SIR GEOFFREY HOWE and Mr Peter Shore will barely have returned to their front bench seats after the Budget before Mr David...

At the other end of the weight ale, light vans will benefit Those under 11/2 tons unladen weight will have their vehicle excise...

4 A FURTHER concession to the nvironmental lobby, the Govmment is now proposing to ave all heavy goods vehicles, icluding...

HAULAGE customers would do themselves a favour if they used Road Haulage Association members. That is the essence of the...

SCALING-DOWN the activities of the Road Transport Industry Training Board in line with the loss of five sectors has led the...

IT'S an up and down year so far for the commercial vehicle industry. After the success in January when commercial vehicle sales...

ANOTHER 200 jobs will dim pear at Leyland's Bathgate pli from the end of April, followi excavator manufacturer J. Bamford's...

E 38-tonnes heavy vehicle is absolute minimum needed reassure the British lorry inufacturers that they can mpete against...

GOVERNMENT attempts to discredit the environmentalists opposing the White Paper proposals on heavier lorries are misleading and...

A two-tier wage negotiating structure could leave regional trade union officers time to approach such problems as lorry parking...

aunchesTransmode .1ST TWO weeks after the birth of the employee-owned National eight Consortium its largest subsidiary,...

HE number of foreign lorries rohibited at Plymouth because vey were overweight has been sing in recent years. Former Junior...

Seabridge Marine, which is understood to have access to a 155-lorry, 3,400-tonne Brittany Ferries cross-Channel vessel, has...

BANKERS should forge more links with the haulage industry. Master of the Worshipful Company of Carmen John Wells said in London...

THERE WAS an eightfold increase in international lorry traffic by ferry to and from the UK, between 1970 and 1980, according to...

FREIGHT Computer Services has won an E18,000 contract to provide Schweppes's distribution system with a fleetmanagement...

DAMAGES of £175,000 he been awarded to a tanker dril who was seriously injured wh his articulated tanker "roll over" in 1975....

LONDON'S boroughs wal powers to charge operate when they issue licences f skips and building materials be left on the roadway....

NO LORRY drivers who refused to have a period in which they ere laid off taken from their holidays have been vindicated. A...

PRIVATISED refuse collection with a difference started last Monday in Northampton, when a local specialist-operator set up in...

GRAMPIAN Regional Council has approved the lease of eight acres at Altens to Aberdeenbased JGB Central Administration, who want...

LONDON'S traffic and environmental problems would be solved if a road network similar to that of Paris was built, John...

FRIGOSCANDIA's Londonbased cold store and distribution depot might be closed as the result of lorry bans, according to Barrie...

THE London Chamber of Commerce and Industry is dedicated to making London a prosperous city and is opposed to any form of...

AN EXEMPTION to any Ion weight-restrictions has bee called for by the National Assl ciation of Waste Dispom Contractors...

A SEVENFOLD increase in the number of lorries needed to carry au . operations would be the result of lorry weight-restrictions...

LORRY bans in London could only work if the railway network was improved and developed to cope with the extra freight...

BUS FARE policies in the conurbations are now being pulled in opposite directions, with South Yorkshire opting to retain its...

COACH operators belonging to the South-Eastern Coach Operators' Association are holding a "coaching weekend" complete with...

A ONE-DAY seminar, "Design and the urban bus," organised by the Design and Industries Association and London Transport will be...

NEW BUS GRANT claims at ti current 30 per cent rate must t lodged with Traffic Area offici by Friday of next week at tt...

rHE £562 repair bill for damage to London journalist Martin -layman's car after it had been hit by a runaway bus stolen from a...

IN TUESDAY'S budget vehicle excise duty for buses and coaches rose from £35 for up to 20 seats plus 70p for each additional...

THE North-Western Traffic Commissioners have told Blackburn Borough Transport that it wants the local authority to give...

A CUT-PRICE fares experiment by a group of services in Greater Manchester brought a 25 per cent increase in some business....

IN A determined bid to improve its current, scanty share of the heavyweight cv market, Bedford has significantly revised and...

■ IY RESEMBLANCE between e RHA East Midland area and e Church is purely 'incidental. For one thing, I )ubt whether Cranmer...

iE SCHEME for a single-track il tunnel under the English - wine' seems to be aimed ibstantially at passengers now welling by...

CM's report from the Saudi Arabian Transport Show was apparently more important than we thought. After an uneventful six-hour...

FOUR lorry drivers who are keen CB men started a club in June 81 in the Bruce Hotel, Stirling. Today the club stands at 250...

FACED with the bureaucratic procedures that might have prevented the Greater London Council from authorising 30 additional bus...

/ : ô wU °I (oJ — 71 THE diesel-engine scene is not one which changes rapidly from year to year. "Evolution not revolution"...

.1 THE YEARS to come, more ian ever before, road. transport Fill require leadership and mangement of a high order to meet le...

Vauxhall's Cummins -370 powered lorry is a flyer — and at only a small fuel penalty. Tim Blakemore is the first journalist to...

ERF's lightweight cab gives it a clear payload advantage over other vehicles in the group and the power-to-weight ratio is well...

Volvo's leading position in the fuelconsumption stakes was confirmed by Tim Blakemore when he put the revised F12 model through...

We test the same vehicle previously taken over the Scottish route at 32 tons: at this higher weight fuel consumption actually...

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

The Germans have been checking the effects of heavier gross vehicle-weights on roads and bridges. Bill Brock sees how they...

The UK needs an increase in gross combination weight and there is plenty of evidence in Europe to show that a single drive axle...

EFERENCE has been made in ly previous articles to the 'arning signs which must be isplayed. Specifications for iese signs are...

HE ABILITY to make good 3Idered joints is a skill which all lechanics should possess. Ithough the process looks ary simple to...

Ltd and HP Foods Ltd, with responsibility for primary and secondary distribution of the companies' products. He joined the...