RATORS are predictably meeting strong, if not fierce, opposition to claims for 3 increases. Even those who are asking for more...

HE SALE of shares in the Govrnment-owned National 'eight Company has been delied and is unlikely to go ahead efore mid-1982....

MOBIL has finalised an 11 per cent wage deal with its 250 tanker drivers. The deal also affects ancillary workers and involves...

THE PRICE of dery rose by further 2p a gallon this week oil companies claimed they hi to compensate for the fall value of the...

ANOTHER Ford industri, dispute, this time at the cor pany's Halewood body asser bly plant, has resulted in lay-of at plants...

'HE POSSIBILITY that a settlement to the Civil Service dispute, now its eleventh week, might be reached this week should be...

ILL JOHNSON has resigned as eneral sales and marketing ianager of Sandbach Engieering Company. He was rev iously executive...

WAYS of reducing fuel costs a to be discussed at a one-di conference on June 25 at id Pante Hotel in London. Conference...

JOINING the growing numbe of manufacturers who ha' handed over their distribution a specialist carrier is Redrii Electric,...

:URTHER heats in CM's Lorry killer of the Year Competition vere held last weekend. In Londonderry, winner of :lass A was R....

SOUTHAMPTON University's report on spray suppression on heavy goods vehicles is due for publication before the end of July....

THE solution to London's trai port problems does not lie oi with the bulldozers and buildi new roads, says the London gion of...

CONTAINING distribution co! is the problem to be tackled the speakers at a seminar London on June 24. Chaired by chief...

HE SELECTION of drivers for redundancy by Schrieber Furniture td on the grounds of economy of operation rather than on a "last...

A WORCESTERSHIRE haulier's licence was renewed for only one year by West Midlands Licensing Authority Arthur Crabtree at...

THE One-for-One Pallet E change Scheme, which w launched in Kent and South Lc don in March 1979, is report to be progressing...

INTERFREIGHT Ltd is likely appeal against Solihull Borou , Council/West Midlands Cour Councils' joint decision to refu planning...

WOLVERHAMPTON haulier who admitted operating without a cence since his previous licence had been terminated in May 1979 For the...

THE Government is committe to a major programme of trur and local road investmen according to Junior Transpo Minister Kenneth...

HAULAGE firm chief was found guilty at Perth Sheriff Court last meek of operating an £8,000 milk fraud. Alastair Campbell, of...

NE Ministry of Agriculture is :arrying out a review of the Vleat (Sterilisation) Regulations 1969 which affect a limited lumber...

THE English National Opt Company has entered t contract hire field for the fi time and has handed over transport operation to...

DEVON County Council has issued a high court writ against fa hauliers and two county court summonses against two for allege(...

LGIAN coachbuilders Jonckere's new British dealers — , sse la re Sales Limited of rthampton — has recently pplied significant...

SIX exhibition buses, one driven by Transport Secretary Norman Fowler and others by the Minister representing Scotland, Wales,...

GLASGOW'S 50-year bus mon poly may soon come to an end. Glasgow District Council ha been urging for some time tha the...

THE FIRST new bus for many years from Shelvoke & Drewery's Special Purpose Vehicle Division has been built in co-operation with...

ONDON Transport's Airbus ervice between Heathrow Airiorts' three terminals and Cenral London could face competiion if an...

THE FIRST of an order for 17 new double-deck buses to South Yorkshire Passenge Transport Executive has bee despatched by...

TWO delegates from every bt branch at the Transport ar General Workers' Union wei invited to a consultative confe ence in...

GREEMENT by Renault Trucks id Buses (UK) Ltd to handle lack Trucks sales and service in ritain is not affected by the reently...

iE LUCAS CAV Microjector has won one of Britain's top prizes for 'oduct design. A 1981 Design Council Award has been bestowed...

AN INDIVIDUAL version of th popular Dodge 50-series "wal thru" vans, now no longer in pr.( duction, has been produced b...

THE ERAD French mini-truck with a carrying capacity of 432ki (8.5cwt) and claimed fuel consumption of up to 3.51ittlOOkn...

FOLLOWING an agreement made with French refrigerated bodybuilder Klegefrance, York Trailer Company has announced new range of...

TRANSPORT Secretary Nom Fowler proposes to amend Motor Vehicles (Construct and Use) Regulation. T amendment would enable tr...

THE CONSTRUCTOR Six, Leyland Vehicles' latest addition to its T45 range, is to be shown for the first time at the RHA's Tipcon...

IT IS false economy to repel commercial vehicle road wheels, according to George Fischer Sales Ltd, as such wheels will have a...

SS TIME on turnrounds is limed for a conversion of a m (33ft) flat platform trailer :o a 12.2m (40ft) curtainsider Craven...

NOTE that the reason why high . ehicles are hitting more low 'ridges was the subject of a ecent study published by the -...

IN JULY when Jim Prior makes the expected announcement of the demise of Industrial Training Boards could it be that he will...

YOUR NOTICE of my book Juggernaut (CM, March 28) needs a small but telling correction. The book does not "claim", as you say,...

I JUST HAD to write to say that I passed the CPC National examination at the first attempt. I will be forever grateful to...

MAY I refer to the photograph the Ford Cargo vehicle for I319S Truck Rental on page 5 of April issue. This body was built by...

WELSH bride-to-be who discored that she and her groom uld not enjoy the wedding enanigan in South Wales in ne and get to...

IN ANNQUNCING that the increase in dery duty would be reduced from 20p to lop a gallon when the Finance Bill eventually...

IT WAS appropriate that one of the leaders of the revolt against the higher fuel tax should have been the Conservative MP for...

BRITISH Rail's claim to be the most cost-effective railway in Europe seems to rest on an average mileage of 28.6 a day for the...

AMONG . the many features present-day life that baffle me people's readiness to pay goc money to advertise proprieta: articles...

1E WAY AHEAD was the theme this year's annual conference le 12th) of the Institute of Road ansport Engineers held at Soliill...

'HERE are three things you can Isually rely on seeing at the Tuin Show — exotic bodywork, liesel power on virtually everyling,....

exhibition many a visitor could be forg for thinking there are no pE the show, but they're then right! Volvo itself, apart...

oad haulage is the lifeblood he country's economy, then torways are the arteries. ut if you look at a motorway of Britain,...

NUFACTURERS in road sport are faced with more 3traints as far as weights and ensions are concerned than other industry I can...

HE FIRST man I met as I went ito Eastern Area Licensing .uthority Ken Peter's office was oad Haulage Association area ecretary...

IVING by car along lightly fticked roads to Great Yar,uth was a pleasure; listening "horror" stories of what the k of motorways...

E JOURNEY from Central 'don to the village of Tolleit D'Arcy in rural Essex uld be something of a htmare. Vere it not for the...

TICK OVER speeds, the spark the sparking plug must occur st before thee piston reaches Fe top of its compression roke, but it...

HE Royal Society of Arts' sylla)us for the CPC examination reluires students to "define and tate the consequences of forgiry...

Payne, distribution director J. Sainsbury Ltd, has been reacted president of the Freight - ansport Association for 181/82. Wilf...

ahead Scotland A77: A 12 tons axle limit and 50 ton gross vehicle weight limit polies at the Water of Girvan bridge until...

by Douglas Ainley AFTER HOLDING an adequate investigation and reaching a belief based upon reasonable grounds that an employee...