tanding on the threshold of a New Year we must face a few facts, however ) i nsavoury they may be. From January 1 onwards the...

YBODY in this country pect for the law, whate law may be," declared oort Minister William -s when he was quesin the Commons...

ISION on the future of the EEC driving licence is to be oefore next June, Council of Transport Ministers' prelos Chabert...

passing between EEC member states and a third country got the green light from the EEC's Council of Transport Ministers last...

A NEWPORT (Gwent) operator with an 0 licence for 22 vehicles and 25 trailers had it curtailed to 16 units and 21 trailers and...

states are to be eased under a new directive approved by the Council of Transport Ministers in Brussels last week. The new...

SAVIEM HAS formally announced two new product Lines — the H range and the P range — in response to the differing demands of the...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers was accused in the Commons recently of adopting a posture in all EEC negotiations which...

FOR the 12 months January to December 1977 the number of Volvo lorries delivered is the highest ever achieved since Volvo...

A WARNING that bread and cereal prices could rise even further as a result of serious delays in unloading grain deliveries at...

THERE IS to be no general Government clampdown on mobile roadside canteens — though any gaps in the law resulting in...

vehicles are on the way. And, as part of its plan to cut down the already falling number of fatal accidents involving hgv, the...

Do the lorry drivers who are complaining about bus drivers include coach drivers in this category? The full-time professional...

You may be interested in bringing the following to the notice of your readers. was served with an enforcement order...

Daen yer in Cornwall m'dear (British Leyland and other vehicle manufacturers please note Cornwall begins where Plymouth ends,...

NYONE attempting to predict the course of labour relations in road transport in 1978, and beyond, may lose his shirt if he has...

Nut bogey I MUST ADMIT from the first that I have no certificate of professional competence to look into the future. Quite...

an prosperity I N contemplating a new year, reason and ex perience tell me that January 1 is a mere point in the calendar....

THE FIRST THING we see in 1978 is a Transport Act. It will be a well-intentioned Act (and here I cannot resist noting that the...

CRYSTAL-BALL gazing is always a hazardous business, but it does not need a clairvoyant to predict that the dominant...

1. 1977 saw the conclusion of the Government's review of transport policy, the first full-scale examination of the whole...

THE prospects for the transport industries divide into two — the immediate problems and the outlook over the next few years. Of...

The Pippin Plan Holiday Competition advertised in CM has been won by DCT Mutch of Kraft Foods Transport. The lucky man has won...

On Boxing Day I took time off from enjoying myself to think about one or two business related matters. One, would you believe...

The strike recently of French seamen against the declining French share of cross-Channel traffic reminded me of complaints I've...

I hope when they come t( the cost of the firemen's someone takes a tally of t costs. At one or two s . along my route to the (...

simply on the basis that I can't keep them. That's possibly because I set my standards too high to start with! Having got that...