bjork, whose Scania 142 also...

• Further development long-distance lorry transport faced with obstacles and con bined road/rail operations an the "keystone"...

• Leyland's short-lived Landmaster export truck, axed along with the Bathgate plant, is being replaced by a new forward...

The grille might be from a current vehicle, but the square headlamps. squarer overall cab shape and different cab length all...

• Instead of air freighting racing tyres to car grand prix and rallies SP (Dunlop) Tyres is using a Crane Fruehauf drawbar...

• The Institute of Road Transport Engineers has issued a new code on the coupling of articulated vehides. It goes further...

HINO importer HCV Motor Vehicle Distributors is plannii to import a new 38-tonne GCW 4 x 2 Hino tractive unit to the UK around...

• Toleman Group this week completes the installation of a computer based fuel issuing system at all 17 of its transport...

IN Cummins has rationalised its range of remanufactured engines, supplied through its Diesel Recon UK subsidiary, and is...

It road-going 38-tonne V articulated vehicle fitted a newly designed semiat bogie drive/steer syswill go on public display he...

IN A new £2 million track for testing vehicles grip in the wet was officially opened at the Motor Industry Research...

• Five Arney Roadstone drivers who resigned to become owner drivers after ARC replaced its employee drivers with...

• A Norfolk haulage cc pany, Jacksons Transport (D reham) Ltd, was virtually given away after massive VA and PAYE debts led...

• Environmental legislation cannot take account of residents' anxiety about picketing of the TNT UK depot, Metropolitan...

Cynicism over defence demay lead the Director of lic Prosecutions to seek a ntary bill of indictment nst Dow Freight Services,...

Phillip Drakard Transport Trading, formed to take r the business of Phiht Engineering, has been ited a new international ace...

IN A Perth firm's drivers were given inadequate warning that the bolts securing a lorry cab were not in place, Sheriff John...

• A Kent express van operator has joined forces with Hoverspeed, the cross-Channel hovercraft company, to offer a jointly...

• Freightliner, the indepei dent British Rail container s sicliary, has won the renews of its biggest contract — wc over 11...

• An academic's suggestior that lorries should be tolled 1 up to 210 to cross the Sever Bridge at peak times has be condemned...

• Harris Road Services, of the Transport Development Group, says it is now the largest powder tanker operator in the UK,...

• Operators can now buy Scottish Office vehicles through British Car Auctions at Edinburgh and Glasgow. The two-year...

A new computer system, igned for large distribution wallies, was launched last A by Freight Computer 'vices at the Computers in...

• McGregor Cory Warehousing has turned over part of its Trafford Park, Manchester complex to a Customs bonded warehouse,...

T elecom world lead • The world's first vehicle navigation system to use both radio signals and a microprocessor-controlled...

• Texas Homecare, the DIY superstore group, is to fit computers to all 20 of its Yale forklift trucks in its new 28,0000...

• Wadham Stringer Coachbuilders of Waterlooville, Hampshire, has introduced a new single-deck bus and coach body range to...

• Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley has extended the deadline for the National Bus Company to submit its pre-privatisation...

• London Buses has won the London Regional Transport contract to operate the new midibus network in Orpington, Kent. It has...

• A High Court direction ha led to the operator of a free courtesy service to Manchester Airport being fined 245 by the...

BRS Northern has made an Potter its East Pennines ector. He was formerly nager at the company's Dar;ton branch and joined BRS...

Anthony Mitchard has cceeded Peter Fisher as let executive of Avon Rubr, following the latter's reernent. Mitchard has been a...

11 David Smith, general manager of Cardiff City's Transport department, has applied to take early retirement. This is to be...

• A new management team is taking control of L.ex Wilkinson's Iligham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. Preston-born Graham Butler...

• Crossroads Commercials, the Yorkshire Volvo truck distributor is strengthening its management team with two new...

• Tommy Cole, for a long time Whittle International's Preston warehouse manager, is retiring from the company he has worked...

• David Coble has been appointed parts manager by Salvador Caetano (UK). He joins the Portuguese coach importer from coach...

• CBS Motive Power Batteries of Aintree, Liverpool, has appointed William Gemmell as sales manager. Before joining CBS,...

• Before Iveco, the Industrial Vehicles Corporation, was formed in 1975, combining the Fiat and Magirus commercial...

ZF Ecomat 4, 5 or 6 speed gear are designed to keep modern engines operating in the most iomical speed range — autoically....

LADIES EQUAL • A consultative document, Sex Discrimination and Retirement, has been issued by the Department of Employment,...

DRIVERS' HOURS • New HGV and PSV drivers' hours regulations will come into force on September 29 this year. E.P. Training...

PIRATES HIT • The Singapore government has recently assured the UK's Department of Trade and Industry that new copyright law...

MAINTENANCE HISTORY • Another vehicle fleet management computer system has been launched. Aimed at medium to large fleets,...

UFT TRUCK ADVICE • Lift truck hire company Harvey Plant has set up an advisory bureau which offers free help and advice on...

QUICKLUB AGENCY • Scania: Union Trucks of Newcastle Upon Tyne, which serves the parts of Northern England between York and...

TECHNICAL DICTIONARII • The latest in the series Butterworths technical dictic aries is the third edition of ti Dictionary...

ID ON 6100 Mitsubishi prices rose by average of two per cent t Monday, April 14. Ills added £100 to the rall price of the...

• :•lf HEATS START The re gi onal heats for the B6 Lorry Driver of the Year ,mpetition start next month. Now sponsored by...

SHORTER NOV TEST • The Department of Transport is considering prosposals that will make the HGV driving test both shorter and...

SMALL FLEET DISCOUNT • Guardian Royal Exchange, a leading motor insurer, has revamped and upgraded its mini fleet insurance...

RURAL BUS GRANT • Rural bus operators are now able to claim a Government rural bus grant of 3. 7p per vehicle kilometre (6p...

• M11 Essex, Redbridge Spur. Until December 1986 the right-hand lane of the northbound carriagewa■ be closed for a...

The Midi carries off er and everybody in style. Now become so popular so qi And this goes for] arrying or people-mot...

specify, but that's wasted without driver training. Richard Scrase also looks at the add-ons now available. • Diesel prices...

We look at the economics of the choice between petrol and diesel power for vans. Is the diesel option worth the extra? • In...

ii One major van operator that is reviewing its diesel/petrol policy is Securicor. Until recently its fleet of around 2,500...

In 1983, Bang & Olufsen UK signed the contract that would commit BRS Western, Gloucester branch, to the operation and...

Now is the time to shop around for a better deal on derv. Karen Miles looks at sor cost saving ideas • Operators complain...

Several makers now tailor on-site fuel dispensing and monitoring systems for smaller fleets, and they must make economic sense,...

While fuel flow is easy to measure with a meter, accurate on-vehicle diesel fuel consumption figures are difficult to obtain....

• An American system for restraining palletised or stacked loads during transportation has been introduced into the UK by...

• Initially developed to minimise damage to tipper bodies, and as a protective strip to minimise the damage inflicted by...

• An inflatable Loading-dc shelter is available from TI Serco Ltd. By forming a complete sea between the dock and trailer...

Weighbridge specialists, hworth, has introduced a w range of metric weighing platforms. Called Limpets, the 110 to 225nun high...

• Panasonic has extended its range of in - car radio/cassette players with the introduction of three new models: the CQ 823,...

can all too easily put the brakes on your ipany's growth and development, With Ryder, your company can take linage of the real...

If my understanding of the Government's Bill recently published on Social Security Reform is correct, it could in my opinion,...

Once again I see that the truck drivers are not welcome. By that I mean your article on the new services on the M25 "Welcome...

I would like to comment on the letter published in CM, April 5, by Cohn B. Sandiford. Not so long ago you published a letter...

With reference to your long term report on London Country's Leyland Tiger/Berkhof (CM, April 5). 1 compliment you on a superb...

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• The annual Hanover Fair, which closed on Wednesday, was a curious amalgam of road transport product displays and glimpses...

affairs with trains, especially of the electric eartherworm variety which lurk beneath our urban streets. My wonderment is...

Good manoeuvrability enhances the appeal of the Roadrunner 8.10 as an urban delivery vehicle, but on the open road its dated...

Du r chance to yin a place in Volvo's springball mtest at CM'S Truckfest Win the chance to be of the 32 competitors Tolvo's FL...