HANS TAUSCHER, managing director of Mercedes Benz (UK), did well last week to remind his colleagues in the manufacturing sector...

oversize demounts OVERSIZE demountable bodies and containers will be outlawed if Department of Transport proposals to amend...

A CUT in dery tax is high on the Freight Transport Association's shopping list to Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson for...

THE NATIONAL FREIGHT Consortium trading profit reached £16.3 million for the year ended October 1, 1983, the NFC annual report...

THE ACTION to be taken on strengthening the Severn Bridge and improving access to South Wales will be unveiled by Transport...

EMPLOYERS and unions have two weeks to avoid a strike of haulage drivers on Teesside, but both sides appear keen to resolve the...

MERCEDES-BENZ UK has celebrated its 10th anniversary with record sales of commercial vehicles and cars, but the Daimler-Benz...

THE NEXT few months promise to be packed with legislation. The Department of Transport's decision on road tax is due this...

NATIONAL CARRIERS Contract Services, part of the National Freight Consortium, has made Mike Tarrant managing director, at the...

Stephen Carr joins the marketing team responsible for the development of new and existing UK and overseas products and...

THE TRANSPORT Managers' Club London area has elected Ian Abdee chairman for 1984. He is currently a director of Speedy Delivery...

WE RECORD with regret the death of Gerald Scott, general manager of Cargo Van Equipment. Mr Scott set up the Bridgendbased...

BRS MIDLANDS has promoted Mike Breeze to manager of its Corby branch. He will be responsible for developing the branch's...

made changes at four of its James Cressey has become network manager for National Express. He will be based at Midland House,...

THE LEGALITY of a self-employed drivers' scheme still remains undecided, after the Transport Tribunal suggested that the legal...

UKASTA, the United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association, has harnessed the Freight Transport Association's services to...

CAR-PARTS delivery specialist Dow Freight is claiming a high satisfaction level from one of its major customers. According to...

CHESHIRE-based national parcel delivery company Carswell's of Congleton has expanded into Southern England by taking over a...

ROAD IMPROVEMENTS in the metropolitan counties will be less achievable if the Government's present ideas for life after the...

THE SECOND LAST contract has been awarded for the 127-mile improvement scheme for the A9 Perth-Ardullie trunk road. The 1.6m...

LORRIES over 7.5 tonnes gvw have been banned from a Northumberland town for an experimental six-month period, after the county...

A PARCELS delivery company has started a weekly shipping service to the Isle of Man, geared to the needs of palletised goods...

A GROUP of British and French banks which is studying the feasibility on financial grounds of a Channel tunnel was reported in...

A NEW LICENCE application by a company formed by the Van der Luijt family of Dutch hauliers is being strongly opposed by the...

information about vat. It consists of a booklet (notice 700) entitled The vat guide, a range of publications on vat liability,...

THE GOVERNMENT is to be asked by Merseyside County Council to abolish Mersey Tunnel tolls over a 10-year period. A deputation...

FINES of £200 were imposed at Stonehaven Sheriff Court last month on Exportdoo, trading as Jack's Transport of Dundee. It...

FOLLOWING the success of the 1983 competition, the second Fork Lift Operator of the Year competition will take place on...

DUTCH specialist vehicle builder Terberg is showing several new models at the RAI Amsterdam Show, from February 9 to 18. One...

A SPECIAL bodied Land-Rover for the transport of explosives has been supplied to the Health and Safety Executive by...

MOVES by Trailor to resolve the problems at its loss-making container division are being hampered by French national and local...

AN ON-BOARD load indicator designed for rigid vehicles and known as Co-Pilot was on display at the Geneva Show last week. It...

A SWISS manufacturer, AIC Systems AG of Kastelsstr 45-52 CH 2540 Grenchen, Switzerland displayed a fuel measuring system at the...

SCOTPAC, the international removals company in the P and 0 group is using demountable van bodies, that can be lowered fully to...

A RANGE of flat-strip pre-cured treads for lorry tyres has been developed by RE Tyre and Rubber of Alton, Hampshire. Available...

PLAXTONS last week became the first British coachbuilder to launch a 4m high double-deck coach, when its long promised...

ONE OF Europe's largest coach tour operating groups has been created in North-West England by the take-over of Altrinchambased...

HESTAIR DENNIS has won an order to supply 20 new midibuses and 30 double-deckers to Greater Manchester Transport. The single...

NEW INTERIM coach parking arrangements are being introduced in the Kings Cross area of London when the National Car Parks...

WEST MIDLANDS Traffic Commissioners have granted three road service licences to Heart of England Tours, considered at a public...

A COVENTRY coach operator has been ordered to pay E1,000 towards the cost of his trial, even though he was found not guilty of...

HEAVY OPPOSITION has led Pontypridd independent Clayton Jones Coach Tours to drop applications for authority to run four...

HEREFORD and Worcestershire County Council has asked Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley to extend the trial area in...

SOUTH EASTERN Traffic Commissioners have decided not to renew a psv operator licence held by Mr Collins, trading as ICC Tours....

THE LONG-AWAITED new 2.5litre diesel engine has been launched by Land Rover for its One Ten models and for Freight Rover's...

DIM-DIP devices are to become compulsory on new motor vehicles manufactured from October 1, 1986. Announcing draft...

G. C. SMITH Coachworks has produced a Luton-type horse box body with two stalls suitable for medium/heavy van chassis operating...

DATSUN UK, the independent, privately owner importer of Japanese Nissan Vehicles, has changed its name to Nissan UK as part of...

RUMOURS that right-handdrive versions of Isuzu's 4x4 Trooper vehicle will be sold in the UK badged as a Bedford have been...

MERCEDES-BENZ will continue to concentrate its light vehicle marketing efforts on diesel-enoined models for 1984. Eighty per...

A LONG DISPUTE between VAG (UK) and the British Govern ment which has delayed the sale of Volkswagen Caddy pick-ups in the UK...

A CRANE FRUEHAUF drawbar trailer is the first UK-built trailer to be equipped with Fruehauf's mark four version of the GLZ...

IN 1984 George Orwell looked 36 years ahead and his prophecies, laden with gloom and foreboding, have largely been proved...

THANK YOU for publishing B. A. Mann's reply to my letter on high-intensity rear fog lamps in your December 31 edition. How...

I BELIEVE that Dennis had a prototype design for an ambulance with front-wheel drive for low loading as well as fully...

I HAVE READ your article in CM, January 21, on RHA Insurance Services with considerable interest My interest is however...

DISABLED PEOPLE around North Humberside have had their horizons widened by East Yorkshire Motor Services, which has converted a...

"Orpheus with his lute made trees," sang a wench to cheer up a justifiably depressed Queen Katharine in Shakespeare's King...

I MENTIONED recently the idiosyncracies of an American judge who made drunken drivers pay to advertise their shame in a local...

MOTOR MANUFACTURERS are doing their best to counter everrising petrol prices by cutting consumption. They have already far...

THE FUTURE of haulage was in the balance, Lord Mount Temple, who was Minister of Transport 50 years ago, warned . at a luncheon...

IF J. M. Barrie was alive today he might be surprised by the grain vehicles that trundle around Kirriemuir in Angus. It's the...

MOST STORIES begin with chapter one, but the Volvo White story begins with Chapter 11. Back in September 1980 the original...

Wales Gas is the latest customer to benefit from the Harrogate firm's step up to the new weight limit. First-class service and...

WHETHER or not drivers who are aspiring freight, traffic or transport managers like to read this is up to them! I asked Bill...

When it's 2,200 tons of the stuff and Buxted has to deliver it every week. Tim Blakemore has been looking at the firm's new...

As well as buses and coaches, the Belgian firm has a body and trailer company that has been pushing much work the way of this...

Nuclear waste travels regularly on our roads. How? Safely? From where to where? Brian Weatherley, geiger counter at the ready,...

SPECIALIST SEALING compound and adhesive manufacturer Loctite has launched a new adhesive called Sheet Steel Bonder 341. It...

TO HELP protect vehicles against rust, the Peabody Oil division of Sale Tilney Technology has introduced a chemical rust...

LIGHT VEHICLES also need protection against rust, so Gunston Colorplugs has introduced a quick electroplating technique which...

FOR DRIVERS of vehicles with vinyl seats, Cabac has launched a new type of filled seat cover designed to keep drivers warmer in...

BOWATER-SCOTT has produced two new disposable paper wipers with dispensers removing the need for regular laundered towels....

THERE is no law to say a mechanic or fitter cannot look smart even working in a garage. Wood Harris has introduced the...

If you go down to the woods today, you might well come across Tree Harvesting collecting timber and transporting it to the...

Read this THE MOST recent Regulation governing the movement of hazardous substances came into force on January 1 this year....

Nationalisation, a maximum gross laden capacity of 22 tons, Michelin 'Metallic' type tyres and Jowett's Bradford van — only...

Instruments of power "THE MINISTER may make regulations ..." or "The Minister may by order. ..." These words probably occur...

Profitability and the price war THE LORRY price war has been going on in Britain for some time. Its impact has been felt...

RANK HOVIS'S self-weighing flour tanker has been taken up by one of the largest Dutch bulk transport operators, which has...

TWENTY YEARS ago the term "silent service", traditionally applied to the Royal Navy, was at least as appropriate to the...