HE EVER-upward spiral of unemployment figures must give veryone cause for deep concern. Nevertheless, they shouldn't aye come...

ESSO, BP, Shell and Texal tanker drivers are claiming "substantial" wage increas according to Transport and Ge eral Workers'...

TOUGHER braking regulations will apply to lorries, trailers, and buses from October 1 next year, bringing British vehicles in...

YTTISH SECRETARY George Inger has proposed increases . he Forth Road Bridge tolls has told the Forth Road Ige Joint Board he...

THE MIDST of the commerial vehicle depression comes ood news for Seddon Atkinon, the Oldham-based manu3cturer of heavy lorries,...

A CHARGE-COOLED version Scania's familiar turbochari DS8 engine is now availal writes GRAHAM MONTGOI RIE. Designated the DSI8,...

REGISTRATION for the 1981 CA Fleet Management Conferenci has reached 430. There are still ■ few places available, but regis...

IN ORDER to bypass the bottleneck at the inland clearance depot, City Deep, Unifast International is now clearing Johannesburg...

THE COMING months will be crucial to the closed shop. It will no doubt survive, but some modifications, as least in law, seem...

DTAL of 86 charges alleging aches of drivers' hours Ms and distance regula s against associated comes W. Carter (Haulage) Ltd...

A NEW door-to-door exp freight delivery service to gium and Holland has launched by Whittle Inte tional Freight Ltd of Pres...

GROUP services director of ERF, Tim Foden, has resigned, but remains on the holding board of the company. His resignation...

DNDON COUNTRY has estab;tied its first coach inquiry desk :Gatwick Airport. The desk will handle pasmger inquiries concerning...

ALTHOUGH it will be exhibited in' the bus section of next month's Frankfurt Motor Show, Neoplan's new Jumbo 980 340passenger...

hand hire SECONDHAND coaches in sto with coach dealers Moseley Loughborough are to be mai available for hire by operators....

A LONDON minibus opera has lost his appeal against refusal of psv licences for twi his vehicles, following evide of deficient...

)UNLOP has won a design ontract for a bus suspension ystem for Quest 80, the British lesign consultants to the Sigma...

COACH OPERATORS and drivers intending to send or take coaches to the Ryder Cup golf competition at Walton Heath during...

GREATER Manchester TranE has introduced two Sur discount tickets, and 80p Sui Rover for one person, ar £1.75 Sunday Family Rove...

A TOP sleeper cab, which is available as an option on all standard cab chassis, has been introduced by DAF Trucks to the...

IRTY Rolls-Royce-powered Foden 6x4 snowplough chassis has en ordered by the Department of Transport for delivery before 1982....

A FLEET of electric vehicles being operated alongside a co ventional petrol/diesel fleet the Southern Electricity Boa' at...

drum for Bedford TL ITIAL ORDERS, said to be )rth around Um, for 700 adium-duty Bedford TL lorries ve been received from Nige...

HE Monsanto Clear Pass system of rain flaps for spray suppression 3s been specified by Ultramar Golden Eagle on all new...

TO MEET the needs of Humb side Airport's fire service, Hu berside County Council h taken delivery of the first a new generation...

Scotland 74: All traffic uses the southbound carriageway at Johnstoneidge, Dumfriesshire due to long-term bridge widening....

HE 1I I ransport Act, which ?ceived the Royal Assent at the nd of last month, is almost enyclopedic in its content, taking a...

HE press-release paper used by le National Freight Company's ew sUbsidiary, Summers the lumbers, is even more arch :an the...

IEFER to certain errors in you litorial (CM, August 15) and ould make the following imments. The Kenning Motor Group, ho, in...

A fwd light commercial's still something a rarity in the UK, but Renault's confident can break down our conservatism and sco a...

Some people at least are looking forward t better times and paying to learn how to drive the heavy stuff at their own expense....

by Precept ircuit breakers 3CUIT breakers perform the me protective function as a ;e in that they break the circuit len the...

HE BELGIAN road transport idustry has released new gures setting out the changes the hire or reward sector from 370 to 1980....

Don't let the merchants of doom get yo down, they're limited, but they exist various levels of the transport industn, David...

Training's an investment for the future, bu we need to revise our attitudes on this vita issue and time's not on our side, as...