WHATEVER the fate of the Road Transport Industry Training Board, and its future is still very much in the balance, the industry...

BOLITION of the Joint Industol Councils would be a recipe ir disaster, warns the United oad Transport Union. Commenting on the...

Oram A £100 MINIMUM basic wage should be lorry drivers' goal for 1982, says Transport and General Workers' Union national...

TOUGHER quality licensing must be introduced rapidly, Road Haulage Association chairman Ken Rogers said this week when he met...

no Bill yet THOUGH the Department of Transport is going ahead with its plans to hand over the testing of lorries to private...

THE TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union campaign against the use of tachographs (before 1982) appears to be losing support....

UNIFAST International Ltd, an SPD Group company, has moved into larger premises on the new Heathrow International Trading...

2pc less THE REDUCTION in the Depai ment of Transport's direct e penditure during 1981-82 will I about £11m at November 19 ....

MORE REDUNDANCIES and lay-offs were announced by Britis manufacturers this week, while brighter news came from L. Gar( ner and...

TH the Armitage Report now only about ten days away, Road ulage Association chairman Ken Rogers this week urged the vernment to...

IS "rubbish" to say that Sed n Atkinson will emerge from 3 recession in a fitter and a ner condition, marketing Inager Stan...

MORE MONEY should be spent on publicising the dangers of lorries hitting low bridges, says the Freight Transport Association....

IT IS a nonsense to pretend that the publication of compulsory tariffs is a political possibility, Road Haulage Association...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association has called for a meeting with the Department of Transport to discuss proposals for approving...

ilasgow firm of Percy & Heiden /as dismissed last July on (as sacked. lways accurate, and his records nded up in such a mess...

THE BENEFITS of the proposed rush-hour lorry ban through King's Lynn town centre will be marginal while the additional costs...

THE Cranfield Institute of Technology is holding induction and advanced courses entitled The Optimisation of Value and Cost....

THE THIRD Paris to Dakar Rally for 4x4 vehicles takes place between January 1 and January 20, 1981. CM was involved in the 1980...

take a TIP SPECIALIST trailer rental operator Eurotrec Ltd, of Dagenham, Essex, has been taken over by TIP Trailer Rental....

MAGISTRATES who refused police a summons against Doncaster lorry driver after . ciding that his alleged breach EEC Regulation...

LORRIES and other vehich heavier than 30cwt are to be e cluded from Highland Region Council's car park in Broadfor Skye. The...

HE ENTRANCE fee for finalists ompetition has been doubled ntrance fee will remain at £10. DoY national council was endo ust...

LONG-SERVING driver with a jood record, sacked because he as found asleep in his cab at us distillery delivery point, has lad...

OVERSEAS group members attending the British Association of Removers autumn conference earlier this month unanimously voted...

OVER the next 15 to 20 years, more than £2600m needs to be spent on London's roads, according to the Standing Conference on...

SCOTLAND: M8. At Strathclyde, the westbound carriageway is closed west of junction 29 (St James Interchange, Paisley). Delays...

STEPHEN TRENNERY has become traffic manager of the Eastern National Omnibus Company Ltd following the retirement of Bob Hanley....

THE REPLACEMENT for the Leyland Buffalo codenamed the HT100A-will be launched early next year, probably in January. It will...

AN "assessment and demonstration" of battery and hybrid electric vehicles at London's County Hall on December 11 is to be...

OIL, fatty and viscous sludges, even liquid chemicals in drums, can now be handled by a versatile vacuum tanker built for the...

A NEW optical tachometer has been developed by Ducklin Instruments Ltd and uses an infrared ray which is reflected from the...

A TEN-TOOL emergency rem pack is being marketed Amendola Engineering Ltd Barnet Green, Birmingham. The set includes an axe,...

COLLIS Cold Containers have used Concargo body panels to mani facture dual-purpose refrigerated/dry freight vans for the Unite...

THE ARGUMENT over Britain's tyre law relating to tread depth continues with another broadside from the National Tyre...

A KEEN wind of private enterprise is waiting to blow through the bus industry, according to Junior Transport Minister Kenneth...

TRANSPORT Minister Norma Fowler is considering a furth publicity campaign about c sharing in the new year. Announcing this in...

TAYSIDE private coac operators are worried by ne competition from Tayside Regi, nal Council's Dundee bus ui dertaking,...

CARDIFF independent coac operator C. K. Coaches ha started a late-night bus servic in Cardiff. Three buses are to b used to...

3 CUTS in fares on the East iglian pool of services from ndon Victoria coach station ve been announced by Greyeen Coaches,...

ABOUT Elm is to be spent by Lothian regional council for a new bus maintenance garage at &Wield, Edinburgh. The depot will be...

FRANK HARRIS Coaches of Grays, Essex, and Grey-Green Coaches of London have submitted an application to operate an express...

THE 25TH International week of the bus and coach is to be held in Nice between April 28 and May 2. The coach rally includes...

Tunnel vision in Essen SELF-STEERED buses have been introduced on a 1.2km stretch of a former tram route in Essen, Germany....

3ECRETARY of State for Trade John Nott, has known for some ime just what Seddon Atkin;on's manufacturing manager itanley...

John Fretwell, of North Wingfield, near Chesterfield, who was also a farmer, was an exception. He was so grateful for his 11 em...

IF YOU can't believe all you read in the newspapers, it is not necessarily the fault of the Press. The Liverpool Post,...

THE OFFICE move to Sutton this week — correspondents please note — has been in the pipeline for a long time and a couple of...

E OPERATE a Bedford TK1630 nich was first registered on arch 1, 1980 and has done 589 miles. It is fitted with a flat )dy and...

/E HAVE just received our otice of allocation of German ermits for 1981 and are grateful at we have received five addional...

IN REPLY to Bowling Bees Aid Hospital (CM, November 8, p44), I would like to point out to you that the "not so fast" Arrowfast...

IT WAS with some disappointment that I read the letter from J. Nelson Ltd headed U-turn on Maggies (CM, November 15). I was...

I REFER to the CPC questions and answers series (October 25). Question three asked what the weekly driving limit is under...

An "educational bureaucracy" — just one c the criticisms that have been levelled against the Board. And the RHA believes it can...

Brian Chalmers-Hunt hears how the transport industry, through the Youth Opportunities Scheme, can help to train the young...

ALL OPERATORS need to hold a Certificate of Professional Competence — or have at least one of their staff pass the CPC...

EACH WEEK we publish five questions similar to those used in the CPC examinations. Readers can test their knowledge by...

GENERALLY speaking, the alternator needs less maintenance than the DC generator. The brushes on a dynamo carry the full output...

Bill Brock chauffeurs a precious load from Le Perreon to London and finds that the new Mercedes 1628 enables both driver and...

This must be the ultimate in CM's long lin( of moving stories; meanwhile, the show must go on c/o Pickfords. THIS week's CM...

The engineering staffs of DAF and Conoco put their brains togeth in order to work out how to remount an eight-year-old lpg tank...

Secret ballots by Douglas Ainley FUTURE Union Membership Agreements (UMAS) will need approval by secret ballot, so the...