Future bright for Overland THE FUTURE is looking brighter for BRS Overland, the company which was set up almost a year ago to...

WAR was declared on the tachograph last week by leaders of the Transport and General Workers Union. After a four hour meeting...

from our Parliamentary correspondent [HE GOVERNMENT is putting on a brave face after nauling which its Dock Work Regulations...

['HE TRANSPORT MINITER will not order the gational Bus Company to buy mly British buses. But when he rejected the dea in the...

IARK LANE, Tottenham, ■ lorth London, is to be closed o through traffic. It has been losed under an experimental an since June...

TRANSPORT and General Workers Union pay policy has been approved by the union's national council — and it is now up to the...

THREATS to cut off cash from metropolitan authorities with low fare policies have been made by Transport Minister Mr William...

Unless the metropolitan counties toe the Government line on transport spending, they face the threat of a complete withdrawal...

TRUCK sales in Britain showed signs of an upswing during September, according to figures issued this week by the Society of...

FODEN have set up a new marketing and sales operation to handle their Scottish customers and provide a back-up for the...

A GOVERNMENT plan to recoup the cost of treating accident victims — which could add £30m a year to the cost of road haulage —...

Starting work WORK is to start soon on the Sandtoft to Trent section of the MI80 South Humberside motorway and it will take...

HAULAGE insurer Ernest A. Notcutt has opened its new office in Cambridge at Road Haulage Association headquarters. The company...

SOUTH Humberside's motorway, M180, is to be extended to take in the new Scunthorpe by-pass at a cost of £10,612,627 announced...

CAVE WOOD Transport is to expand its groupage services to and from Paris with a new link European warehousing group, Compagnie...

AN OWN-ACCOUNT operator believed that because two of its vehicles were new and under warranty they did not need monthly...

CRANE FRUEHAUF have rejected as "derisory" a take over bid by the Fruehauf Corporation, of Michigan USA, who already own a...

BRITISH LEYLAND'S plan to reorganise the Truck and Bus group got a major boost last week. Workers at the Albion plant in...

BRS rental in Scotland BRS TRUCK Rental service is now fully operational in the West of Scotland with the opening of the...

TRANSPORT INTERNATIONAL POOL have opened another new depot to make trailers more available to London operators. The new branch...

The first batch of TDC refrigerated trailer vans was recently delivered to BOC Transhield. Produced at the TDC works at...

experts say IRTE transport policy being reversed now there is endless consultation before the policy is announced. He told the...

GOVERNMENT road spending is far too low when compared with the cost of road accidents says the Road Operators Safety Council in...

TONY BOWLAND has retired as managing director of NMU Transport Ltd after 44 years with the company. He is being replaced by...

THE TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union has failed in its attempt to stop bus fares in Edinburgh from rising. At a hearing...

in Scotland could be used to give a postbus service. This was said by Mr Trevor Carpenter, chairman of the Scottish Postal...

SUGGESTIONS from Sport Minister Denis Howell that coach operators were at fault in the Birmingham football riot have been...

UNIONS' AND OPERATORS' associations in the coach industry are being brought together by the Advisory Conciliation and...

Reduce Staff LIBERAL LEADER Mr David Steel suggested in the Commons last week that if Scottish Transport Group's passenger...

MILITANT MUNICIPAL bus operators may try to compel the Department of Transport to resume payments of new bus grants to them by...

get militant ove grants advice. The ADC has been advised that action can be taken against the Transport Department — but the...

City of Nottingham Transport is perhaps the worst hit operator. It had 16 vehicles delivered after April 1 this year for which...

Tory council proposals, five Waveney district councillors would sit on a consultative body with an equal number of Eastern...

WILLOWBROOK expects to be able to double output after a new extension to its Loughborough factory is opened in December. A new...

AN INCREASING number of tanker operators involved in the carriage of industrial wastes are specifying safety features on their...

A PROTOTYPE cross-country vehicle able to ford deep streams and negotiate gradients with its floor completely level has been...

An occas!onal series on faces in the news F flower in UK garden THERE were signs this week of the long awaited recovery in...

TUNBRIDGE WELLS has been home to the Freight Transport Association for a year. It has been twelve months which have seen...

It seems like only yesterday we were mourning the loss of the old A/B system. Today we have a new one; those who have a pound...

Mr Jonathon Lawton rightly stressed at CM's Fleet Management Conference (CM October 8) that warnings of disciplinary action,...

I wish to thank Commercial Motor for the reference in the article headed "Come and join us" by John Darker in the Earls Court...

We were interested to read Mr Gibson's letter in CM and the comment that he - Buys British" when he can. We were particularly...

Bernard Atkins started his company, F.B. Atkins & Sons of Findern, Derby, 50 years ago. It always puzzled me how a company can...

Strongly recommended to all engineers — the newly released Perkins film Man the Inventor. The diary of the diesel engine, it's...

The tachograph manufacturers took a bit of stick at the Fleet Management Conference, I see: they were even accused of trying to...

It's almost like a history page this week, so here's another tale. If you like historic details, and let me say here the only...

IT'S ALL very well operating the most up-to-date machine across Europe but any truck is only earning money when it is moving a...

A TRANSPORT CONTRACTOR who told his driver to "— off" was deemed to have dismissed him and he was instructed to pay the driver...

of the Year Competition where he was asked: what is the minimum height of a tail board? Could you quote the relevant...

the licence granted to me include all classes of psv? If I drive only non-psv minibuses during the period of that licence, will...

and books with 15 sheets need not have duplicate sheets, do the completed records have to be preserved for 12 months as...

weight is about one ton 18cwt and which has been plated at 3.6 tons. The latest equivalent of this vehicle is plated at just...

a broken-down attic, the two vehicles, in effect, become a drawbar-trailer outfit. The maximum length allowed for this kind of...

IN 1966, Thomas Brothers Haulage and Container Service bought a Bedford Telehoist skip truck and 10 skips. In retrospect,...

by Martin Watkins WHEN West Ham Football Club offered Laceys of East Ham a contract to provide an executive coach for the team,...

IT'S COMMON knowledge that if iron is in contact with a flow of water and a supply of air it will rust, and as soon as we get...

by John C. Vann As inflation bites deeper into our pockets, concern mounts for our old age. Aimed at helping to alievate these...