ISRAEL has this year celebrated 30 years as a self-governing state. Landlocked on three sides by hostile neighbours and...

7IONAL Freight Corporachairman Sir Dan Pettit is to step down from his post 41tain's nationalised hauchief after eight years at...

BERKSHIRE County Council's experimental "Windsor Cordon" set up to keep heavy lorries out of a 40 sq mile zone around the town...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers has extended the "honeymoon" period on the 450km (281 mile) daily mileage limit until the...

THE MAN Bendibus righthand drive articulated singledecker has been so successful in trial service with National Bus's City of...

SCOTTISH Bus Group's Central SMT fleet has taken delivery of the first of its recently-placed order for Leyland National...

ONE HUNDRED and fifteen miles of new motorway route and 5.5 miles of widening were under construction on December 1 in England...

ABOUT 80 per cent of liquified petroleum gas is carried by road and about 20 per cent by rail — said Transport Minister William...

A GENERAL transport debate in the Commons was long overdue, declared Dudley Smith (Tory, Warwick and Leamington) last week....

EMERGENCY car parking arrangements were brought into force in the West Midlands last week when West Midlands PTE bus drivers...

THE THREAT of total industrial chaos was still hanging over road transport operation as CM went to press. Road tanker drivers...

THE Department of Transport has announced that from January 1 1979 special Spanish permits known as "yellow cards" will be...

BRITISH hauliers opera into Hungary with no signated destination are, b■ strongly advised to avoid Budapest region. Congestion...

IN 1977 89 per cent of the tonnage carried by land went by road and 11 per cent by rail. John Horam, Under Secretary for...

THE Departments of Transport and Environment are to review their joint working arrangements. Transport Secretary William...

RENAULT is to introduce a new 24-hour recovery service in Britain and on the Continent for users of all Renault commercial...

THE first annual general meeting of the Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators is to be held on Saturday February 24 at 4pm....

VOLVO sales revenue during the first nine months of 1978 were up 25 per cent on the corresponding period of 1977. The...

:ARDIFF haulier whose livelihood depends on his one vehicle ..nce has had it suspended for three months by the South, Iles LA...

UNTIL the European Court decides about British tachograph enforcement, officers will be asked to continue to remember the...

UROPEAN refrigerated transport operators are campaigning or a reduction in the restrictions on their regular operations....

Investment cash for NFC THE Government has made a £4m grant to the National Freight Corporation. This first payment had been...

THE GOVERNMENT last week turned down the idea of making it an offence to exceed the recommended speed limit on motorways during...

A 1.04km (1,140yd) stretch of the A39 Taunton-Fraddon trunk road between Welcombe Cross and Deptford is to be improved. The...

WEIGHTS checks on lorries on the M1 in Buckinghamshire have revealed an alarming number of overladen vehicles. Of 135 lorries...

BORG-WARNER Corporation and Fiat's car division have joined forces in a move to buy an interest in the Dutch firm of Van...

A NEW lubricant wl should overcome corn:3 and jammed twistlocks been developed by Metpn LTD. The manufacturer cla that the...

SUNRIPE Fruits (PTY) Ltd, the largest distributor of fruit in South Africa, has recently taken delivery of eight ERF B-Series...

A new and comprehensive range of 19-air-powered tools has just been launched in Britain by Stenor, a GKN company. Shown for the...

TIONAL Bus subsidiary -thern General Transport I its seven per cent fares rease application granted week, despite a claim by th...

GRAND Metropolitan Hotels and Townsend Thoresen car ferries have joined forces to extend the Grand Metropolitan "Aladdin"...

concessions now, says Horam RILE the possibility of a national concessionary fare scheme is being looked at, district councils...

bus-only link road BERKSHIRE County Council has introduced a new "selfenforced" bus-only link road in an area of new housing...

THE BORDER Regional Council is to appoint a travelling mechanic-inspector to check the minibuses in use by contractors serving...

A brigadier who used to exhort everyone to "do it now" had his guns spiked by a battery that he was going to inspect. As he...

Fines for overloading in Pennsylvania, USA, really hurt. The average excess on 147 overweight lorries stopped on the road was...

Minutes after reading of a man, who was killed while attending to a vehicle on the hard shoulder of a motorway, I picked up a...

At 81, Black Jack, a happy extrovert, is devoted to showbiz, drinks with moderation, enjoys a quiet smoke and occasionally...

"Hole in one from Wilcox' the heading to a story from company about the use of aluminium tipping body to peat for new greens on...

Those whose literary diet is limited to newspaper headlines liable to reach strange conclusions. A headline in the Novern issue...

Your friendly dustman may not be all he seems. He may belonc Special Branch. FBI agents in New York posed as dustmen to...

London bus fares seem positively cheap when one remembi that the fare from Paddington to the Bank by Shillibee single-deck,...

e Ghost ran for the first time >aturday," said a voice with ify concealed excitement as I the telephone receiver. It not the...

Devon coach driver returg to Brixham in the small us was surprised and ininant to see his own car ng driven towards him. He jht...

Government Minister has ssed the test of the Institute of Ivanced Motorists. Approiately he is Ray Carter, the mister...

BP Oil's Buildacar Competition, which is part of the company' 'challenge to youth' scheme, is to be widened to include non-oil...

Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive have had to suspend ten bus services because they are short of 450 drivers and...

The Bedford mirrors developments in road transport over almost half a century, for it has been involved in probably all of them...

I am surprised to seethe National Freight Corporation falling into the trap of "hire and reward." Reward is a form of payment...

Reporting the disappearance of hundreds of wagons in the Middle East, The Daily Telegraph said: "Rental companies and finance...

Graham Montgomerie continues his series for engineers with further exploration of cab design. He comes down in favour...

Report and pictures by Brian Weatherlev WHEN IT comes to entertainment, The Donington Collection must surely count as a museum...

THE UK CAR transporter market is quite small — most of the units are run by little more than half a dozen operators. For them,...

WHEN ISRAEL'S last transport minister Meir Amut resigned, it was assumed outside the country that he did so because he...

in freight history WHEN Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat sign the final agreement which will bring...

IN DECEMBER, 194C bus passengers on the No 2 route of the Israeli bus service in Jerusalem made the shortest service run on...

THE BRITISH Associati Owner Drivers, which itself in such peril at th , of its first year, migl worse than study methods which...

ANY NOTION that an Israeli kibbutz is a type of Hebrew hippy commune with the inhabitants scraping an existence from the desert...

ta Duo. I saw CM's Editor lain Sherriff on TV's Pebble Mill talking about tachographs with union leader Alan Law, who in 1 968...

On holiday in the USA, we several rides on the Greyhound Coaches and on Grey Line Coaches, who operate charter hire only,rather...

A photograph of a prototype Volvo Ailsa double deck bus which is on the way to Bangkok and Singapore for demonstrations prior...

Bangkok Mass Transit has no experience of double-deck buses. To that Authority the physical. constraints of running such...

I would like to reply to N Myers' letter "Secondhan Business (CM, December 1). He does not seem to unde stand the simple...

EW YEAR'S EVE — a day to look back and reflect on what a year has brought and, perhaps, to try and forecast what a New Year...