HE Cabinet reshuffle this week once again includes a change at the Department of ransport. After a brief spell as Transport...

UNLIKELY. That is the answer to Economic Community issue more CM'S EEC correspondent writes: Common Market transport ministers...

NICHOLAS RIDLEY, the new Transport Secretary, is the third transport minister to hold office within six months. He was...

SEDDON ATKINSON may fall into the hands of a Spanish vehicle concern before the end of the year, if the Spanish company's...

PRIZES of portable colour telev sion sets and cash of up £1,000 are being offered to a tract customers to the Taysic Truck...

ERATORS throughout Britain should tell the Greater London uncil what effects night and weekend lorry bans in the capital luld...

'BUSHED this week is a book ling the full story of the tional Freigh Company's emlee buy-out that took place ring 1981/2 to...

Gomba Holdings, the trading group which bought the company after the Scottish Development Agency was compelled to cease...

THE NATIONAL TV Licence Records Office, responsible for keeping tabs on television licence evaders, has ordered 22 Sherpa vans...

THE EEC Commission has proposed a budget of £356m to be spent on improvements to road, rail and water transport in EEC member...

THE CENTRAL Electricity Generating Board is to reduce its lorry deliveries to its Sizewell B site in Suffolk, after strong...

NORTHERN IRISH hauliers' cabotage disagreements with the Irish Republic (CM October 8) are far from settled, according to the...

THE NEW Transport Manager of the Year is fittingly someone who checks the work of other transport managers — a Department of...

DOWN LICENSING is needed: this is highlighted by a joint survey carried out by the Freight Transport Association and the...

THE EEC Commission is backir moves to make the railwa more competitive with interr tional road transport by i creasing the...

The Road Haulage Associati has received wage claims frs three regional areas. East Midlands: £10.40 crease on all grades to...

OWNER-DRIVER Roy Graham was overall champion of the Scottish Trucker Club's first driving competition held at Stirling last...

CALEDONIAN MacBrayne is 1 introduce a system to accei unaccompanied trailers up to : tonnes gvw for carriage on the Ullapool...

THE GREATER LONDON Coun has awarded up to £0.18m grants to London-based en. ronmental groups wishing improve transport conditio...

THE GRANADA Service Ar Toddington, has re-opened af a five-week closure caused M1 roadworks. Granada taken the opportunity to i...

IGHT COMMERCIAL vehicle sales have picked up a good deal from le depths of 1981 and 1982. However, by historic standards they...

A BRITISH STANDARD for flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBCs) has been introduced by the British Standards Institution....

BRITISH RAIL has introduced a new parcels service to cater for the increasing manufacturing business and commercial interests...

TRANSPORT 2000 and the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) have compiled a guide to public inquiries for...

LORD MARSHALL became president of the Institute of Transport Administration at the 39th Annual loTA conference, succeeding Lord...

NEW REGIONAL secretary with the Freight Transport Association's south-eastern region is Rod Hunter, who has been assistant...

GEOFF BAILEY has been appointed managing director of Wadham Stringer (Coachbuilders) Ltd, its ambulance and bus division based...

The company says it has been looking for years for a manager with the kind of professional pedigree like that of Mr Birch. Mr...

Barry Soloman has joined th National Freight Consortium a chief pensions officer based e the pensions department at th Merton...

ROY WRIGHT has completed 40 years with the Goodyear field service engineering team. The team is responsible for f ting and...

)LKSWAGEN's LT31 3,200kg 15-ton) gvw long-wheelbase n is the basis for Tunbridge ells-based Industrial Macho;ed Products' fully...

E SIX-WHEELED tractive until I take over from its 4x2 counaart at 38 tonnes, according Cummins manager, UK field Prations,...

MOST ATTENTION concerning the new tyre regulations coming in on November 1 has been focused on tread depth, but the British...

to be used a recut tyre if it has been wholly or partially recut, in a pattern other than the manufacturer's recut tread...

SKIP-TIP ENGINEERING of Dinnington, near Sheffield, has added a twin-bin system to its range of mini-skip handling equipment,...

INGRAM ELDER of Stanton, near Bury St Edmunds, is marketing its Ton-Tel single-axle weighing device which comprises a platform...

A MOVABLE BOGIE solves the loading and discharge problems associated with heavy 20ft shipping containers. Since the...

CRAVEN TASKER has expand( its UK trailer building with ti opening of a new factory Lochgelly, Fife. The new pis complements the...

DUNLOP COMMERCIAL ty will continue to be sold in UK, despite the purchase Dunlop tyre factories at Wg ington, County Durham,...

NEATE BRAKE CONTROLS of Hanworth Trading Es Hanworth, Middlesex, is ai ing customers wishing to chase its towing equipmer deal...

ONE OF THE after-burns of the collapse of the partnership between Van Hool McArdle and Coras lom pair Eireann, the Irish...

WITH BUS SALES in their present depressed state, the bus's future as painted by five major chassis manufacturers is not rosy....

and an A REVIEW of two of London Transport's bus works employing 3,000 staff concludes that they should be sold off and the...

FARES CONDITIONS are not be imposed on licences held t London Country Bus Service the Metropolitan and Soul Eastern Traffic...

IE OF the oldest institutions in rman road passenger nsport will cease its ependent existence in the w Year when the transfer...

AT IS CLAIMED to be one - of most modern road tanker ring installations in Europe been opened by a Belgian cialist haulier at...

THE GENERALLY poor state of the country's roads has given Yugoslav manufacturer TAM the incentive to develop a new cab...

A SIGNIFICANT breakthrough in light diesel engine technology comes with the announcement of a new lveco 2.45-litre unit derived...

E SHARE your reporter's view 'en in his feature on Garonor W August 20), on the parlance of close dialogue :hin the...

THE ARTICLE headed "Winter draws on" on page 22 of the October 8 issue of Commercial Motor contains a misleading statement, in...

I SEE by your October 1 issue that the average price of dery in the UK for September was £1.68 per gallon while we had to pay...

OPTIMISM underlay EEC transport director-general John Steele's opening address. He hoped that a common transport policy would...

IGLAS AINLEY, managing :Aar of CAG (London) and an Istrial relations consultant, lictecl that there will be three r factors...

THE THEME for the conference — The Next Five Years — was particularly appropriate for the next speaker. It is within that time...

THE FIRST SPEAKER of the afternoon was Frank Woodward who gave delegates yet more to chew over after their lunch. Recently...

30NMENTAL objectors got warning of what to expect at least one Licensing irity when Maj-Gen John niter, LA for Yorkshire and...

RON HANCOCK, chairman of Leyland Vehicles and managing director of the Leyland Group, at the beginning of his paper — Buy...

In the first paper by John Steele, said the chairman, they had learned that the EEC looks forward to still heavier lorries — an...

E NEWS that the EEC is to 'tribute £600,000 towards the 'elopment by Britain of a 3e1-electric bus turns back the ;k nearly BO...

\CH OPERATORS have ed British Rail as never )re. The railways' reply with oadsword on fares has been forced by Doddian ivasion...

I TEND to recoil from any mention of the Glass and Glazing Federation. It reminds me too vividly of the doubleglazing...

THE Advertising Standards Authority has slapped the Scottish Development Agency's wrists for claiming in a newspaper promotion...

IN Lights Out, Edward Thomas wrote of "the unfavourable deep forest where all must loose their way." Scotland's forest is,...

could press for - npensation for hauliers npelled to move base. But r best bet is to persuade r Minister that proposed...

TOBEFi has been designated tional Teletext Month. Most /readers — like most of the t of the population — will ie reached the...

Bedford's lightly turbocharged 5.4 litre engine pulled willingly when asked to. A noise package reduced the noise levels inside...

Association looks at the lems in the light of the iomy in the post-election )d. By Mike Rutherford OTHER gathering at the I...

SELECTION of the right vehicle for the job it is to do is fundamental to the success of any distribution operation. For the...