No time to turn the other cheek THERE HAS been a mixed reception to the BBC2 TV Brass Tacks programme (CM February 18) in...

OUR ROAD TEST in next week's issue comes from the 16-ton market, traditionally dominated at home by British manufacturers....

A HORNETS' NEST of indignation has been stirred up by a Road Haulage Association offer to take over the national distribution...

DEPARTMENT of Transport officials last week denied that any overloading concessions are being made which permit 38 tonne...

A HAULIER's bid to be issued with a replacement operator's licence, after losing its previous one at a Transport Tribunal,...

RECOVERY men will have a choice of two shows this spring. The Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators is to hold a three-day...

MPs have called for a Commons debate on the latest Common Market proposals to reduce sound levels for vehicles. The all-party...

BRITISH authorities were trying to maintain contact with up to 450 British lorry drivers stranded in the Mont Blanc and Frejus...

OPERATORS have been given a "take it or leave it" offer to negotiate a more restricted form of down-licensing than they first...

RENAULT Vehicules Industriels was expected to announce 3,750 redundancies at its French factories in talks with unions on...

DISTRIBUTION consultant Davies and Robson of Croydon has appointed John Tiplady as a senior consultant. Formerly a director of...

BRS NORTHERN has made George Hollowell manager of its Burnley branch. He has been with BRS for four years and was previously...

DAVID NUTTER has left Seddon Atkinson, where he was distributor sales manager, and joined Mercedes-Benz as zone sales manager...

PETER COLLINS joins Northampton-based United Counties Omnibus as assistant traffic manager on March 19. He is at present...

TIP TRAILER RENTAL has made Ray Mullard North UK Division director, responsible for 11 branch locations including Bradford,...

BOB SHEPHERD has become finance director of Fleetcare, the contract maintenance company within the National Freight Consortium....

TECALEMIT Garage Equipment has appointed Gerry Richardson southern regional sales manager. He joined the company 10 years ago...

WADHAM STRINGER Vehicle Contracts has re-structured its sales force and made four new managerial appointments. Former sales...

WE RECORD with regret the deaths of Den Dennis and Walter Hunniball. Mr Dennis, who was 51, died in Malta. He was manager of...

'static' says FTA HAULAGE RATES were "very static" in the last quarter of 1983, according to the Freight Transport...

VAN RENTAL specialist U-Drive has produced leaflets showing the internal dimensions of 10 vans available in its fleet. While...

A DIABETIC Norfolk lorry driver has won a High Court appeal against refusal to renew his hgv driving licence. The court ruled...

LEX WILKINSON plans to hold a series of sales seminars for companies in specific industries, starting with small electrical...

A TRIPLE bay tanker-cleaning plant has been built at Wincanton Transport's Aldermeads depot, at Wincanton, Somerset. The...

A new Saville REDDISH SAVILLES, manufacturer and supplier of special chemicals to brewing, dairy and food industries, is...

Ridley's fresh look TRANSPORT SECRETARY Nicholas road service licence liberalisation, members last week. Speaking at the...

BUSMEN reject any suggestion that the industry is "blindly feather-bedded", Bus and Coach Council president George Carruthers...

WEALDEN COACHES of London — a partner in the Culture Bus launched last year — is introducing a circular bus service linking Kew...

A LEADING Scottish independent has been granted a stay of execution over its maintenance standards. Though far from happy with...

THE HERTFORDSHIRE Coach Operators Council failed to pursue objections to licence applications by Anthony Relph, trading as...

Texas's fuel heater A NEW TYPE of diesel fuel heater which uses a ceramic material as its heating element is being...

THE HEALTH and Safety Executive has published a booklet giving guidance on electrical installations in motor vehicle repair...

TEST RESULTS showing that operating temperatures as low as —25 degrees C can be obtained are being claimed by the Manchester...

qv aimed for big stakes THIS IS THE story of a tough little fighter up against two rather large opponents. He has absorbed as...

coaches speeding on motorways and coach driving standards, her main message to delegates at the biggest-ever Bus and Coach...

WHAT with the present uncertainties over the future of public transport the strict controls on public funds, the disappearance...

'Brass Tacks' — flagrantly biased? I HAVE just watched 55 minutes of the most flagrantly biased reporting I have ever seen on...

Gold soothsayer IAN SAYER, who sold his company, the Sayer Transport Group, to IPEC in 1979, has branched into writing in a...

"IT AIN'T what you do, it's the way that you do it" kept coming to mind as I drove home from Burscough, Lancashire. I had just...

only need all the protection that the law can give them but need also know where that protection ends, so the case of C. A....

AFTER years of being at the centre of critical public attention, road hauliers recently had some reason to believe that the...

FAR-EASTERN entrepreneurs are not only pirates of British branded products. Stemco Truck Products, which has been campaigning...

WORK SHARING and shorter working hours are being urged on Common Market countries by the European Communities Commission. Less...

FROM LITTLE ACORNS .. . Gauntlett International has proved itself as a thoroughbred in the removals business and the quietly...

MY FEATHERED friend Buzby, at present out of favour and banished to the vaults of British Telecom as it seeks a new image in...

THE MYTH that Japanese workers are sycophants who are born into bondage is exploded by the obstacles that trade-union leaders...

STRANGE things fall off the backs of lorries but none more macabre than an amputated leg and foot in a yellow plastic bag which...

Steering, 7 FIGURE 1 shows a worm and roller type steering box in which the worm is of hour-glass shape, which allows the...

OVERLOOKING the staircase in a large and rather grand house in Weybridge, Surrey, is a portrait of William Glass. For the house...

No more overloading AN ACCURATE weighbridge on site can help operators avoid the legal problems of overloading, and also the...

TOOL MAKERS Sykes-Pickavant has added a double-lap flaring tool to its range. Its rotating head allows for easy punch selection...

OPERATORS carrying hazardous small parcels or cartons could benefit from self-adhesive warning tapes from Vi-Seal, which can...

TWO JACKING beams from HTC are designed for use over inspection pits and have a minimum above-floor height of 100mm (3ft Bin)....

second-hand isn't second-rate Mechanical failure on a used vehicle is taken care of by this warranty scheme, as Bill Brock...

COMPUTERISED fleet management systems have removed all the guesswork from fleet analysis, so many transport managers nowadays...