PARLIAMENTARY debates and deliberations in the next six weeks will have a direct bearing on the efficient economic operation of...

HE GOVERNMENT is being less than honest when it says that the dustry has changed its views to accept the privatisation of...

VON AND CORNWALL drivers are being advised to accept a :rease in basic pay, giving top-weight drivers an £86 rate for 40...

COMMERCIAL vehicle sales will rise by about 10,000 this year, an increase of around five per cent on last year's 218,000 total,...

NATIONAL FREIGHT employees were congratulated on pushing forward the boundaries of capitalism, when Transport Secretary David...

EIGHT by-passes have been added to the Government's trunk roads programme for England, in a move calculated to ease the...

LOCAL AUTHORITIES should view the need for existing la bans before they change Hu over to the new gross weis basis, believes...

EMPLOYMENT SECRETA Norman Tebbit has increa the allowances available older employees who want take advantage of the GEM ment's...

RAIL FREIGHT will only gain business where the service and price are right, Freight Transport Association board member Ian...

PLANS should be drawn up for increased lorry parking at motorway service areas, the industry has told the Government, and it...

LEYLAND VEHICLES resumed delivery of new chassis and spare parts this week, with the end of the strikes at its Leyland,...

COMMON MARKET officials are working on proposals aimed at cutting the red tape at frontiers so that the average waiting time...

EXCLUSIVE Cleaning Services, the company which took over Southend's refuse collection service in 1980, is taking over...

IRISH operators who break the law will face stiffer penalties and stricter police surveillance, following proposals to be...

at the Computer Fair, being held at Earls Court, London, from April 23 to 25 by our associate journals Practical Computing and...

VIKING SHIPPING Services is the first company to take up warehouse space at the Garonor distribution site in Leeds. It has...

TWO associated Suffolk companies, W. Carter (Haulage) Ltd and CEL (Engineering) Ltd, kept a close check on the weight of loads...

THE SCOTTISH Office is prov ing another £1.5m this year ferry operators, and it has solved the long running con sion over the...

But if the Anglo-French tudies into a fixed link, which re expected to be ready by the eginning of next month, favour bored...

THE DEPARTMENT of the Environment in the Irish Republic has approved in principle some 85 centres to implement its compulsory...

BRITISH RAIL has shown little initiative in developing the possibilities for the use of rail in large bulk movements of grain...

BANNING all heavy vehicles from London would cost United Biscuits Distribution Services almost £2m. managing director Bob...

ALL LORRIES used to transpc milk and dairy products shoL be given an automatic exam illme in the event of a Great London ban,...

kfilNING vehicles above 16 tons would raise the price of petrol and her fuels by 2.5 pence per gallon, said Esso Petroleum....

THE WOOD Inquiry has called upon an independent consultant to find out the effects of a lorry ban or a weight limit on nine...

LORRIES over 16 tonnes should be banned from all residential areas, according to the Highgate Conservation Area Advisory...

THE LOWER the weight limit imposed, the greater the adverse effect on the environment, inflation, traffic congestion, and on...

THE TIME has come for a ban on lorries in London and other major cities, the National Council On Inland Transport advised the...

MILLIONS of pounds have been invested in the setting up of a Southall operation, and any lorry weight restrictions would cause...

ALMOST 900 lorry loads newsprint reels are delivered member companies of tl Newspaper Publishers Assoc tion each week. They are...

111 Hrfield emergencies EW breed of Rapid intervenVehicle was introduced by N-VW at its Swindon nises last week. le Jumbo...

ER the past four years a Bedford yard shunter equipped with a ies Magnet fifth-wheel has completed over 400,000 coupling...

Eagle 2651 engine has led Park RELIABILITY of the Rolls-Royce Cakes Ltd, Oldham-based baker, to place an order for 20...

GUYMERS TRANSPORT Ltd of Walsall is to have 15 of its semitrailers converted to curtain-sided units by Kurtans Developments Ltd...

PERMISSION must first be obtained from the Customs and Excise before adding paraffin to diesel fuel, to stop it freezing. This...

BUS SERVICES in cities could be put out to tender from different • operators, Transport Secretary David Howell suggested to...

NEW BUS deliveries are being treated as a matter of urgency by Leyland Bus, following the resumption of normal work at its...

IRISH coach operators want the Republic's next Government to remove value added tax and excise duty from imported coaches, in...

ONLY A WEEK after CK Coaches drivers guarded their buses avoid their being repossessed, the Cardiff operator got "its shc back...

WORK is almost complete one of the strangest buses bt for the British market, an urb double-decker on a Volvo B1...

eason tickets valid for over a feek until after its 100 per cent ares increase on March 21. It ays it cannot afford to go on...

1US AND COACH operators lay not need to meet the iinding up costs of their sector if the Road Transport Industry "raining...

CANNOCK independent Brian Pedley succeeded in getting his standard national psv operator's licence for two minibuses upgraded...

LONDON TRANSPORT should receive more funds from the Government, Greater London Council transport committee chairman Dave Wetzel...

Jomponents hold-ups big survey SLIGHT increase in business is cturers, but production in some int shortages. A vast amount of...

Counties Omnibus nnpany in succession to BER4RD ROOTHAM, who retires at e end of June. He started his reer as an apprentice...

THREE DAYS' hard driving over rough roads, cross-country and alpine circuits tested three 4x4 machines. Steve Gray and Bill...

The Dutch company makes a wide range of vehicles and has the ex IVECO man as UK agent FRANK TINSDALE has long been associated...

leckmondwike tanker company thich, although taken over by le National Freight Corporation lany years ago, preserved his ame...

IRIAN HAYWARD has done nuch for National Carriers since le became group managing Iirector. As well as having remendous drive,...

AFTER being buried in a chinaclay waste tip in Cornwall for about 30 years and then stored for another 20 years, a 1916...

TAXIS and hire cars "appear to be an inceasingly important part of the national public transport system and not an expensive...

LONDON will long be in debt to the legendary Frank Pick, who became vice-chairman and chief executive of the London Passenger...

The Government's new scheme will raise standards — a vital need both for youngsters and employers, says CM's correspondent...

WE APOLOGISE to readers who expected a report from Sauditransport '82 in this week's issue. The opening of the Show was delayed...

Aerobus Engineering Ltd, Switzerland; Agousta, Milan, Italy; Accles and Pollock, Holland; AlBar, Saudi Arabia; Al-dhiafa...

THE CM Special Offer homestudy course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage (international) is now...

HEN a dangerous substance is rried by road in a tanker or nk container, Regulation 10 of e Dangerous Substances onveyance by...

more interesting for what was left out than what was put in. This observation is not intended as a criticism — a prodigous...

Md. THE RULES on statutory ;ick benefit are about to be hanged; claims for both rnployers and statutory sick lay will require...

ALTHOUGH the hgv learner driver may well be an experienced car driver it is essential for him to be thoroughly familiar with...

ELEPHANT CLOTHS they are called, and those high-grade cotton wiping cloths from Molnlycke are, it says, too cheap to launder,...

AGS has introduced two winter care products — Lock-Ease and Dripless Oil. Lock-Ease helps protect locks from freezing up and...

A CABINET offering a low-cost method of storing tachograph discs has been introduced by Welconstruct. The 16J cabinet is...

THE BIRMINGHAM-based UK division of CR Industries is running a special offer on its Heatstar ether starting system designed to...

E. W. TAYLOR FUEL Control has a further addition to its specialised product range — the pre-paid dery dispensing unit. The...

A LUBRICATION device introduced by Romatic of Salford will make the chassis lubrication of van fleets quicker easier and much...

iE SAFETY precautions icessary in using oxyetylene welding equipment are considered in my previous tide. Many commercial bide...