RALPH BENNETT, London Transport's chairman, is in an unenviable position, .despite his 00,000 or so salary. Not only has he to...

IOAD HAULIERS are not getting value for money from the load Transport Industry Training Board, according to Road laulage...

HE UNITED Road Transport Union has changed its attitude to sleeper cabs, but it wants drawbar vehicles to be restricted to...

SALES of commercial vehicles in Britain fell by 18.44 per cent in May of this year compared with May, 1979, according to the...

NATIONAL FREIGHT Corporation chairman Robert Lawrence tops transport's roll of honour in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. He...

THE IMMEDIATE future fa Stonefield Vehicles look rosier, following Tozer, Keni slay and Millbourn's decisioi to take out a...

MITSUBISHI is following Hino on to the Irish lorry market, and plans to sell up to 500 vehicles in the first year. • McCairns...

HE GOVERNMENT should find out that the European Commission means y "community interest" before it r:cepts the Green Paper on...

THE TRANSPORT infrastructure proposals are an exciting opportunity for Britain to gain, rather than lose, from Europe, says the...

A TOTAL of 3660 miles of road in the Common Market countries — 696 of them in Britain — have been classed as bottlenecks in a...

INVETERATE observers of the Westminster scene have this week noted MPs going about their business at an unusually high level of...

LICENSING AUTHORITIES exist to help make hauliers' lives easier, according to Yorkshire LA Maj-Gen John Carpenter. He said...

FREIGHTLINER has won its first major North Sea Oil supplies transport contract from Aberdeen Barytes Company, a member of the...

CUMBRIA County Council's permit cordon scheme on the A591 is likely to be introduced in September (CM, March 19). The scheme...

AN ESTIMATED 000,000 a year has been added to haulage operators' costs because of a ban imposed by Warrington Borough Council...

THE Central London Local Vehicle Licensing Office located at County Hall, London SE1, has now closed. People needing to obtain...

THE Department of Transport has reduced the load on two motorway bridges on the M1 in Derbyshire between junctions 29 (Heath)...

NORTHERN IRELANC goods vehicles operators wil not now have to get shor term Operators licences be fore entering Great Britain....

POLICE inspection of British vehicles at the France-Italian border during December proved that 74 per cent of drivers had no...

ROADLINE UK man who :ackled four armed robbers as given a special award in _ondon last week. National Freight Corporation...

FURTHER CM Lorry Driver of the Year results have been announced following heats throughout the country. Edinburgh. Class A: W....

A REPORT from the European Environmental Bureau rejects the European Commission's proposals for heavier lorries as unacceptable...

CARTRANSPORT, the Leamington based car delivery specialists, has named Richard Joyce as its first sales and marketing manager....

• service up JEURO Container Transpor (UK) Ltd has introduced nev weekly services to Rotter dam and Vienna. Cargo is...

with Crane Fruehauf reflects, says Quinton HazeII, a growing awareness throughout the commercial vehicle industry of the...

Fitted with dropsides and tailgate, the body is said to be of low profile with a canvas cover which could also be used for...

OWING to a transposition, some of the numbers in the trailer buyers' Guide to Index on page 29 of CM (June 7) do not relate to...

RETREADING Equipment Ltd, of Newman Lane, Alton Hampshire, is seeking to appoint additional licencees to manufacture its...

A NEW TYPE of "modular" ambulance body, which can be fitted to any standard 3.5 tonnes to 6.5 tonnes gross chassis cab, has...

THE DESIGN of Coachwork Conversions range of dropsiders in the up to 7.5 tonne weight category have been further refined. Now...

THE Retread Manufacturers' Association is concerned over the lack of retreadable casings coming on to the market. Although new...

BRADFORD Metropolitan Council is taking delivery of 21 Rootes-bodied welfare coaches built on Dodge 50Series chassis/front...

A NEW antifreeze based on propylene glycol has been developed by Dow Chemical Co Ltd, to be marketed under the tradename...

DODGE TRUCKS have issued a service bulletin explaining to operators of 300Series vehicles fitted with the BS16 engine how to...

VVADHAM STRINGER (Coachbuilders) Ltd of Waterlooville, Hampshire, has revealed its first 11m Vanguard single-deck bus, reports...

"WE'RE damn near broke" is the heading on a letter which West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive director general James...

SCANIA (Great Britain) Ltd expects to announce its first volume orders from British operators for the BR112DH double-deck...

DESPITE the effects of the exceptionally severe winter of 1978-79 on passenger levels and vehicle maintenance and in spite of...

CLEVELAND Transit has published a final report on the performance of its "clean air bus." The bus, a Daimler Fleetline with a...

FOLLOWING its leakage to report on LT's own activities, Management Consultants, has Transport executive board. LT chairman...

THE PRACTICAL problems of keeping in line with drivers' hours regulations were highlighted last week when a Hertfordshire...

LONDON TRANSPORT faces its most severe crisis since the last war. This claim was made at a special Greater London Council...

NATIONAL Bus Company subsidiary Maidstone and District has begun evaluation trials of different types of double-deck buses....

I AM WRITING in response to the article by The Hawk entitled "Union scandal" (Bird's eye view, May 31). The item stated that...

WITH a keen sense of timing, Mr Editor, you included the report of TUC boss Mark Hall's address on the Employment Bill in the...

CHAOTIC conditions exist on some major Essex roads at the best of times, and the A l 3 route linking the Essex approach to the...

HAVING read your recent editorial on the subject of CB radio I feel compelled to advise you that during my 18 years as a...

THE 68 canny hauliers and bus operators who form the Ayrshire Road Transport Group Training Association have in ten years...

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Andrew Hayward is a great credit to his dad. He is Hotpoint's transport controller and must be one of the...

INSPECTOR Stanley Oldfield, of Greater Manchester police traffic department, has several cogent answers for aggrieved traffic...

NOT CONTENT with promoting speedway and cycle races, MAN-VW Truck and Bus Ltd is now backing the horses. It is supporting six...

THIS MONTH the DFD: Harwich/Esbjerg ferry rout! celebrates its centenary. In it first month of operation then were six sailings...

0 l' i fit s INISH SEAWAYS In a pictorial centenary book let one of the captions says tha the ss Kasan, as far back a: 1889,...

I WOULD not have thought i1 possible to sketch even a brie1 history of the war on crime in road transport without referring to...

BRANDING an opposing interest as a lobby is usually a sure sign that the accusation applies more strongly to oneself. This is...

LONDON'S traffic problems cannot be solved during the 1980s, but traffic flows can — and must — be dramatically improved....

claim to fame OUT OF a total mileage of 8000 miles not more than 200 miles of roads have been built in London since the early...

RUSH-HOUR speeds in Central London have fallen in the past five years from 14 to 12mph. Traffic flows increased two per cent in...

LACK of co-ordination between public utilities adds to traffic chaos. In Scotland and imaginative experimental service, SUSIE,...

URBAN traffic management has great potential for increasing traffic flows. If control can be applied in areas of London there...

MORE THAN 1900 photos are printed in the 704 pages of The Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles; 2500 manufacturers are...

TEN YEARS AGO, when the transport industry was concerned about the provisions of the 1968 Transport Act, the idea for The...

THE AA is 75 years old and its 1980 Handbook says that the organisation is in a stronger position than ever before to provide a...

BECAUSE of the looming energy crisis predicted around the year 2000, many manufacturers throughout the world are hard at work...

lems affect the cold starting of an ethanol engine to the extent that it is impossible to start at temperatures below 15°C (60°...

I HAVE ALWAYS associated the name of Fodens with good, solid and reliable engineering. Roadtesting the Foden Fleetmaster 810...

THE RANGE of newly designed sunglasses which we are able to offer to CM readers at well below shop prices have Reactolite...

IN ORDER to keep up with the demands of urban driving — continual acceleration, and so on — buses in use today are generally...

THE TRAFFIC OFFICE is the hub of a transport company or the transport department of an own-account fleet operator. Maintenance,...