THE NATIONAL Freight Company's prospectus will have been examined in detail and analysed by City institutions, merchant banks,...

VERY ONE of the National eight Company's 26,000 nployees plus 18,000 ex-emnee pensioners has this week en formally invited to...

IRD has won an order from a Australian Army for 372 irgo 0913 lorries worth 7.36m (£4.3m). The order, which was anunced this...

FOLLOWING a transport committee meeting West Midlands County Council has decided to abolish WMPTE's cheap fare policy which...

SELF-ADHESIVE material manufacturer Fasson UK Ltd has taken advertising space on bus sides to advertise the very material the...

A MONOPOLIES and Mergers Commission investigation of the car transporter industry looks likely. The investigation of the...

OVERLAND Freight Forwarders Ltd, a member of the forwarding section of the Road Haulage Association, told the Wood Inquiry last...

PLACES are still available on Road Transport Industry Training Board approved courses being run by Transport Driver Training at...

IN SPITE of fewer sales, DAF expects to make a profit this ye according to Piet Van Doorne, chairman of the company's board...

A PLAN to create a contail terminal to take Kenya into 1 21st Century has had t finishing touches added to it a five-strong...

HANSON HAULAGE of Leeds has been taken over from Roadline by North Eastern British Road Services. Hanson's parcels customers...

REARWARD OF THE CAB, ERF ONCE AGAIN DEMONSTRN THEIR ABILITY TO MAKE IMPOE ANT WEIGHT SAVINGS IN THE CHASSIS WITHOUT ANY SORT (...

PEOPLE in the distribution business need faster, more accurate and more comprehensive sources of information. With this in mind...

OPERATORS can look forward to a wider choice of ferry routes between Britain and Ireland later this year, when two Irish ferry...

A SCOTTISH insurance company has launched a haulage package which is linked to tachograph recorded mileage, and claims that...

THE PEDESTRIANS Association has welcomed the GLC's lorry ba proposals. The Association secretary, Felicity Rea, said that as...

THE PL GROUP (Foods) Ltd I fight for the survival of its Li don production base, if a lo ban is introduced to the Lonc area,...

HE HENLEY CENTRE for necasting is holding its next eight transport seminar in LonMI on February 17. As usual, this is being •...

A TEESIDE court has cleared the way for the Department of Health and Social Security to sue the former directors of a tanker...

TEN EUROPEAN countries have sent 400 to 600 lorries and 8,000 tonnes of goods to Poland on relief work following last year's...

PERKINS Engines has announced a new family of diesels to go into production in 1985. The project for the in-line sixcylinder...

THE Mercedes-Benz service department is recommending the addition of 15 per cent petrol to the diesel fuel to prevent the...

The standard engine is, of course, a two-stroke design and as such uses a gear-driven Roots supercharger for scavenging. The...

A NEW CENTRE to study vehic impacts and their effects h been set up at Cranfield with grant of £120,000 from ti Wolfson...

IVECO is to sell three of its Z-Series range of vehicles througl International Harvester in the United States and Canada....

TOTO LINE, a Swedish-own UK-based company Felixstowe, is taking delivery one hundred 12m (40ft) ser trailers, equipped wi...

BY ADDING 203mm (8in) to the wheelbase of a 13-ton-gvw For Cargo, the Primrose Third Axle Co Ltd, of Blackburn, Lancashire, ha...

TEEN tankers form the major Lion of an order for £250,000 sired by Whale Tankers Ltd, ;olihull, for export to Saudi bia....

THREE multi-purpose scissorslift boxvan Ford 16-tonners, put into service by British Caledonian Airways, have Scan tail-lifts...

F's new sales and marketing actor is John Bailey, former naging director of DAF's ex/ division in Eindhoven. Mr iley, whose...

LONDON TRANSPORT bus fares will retain the advantages of the Fares Fair zonal system introduced by Ken Livingstone's Greater...

"CUTTING costs in public tr■ port" is the theme of this ye public transport symposiurr be held at Newcastle Univer on March 30...

THE SCOTTISH Traffic Comn sioners have postponed a tit ing scheduled to take place week to consider a new rl service licence...

MAN is forecasting a boom in the public transport sector on I other side of the Atlantic which will earn the company heah...

'AF BUS has introduced a new Dar-engined coach chassis, the ,B 2300, to replace its mid-enine SB 2000. It will be available 3...

AN EAST LOTHIAN coach hirer has had his operator's licence renewed, but only for twomonths. The decision was taken after the...

LOTHIAN REGION'S transport committee is likely to terminate its contract for the supply of taped music and advertising on 50 of...

.EYLAND BUS is developing rear-engined coaches to meet growng demand from British operators for this configuration of vehicle....

ALAN KIEPPER, general manager of the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority of the United States, will present a paper to the...

FIAT sufferer from VAT returns mild ever have imagined that istoms and Excise would win a ize in the national Plain iglish...

ilVING to the office through low, blizzard and black ice, I ned in to London Broadcasting r the latest road report. As if e...

CLAIMED to have "probably the largest collection of books on transport, military and modelling subjects in Europe," Albion...

THE Road Haulage Association's admirable submission to the inquiry into London lorry bans is, I think, wrong to equate lorries...

THE CAVALIER attitude of most drivers towards advisory speed limits on motorways is emphasised by Transport and Road Research...

Its new 3300 is an all-round export flagship while the 2500 addition, with revamped 8.25-litre diesel, has particular...

The Government's plans for industrial relations legislation: analysis by Douglas Ainley AFTER the 1980 Employment Act's...

to A, "safeguard the liberty of the individual from the abuses of industrial power"; and B, "improve the operation of the...

Two drivers tell Bill Brock how things arE going so far; fuel economy is proving similar to that of D-Series THE DOVER engine...

YOU DON'T have to have big guns to compete with big companies. Eighteen months ago I lost my whole set-up; I was one of the...

I READ with great interest the Know the Law article by Les Oldridge (CM, December 12, 1981). It gives a very clear precis of...

THE COMMENT by David Wilcox (CMJanuary 6) that "trace bodies ... such as the Freight Transport Association should have a list...

I AM WRITING to ask if you kno of any group or person who would be interested in back numbers of CM. My son has married and we...

Good drivers and engineers deserve good workwear: it is safer and longer lasting than everyday clothing and an asset to a...

"FIT-and-forget" flasher units produced by Thomas Electronics for commercial vehicles and designed to last the working life of...

TRANSPORTABLE lifting jacking units are now available from Germany. When they are put together in pairs, any commercial vehicle...

A RANGE of airless abrasive blasting machines now manufactured by Shotblast Developments is designed for the production...

Fluorescent jackets are a great help — and not only at night. By a CM correspondent TWO MEN were killed instantly this winter...

The right clothes should be recognised as a need rather than an optional extra. lain Sheriff explains why ONE man's workwear...

This week, Business Cars looks at the newly revised Rover range with its new addition of a two-litre model; Stuart Beadon also...

Improvisation and rapid decision making are frequently called for in this fragmentec market where few firms employ more thar...

YLThI Success depends upon IR . INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS means — getting on with your employees ... avoiding disputes ... keeping...

(q1 / f ) ) ( M . by Graham Montgomer World vehicle growth has given a real boa to the battery world. And field trials on a...

GOOD LANE discipline is an important safety factor in all road driving. Very many accidents are the direct result of drivers...

by Les Oldridge kFFIC SIGNS placed on roads the information of road users governed by regulations de under the Road Traffic :...

by Preceptor IEN WORKING every day with tor vehicle wheels and tyres difficult to visualise how igerous these innocent king...