Stage four of the Government's pay policy sets a five per cent guideline on pay increases. This was expected, and, predictably,...

Government Dock Labichen - ie that would have n dockers the right to heavy vehicles arriving irts was thrown out folig a...

T op stewards are fled by the conditions at Ich livestock fattening )ns and do not intend to traffic in livestock at sh ports....

THE MOTOR Industry Research Association's crash test work has been rewarded by the presentation of the Worshipful Company of...

NSjP ORT industry trade associations are to fight a High • ction against Berkshire County Council over the coon pin to ban...

TYRES should cost more according to Derek Walters, the UK marketing manager of Pirelli. Mr Walters told CM this week in Milan...

NEWS that the Road Haulage Wages Council is to be finally wound up has brought a storm of protest from the industry. The...

THE GOVERNMENT has been criticised for refusing to make funds available for a railway siding at the Nypro chemicals plant at...

A WARNING that it might well be necessary to put down a series of Amendments to the Transport Bill came from Tory spokesman...

BUSINES NEWS Substitute ERF INTENDS to concen its immediate sales effort the home market to col foreign competition, ac ding...

MORE: than £2m has been made available by the Government to support the Lucas electric van development programme. The E2.26m...

) R Secretary of State for n port John Haram has at the cost of running river and Vehicle Licen Centre at Swansea are asing...

HAUL /I Lord Lucas of Chilworth is no slouch when it comes to road transport. After all, he served an apprenticeship with...

lOU WALES meat her xpects to go into datio over brake faults in ford M tractive units .th h ye meant that the has n laid up —...

safety is not being ate ed by current levels of rite ance expenditure, ; ransport Secretary Rodgers. a 'tten reply to a quesfr...

A HUSBAND who represented his wife at a public sitting of the South Wales LA when he wanted to renew their licence, which...

CUSTOMS at Dover and Harwich are hoping to clear some perishable goods in less than two hours. This prospect was put forward...

AN OFF-ROAD vehicle costing 0,000, based on Ford Es , parts, has been developed by Manchester Garages Ltd. Fifty-three of the...

RE details of revised road lage permits for travel to from West Germany and tugal have been anneed by Secretary of State...

WORK on resurfacing a 6.25-mile stretch of the M1 in Leicestershire and Derbyshire began this week. The Elm job on the stretch...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers last week rejected a suggestion from a Tory MP that he should seek an assurance from the...

CIALIST demountable pment manufacturer, Systems, has developed a swop-body system ially designed for small cies including the...

licence jeopardy PROBLEMS over the operation of a draw-bar trailer led to J. R. Young (Transport) Ltd, Consett, being called...

OPERATING costs to be borne by the Transport Departmen 1978/79 in administering the Road Fund and Driving Licence estimated at...

qATIONAL Bus Company isidiary has thrown its ght into the North Wales unt market. :ro ; ville Motor Services, in Lju nction...

IONAL Travel is roving vehicle utilisation its London-Dover service roviding through booking ilities to more distant...

NATIONAL Bus Company subsidiary City of Oxford Motor Services started its "farreaching and changed" bus services in Oxfordshire...

TWO 1-REGISTERED coaches were displayed by Grey Green coaches at its first London Bus Rally at Brockwell Park, Brixton last...

REDFERNS Coaches (Forest Town) Ltd have won their battle with National Travel over the introduction of a programme of British...

BUS FARES in Aberdeen city — for many years the envy of other Scottish public transport authorities — are being pegged at an...

Artics en route ANOTHER articulated arrived in Britain to take p in experiments and monstrations for an extern period. Among...

iE ew Leyland Terrier assis, with the latest ab pecification and fitted • s ecially designed box ies, have been chosen Na tonal...

A NEW design for drive couplings between the Gardner engine and gearbox in the Fleetline bus has been produced by Silentbloc of...

LE Charrold Ltd of Mansfield have built 26 steel Ultralite e for Sir Alfred McAlpine and Son Ltd. • y are steel variants of...

BITUMEN is heated by oil burners and a heat-exchange system in a 22,700 litre (5,000gal) tanker semi-trailer built by Whale...

ACCORDING to a price vey carried out by Mop Tyre Protectors Ltd of E kins Road, Hanworth, F the real cost of a punctu just over...

DURSTON Plant Contractors Ltd of Bristol are expanding their heavy haulage operations with two new Tasklift low loaders...

A NEW trailer, at 30 tons gross the largest of its type ever] by Eezion Ltd of Bedford, has been manufactured for expo the...

ENT REPORT from the i mist Intelligence Unit e tly states that West n commercial vehicle tion dropped by 3.5 per tween 1976 and...

Transport nostalgia is becoming big business and the Transport Trust, whose patron is the Duke of Edinburgh, is doing its best...

Jack Brown, managing director of Atlas Express Ltd and chairman of the Road Haulage Association's Vehicle Security Committee,...

What will happen to the Government's blacklist of companies alleged to have infringed the pay code when the currency of the...

August 26-28 will be drooling weekend for steam buffs in particular and vintage vehicle enthusiasts in general. The Leeds and...

Jack will be inviting youngsters to have a go at three escaping thieves in the 22,400sqft security display at the final of the...

Veteran, vintage and classic will be auctioned also on Au 28, the third day of the T and Country Motoring Fes at the Royal...

First-aid training given London Transport to s between shifts was turne account when a 56-year man had a heart attack 224b bus....

oel Milner test drives Tricentrors conversion N4 coach operators ine in their fleets at least tvVelve-seater coach and e...

On behalf of us all here at RH M Foods, may I express our delight in winning Class E of your vehicle Livery Competition The...

I cannot let "'Willing Workhorses - . (CM Editorial, July 7) pass me by sans admiration. Congratulations tor your frankness....

air, which meant that I could smell the diesel as it hung in the early morning stillness on the way Into that roundabout. I...

ownerdrivers, which is a pity, because they all stand to benefit from the efforts of the dedicated few_ I know time is a...

told that in the not too distant future it will be possible for psv licence holders to be eligible for hgv licences,...

I refer to the photogra captioned: ''Cars travelli away from the picture „ Highway Code states ti drivers should keep to the nE...

are fl high Pictures by Commercial Motor photographer irimovv Airport is not an airport: it is, writes I IVIillier, a...

journeys. The landside operates on the public side the Customs area. The airs bus is for passengers who do wish to clear...

'I have a feeling that the CPT has become so familiar with regulatory framework and working patterns that it is terrified Cie*...

Propellor shafts and universal joints Precepti On a conventional vehicle the drive is taken from the rear of the gearbox to...

V Les Oldridge, T.Eng (CEI), MIMI, AM IRTE Minibuses: check the new rules before ordering HE Minibus (Conditions of Fitness,...

Noel Millier and Alan Millar look at some of the revolutionary bus designs that never made it THROUGHOUT our long history, we...

rist S by the Passenger Editor —pictures by Dick Ross WHILE the British Tourist Authority tries to persuade tourists to visit...

YES to a customer Alan Millar meets a Yorks operator whose coaches travel far afield SIXTY years ago or more, some buses and...

Road Transport Industry Training Board chairman Kenneth Turner is not to seek re-appointment when his term of office expires in...