AS ROAD transport operators brace themselves for more financial burdens in Nigel Lawson's March 19 Budget, we learn of...

By Alan Millar CIVIL SERVANTS have dealt a last-minute blow to transport industry optimism that a limited down-licensing...

A SEVEN PENCE increase in dery prices — contributing to a 17p rise for hauliers this year alone — could force many hauliers...

By Jack Semple FIGURES from Customs and Excise in Dover refute British hauliers' claims that there is serious abuse of the...

BEDFORD Trucks looks set to sell its die making plant in Bedford and save some of the 249 jobs which had been threatened by its...

McGREGOR Cory Warehousing and Banbury Tea Warehouses announced the merging of their specialised commodity operations in the UK,...

A ONE DAY seminar on controlling company vehicle costs is being held on March 22 at Shoreham Airport, West Sussex. The...

CM HAS received complaints from hauliers about Ilford-based forwarder H&G European Ltd. There was apparently no manager...

By Alan Millar THE MINERS' strike has reduced the number of weight checks in the West Midland Traffic Area, the latest...

THE GREATER London Council has sent a defiant letter to Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley asking him to reconsider his...

SALES of commercial vehicles are expected to end this year only 1.4 per cent above those for 1984, according to the Society of...

By Jack Semple DOUBTS over spray suppression equipment were given a new angle by hauliers at a meeting in Newmarket last...

IN ADVANCE of Spain joining the EEC, the transport ministers of the Community have signed an agreement with the Madrid...

THIS YEAR'S Lorry Driver of the Year finals are almost certain to be held again at Cranfield, Bedfordshire. The LDoY...

WINCANTON Transport has won one of its largest fleet management contracts by taking over control of Everest Double Glazing's...

LAST WEEK'S West German autobahn accident, in which 19 RAF bandsmen died after their coach collided with a fuel tanker, has led...

RENEWED efforts to abolish tolls and have the £500m, and rising, toll debt written off are being made by the Freight Transport...

THE ABERDEEN, Dunfermline and Luton branches of Pickfords Removals have new managers. Harry Milne moves from Dunfermline where...

NEW GENERAL manager of East Yorkshire Motor Services is Alan Stephenson. He succeeds Stuart Senior, who as reported in CM...

FAMILY operator Arnold Shaw Coaches has appointed Ashley Wakelin as sales development manager. The appointment is part of a...

DENIS QUIN, director general of the Bus and Coach Council, replaces West German Helmuth Seither as president of the passenger...

IAN DALLISON, inland transport manager of the British Steel Corporation, has joined the CM Vehicle Livery Competition judging...

AN ESSEX international haulier, who last year lost his licence on grounds of finance and repute following conviction for excise...

INTERNATIONAL operators may be interested to learn that the latest edition of Your Lorry Abroad, the Department of Transport's...

CALLING all operators of one-ton vans. CM'S Truckfest could be your chance of gaining extra publicity. Octagon Recovery, which...

PLANS for a lorry park at Stadium Way, Chester, took a step forward when the city council's property and estates committee...

A TRANSPORT Development Group company, McKelvie of Paisley, is to lay off 33 drivers, seven maintenance workers and an...

By Bryan Jarvis FOUR CURTAIN siders with a difference have gone into service at William Youngers' Acton, West London depot....

LUCAS CAV agents now offer a comprehensive electrical exchange service specifically aimed at the truck market. Thirty new...

DON-BUR is offering sliding support pillars for its range of rigid and semi-trailer Palletmaster curtain-sided bodies, to give...

A NEW distribution deal by National Carriers Contract Services will give 78 Ford main dealers in Wales and SouthWest England a...

PIRELLI is poised to launch an attack on both the original equipment and replacement tyre market in 1985. The Italian company...

THE CM-sponsored Accessories and Components Exhibition, now in its third year, will be staged at the Wembley Conference Centre...

By Tim Blakemore THE INSTITUTE of Road Transport Engineers' campaign for research into the wheel fixing failures problem (CM,...

CUMMINS became the leading engine supplier for eight wheelers in the UK for the first time last month with a total of 46...

LIFFON Engineering Services has published a 1985 supplement to its guide to Construction and Use, and lighting regulations....

The Government has a majority of nine on the committee which was expected to start work on Thursday and spent the morning...

THE MARKET for new buses and coaches this year is likely to fall by another 17.6 per cent, the Society of Motor Manufacturers...

PLYMOUTH City Council has used a report by MVA Consultancy to suggest that deregulation of bus services might raise city rates...

THE NATIONAL Bus Company has engaged Barclays Merchant Bank to advise it on disposal after the Transport Bill becomes law....

A LARGE number of services provided by the Department of Transport to the bus industry does not fully cover their costs,...

operator, following a decision by Tay Valley Coaches to withdraw from the route after March 2. The service will continue to be...

THE SUFFOLK coach firm owner who failed to dismantle his illegally erected bus wash after being ordered to do so by his local...

NATIONAL Bus Company subsidiaries are already taking delivery of the first of around 300 Ford Transit minibuses for minibus...

By Our Brussels Correspondent THE CRASH on a West German Autobahn which killed 19 RAF men aboard a Neoplan doubledecker coach...

By Tim Biakemore NEWS of a reorganisation in a York Trailer subsidiary (CM. February 16) will inevitably lead some industry...

Oaf's Spacecab option can add more than £2,500 to the price of a tractive unit. Tim Blakemore finds out what operators get for...

IF Mr Scurlock (CM, February 9) had the trouble l have had in the last nine months, he wouldn't complain about his Scania. I...

I REFER to the article (CM, February 9) headed "Munro's escape'. Like Mr Munro, I also am not aware that court convictions...

I READ with great surprise the report (CM, February 9) regarding the reliability of the Daf coach chassis. I have been running...

it had offered help to Seamarks Coaches, whose problems were confined to the MB200 DKTL model and did not affect other Oafs in...

With certain exceptions, the inland clearance depot concept has not been the success it was hoped. So said a review of Customs...

THE ICD at Greenford in West London is operated by Butlers Warehousing and Distribution. It originally occupied 9,290sqm...

WHY don't we take freight off the roads and send it by rail? Letters on those lines are not unusual in the daily press; and...

BR's main consultative body is the Rail Council, which will soon be given an update on the cost in lost coal haudage through...

THE MOVEMENT of ISO containers by road/rail was pioneered in Europe by British Rail in the Sixties. Since then Freightliner, an...

THE FTA has published the London Rai/freight Guide tE5 to members), an assessment of facilities provided by rail freight...

SPEEDLINK is the most obvious competitor to road transport. But this, too, has a strong intermodal side. This Railfreight...

THE FREIGHT services operated by BR provide an important alternative to road-based distribution services, says the Freight...

AS 11,141 of the most exclusive dogs preened before the judges at Crufts at Earl's Court, the canine plebs of Staffordshire and...

THERE ARE some unpleasant people around. Among them are members of the public who have complained to the police that Crosville...

THERE is a special skill in speech writing for Government Ministers. What they say must be written in a manner that fits the...

FORD employees thought the company had lost a good opportunity to gain publicity and help famine relief in Ethiopia by not...

IF in the words of Ecclesiastes, "the race is not to the swift," the Wincanton and Lep groups are in for a disappointment....

I HAVE remarked before on the singular lack of personal preparedness of lorry drivers for exceptional weather. It certainly...

"YOUR Watchdog Barks On" reads a leaflet just published by the Road Haulage Association, It makes much of the many campaigns...

AFTER 106 years, Scottish highway law reaching back to 1878 has been brought up to date in the Roads (Scotland) Act, 1985, came...

There's more to deciding which mode to use than a mere matter of distance. The Dow Group has a foot in both camps. Karen Miles...

While 10 times the present amount of freight could be carried on an already improved network, a larger share of the market...

Container traffic at the East Anglian port of Felixstowe has doubled in five years. Rail and road operators have both...

Karen Miles looks at the Continental 'transport society' techniques and costs. This inter-modal system can be a way of...

by John Durant DUNKIRK, a port with a strong international transport bias, is becoming more important for British users....