THE TUC's DAY of national inactivity, May 1 4 should not be dismissed as political lunacy nor should it be paraded as a show of...

:URRENT PRESSURES on hauliers to accept traffic at on-economic rates and without parity with the pace of fflation must lead...

Britain will do what it can to get a European transport infrastructure scheme that is in this country's interests, MPs were...

NORMAN FOWLER, Minister of Transport, announced last week the publication of additional evidence submitted by his Department in...

TWELVE young HGV drivers attended the Associated Knowledge Course at Transport Training (Norfolk) Limited, January-March 1980,...

• THE GOVERNMENT has no immediate plans to change lorry speed limits on motorways. But the minister has submitted to the...

BRITISH RAILWAYS had to turn away £10 million to £15 million worth of profitable . freight traffic, due to the lack of...

Where transport improvement is required in the Government's proposed enterprise zones, local authorities will probably have to...

The ending of the Roa( Haulage Wages Act of 1938 was described as "a tragedy' last week. Speaking during a debate or the...

;IR ARTHUR ARMITAGE Ind his colleagues — who lope to submit their report by he autumn — had not been aft in any doubt about...

THE WHITE PAPER on future roads plans will be published in May, according to Mr Nor man Fowler, the Transport Minister....

Fowler was — for the time being at least — answering the last of those troublesome "open" questions. True he had nearly a year...

Obtaining spare parts for your commercial vehicles can be nothing short of a nightmare. It always seems that the very item you...

LONDON TRANSPORT ended the year with a deficit of £15.7 million after transferring £17.6 million from the General Reserve. A...

THE WAYS in which school buses can avoid VAT have been outlined in the Commons by Mr Peter Rees, Minister of State to the...

IT IS A SIGN of the times that an increasing number of security devices are finding their way on to the market. Petty pilfering...

ANOTHER major breakthrough in electronic fuel monitoring and control has been claimed by Tirneplan Limited, the Surrey based...

A CHANGE in the law about tyre tread depth is possible. Mr Kenneth Clarke, Parliamentary Secretary for Transport, said in the...

The Transport Department is discussing the , possibility 01 a scheme similar to thosE applied in Europe for nationa approval...

CLARKE INSTRUMENTS LTD, security engineers of Camberley, are introducing an improved version of their electrical spigot lock....

rEHICLE doors manufacured entirely of glassfibreeinforced plastics which have been developed by Premix Inc, bf America, are now...

THE CLOSING date for the 1981 Design Council awards is 31 July 1980. Entries are open in the following categories: engineering...

THE RHA's NEW national chairman is Ken Rodgers of Eastern Area who was elected unopposed last Wednesday. Mr Rodgers has been a...

Ketton Portland Cement Company's deputy transport manager, Philip Prior, has been promoted to transport manager following the...

JACK WOODS FORMER TGWU GROUP SECRETARY ASKS THE QUESTION FOR FORTY years, 1929, to 1969, I was proud and privileged to lead...

IT IS WIDELY accepted in world wide transport circles that Britain was the first and remains the foremost nation in transport...

ROAD RAIL co-operation is lot the sole preserve of the UK :ransport purist. It was dis :ussed with enthusiasm in 3aville. The...

Europe's borders FRONTIER crossing problems have exercised the minds of IRU permanent staff and delegates for more than 20...

CONGRESS ACCEPTED the responsibility for operators ensuring safety standards in both freight and passenger transport. It was...

AT THE 1972 Congress in Estoril the IRU called for the establishment of a common system of road taxing based on marginal...

THE CONGRESS turned it attention to the rational us( of energy in freight an passenger vehicles. It was satisfied that...

A FURTHER resolution referred to freedom of transit for road transport and a resolution passed by the UN Economic Commission in...

Whi an injection of capital and attractive freight facilities tnere's every reason for local hauliers to make use of 1e[r own...

BY e -awk Promises Promises JOHN SILBERMANN finished a rigorous two-year stint as chairman of the Road Haulage ssociation on...

Dr C A Smith looks at the action of additives on lubricants, THERE are many hundreds of different varieties of lubricants,...

HEAVY MOTOR CARS used under the Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) General Order 1979 must comply with all the...

WHILE FEELING reasonably certain that most operators ensure that drivers take the greatest care in dealing with high loads and...

DAF Trucks Intermodal transport. Designing vehicles, and the infrastructure for the use of intermodal transport. The thesis...

Carburation, 4 In the last article (March 29) the constant vacuum, variable choke type of carburettor was discussed. Now the...