T FRIDAY members of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders are to have a le viewing of our video presentation "Drive...

FOR THE SECOND year running there will be no increase in the EEC permit quota in 1984 and Britain's allocation will remain at...

A FOUR PER CENT rise in mercial vehicle output next will not be enough to talc( industry out of the del& that it has been in...

NEXT YEAR might at last see some belated progress in the review of the EEC Regulations on driver's hours and tachographs,...

TACHOGRAPH and tyre regulations in Northern Ireland are being altered. The maximum penalty for failing to install or use a...

Perkins pines 'ROPOSED takeover of :oyce Diesels by Perkins es' Massey Ferguson company (CM. December le "most important...

A BIG JUMP in the amount of heavy goods traffic on Britain's roads has been recorded by the Department of Transport,...

TWO COMPANIES with adjacent premises in Essex have become partners in a £90,000 security package to give comprehensive security...

ORDERS worth around £25 million have been confirmed by the Ministry of Defence for 1,500 Bedford M-type lorries. The latest...

STION in Turkish ports has caused an increase in demand land freight, according to Whittle International Freight. c levels to...

COWBOY OPERATORS came under renewed attack last week from the Freight Transport Association. Such operators brought the whole...

contracts WE TWO NATIONAL Frei Consortium subsidiaries won three contracts to su vehicles and trailers contract hire basis....

THE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board levy remains at 0.8 per cent of hauliers' wage bills, following a Board meeting on...

THE CURRENT ROUND of wage settlements looks like adding 2.5 per cent to hauliers' operating costs, according to the Haulage...

BATTLE over Strathclyde ; plans to operate special ces for the disabled — Re: Microbus services feeding V Metroliner coach — ad...

INCREASED competition for private operators on express routes and contract hires has meant a reduction in profit for Scottish...

DRIVERS' HOURS convictions last July led to Flight Coach Travel having four of its 24 vehicles suspended for three months by...

INDEPENDENT coach opera Smith's of Reading, Surrey, ternational of Cranleigh (1 rey), and Victory Tours II collaborated to...

LONDON TRANSPORT ha: tered into a commercial ser agreement with the Tram and General Workers' Unior This will enable it to...

NATIONAL TRAVEL London has ordered 10 Bova Futura FHD coaches from the Moseley Group of Loughborough. They will join 16 Bova...

ELOPMENT of an insulated ovable bulkhead, by body!der Lawrence David, rborough, allows insulated 3in-siders to offer benefits...

LUCAS CAV has introduced an in-line fuel heater suitable for all distributor pump applications and systems fitted with in-line...

HYDRAULIC engineering company Telehoist has introduced a new cantilever tail-lift called the Tellift. There are three sizes...

SCAMMELL MOTORS has installed four Trepel double hydraulic scissor lifts in its newly opened automated paint shop. The scissor...

SH BAKERIES has specified Dover Budget doors for 16 Leyland boxvans being built by Scottish bodybuilder Aitken CoacharS....

available from Craven Tasker (Sheffield) Ltd. It has been designed for transferring containers, or portable cabins, to and from...

AN ANTI-HIJACKING package, derived from a system first used with petroleum delivery fleets, has been marketed by First Security...

ELECTROFIT has been am ted the official distributoi Cableform products and ei ment. It is now offering a repaii spares...

The first 50 12m tri-a flatbeds were delivered f Van Hool's Lier factory to UK/Continent freight operatc early November. PTI...

JOHN SEDDON has succeeded Trevor Seddon as managing director and chief executive of Reliance Tankers, the Altrincham,...

JANET DAVIES is BRS Truck Rental sales executive at BRS Midlands' Morton's branch at Coventry. She is the only woman occupying...

A TWO-WOMAN team takes over next week in charge of Transport 2000, the pro-rail public transport and environmental lobby...

Bob Crossley, managing director of William Harper and Sons, haulage contractor, Liverpool, a subsidiary of the Transport...

A NATIONAL CARRIERS n ager has switched to D Freight Services, the Stockp based motor industry distr tion specialist. He is...

WEST MIDLANDS PTE's E neering training centre app tices have won the Bus Coach Council's 1983 psv prentice competition. Team...

WE RECORD with regret the deaths of Colin Smith and Susao gaily. Mr Smith, 46, who had been ill for a year before his death on...

BROCKHOUSE MAXWELL Bus Transmissions now has its full team working on the production of gearboxes at West Bromwich. Chief...

3 Peter Thompson's lucky iber? It may be, but there ; no element of luck in the ional Freight Consortium irman's presence at...

READBARE joke confuses oyal Horse Artillery and the Haulage Association in the Is RHA. They could now I for Race Horse iation,...

FIRE and looting in an Ulster warehouse caused the loss of Christmas toys for the 900 children in Dr Barnardo's care in the...

A DRIVER who was struck by a car while changing a wheel was later struck by a bright idea while he was lying in hospital. He...

ALTHOUGH it is hardly credible, sand seems to be one of the best preservatives for vehicles. I learn from The Daily Telegraph...

A RAILWAYMAN had a bra inwave that is expected to save British Rail £100,000 a year. Wash dirty high-visibility clothing...

THE ETA has decided that hauliers are not such bad chaps after all. It is positively indulgent towards the latest RHA...

THE TRAM has returned to London but happily only as part of a mural to enliven the exterior of the London Transport Museum...

;anybody beat this for iciency? On Wednesday, 4, 1983, I broke down with _eyland (401 engine) outside . change Truck Services...

THERE are a number of inaccuracies in Woodward's Way, CM November 19 you may wish to be aware of. • (Column 2, paragraph 3). A...

I HAVE just read with interest Mike Rutherford's article in your November issue of CM, in which the LDoY was telling tales of...

WITH reference to the article by Mike Rutherford on the Hyundas's pick-up (CM, November 26), it is so utterly biased it is not...

I WONDER if those drivers who annoy and frustrate J. Eastman (CM December 3) by driving with their high-intensity rear fog...

The Ford-based Asquith is a vintage replica in twenties style that makes for cheap advertising at a small operational premium...

'ESTERS were kept busy ear starting on January 1 le Talbot Express 1 300 van our new light , van test The Express is a twin to...

Des 2500 DHS was one of many 32-tonners to be offered this year with a power unit rated at around 250bhp. This power to weight...

A second radiator grille on the front of the Volkswagen van and a D suffix to the Transporter badge indicated that the panel...

Although built to a design weight of just under 46 tonnes, our Scania P112 4x2 tractive unit was put around the CM Scottish...

'land's ageing 7.5-tonne 3r model was given a facevith aerodynamic aids by Windfoil. Superficially, the roofmounted deflector,...

In March Seddon Atkinson provided us with a double bite of the cherry in its new 301 tractive unit, powered by and designed...

h the greater part of Hesennis's production devoted fuse vehicles and fire ng equipment we were reed in March that the cornalso...

Fiat's Ducato one-tonne van is a lighter version of the Talbot Express with which we started our road test programme. Fiat's...

A 2.3-litre diesel engine was fitted to the Peugeot 504 rear wheel-drive pick-up we tested in April. Peugeot was expecting...

To coincide with the uplif maximum weights we tested first 38-tonner of the year, Seddon Atkinson 401 4x2 t tive unit. It was...

RF's C-Series eight-wheeled er powered by a Rolls-Royce 51_ was tested round CM's gshot circuit. Rated at .5kW (261bhp), the...

Scania's eight-wheeler, the P82 8x2 RSI, provided a useful combination of power and drive line specification. The DSi8 7.8litre...

With an air-cooled Deutz engine, Ford was able to claim that the 3220 gives the highest payload of any 32-tanner. The payload...

he most powerful right-hand ye tractive unit from Daimler-1z is the 1633, and we tested s in July. Its turbocharged vee ht...

In mid-July lveco with its 16524 tractive unit improved on the best recorded fuel consumption at 32 tons, returning 37,82...

The Detroit Diesel engine fitted to Bedford's 38-tonne TM 4x2 tractive unit had a relatively modest power output compared to...

Scania bided its time before entering the "intercooled" club with its 11and 14-litre engines. The wait was worth while for the...

At 38:tonnes gcw, the Cummins E290 driving through a Spicer SST10 10-speed constant-mesh box was not found wanting in Leyland's...

ERF chose a non chargecooled version of Perkins's T6354.4 for its new M16 16-tonner. The sacrifice of a little extra power and...

MAN's 10.136F does not look like a 10-tonner and does not drive like one either. It uses the MAN-VW MT cab, and although badged...

Bedford's 1300S Astra var snappy performer. With a payload of 525kg, excludinc driver, it took only 11.5 sec( to accelerate...

Aswagen's new 75bhp sixder engine has livened up performance of the LT van. ts new form, acceleration top speed are improved....

Light turbocharging for Bedford's 5.4-litre engine gives it a maximum power rating of 80kW (107bhp). This is the optional...

Specifying GM's 2.3-litre fourcylinder diesel engine in Bedford's CF250 increases its kerb weight over that of the petrol...

A careful qhoice of gearing by Bedford's engineers to match the power and torque output of Cummins's L10 engine enabled the TM...

lveco's 16-ton rigid, the 159.17, has been type approved for drawbar operation at 25.61 tonnes but we tested it solo. With a...

Just as we were beginning to think that Volvo had gone to ground, we were able in November to publish a report on the slimmer...

The last vehicle to be tested i 1983, the Leyland Cruiser 16.2: was outwardly little differer from the 16.21 Cruiser which w...

LAST SUNDAY we presented The Mark Vane Memorial Tom Curran of Roadline with the Mark Vane Memorial Awards for 1983. Tom...

With the best will in the world an operator in some circumstances may find himself seeming to break the law. Say a speedo fails...

HE WOLFLITE safety headlamp ould be a useful addition to ecovery Operators and mergency Services equipment. owered by...

Powerforce hot-water d steam cleaner is now priced £1,099 and offers full cold, hot d steam cleaning facilities. Designated the...

OLDHAM BATTERIES has rationalised its car and light-van battery range to give a wide choice of performance options. The...

ACUTE-ANGLED road junctions can often create problems of vision for drivers using normal, fixed position wing mirrors. To...

PROPER REMOVAL of exhaust gases should always be maintained when running vehicle engines in workshops and service bays....

TO AID fitters inspecting the underside of vehicles, Jakdor introduced a new electronic inspection lamp. Resistant to oil and...