IEE-AXLE 38-tonne tractive units were made more attracthis week when Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey ve announced a...

THE MAJOR trade associations expressed initial disappointment at the increases in tax on transport. The Freight Transport...

THE 38-TONNE weights row between the Road Haulage Association and Freight Transport Association took another twist last week...

SEVENTY-SEVEN per cent of United Road Transport Union members believe the numbers of legal maximum driving hours per day should...

INCREASED efficiency and contributions from an American subsidiary helped lift the Transport Development Group's road haulage...

A FREE BOOKLET explaining 1 implications and meaning of new 38-tonne regulations I been published by Daf Trucks. Entitled 38...

RENAULT is a name to watch for future commercial vehicle c velopment, while Dad's influence will diminish, a recently publish...

E GREATER London Council's £90,000 anti-lorry campaign and its ■ posed ban on 38-tonners have been put on ice. It now plans to...

THE GO-AHEAD has been given for another section of the M25 London orbital route. The £25.3m section will take over two years to...

. TRANSPORT industry would fight any Greater London Council is to introduce a supplementary licensing scheme, even if lorries e...

HELP cater for the extra ight from the International rdware Fair at Cologne, West rmany this month, AM and I Transportation of...

CONFUSION surrounds the future of the farmers' goods vehicle concession this week. While the Department of Transport indicated...

THE IRISH Government is resisting pressure to raise the maximum permitted gross vehicle weight from 32.5 tonnes following the...

those enrolling for the CM RTCC Special Offer CPC courses, That compares with 52 per cent nationally. A Certificate of...

MANAGING PHYSICAL distril tion for profit growth is i subject of the Institute of Phi cal Distribution Managemi and the Centre...

THE 1983 revised edition of th Road Haulage Association' Guide to Drivers' Hours, Record and Tachographs has been put lished...

CAVE WOOD European Transport has appointed Bianchi and C.SRL of Milan as its Northern Italy agent. This agreement is a result...

DIESEL ENGINES operating with higher coolant temperatures are likely in the near future according to the Paramins division of...

THE LEAD/ACID battery is Ii to remain as the power so for the electric vehicle accon to Don Gribble of the Els Vehicle...

FOR A NEW production centre opened by Everards Brewery at Leicester, deliveries of a more mixed range of products are being'...

ADCLIFFE Engineers has produced a ground access demountable system for multi-purpose use including mobile workshops, on site...

A NEW electric-powered van from M&M Electric Vehicles of Ath stone made its debut last week at the exhibition organised by I...

WILKINSON has made id Burtenshaw general manr of the Hub, the company's tral sorting centre at Nunea e served a general...

)RTH-WESTERN British Road rvices has made Don Butworth a director of its subliary distribution company, dges Transport. His...

CAR TRANSPORT specialist Abbey Hill Vehicle Services has made works director Brian Rousell its deputy managing director. He...

KEITH DYER has been promoted to general manager of UK and Channel Islands operations of Avis, the lorry and car rental...

WE RECORD with regret the deaths of Harry Cawthorne, chairman of Majestic Motors of Darton, near Barnsley, and Fred Bibby,...

THE RECEIVERSHIP management at County Conmercial Cars, appointed last month (CM February 12) is confident that the business...

ALTRINCHAM, Manchest based bodybuilder S. Cartwris and Sons is building 50 1; (40ft) grp tandem axle set trailers for the TNT...

NETLON, a plastic components manufacturer of Blackburn, has developed a plastic mesh anti-spray device for commercial...

WIMPEY TRANSPORT has purchased 27 monocoque fully-insulated aluminium alloy tipper bodied from Wefford Truck Bodies of Warley,...

N-BUR Bodies and Trailers has letmaster curtainsided semi-t :icipation of the higher weights he 12.2 metre-long trailers te an...

BLACKHAWK AUTOMOTIVE of Ashford, Kent has introduced its new HD10 mobile pulling tower which can extend the capacity of its...

MULTIDEVELOPMENTS (Yorkshire) Ltd is producing a lightweight multipurpose commercial vehicle known as the MDV, as a low-cost...

iE SPICER Transmission Divion of Dana has recalled several ;11 8010 gearboxes for a modcation to a location washer hich has...

A new hardened rubber compound forms a 0.91m (3ft) high kickboard and there are chewproof dividing boards between horses. Each...

AFTER a public hearing when almost all the witnesses Objected to the proposed operation of minibuses in London by Associated...

SOUTH YORKSHIRE PTE is buying 88 Rolls-Royce Eagle III-engined double-deckers this year. Dennis will supply 68 Dominators at...

BEXLEYHEATH TRANSPORT has been granted a London bus agreement for 11 commuter services linking North Kent communities with...

LONDON TRANSPORT's b maintenance activities are to put under the microscope of t Monopolies and Mergers Co mission, and a...

Also thrown out were plans to im down the 33-member transDrt committee of the Welsh )uncil. The recommendations — )me of 41...

They needed a strong identifiable, independent professional voice to defend it, Gordon McCartney, Association of District...

PACKAGES of rural services provided by independent operators could lead to an expansion of services, leading transport...

WHO IS THIS lain Sherriff of Sutton who writes to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme? Could he be the revered editor of this...

WHILE Britain's motorways crumble, some 500yd of track built across Somerset swamp about 6,000 years ago is to be preserved. It...

STANLEY ROWLEY, who drives a refrigerated artic on night deliveries for BOC, has no time for sophisticated gadgets to monitor...

THIS TRACTION engine, photographed by a CM reader in Bulawayo, was made in Paisley by Bow and Mclachlan nearly 90 years ago,...

AN OFFER by Radio Forth to instal equipment to receive live radio programmes on the upper decks of Edinburgh buses has not been...

TO DIE as the result of being ri down by a car was an ignominious end for perhaps t most charismatic of all Ministc of...

Abuse of trade union power has prompted the Government to introduce a Green Paper that sets out to rectify matters and balance...

DR BRICKNELL'S letter (March 5) presents on the whole a realistic view of the benefits and costs of heavier lorries, and the...

AN ITEM in your issue of February 26 entitled "Dim-dip reprieve" could mislead your readers. Compulsory use of dipped beam...

I WAS MOST interested to read your comprehensive road test of the Leyland Windfoil Terrier, but I should like to clear up one...

Bendix is very worried by the number of badly reconditioned brake units that are being returned to it for overhaul. Tim...

THE MERGING of the Ministry of Transport into the newly-formed gigantic Department of the Environment would never have been...

Moreover, he has managed to put across to a wider audience the message that, in defending farmers, he is also looking after the...

ALL VEHICLES have a limited life, and operating costs increase as vehicles get older. Replacement policies were set against...

Some firms swear by them, other firms swear at them. They're not cheap but if they're used properly they can see you through...

STUDENTS can enrol now for the CM Special Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage...

by Graham Montgomerie [IC' 0 dfiroi/ Tasker and RO-R work together to ease a potential manoeuvrability problem when running a...

AN AUTOMATIC self-propelled vehicle washer which allows trucks and buses to be cleaned by slowly driving alongside the parked...

TEN YEARS have now elapsed since the formation of the Greater Copenhagen Transport Authority HT and the experience, gained in...

Seating is at the bottom of many drivers' problems so David Wilcox has been talking about the business to lsringhausen, a...

and raring to take on all corners, that's Seddon Atkinson's 301, the first to be road tested from the Cummins "Blue" corner....