TRUCE, if not lasting peace, looks likely in the protracted battle er wages for North of England lorry drivers, but talks in...

CIME heavy goods vehicle !sting stations may be split up to smaller units when the theme goes to private enter-ise, according...

THE FIRST wave of Roadline UK's depot closure programme (CM, February 7) takes effect this month when 226 jobs will disappear...

SOFT DRINKS manufacturers A. G. Barr & Co Ltd have been found not guilty of failing to issue a record book to a driver, and the...

IN A pre-budget submission to the Freight Transport Association has cess tax paid by lorries. Director-General Hugh...

ROAD equivalent tariff shou be tried for an experimental flu year period, and be confined lorries using ferries servil...

OPERATORS could be fined up to £200 on suspicion that they might cause damage to a pavement, if private legislation being...

THE Greater London Council says that a proper share of national road building resources is clearly long overdue for the...

A SUPERVISED night lorry park at Northampton is being planned by Mike Butt (Haulage) of Northampton and Towcester. The...

MANCHESTER-based haulier faced a icking threat at Liverpool docks this 3ek, following its decision to axe a total nine jobs in...

'ERATING costs increased at a noderate level' in the quarter to December 1,1980, accordg to the Freight Transport Asiciation's...

IF FIRST indications are anything to go by, the Road Transport Industry Training Board need have no fears. True, no one has...

IT IS a tragedy that the Armitage package is in danger of being lost in a "smokescreen of ill-informed statements" from the...

k NEW computerised documenation handling and record ystem is claimed to give a 70 oer cent saving in telex costs. It has been...

THE SOUTH WALES Deputy Licensing Authority wenl against natural justice when hE granted a restricted Operator). Licence to a...

FOREIGN LORRIES, especially fr Licensing Authorities, according which were published last week. North-western LA Roy Hutchings...

THE McKinsey proposals to sell Ireland's state road haulage fleet (CM, February 14) assume that privately-owned lorries will be...

ASTRAN Freight Terminal L has been bought by a major I. banese trading and transport ( ganisation, T. Gargour and Fi but the...

HIRTY-THREE centres are holding CM Lorry Driver of the Year DU nds this year, the first two being held on May 10 at Cumbria and...

A BERKSHIRE OPERATOR look: like losing his Windsor operat ing base and has accused hi; local council of lacking "sym pathy,...

CORY Distribution has promoted three senior managers to regional directors, following the formation of three operating regions,...

Scotland Glasgow: The General Terminus Quay road is closed until Api while demolition work continues. A diversion and access to...

YRE WEAR can be reduced by I much as 20 per cent by cormting the axle and chassis lignment of a heavy lorry. That is the claim...

LLPINAIR LTD, who last year diersified into converting enines to run on lpg, has added to :s air-conditioning range with a lily...

A NEW arc welder has been introduced to the range of SIP (Industrial Products) Ltd of Shepshed, Leicestershire. The SIP180...

CUMMINS have introduced a fuel calibration-scheme to en. sure that such work done by its distributors and dealers is car. ried...

IN A RECENT service bulletin, ERF has emphasised the impor. tance of maintaining air brake hoses in a serviceable conditior at...

NOSE CONES manufactured by Hatcher Components Ltd, Framlingham, Suffolk, are being fitted to Gilbey Vintners Ltd's 250-vehicle...

HIGH-PRESSURE water cleaning is claimed by Butterworth Systems (UK) of Croydon to deal with jobs normally tackled with...

TWO shatter-proof mirrors ha% been added to Spafax Ltd range of products, most 1 which are engineering col sumables supplied to...

AN oil meter so compact that can be fitted into a vehicle's hp line has been introduced by th Ranger Instrument Company...

RANSPORT SECRETARY Norman Fowler has struck more blows to elp the private operator by designating North-west Norfolk as the rst...

IN STARK contrast to Bristo busmen bringing the city ser vices to a halt in protest agains fares increases, Birminghan busmen...

ABOUT 200 new services have developed as a result of the delicensing of buses, said Transport Secretary Norman Fowler in the...

REPRESENTATIVES of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities met Transport Secretary Norman Fowler last month to discuss the...

BRITISH COACHWAYS services escaped disruption last week when coach drivers employed by Grey-Green Coaches at London staged a...

DESPITE PRESSURE from tl minority Labour party, tl Greater London Council h dropped London Transport XRM project in favour of...

BRISTOL was still without its ci bus services operated by tl Bristol Omnibus Company ea lier this week, following the fa...

THE INTRODUCTION of a flat fare on London Transport suburbe buses on April 4 is only the first step to introducing flat fares...

OME MPs seem completely to ave missed the point of the rmitage recommendations on eavier lorries and insist, desite proposals...

OHN GUTTRIDGE, chief inormation officer of the FTA, has leen having a verbal tussle with *ony Curtis, editor of Motor, vho...

AN ERF fire engine with Perkins V8 engine received a hostages' welcome in Kenya when thou sands of people turned out for a...

GLOBE artichokes, according to a French Government report, are a promising source of fuel for motor vehicles. Other crops that...

BECAUSE there is never likely tc be a universally understooc standard language, says the British Standards Institution, signs...

E ARE really disgusted with ir new Bedford YMT coach lich is causing us a great deal worry and anxiety. It cost £42,000, and...

MUST admit that as well as aing tired of paying a levy to le RTITB (something like £4,000 date) for nil return I am also...

WE'D LIKE to challenge Mr Welch of the Leeds Transport Training Group about his claim to supremacy (CM, January 31). We have...

I AM an employee of a transport firm running a fleet of approximately 30 ERF vehicles. In this time of depression, it is a...

YOUR REPORT on the 1980 commercial vehicle market (CM, January 17, page 4) was incorrect in stating that only Hestair Dennis...

THE HEADLINE Fired for Carry ing Wife (page 5, CM, Decembe 20) and your comments in thi same issue on pipe-smoking Al satians,...

KEEPING its promise to introduce new vehicles every few months, Leyland has now taken the wraps off a new range of tractive...

THE TWO BRS Membership Services, Datafreight and Rescue, are both largely dependent on that twentieth century panacea, the...

JUST LIKE pocket calculators and digital watches, the price of computers has tumbled over the last decade and micro and mini...

WHEN YOU WALK into the parts department of any cv dealer, two things can happen. The part you need is either in stock or it...

ME WERE somewhat sceptical vhen Volvo Trucks (GB) Ltd first old us of its used vehicle 3cheme Golden Opportunity Jolvo (CM...

F you're thinking of installing a ;omputer or using computer 'acilities then don't at least lot until you're completely...

Pay Bargaining by Douglas Ainley RECENT EVIDENCE would suggest that industrial relations improve when times are bad. Current...

3ANKENSTEIN found it easier , create his monster than to get I of it. The Government looks [e having the same trouble ith its...

FOR MANY BUSMEN the thought of using computers is probably less than appealing as there can be no doubt that the bus industry...

‘S OIL PRICES, largely manipulated for economic-political reasons, :ontinue to rise relentlessly, makers and users of...

WHILE the strength of sterling continues to give British industry greater buying power when importing new , materials and...

WOOD-BURNING lorries ar planned by one of the larges road transport operators France in a move to counter in creasing fuel...