The privatisation (or preferably) the making more public of the National Bus Company and Nicholas Ridley's other proposals for...

THE GOVERNMENT'S new bus policy which will result in the biggest shake-up of bus services for 50 years, should be on the road...

HAULAGE JOBS could be put at risk by this week's national dock strike, the Road Haulage Association warned on Monday. RHA...

LAND ROVER is preparing to supply the Swiss Army with around 4,000 vehicles over the next 11 years. The contract is subject to...

LYNDA CHALKER, Transport Minister, has announced that the final two-and-a-ha If mile I4km) section of the M27 between Chilworth...

MOTOR INDUSTRY leaders have announced plans to improve awareness of their industry's achievements and importance to the UK...

The ban will take effect from Wednesday September 12. It will cover an area bounded by but not including — the A13 the...

ANOTHER 100 jobs are to go at the Perkins engine factory in Shrewsbury — the company which took over the Rolls-Royce diesel...

THE EEC authorities have admitted defeat in one battle in the longrunning war against frontier delays — that of high days and...

COMMON Market Transport Ministers have expressed concern at Swiss proposals to tax foreign vehicles using their motorways. The...

The money will cover up to 60 per cent of the total cost of projects judged to "contribute to the realisation of the common...

SALLY LINE has doubled capacity on its Ramsgate-Dunkirk service with the introduction of a second vessel on the route. The...

AFTER 10 years of endeavour by the Chartered Institute of Transport to establish itself in Europe, something has been...

THIS month Denzil Webber and Michael Ridley have joined the management team of the Road Transport Industry Training Board....

NEW general managers have been appointed to head-up Roadline operations in Northampton and Southampton. John Langlands has...

Lyn Wallace, joined Midland Red North as a clerical assistant in the Hotspur bus and coach operation at Shrewsbury — only...

Philip A. Vine will be retiring from the post of general manager of Kingston-on-Hull City Transport on July 30, having...

WINSTON WRIGHT has been appointed general manager, Assembly Division, Volvo Trucks (Great Britain). He has responsibility for...

COMPUTER analysis of the tachograph records of Smithtrans International of Blackburn cost the company and six of its drivers...

EDINBURGH lorry driver Ronald McCardle has been awarded E2,050 by an industrial tribunal. In a written judgement, the tribunal...

THOUGH a lorry driver was employed by a company in Northern Ireland, a Birmingham industrial tribunal has ruled that it has...

THE Royal Mail, claiming to be Britain's premier parcel carrier, has raised the weight limit of its bulky parcels service, but...

WINCANTON Group's net profits for the year ending 31st March, 1984, increased by 25% from f6.4M to E8M, it was announced last...

THE KENNING Motor Group plc has acquired eight Tyre and Exhaust Centres, formerly TEC Ltd, in Balham, Bethnal Green, Penge,...

A SCOTTISH company, Ecosse Holdings of Bonnybridge, has become the UK manufacturing agent for a Swedish invention. It is a...

THE ROYAL Air Force is using Joloda systems to move weapons in and out of storage igloos. A latticed arrangement of steel or...

BOWATER SCOTT of Gravesend does not require a 32-ton gcw plate for the high-volume loads carried by its 10 new Seddon-Atkinson...

DAF BUS has introduced a more powerful version of its midengined heavyweight coach running gear unit. Coded MB 200 DKVL, it...

The Bus and Coach Council Buses mean Business points out that West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive's "Put your bottom...

The Secretary of State has dismissed an appeal by a West Midlands coach operator against a decision of the West Midlands...

NEW VEHICLE lighting regulations, The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1984, SI No 812, were laid before Parliament last week...

FOUR certificates of exemption have been issued by the Health and Safety Executive under the Dangerous Substances (Conveyance...

LAURIE BAKER became well known and respected by many UK fleet engineers during her 31/2 year stay here, first as Foden's chief...

RESEARCH into means of reducing vehicle noise is now probably taking a greater share of vehicle manufacturers' r and d budgets...

BOB REID, British Rail's chairman, freely admits that hauliers and coach operators "continue to offer increasingly attractive...

THE SUCCESS of coach competition has caused British Rail to make one of its most drastic changes in management for a decade. To...

Nine 15-16-year-olds have a chance to win a CPC — a certificate of pugnacious clouting — by courtesy of Daf Trucks (GB),...

It is bad enough to be broken down on a motorway but then to be struck by a lorry that is overhanging the hard shoulder may be...

Lilliput is alive and well — in Russia. According to the news agency, Tass, a Soviet factory is making demountable car bodies...

The trouble with the Leyland 1728 Roadtrain is that it doesn't know its own strength. One supplied by Ford and Slater Truckhire...

LOSSES to hauliers, through inadequate or bad road signing, cannot be accurately determined, but unquestionably they are...

THE RHA Express Parcels Functional Group has suggested that members write to you answering criticisms of express carriers'...

I WOULD like to bring up a few points concerning the CIVI/Scania Conference. The discussion about the correct use of gears,...

Russian haulage vehicles have been developed to ECE and EEC standards. There is a strong Scandanavian elements in their cab...

Ro-ro ferries across the Channel were heard of but what about down the Danube? We now know how to overcome the permit problem...

Aluminium is gaining in popularity in body and component construction It produces cost savings and increases payload. Bill...

As the law stands drawbar potential cannot be fully exploited John Dalzell looks at this aspect of operation WITH the trend...

THE Y-6 ELECTRO-magnetic yoke from Magnaflux of Swindon finds surface cracks instantly in ferrous materials and is suitable for...

A TIME-SAVING method of securing cargoes in containers and road vehicles using a range of inflatable "dunnage" bags has been...

BRIMEC (UK), manufacturer of hydraulic car recovery systems, has introduced a wheel to increase the payloads of its Towlift...

Things are starting to happen in the area of commercial vehicle transmission development after a long period of inactivity. Tim...

BIG CHANGES have taken place over the past ten years in the standards of establishments catering for drivers. Gone are the days...

for the next CPC Exam NOW is the time to begin your studies for the next Royal Society of Arts examinations for the...

THE MARK Vane Memorial Award is the project launched last year by CM and Volvo to commemorate a young man killed in a road...

Ken Peter rejoices in a more gentle pace of life. In his own time, this means taking sanctuary by watching birds in the flat,...

THE ARGUMENT about Britain's financial contribution to the EEC Budget may be over in the rest of the Community. It has hardly...

Cash-flow problems, like the poor, always be with us. But there is help at hand. John Vann has explored the market. Here is his...