; THE successive results of the drivers' tachograph ballot are known, it is coming clear that the once massive resistance is...

NATIONAL FREIGHT CORPORATION has offered its drivers wage increases of up to 20 per cent, and there are signs of peace on the...

THERE ARE no road tram port knights in the New Yea honours list, but Road Hat lage Association directo general George Newma...

MORE drivers have voted against taking industrial action against the installation and use of tachographs. London and South...

THE ROAD Haulage Association has appealed to Agriculture Minister Peter Walker to oppose EEC proposals for a cut in Britain's...

OMMERCIAL MOTOR, enault and Leyland Vehicles re well to the fore in this arl's 6,500-mile Paris-Dakar allye Oasis which began...

THE NEED for a motorway service area on the M4 near Reading is to be the subject of a public consultation exercise, Transport...

EYLAND VEHICLES will have a new East Scotland distribuarship from the spring, and the Heron Group is closing its dinburgh...

AVERAGE FUEL PRICES in countries throughout the world are to be monitored by the International Road Transport Union (IRU). For...

THE British Road Federatior has accused the Governmeni of ducking awkward decisiont which must be made on th( roads programme....

A TWO-DAY COURSE for drivers of vehicles carrying chemicals in drums and packages is being organised jointly by Transport...

DRIVER has been awarded £343 for unfair dismissal, after Dsing his job in the wake of complaints about slow deliveries....

THE NEXT STAGE of the M25 London Orbital route has been given the go-ahead. The Secretary of State for the Environment and the...

THE WINCANTON Group is one of Unigate's biggest growth areas, with profits up by 43 per cent for the 24 weeks to September 15....

THREE construction firms have won contracts for improvements to Welsh trunk roads. Maenex Construction Co Ltd has won the...

ROAD CASUALTIES rose by less than the volume of traffic in 1978, according to the Department of Transport. Traffic increased...

HEAVY LORRY parking in Hartlepool has been a problem for some time, but co-operation with the local council could make life...

ROAD HAULIERS on Sealink's cross-Channel services can now book through on to Mediterranean services operated by the Tirrenia...

L.EX Service Group, which ilready has substantial intersts in parcels transport, has ncreased its share in United 7.arriers...

1..DDITI0NAL Swedish Lloyd erry services start this month .etween Gothenburg and the hiked Kingdom. The company's new scheule...

CRAVEN TASKER (Andover) Ltd reports £0.75m worth of orders for skeletal and bodied trailers for use in Britain and overseas....

GO-FAST Ltd has closed down its parcels delivery operations, creating 90 redundancies in Liverpool, Denbigh, Builth Road,...

A DRIVER'S claim for compensation for unfair dismissal has been rejected, even although his employer did not give him a clear...

TURKEY has changed tip way in which it applies transi tax to commercial vehicles and has abolished its gasolini compensation...

WEST GERMAN manufac turer MAN is forecasting a 1 per cent increase in sales fc the current year which ends i June 1980....

ROAD transport operators are unhappy with a plan to impose a width and weight limit on the island of Mull. Strathclyde...

k LEADING COACH dealer which knowlingly sold a secondLand coach with a badly defective braking system was fined :100 in...

'HE 10,000th Mercedes-Benz 305 standard city bus has een handed over to fanover's transport authority. The model has been in...

MAN has opened a new bus test track designed specifically for testing city buses. The 3.6km track is claimed to be the best...

bus chaos THE MAIN bus operator on the Isle of Lewis ceased trading this week, throwing nine services into doubt, and with the...

PUBLIC TRANSPORT revenue support and highway maintenance are the priorities in this year's allocation of £350m Transport...

DUPLE INTERNATIONAL reports increased profits for 1978/79, with coachbuilding contributing £3.18m to the overall operating...

THE BORDER COURIER minibus and goods service is doing better than expected, and is to receive Government support for at least...

THE THIRD lpg powered bus is to take to the road early this year in Carlisle. The bus, a Leyland Atlantean AN68 with Eastern...

DYFED County Council says its social car scheme should bt extended, and that passengers should pay up to -£1 for thc service....

SAFETY, strength and reliability is claimed for the Rhino, Norba UK's new refuse collector for 1980. All types of waste...

TIR BODYBUILDERS Cohen (Transport Designs) Ltd, of Gillingham, Kent, has developed a moveable bulkhead to separate groupage in...

WHAT IS CLAIMED to he the first 16-ton Fiat in the UK to be fitted with Edbro underbody tipping gear has entered service with...

THE FIRST of a new range of large horseboxes has come off the production line at Vincents Horseboxes' newly acquired factory at...

PERKINS DIESEL engineer have r gain won official recog nition from the UK's Ministr! of Defence. Perkins Engines have hell...

PROFITS are down at con ponent manufacturf Associated Engineering, Ix its turnover has gone up. In the year ended Septembi 30,...

A SIMPLE LINKAGE arrangement, designed and manufactured by Linktip Ltd, of Telford, Shropshire, permits an underfloor hydraulic...

ILNOTHER year's wage round las come to an end, and it is ime to take stock of haulage's 9sition. After last year's inltistrial...

Now that most of the opinions regarding the use of the tachograph have been aired I would like to draw attention to the...

Perhaps the improbable demolition of its inventor's council house may prohibit the launch of the greatest challenge to 32ton...

As exhibitors, we were amazed at your two editorial comments on the RHA Road Transport Show. First, we had an excellent Show...

I refer to the letter from David J. Raymer in Commercial Motor November 24, wherein he commented on your article reporting on...

Sorry, Bill Brock, but the Dennison is not the first new lorry builder for 40 years (CM December 1). Rotinoff, Rutland, Rowe...

I have just read again the lettE frog - ) D. J. Smith, of Leic singing the praises of Bristo ECW and Gardner. I have been...

' all else fails, Berkshire County ouncil's verbiage will stop up fly loophole that might allow niries through the notorious...

- nerica does not have a onopoiy of cute kids, They iurish in Tasmania, too, where rs Dorothy Armstrong, a rmer who also drives...

Evidence given at the inquest on the first person to be killed by a motor vehicle shows that witnesses were as unreliable and...

A CAV-equipped Volkswagen Golf car is top prize in a game for the customers of the 300 UK agents of CAV Parts and Service. who...

It is appropriate that the owners of the world's fastest grand prix circuit should be first off the grid in celebration of the...

Only two of the 60 Riley motorcycles produced between 1904 and 1906 are known still to exist and Jack Light (D.J. Light...

The advice on trailer security given by Bill Donaldson, chief constable of the Port of Liverpool, is undoubtedly excellent. It...

The choice must be a compromise based on many variables Stan Hartshorne, manager product planning, Cummins, talks to Graham...

ne NFC has been fortunate in its men at ne top since its inception 11 years ago. Now its poised to become a profitable public...

Local councils need to re-examine vehicle use during this time Government-imposed spencing restraints, By Brian Chalmers-Hur...

Few co-operatives have wor,

a year of change CV looks forward to new legislation facing operators WHAT must operators look forward to on the legislation...

ALTHOUGH not as popular as the micrometer, the vernier caliper is a very useful measuring tool. It is more versatile than the...

by Graham Montgomerie The first outsider to watch a VW IT impact test, Graham Montgomerie investigates the safety research...

Treating the antibodies 'Operators should have briefed their wives so that they could have put the case for heavy vehicles to...

IAN NORMAN has become the first joint managing director of Kurtrans Developments, a new company designing and producing...

Les Oldridge, T Eng (CEI), IMI, AMIRTE ART from jail, which can be scribed in very few cases, the St severe punishment a court...

GENERAL HAULAGE is not an easy service to sell and few small or medium-sized fleet operators employ a sales force. The...