THE ROAD Haulage Association has been well advised to keep its wage negotiations at regional level. The membership of the...

SAFETY and security: these are the particular aspects of road transport that provide the theme for several features in next...

HAULIERS will continue to conduct regional collective wage negotiations next winter, but they want to establish a national...

FODEN TRUCKS has pulled out of this year's Motor Show at the National Exhibition Centre and is to concentrate on operator...

LEEDS and Bradford hauliers and drivers have reached a wage agreement for hire or reward drivers which gives them potentially...

THE BUBBLING discontent in the National Freight Consortium's loss-making parcels group reached new ferment this week when NFC...

MEAT CARCASS transporters should be granted a six-month honeymoon from tachograph rules, Freight Transport Association...

A STORM of protest seems to be gathering over the draft anti-spray regulations which are now at the final editing stage. They...

HAULIERS were waiting this week to learn whether Transport and General Workers Union drivers would be instructed to refuse to...

TRANSPORT Union membership in North East England jumped last month in advance of Teesside dockers' check on lorry drivers,...

THE GOVERNMENT has no intention of reviving the proposals of a motorway box or ringway system to solve the notorious traffic...

FIRST separate results for Bedford Trucks show that it lost E52.2m last year, largely because of a 27 per cent loss of export...

THE CORY DISTRIBUTION network shrinks further in the summer, when J. Sainsbury switches its South-West custom to BRS Western....

IGNORANCE and illegal operation is widespread in British livestock haulage, according to a report published by the Royal...

NEW OFFICES for Wincanton Contracts in Western Avenue, London W3, were officially opened on Tuesday by Wincanton Group managing...

A NEW DAILY container service from Aberdeen to Wick has been launched by British Rail, with freight wagons attached to...

RODNEY HAWKINS has been made engineering and technical services director of the National Bus Company, and Martin Harris is the...

MARTINTRUX group managing director Russ Peters has been elected chairman of the Road Haulage Association International group....

MIKE QUILTY has become parcels operations director for the Post Office, responsible for Britain's parcel service handling...

PETER DINGLE, Senior Executive Officer in the Traffic Area Co-ordination Division of the Department of Transport, retired from...

ROESELARE SALES has taken on two sales managers to help further penetrate and consolidate Jonckheere's position within the UK...

FURTHER ELECTIONS have taken place within Freight Transport Association divisions and the following officers have been elected:...

GEOFFREY CLARKSON has been made general manager of Eastern National Omnibus Company, based at Chelmsford. He takes over from...

NORTH SCOTLAND division of Freight Transport Association made a presentation last month at their annual lunch meeting to Jack...

JOHN COX takes over later this month as the Road Haulage Association's industrial personnel and training manager. Mr Cox, who...

38-tonne rate to be new norm? LAST WINTER's wage negotiations for hauliers may have been among the least eventful on record,...

FELIXSTOWE-based Russell Davies has taken over the United Kingdom haulage activities of Foss, the UK/Middle East shipping...

THE RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT Society, a voluntary body lobbying the expansion and improvement of rail transport, has hit out against...

THE GROWTH of haulage traffic through Dover Harbour is now running at 13.74 per cent for the first two months of this year....

SUGAR DISTRIBUTORS HOLDINGS is spending 111f1 .5m (£1.2m) over the next three years in a new specialist Irish Republic...

Welcome Break AN ATTEMPT to attract more drivers to Welcome Break motorway service areas in the UK started on Monday this...

MPs have backed the 1983 European Commission proposals to abolish road haulage quotas in the next five years. At Westminster...

SIMPLIFIED SERVICING is just one of Telehoist's claims for its new G-range of displacement rams. The design eliminates threads,...

BOALLOY Tautliner bodies measuring 7.3m (24ft) long and 2.7m (8ft1Oin) high, mounted on Ray Smith demountable base frames, are...

NINE MONTHS after the receivers were called into the Daci a Car Company, the UK importer of cars built in Romania under licence...

AN EIGHT-YEAR old 32.5 tonnes gcw tipping bulk semi-trailer belonging to Tilcon Ltd has been extended by Don-Bur (Bodies and...

A NEW biennial automotive technology congress and exhibition is being planned by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The...

Air pump for tough tasks THE GLUTTON air-powered pump manufactured by Graco UK of Wolverhampton is designed to handle tough,...

BCC adds to deregulation debate More trial areas? URBAN trial areas and shorter deregulated express services are among the...

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Nicholas Ridley has displayed further impatience with existing road service licensing controls. In a...

NATIONAL BUS Company identity is to disappear completely from its buses in West Yorkshire PTE's area as they require to be...

ANAL DETAILS of the Bus and practice for coach driving were closed for press this week. The code, which is being compiled as...

Len Wright LEISURE Developments, a new investment company set up 10 weeks ago with the financial backing of five City...

TWO OUT OF THREE Scottish judges have criticised former Trans.. port Secretary David Howell for giving inadequate reasons for...

LTPC seeks access WHEELCHAIR ACCESS, split-step entrances, and fewer bench seats will be features of the next generation of...

THE EAST SUSSEX multi-purpose County Rider bus route is carrying 15 per cent more passengers than the combined services it...

LONDON TRANSPORT will abandon demountable overhauls of its Routemaster fleet as part of a multi-million pound plan to rebuild...

LEYLAND BUS is extending its Top Cat service scheme for coaches to cover the United Kingdom. From early this month, any...

AUSTIN ROVER will replace its long serving Morris Ital van this autumn with a light van model based on the Maestro car....

BODYBUILDER B. Walkor and Son of Watford has extended its range of Truckman Top glass reinforced plastic light vehicle canopies...

RENAULT UK's plans to increase its 1984 market share in the medium and light van sector have been boosted by large fleet...

FSO, the Polish manufacturer, is updating its light pick-up range for 1984. Body styling will be unchanged, but the 55kW...

BEES TRANSPORT, the Hinckley-based distribution Lex Group company, has bought nine Mercedes 307D vans and six LP813 rigids as...

FREIGHT ROVER is recalling ap- proximately 400 Sherpa 285, 310 and 350 vans. Tests by the company have shown that in extreme...

FORD HAS ADDED an extended wheelbase (EWB) version to its Transit chassis cab range. The existing 3m (9ft1Oin) wheelbase has...

A TWO-YEAR warranty scheme for all Spanish-built Ebro trucks and vans has been introduced by Nissan Ebro UK. The scheme will...

A FOLDING WHEELCHAIR ramp, with psv or welfare minibuses Manchester. It is made from either coloured glass reinforced plastic...

DAIHATSU has established its own finance company in a joint venture with United Dominions Trust. The Daihatsu Finance scheme...

SOUTHERN ENGLISH Ford main dealers Perrys has extended its "fixed price" service scheme currently available on cars to include...

AN ADJUSTABLE towing bracket for the Land Rover 110 and other light commercial vehicles has been produced by P. J. Lea of...

ANYONE wanting to buy a 3.5 tonne integral van certainly cannot complain that he lacks for choice. A look through our Light...

I WAS interested to read your article on the above subject in CM, March 3, but would like to correct the statement made by...

PITY poor David Mitchell! (Parliamentary Secretary to the Transport Department, for the benefit of those asking "David Who?")....

THE COMMISSION's formal proposals for amendment to European Economic Community Regulations 543/69 and 1463/70 have taken even...

PUBLIC TRANSPORT in London has been a political football between central and local government for years. The Labourcontrolled...

THE Transport Secretary's proposal to allocate a margin between track costs and tax rates to cover "unquantifiable social and...

THE HARD CORE of London's bash-the-lorry brigade waged a war of intimidation against Archway Road inquiry inspector Sir Michael...

THE great British institution, the hole in the road, has received the final accolade of a Government inquiry, and not before...

SYMPTOMS of tallyhosis are evident in Fiailfreight's decision to sponsor the first world championship for national hunt...

FELIXSTOWE owes its position as the kingdom's largest container-handling port originally to a Norfolk grain merchant. He was...

Sales don't equal profits SENSITIVE areas — price-cutting by vehicle manufacturers and dealers — were touched on in this...

BREAKDOWNS and accidents can cause big problems on their own for recovery operators. But often the difficulties are compounded...

Aussie 'static' on the working or mobile exhibition concept plus a porn's views COULD "WORKING" motor shows catch on in...

CRACKED ENGINE blocks and cylinder heads can have disastrous consequences for a small fleet operator who will be hard pressed...

THE 1984 Commercial Motor Accessories and Components Exhibition at Wembley last week was even more successful than our show...

16 Ho-Cranes is the UK importer for the German-built range of HOE demountable cranes. Sold to bodybuilders for fitting or...