I PRIVATE Member's Bill to be presented to Parliament picks up a subject first raised y CMten years ago. The Bill will seek to...

HAULAGE DRIVERS' national union officer this week praised employers' response to the winter's wage claims, as the first...

DEPARTMENT of Transport claims that down-licensing would create enforcement difficulties are "pure fabrication", Freight...

FIFTY OPERATORS have be made the subject of a £50,C study commissioned by t Greater London Council investigate the likely...

Just over 140,000 attended the show, compared with 132,081 for 1981. This year's figure is still four per cent below the 1979...

NE BRIDGE Labour MP Harry Cowans is set to be the new Chairn of the House of Commons transport select committee. Cowans is one...

CARRYFAST, the express parcels carrier which SPD took over from GKN, is to be sold to its own management. A management...

THE REORGANISATION of the Traffic Areas has finally been approved, despite the misgivings of the Labour Party. THE motion to...

PROPERTY INVESTMENT is expected to exceed property sales at the National Freight Consortium this year and next, it said last...

LEYLAND TRUCKS' French subsidiary has won a £530,000 order for 25 Rolls-Royce-engined 38tonne Roadtrain tractive units. The...

SCOTLAND'S trunk road I gramme could be reduced d tically as a result of Government's public expe ture White Paper published...

THE LOSSES piled up this year by MAN, West Germany's recis hit commercial vehicle manufacturer, have cost parent corn chairmand...

PAUL RIVETT is to become managing director of the National Freight Consortium's Australian removals and distribution subsidiary...

THE INDEPENDENT Express Corporation has taken on Mike Horne as national sales manager. He heads up the 22-strong sales team and...

JIM MARTIN has taken over a5, sales director/general manager of the coach division of W. S. Yeates. Mr Martin joined the...

THE ROAD TRANSPORT Industry Training Board has confirmed its choice of a new manager for Motec, its Multi Occupational Training...

NATIONAL BUS Company de puty chairman and chief execu tive Robert Brook has beer made a non-executive directo of United...

JOHN MILLARD, general mar ager of Victoria Coach Statior London, since 1978, has bee invested as a Member of th British...

THE DEPARTMENT of the Environment is already planning new arrangements for waste disposal, after the Greater London Council and...

RENWICKS FREIGHT has moved into a freight depot in Blackburn, West Lothian to meet growing business demands. The four-acre...

SUGGESTIONS by a Road Haulage Association consultant that the dynamic axle weigher at Warndon, Worcestershire was inaccurate,...

JAMES BURROUGH, distiller of Beefeater Gin, has bought 00,000 of computer hardware from Freight Computer Services to provide an...

THE CONSTRUCTION of M25 London orbital route now reached the M4 and trz will be diverted while an terchange and bridges are bu...

THERE WILL BE delays on A47 Kings Lynn Southern pass for about three week allow maintenance work three bridges. Each...

TOWMASTER TRANSPORT transport division of Sc Whisky group Arthur Bell Sons, made a profit of £2,00 the year to June 30, 1983....

SHROPSHIRE COMPANY which tried to mislead a Licensing uthority to gain more time to raise a £120 fee for an operator's :ence...

IE TRANSPORT Tribunal has come under flak from the Road ulage Associciation over its ruling earlier this year that the remoI of...

A FIVE MILE (8km) stretch of the planned motorway linking the Frejus tunnel exit in France to Turin in Italy has been opened....

DOW FREIGHT Services of Bredbury, Stockport, has been chosen by Colt Cars for its fast parts nationwide delivery service. Dow...

WHEN the new automatic toll collection system settles down vehicles will get through the tunnels more quickly, Richard...

AUTOMATE or liquidate is the stark choice facing British manufacturers, according to Sir leuan Maddock, technology development...

BEDFORD has announced d tails of rear axle changes in i TM (EBV) tractive units. Temporary supply problen with Raba rear axles...

MAN-VW has joined the ma other manufacturers who ha recently revised their parts pri list in an attempt to win ha business from...

NND K BRADLEY of Bingley, Ist Yorkshire, has improved Mk 10 heavy-duty towing t, designed for trailers up to I0kg (3.45 tons)...

ERBOROUGH-based Ray Smith Tail Lifts new cantilever tail lift s an extra haff-tonne capacity. The two-tonne model is fitted a...

THE LATEST model in the Mercedes G Series range of four-wheeldrive cross-country estate cars is the 230GE. Power is provided...

A KIT from Torque of Rochdale gives automatic engine throttle setting, providing protection for auxiliary equipment. The...

A VEHICLE cargo security system that automatically records vehicle weight, date and time of day, gives a new meaning to "Spy in...

THE LUBE LINER sold by Industrial Mechanised Products of Tunbridge Wells, Kent through local distributors eliminates the...

objects behind his vehicle is being marketed by Reversafer of Middlesex. The device, called Reversafer, indicates to the...

HENDRICKSON EUROPE of Cork in the Republic of Ireland is marketing a new single-axle rubber suspension available in kit form...

TESTS at the Transport at Road Research Laboratory's te track at Crowthorne, Berkshit using BP Oil's Vanellus FE e gine oil and...

BEDFORD has quashed rumoi that production of TK mod above 7.5 tonnes gvw is tub( to stop. Though TL/TK production Dunstable is...

E GOVERNMENT's war on "wasteful" public transport subsidies s been driven a stage nearer home by Chancellor of the Excheer...

4GE SERVICE bus fares rose faster than the retail price index :ween 1973 and last year, according to Government statistics just...

NATIONAL HOLIDAYS is launching a new coach/air holiday programme named Skyrider. It involves coaching holidaymakers to...

HESTAIR has confirmed the management changes at Duple Coachbuilders in Blackpool (CM, November 19). The company name has been...

_ apologise too NATIONAL BUS Company subsidiary United Counties Engineering UC's technical division, has launched a...

Council Ergonomics Ex tion entitled Only Hut Among them was a talking stop called Elsie — short Electronic Speech Inform...

HE passenger news section tour edition of November 12, 13 (on page 19) I saw a 'thine "Transport 2000 reply" ad on, keen to see...

JR November 12 issue tamed an article, in your al, expert style, about the don Transport Passengers - imittee's response to...

THANK you for your generally very fair coverage given to Elan's survey of export distribution practices among UK high...

YOUR correspondent, Nigel Breeze of Southend in "Dear Sir" of October 29, 1983, comments on the "ills of coaching". His strong...

CAN anybody beat this for inefficiency? On Wednesday, May 4, 1983,1 broke down with my Leyland (401 engine) outside Interchange...

OCIAL DEMOCRATIC :hose Salford for its I conference; the Liberals, ;ate; the Labour Party, on; the Tories and the ; Union...

national chairman, I Russett, opened the cone by welcoming delegates new faces in particular. 'the objects of holding the Brice...

Mr Groenendijk is the secretary-general of the International Road Transport Union (or as Harold Russett described him, the...

Product development director at Leyland Trucks, Peter Capon, was one of the week's best speakers. His paper (accompanied by a...

y three of the conference Id have started with an 3ss from Lynda Chalker, ;ter of State for Transport, ;he was unable to attend...

Peter Thompson, chairman and chief executive of the National Freight Consortium, followed Lord Lucas's speech with a paper and...

Freddie Plaskett's report on the final day of the conference was much as expected. He ran through the RHA's membership services...

ony Ball of Tony Ball Assoes had a dual role to play at conference. He was the afterler speaker at the RHA gala ler (a leading...

Ralph Cropper raises another worrying point about the new licensing legislation THREE WORDS spoken by a Licensing Authority at...

DK the Japanese years to le public acceptance and ility they enjoy today, and h the Japanese vehicle facturers would probably...

INADEQUATE insurance can easily lead a haulier to lose his business. Let me tell you how that nearly happened to one operator;...

. ock assesses the ?des-Benz diesel n he's just taken S Europe MANY of the motoring vere fussing around the 10 Mercedes-Benz,...

Sue Palmer, manager, ICFC Business Development, explains the financial assistance available for small firms in transport THE...

EATING down British Rail • a new five-year mail ract, the Post Office atened to make greater use oad transport for seconds...

3 Leyland Trucks trying to :age DAF Trucks, which has 'loved Alan Minter to note sales, by engaging ik Bruno, described as...

A HIGHLIGHT of the transport calendar is the Freight Transport Association's annual Scottish dinner, an attraction which packs...

ENTHUSIASTS for the Thames bus do not give up despite the failure of previous attempts to persuade people to travel to and from...

WHETHER or not the Mary Rose Trust prayed "Ohl for the wings of a dove," the need for transport for artifacts from Henry VIII's...

THE STEERING mechanism of a motor vehicle must enable the driver to change direction with the minimum of effort and to maintain...

EN SECURE overnight (ing is unavailable, a 3erly fitted vehicle alarm can r protection against the loss ehicle or cargo, as...

ifreeze IELF OPERATORS big or I, specialised lubricant ufacturers Century Oils :ets its Snowdrift antifreeze tariety of...

LIGHT commercial vehicle dealers with limited groundfloor showroom space, but with room for vehicle display on a second floor,...

CLEAN VEHICLES are good image builders for road transport operators, and a new extendable washing brush from Polco Products can...

The Official Secrets Act prevents Reg Dawson from revealing the advice he gave, as Head of the DTp's Road Freight Division, to...

WHEN Graham Smart won the Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year title last September, he effectively became the best and...