THE £5.50 weekly wage increase established for Scottish haulage drivers is continuing to be accepted by trades union...

TRUCK RACING will not figure in the Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) calendar of events for 1985. In a strongly worded statement...

fund have continued to pour into our office, reinforcing our belief that the transport industry has a heart of gold. Members...

The special study conducted by the DT showed that ved evasion is considerably less than previous estimates. The £18m of...

CONTAINERWAY and Roadferry, a National Freight Consortium subsidiary, sacked three management personnel from its Barking...

BIG EFFORTS are to be made over the next few years to speed up the clearance of imports through the greater use of computers....

But West Midland Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson warned that the company could continue to use the premises as a warehouse...

A FERRY from Aberdeen to the Continent is under examination by the Scottish Development Agency, working with Aberdeen Harbour...

FIGURES just published by two short of £2 per mile. In the 1983/84 annual reports of Merseyside and Strathclyde PTEs, total...

HEART of England's Water Orton depot has been reprieved for anther year. West Midlands Traffic Commissioners' chairman heard...

LONDON Regional Transport's bus services will decline slightly in 1985/6, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley has told MPs. Mr...

A CENTRALISED bus engineering company is being established by the Scottish Bus Group as part of its reorganisation to fit into...

LOCAL bus services could lot taken over by "cowboy' operators, a Scottish But Group official has warned. David Rae, traffic...

NEW Milton Keynes cornmy formed largely by exational Bus Company drivers is launched a new Swanseamdon luxury coach service, Id...

• I. vision A PICTURE of pensioner § and young mothers trapped in bleak, busless housing estates is painted by the...

PROVISIONAL figures for Shropshire County Council subsidies to public transport this year show that spending is likely to be...

UNITED TRANSPORT COMPANY personnel and training officer Oliver Johns has taken early retirement. David Mitchell has taken up...

GRAMPIAN Regional Council's public transport director, John Westaby, is moving to take charge of Northern Scottish, the...

EX-FODEN sales manager Bill Johnson has joined Congleton, Cheshire commercial vehicle bodybuilder Boalloy as sales director. He...

PERSONNEL changes affecting National Bus Company are: Stuart Senior takes over as general manager of Darlingtonbased United...

THE TRANSPORT industry had a thin time of it in the New Year's Honours List published this week, with the top honour going to...

WINNER of the 1984 Avril Hardy Prize is the son of a Powys haulier, David Woodhouse. The prize is awarded annually to the...

AG IS aiming to capture ten per cent of the 20,000 vehicle per year UK pickup market with its recently-launched Volkswagen...

LAST YEAR'S light vehicle sales remained static with no changes among the leading manufacturers, according to the latest...

GRANNING Suspensions (UK) has produced a prototype rearaxle air suspension unit for light commercial vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes...

A QUICK turn around bodybuilding service for 7.5-tonne gvw vehicles is being offered to dealers by Boalloy. All work will be...

A NEW HATCHBACK VAN based on the Polo car is to be launched in Europe early in the spring by Volkswagen. VAG has yet to confirm...

FULL-SCALE production of Bedford's Midi one-ton panel van had begun at the recently-upgraded Luton light commercial vehicle...

LET US jump back from the mid-1980s to the early 1970s for a "compare and contrast" exercise. Fourteen years ago inland...

mirror • Higher speed limits for commercial vehicles came into force in the early part of 1984, which was also the first...

ECRUITS are needed by Ken's ecret Army. Their leader will e paid up to £17,598 a year id have the honorary rank of Drporal....

STORM in a port" seems be the Transport and eneral Workers' Union's lotto. The union, having failed lorganise a national dock...

SPONSORSHIP of social activities by members of the motor and transport industries tends to be directed towards sport. Lord...

A KINDLY Englishman who has had both embarrassing and amusing experiences in Sweden has written a booklet for the guidance of...

A PICKFORDS representative who read in the Daily Telegraph that the Arts Council had to quit the Hayward Gallery in London in...

"MY OTHER CAR is a Porsche," says a label on a beaten-up Mini. I am now awaiting the slogan, "My other shirt is a Porsche," for...

I FOUND the article by George Malcolm on the Audit Commission's report into local authority transport (CM December 8)...

I WRITE to compliment you on the articles concerning the deregulation of public transport (CM December 8). How refreshing it...

I READ you article entitled "The Year Of The Definite Maybe" (CM October 27, 1984) with interest but feel I have to clarify a...

THE TAKEOVER of Atlas Express by United Parcels of Wellingborough at the beginning of December was a landmark for the parcels...

E_I r coprogmTlom by Keith Vincent In the Gordon Wright case it was the unusual procedure adopted by the Tribunal which has...

Noel Millier puts Brighton's services under customer scrutiny THE trouble is that the buses today are run for the operator and...

Technology on the move EVERY DAY we spend several million pounds on getting information and Fleet Street is very glad we do!...

WHICH way distribution? Nobody, of course, can answer that question with absolute certainty, but if you can present well...