IT IS five years since Commercial Motor established the Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators. The initiative came from the...

WIRONMENTALISTS have latched on to Government track cost lures which show that, even after the March Budget, the heaviest rries...

IN WHAT must be seen as a move to capture a share of the owner-driver market, Mercedes Benz (UK) last week launched a used...

COMA (Bilston) has been yarded £32,000 in settlement jainst Linktip of Wolverhamp)n for infringement of opyrig ht. In a legal...

JUNIOR Transport Minister Reginald Eyre repeated the Government's promise to introduce further lorry control measures, when he...

ROLLS-ROYCE Motors has asked Shrewsbury's Chamber of Commerce to back moves for the heavier lorry. The Shrewsbury Chamber has...

BEDFORD Commercial Cover, an exclusive mechanical breakdown insurance scheme covering both new and used vehicles, has been...

AT DAF Trucks in Eindhoven, future engine development emphasis is now totally towards turbocharging. According to Mr van...

RIOUS problems are envisaged n over the sideguard legislation sr. GRAHAM MONTGOMERIE re At a meeting between erators,...

TOZER Kemsley and Millbourn has announced a pre-tax profit of £1.014m for the year ending December 31, 1981. This is...

FOR the fourth year running Richard Peakett of Grayshott, Hants, has won the Class B, Commercial Motor Challenge Trophy for...

FIVE future motorway service areas are available for anyone able to come to an agreement with the Department of Transport....

NATIONAL express parcels company has added a delivery surlarge for Merseyside, to cover the cost of providing additional...

AN INCREASED need for storage space for empty containers has prompted a reorganisation of the Manchester Containerbase. Asa...

:IN safeguards for employees' ihts in business transfers have me into effect. Employees in a business lich changes hands on or...

THE Institute of Transport Administration's inaugural meeting of the West London Centre will be held at the Osterley Motel,...

The RHA's COMPACT unit exhibition trailer was parked in Battersea Park for the duration of a bank holiday Wheels of Yesteryear...

A CHANNEL bridge plan, b adapted to the needs of trot and costing approximati £3.2bn, has been put forward the French...

VEHICLES operated by fruit and vegetable merchant A. W. Veri and Sons of Oldham were said by vehicle examiner Frank Howell be...

THE Road Haulage Association's 1,385 to 12,732. The Metropolitan and Southeast area was the worst hit, losing 282 members,...

NO Kent companies, Vent Brothers and Pethimore Ltd, of Riggs II Farm, Otterden, Faversham, have each had their applications for...

OPERATING costs in haulage rose by 4.85 per cent in the first three months of 1982, according to the Road Haulage Association....

FOLLOWING THE introduction of hub centering wheels for the complete UK vehicle range from August 1980, DAF Trucks is now...

MODIFICATIONS have be made to the range of hydraul metric tipping rams manufa tured by Telehoist Ltd of Cho tenham, which are...

POWELL DUFFRYN Engineering has added a new mini-skip unit called the Mini MeiIler to its range of waste collection vehicles and...

REYNOLDS BOUGHTON has desi its RB44 four-wheel-drive truck. Built for the Institute of Geological Services Environmental...

A LUTON-type body has been launched by PEM Trailers of Bournemouth and has an interlocking panel design with sloping front, grp...

DELEGATES from the bus in try heard some peculiarly I don Transport thoughts one-day seminar on design the urban bus held by...

PLANS by a former director of JDW Transport of Ipswich, Michael Noble to obtain a new psv operator's licence appear to have...

SOUTHEND Borough Council has dropped controversial plans to go into competition with garages for the town's MoT test and car...

NATIONAL WELSH and the F Office have introduced an exp ment involving the sale of season and unlimited travel tickets post...

Britain this month should check the legal position in case the visit is cancelled. The growing crisis over the Falkland...

01 anti-smoking organisation has complained about Edinburgh bus irivers who smoke on duty. The Association for Non-smokers'...

SCANIA has handed over the first two BR112DH double-deck buses to Tyne and Wear PTE. The buses, fitted with Alexander R-type...

He is based at the Group headquarters in Altrincham, Cheshire. JOOST VAN SCHUNDEL has been appointed general manager for...

board at last week's elections, and serve under new president IAN DAWSON (CM, May 1). They are FRASER MENZIES Of Reckitt and...

IT MAY not be often that I agree with one of your editorials (having been attacked in them before) but we are clearly of like...

MAY I use the excellent medium of your correspondence page to raise a subject scarcely ever mentioned? I refer to the...

STUDENTS can enrol now for the CM Special Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage...

The Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators is holding its annual conference and exhibition at Birmingham next week. Tim...

CM photographer Brian Weatherley's day out filming simulated recoveries with AVM and REME at Chattenden THE VEHICLE recovery...

Bill Brock casts his eye over the range of electric winches, hydraulic pumps and inflatable cushions that recovery operators...

Breaking down is certainly no fun, but with the recovery services that operate these days, it is not quite the calamity it used...

THERE exists a desert of nderstanding as to what appens to cars between uitting the production line and iaterialising...

EORGE JOHNSON, 75-year-old ianaging director of G and C )hnson (Claxby) Ltd, North DIsey, Lines, remembers times , at were even...

SURELY the ultimate in fiscal nonsense has been reached with the Valuation Appeal Court's decision that the Lothian Regional...

IF Peter Thompson had had a bigger crystal ball he might have chosen Ryan's Freight Consortium as the title of the new...

AS BRITAIN rattled its sabre in Argentina's face, Glaswegians remembered the day in September 1914, when patriotic fervour...

A coach that breaks down presents its own special set of problems, not the least of which is dealing with the unamused...

PROGRESS to date in electric vehicle design was summed up by David Brain of Karrier Motors at Drive Electric '82 — an event...

OTTLE-JACK supplier, Lake id Elliot, is launching a new, wer-profile hydraulic bottleck for buses and coaches, illowing...

-IE Coats HIT 6000 lorry and is tyre changer can complete a re change in less than three minutes, according to Narco...

SAFETY KLEEN, the company that offer a parts cleaning service for garages and industry, also offers a range of ancillary...

WARCO has introduced a tool trolley of robust pressed metal construction. It has a deep lower storage compartment for larger...

TOOL BUTLER is a mobile cabinet/workbench from Lockpanel. It is a double-sided unit, one side being a lockable cabinet with...

DESIGNED specifically for use in the modern "advance" factories and workshops is the T.1071 turntable truck, produced by Tyne...

IN MOST activities, and road transport is no exception, scientific and technological advances create a widening gap between...

A more respectable image for recovery operators is what the Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators is battling for. Mike...