THE Road Transport Industry Training Board awaits with some trepidation the outcome of the Manpower Services Commission Report...

HAROLD DEAN (left) became the 1980 Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year at Cranfield last Sunday when he beat 287 other...

A BUYER is still awaited for Fodens, according to Cork Gully, its receiver, but the company says it is still very much alive...

MOBIL'S tanker drivers have taken a further leap ahead of their counterparts in the big four oil companies:' A productivity...

THE GOVERNMENT is expected to take an early decision in favour of road equivalent tariff for ferries to Scotland's Western and...

THE RECESSION has dealt another blow to the manufacturing industry, with Eaton Axles announcing the closure of its Darlaston...

BRITISH RAIL is considering abandoning the collection and delivery of rail freighted parcels. The BR Board says it may continue...

INVERNESS lost its harbour area lorry park last week when the Harbour Trustees took it over for redevelopment, but a new site...

back. .. ANT three-wheel manufe turer, BTB Engineering Li has thrown a new light on tl problems surrounding Nor Bedfordshire...

PitlAND for haulage is unlikely to recover before the end of s year, according to an industry economist's report pubhied this...

PRELIMINARY figures for January to August show that Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) Ltd has increased its market share despite the...

EIGHTLINERS last week :ed limited unofficial instrial action from the ansport and General irkers Union for allegedly croaching...

FOUR remote tachograph centres are now in operation, and the leading manufacturers expect to have more by the end of the year....

NORTHERN Ireland Carriers have shed around 10 per cent of their staff since November as a result of the recession. The...

RENAULT Trucks and Buses (UK) Ltd has appointed Rossieigh Commercial Ltd as main dealer for West Strathclyde. Rossleigh will...

A FREIGHT transport seminar, organised by the Highlands and Islands Development Board„ is to be held at Dunoon, Argyll from...

A MAP showing petrol and diesel stations in the Scottish Highlands and Islands has been published by the Highlands and Islands...

A WEST MIDLANDS haulier has been ordered to produce itemised payslips to a driver who alleges that he was only paid for six out...

A CONSULTATIVE DOCUMENT Proposals for Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances (Amendment) Regulations has just been...

AT THE congress of the International Transport Workers Federation in Miami, Florida, the Transport and General Workers Union...

LEX TILLOTSON Dundee is aiming to give Leyland operators a level of service and parts support unrivalled by any other...

NORTH-WESTERN Licensir Authority Roy Hutchings ha refused an operator's app cation for a standar national licence because •...

DRIVE to boost its contract-hire business was launched last veek by Mitchell Cotts Transport Services with the first of hree...

IcALPINE, Thorpe and Warner is initiated a multiclient study • provide the suppliers of par!Is services with the marketing...

UNIVERSITY extension courses in transport studies are now being offered by the University of London's department of extramural...

SIR TERENCE BECKETT is leaving his £85,000 a year job as Ford's British chairman and managing director to become director...

FODENS' exhibits at the Motor Show will be led by improvements to the S10, according to marketing manager Richard Phillips. He...

FIVE MONTHS since the launch of Roadtrain, the first model in Leyland's T45 range, and over 1000 C40 cab shells have now been...

CVR (Commercial Vehicle Roo Ltd) of Rochdale has introducE a new sliding door kit which tl company says is covered 1 patent and...

BEL Demountable Systems Ltd of Chesterfield has dealoped low profile swop body equipment which overcomes ie disadvantage of...

Maillon Rapides are made by etal Chainex of Paris and are iks with threaded sleeves hich need only hand-tighteng, say the...

FLYWHEEL location dowels incorporated in the flywheel end of the crankshaft on Detroit Diesel 71-Series engines have been...

A NEW depot for William Stonier and Sons Ltd should replace the Potteries company's present inadequate premises by Christmas....

WEST MIDLANDS PTE is abandoning its Birmingham city Centrebus route next month, and is looking for an independent operator...

Shuttle A ROUND-the-clock Lando Luton Airport shuttle coac starts on November 1, and will still be within scope road service...

UPLE is launching a new range of Dominant coaches for ext season, and the open market is taking advantage of the cottish Bus...

DURHAM City Council wants coach operators to use the 13 vehicle coach park beside the Leakes Car Park in the city. It is also...

BOMBARDIER (Ireland) Ltd's plans to start producing buses this summer have been set back, but the company is still confident of...

A NEW SYSTEM to move loads quickly in a vehicle or for use in loading containers has been developed by Package Control Ltd of...

A SEMINAR on energy saving in transport and distribution is being held at St Ermin's Hotel in London on September 25....

FORD has just installed th latest Schenk material testing machine in its eng nearing research centre Dunton. This is the...

HE LOUD cries of "unfair" rvhich have followed the reveation that the Hino invasion has vrived are as much a symptom ri...

ALTHOUGH no accident is acceptable in aviation and on the railways, says Barbara E. Sabey in TRRL supplementary report 581, "a...

VIOST lorry drivers who dislike ;eat belts seem to have a greater ear of death from a forwarddiding load than from ejection rom...

MY paragraph about hauliers' house journals has prompted Mrs H. M. Russell to tell me that she has become editor of a guar...

FORD of Britain had no hope of matching Japanese productivity, Sir Terence Beckett, chairman and managing director, sadly...

ARTHUR JACOBS, of Hampshire, is one of the few county surveyors to have a good word to say for heavy lorries. Mind you, their...

SIX specialists can run Ford's huge new parts distribution centre at Merkenich, Germany. One of six cranes, acting on orders...

3 EOPLE have been under the unbunded impression that during he French fisherman's action, fruckline Ferries did not play heir...

I HAVE just read your unsigned article An Answer to Yorkshire Pudding (CM, August 30) wherein you openly state reputable...

WHILST patriotic thoughts and motives are to be applauded, is not the current hiatus and emotion created by the proposed...

I REFER to Bill Brock's excellent article on the new Dennison tipper chassis in Commercial Motor, August 16. While the test...

'THERE was no doubt about it, 1 at 6.30pm last Sunday Harold Dean was the man of the moment. But Harold, a Bassetts' driver...

John Durant has been to Oxford to hear a union viewpoint on safety reps' training and to Bristol where a GTA runs courses for...

FACTORS that can reduce the number of accidents in the road transport industries are highlighted in the Health and Safety...

ONE OF THE favourite questions set by examiners for motor vehicle apprentices in their first examination is to ask them to list...

centre they try to make sure that potential's never realised. Tim Blakemore explains how 'HERE CAN BE few places of vork more...

Never has the old addage proved more true than in the case of industrial accidents which account for around 15m lost working...

NO MATTER how good you are otherwise, you're never going to make the best use of your skills or assets if you're not properly...

With the jungle of legislation surrounding the Factories and Offices and Shops Acts it's easy to get entangled. Brian...

IN THE LAST article (August 23) the term "kerbside weight" was used in connection with the conditions to be observed when small...

Unfair dismissal Barrister/haulier Douglas Ainley helps you to sort out Act from fiction IT IS OFTEN forgotten that the...