WE CANNOT RECALL any public inquiry connected with road transport which has attracted more evidence than the one concerning the...

, TRICTER environmental controls on goods vehicle operation are sing proposed by Transport Secretary David Howell in the...

LORRIES are already too big and too heavy, the National Association of Local Councils has told MPs. The association, which...

THE LONG AWAITED Government plans to sell the 91 heavy goods vehicle test stations to the private sector are included in the...

RADICAL PROPOSALS for the restructuring of the Road Haulage Association come up for final approval at the end of next month,...

SCOTTISH hauliers and trades union negotiators meet on Monday next week, following the drivers' rejection of an offer which...

A BAN on lorries in London is "absolute nonsense", Labour tran port spokesman Lord Underhill said last week during a House I...

MORE THAN 1,400 member have joined the Institute of Phli sical Distribution Managemen since its formation a year ,agc says...

NINE new jobs have bee created in Manchester followir the opening of a new Nor Western BRS depot this week. The depot, which...

1THER SAFETY measures and possibly an accellerated roads gramme will be added to the Government's White Paper on people, and...

RENAULT Vehkules Industrials increased turnover last year by 9.6 per cent, rising to 12,200m Fr (£1,109m). Of that, 7,300m Fr...

THE GOVERNMENT should cut the rate of dery duty in the March 9 Budget, the Road Haulage Association has told Chancellor of the...

E ARMITAGE Inquiry is ong eight "quangos" estabed by the Department of insport which have been und up. isting the 441...

E INTERESTS of European industry would be served best by a ximum gross vehicle weight limit of at least 44 tonnes on 12 ne...

BRITAIN should not subscribe to a system which prevents a free transport system, Lord Lucas of Chilworth told the House of...

A LORRY DRIVER who was dismissed after a tachograph chart revealed a time and mileage discrepancy has had his compensation...

A EUROPEAN abnormal lost advice and information servic is available from Convoi Excel tionnel Services, at 15 Crow port,...

NO DELAY should be allowed to the start of work on the remaining sections of the M40 Midlands-London route, British Road...

A HALF MILLION pound road improvement scheme for part o London's South Circular route has been scrapped by the Greate London...

)RTHERN IRELAND delopers now need only to obn planning permission to ild an access road or building side a roadway, Ulster...

WILKINSON TRANSPORT has extended its award-winning Wilkontrol computerised parcels monitoring system to cover all deliveries in...

A NUNEATON haulier opening a new four-b workshop at Hinckley, in Leic tershire, and will take in at operators' vehicles....

of British Rail's Eastern Region. Mr Driver, who succeeds CYRIL BLEASDALE, joined BR in 1948 as a junior clerk, and has held...

1RAWBAR units that could be light be a solution in the event wry limit in the Greater London John Greet, managing direc3r of...

BANNING lorries in London would not make the River Thames any more appealing to the affected business companies, the Erith and...

EVERY vehicle of the Berk Spencer Acids Ltd fleet would have to be replaced in the event of lorry weight restrictions in the...

for by Croda Premier Oils Ltd because of its specialised cargo. Traffic manager Mike Gower and works director Ron Mashford...

ANY EXEMPTIONS to a Londo lorry ban should be extended t the fresh fruit and vegetabl operators, according to Richar Wright, of...

HE GREATER LONDON Council and Wandsworth Borough would Ise between £40,000 and £50,000 a year in lost rates revenue from avies...

THE LOSS of 32 jobs and the closure of one of its depots would be the result of a ban on maximum weight lorries for Reckitt and...

THE SUPPLY of Courage beers to restaurants, public houses and other outlets would be disrupted the event of a lorry ban in the...

AN EXEMPTION from any weight restrictions imposed in the Greater London Area should be made for Air Products Ltd, a...

RICULTURAL machinery can only be transported by a lorry miler due to their size and weight, said Colin Jennings, manager of e...

SEMPERIT has added four new commercial vehicle tyres to its range offered to British operators. Two of them, the Grip Steel...

DURING the recent cold spel great many lorries we disabled by waxing up of die fuel. At temperatures of bell minus 9°C wax...

AN UPDATED AUTOMATIC grease lubrication system, Greaselu 2, will be launched at the RAI exhibition in Amsterdam, whi closes on...

LEADING European authorities on electric vehicles are to visit Japan to gather information at first hand on the Japanese...

EL-TRACK UK, of Markyate, ertfordshire, has been set up ) market the electro hydraulic. manufactured by Del quipment Ltd, of...

possible following the introduction of a portable fuel system tester from TI Dieseltune of Daventry. The 107 Fuel System...

SOON after the introduction of the Ford Cargo range, Longwell Green Coachworks, of Bristol, was approached by County Garages,...

HE Deutz-engined IVECO Magirus 290M 19 FS, first seen at the rankfurt Show last September, is now available in the UK. This...

TRANSQUIP INTERNATIONAL Trailers Ltd of Corby has suggested that the overall length restriction of tractive unit/lowloader...

PERKINS ENGINES is offering Powerpart camshafts at discounted prices in return for the old component. The customer will get a...

THE GIRLING Skidchek anti-lock braking system is now available fc coaches. A Leyland Leopard operated by Wallace Arnold has...

DURING 1981 Volvo deliverc just over 28,000 lorries whi( exceeds the company's rem result of 1979. According to Sten Langeniu...

are, as anticipated, included in the Transport Bill, which was ublished last week. The Bill seeks to permit NBC to all any...

kIR COMPETITION should exist etween different bus perators, declared Junior ransport Minister Kenneth arke, in the House of...

A LONDON Labour MP will introduce a private Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday next week, in an effort to amend the 1969...

VOLVO is planning to sell double-deck bus and coach versions of its B1OM underfloor-engined chassis in Britain this year. And...

• A BID for a further stage-carriage service in Cardiff by independent CK Coaches (Cardiff) Ltd, faced by strong opposition...

ONE-MAN OPERATION will 131 extended as part of Londoi Transport's planned cuts in ser vices this year, following thi...

THE IMMINENT doubling of London Transport fares will not compel masses of passengers to stop using public transport, Government...

McGILL'S BUS SERVICE, of Barrhead, is considering whether .t1 appeal against the Scottish Traffic Commissioners' refusal of its...

Eastern Scottish and Borders Regional Council (CM June 29, 1979) are now carrying an average of 419 passengers a Neek....

to understand, City of Oxford Motor Services has simplified the numbering system used for some routes in the university city....

DELAYS caused by roadworks and central London's peak commuter traffic were blamed by Flight's Coach Travel Ltd and 13 of its...

)PERATORS must notify the Traffic Commissioners if they oreak any of the conditions of :heir Operator's licence, West Vlidland...

I REFER to the report in Commercial Motor, January 2. The principal conclusion drawn by the German Chamber of Industry and...

WE HAVE READ with great interest Graham Montgomerie's timely and useful article entitled "Watch your fuel system: be ready for...

I WAS INCENSED by Irene Coates's remarks (CMJanuary 23) regarding hauliers and operators. There are enough laws and regulations...

NOBODY would accuse the road haulage industry of radical thinking but the National Freight Consortium will, I believe, help to...

THE TWO recognised ways by which the Government could have turned the NFC over to private enterprise might have had unwelcome...

I NEVER thought to see the day when elected representatives of the hub of the Commonwealth would seriously vote on whether to...

THERE was support for the Shire Horse Society's movement for a return to animal power when Ted Robson, a London haulier,...

BRIG DENNIS RENDELL, who has been quite a lad in his time, has retired as head of the RAC/ACU national training scheme for...

A LONDONER who alleges that he lost a job with United Parcel Service, America's biggest parcel-delivery company, because of his...

Mike Rutherford meets an oil distributor who has been in business only three years but is already expanding VHEN DRIVING...

A redundant ex-transport manager won a tipper in a business competition. David Wilcox interviewed him six months later A YEAR...

While this Dutch-designed equipment may not be mind blowing, it offers significant advantages, reports Tim Blakemore VHOEVER...

APPEARANCE in a traffic court must often remind the average operator of interviews, pleasant or unpleasant, in the head...

Bill Brock joins Texaco, to see what a tanker driver's job is all about OIL companies owe a great deal of their business to...

In bulk liquids and powders you are only a good as your last performance, S&R and John Hendry tells Mike Rutherford IT IS TOO...

At BP standardisation is the name of the game. But would a common spec be acceptable to all companies? Graham Montgomerie...

Aluminium has won out in this field. How and why, Bill Brock learned at the Hawker Group's Gloster Saro works ALUMINIUM, the...

ROUNDABOUTS are situated where streams of traffic from different directions inter-mix and they are designed to improve traffic...