IN THE IMMEDIATE pre-Budget period, Sir Geoffrey Howe and his Treasury officials will be inundated with advice on where to...

E EEC ROLLING week should be abandoned and replaced by the 'pier fixed week, a three-man Freight Transport Association daleion...

DEMAND for display space for the commercial vehicle section of this year's Motor Show is 12 per cent up on 1980, according to...

SCOTTISH hauliers are being urged to seek increased rates, following their inevitable acceptance of an £89 basic rate for...

MANY as 40,000 mothballed ies could have been put back revenue earning service as suit of the rail strikes, a Road loge...

THE INTERNATIONAL road transport market in the EEC appears to have "bottomed out" and is gradually improving — with recovery...

THE WHITE PAPER on lorries, people, and the environment should have included provision for more lorry parking, the Association...

IN AN EFFORT to attract m delegates to its Internatic Transport Conference in Loni on May 25/26, the Charte Institute of...

THE GOVERNMENT will not hesitate to take tougher measures over the amount of lead in petrol, but it has still to be convinced...

EXISTING heavy lorries should be tamed before Parliarn authorises 40-tonners, the Civic Trust has told the Department Transport...

CORRY DRIVERS' jobs will be more secure in an efficient industry ased on the use of heavier vehicles, Transport Secretary David...

ROAD HAULIERS have been discriminated against unfairly by being required to meet strict environmental controls on their...

WORKING party is to be set up draw up a new assessment As dealing with the problems ,used by existing traffic on ridges....

A STUDY of the haulage industry's requirements in the heavy weight articulated vehicle sector has been given final approval by...

JUNIOR Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke hit back at the anti-lorry environmentalists this week, accusing them of too often...

up on those for January 1981, but the crucial truck and artic sector suffered another drop, according to the Society of Motor...

. .:OMMON MARKET countries sh Tansport of dangerous products aritish Hazchem system. The call for action has come rom the...

IN 1980 — the latest year for which information is available — there were 19,994 proceedings in magistrates' courts for...

TRADES UNIONS will only be immune from civil action in disputes between workers and their own employer, if the Government's...

RECOGNISED trades unions must a business changes hands, except through a shares transfer. The new regulations apply where the...

CARRYING jacks on a vehicle is sufficient to enable it to be regarded as a recovery vehicle which can properly be operated on...

AS A LONG-distance lorry driver, John Brown always carried instructions out to the letter and even cross-country deliveries...

FREIGHT Computer Servicef the National Freight Company' data processing subsidiary, ha won a £95,000 order to desig and install...

LORRY TRAFFIC through Dove rose last year by six per cerr with 28,397 road haulage unit (a tractive unit and semi-traile equals...

BEXLEY magistrates again adjourned a case involving a transport operator from Welling, Kent, because, owing to an...

THE LIGHT unladen weight of the 6x4 Leyland Constructor has allowed Whale Tankers Ltd, of Solihull, to build a 14.982-litre...

NATIONAL Tyre Service Ltd is launching a range of Monarch batteries — a break-through, it says, in battery application. The...

A PORTSMOUTH window manufacturer has had its demountable van bodies fitted with hydraulic legs so that they can be lowered...

"NON-STANDARD spare whet — so called space savers should be banned from Britair roads pending clarification their legality and...

SOMAR TRANSTEC Ltd, a Pre ton automotive engineerir firm, has designed a load-han ling device — Loadslide — f faster and easier...

ihe degree was awarded for Law's work on the design of a w computer program which ?diets the main bearing and inkshaft loading...

inside motor vehicles" representing the first stage in the development of a new test to define interior noise. It is...

ESSO CHEMICAL Ltd has just completed a Ulm investment in a new computerised engine laboratory for the evaluation of engine...

THE NEWSPAPER industry should move from Fleet Street to the River Thames, inquiry chairman Derek Wood suggested to Ronald...

jobs at ris ARTICULATED lorries are mu more manoeuvrable than rig vehicles, so a ban would cau more problems for drivers nag...

THERE WOULD be 2,500 potentially unemployed in the glass and glazing industries if weight restrictions in the Greater London...

MOVING outside the Greater London Council area with the ensuing loss of jobs and revenue to the South East London area would be...

SPECIAL lorry routes from the motorway to the industrial estates should be made if the proposed lorry ban comes into being....

H E "binoculars visioned" environmentalists have no idea of the !roportionate rise in the number of smaller vehicles which...

BANS which are too restrictive will lead to firms either closing down or moving out, said John Lauder, principal traffic...

A BACKBENCH MP's attempt to legalise subsidies to London Transport cleared the first hurdle in the House of Commons on Tuesday,...

MERTHYR TYDFIL Boroug Council has introduced reduce bus fares on two of its bu routes to see if a large enoug increase in...

YORKSHIRE Traffic Commissioners have rejected an application bi a Bradford independent bus operator to run a stage carriage...

BUS AND COACH operators are being urged to withhold levy to the Road Transport Industry Training Board until the legality of...

AN INDEPENDENT has collected 6,000 names to support its plan to reintroduce no-change cross-Tyne bus services between Newcastle...

E ZONAL FARES structure introduced by London Transport along h the Fares Fair reduced prices has been a big success, LT chairn...

NATIONAL EXPRESS has increased its links with the private sector by launching a major marketing deal with Magic Bus, the...

BLIC consultation around istead has prompted Surrey unty Council to arrange the nsfer of a group of London nsport routes to...

bus users to fight to retain the cheap travel of the past four mths. .aunching the GLC's new "Keep Fares Fair" campaign, Mr...

TELMA RETARDERS LTD ended its three-year coni with its National Distribt Chassis Development Ltd, Dunstable. Telma's UK...

its director of commercial vehicle operations since March 1980. Mr Fleming, who joined General Motors in the United States in...

REFER to the Bird's-eye View Jrnment by The Hawk entitled Equating buses and lorries is ot on", (CMJanuary 23). Now, The Hawk...

THE REPORT on transmissions by Jim Warren of Eaton's Transmission Division (CM January 16) made interesting reading. However,...

AFTER reading the report headed "Haulage: all good fun" (CMJanuary 23) I felt I must write to you in reply to the remarks of...

)1 3 E, but without much iviction, that for a while we ill hear fewer demands for the - isfer of goods from road to . Public...

RD'S Bridgend plant was host 11 stranded lorry drivers, as II as to 125 of the staff, for five (5 during January's great...

"PROPOSALS for industrial innovation are heavily dependent on businesses and the Government forsaking nationalistic attitudes...

ECONOMIC necessity has caused Lucas Industries to abandon sponsorship of the Parachute Regiment's Red Devils, whose...

THE DRIVING examiner stood in the witness box, two black eyes glowering. "When I told him he had failed his test," he said,...

It is much larger and has grown into one 1 the most pleasant exhibitions in Europe Steve Gray reports. WITH THREE new halls...

TRANSPORT services of every cind, whether moving people or reight, are essential to the mrvival of the modern way of if e. In...

The standard long-wheelbase 1,700cc engine van coped admirably with ice and snow but for most operators the two-litre version...

FROM January 1, 1982, the bulk transport of specified dangerous substances in tankers is subject to the Dangerous Substances...

THIS SERIES of articles on workshop safety would not be :omplete if the safety )recautions necessary when welding is carried...

While Silentnight claims that its new Vanplan-based Optimised Trailer has the largest cube in the UK, is it viable? David...

engine. It can simulate a road test in five minutes but is never used as a substitute for good judgment. So CM road tests...

YOUR LEARNER driver will need ample practice at manoeuvring his vehicle in confined spaces and this means plenty of time spent...