Christmas Eve Sutton Idfield lorry driver David Llson, age 28, became 1976 istermind runner-up. After three months of batng...

BRITAIN should grasp the olive branch offered by the EEC in its compromise package on truck weights and dimensions. That is...

OPERATORS in Scotland are more likely to find themselves attending a public inquiry next year if their maintenance arrangements...

PLANS to give hauliers using the German Railways piggyback services preference in the allocation of haulage permits have been...

THOSE operators intending to use the German Railways' "piggy-back" service to take advantage of the preferential issue of...

et t h e axe LOOKS as if transport anagers' licensing will not go lead for the passenger tranon industry.

.els of the news that plans to ing in TLMs for the haulage dustry have been scrapped Al December 24). A meeting of the...

BRITAIN'S tipper operators face a grim year ahead as fleets are laid up and work becomes scarce with the cuts in public...

WALLACE Arnold has been granted permission by the EEC to run a trunk coach route from London to Rome. Other routes in Europe...

THE DYNAMIC weigher, tested on the Staines by-pass, meets the desired performance for enforcement of weight limits under the...

A STORY of unfulfilled intentions, interlocked companies and past convictions led to the revocation at a public inquiry of an...

HE provision of British and ;ontinental extended tours by wo Hereford coach operators would not in any way interfere with or...

A MILLION more passengers a year in the Black Country — that's the aim of an extensive reorganisation by West Midlands PTE in...

NEOPLAN opened a new works extension this month which will double the floor area of the plant to over 17,200sq m (185,000sq...

timers safety study A STUDY of the relative safety of full-time and part-time bus and coach drivers is to be undertaken by the...

II iriPlithulEl SNti l l N 6 . Photographic Ltd. The pocket version can be augmented by a mains connection which incorporates...

Glasgow PTE has cut engine failure by 36 per cent in the latter half of this year. Now, you may ask, 36 per cent of what? That...

And here's another Scot with a good idea — it must be something to do with the New Year spirit. Colin McEldriff, who now lives...

• road haulage reviewed b ,Joh . j Darker Mr Dunlop thought that trade unions today — certainly this was his experience of the...

New legislation round-up of tachographs might be confined to those vehicles undertaking international journeys, for the...

IT IS SOMETIMES something of a mystery to workshop staff that shortly after a repair has been carried out, a bracket or...

FOR MUCH of next year. Parliament will mainly be concerned with devolution. Although some time must be allocated to other...

by Les Oldridge, T.Eng(CE1) , MIMI, AMIRTE REGULATION 23 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1973 deals...