THE Road Transport Industry Training Board is to spend £1.5m to assist employers in maintaining adequate levels in the...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has been asked to meet the Road Haulage Association to discuss member's grievances over the...

THE PROBLEMS caused to transport firms by the change to the differing "official" summer times between Britain and Europe were...

THE Greater London Council is strongly in favour of a Channel link and says whatever is finally chosen should include a rail...

FODENS last week invited its bankers and trustees to appoint joint receivers and managers, Sir Kenneth Cork and Mr Phillip...

MPs in the European Perlis ment have thrown their sup port behind moves to spent EEC money on improvini roads in non-member...

THE Road Transport Industry Training Board is to invite the Road Haulage Association to discuss the RHA's criticisms and...

AS MOST commercial vehicle manufacturers enter their annual holiday shutdown periods, the market continues to look gloomy. The...

BECAUSE of the cutback on the movement of traffic, estimated at about 30 per cant for the first six months of this year,...

WHAT IS four or five years to a building which has been standing for 700? Very little, Lord Mowbray and Stourton seems to...

THE Freight Transport Association's regular analysis of local authority activity in the field of lorry control reveals that...

IE P&O group road haulage subsidiary P&O Roadways Ltd, lixstowe, is to close the Hawthorne Road, Liverpool, depot North Western...

k PACKAGE dealing with Ishicle maintenance is now Ivailable in the Local iovernment Training Board's 'Safety at Work" series...

OPERATING costs have risen by 16 per cent since January 1. This figure was revealed in the Road Haulage Association's "Price...

A SERIES of one-day briefings have been arranged throughout the UK to help employers prepare for the new Notification of...

Go and persuade LA, tribunal tells haulier A CAMBRIDGE operator has failed in an appeal to the Transport Tribunal in London...

CAVE WOOD European Transport of High Wycombe, in collaboration with Rhenus Hellas Limited, has launched a regular joint...

A lorry driver who h; pleaded guilty to driving tipper lorry with a private ti disc, has had his case a journed until August 1...

execution AN OPERATOR who allegedly allowed a driver to use a vehicle illegally has had his case adjourned sine die (without...

A HAULAGE COMPANY from Rainham, Kent, has had its case referred back to the Deputy South-Eastern Traffic Area by London. Betsy...

ON ONE SINGLE day this year six separate and important stretches of the M1 had been closed although no work was in progress and...

MINISTER of Transport Norman Fowler told Parliament last week that clearing house arrangements would be set up to assist RCU...

A SCHEME for tax relief for investment in small businesses has been agreed for presentation to Government by the Association of...

A NEW regular freight service between the British Transport Docks Board's port of Garston, on Merseyside, and Dublin began on...

DODGE/CHLORIDE, manufacturers of the Silent Karrier, intends to introduce a new electric model next spring, based on the Dodge...

MANOR Bakeries Ltd, makers of Mr Kipling cakes, has completed the installation of two-tier Hydraroll Pneumatic Roller Tracks in...

KARCHER (UK) Ltd has introduced a fully transportable unit to make washing and brake cleaning in the workshop an easier task....

FOUR x FOUR Land Rover Hire Ltd and Highway Sweepers Ltd have moved their Southern offices from Hanworth, Middlesex, to 113...

Why all the secrecy? THE BRMA opened its doors this week to the technical press to show, for the first time, what goes on...

A TAM PLIN System 3 Discharge unit is being used by Freightliner to unload S65 pvc resin from Milan arriving at Pirelli's...

DANGERS face the bus industry following the removal of new bus grant, according to Confederation of British Road Passenger...

LT makes comeback LONDON TRANSPORT bus services are improving. This was the opinion of chairman Ralph Bennett, reviewing...

Perkins to lay off shopfloor workforce PERKINS Engines Ltd is to cut its shopfloor workforce as part of an overall efficiency...

SOLIHULL-based bodybuilders Wilsdon and Co Ltd have just completed the conversion of five vehicles for use by the social...

HIGHER gross weights and their effect on productivity and the environment were well to the fore last week at a conference...

REPORTED in last week's 2A4, Fodens Ltd has asked its Dankers, National Westminster, lo call in a receiver, writes Sraham...

Car sales for May alone this year were 34 per cent down or last year. The delivery indus - ry is cushioned from the worst...

IN your July 5 issue you provided information on vehicle bodybuilders by way of a bodybuilders guide. You gave due reference to...

AS A regular reader of Commercial Motor I was greatly interested in "Echoes of Unity Down at the Arabian Wells'' (CM, June 14,...

MY HOBBY is vehicles. I am a collector of catalogues, snaps,. technical data and anything of interest to do with commercial...

I HAVE noticed with interest the deluge of letters in response to your notorious CB editorial. With the recent statement in...

I DON'T think you know what you're talking about. CB radio? I've driven a truck in America for nearly ten years now and I don't...

IT IS NOT often that my Assocaition agrees with Commercial Motor, but I do support strongly the views you expressed on...

I AM very interested in lorries sc myself and a friend decided tc make a poster and go down tc the M1 near Strelley, Not...

David Wilcox surveys one of the most competitive businesses in the industry. details costs. and gives a few tips on hiring...

FOR MANY people in the industry who were trained at Leyland Motors Ltd, the name of Wellington House might just evoke a few...

CHRISTOPHER ThorneycroftSmith is marketing sport with all the enthusiasm that he applies to his job as marketing director of...

RUNNING on a flat tyre, particularly the inner cover on a twin wheel, has caused many a commercial-vehicle fire, yet Dunlop has...

I HAVE BEEN browsing happily through Gobbledegook, in which Tom Vernon, a radio journalist, dissects some official forms on...

IF YOU were thinking of being ill on a visit to an EEC country, don't. If you must, however, do study form. DHSS leaflets...

by Graham Montgomerie WHEN DESIGNING diesel engines for total operating economy, low fuel consumption is only one of several...

Call them drawbars, roadtrains or anyhing else, writes John Durant. As far as local goVernment's concerned -- ney're just too...

by anything which affects efficiency. 'The suggested limit of 15.5m length in London would make drawbars completely uneconomic...

Pilki l ICHAIN ICS Torque wrench settings WHEN RE-ASSEMBLING any motor vehicle parts it is vital that the nuts, bolts or set...

Tim Blakemore defends he rights of what is all too often the tractive untt poor relation. Pictures by Brian Wea erley THERE...

This is a group of study : awards valued at £6000 and co-sponsored by six other companies. The awards are being made to assist...

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

Tachograph timetable THE LAW concerning tachographs is to be found in EEC Regulations 1363/70 and it is made enforceable in...

THE Greater London Council has named Ian Phillips as a full-time member of the London Transport Executive with responsibility...