IF TOMORROW at Twickenham, the English Rugby Football Union XV adopts its usual tactics of playing the game like gentlemen, the...

By Alan Millar OPERATORS' appeals for a generous deal in next month's Budget grew louder this week after the main banks...

THE END of the 13-week Southampton container dock dispute could still leave serious problems for container hauliers, according...

SEABOURNE Express, which began trading from a public phone box in East London in 1962, is to expand its European activities...

CHANGES TO freight services and the death of Dover Harbour were among the predictions outlined in a New Year's message to...

THE POST OFFICE has failed to deny that there are plans for redundancy for some of its 5,000 transport engineers. The Post...

LEEDS and Bradford haulage drivers look likely to break the £5.50 wage increase level which has been accepted in other parts of...

A SUFFOLK council wants a ban on the transport by road of methyl isocyanate, the type of chemical which caused more than 2,000...

A CALL for tougher heavy goods vehicle driving tests drew a mixed reception from hauliers meeting in Glasgow last week. Around...

GENERAL MOTORS has taken a step closer towards acquiring a majority share in Enasa, the Spanish State-owned builder of Pegaso...

THE number of goods vehicles licensed in the Irish Republic increased by 20 per cent between 1983 and 1984, according to the...

A £54,000 salary bill will be added to the Greater London Council's annual costs once four officers are appointed to manage its...

FREIGHTLINERS and international haulier Russell Davies have joined forces under the name Masterhaul, in a field which...

OUTER HEBRIDES plant hire contractor Norman McCormick's bid to change his licence from a restricted to a standard national (CM....

THE OPERATING centre of Miles Fox Haulage was visited by North Western Licensing Authority Roy Hutchings, following complaints...

FASHIONFLOW, the National Services Group company formed to deliver packaged textile goods and housewares to Marks and Spencer...

OVERNIGHT delivery operator Elan has appointed Alan Macrae as its new field sales manager responsible for training and major...

SOUTHDOWN Motor Services is appointing managers to head the four new bus operating divisions formed as part of an internal...

will be Peter Witt. He will replace David Gent, who is now director-general of the Motor Agents Association. At present Mr...

GILTSAVE and REM Bodies, which together form the bodybuilding interests of the Highshares group, have their first managing...

A CONDITION preventing Dudley haulier P. J. Jones and Son operating out of its depot before Jam was imposed by the West Midland...

SMITHS Transport Services (Gatwick), its transport manager and six drivers, face trial at Chichester Crown Court, West Sussex,...

ORGANIC PEROXIDES and tube trailers are subjects of the latest exemption certificates issued by the Health and Safety Executive...

HAULIERS keen to diversify into providing lorry parking and overnight accommodation for drivers are being canvassed by a...

THE SCANIA distributors for Northern Ireland, and West Lancashire, Merseyside and North Wales both have new owners. Road...

By Our European Correspondent THE EEC COMMISSION has taken action after receiving complaints that international lorry drivers...

THE ROAD lobby is criticised in Road Movie, a documentary film previewed in London last month and financed in part by the...

THE UNIT Load Show opens in London this week with exhibits focused on the pallet and roll cage. Along with pallets in timber,...

passed their Certificate of Professional Competence national examination and eight out of nine their international examination...

THE IRISH section of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers has called on its Government to bring tax relief on vehicle...

MEAT SPECIALIST F. Drury and Sons of Tockenham, Wiltshire has taken delivery of the first 3.5-tonne-gvw Ford Transit 190...

COPENHAGEN Transport, the United Transport subsidiary dedicated to Carlsberg UK's distribution, has developed a tipping system...

A new process for repairing bullseye and combination breaks in laminated windscreens has been launched by Silver Screens of...

THREE new publications on air brake system technology and parts identification are available from Bendix, of Bristol. The...

THREE long wheelbase Volvo N12s, specially modified with three-man crew cabs, have been imported for the heavy haulage...

DESPITE strong competition from production line models, Great Western Motors of Reading has won an £89,000 order to supply 23...

ereg guru admits ' we ' re re pioneers 1 By Alan Millar ONE OF the Government's deregulation advisers admitted last week...

THE CONTROVERSIAL Bill to deregulate bus services outside London was expected to be published this week. The Bill was expected...

PERTH-based Stagecoach proprietor Brian Souter has quashed rumours that the company was on the brink of collapse. He said: "We...

TYNE AND WEAR PTE officials and councillors of all parties put up a united defence of their Metro system last week when they...

THE FIRST outside operators to be signed by up privatisation candidate National Express are now running coaches in full...

TRANSPORT Secretary Nicholas Ridley and the Welsh Secretary, Nicholas Edwards, are pursuing contrary transport policies, an...

INDEPENDENT coach and bus operators last week hit back at the inference that they are mostly cowboys who operate unsafe...

PROVISIONAL figures released by Volvo show that 1984 was a record year for this manufacturer. Some 42,000 chassis were...

THE British Internal Combustion Engine Manufacturers' Association will be wound up by the end of its financial year on March...

FORD Cargo cab panels pressed in Britain are soon to be used on Brazilian-assembled trucks, some of which will be exported to...

A BLEAK START heralded the hauliers' year. Press, radio and TV reports in wintry weather always concentrate on motorists being...

CITROEN is poised to take its first major step into the UK light commercial vehicle market with a new car-derived van, the...

SIXTEEN months after it was dropped owing to a lack of demand, the 1.6-litre CVH petrol engine is once again being offered in...

AUSTIN ROVER is to set up a £5m engineering research centre in a joint project with the University of Warwick. The new...

Bedford regroups BEDFORD Commercial Vehicles has had a mixed start to 1985. Last week, Industry Minister John Butcher formally...

COLCHESTER TILLAGE has introduced a range of Swedish-built Tico Viking vehicle-mounted cranes designed for vans and pickups....

The impressivelly low kerb weight of Seddon Atkinson's 301 6x2 tractive unit gives it exceptional payload potential. Bryan...

ONE can understand the hiatus which the lay press generates following a major pile-up on a motorway, but for readers of CM,...

I GET ANNOYED constantly with people who take pleasure in blaming all road transport difficulties upon heavy goods vehicles....

I READ with interest the article, "Support cash fears" (CM, December 16), and in particular Lord Shepherd's comments made...

I HAVE NOTED comments in Commercial Motor and elsewhere recently on the growth of lorry importers at the expense of...

TWELVE THOUSAND copies of freight forwarder Thomas Meadow's book Understanding the Freight Business (Meadows Group; £7.75) have...

BOB TUCK, a police inspector and the author of Moving Mountains, has now written a sequel, Mountain Movers (Patrick Stephens;...

M25 — London Orbital Motorway (AA; £1.25) is a route planning map which, with its scale of two miles to one inch, gives clear...

Spain's projected entry into the EEC will open up potentially large new markets for Enasa the country's largest builder of...

ARE the transport and commercial vehicle manufacturing industries truly on the road to recovery? Was the improvement which...

important change has been happening to the pattern of business done by Walter Alexander (Coachbuilders) of Falkirk. Large...

Bryan Jarvis visits a Barking company with expansion plans based on an American air suspension system for commercial vehicles...

HOME-STUDY packs are now available as a CM/Road Transport Correspondence Courses Special Offer to prepare for the Royal Society...

What are the obligations to operators imposed by the new anti-spray regulations? Tim Blakemore clears a path through the...

WHAT exactly does an operator have to do to satisfy the law? The Regulations a a available from Her Majesty's Stationery...

A 25mph speed limit and reducing coaches to a 7ft 4in width limit are two of the problems the Island's private-hire-only...

Vehicles and on-board computers CAR SALESMEN know that offering a potential buyer too much choice is a mistake. The same is...

JUST to confuse the Post Office, Devon has two Filleighs 12 crow miles apart. Neither might have been heard of had Roger Joanes...

BRITISH RAIL'S InterCity services are out to turn an expected loss of £98m in 198485 into a surplus of £5m by 1989 by beating...

THE HISTORIC televising of the House of Lords' proceedings was not the only entertainment in the Palace of Westminster last...

A STUDY by the Institute of Road Transport Engineers of "mysterious wheel losses, stud failures and wheel cracking affecting...

OPPONENTS of free competition among bus operators fear that safety will be jeopardised by poor maintenance. Even so, British...

zOmircloirm by Keith Vincent How much longer? THE TEN JUDGES of the European Economic Community's Court of Justice again...