IF THE VARIOUS opinion polls prove to be correct on June 9 and a Conservative Government is returned to Westminster, the road...

URE for an overhaul of excise duty is building th the Freight Transport dion telling the Depend Transport that there is for...

NSERVATIVE peer will ant the Government at xt EEC Council of Translinisters' meeting in Luxirg, two days before the il...

BREAD DELIVERY van operators should continue to operate without tachographs for the time being, according to the Freight...

SANDBACH ENGINEERING returned to a five-day week on Monday this week, but intends to make 99 of its workers redundant, bringing...

SEDDON ATKINSON was making no comment this week on a newspaper report that Spanish manufacturer Enasa still wants to buy the...

SEDDON ATKINSON'S 401 6x2 tractive unit has broken cover to join its ultra-lightweight stablemate the 301. This prototype has...

ALMOST a quarter of Curs Engines' workforce at its Si Lanarkshire plant is to be redundant within the next months. A total of...

FARMERS are supporting the Road Haulage Association in its paign for a "due diligence" clause to be allowed in cases w lorries...

CONSERVATIVE Party's general election manifesto promises, nplication, to scuttle completely any remaining possibility of...

0 DUTCH drivers, Hendrik s and Arie Rademakers, both ployed by W. Hoeve ZN, BV, Zeevisgroothandel, Holland, .e each fined...

results • ANOTHER batch of drivers has been fighting it out to reach the CM Lorry Driver of the Year finals on Sunday,...

IPEAN MPs have added their support to moves by the EEC nission aimed at changing the current system of fixed tarriffs id...

AN ANONYMOUS allegation that five lorries licensed at the concessionary farmers goods rate ("F-licence") were being used...

RNATIONAL haulage and groupage operator Chris Hudson national has moved to a new depot complex at Romford, K, close to the M25...

A CLERICAL error meant that Brian Hawkins, a director of transport company Hawkespare of Dartford, Kent did not receive an...

THE GOODS vehicle population increased by one per cent last year to 1.66m, after falling by similar amounts in 1980 and 1981....

FIVE VEHICLES were taken off the licence held by Hereford haulier Arthur Oakley Transport by West Midland Licensing Authority...

MITCHELL COTTS Transport Services has supplied four vehicles to Lotus Shoe retail division on a contract-hire basis. The Ford...

TRAFFIC FIGURES of the French 91.57m tonnes, compared with 1981 and 1980. General cargo (including containers) represented...

THE Chartered Institut Transport launched a n membership drive this weel Members are asked to I out when recruiting that...

SUMMERS THE PLUMBERS "ethical" plumbing busi formed by National Freight been wound up. It was established in 1980 Pickfords...

UK COMPANIES are be offered a trailer groupage full load service to Iraq, Iran the Arab Peninsula by N Parkes Shipping of...

GHTON was the venue for most important week in the nova! industry's 1983 endar — a week which led with the Fidi annual ference...

THE BRITISH Association of Removers (BAR) should try to get itself a more professional public image, said David Muir of...

THE BRITISH Association of Removers (BAR) enjoyed a successful financial year for 1982, according to Michael Scott in his...

vital' — Wilso BAR must play a bigger pal deciding what training the movals and storage indu needs and how the trail should be...

UDR management rele at Leyland Trucks has reI in Les Wharton replacing Capon as managing direc Wharton has been managiirector...

BRUCE CHAMBERLAIN has retired from the Reynolds Boughton Group after 20 years as a director. His association with the Group...

BSG INTERNATIONAL has promoted NORRIS LAWLEY and JOHN TUSTAIN to divisional managing director responsible for all the Ford...

PAT BERRIDGE has been appointed European technical director of TIP Trailer Rental based at the company's Continental head...

ERIC SHORTLAND has retired as chairman and managing director of Coventry based Morton's (British Road Services), more than 30...

BIG CHANGES will face the seven big city operators in England, if the Conservatives are reelected. There also will be more...

TRYING to expand to take advantage of the Hereford and Worcester trial area was the undoing of bus operator B. J. D. Whitehead,...

FOLLOWING a Commission of Inquiry into the major motorv accident involving three coaches in Beaune last year, the Frei Minister...

LATE DELIVERY of the first land Royal Tiger Doyens National Bus has promptec company to cut its 1983 c for 10 coaches and...

LE INTERNATIONAL the making parent company of Duple Coachbuilders and e (Metsec), is the subject of ((rover bid by Hestair, the...

G1MTOOL, a company formed by the directors of Mid Warwickshire Motors, has been successful in its second attempt to obtain a...

THE BUS MANUFACTURER is on "a hiding to nothing" in meeting the noise limits for passenger vehicles due later this year...

THE DISADVANTAGES to the public as a whole of proposals by Yeowarts Coaches to operate town services in Whitehaven in...

FOR THE WEIGHT conscious, the impact of the 38-tonne legislation was plain to see at last week's Temperature Controlled Storage...

INFIELDS Coachworks has uced an insulated and refrited version of its Urbana curtainsided body for the age of foodstuffs under...

CRANFORD Engineering of Knutsford, Cheshire, has redesigned its container bulk body which is designed for transporting...

A NEW TYRE, suitable for trailer fitment operating at 38 tonnes gross combination weight from Continental, is said to be 15 per...

ENCOURAGED by the res of operators to the el powered Sherpa, Freight is to make it an on-line and will sell and serv through...

THERMO KING is now importing apparatus from the United and selling it under the title City Boss to small vehicle ope making a...

I Making a living with a 38-tonne lorry THE TANKER and tipper men joined together at the Majestic Hotel for the first business...

BRITAIN has an enormous opportunity of growth ahead of it, British Steel Corporation chairman Ian MacGregor told conference...

THOSE DELEGATES who wanted a return to capacity controls in the industry got their answer from RHA director-general Freddie...

ONLY a very neurotic operator would lose any sleep through fear of losing his operator's licence. That frank statement from...

IF THE FIRST-EVER RHA Road Tanker Convention is to be judged by the quality of the speakers it attracted, then it has to be...

I WAS VERY interested in Harry Wilkins' article "Slip Sliding Away" in CM, April 30. While I agree with almost everything Mr...

THE REPORT in CM by Alan Millar about Lincolnshire County Council's new Transport Management Organisation system ("The Tory...

UPON READING your article "One Weigh to Get a Load Off Your Mind" in CM, February 26, we would like to commend your publication...

THE HAWK suggested (CM March 19) that a peat-burning traction engine might be designed for the Falkland Islands. In fact, a...

The bends are an occupational hazard in this line of work. Graham Montgomerie tips you the wink and gets you back on the...

THE TORIES are assured of at least 800 or so votes on June 9. Harold Russett, chairman, at the Road Haulage Association annual...

HAROLD RUSSETT was full of confidence in the streamlined RHA. More than 300 new members had been recruited already this year,...

I HAD ALWAYS believed that an inspector of taxes needed a broad streak of sadism and no sense of humour. This is not so,...

ATLAS, heavily disguised as Arthur Scargill, posed as the stong man with a 8-ton solid marble sculpture when Vanguard...

WHEN, as a virtuous motorist first obeyed official exhortatic to use dipped headlights in lighted streets, I was cursed ty an...

A COLLISION at sea has been more disastrous than bombin European Gateway, the Townsend Thoresen ferry salvaged after a collison...

longer distance deliveries in recent years, and this has created a demand for vehicles more suited for this type of work. If...

Scania's eight-wheeler has a useful combination of power and drive-line specification and top gearing for motorway work. It's...

AXLE OVERLOADING, with its attendant fines, is a well known problem to operators. In many cases they have gone completely the...

FOUR or six wheels of a ie need to be kept in contact the ground, irrespective of uneven it may be. There are nal ways of...

Sandbach Engineering's latest weight-savi strategy is the adoption of torsion-bar-bog suspension, which is one of the lightest...

EASY operation is one of the main advantages claimed for the Kelley Kwik-Plate dock leveller from Stokvis. It replaces the...

SECURING roll pallets during transportation on road and rail vehicles has always been a problem. Now Chester-based Shortfast...