Whenever you take one of your vehicles off the road, it stops earning you money. Now, at last, there is one way in which you...

AGRICULTURAL HAULIERS face bankruptcy this autumn as the drought ruins crops, and future loads dry up in the sun. The drought...

EXPORT of water from Scotland to England to cope with drought conditions is not a feasible proposition, Scottish transport...

by CM reporter ICE by 1,000 tanker drivers at Ellesmere Port was on the his week over a demand from the drivers that aphs are...

4NELLI haulage corn f Hughes Haulage ) Ltd, which employs a it, is to close. beginning of last year Ipany became linked ue...

THE DEATH knell for the Government's transport policy plans was sounded this week by the Parliamentary Labour Party's transport...

by CM reporter and say that it is not a basis for a socialist approach to transport. And the group is particularly scathing...

RURAL BUSES, and an attack on what are described as "suspect" freight statistics in the Government's Green Paper on transport,...

it TML critics FIN WELLS, a former national chairman of the Road Haulage iodation, hit back this week at critics of a...

White, orange and green papers: in every colour they are tied up in red tape and transport still has to survive in a country...

by CM reporter 10, MIDDLE EAST hauliers faced with a drying up of pean permits, operators finding new ways to beat wall of...

(NE BIAS towards road 'nvestment has been slammed by the British Waterways Board in its reply to the Government's consultation...

1OHN GILBERT, Minister for rransport, has announced :hat the routes of the 3romsgrove section of M42 3irmingham-N ottingham...

LEYLAND is to set up a new components division and spares distributor network with 400 outlets over the country supplying...

be started by the Transflash Units company of Bradford on September I. The new service will operate three times a month from...

MERSEYSIDE County Coui dl is planning to build a ne 069,000 industrial access roa to remove heavy road tankei serving oil and...

PROBLEMS connected with the entry into this country of ,overloaded trailers from the Continent had led a company to refuse to...

AUSTRALIA'S market leader in trucks, International Harvester, is to sell Seddon Atkinson trucks alongside its own designs. An...

Overnight service FREIGHTLINERS Limit& the road/rail container tram port organisation, have stall ad a new overnight servic(...

RITAIN'S 32-ton weight nit on lorries is restricting ansport efficiency and givg EEC countries which allow P.avier trucks an...

EIGHTON Motor Company the latest DAF dealer to be )pointed and it is taking on ie South Yorkshire area. The neffield dealer...

HE British Association of emovers has announced its ?.w training programme of )76/77 and it covers residenal courses as well as...

must be given of the transport of a special load by road vehicle across the dock estate, whether import or export. The surface...

Alexandria and has also started a new direct groupage service to Darnman. The moves follow the opening of the company's...

CHRYSLER has increased i commercial vehicle prices 1 an average of 5.3 per cent, at it blames the increase manufacturing costs...

Their job will be to strengthen links between headquarters and the terminals and they will be based 'initially at London head...

A NEW experiment to gener-, ate more bus travel is to be undertaken by Midland Red on its Reddibus network in Redditch. It's a...

NEW MIDIBUS service perated by United Counties behalf of Bedfordshire :ounty Council is to start next lonth in the Leighton...

FINALS of the Bus Driver of the Year competition will this year be held at the Goodyear Tyre Company Works at Wolverhampton on...

THREE small coach firms in Oxfordshire have had tenders accepted by Oxford County Council to run combined stage carriage and...

THE OPERATION of I2-seater minibuses for carrying school children, without public service vehicle licences, led to officials...

BUS passengers in Nottingham, Derby, and Chesterfield will soon have "music as they ride." Nottingham at present has equipment...

A PURPOSE-BUILT "bi. only" bridge came into use Washington this weekend. Northern General Transpo claimed that it is probably...

) MEET the specific needs of h and chip shop suppliers, - ade-Leigh Products Ltd of - idover has built a special irpose body on...

ZIPLE SKIP, a system based a drawbar outfit and peritting three skips to be rried on one vehicle, has en launched by the John...

which will be shown for the first time at the Commercial . Vehicle Show this year. The Rolatip, as it is called, employs...

A NEW lightweight demountable system, the Dobson 'Super Seven' will be shown for the first time at the Commercial Motor Show in...

by the Technical Editor MAKING ITS debut at Earls Court in September (as forecast by CM July 16) is a double-drive six-wheeler...

from Volvo, which will also be unveiling a 6 x 4 model at the Show. Based on the existing 6 x 2 F86, the new six-wheeler will...

OADLINE is not a complete picture of gloom and espondency but a patient whose symptoms are being .eated, says the State-owned...

"You may prove anything by figures", according to Thomas Caryle — and the truck manufacturers seem to be taking him at his...

THE Laing Group's diversification (CM last week) into road haulage must arouse mixed feelings, particularly in the Southern...

The brewers, too, need watching. The big ones, The average original gravity (o.g.: the specific gravity of the wort before it...

It looks as impregnable as Fc Knox, to me. It's a sleeper bc what they have in the SW instead of sleeper cabs. TI American...

As drivers cross the Bulgariar border they are handed a leaflet containing a particularl rigid road safety rule. It says: When...

A colleague's comment on the name change announct two weeks ago by Chrysle UK. They are now selling their commercial vehicles...

licence number MIGHT I make a suggestion that the Traffic Commissioners or the Department of the Environment might do well to...

As an international haulier I am amazed to read your Editorial - Meet Half Way (CM). Surely this work is ours. Why should we...

abroad, am is never as easy to get out of it, especially if you are on yi own. Many things can go wrong, apart from breakdow...

NO DOUBT who you know and what you know play an important part if, as a potential owner-driver, you decide to set up a road...

More than 12,000 units of the German V8V standard bus have been put in service since production started in 1968. Twelve-hundred...

windows, the laminated floor and cable conduits. Two of the windows are double-glazed — using sealed units — to test passenger...

The number of French muni • cipalities banning vehicles of: more than 6 tonnes gvw is causing concern. The hauliers'...

ride, but whether it catches on in the UK will depend more on its demount applications—and the price by Graham Montgomerie THE...

by Stephen Gray photographs by Dirk Ross TO FILL what it regards as a "niche" in the light van market, Toyota has introduced a...

chassis up to 20 tons gvw. The vehicles do not carry goods, Could you say how they should be taxed; does the driver need an hgv...

5.5 tons. It is fitted with side windows and has four fixed (but folding) seats. Could this vehicle be considered a...

ruckaway-R Folding Recovery Crane, nanufactured by B. Dixon Bate Ltd, Chester, England. IDLE VEHICLES are a bane to any...

BLUE DOOR PLEASE Johnny Johnson samples two community routes "STOP at the blue door, please," a passenger on the Eastern...

PROPAGANDA concerning transport must begin in the kindergarten, to judge from reports of disturbances during the recent public...