AN FTA survey of a 37 1 /2-mile stretch of the A21 trunk road from Hastings to the Greater London boundary reveals ludicrously...

backs 38-tons -WAVY vehicles with a maxinum weight of 38-tons and wavier taxation for small lommercial vehicles with perol...

A 16-year-old boy has been in court charged with arson after a E100,000 fire at the Swinton depot of Lancashire United...

by the Technical Editor 11 After our successful trials with Reed Transport, Crane Fruehauf and Volvo, first with a 40mph limit,...

The Table on page 36 of last week's issue, captioned "Figure 2", should have referred to the cost of service available from the...

A parked vehicle was found burning a few hours after a demonstration against the presence of a haulage depot in a residential...

icluded When an employer pays guaranteed week, eve though it includes paymen calculated on an overtim basis, it must be...

REMOVERS are offering corrupt inducements to servicemen and civil servants to attract business, British Association of Removers...

The seven men — who claimed they had been sacked after joining the Transport and General Workers' Union at the height of the...

CONDITIONS on a major road from London to the South Coast are attacked in a new FTA report published this week. And • the'...

BRITISH lorry drivers are thought to be involved in a multi-million pound cigarette smuggling racket uncovered by French...

The courses will be held at Cambridge, Nottingham and Essex universities starting next month and lasting until April 1978....

BRITISH heavy vehicles are still being supplied to Field Marshal Amin's regime in Uganda it was revealed this week. And...

SALES of commercial vehicles in Britain rose by 9.5 per cent, last month, compared with July last year and importers managed to...

require hgv licences from the end of this month, if new regulations, now before Parliament, are adopted. These are articulated...

Now, it's Sir Myles IR F,CTC)R of Walter Alexariet - , coachbuilders, Myles umphreys was knighted by C Queen during her visit...

ups council WEST Midland LA A. Crabtree has criticised Nur ton Borough Council opposing the renewal of a licence, then failing...

and mi mum investment in new ro . has been bitterly attacked the FTA, particularly as kpplies to transport develt ment in...

The courses cover the full range of transport management including planning, economics, and the effects of politics and...

Seddon Atkinson vehicle prices have risen by 5.9 per cent after an earlier application for a 7.5 per cent increase was turned...

IF enough students enrol, an evening class will be started at Exeter College for the new Certificate of Professional Competence...

SUTCH & Searle Shipping Limited have signed an exclusive agency agreement with Salviati & Santori SRL, one of Italy's leading...

CAMEL Freight, the Middle East freight specialists, have introduced a regular container groupage service with departures every...

THE range of regular UK/ Switzerland trailer groupage services operated by freight forwarders Thomas Meadows & Company Limited...

EXCLUSIVE UK distributorship for Airshield air drag reduction products, held by CT (London) Ltd, has been concluded. Service...

FIVE drivers formerly employed by Nationwide Transport Ltd, Cardiff, were awarded extra payment for unfair dismissal at an...

PHASE ONE of the Leylanc investment programme is no beginning to show results says Truck and Bus managini director Des...

OPERATIONS are under way at Freightliners' new Coventry depot which is to be used to transport containers of cars and parts for...

RESEARCH by the National Engineering Laboratory at East Kilbride on ways to convert decelerating energy into accelerating...

modern radio and computer techniques.,is London Transport. being considered by A pilot scheme costing about E250,000 is...

DAIMLER-Benz has patented an anti-jack-knife coupling device for the centre coupling of rear-engined articulated buses — pusher...

WEST Midlands PTE has announced that bus stops on the A45 will be protected by a bus stop clearway order made by Birmingham...

THE first two-week training courses on access to the profession of public service vehicle operation will be held at Motec 1,...

WILLOWBROOK International of Loughborough has organised an all-out attack on rising costs. A cost-cutting programme, QED (Quid...

INDUSTRIAL areas in the North of England have the worst degree of motor vehicle corrosion. This is the main conclusion of a...

A NEW TYPE of rear bumper — which can withstand a 35mph impact, without damage, cuts the cost of repairs to loading bays and...

HINGED side-door van bodies built on 12m (40ft) semi-trailer chassis are now being supplied to Kronospan Ltd, of North Wales,...

Andrews Industrial Equipment of Dudley Road, Wolverhampton, has introduced two air heaters which do not need floor space for...

AN emergency windscreen is now available for the Volkswagen LT range. Marketed by Humphrey Thompson Enterprises Ltd, Raans...

A new driving mirror from Albert Jagger Ltd of Green Lane, Walsall, has the adjustment of the mirror and the clamping of the...

motto of 6afiq ue••• I was deeply distressed by Mrs M. Parker's letter (Aug 5) in which she attacked not only Dr Hunt's review...

It is now 6 am and as a "nine till five" managing director, I am sitting in my office almost shedding tears as I read the...

Red Slot... I was glad to see Rail Express Parcels' Services well praised in your article on Parcels Carriers (CM July 22)....

has come up with the replacements for the long-serving F88 and F89 models. Designated F10 and F12, the new Volvos will make...

owl food' guide THE regulation principally concerned with refrigerated transport in Europe is ATP — "Agreement on the...

Bill Brock watches the insulation experts at AS the frozen food market has grown rapidly over recent years so, too, has the...

he right tree ONE haulage activity which appears to be suffering less than most from the trade recession is the reefer...

buses on way IRTIC pusher buses will oon be in full-scale producon by Daimler-Benz. The large capacity bus will - icorporate...

"WO Swiss tourist resorts, with a general ban on motor Follicles, have recently introduced battery-electric taxis to upplement...

by Ron Douglas IN these days of ever diminishing returns for effort most haulage concerns, large and small, have to search out...

"London — the heartless ty" — published by Thames levision, price £1, was ommissioned by Thames for s London Looks Forward...

WE have to endure a constant flow of exhortation from the Government, official and semi-official bodies and lobbies of all...