YESTERDAY the Freight Transport Association once again voiced its opinion on tunnel and bridge tolls. CM joins the FTA in...

HAULAGE profit margins have fallen again, according to an influential industry survey which also warns that even the most...

HAULAGE employers intend to push hard next year for a cut in the levy paid to the Road Transport Industry Training Board. The...

DE-POOLING of short-life assets, the capital allowance concession introduced in this year's Budget, will be available to...

THE HIGH Court has agreed to the Greater London Council's request for a court battle with Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley...

THE FIRST phase of spray suppression legislation comes into force next week. Trailers over 3.5 tonnes design gross weight...

ONE OF THE leading operators in the coal tipper convoys in the miners' strike faces a prosecution, and an MP last week accused...

ROADLINE UK, threatened with possible closure if it does not cut its losses by the end of this year, put on an aggressive face...

UNITED PARCELS remained profitable in 1984/85 despite the ferocity of competition in the parcels delivery market. Its turnover...

GLASGOW-based Grampian Holdings' haulage and construction profits represented only 30 per cent of the group's profit last year...

HAULIERS and drivers were urged to use a new self-weighing facility at Dundee's Tayside Truckstop when a dynamic weighbridge...

DESPITE requests from the Licensing Authorities for more vehicle examiners to preserve vehicle safety standards, the Department...

RENAULT Vehicules IndustrieIs continues to be the sickest man in the European commercial vehicle manufacturing industry, with...

THE FIRST Auto Design commercial vehicle award has been won by the Iveco Turbostar. A European judging panel made the award in...

HAULIERS' need to obtain an international operator's licence to haul unaccompanied trailers from ferry ports to British...

through the EEC, and a 40 tonne gross vehicle weight have been demanded in a Confederation of British industry report. In the...

Swiss hauliers to pay tax on entry to Britain because of the cost British hauliers face at the Swiss borders. Road Haulage...

DELAYS in recruiting additional labour for York Trailer's key manufacturing plant have been blamed for disappointing trading...

AN APPEAL by Penn Transport Services against a £250 fine imposed by Lichfield magistrates for an axle overload has been...

A WEST Midlands haulage company could be refused a full operator's licence because its managing director is no longer of good...

He was with Seddon for several years before taking up a short-term contract as field service manager in Egypt with...

NIGEL BARRETT, financial controller for Potteries Motor Traction (PMT) since March 1984, has been redesignated company...

BRS Midlands has appointed two managers in their late twenties to its Northampton branch. Truck rental manager is Mike Hyde,...

DAVID MOSS has been made divisional financial controller with Dana's Spicer Transmission Division with responsibilities for...

DEVELOPING dedicated parcels business for major customers is one of the briefs of Malcolm White, who has been appointed by 1...

He has been at Iveco's Cheshire headquarters for three years, since he joined from Volvo White in the United States. He...

Adcliffe Engineers, has appointed BOB BUCKLEY to the new position of sales director. A former transport manager with Manchester...

OFFERS are now being invited for MacBrayne Haulage, the Scottish Transport Group's haulage subsidiary which is being...

THE FIRST major policy review of Britain's directional traffic signing for over 20 years is going ahead, Transport Minister...

A STANDARDISED EEC certificate for lorries showing maximum authorised weight and other details has been devised in Brussels to...

UNEMPLOYED driver Eddie Munro has still been unable to give away a £500 reward to anyone who will offer him a job. The cash is...

INTERNATIONAL drivers who break road traffic regulations in Belgium will need to carry plenty of cash or credit cards with them...

ESTUARINE toll charges should be more "businesslike", the Department of Transport told MPs last week. DTp assistant secretary...

LEICESTERSHIRE'S plans to extend unsigned overnight parking controls from the city throughout the whole county have now been...

NEW EMPLOYEES recruited after June 1 this year will be unable to take unfair dismissal claims to an industrial tribunal until...

YORK TRAILER has put an old idea into practice with the launch of its post-less curtainsider semi-trailer, Freepost. To...

A BRAKE warning light which alerts drivers of commercial vehicles to when their brakes need adjusting or re-lining is to be...

WILCOX Group has revised the specification of its curtainsider bodywork, and was showing the new body for the first time at...

CLAIMS that there were continual problems with broken cables on tachographs fitted to M-Series ERF vehicles were made by Banton...

MERCEDES-BENZ plans to launch a right-hand drive 3025K eightwheeler tipper chassis in Britain by the end of the year, probably...

FOUR companies in the road transport equipment market have received Queen's Awards for export achievement. They are: Aeriel...

THE FIRST of 14 unusual articulated tanker outfits with multiple lifting axles which can run on three, four, five or six axles,...

THE FUTURE of 65,000 National Bus Company staff, widows and pensioners is now under threat because of a Government refusal to...

DESPITE disappointingly few entries the Semaine Internationale du Tourisme en Autocar managed to live up to its international...

THE PROBLEM of coach congestion in London has to be solved by traffic management and not restrictive licensing, Junior...

CLAIMS that the Government may frame future minibus legislation on the basis of false information have been made by the...

THE LABOUR Party this week published its Charter for Transport, in which it called for adequate financing of public transport,...

AN INFORMATION hotline and a free information newspaper are being used to publicise West Midlands PTE's restructured Coventry...

MIDLAND RED North has failed to block the grant of full-term licence authority for two stage services in the Cannock area,...

LONDON BUSES has stamped upon the growing number of "showbuses" which its staff has been painting into nonstandard liveries,...

Noel Millier mingled among the gleaming coaches at Brighton's annual coach rally IT SEEMS almost routine for Kassbohrer to win...

I AM SURE that Mr Evans as director and myself as the "present general manager of transport" must take responsibility for the...

EDDIE WELLS of the London Carriers Division of Philips will be running one marathon each month between now and December in...

NOW Dave Wetzel is telling us that "as British firms are already applying for GLC permits, it is obvious that they will be in a...

IT WAS the ninth international commercial Vehicle Show to be held in Turin, but the first at the Ligotto. This vacated Fiat :ar...

AN UNKIND fate decreed the sudden death of Gerry Aston at the moment when the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition, which he...

DENNIS SHARPLES, of J. Sharpies and Son, Eardisley, Hereford, is a contender to Arthur Metcalfe of Thirsk as the longest...

FRANK LEWSEY was amused by the reference to a Poet Laureate by Janus (CM, Topic, February 2), and tells me there is no chance...

THE COMMERCIAL vehicle section at Lord Montagu's National Motor Museum at Beaulieu is having a complete facelift. Nicholas...

IMAGINATIVE advertising is not normally associated with road haulage. British Road Services is a rare exception and has taken...

IF KF Cars, of Gatwick, succeed in doing with their new Daf 49seater, with Duple Laser 2 body, what a press announcement...

Tipper operators and suppliers reached a closer understanding of one another's problems at CM's panel discussion EARLIER this...

Hauliers who take out only money and not infidelity insurance, too, may be making a big mistake. John C. Vann explains WHILE...

fully laden, particularly when compared with the recently tested Talbot Express diesel with the more powerful 55kW (74hp)...

The latest developments in tipper chasis, tipping semitrailers, bodies and tipping gear will be assembled next week at...

Ten years of research, development and marketing have confirmed M & G's belief that frp is the best material for constructing...

Who has shown great care, courtesy or courage on the road? Write to us at CM if you know a driver worthy of the CMNolvo Mark...

Uniting hgv drivers and improving their conditions is the aim of most drivers' clubs. Jack Semple reports on the progress some...

Two-piece wheel nut INHERENT elasticity in a bolted joint is essential for maintaining clamp load under all conditions of...

Little could be less exciting than an axle plant. Not according to Tim Blakemore, who visited the Rockwell CVC plant in Italy...