WHATEVER the state of the operating side of the road transport industry, maintenance is ongoing. Unroadworthy vehicles can lose...

OPERATORS prepared to bet that the Armitage recommendations on increased weights will soon reach the statute book are still as...

THE PROPOSED increase in lorry driver test fees has been imposed by Transport Secretary David Howell. He said last week that...

TRANSPORT experts at the EEC Commission are recommending a radical change in the system of tariffs charged for carrying goods...

THE HEALTH and Safety Executive has issued three exemption certificates for certain provisions of the 1981 Dangerous Substances...

HEAVY goods vehicles and vehicles drawing trailers will be banned from the third and fourth lanes of four-lane motorways in...

THE LABOUR PARTY/Trade: Union Congress proposals for 4 National Transport Authoriti and for a more regulated Britisl transport...

THE FUTURE of Seddon Atkinson was still unclear as we closed for press this week, although a company spokesman confirmed that...

STEWART Truck Services Ltd, of Dunipace Mill, in Stirlingsh ire, has now laid off its workforce of 15, and called in a...

SOME of the problems caused by manual handling of loads in industry are to be examined at a conference in October. The...

BRITISH TELECOM has ordered another 2,047 vans from a BL subsidiary, within weeks of its 2,500 van order for Freight Rover...

A DOOR-TO-DOOR guaranteed overnight delivery service from Avon to London has been launched by Bristol-based Peter Lane...

ANOTHER special exhibition service being operated by hanging garment specialist Tibbett and Britten will carry goods to the...

MORE management restructuring has followed the Wincanton Group's appointment earlier this year of DAVID YEOMANS as its managing...

FIFTEEN tractive units, 4 trailers, and two vans and crane operated by a Midland haulage company are being atu tioned next...

SEDDON ATKINSON'S 200 Series 16-tonner is to be replaced by two models, one a development of the 200, called the 201, and one...

THE Bartrum Group, the Diss, Norfolk, haulage company, is now operating 12 trailers fitted with new axles specially designed by...

KING Trailers Ltd of Market Herborough, has introduced a new range of multi-axle extending trailers. The basic range comprises...

THE PRIMROSE Third Axle Company reports "unprecedented demand" from operators to refuse collection vehicles for second steer...

ALL FORD Transits built sin August 23 are being fitted with new, two-spoke steering wheel and with a higher ratio steering box...

THE GENERAL Descaling Company of Worksop has been awarded a contract by the Al-Attiya Motors and Trading Company of Qatar for...

'ORK TRAILER has produced a lightweight curtainsider specificsion for Scottish and Newcastle Breweries and won an order for 23...

ORGANISATIONS and people interested in public transport in London are to be asked by the Greater London Council to help decide...

PUBLIC transport users in Greater Manchester have less opportunity than car owners to be flexible in their choice of...

NORTHERN GENERAL Tran port has appealed against ti Northern Traffic Comml! sioners' decision to grant Lo Fell Coaches a service...

IICHARD Holdsworth Conversions of Reading has added a 12eater bus conversion of the Renault Trafic P1000 van to its vehicle...

LINCOLN City Transport's bus services did rather better last year than had been expected. In its annual report for the year to...

LONDON TRANSPORT bus service reductions caused by the fall in demand resulting from the Law Lords' fares decision come into...

SCHOOL bus services in rural areas of Lothian may be taken out of Scottish Bus Group hands and given to private bus operators,...

WEST YORKSHIRE PTE is encouraging recreational use of its public transport network by publishing a 150-page colour guide to...

We will soon know who is to receive the lorry drivers' supreme accolade. John Durant sets the scene for what should prove an...

Type approval, argues Bob Chadwick, a former ERF executive, just does not make sense. The high cost it will impose is the last...

David Wilcox visited the head office of Alcan Bonallack to learn about refrigerated/insulated bodywork repair YOU may often...

A commitment to customer service has helped this new Mercedes-Benz dealer ride the recession. Mike Rutherford reports I HAVE a...

NOSTALGIA receives a jolt at the annual South Yorkshire Transport Rally at Norfolk Park, Sheffield, where modern commercial...

HEIGHT judgment tests in the CM Lorry Driver of the Year Competition have shown that many drivers who can estimate width and...

WITH trade at its present low ebb, a loss of only 160 competitors in the CM Lorry Driver of the Year Competition, compared with...

ANYONE who would like to simulate a trip across Exmoor on a typical summer day can do so at Rotherham on September 11. One...

ANTI-LORRY propaganda raises its insidious head on unlikely occasions, even in as noncontroversial a radio programme as Down...

"A REMARKABLE lack of trust and co-operation between Community authorities" in the movement of goods is observed by the...

Dur 1982/83 Tables of Dperating Costs provide Dperators with a guide to their costs and assist them to quote realistic and...

At Southend, the cost of transport operation has been reduced by extending the maintenance facilities to outside operators....

Throughout the country maintenance committees are making a significant contribution to safety on the road and economy of costs....

There are now seven of these maintenance committees. The first one was started around 1962 in the Midlands, followed by the...

MR Elsworth makes some interesting comments in his letter (CM, Aug 7) but dare I make a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that if he...

NOEL Millier's report "We're all going on a summer holiday" (CM, Aug 7) could hardly claim to be on "a typical shuttle to the...

IT IS with the greatest respect for the sometimes difficult task Honourable Members appear to experience in getting legislation...

I WAS pleased to see the news of the Sherpa order for British Telecom in CM.My pleasure at hearing of a good order placed with...

IF BEFORE testing the Fiat Daily van Bill Brock had made reference to the driver's handbook, he would have been aware that to...

The Freight Transport Association carries out 3,000 vehicle inspections a week — more than the Department of Transport itself....

cost of around £200 — £95.85 for the four maintenance inspections plus £108.25 for five safety inspections. But it must be...

Neglect your turbo and you'll be in trouble. Bryan Jarvis explains what can go wrong and how to ensure it doesn't MAINTENANCE...

Bill Godwin looks at the George Neville Truck Revolver concept AN UNUSUAL tipper design — the Revolver concept — by George...

Fred Hope is a worried man. He does not believe that the recently approved anti-lock braking system can eliminate wheel lock in...

Kaleidoscope of Bedford and Vauxhall Military Vehicles is the work of Dutch journalist, vehicle restorer, enthusiast and...

THE second edition of Heavy Vehicle Technology is not the weighty manual that the title implies. It is instead a textbook,...

MY GRANDFATHER once related a tale of how he bought a Dennis fire engine in the midThirties equipped with ladders and pumps...

PUBLICITY and Customer Relations in Transport Management £12.50 is the title of a book which covers the main aspects of how to...

SELLING transport is just like selling bananas. Or any other consumer goods. So says Maurice Rounding in his 60page booklet...

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

by Keith Vincent 6 UKREP's description as "the hidden arm of Whitehall" reflects suspicions among some politicians that such a...