MPLOYERS who have to lake redundancy payments a employees will be able to laim only 41 per cent back -om the Government's...

olice after a prosecution was lismissed by Manchester City 4agistrates, this week. Police officers said they ound an...

will be rolling out of the calibration stations by the end of the month. Already bookings are being taken for calibration...

• LANCASHIRE haulier lost is operating base and 14 ehicles in a £250,000 fire rhich struck in the early ours of Thursday...

A 40-ton dumper truck ran downhill and collided with another unit after it was left unattended and parked "on air" only, an...

A 14-POINT wage claim, including a 20 per cent pay rise, has been put forward by Transport and General Works Union...

A NEW CM special publication, Market Guide, is to be published on September 16 containing over 1,000 specifications, a guide to...

TORY transport spokesman Norman Fciwler has accused Government of making "a complete farce of consur representation" over the...

A row has now broken out, at Westminster, over the use by a Department of Transport special adviser of Dip notepaper to make a...

VEHICLES going to Londoi new Covent Garden market Nine Elms will be paying a surcharge to enter the mart from this week. And...

HE Mercedes-Benz 1619S, fficially announced in last eek's issue, has already been test with CM over the cottish route. Over...

AVENTRY police want to ear from anyone with formation about a theft at atford Gap on August 2. Around 2,000 women's garments...

GRAMPIAN Regional Council declared war on hauliers last week when it lodged four objections to 0 licence applications and...

narket on Sunday night failed o materialise. It was thought hat an attempt would be nade to block the newly-intailed turnstiles...

SUGGESTED changes in the regulations that enable local authorities to make traffic orders have been sent to the Department of...

■ PPROVAL for the White aper has come from the .lectric Vehicle Association. The EVA while welcoming he accent on developing...

THE employment of at least one "professionally competent" transport manager from January 1, 1978, in line with the EEC...

'ACILITIES available to lorry irivers on the Al2 trunk road rom London to the East Coast ire to be examined by Departnent of...

PETROL price wars are forcing garage operators to close down their forecourts, earlier, to save wages as their profit margins...

New link man • • . ALAN BUCKLE will occupy the new post of marketing manager for Cartransport Limited. Responsible for liaison...

A PROTEST over the deci not to cut the tax on dery gone to Chancellor D Healey from the Road Hau Association. An RHA statement...

COMPANIES within the so of the Road Transport Indus Training Board will be reqi ed to pay levy, again, at rate of one per cent...

TER an incident in which a rry belonging to Blundell & mmer (Produce) Ltd, of ilsall, near Ormskirk, lost its ro nearside drive...

QUALITY control in commercial vehicle building will be the subject of a seminar to be held in London from October 31 to...

nove in.. FC plans to develop a :ontainer on-line processing stem" (COPS), for Freightiers Ltd, has brought a 40,000 order for...

AE TRUCK and Trailer Cornponets Limited, the Rugbybased manufacturer and wholesale distributor of commerical vehicle componets,...

EUROBRIDGE International Transport, based in Manchester, has set up depots in six major cities in Great Britain as well as...

P&O Unit Loads company, Ferrymasters, has ordered 826 trailers, worth £4.5m, for delivery this year. Suppliers include Craven...

TRANSFLASH Units, the Bradford-based international freight forwarder, is to launch a new container service. between the UK and...

"FREIGHTING to the Growth Markets" is the title of a conference to be run in parallel with "The Freight Show '77" exhibition at...

SOUTHDOWN busmen in Worthing last week refused to drive Daimler Fleetline double-deckers because the buses, they claimed, were...

TRAFFIC Commissioners have approved West Midland Passenger Transport Executive's latest bus fares increase. The PTE fares will...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers has met tiConfederation of British Road Passenger Transport (CF general purposes committee...

LASGOW'S 500 buses are each being fitted with an armoured ear plastic sliding screen at a cost of £100 per vehicle in a bid to...

gun I • • FIE annual Trans Pennine un for Historic Commercial ehicles was held on Sunday. ne hundred and eighty-seven hieles —...

Cambrian Coast Coach Line, of Abergynolwyn, Tywyn, applied to the North Western Traffic Commissioners for a licence to operate...

RURAL Public Transport is the subject of a seminar to be held at the Polytechnic of Central London on Friday, November 25....

"Modern Coaches — Can You Rely on Them?" is the title of the first session of a coaching symposium to be held by the...

NEW weekend coach tours have been introduced for the autumn by National Travel (West). Tours offered from the North West of...

JON Simon of Vehicle Parks, who runs the coach park at Ashburn Mews, Kensington, London, is hoping to operate a temporary coach...

SUBARU, sixth largest car manufacturer in Japan, is to market a four-wheel-drive estate car in the UK. But there are no plans...

Thwaites Engineering Ltd, of Leamington Spa, has turned to a trailer designed originally for carrying caravans. The 12.2m...

ding TRR .port MORE than half the driv monitored in foggy condith on the M4 were driving I fast. This was the not-too-s...

CHANGE in the method of tablishing the wax precipition point in diesel fuel has !en incorporated into British andard 2869...

JLL advantage of the maximum legal lengths for both rigids id drawbar combinations has been taken by A. D. Harris lipping and...

A NEW TYPE of track has been added to the Shorfast range of cargo control equipment from Dixon-Bate, of Bridge Works, Tarvin...

VISO F, a cold start kit made by Start Pilot Ltd at Burmester Road, London, is now recommended by Ford, and is offered as a...

A NEW heater unit designed for in-cab mounting has been introduced by Eberspacher (UK) Ltd, of Fibbards Road, Brockenhurst,...

Road Haulage Wages Council WHEN the Road Haualge Wages Council met its death, earlier this year, it was as a result of the...

Unlike the characters in fiction, though, their story does not end with Nice being rewarded. Naughty being cautioned and Nasty...

;UCCESS breeds success: md as every month passes Ind we receive our Iccredited sales returns, 7/14's circulation increases. t's...

NHERE are the safest drivers? Nell, according to National :arriers they are in Scotland, Tyneside, Stockport, Derby„ -lull,...

TO help deal with the final stage of conversion of vehicle records, 200 new employees are being added to the 5,350 workforce at...

According to 'Peterborough', the Daily Telegraph columnist, there is a perfectly valid reason. One can read, one can write and...

ekNYONE who has passed through a port this year vvill lave seen the anti rabies poster — La Rage. They warn igainst importing...

nb vitaupetvet at Met• • • I would like to put the record straight on some inaccurate comments made by The Hawk in a story...

Without wishing, in any way, to belie the hgv driver training carried out within the food, drink and tobacco industry, or to...

IT would be a pity if the correspondence in your columns from the Freight Transport Association (CM June 10, July 15) and the...

IN your report of the recent I.Mech.E. Conference, at Cranfield, reference is made tc remarks made by me about prices of public...

been trying ti build order from the chao that existed in the field o vehicle recovery. Major problems, arisim when vehicles...

was fitted with a tachograph when I bought it. I have never used this instrument and have completed the manual logbook as was...

check recently and test weighed on a public weighbridge where it was alleged to be overweight on the rear axle of the tractive...

to train new drivers for ps tests on the public road Do need a special licence and dc my coaches need to carry plates for this...

Nod ips over pay HAVE you ensured that the pay slips enclosed in your employee's wage packet conform with the requirements of...

It will pay off, as a CM Won reveals... ACCORDING to the Retail Prices Index, inflation has been running at 1 6 to 1 7 per...

Private hire, schools and works contracts form the basis of many businesses and are al increasingly competitive, particularly...

[] Motor Vehicle Testing and Plating by C. C. Toyne, third edition, published by Liffon Engineering Services, £ vington House,...

Association, copy circulated to members with additional copies available price £4.50 from area secretaries or from Haulage...

IT is always a pleasure to receive this very useful annual and this pleasure will be doubled for those who require extra copies...

is now available for £3.25 from Routiers (British Isles and Commonwealth) Ltd, 354 Fulham Road, London SW10 9U H. [I THE...

the British 1811 and Western Europe, published by lan Allan Ltd, Terminal House, Shepperton, TW17 SAS, price £5.95 (ISBN 0 7110...

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