A TOUGH STANCE has been taken by the new EEC Commissioner for Transport, over Britain's refusal to bring in tachograph...

TWO MEN were killed and another seriously injured, when a French truck crashed into a brokendown artic at Dartford, Kent, in...

Pi CARDIFF haulier has zlaimed the French will give him international permits to bring vehicles into Britain, if he moves his...

AN important draft amendment to the EEC Council directive on type approval (70/I56/EEC) will allow ancilliary component...

WILLIAM RODGERS, the Minister for Transport, took most of the steam out of the long awaited transport policy debate last week,...

MEMBERSHIP of some Road Haulage Association branches is falling-off, with newcomers to the industry regarding membership as a...

ners ear FREIGHTLINERS Ltd had record year in 1976. ( Bleasdale, managing directo revealed last week that sut cesses of the...

GRANTS of up to £50 millio can now be made by th Government to the Nation: Freight Corporation, to hel the nationalised transom...

CHANGES in the management structure of the National Freight Corporation are likely, following talks between Secretary of State...

A scheme to create a network of drivers' restaurants offering discounts and conforming to "Continental standards" has been...

You've got to doff your cap to the truck that's designed to make maintenance so simple-by simply doffing its cab. The new 'SP...

CONTRACT Services, described as "a total distribution package tailored exclusively to the needs of individual customers" has...

IN temperatures of 33°C (98°F), an expedition with seven specially prepared Saviem lorries will make its way west to east...

THE Scottish Office in Edinburgh has confirmed that active discussions are in progress concerning Irish based operators and...

a base near London has been established by the newly-formed Chesham Storage and Distribution company. The company offers...

TWO Leicester operators, Liddingtons Transport Ltd, Barwell, and Ace Transport of Duns Lane, had their 0licences curtailed by...

A HEAVY goods vehicle driver who made a special journey from Holland to appear at a public inquiry before the Yorkshire...

"FOREIGN" hauliers engaged in shifting 3,000 tons of fish from Plymouth quaysides are giving the road haulage industry a bad...

SO great has been demand for exhibition space at the first International Tyre and Equipment Show (March 22-24) that the venue...

Spares delivery H. S. MORGAN Transport has increased the numbers of dealers served by emergency parts delivery for vehicles...

THE British Association of Removers has called for a radical reform of operators' licensing. In a memorandum to the Department...

A SERIES of evening lectures on management will be presented by Professor Samuel Elton in London, on March 21. "Management...

Transport Managers, succeeding Graham Simons who has retired after seven years in the Post. A founder member of the Guild, Mr...

A NEW six-point insurance plan for international hauliers has been announced by the RAC to complement its existing carnets...

CHARGES of using a lorry with a dangerous load - brought against the operator of a box van loaded with chemicals, were...

Coil company THE Boughton Group has purchased the entire equity in Winn Boughton Ltd — joint venture company formed with Winn...

ONE of the first prototypes of the new Metrobus double-decker is to go for trials with London Transport. Initial production of...

pl an... A NEW public service vehicle inspection service, developed jointly by the Freight Transport Association and the...

LONDON Transport's availability record of Fleetline buses had been "appalling", until LT carried out its own modifications to...

BUSES may well be denied access to Oxford's city centre, despite an encouraging report made on the pedestrian precinct by the...

THERE was a case for transferring the responsibilities for determining bus routes and coach operations from area Traffic...

THERE will be no annual dinner held by the Confederation of Road Passenger Transport this year. The next date for this function...

Meadowbank Engineering has been appointed the Foden distributor for North Humberside and part of South Yorkshire. It will take...

TWO commercial vehicles from the Fiat range have been increased in price. The 13ONT will be raised by 6.9 per cent to £8,335...

. . . and VW improve the LT range IF VOLKSWAGEN goes ahead with production of its Golf van, shown in prototype form at this...

MOVEMENT 77, the sixteenth International Mechanical Handling Exhibition, is to be held at the National Exhibition Centre in...

BRITISH Railways are uneconomic and cause noise and pollution, claims Road Haulage Association director-general, George...

Johnny Johnson reports on an FTA management course 1/1/H1LE there is no doubt about the eloquence, there is nothing mysterious...

Any salesman worth his salt can reel off some persuasive reasons why his manufacturer's trailers are the best to buy. But what...

Further to the letter by David Williams (CM, January 14) on the difficulties hauliers may have in getting paid for work done, I...

As public relations consultants to Rockwell International we were interested to read your feature on hand-held calculators (CM,...

I was interested to read the article by Martin Watkins (CM December 31) when he compared the Bristol VRT, Ailsa and AEC 'RI'....

Freightliner containers—a success? Paul Mungo talks to a firm that benefits from the system FREIGHTLINER container number...

A HAULIER, Nelson s Transport (Keighley) Ltd, was ordered by the Leeds Industrial Tribunal to pay £215 compensation to a driver...

Fitting an overdrive unit to the Sherpa 215 model has produced better fuel figures for the vehicle, says Bill Brock LATEST...

have not carried this type of package before. I thought that it would be best to carry them longitudinally along the vehicle,...

instructions from a customer, whose premises are about three miles from our depot, to collect, on trade plates, his tractor...

the size of broken-down vehicle which a recovery vehicle may haul? My company is thinking of acquiring its own recovery...

into account previous convictions when considering the curtailment, suspension or revocation of an 0-licence, and what...

Arthur Adams has now retired, and in this article he looks back at the gamble he and his brother took IN 1926 two young men...

Last week I came across a press release telling me all about a publication which dealt with foreign vehicle distributors, their...

My thanks must be due to National Travel (South West) for telling me about its new leaflet in Gaelic, giving information for...

March on... This is the story of the March Trading Estate in East Anglia. I have just received a beautifully designed brochure...

The Transport Department seem to be becoming very adept at shelving transport decisions until after the forthcoming Transport...

Following a steering committee report, the bus fleets of Douglas Corporation and the Isle of Man are to be amalgamated and...

EXTENSIVE reorganisation in the multi-business Renwick Group has resulted in a dramatic turn around in profitability. For the...

WE hear of so many accidents these days, especially on the radio, that it is all too easy for engineers to adopt an attitude of...

please... Graham Mon tgomerie finds that silencers are an exhausting subject... TO MOST OPERATORS the silencer is the part...

REGULATION 25 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1973 lays down that all motor vehicles which have...