FEWER MODELS, fewer makes — and more State control of production: that was the prospect facing vehicle operators this week as...

IHE Government is to give a massive cash aid to British Leyland to help it out of its present liquidity problem. Announcing...

FODENS is considering laying off a number of its shop floor and office workers at the end of January. A spokesman for the...

ON Monday (December 9) the Road Haulage wages Order RH(99) took effect. providing for a cost of living payment of £3.20 a week...

from our Brussels correspondent THIS week's meeting of EEC Ministers of Transport in Brussels was expected to prove to be a...

OPERATING costs for express carriers have increased this year by the same amount as in the last three years combined. This is...

DESPITE last week's national pay awards to 160,000 municipal and company bus men, at least II Scottish Bus Groups depots were...

for Manchester GREATER Manchester Council's transport committee is considering ways to raise additional revenue to offset the...

THERE WERE very real difficulties in establishing lorry parks to the standard laid down in the 1971 Report on Lorry Parks,...

NEARLY 100 drivers at a Manchester textile mill went On strike on Monday in a dispute over Christmas lay-offs. They claim that...

AN OLD-ESTABLISHED Warwickshire haulier closed down his business last week rather than face the prospect of ,bankruptcy. "My...

JOSEPH LUCAS Industries and la Societe DBA is to acquire DBA's 50 per cent interest in Roto-Diesel SA, Blois, France, for more...

POLICE have no tool recognized by the DoE for measuring the tread depth of a tyre. The problem was highlighted recently in a...

ARLINGTON GROUP's "Apprentice of the Year" title has been awarded to Trevor G. Smith, a third-year apprentice employed at the...

MONDAY Dec 16. CIT agm of Corporate members. 80 Portland Place W1. 5.45pm. CIT(Humberside) "The Humber Bridge" by A. L....

FEES RECEIVED by the National Transit Insurance Company for handling claims on behalf of the Road Haulage Insurers' Committee...

A REDUCTION in tyre noise will be needed if the target noise level of 80 dBA for a quiet heavy vehicle is to be achieved. This...

ROAD TRANSPORT should be co-ordinated not nationalized, says the Merseyside Chamber of Trade's transport committee in a...

the R H A to persuade the Motor Agents Association to modify its conditions under which repairs are carried out. They are: a...

OPERATORS of lightlyladen vans of relatively high cubic capacity could cut their fuel bills on motorway running by 10 per cent...

by Martin Hayes WHAT must be one of the most complicated longdistance coach ranges evtr, was introduced last week by Daimler...

PASSENGER transport operators will either have to put their own house in order or face the intervention of politicians. The...

THERE WERE certain attractions in the Bill introduced by the Tory Government to help rural buses, admitted Mr Neil Carmichael,...

WALLACE ARNOLD Tours Ltd regarded itself as "the brand leader in the British market", specializing in extended coach tours, the...

THE last defendant in the case of Government grants for new buses, which began four weeks ago, appeared before Newport Crown...

THE EASTERN LA, Mr H. F. Robson, said during a Section 64 application last week that it was the first time a local authority...

ALTHOUGH Varta Batterie AG was working on three electro chemical storage cells, of which sodium sulphur seemed the most...

TRAILERS fitted with SA B brake slack adjusters could be supplied with lining wear indicators from January 1. Slack adjusters...

"This energetic, productive female called Myra is full of pregnant possibilities but is keeping her vital statistics in good...

The drivers' pay dispute dust has settled and the season for goodwill, cheer and gifts is fast approaching. So what about a...

A new bus service has started in Greater Manchester but this time it isn't one that runs on wheels. , BBC Radio Manchester has...

When colleague Martin Hayes was in Germany last week at the launch of the new Mercedes 0.303 coach range he was intrigued to...

Transmission problems are not always a matter of trucks with dodgy gears or broken halfshafts. Our EEC correspondent's copy on...

continued Fearnley, the company transpor manager, who arranged for me tc accom pay a vehicle on a delivery to at egg-packing...

Customers who want a guaranteed express service will pay for it and if it's good they'll come back for more by lain Sherriff...

by Tim Hoare FIRST available in quantity in this country during 1973, the Light Transporter range of vans, chassis-cabs and...

The new electronic weighing equipment which CM warned of ir September is coming into operation. Johnny Joh nson went to se( how...

SENSIBLE governments resist as long as possible proposals for rationing sugar, bread, petrol or any other commodity of which...

6: Employers' associations by John Darker AMBIM THE legal status of employers' associations has been ambiguous for many years....

by Les Oldridge TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE TWO interesting cases on the law concerning contract carriage are the Birmingham and...

our Ford Transit minicoaches have been tampered with. At present the cables are pressed into the speedometer housing and held...

an accident Lc required to report only those incidents which occasion personal injury, damage to another vehicle or injury to...

range of say, 1000 rpm; to 2000 rpm at the engine crankshaft, .feeding into the gearbox. With the standard David Brown gearbox...

and must they keep A The drivers' hours rules apply, in general, to public service vehicles, motor vehicles constructed or...

trader on a Class 3 heavy goods vehicle driving licence? Yes, providing the wheel con figuration agrees with that specified...