MRS THATCHER is likely to make Cabinet changes in the final run-up to a 1983 General Election. We hope that she will not move...

IE GOVERNMENT is now spending over Om a year to support the insfer of environmentally sensitive traffic from road to rail, and...

F has joined the band of inufacturers offering vehicles idy to meet the White Paper mosals for increased weights, ind when they...

COMMERCIAL traffic should avoid central Edinburgh on Sunday, September 5, between 8.30am and 1.30pm, when the Edinburgh...

PETER LAZARUS, Deputy Secretary at the Department of Transport, will become the top civil servant in the Department on November...

RTHERN Ireland Carriers is holding an auction next month to pose of the 12 De Lorean sports cars it has been holding as urity...

NEARLY 70 companies are now making regular use of the free BRS Datafreight service which is being operated from Inverness by...

INTERNATIONAL drivers wl regularly cross Austria ha been threatened with new sat tions by Austrian Transpo Minister Karl...

TRANSPORT and Road Reseal Laboratory deputy director ( off Margason is Britain's ste ing committee representati for the...

n total, 63m tonnes of freight ire moved, or 2.3bn tonne/km, nesenting 1.5 per cent of all me/km freight moved. The rvey showed...

COURIER and Data Transit, the Birmingham-based national courier firm, is to extend its contracted internal mail service for...

DAIMLER-BENZ'S 1981 annual report shows that despite declining cargo traffic affecting commercial vehicles it was still able to...

EARING of 50 drivers' hours I records charges against :ksons Transport (Dereham) I and six of its drivers was lourned sine die...

PEUGEOT has revised its 504 pick-up for 1983. The major change is the revised choice of engines. A 1.8-litre, four-cylinder...

IE PUBLIC should come to its senses and encourage the Governant to Implement the gross weight proposals in the Armitage port,...

TRANSPORT Under Secretary Lynda Chalker has claimed that this year's motorway repair programme is causing less inconvenience to...

TRAILERENT is starting a 1:20m expansion programme intended to double the size of the company's United Kingdom depot network...

SEVEN-MILE section of trunk id in Northern Ireland is to be graded to dual carriageway at ost of Northern Ireland Environment...

Registrations for CM's Fleet Management Conference have now reached 450. We can still accept more. The programme has caught...

AN APPEAL against a conviction for making a false tachogr, record by Ivor Teale, a driver employed by Arthur Oakley Transr Ltd...

AN IRISH company is offering to the transport industry computer packages which can be bought outright for £40,000. Rainsford...

GREENWOODS Transport panded one of the count most environmentally sensi transport depots, at Rownha near Southampton, earlier...

E development of a wood gas-powered engine by Renault Vehies Industrials CCM August 7) is to continue for several more Inths...

operation at a constant 38 tonnes gcw — if the White Paper weight proposals are implemented. The F10, with its TD100 GA engine...

KARRtER Motors has introduced a new ambulance chassis version of the Dodge 50-Series. The specifications made to the new model...

TRIPOWER Ltd of Everton, r Sandy in Bedfordshire, has signed a new system of pa distribution for the safe a night storage of...

hides and trailers with mixed two and three-line braking systems Issued today by the Department of Transport. '=ollowing a...

"approval" when used to describe non-factory-fitted equipment for Ford chassis, TIM BLAKEMORE reports. I8CT Equipment for...

AS THE October deadline for implementing new EEC braking regulations looms over British operators, Berg, with its extensive...

BEDFORD'S top-of-the-rar psv chassis, the YNT, is n available with a ZF S3.65 speed manual gearbox as an ternative to its...

THE PROSPECTS of Sot Yorkshire PTE's pioneering ticulated bus fleet returning service look slim, as the leng stalemate in...

The normal height Laser is the product of extensive surveys carried out by the Blackpool firm and has been designed to meet the...

liNSPORT SECRETARY David Howell hats overruled South Wales ffic Commissioners' decision to refuse Tonna Luxury Coaches'...

PROPOSED Government legislation to outlaw the cheap fares policies of some Labourcontrolled Metropolitan County Councils led...

REVIEW of the number of ildren that can be carried on hoot buses should be finled next month. Transport icier Secretary...

COACH operators wishing to apply for shuttle service permits to Europe for the coming winter should note that the closing date...

elected chairmen who also serve as ex-officio CIT council members. Those with road transport connections are MALCOLM ROXBURGH,...

OMMITTEES are noted for reating camels out of horses ut one such body has reversed le process and produced a hetland pony by...

URING the lunch interval etween the adagio movements F drivers of snaking artics and gids in the final of the ommerciai Motor...

THE withdrawal of the last Swift, one of the less illustrious models in the defunct AEC line, by the South Yorkshire Passenger...

THREE of the most important phases in Foden's history are marked by the latest additions to the road transport collection of...

WHEN Shillibeer brought-the bus to London in 1829 he was not just starting a revolution in passenger transport. He was...

The old-style Sherpa van scored high on durability and reliability in our long-term road test, but only poorly when it came to...

The Sherpa we have been testing can run on gas and petrol. Which is the most economic? David WilLox has the answer OUR...

A husband-and-wife operation in Cheshire has acquired an unusual addition to its small fleet. The newcomer has been specially...

Although not beyond criticism, the LandRover long-wheelbased high capacity pickup convinced Bill Brock that it can hold its own...

Phase three of Land-Rover's development programme was completed recently and Brian Weatherley has been testing the advances in...

1980 saw BL in a quandary over the light commercial sector. For a numberof reasons, there was a strong temptation to turn off...

IN THE first of these articles on Air Brakes it was said that the components used could be divided into four groups, (1)...

The West Midlands Police force was the first to buy Range Rovers for motorway work, and the policeman's lot on motorway patrol...

I WAS surprised that CM should give such prominence to the opinions of Mr Richard Barlow (July 3), who until recently had no...

four choice k WIDE variety of courses in ransport studies now exists, Ind choosing the right one is a retry important...

castings, tightening up standards at the foundry, turbo-compound engines and twostage turbocharging "THE most important thing...