HERE has been a breakthrough in wage negotiations in North-east ngland, with Teesside employers offering a 0-a-week increase to...

ANDY THOMS, Ford's 55-yearold truck sales director last week accepted early retirement from the company. Mr Thorns has been...

DO NOT expect any significan recovery in the economy Won the end of this year, managim director of Sandbach Engi neering Co Ltd...

HE ROAD Haulage Association has given a guarded welcome to he Employment and Training Bill which had its first reading last...

'HE EUROPEAN Commission as come out against proposals or reducing maximum speed mits or standardising the highway codes in the...

ROAD HAULAGE costs i creased by 17 per cent last yea and by 16 per cent for the ha year from January to Jun according to the...

NO SPECIAL Government aid for Stonefield Vehicles, still in th hands of receiver Bill Brownlie, was promised by the Governmen...

ENTERPRISE ZONES could harm existing hauliers, according to the Road Haulage Association which has finally expressed an opinion...

ISH hauliers and industrialists are reeling inder the blow of a Ir15p (11.1p) increase in he tax on a gallon of diesel oil in...

A STRIKE by over 400 Ford lorry drivers had lost the company ,E15.75m worth of cars and Transit vans by Tuesday evenling this...

AN EXPORTER of antique's appeal against the East Midland Traffic area's decision not to issue a second interim Operators...

decided, a the last moment, to have a Commons de bate on the Armitage Report. But someone forgot to let Labour's trans port...

HAULIER will have to make "damn certain" that his vehicles were lot overloaded in future, otherwise he would find himself...

A FREIGHT transport semin intended as a halfway house b tween the interests of educati and industry, is to be held Huddersfield...

DOVER District Council could save up to 033,000 by repairing rather than replacing vans and lorries in its fleet, according to...

THIS WEEK, CM reintroduce! this feature which will be pub lished in the first issue of eacl month. The following an scheduled...

NATIONAL BUS deputy chief executive Frank Pointon left the company on January 31, by mutual consent. Mr Pointon, who also was...

ORK has designed a new range of low-height semi-trailer chassis aimed at giving greater cubic capacity within the overall 4.2m...

A TAILOR MADE version of the Ampliroll vehicle-mounted wastehandling system has been put into service by the Staffordshire...

A SLEEPER cab option for its longer-wheelbased 16and 24-ton models has been introduced by Mercedes-Benz. One of the results of...

THE SERVICE training depar ment of Eaton Truck Compc nents Group Marketing is e) panding its programme o product training...

PERKINS will be exhibiting range of engines covering power band of 33 to 190kW (4 to 255bhp) at the Internatioru Construction...

OR THE FIRST time a vehicle rake equipment as optional ehicles, reports BILL BROCK. From this autumn, ABS (anti)ck braking...

Two purpose-built gulley suckers have been supplied to the London Borough of Bexley by The General Descaling Co Ltd of Worksop...

A HEAVY DUTY lashing assembly introduced by Brownline complies fully with the code of practice for the safe loading of vehicles...

THE Particular weighing syster which enables bulk tanker loai of powdered granular produc to be divided into individu batches...

Crosville is taking the cuts hilosophically, and it believes lat it can benefit by providing le travelling public with the est...

1ELAND'S semi-state transport company, Coras lompair Eireann, loks set to be carved in three, with buses becoming the...

THE SIGHT of a bus in Mid Wales was becoming almost a rare as the red kite, declared Tory MP in the House of Corn mons last...

FORMER Tyne and Wear PTE purchasing and stores superintendent Thomas Steward has been given a six months suspended jail...

TRAFFIC Commissioners will tighten up on public service vehicle operation under the 1980 Act when operator licensing comes in...

YORKSHIRE bus dealer Paul Sykes plans to visit China this month in a bid to expand the used public service vehicle market. The...

BRITISH COACHWAYS have t flounced new services for th. growing express coach work. Cross-country routes linki; Liverpool to...

FHERE SEEMS to be a diverlence of view among Continenal manufacturers on the imporance of the British motor ndustry. Managing...

HE LABOUR MP for Workingan, who studied at the Sorlonne and has taken on the bold hairman of the British Steel ;orporation Ian...

IF A COURT of law finds that members of the International Longshoremen's Association in America do not have exclusive rights to...

ATTACKING the Government' proposals to overthrow the pre sent system of industria training, Transport Trainin published by the...

WHEN IS a bulker not a bulker? When it can double up as a curtainsider is the answer to that as far as Craven Tasker is...

by Graham Montgomen THE PROPOSALS for increased gross vehicle weights put for ward by the Armitage committee will obviously...

IEGULAR readers of CM will now that a few months ago we - loved offices from the centre of ondon down to its outskirts in ,...

Ill-health and dismissa by Douglas Ainley THE GUIDELINES for dismissal in long-term sickness cases which establish duties on...

I AM 33 years old and have spent most of my working life in and around the transport industry. Both in the workshops and on the...

I REFER to the news item (CM, January 3) and to Junior Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke's reported statement that the change...

I NEVER THOUGHT my letter (CM, December 13) about The Hawk's strange attitude to girlie calendars would cause such a stir. It...

JUDGING by the growing amount of coverage given by Commercial Motor and other trade journals, it would appear that the arrival...

Bill Brock tells how they brought the good news from Marseilles to Kingston and chopped off a day's journey time into the...

This international organisation's speciality is garment transport, but if a slump hits the manufacturing industry then it could...

Tarmac is so pleased with its Rydewell suspension experiments it's switching another 20 of its Foden tankers from spring to...

John Durant looks at the major changes during the last 15 years WHAT MAJOR changes took place in road freight operation in the...

Steve Gray looks into the state of the art of insulated tanker design 'OU CAN'T mistake a Crane . ruehauf insulated tanker....

BP's Grangemouth terminal plans to handle 1.3m tonnes of oil this year from the North Sea and the Middle East, writes David...

)RD SOLD more commercial ;hides in the United Kingdom st year than any other menucturer (CM January 17). Now le company has...

RJR CHOICE for the first road est from Ford's new Escort van ange was the 1.3-litre 55L nodel which has a higher stenlard of...

Or so you'd think for, says Noel Millier as goes on a graffiti clean-up campaign, ther are reasonably cheap and quick ways of...

Poor man's table L At least one organisation has w said that hauliers' wage costs may rise by 13 per cent a year from 1982 to...