THE REPORT on transport in London could have been written on most major cities in the country. It raises two important issues...

ONE-TIME Road Haulage Association national chairman Noel Wynn is to chair the working party which will review the RHA's...

SEVERAL major international transport firms have been accused of unfair trading by using "doubtful methods" to get preferential...

TRANSPORT Secretary 0 Howell linked the need for r new roads with better contr lorries when he opened Stockport bypass. New...

NIOR Environment Minister, Lord Bellwin, last week refused to rmise that a single non-profit making organisation would always...

:ONSULTATION document on lorry action areas, as proposed in Armitage Report on lorries, people, and the environment, is ng...

NUMBER of commercial cl haulage units (the tractive t and trailer being counted as separate units) that passed nigh Dover...

OVERALL vehicle operating costs rose by about seven per cent in the year ending June 1982, according to the latest Freight...

WE WISH to express our thanks to the many readers who have extended their congratulations to us on being awarded the IPC...

HAULAGE operators are worried that the Department of Transport's proposed streamlining of traffic area boundaries (CM, June 12)...

THE British Vehicle Rental Leasing Association is hold half-day vehicle rental and ing seminar at the Crest !Erskine, near...

NO pay increases for several years is the price Britain must suffer if she is to recover the competitiveness lost through...

A ROLL-ON/roll-off ferry service between Belfast and Heys should start "in the not too distant future," a spokesman for bridge...

TURNING rail freight into a separate enterprise and allowing it to be partly funded by private investment would be a way of...

COURSES for the Royal Society of Arts examination for the Certificate of Professional Competence are being run by the Freight...

THE CM Lorry Driver of the Year staff have pointed out that the original result for the London centre was incorrect. The Class...

ERIC MITCHELL has been n manager of both the Long I and Newington Butts bran of Southern British I Services. Mr Mitchell,...

76 Gibb established a refriger haulage company at Frz burgh in 1953, on the denatii lisation of much of British F Services.

West Walton Highway by-pass on the A47 Birmingham to Great Yarmouth road. The contract comprises the construction of the...

THE Freight Transport Association has reduced its prices for tachograph charts. Boxes of 100 charts now sell at £1.90 plus vat...

THE updated brake system which DAF first began to fit to its 2800 and 3300 series in January this year is now a standard...

PEM Trailers of Bournemouth has extended its range of all aluminium Clipper bodies for a range of one-ton pick-ups to cater for...

SINCE the Sandbach En neering Company took over assembly of Ford's Transco nental models in April, pros tion of a curtailed...

RENAULT Vehicules Industrials is developing a diesel engine to TURBOCHARGER incorporat a three-wheel turbine tern is currently...

REYNOLDS BOUGHTON has introduced a tropicalised version of its RB44 four-wheel drive vehicle for overseas markets. An...

the last war is that the former will operate on green wood which could not be used for any other purpose and so there will be...

ONE STREET in Exeter will be included in a revived scheme for a third trial area in Mid and East Devon. ft is two years since...

THE POSSIBLE IMPLICATI( of a break in National Bus's dependence on Leyland BM its new vehicles was still IN considered by both...

HOUSE of Commons transt committee's report on sport in London (CM, July without question, is the t important document to rge...

IT WOULD not require much imagination to visualise a senior Monopolies and Mergers Commission civil servant meeting his...

David Wilcox, the freight operator's friend has been finding out how Townsend Thoresen organises its cross-Channel ferr...

Is the UK deliberately kept short of permit Why don't we get the increases in permit which we ask for? John Durant explains...

No more worries for a week or two.... At least, not for the holiday-makers. But if it's your coach they're going on holiday in,...

All you ever wanted to know about Continental coaching but never had Noel Millier to ask WITH more and more British coaches...

Can a ferry that takes longer than rivals to cross the Channel save time for operators? Can a firm that spends £50 a year on...

THE SIGNS are that UK/Continental traffic levels are holding up pretty well. However, we have 14 fewer services in our...

THIS STEEL security box is designed for the long-distance driver to carry money, passport and other small valuables in safety....

'HEN I forecast exceptional ?Jays on the roads this summer lid not realise that as much as miles of motorway would be ider...

GOVERNMENT that exhorts Justry to cut costs and 'come more competitive oposes to raise the fee for a avy goods vehicle driving...

THE National Freight Consortium's 17-minute video film to explain to 24,000 employees the plan for them to buy the organisation...

TELEVISION film shot at London's Victoria Coach Station during the railway drivers' strike gave an impression of chaos that may...

ALAN NIGHTINGALE, a London Transport inspector, is writing a history of David MacBrayne's bus services from 1906 until 1972....

A SMALL boy on a coach tour of London was shown Buckingham Palace. That is where the Queen lives, the guide told him. "What...

UNENFORCED legislation is valueless, but one of the most frequent of the many complaints heard from road transport men is that...

:SPITE its potency as a means gaining unpopularity, the ercise of hindsight is doubtedly one of life's great 3asures. If it can...

SPEAKING as a much abused and ill-thought-of bus driver, may I offer the following comments on road transport matters in...

I HAVE been a removal man for about 10 years. Household, office, factory, assisting with wide loads, long and indescribable...