iVEN PER CENT of employers expect to increase staff in the next Ile months and 50 per cent predict more work within the next 12...

E CM TDT (Esher) Ltd selfdy course, in preparation for CPC, has been approved for irant by the Road Transport ustry Training...

A TYPICAL senior distrbution . manager is 42.6 years old, and earns a basic salary of £9,250 a year, according to a recently...

INTERNATIONAL transport firms must face the possibility of no increase this year in EEC permits after the failure last week...

BOTH of the major trade associations are working on plans to make their 1981 conferences as cost-effective as possible. The...

THE HAULAGE industry's ability to pass on many of its operating costs is "simply a nonsense in a society which likes to...

IANE FRUEHAUF is to close its dham factory and is to cornle the manufacture of the divim's products into other group :ations....

THE £118m which the Transport Department plans to spend on maintaining trunk roads and motorways next year is the largest sum...

AN OUTLINE planning application has been lodged with Solihull Council for a £20m 85-acre inland freight port alongside the M42...

MANCHESTER-based Aliens Transport Services and Paris operator Calberson International start a new express delivery service...

OLUNTARY TRAINING will mean no training, according to the ssociation of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. As part...

iE ROAD Haulage Associaon's air freight functional .oup has drawn up a seven)int programme for 1981/82. The group wants a list...

THE GENERAL heavy goods vehicle population in Great Britain fell by over one per cent last year, against a rise of over three...

THERE IS NO justification for a "selfish" lorry ban which costs everybody money and leads to no net environmental gain, Road...

Lorry ban: too low, too soon says FTA THE PROPOSED 7.5-tonne weight limit on lorries using roads in the Enfield and Barnet...

NEW REGULATIONS on the marking and siting of skips in Northern Ireland took effect on April 1. The Northern Ireland Department...

OPERATORS must continue press for derogations of drivel hours regulations, European N Winifred Ewing (Scottil Nationalist,...

N OBJECTION from Stratford-upon-Avon District Council to an liplication to increase the number of vehicles operated by haulier...

THE OLAU Line put its latest ro/ro ferry into service last week on the Sheerness/Vlissingen (Holland )crossing. The new ship,...

Rising frustration ARGUMENTS that United Yeast Co Ltd had not dismissed lorry driver N. G. Chekki but that his contract of...

VOLVO IS soon to make seat belt anchorage points standard in all models. Already the fitment is made in Sweden, and should be...

ADC starter for diesel engin' the Upstart — has been d veloped by W. G. Industrial Co trols Ltd. (Aberdeen). From AC power...

IE SCISSOR-LIFT vehicles Edo Ltd (the Bolton-based manucturer of hydraulic-powered Ihicle bodies) supplies to airies, now use...

AN AERIAL recently marketed by Maxview Aerials of Kings Lynn, caters for the needs of the itinerant TV addict. Known as the...

A REQUEST for a sleeper cab extension for the Delta 1600 led to Hestair Dennis' collaboration with Locomotors Limited. In 12...

THERE IS nothing in the Budget to help operators to start or extend bus services, and problems of local council financing and...

SPANISH coachbuilder Irizar is stepping up its UK sales drive with the introduction of a new body here later this year....

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Norman Fowler is to consider a survey of transport facilities for rural areas, although he is generally...

A FAMILY awarded over £51,01 damages after their tour bt driver father died in a crash at beauty spot in the Trossacl have...

PROPOSED stage-carriage service in the centre of Manchester to ter for the needs of the city's university students has been...

A LICENCE to run a stage carriage service between Orpington and East Croydon station has been granted to Tillingbourne Bus...

ZF GEARS (Great Britain) Ltd is supplying the only manual transmission option for Leyland's new Tiger coach (see page 42)....

AFTER trials with one of the UK's leading distributors of frozen food, TransFrig Ltd of Gosport, Hampshire, has developed an...

TWO diesel-engined models have been added to the range of Hi-Ace light commercials marketed by Toyota (GB) Ltd. The Hi-Ace...

A NEW company, SAB Auton tive Co Ltd, has been form and will be responsible for I automotive operations in I UK of the SAB...

A SUB-STANDARD anti-freeze or an inaccurate coolant mixture I causes of liner corrosion and pitting on wet liner engines,...

Budget whips up a storm NEN before I had finished eading your editorial on the 3udget (CM, March 21) I was nwardly (and...

I REFER to the article (CM March 7) "Do you get what you deserve at 16-tons?", We operate a fleet of some 140 delivery vehicles...

WE WOULD LIKE to record via your publication the results we have obtained from our Transit 190 pickup, HHA903V, first...

I WOULD like to reply to Albert Wall's (Walls Motor Tours) letter published in CM February 21 regarding the training of...

I SHOULD LIKE to hear from anyone who can tell me if it is genuinely possible for a Class I driver under 25 years of age, or...

Leyland calls the tune .YLAND VEHICLES brass nd's two-week concert tour of pan last "summer" may have no little for the sale...

A CORRESPONDENT in The Daily Telegraph suggested that we might cure the recession by buying two of everything. Now why didn't I...

HOW MANY readers know that the Scammell mechanical horse was sired by Napier out of Diversification? At that time Napier •...

THE NEW 17km Gotthard tunnel, the longest and costliest in the world, burrowing under the 77,100ft Gotthard Massif in...

Introduction 'HEN GM Road-tested five 40 • nne tractive units last year :M, October 25, 1980) we iticised some British...

THE TREND in the British tractive unit market in recent years has been for operators to overspecify, choosing 36, 38, 40 or...

class of vehicle will be unaccustomed to. Also the 34-tonne model is competitively priced — its retail price is about £500...

ESIGNED to operate at 40 nnes, if the Armitage Report is ieded by the Government, the to-axle tractive unit will be rescted to...

ALTHOUGH revealed at the Motor Show in October, Leyland kept many of the details of its long-awaited B43 coach chassis secret...

Leyland's confidence in its new cat, and with it the oncepopular tiger's head badge has resurfaced. My initial impression is...

by Douglas Ainley NEW REGULATIONS for tribunal proceedings began after 1 October 1980, and were introduced in response to...

rTIFIE NEW Seddon Atkinson 1 401 is based on one of the most successful British trucks ever produced. But in developing our...

T HE NEW Seddon Atkinson 401 is based on one of the most successful British trucks ever produced. But in developing our new...

VlANUFACTURER who in:ed a vehicle now without r attention to driver cornvould be on a disaster Should manufacturers lore...

enthusiastically for its non-reflective instruments which "stand out clearly when lit at night, yet don't irritate the eyes."...

One for designers THIS BOOK gives insight int how vehicles are made, bL basic engineering knowledge i needed to follow the...

THE Health and Safety Commi: sion's recently published boo let Guide to the Health ar Safety at Work Act relates to if Act as...

TRADITIONALLY, European commercial vehicle cabs have been made from steel. True there have been the glass fibre/wood exceptions...

EYLAND'S design for its nowosolete Ergomatic cab, used on uffalo, Bison, Octopus and /nx models, went only halfway providing an...

1/4NKFREIGHT has appointed ur senior executives as direcrs. Head of operations David 'own becomes operations rector, head of...