The missing Under Secretary THE NEW DEPARTMENT of Transport under Tom King is a return to the former Ministry of Transport and...

THE BRIGHTEST and the best vehicle liveries are in colour in next week's issue, with the results of the first section of this...

THE INDUSTRY is looking for a cl down-licensing by early autumn, 1984 Budget. The leading force in the campaign is still the...

DAF TRUCKS plans to spend £15.5m on product development and has every intention of remaining an independent company. Aart van...

ERF made a trading profit of ; £84,000 in the year to April 2, but extraordinary items kept it out of pre-tax profit. The...

EASTERN ENGLAND employers are confident of reaching agreement on enhanced wage rates for drivers of 38-tonne lorries, but no...

VOLVO TRUCK and Bus (GB) has lost the British label for its Irvine, Scotland, manufacturing plant but has been given the chance...

HEAVY WORKLOADS have been allocated to Lynda Chalker and David Mitchell, the two Under Secretaries working with Transport...

HOT ON the heels of the much criticised Serpell Report on the future financing of British Rail has come Investing in British...

A 50-SQUARE mile lorry ban around St Albans in Hertfordshire has finally won county council approval and will be implemented by...

THE COST of bringing a new truck range on to the market is now in the region of £150m to £200m according to Karrier marketing...

THERE has been a disappointingly low response to the 1983 distribution costs survey published last week by the Centre for...

BRITISH international hauliers should benefit from some of the multi-million pound developments now in progress at the Belgian...

DOVER Harbour Board is "modifying the demurrage structure" from August 1. From that date, free parking in the Eastern Dock for...

NATIONAL CARRIERS PARCELS has begun a series of marketing exercises to win more traffic in the highly competitive parcel...

GOLDEN WONDER is investing £100,000 in portable micro-computers for use by its van sales staff. The project, which began two...

Delta deals TWO DELTA Group subsidiary companies have signed contract hire agreements with Midlands BRS. Delta Rods, based at...

OBAN Transport and Trading Company and West Highland Supply Co, both Oban-based subsidiaries of Bruce Lindsay Brothers Ltd of...

IN AN attempt to encourage the French Government to improve road links in the north and Channel port regions, the EEC is...

Oakley gets the gun THE HGV driving licences of seven of 10 drivers convicted of drivers' hours and records offences,...

THE RECENT odyssey of the disappearing dioxin has given topicality to a debate by MEPs on ways of reducing the dangers of...

ROAD HAULAGE Association national chairman Harold Russett has mounted an appeal with the express carriers group of the RHA to...

TNT SAMEDAY, the door-todoor guaranteed immediate parcels delivery service, is opening 50 centres throughout Britain over the...

A THROUGH BOOKING deal has been agreed between Schiaffino Freight Ferries and Welsh/Irish Ferries for hauliers running between...

THE FIRST PHASE of staff reorganisations have been announced by the Freight Transport Association, to take effect in time for...

TALBOT UK chairman GEORGE TURNBULL has been re-elected president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders for 1983/84....

THREE additional representatives for Bees Transport, the Hinckley-based Lex parcels subsidiary, are operating in Scotland and...

DAVID POOLE is the High Wycombe-based manager of Cave Wood's machinery handling division, with responsibility for heavy haulage...

MIDLANDS BRS has made Neil Crump, an Atlas Express engineer, its Worcester branch engineer. He will be responsible for...

Cordial reception SEDDON ATKINSON's first tandem-steer six-wheeled 401 is soon to enter service with soft drinks manufacturer...

THE INSTITUTE of Road Transport Engineers has published a guide to the implications of operating vehicles above 32.5 tonnes gcw...

REACHING the proposed heavy lorry noise limit of 80 MA by 1990 is likely to require engine encapsulation. This was one of the...

CERAMICS will make their appea duction diesel engines by 1988, planning manager at Cummins. He told CM that the first such...

for tri-axles RUBERY OWEN-ROCKWELL has set up a special phone-in service to give assistance to operators on tandem to tri-axle...

Scam goes it alone SCANIA will never be a major customer for "off-the-shelf drive train components" according to the company's...

Duple for Hestair DUPLE was heading into new hands this week as its biggest British rival, Plaxtons, reported an improvement...

MOVES to take control of London Transport away from the Greater London Council will start in the autumn, writes our...

WEST YORKSHIRE PTE has taken delivery of the first of a batch of Leyland Tiger single-deck buses. The Duple Dominant-bodied...

BUS SERVICES replacing rural railway lines were given a thumbs down from Transport 2000 this week at the launch of its report...

DETAILED plans are nearing completion to bring trams back to Glasgow. There is an urgency to get the plans ready because a...

TYNE AND WEAR County Council to get the controversial Low F banned. Council members are expected to back a recommendation from...

YEOWART'S Coaches of Whitehaven has appealed to Transport Secretary Tom King against the Northern Traffic Commissioners'...

Leyland in Rio LEYLAND BUS has shown a complete vehicle and a chassis at the International Public Transport Congress in Rio de...

ALDER VALLEY has been appointed distributor for Autosteer Controls following its successful installation of Autosteer...

The unmaking of David THERE WERE probably few tears shed in the transport industry last week when the Prime Minister sacked...

IF I HAD £1 for every time I have knocked the telephone on to the floor, I should be rich. But it will happen no more. Pirelli...

NOBODY CAN say Pickford Removals is not a far-seeing company. It has recently shopped one of Europe's largest and most powerful...

I HAVE ALWAYS thought of gum-chewing as a pure exercise in vacuity. In fact it gives brief relief from drowsiness, as...

SENTIMENT and tradition have had to give way to expediency and economics on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, which...

CHRISTMAS was a blessing in more ways than one for the enterprising Norfolk remover, Abel's of Watton. On a normal Sunday night...

THE THREATENED collapse of the group training association movement, which the Road Haulage Association is trying to prevent, is...

MEMBERS of the European Parliament's transport committee have been told that Britain's national road plans are threatened by...

WE ARE LOOKING for a good Samaritan. The person we are looking for is one who has shown care, courtesy or courage in the...

It's a buyers' market at the moment with used vehicles but you must still be careful that it's not you that's being used. Steve...

Entrepreneurs — this is for you I AM WRITING to you in anticipation that, through the pages of your journal, twill be able to...

impression with an experienced tester, and which goes on to return performance figures which consistently are outstandingly...

Suspension 5 IT IS SURPRISING to learn that the idea of suspending a vehicle on air goes back over 100 years when experiments...

As Daf has grown, it's imported more vehicles via Harwich. An HQ in Marlow made less and less sense. So what did it do? Bill...

VEHICLE RECOVERY by road and rail was the subject of a recent conference sponsored by the Engineering Manufacturing Industries...

Scrubbing and sweeping WITH THE latest floor scrubber sweeper from Tennant Maintenance Systems the PreSweep 432, there is no...