HE PANTOMIME season is well settled in. After two resentations in the House of Commons of "Albert and the lonster" the season...

E 40-TONNE lorry crawled an inch closer to reality last week, but as begun to jack-knife and it remains to be seen whether the...

THE GOVERNMENT plans ti fund another 35 local authorit by-passes next year, Transpor Secretary David Howell told th Institution...

OAD Transport Industry Training Board director general Eric Tina!l aimed for the Government's Achilles heel last week by...

ONE OF LEYLAND Vehicl senior executives is leaving company early next year establish his own business. Leyland Trucks' sales z...

lANSPORT Secretary David Howell was last week urged to seek )wers to limit the charges made for overnight parking on otorway...

E GOVERNMENT intends to press for further liberalisation of ropean road haulage, and ensure that any increase in road ulage...

IS unrealistic to expect owner drivers to employ a full time ansport manager, said the Northern Deputy Licensing Authority...

MERSEYSIDE County Council has identified five possible locations for new road/rail freight interchange facilities following an...

LICENSING authorities take serious view of overloading e Northern Deputy LA Char Kelly said it was a pleasure see that in cases...

speeding case to that of a computerised meter had their decin upheld in the High Court in London last month. ord Justice...

volume of livestoc haulage being done by farmer by tractors or in vehicles no suited to the work. They sa that this is not only...

TERNATIONAL hauliers could face long delays at United Kingdom Ty ports during the first week in January. Traffic queues are...

ALL France 48 hour road express has been set up by Meadows r Freight Ltd to complement its existing service to West Germany d...

B. E. WILLIAMS of Senney Bridge Powys has purchased two new White Road Commanders right hand drive 4x2 tractive units which...

VEEDER-ROOT has launched a new automatic tachograph called the Timesaver. The only time the driver needs to touch the duty knob...

THE FIRST lowloading se trailer with three automatic steered axles to be built Britain has recently been in' duceri by...

I WILL be all change at the Iritish Road Services group on anuary 1, when three of the ompanies gain new managing Iirectors,...

THE PRODUCTION of Dodge 100 Series cab shells will be switched from GKN at Telford to Karrier's own Dunstable plant from April...

TAM TRUCK SALES, UK conces sionaires for Isoli (Italy), are nov offering hydraulic transporte recovery equipment mounter on an...

TRANSPORT SECRETARY DE Howell has laid before I liament regulations which update the standards for fuelled vehicles and gas-ti...

NCS TRUCK EQUIPMENT Chesterfield has modified Microskip unit to carry I empty 3cuyd skips as a furt option. The control...

A9: Single line traffic at Blair Atholl, Guay Bridge (north of DunId), Ballinluig, and south of Auchterarder, in Tayside...

■ NDON COACH operator Glen Valley Coaches Ltd is not fit to hold blic service vehicle licences, decided the Metropolitan...

THE NORFOLK trial area hai gone off like a damp squib, th( Government has conceded. Hardly any changes have beer made in bus...

BRITAIN comes at the bottom of the list when a comparison made between the subsidies given to bus services in 13 Europea...

NEWLY FORMED retailers' asrciation has succeeded in rsuading Gateshead council put on a free shopper's bus, Hawing the opening...

VRITE in support of the recent itics of Bedfords and of their ick-up after-sales service. We bought a Bedford TL 1630 ter being...

NOW that the Government's White Paper on raising the tonnage of goods vehicles from 32 tons to 40 tons has been released, I am...

TRUCKS were no overnight success in the States, writes Elliott Kahn, author of American Trucks of the Seventies (Frederick...

TRANSPORT these days comprises a huge sector of the economy, and there is overlap between land, sea and air. Any young persons...

A COLOUR brochure describ the facilities offered by South Wales port of Barry is titled Barry: Geared to f Cargo Handling. The...

Fire Engines of Europe is an illustrated hardback slimline from Ian Henry — 64 pages for £3.25; eighteen of these page: are...

WORTHY organisations from ie transport industry.., have itherto displayed a naive and )uching belief that the great ritish...

UNT AGNESS is always a roblem but particularly at hristmas. Her inquiring turn of and, which normally expresses self as...

A JOLLY gift for the commercial vehicle export manager who wishes to make his mark is the Whoopee Joyboy Detector Detector, as...

THE PRESENTERS of a BBC radio programme on leisure pursuits were asked whether they knew of a pleasant hotel where Christmas...

THIRTY apprentices at RAF Halton near Wendover, Buckinghamshire have renovated a 1939 Fordson WO1 1 six-wheeled dental clinic...

John Durant visits the FTA's Northern office; meets a union leader who favour5 tachographs; and talks to an operator buying a...

The worst conditions for 31 years may have spin-off benefits! ZARDOUS winter road condins are too often thought out when it is...

The Penrith Truck Stop was designed wit] lorry drivers in mind — even the filling station only serves diesel. It offers...

by Douglas Ainley PLOYEES who are otherwise itled to notice may lose their itlement if they are guilty of ;f1 gross misconduct...

Newcastle's new underground railway network has drastically altered the North east's commuter habits. Noel Millier explains how...

save fuel consumption. Marketed under the name Delvac SHC it is constructed rather than refined from a base crude oil ilLDING...

HE Government's decision to bolish 17 of the 23 industrial - aining boards indicates a clear nough opinion on such bodies...

Mike Rutherford visits Flowers Transport and finds out how this successful haulage, warehousing and distribution specialist is...

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

the Jarrow wal l John Whittingham has developed a timesaving instant tachograph chart analyser and business for his North-east...

iticcess story of lial-a-bus VEST Germany's riedrichshafen dial-a-bus ervice has all but succumbed to )chnical problems...