BIG BREAKTHROUGH has teen made in the labour relaions of the road haulage indusry with the setting up of a Dint pay council in...

Dr JOHN GILBERT, the Minister for Transport, warned Parliament this week that as a result of an unspecified NBC deficit for...

ORGANISATIONS interested in the Young Driver Training Scheme were asked for their opinions about the relevant draft regulations...

NEW depot service facilitie: have just been opened at a Stoke-on-Trent and Leeds 133 Pandoro Ltd, part of P & C Unit Loads. The...

l'HE EXPERTISE of six uniiersity professors will be on all to the haulage industry, 3assenger services and truck nanufacturers...

HE 1976 Tipper Convention viii take place at Harrogate rom April 30 to May 3. This las been decided following vhat the...

y CM reporter HE Road Haulage Association as accused the Greater Lonon Council of playing to the nvircrnmental gallery in its...

'OP-LINE speakers and topine subjects will be the order of the day at the Freight 7ransport Association national oniference...

THE short-term prospects for the European commercial vehicle market are not bright and there will be little overall volume...

THE Public Service Vehicles (Arrest of Offenders) Bill which has already gone through the House of Lords was approved by the...

A GREAT deal of general freight traffic traditionally carried by British Rail will become available to road transport soon,...

THE POST OFFICE will lose :he lucrative portion of parcels :raffic unless it finds a solution :o its financial difficulties...

If, after his meeting with the trade unions, the FTA and tl RHA, Dr Gilbert decides to seek deferment on the intn duction of...

on Minister s tacho statement by CM reporter THE Freight Transport Association and the tachograph manufacturers believe that...

TWO MONTHS after the receiver was called in at the giant London-based haulage company of Roadships Ltd one of the firm's major...

CM reporter iE depot manager of a New;tie upon Tyne transport n found one of his lorries attended on waste ground, locked and...

HE serious vehicle prohibian record of a family haulage - m was largely due to the ill 3alth of the company's milder. This was...

A CONTRACT valued at £50,000 has been placed with Tasker Trailers Ltd by the Post Office. The order is for 50 urban chassis...

COMMERCIAL vehicle corn ponents will be shown by British companies to visitors from all over the world at the Leipzig Autumn...

SEVERAL of the Commer 2500 vehicles which are being operated by the Glasgow-based truck rental company Melvin Motors Ltd have...

FINES and costs totalling nearly £8,000 were imposed on two large road haulage firms, five one-man businesses and 26 drivers,...

Ted Hains is moving up from his post of general haulage director for P&O Road Services and becomes general manager of the...

LONG-DISTANCE lorry d ers have demanded that Secretary of State for Scott act now over A74. The r are angry at being labe "...

:E THEME for this year's Chared Institute of Transport weekJ. conference—to be held at :ford, September 19-21—is ow'ards a...

1ARING TEMPERATURES brought out a record crowd to rw the Historic Commercial Vehicle CAub's Trans-Pennine n terminating at the...

Report says that big changes are needed A GRIM FUTURE for bus operators in Wales is forecast in an independent report on the...

FARES increases sought by Lewis bus company, Galson,Stornas,vay Motor Services Ltd, are not as fierce as was first indicated....

STARTING times at three schools in the Barnsley-based Yorkshire Traction Company reduce costly duplication. A spokesman for...

.E Yorkshire Traffic Cornssioners have granted an )fication by Sheffield coach arator E. H. Sims Ltd to er sightseeing tours...

NOTTINGHAM bus priority ieme based on the use of iffic lights at major junctions iced a " collar " around the ier city when it...

the Strathclyde Region on a more local basis has been made in a report by the Scottish Association for Public Transport. Local...

lin Wells, who finds that his .nsultative work for the Road tulage , Association is now king up less time, is offering s...

FREE interchange between different makes of demountable equipment has been made possible with the introduction of a...

A RANGE of tail-lifts, manufactured in the US by Waltco, is being marketed in the UK by Tirfor Ltd, of Halfway, Sheffield. The...

A THREE-WHEELER demountable gully emptier has been designed for local authorities who want a lightweight vehicle capable of...

CREASED CAPACITY and eater deck area with the nimum effect on wind ;istance to maintain fuel onomy are features of the w...

MINISTERS who take it upon themselves to make a public appeal normally understand that they must have a threat or • a...

What to watch out for when buying a secondhand refrigerated vehicle by Trevor Longcroft AT FIRST GLANCE buying a secondhand...

Whatever the Gaelic revivalists might say, the Irish economy • and the future of the Republic is absolutely dependent on...

America is renowned for its Irish cops, and certainly policemen over there have got to act fast to be effective. Alan Bible,...

There is little doubt that road transport makes good television. Z Cars and Barlow have had more than their share of transport...

Another autumn date worth noting is September 13 and 14; that's 'the weekend after the CMLDOY finals at Bramcate. On this...

The East Kent, and the Maidstone and District bus companies have been castin their eyes and their nets across the Channel for...

The URTU newspaper Whe( states boldly on page two al its most recent issue "We stay in Europe." It then gee on to explain that...

ving read CM's report on 1 staffing levels, I thought u might be interested in aring from the other side of ; fence, that of...

This branch of transport 2000, being a group interested in a balanced transport system, has read with interest the recent...

The comments by Mr Sayers and Mr Wilson to my original letter deserve some reply. • First, the only " fanatics" appear to be...

annual DoE test next month and I understand that the test fee has been increased. Could you give details? The Motor Vehicles...

period of suspension, but the Licensing Authority will not return my heavy goods vehicle driving licence till after I have...

signs which state that turns are prohibited except for buses. Does the facility to turn either right or left according to the...

position of a haulier's customer whose staff had loaded a vehicle which subsequently proved to be overweight. What is your...

regulation, introduced by t Road Traffic Act 1974, it not necessary for a vehi( to have been involved in collision for the...

Tim Hoare SIGH OF RELIEF from the jority of bodybuilders can expected on January 1, r6. That's the date when the ;is changes...

by Graham Montgomerie REEFER VANS are designed to keep the cargo cool: not an ultra obvious statement, this, so much as a way...

lartin Hayes he current cold economic tte many operators are lining ways and means of asing profitability by lig money...

assis extension is an art which can be ivied only by experience and application. though Baico is under new ownership, the...

INADEQUACY of the light accommodation availfor long-distance road • tge drivers throughout the try is indisputable. )ugh...

in how to show off by Tim Hoare uality display un its for £25,000 [ILE the bodybuilding intry in general has been 'ering...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CE!), MIMI, AMIRTE FROM time to time the question of carrying passengers in goods vehicles crops up,...

arking problems around the London circuit by Martin Watkins 4B-SITE coach parks, -tempered traffic wardens parking...

'1. Coach Operation and Parking at Places of Tourist Attraction in London, a free leaflet published by the Greater London...

by Johnny Johnson NOTHING teaches an operator more about the characteristics of special-purpose vehicles than operating them,...

by John Darker, .AIVIBINI OBJECTIVE EVIEIENCE as to the general health of lorry and bus drivers does not appear to be...

range of galvanised stacking te pans designed for the orage and handling of small irts has been introduced by 'elconstruct....

, container bridge designed sr stuffing a container of nester length than the vehicle n - Which it is loaded has been eveloped...

An insulated panel material suitable for refrigerated transport has been developed by Technical Panel Industries. The panel,...

A heavy-duty drill fitted with a 13mm (iin) capacity multicraft chuck has been introduced by Desoutter. The model 121 has a...

The lamp is powered by two replaceable 1.5V batteries and it will flash for up to seven hours. The unit has no bulb filament to...