HE PROPOSED Scottish Lssembly last week lost its , ower to supervise the issue of pecial permits for buses. By 93 votes to 79,...

LEYLAND plans to offer ZF gearboxes in some of its goods vehicles later this year. Vehicles over 16 tons (eg Buffalo and...

JAPANESE vehicles will be blacked if they come into Britain — whether they are owned by British companies or registered abroad....

P AND 0 chairman Lord Inchcape has criticised "unnecessary the working of the company's bureaucratic intervention" in road...

BRITAIN is pressing Iraq to withdraw its demand for a $150,000 bond for all vehicles entering the country which was due to come...

MILK tanker drivers are this week considering a pay offer that will give them an extra £7.30 a week — but they have not been...

AUSTRIA expects that a new lorry tax will be charged from July of this year, if a draft law is approved by the Austrian...

)ENNISON'S first 8 x 4 tipter has been built at the ompany's Rathcoole plant tear Dublin. The unladen vehicle veights 12.5...

HAUL II it came after art alleries, but before airports; it drove a wedge between school inspectors and opencast coal mining;...

1E GOVERNMENT beyes — and has told the — that if it were to pose the compulsory use the tachograph on domes: traffic it would...

EW MOVES to ensure that . affic flow would be slowed ; little as possible during the reater amount of motorway laintenance work...

Managers' course LABOUR relations aspects of transport and distribu tion will be covered at a residential course to be run by...

WEST GERMANY has banned lorries of over 7.5 tonnes and lorries with trailers from 20 Autobahn sections at weekends in July and...

A CONCRETE mixer driver who applied for voluntary redundancy changed his mind — applied for compensation for unfair dismissal....

vehicles to this country run the risk of losing their international permits for a while. Transport Under Secretary John Horam...

A SUGGESTION that the partments of Energy and Environment had differ opinions about the importa of electric vehicles was der in...

CWO commerical vehicle body designs are included in this year's Design Council British Motor ndustry Awards winners. Mousley...

MIDDLESEX haulier who pplied to increase his )perator's Licence from one o seven vehicles had it exended to three vehicles last...

FREIGHTLINERS have just announced a trading profit of £1.4m for the year ended December 31. This compares with £1.5m for the...

Expanding service THE FREIGHT Drivers Register is expanding its services. It proposes this year to introduce the first...

TRANSPORT Driver Training (Esher) Limited, Surrey, is mounting a series of courses for the Certificate of Professional...

MERGER plans announced by Scottish Road Services Ltd will mean that about 12 employees at their Dumfries subsidiary will become...

ANTHONY Carrimore is to body an order of 34 Leyland - Reivers for 13rownhill's Commercials. All tippers, they will be equipped...

FIVE Mini-mobile goanywhere vehicles, produced by Stonefield Vehicles Ltd of Cumnock in Scotland, have been ordered by Marconi...

VEHICLE body shutters that stretch a full five metres (16.4ft) have been introduced by Dover Roller Shutters Ltd, of Hartford...

VER 500 people attended the Irma' conference of the Initute of Road Transport Enneers held at Solihull last eekend. The...

HE CONFEDERATION of ritish Road Passenger Transcod has hit back at critics of • amendment to the Trans ort Bill designed to...

SCOTTISH manufacturers figure largely in the 1979 programme for new buses for the Scottish Bus Group expected to be announced...

Bus station opened COUNCILLOR John H. Berry, JP, Chairman of the Greater Manchester Council, opened Rochdale's new Greater...

THE LUCAS Bedford Electric Vehicle has won first prize in an international competition sponsored by the French Government. As...

THE FIRST garage in Europe and possibly in the world designed expressly to service electric vehicles has been opene by Lucas at...

:OMMERCIAL vehicle pecification and performnce was the theme of the nnual conference of the Intitute of Road Transport...

by Brian Chalmers-Hunt SIX British manufacturers are building electric vehicles and there are over 40,000 electric vehicles in...

PETROL tankers and vehicles carrying dangerous goods must be fitted with a battery master switch to isolate the complete...

b uses Report by Noel A DELEGATE at a recent symposium at Newcastle University entitled "Designing Public Transport" described...

EARLY THIS YEAR A. C. Delco made its Freedom battery, with a claimed design life of 300,000 miles, available in the UK. This is...

John Darker interviews Sir Dan Pettit ME National Freight Corpolotion under Sir Dan Pettit's ;hairmanship was interested n the...

FORD dealers, I hear are to be helped to streamline operations in their ports, service ar vehicle sales departments by "a...

Ken Rogers, who shared the vice-chairmanship of the RHA with Mr Silbermann, has also done yeoman service. He has Mr...

It is a great pity that Mr Farmer could never be persuaded to stand for leading office in the RHA although he has willingly...

JOHN Silbermann's electi! as chairman of the Rog Haulage Association la week was in the nature substantiation of acting ran...

HE ONE component in a .t , hicle that we expect to ear at a fairly high rate is the 'ake shoe liner. The very function of this...