GOVERNMENT claims that commercial vehicle taxation should be increased because trucks and vans do not pull their weight on road...

LORRY PARK operators have been given just a few days to save their trade association from extinction. The British Association...

LEYLAND Truck and Bus executives still cannot decide whether to put firm proposals before the National Enterprise Board on...

ki, BR BRITISH Rail wants the profit making Freightliners handed back — but it has made no reference to troubled National...

A comprehensive transport consultancy service is now available to Freight Transport Association members. The new service will...

CONCERN at the incidence of claims arising from thefts of cotton grey cloth and associated materials during transport by road...

A COMPUTER bank service for the analysis of goods vehicle operating and maintenance costs may be set up by the Freight...

European transport minister! seemed likely to collapse aftel a French snub this week. The meeting, scheduled lot later this...

ph limit SPEED limits imposed during the fuel crisis should be removed and replaced with the old 70mph limit, says the Freight...

A DISTRICT Council operating buses, or a Passenger Transport Executive, would both have the power to veto applications for road...

MUNICIPAL bus operators in Lancashire have been advised by the Association of District Council's (ADC), that entering into...

BRITISH Road Services has taken delivery of its first Ford Transcontinentals, following a year of evaluation in the Midlands...

WEEKLY pay for Britain's lorry drivers now averages £68, according to the latest Freight Transport Association wages report....

Europoort service NORTH SEA Ferries will be extending its existing ro-ro freight services from Hull to Rotterdam (Europoort)....

DELIVERY drivers at Whitbread brewery plants have intensified their pickets and stopped production at the Luton brewery. The...

AN 0-licence renewal application was adjourned for six months by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, A. S. Robertson, when...

A DURHAM haulier was fined a total of £1,550 for overloaded vehicles at Gosforth Magistrates Court last week, and five of his...

Law court? WILLIAM RODGERS, Secretary of State for Transport, met a deputation from the Magistrates' Association last week to...

CHANGES in the law on the use of trade plates, making it easier to recover broken-down vehicles and demonstrate new ones, have...

A NEW grouping of specialist management services has been announced with the object of placing consultancy services within...

SPD managing director Bob Beckham to serve on a committee to look at the Department of Transport's methods of appraising trunk...

l imits' PUBLIC service vehicles speed limits should be increased from 50mph to 60mph on dual-carriageway roads. That is what...

WALLACE Arnold Tours would be precluded from carrying passengers booking in Greece to the UK, on its proposed London to Athens...

THE NEW hourly town bus service operated in Penrith by Ribble Motor Services has been such a success that no cost has been...

A COUPLE of weeks after the announcement of an initial order for the new Metro-Cam mell Weymann Metrobus by West Midlands PTE,...

THE Van Hool-McArdle project to build double-deckers, coaches and city buses with common mechanical units from General Motors...

TWO SENIOR Russian engineers arrived in England last week to collect a Scammell 6x4 Crusader tractive unit. For the next six...

AN employee's solution to protecting men working on the top of tankers during their construction, has been adopted at Crane...

and General Workers Union, the United Road Transport Union recently made the limelight in a two-month dispute over the minimum...

I wish all the people who are trying to bring our road haulage under EEC regulations would think of the driver for once. If the...

The views of W. A. G. Sayers CM, January 28, 1977) on the need to maintain haulage rates are well expressed. But he makes a...

the early summer of 1976. Since then, it is illegal for any trade associations to issue rates schedules, or indeed for there...

The Cost of Using Light Vehicles for Town-Centre Deliveries and Coltections - , published by the Transport and Road Research...

I must congratulate "The Hawk" of 'Bird's-Eye View' for his remarks in CM, December 3, 1976. Britain is still the most...

I would like to compliment David Williams on his letter regarding bad payers (CM, January 14). I am sure, unlike Mr Sayers (CM,...

centigeteittfiatit One feels a runt of criticism in your recent editorial concerning me apparent reluctance of the RHA to...

Due to a misprint, you quote me as saying (CM, January 28) that the German rail industry has grown by 90 per cent over the past...

City Transport wishing to cut down on the practice of wilful overriding (CM, October 1 and January 14), but certain features of...

Your report, "Minibus Bill hits operators" (CM, January 21), would also appear to be another blow against the bus preservation...

Goodyear is currently celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the opening of its Wolverhampton Plant, and is interested in...

One of the latest fields of fuel-saving devices is that of wind resistance. CM investigates some of the more recent...

KETTERING commuters may now be able to take advantage of a daily coach 'excursion' to London, but those living nearer the...

CONSTERNATION and many unhappy faces can be expected among British operators with high vehicles is, as seems quite possible,...

way is to look after the fuel injection system by keeping it clean, and leaving well alone. With the little extra care, both...

In order to recognise metal fatigue staff must understand the cause FAILURES are often blamed on drivers' abuse of the...

time to time, we find ourselves short of vehicles and so we have to hire. It is not economical to expand the fleet to cover the...

to 10 tonnes gross; because I have been driving a vehicle over 7.5 tonnes gross but less than 3 tons unladen for some time. I...

of the firms for which I work are less than happy to issue a new record book to each agency driver they employ. This is an...

legal requirements regarding the towing of a vehicle, on which the only way of freeing the secondary brakes is to partly...

to perform cabotage in the UK, but just what is cabotage? I would cite the example of an operator from Jersey who arrives in...

FIT THE wrong tyre equipment to your vehicle, and the odds are you'll end up losing money because you did so. Many years ago,...

The key to running an economical petrol fleet lies in effective engine maintenance, says Stephen Gray. Photographs by Steve...

THE Construction and Use Regulations cover every conceivable aspect of vehicle design; even closets, urinals, lavatory basins...