WAGE-NEGOTIATING scene is changing. The current round will surely go down ne most revolutionary since the 1930s. he...

A TOP COACHWORK award has gone to Iveco UK for one of the exhibits on its Scottish Show stand. A 220.38 twin-seater tractive...

THE CONSULTATION docume on lorries' track costs h "blown sky high" the "myt that lorries do not pay enou tax, Freight Transport...

ARCHWAY ROAD has been c firmed as one of London's b est lorry routes at night study reports Night checks conducted f lier this...

HAULAGE INDUSTRY should le industrial lobby and should s, National Freight Consortiu week. was giving an address to load...

AT THE OPENING of the Road Haulage Association's first-ever overseas conference, chairman Harold Russett again stressed that...

HAULIERS are bring given their annual chance to bid for any increased EEC Community Quota permits next month, and are also...

THE AVERAGE WEEKLY earnings of drivers of heavy good vehicles (over 3.5 tonnes) in April were £152.70, according to a new...

SCANIA will sell more commercial vehicles in the UK in 1983 than ever before. Anders Siewertz, managing director of Scania...

"Seddon Atkinson has no control over the sale, but International Harvester has reached a basic agreement with a prospective...

TOUGH new EEC limits sound levels for motor vet now look likely to be acce — but later rather than sool pleas by manufacturers...

OPERATIONAL STREAMLINING of National Carriers Fleetcare has led to eight new regional managers. These are: Doug Halliday,...

VEEDER-ROOT has made two new appointments aimed at increasing its share of the tachograph market. David Michell becomes the...

WE RECORD with regret t death of Arthur Green, mane ing director of Tyneside haulal company R. W. Green and Son Mr Green died...

N OPERATOR who lost his Operator's licence earlier this year, but ontinued to operate three vehicles to keep up hire-purchase...

EES TRANSPORT has created a London area subsidiary to tend its high security distribum services to that area. It has formed...

N EXHIBITION trailer rental service has been launched by BRS mthern, following recommendations from its market research am. It...

A HUGE JUMP jump in the number of prosecutions for vehicle excise duty dodgers has brought in millions of pounds, Transport...

THE NEED for a reliable and efficient transport manager was stressed at the Transport Tribunal last week, when a company's...

BRITISH RAIL has secured further five-year contract carry mail for the Post Offic but there is a definite trer away from BR, to...

Social Democratic Party lead Dr David Owen, Foreign Secr tary in the last years of the CE laghan Labour Government the...

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ILLS-ROYCE has made a number of changes to its Eagle range of gines and is exhibiting a new, more powerful variant of the...

THE BEDFORD Astra van and the Volkswagen LT have won the 1983 Garage and Transport Van of the Year Awards. They were presented...

TWO self-steering axles for semi-trailers, both new to this country, are on display at Kelvin Hall, reflecting the increasing...

SCANIA has modified its five and 10-speed synchromesh, range change and splitter gearboxes, mainly to ease gearshifting....

1VECO'S 79.14, as exhibited the Scottish Show, is the fi 7.5-tonner to be sold in the I fitted with disc brakes on front axle....

.L EYES are on North Wales where the latest independent atTIM to break into stage carriage operation is at a crucial stage....

1OLLEYBUS technology was mporarily operational in itain when a Renault PER180 ial-mode trolleybus was monstrated at Blackpool...

DUPLE COACHBUILDERS' managing director Dick West has been replaced, in the first major move since the Blackpool company was...

SCANIA has won orders for 37 more coaches and buses for British operators, giving it a fighting chance of securing a greater...

RENAULT Vehicules Industrials is set to regain ground lost to West German coach manufacturers in its home market with a new...

GREATER Manchester Transport has unveiled a hybrid diesel electric bus it has developed in conjunction with the Electric...

and silent B6 LEYLAND officially armour the Gardner-engined Tiger week, but it is keeping q about a new rear-engined project,...

iff-IILE this year's Scottish Show provided only four full-size psv xhibits, and only three of these are complete, the vehicles...

AS THE LIGHTS go out and the doors close on this year's Scottish Motor Show, there will be more than a few regular visitors who...

EAD with great interest your cle on Tayside Truckstop 4, November 5). Having spent last seven days talking to ;k drivers, about...

E Certificate of Professional npetence may be dead but it lie down! "So long as we at the EEC Requirements of :dives 561 and...

ON BEHALF of the LDoY Association, may I congratulate Mike Rutherford on his excellent report of the national finals (CM...

YOUR READERS may well be interested in a letter which I have received from Andrew Rowe, Member of Parliament for MidKent. It...

3IAN HAYWARD does for music what he did for onal Carriers, a new name is ig to top the charts. At 46, as ip managing director...

E of the 12 finalists in the s Lovely Legs of Great Britain 'petition, which Bedford and supported in aid of the iety Club of...

AS IS widely known, anyone can run a newspaper, the BBC, a railway or a bus company. Safe in this knowledge, the Greater London...

HALF a century ago Charles Dunbar shot an arrow into the air; it fell to earth and splintered into 50 pieces before eventually...

LIONEL ROUSE, whose vintage vehicle cards are such a pleasant feature of Ben's Christmas catalogue, this year abandons the...

Tim Blakemore describes some which caught his eye at Kelvin Hall NEITHER Kelvin Hall nor probably any other UK exhibition site...

The haulier's life is even harder up here. That's the view of our special correspondent No dead wood FIVE YEARS AGO Inverness...

1=3 Twenty-five years ago, if you had a sound, logical case, and it was well presented, you expected to win and usually did....

But this FlO's brakes were decidedly disappointing. Miserable weather and a faulty thermostat didn't help the consumption. . ....

Norwegian Railways: intrain with demounts RAILWAY administrations on the Continent generally use road transport in an...

Go international! DOOR to door deliveries by road can now be made to anywhere in Europe, as well as to many other countries in...

ECOVERY OPERATORS who ;e Ford Transits for light covery work may benefit from e latest towing bracket :N./eloped specifically...

CLEAN VEHICLE is a positive d to any haulier's image, and ) help, Wickham Industries has 'traduced a range of Tornado...

DELIVERY DRIVERS short of space to take their paperwork might find the Autodesk the ideal solution. Strapped to a front seat,...