THIS WEEKEND marks another landmark in British road transport history. From tomorrow (Sunday) we take a small step forward on...

WEIGHTS increase has given York Trailer its best volume of ness since the start of the recession, and it is predicting a return...

BRITAIN'S insistance on a 38tonne maximum laden weight for goods vehicles has again sparked off a reaction from a Dutch MEP....

AN ULSTER operator can look forward to low excise duty rates with this six-axle 38 tonne combination. A Volvo F1220 tractive...

THE GOVERNMENT should have second thoughts about pursuing its increasingly unpopular plan to sell the 91 heavy goods vehicle...

TO AVOID increased road damage from the 38-tonne vehicle, the fifth axle should be attached to the tractive unit, according to...

GRAMPIAN Region plans a Parliamentary Order seeking a ban on overnight parking of heavy vehicles in Aberdeen. This would...

THE TRANSPORT and Gene Workers Union will try to ex more national control over n, winter's hire or reward WE negotiations,...

Len Bassett, a director of the Bassett group of companies of Tittensor, Stoke on Trent learned that Sir Geoffrey was talking to...

0 SPECIALIST vehicle menu:urers were among the win s of the Queen's Award for rort this year. eyland Vehicles' Scammell tors...

1ECISION on whether or not will buy components from o will be made within the t three months according to s and marketing...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association's northern region members are being asked to cooperate in a survey to back up the FTA's...

fE SWITCH to 38-tonners will mean a 10 per cent cut in rates larged to one Barnsley company's customers, it told CM this ask....

In one of the bigger commitants to operation at the new eight limit, the P&O subsidiary spending £4.5m on around 30 three-axle...

ONE THIRD of New York, Boston, Lincolnshire-based E. T. Morris's haulage fleet has been uprated to 38 tonne operation and the...

THIRTY-EIGHT-TONNERS are threatening the dominance of eightwheel tippers and tankers run by a bulk transport operator, in much...

WORK on the last section of the M25 London orbital route, fro South Mimms to Micklefield Green in Hertfordshire, is expected...

THE SECURITY parcels carri B ees Transport is offering i Scottish customers a qua anteed next-day delivery servi to Northern...

the key to your success. "The Government's policies are based upon that premise, and will help our distribution sector to...

BAN ON heavy lorries in Swen on certain weekends during is summer has been lifted by a Swedish Transport Minister. Following...

THE NEWLY launched Road Haulage Association Computer Services has won its first contract with Premier Transport of Bristol —...

INTERNATIONAL pressure is being put on Italian authorities to try to reduce the disruption caused by Customs strikes on...

for six-wheelers: ERF ERF will offer three basic chassis for operation at 38 tonnes: a 4x2, 6x4 and 6x2. Initial investigation...

SEDDON ATKINSON is work fast to complete two protop 38 tonne 6x2 tractive units, c based on the 301 model, other on the 401....

ZAK COMPUTORS of Tall Road, Manchester has c veloped Tachobrain, a tad graph analysing system wh can be programmed to exam many...

IRIS JARVIS has become sales lministration manager of York uck Equipment. He will be ised at York's sales centre at )rby and...

GOODYEAR Tyre and Rubber Company has promoted Geoff mrence from marketing manager to managing director of Tyreserces Great...

fE RECORD with regret the eath of Reg Cooper, ex-Road aulage Association, West MidInds area chairman at 68. He was managing...

THE FORD Motor Credit Company has made Brian Coolaman a main board director. He is currently director of field operations,...

NATIONAL TYRE Service has promoted Roy Riley to become director of the national accounts and Earthmover Divisions of the...

BOB PEARSON, director of petrol services at the Motor Agents Association, has become marketing director of Charge Card...

ALAN MENNICK is senior vicechairman of the East Midlands Division of the Freight Transport Association, and not chairman as was...

NEW ASSISTANT secretary and accountant for London Country Bus Services, part of the National Bus Company, is Eileen Lim,...

MERCEDES-BENZ expects the number of tractive units operating at 38 tonnes gcw in the UK to increase dramatically during the...

CM has a new test semi-trailer for road tests and operational trials of two-axle tractive units at 38 tonnes gcw. The 12.2m...

USING a high-pressure watc system instead of steam cleat ing is saving on costs, claim Stonehouse Rustshield of Wc kingham,...

gECKERS International last Bek demonstrated its and hers' latest recovery equipint at a one-day exhibition at idlett Aerodrome,...

ROMATIC has supplied an automatic grease lubrication system for a Scania 82 belonging to haulier S. A. and D. Wright of Kirkby...

KARRIER MOTORS is planning a major sales drive in the Irish Republic for its Dodge range. Dodge truck sales in 1982 were 10...

This was revealed last week when National's group marketing manager, Brian Barrett, spoke at a symposium at Newcastle...

LEYLAND BUS has had most of its fleet demonstration coaches and a number of operators' vehicles inspected and approved for West...

WEST MIDLANDS PTE is facing unexpected competition on a group of services taken over earlier this month from an independent....

A CHEAP FARE experiment on the Grampian Scottish services run by Alexander (Northern) and Grampian Region in Aberdeen is being...

WEST YORKSHIRE Coun Council has now received tl stage-two report by AmeriQ consultant Booz, Allen ar Hamilton on the management...

LES HUGHES Transport Services has been granted a six-month licence for a circular town service in Colwyn Bay, but the North...

STRATI-ICLYDE PTE is not to challenge the Government's decision to let an independent run from Barrhead to Glasgow, but it...

CONGESTION and road accidents in London decreased as a result of the Greater London Council Fares Fair policy, according to a...

Triple security — from fire, thievery and injury — was on display at this major exhibition last week and Mike Rutherford and...

"NO STRIKES — or we'll call an air strike down on you" said a cheeky slogan on a banner when the Royal Navy sailed back from...

A POLICY MOTION in the preliminary agenda for the Nalgo annual conference in the Isle of Man in June reaches new histrionic...

ANOTHER Nalgo resolution expresses dismay at the possibility of private financing of road construction. "This," it says, "will...

MY MIND drifted back to the Great Western Railway's glamorous Castle class of steam locomotive when Merthyr Tydfil Transport...

ANTI-MARKETEERS, already fuming at the astronomical increase in food prices since Britain joined the Common Market, at the...

THERE could have been a "punch-up" at the FTA Annua Dinner this week. The 1,000-p delegates dressed in penguin suits were...

Domestic coachbuilding was given a real fillip at the seaside last week, reports Noel Millier. The overall impression is that...

Many coach operators are uncertain about these vital rules, which is a state of mind none too good for conducting business. Tc...

of the ransport and Road research Laboratory oefore becoming a lartner in a firm of ccident nvestigators. IN THE COURSE of my...

durability — 00,000km without ttention. But the utstanding feature of he turbocharged in-line ight around CM's ;cottish route...

The strong nerve of Don Burton is paying off. Orders of Elm are being handled by his recently formed company. Bryan Jarvis...

THE RESULTS of CM's survey on what operators consider to be the most important factors to be taken into account when purchasing...

Builders and repairers THE 1983 edition of the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association Directory of Members (VBRA, £10...

GREAT CONCERN has been expressed on both news and editorial pages of the technical press about the impact of the new VED rates...

AS AN HGV driver, can I draw your readers' attention and drivers' attention to the situation looming up when the added axle to...

YOUR LEADER in CM, April 2 — "Don't Punish Operators" — alleging a backlog of bookings for replating is, I fear, based on...