XT TUESDAY could be one of the most memorable days in the story of British road transport, if, as expected, the Armitage Inqur...

; MANY as 32 Roadline UK !vets depots could close next ar if the company presses ead with plans which have !en discussed with...

LEEDS AND BRADFORD haulage drivers have "reluctantly" accepted a wage deal which gives top weight drivers an £80 basic rate for...

THE Round,Tables of Great Britain and Ireland are seeking help from hauliers who can transport materials to earthquake victims...

EUROPE'S first professional institute for distribution managers was formed last Friday by the Centre for Physical Distribution...

THE Government must list before it is too late to tho involved in the operation of roi transport. Lord Underhill ga this...

mg hot summer , IE FUTURE of the Road Transport Indus, Training Board will be decided by the wernment next summer. And it...

ROAD versus rail dispute surfaced at a blic hearing in Brussels last week orga;ed by the European Parliament Transii Committee...

GILTSPUR says that it would be harmed under Transport Development Group control, and has urged its shareholders to reject TDG's...

NOT for the first time, a 'matter which has been causing concern to a great many people was raised in the House of Lords....

To back up his statements, Mr lixon said that a refrigerated ehicle travelling between .thens and London charges bout £100 per...

HE GOVERNMENT will not tell Idustry how to send its freight, ransport Minister Norman pwler assured road hauliers ist week....

THE ROAD Transport Show planned for Bristol next year has been cancelled. The Road Haulage Association confirmed this last...

ROAD HAULAGE Association technical officer Mike Kneen callec , last week for heavier lorries on Britain's roads and said that...

BECAUSE a vehicle was towi a caravan it fell within the re$ lations requiring a driver to h( a heavy goods vehicle drivi...

LOUGHBOROUGH Univers: next year is running courses noise and safety at work, a toxic wastes and chemical fluent. The noise...

;HARGES alleging the falsification of drivers' records and the drivng of excessive hours were adjourned for the second time by...

PANDORO is making a bid to take advantage of next year's cut in drivers' hours by spending Vim on boosting the ferry service...

LONDON'S Royal Docks nov have certain gates completel closed and others with res tricted opening times due to reduction in...

VIGILANCE is always vital to counter crime in road transport, Roai Haulage Association security committee chairman Jack Brown...

FREIGHTLINER has restructured its senior marketing and operations team with Ivor James, previously general sales manager,...

SCOTLAND: M8. There is a twoway traffic flow on the eastbound carriageway at St James Interchange, Paisley. Northern England:...

BALL Components Ltd of Leek Staffordshire, has developed i device that enables Leyland Er gomatic cabs to be tiltec quickly....

ACCORDING to a Leyland Vehicles' market prediction, made with only a few days of November remaining, vehicle registrations (3.5...

A LIGHTWEIGHT version of th Ten-Plus demountable bad' baseframe has been developel by Ray Smith Demountables Lti of...

BUSMEN throughout Great Britain travelled to London earlier this week to protest against the 1980 Transport Act. The protest...

NDUSTRIAL troubles on Ireand's buses eased this week, when striking maintenance workers accepted a return-towork formula. They...

AORE THAN 13,500 London - ransport drivers qualified last 'ear for Road Operator's Safety :ouncil awards. Safe driving awards...

EXETER SUNDAY morning bu: services have been totally with drawn by National Bus Corn pany subsidiary Wester' National. In a...

A WELCOME and logical development is how Duple (Metsec) man aging director Richard West described its acquisition of Metsec....

DNDON TRANSPORT seems set rant a licence to an independent rid Central London coach service Jon Simon of LightGray Ltd, ading...

MAIDSTONE coach company was fined a maximum of £100 by righton Magistrates last week for sending a coach load of penloners on a...

:ALEDONIAN MacBrayne has ut coach fares on its Clyde and Ilestern Isles ferry services to ncourage increased traffic, in he...

MAN-VW has won repeat orders for 40 MAN 5R280 integral coaches, which will more than double the number of SR280s in Britain....

ONE-VEHICLE Leicestershire operator Chapman Mini Coaches (Lutterworth) Ltd have been granted a licence to operate two...

LONDON Transport and the Greater London Council hope to avoid the need for fares increases in 1981. Commenting on the 1981 LT...

VER THE YEARS the motor 3hicle has caused fierce cornatition among its manufacturs to produce a mode of trans)rt that can...

I WAS interested to see your recent news report M25 Will Only Give Minimal Benefits (quoting a speech by Alan West, of UBDS)....

YOUR article on the MIRA safety articulated vehicle (CM, November 15 seemed preoccupied with those features which would...

I OWN a Magirus Deutz 310. I must agree with Malcolm J. Nelson's letter in Commercial Motor (November 15) that the running...

I HAVE read your summary on p64 of Commercial Motor, November 15, in which I regret that you have misunderstood this...

IN your issue of October 25, 1980, you refer to Waste Management acquiring the share capital of Norwest Ltd, the...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR (November 8) contains an article entitled Hire and Fire Business, which mentions TIP Trailer Rental. Two...

LOTHIAN Region Transport Department's double-deck buses are now all driver-operated. About 40 conductors and conductresses have...

"PUBLIC TRANSPORT — particularly reliability and ever-increasing fares — has emerged as a prime cause of concern in every major...

A WOMAN in South Tipperary who wished to join a CIE coach tour from Dublin via Tipperary to County Kerry wanted to avoid...

WERE THERE sinister implications in the story in Fare, published by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, about the...

IT WAS ONE of those days. Th first of fifty buses built for CIE t Bombardier (Ireland) Ltd, American company, refused 1 start...

Noel Millier takes the Leyland National 2 over our urban test route and argues that competitive price, excellent handling, and...

N THE TVVO YEARS since the ast CM analysis of municipal, niblic and state-owned bus leets, the battle between menu- , acturers...

That's what British Coachways think of the 1980 Transport Act. David Wilcox tells the story of a birth which has shaken the big...

There's life in the old dog yet. BR's Sealink G-reg bus came in streets ahead at CM's psv livery contest. David Wilcox was with...

Programmes dealing with the heavy lorry are so often conducted against a background of traffic. The prejudice is implanted...

NLY A small proportion of ac/e members of trades unions . aduate to the national officer vel. In becoming national icretary of...

Britain's attitude to public transport is dangerously negative and the only way ahead is through dynamic planning. John Durant...

The mid-engined MB 200 stayed right on course despite strong crosswinds on our Scottish test route. And Noel Millier found it...