-IERE CAN be little doubt that the Freight Transport isociation has served its members well over the years. Its rvice...

THE GREATER London Council's inquiry into the possibilities of large-scale restrictions on the movement of heavy lorries in the...

/E REGRET that the rise in the lue of the dollar has forced us cancel our plans to visit Deoit in November. We feel the...

THE GOVERNMENT is keeping an open mind on the possibility of providing for downplating of goods vehicles when the tax...

GOMBA-STONEFIELD plans to step up production of crosscountry vehicles to 100 a month by the end of this year, and could...

1E PRIVATE sector of haulage has been recognised in the Queen's rthday honours list with the award of a knighthood to Transport...

0-YEARLY or six-yearly cks on tachographs should be necessary, the Freight nsport Association has told Department of Transport....

THE YORK CORDON died, or at least passed into a deep coma last week, when North Yorkshire County Council's Highways and...

BRITISH businessman "Tiny" Rowland wants to go into the transport business in a big way. His company Lonrho is involved in...

OPERATORS who want receipts for tolls paid on the Humber Bridge will have to pay in advance and buy vouchers in books of 20....

LAWFUL industrial action should only take place once agreed procedures have been exhausted, says the Road Haulage Association;...

A UNIQUE computer progra has been devised to give ro■ transport operators a picture how all their costs affect th( overall...

FINES AND COSTS totallii £250 were imposed c Bedfordshire haulier Micha John Glastonbury after he a mitted using an Operator...

"This is a licence to remove our livelihood," he said, and rged fellow warehousemen to Dbby their MPs before the amage is...

INDUSTRY must get away from the idea that there is a single percentage wage increase which can be applied each year,...

IF a haulage firm is set up in ai Enterprise Zone, drivers whp travel outside the Zone will 131 assessed as if they worked fron...

MORE CM Lorry Driver of thi Year results announced thi , week are: Herts/Essex. Class A: P. Melia British Telecom; Class B:...

POSSIBLE DAMAGE to electric mains, water pipes and sewers by vehicles crossing a pavement access must be discounted by a...

THE ROYAL Society for 1 Prevention of Accidents I launched a driver training a assessment package to enst that operators'...

30MPANY which withdrew permission for a driver to take his van me overnight committed a fundamental breach of the driver's...

iANSPORT SECRETARY Norm Fowler is continuing to amine possible ways of reduc3 the disruption to traffic used by motorway...

IT WAS doubtful whether a lorry driver facing disqualification would be able to stave off a driving ban by claiming exceptional...

A DRIVER's individual pro ductivity levels can be a legiti mate reason for selection for re dundancy, a Scottish industria...

A COLD STORE for perishabl export goods has been opene at Colnbrook, near Heathro Airport. Hill and Delamain Cargo ha opened a...

LUCAS KIENZLE has designed an audio-visual training kit designe to help operators and drivers become accustomed to tachograph...

AT THE launch of the NT250 (see this page), Cummins revealed further details of their future engine plans including the...

SELECTIVE sourcing of castings has had a measurable effect on the NT250 as the weights of nominally identical castings from...

CUMMINS has replaced i NT240 engine launched in 19 . with an uprated version signated NT250. Part of the "small cam" half the...

E FIRST Bedford TM 4x4 four-wheel-drive truck to go into opera' in a non-military role was shown at the Solid Wastes Exhibition...

%MON fire brigade is buying ige chassis for 36 pump ladfire fighting vehicles with 3 Angus bodywork, worth in il f1 .4m. ihis,...

A NEW Ford main dealership for commercial vehicles, vans and cars representing an investment of £2.5m, has been opened by...

OVER 2,100 goods vehicles are affected by the Department of Transport/Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders vehicle recall...

ITS PURPOSE-built livestock vehicle makes transport of stock cheaper, safer and quicker, claims Millmoor Commercial Services...

IN LINE with its objectives of maintaining high quality in the products of its members and at the same time improving the image...

is claimed, ce be assembled by semi-skille workers in less than 12 houi has been developed b Concargo Ltd. The system, called...

STRATHCLYDE Passenge Transport Executive's publi transport co-ordination policie have been bruised by las week's granting of...

LEYLAND Kip managing dir tor Ken Maciver has sent a let to transport committee me bers on West Midlands Coui Council pointing...

EIGHT public meetings are to be held by the Greater London Cour in the eight London Transport bus operating areas to give the...

E INDUSTRY's attitude to insport Secretary Norman vler's plans to sell the 91 ivy goods vehicle test stais to private...

f readers can rest assured that ! watchdogs are already 3ping a close watch on the !aping proliferation of lorry trictions...

arators often have to make isiderable and expensive arational changes to comply. 3ecause the goods have to get ough, the local...

I AM SURE that as publishers of Europe's leading journal on the cv industry, you consider it your duty to keep your readers as...

I READ with great interest the news report in CM, May 30 headed "Bad maintenance restricts 0-licence". Your report stated, "but...

THANK YOU for the opportunity to comment on Mr Cox's difficulties (CM May 30). There have indeed been some problems since his...

/ME BIG old cats were let out the bag when John llingford retired as accounts Ice supervisor with Midlands tish Road Service in...

)ME OF Cully's recollections n - le straight out of a Carry On m. There was, for instance, the st visit to a depot by internal...

THE ENIGMA of the bucket containing half its total volume of liquid is viewed from two directions by Bob Johnson, Seddon...

DATSUN UK has exhibited the acceptable face of Japitalism by giving £150,000 to the British motor industry's own charity. A...

JOHN NEWBERRY, a partner in South Wales Motor Auctions, Bridgend, believes that his children who are ferried everywhere by car,...

THE WINNER of the London Licensed Taxi Driver of the Year Competition at Crystal Palace on September 13 — a week before the...

BEDFORDS, which celebrate their golden jubilee this year, were advertised some 45 years ago as able to take a 50 per cent...

HE 7.5-tonne sector of the UK ommercial vehicle market is orobably our most competitive ne; it is contested by most iajor...

1E CENTRE for Physical DistilAtion Management was ought to many people's attenin about five weeks ago when launched a big new...

inagernent and the trade ons canvas ideas in the hope it collective goob sense, acted at the Government, or 3where, may bring...

WHILE a good deal is heard from the rental and hire or reward sides of transport suggesting that they can take on own-account...

SURE most of us would like vork for (or better still, own) a npany whose business is exKling at an astonishing rate. lut it can...

by Douglas Ainley CAN EMPLOYERS base redundancy selection on the criterion of union membership and fairly dismiss...

THE DECISION by the Road Haulage Association to call George Newman's successor chief executive rather than director-general...

FEMALE drain or filler plugs come in many different sizes and their removal can cause problems. Sykes-Pickavant has produced a...

A NEW HEAVY DUTY mobile floodlighting unit has been designed by Wysepower Limited. Mounted on a fast tow trailer, it will be...

WELCONSTRUCT of Birmingham has introduced a range of drawers on telescopic slides for use in new or existing BSS shelving. A...

SPANSET Ltd claims that simple re-tensioning of ro/ro cargo and trailer lashings loosened in severe weather can now be achieved...

NEW DISTRIBUTORS Fidus Controls have appointed thn more distributors for Top Sp Governors. They cover West NW England. Cameron...

as Cascade Contract as resulted in the appointpf Wilf Gannicliffe as man)f the new operation. He en with CWS for 13 years, Df...

CM 1981/82 Tables of Operating Costs cover all classes of goods and passenger vehicles including saloons in four engine...