AT LAST we know. After years of debating and reporting, gross vehicle weights have been increased. But not by as much as they...

. . , Ireland this week, Greece and Canada next week. That's what makes CM Europe's leading weekly transport publication and...

1ANSPORT Secretary David Howell finally announced his 38 e weights increase package last week. As expected, all other r weight...

DARKEST cloud hanging the Howell 38-tonner is a sport and General Workers In threat to black them once appear in haulage yards....

AS CM went to press it was clear that David Howell had virtually routed his backbench rebels. Although two of the Government's...

LOCAL AUTHORITIES have reacted to the heavy lorry proposals on largely party lines, with the Labour-controlled Association of...

THE HOWELL package is a ical move , wich will raise hopes in lorry-troubled Transport 2000 director Lester said this week. He...

BRITAIN'S choice of 38 tonnes had a bombshell effect in Brussels where officials were hoping to get agreement on their 40...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association and Road Haulage Association have welcomed the 38tonne decision, as far as it goes, but are...

EXPECTED, heavy goods vehicle plating and testing fees are ng increased by up to 27 per cent from December 1, despite mg...

'TOR SHOW month saw a slight recovery again in demand for v commercial vehicles in the United Kingdom, with goods icle...

ROAD BUILDING spending is expected to rise by about 16 per cent next year, Transport Secretary David Howell announced this...

the norm rntering the Irish Republic, already a leading parcels pany has been compelled to idon its 24-hours guarad delivery...

A HEREFORDSHIRE haulier accused of aiding and abetting his drivers to make false tachograph records was found not guilty by...

OFF-PEAK lane restrictions on the Severn Bridge will end this month, Transport Under Secretary Lynda Chalker has told MPs. But...

A HAULIER who had been convicted of setting fire to one of his own vehicles to defraud an insurance company was successful in...

CONTRACT hire comp Transfleet Services has w contract with British Nu Fuels to supply nine F vehicles. The full maintenance...

WILKINSON Transport week celebrated the sec anniversary of the openin! the Hub, its central pal sorting terminal in Nuneato...

REASING road freight movements during the next 20 years uld be seen as a warning to European countries of what is to be ided...

BSTANTIALLY improved mances for international I haulage drivers in Sweden e been secured by the SwedTransport Workers' Union....

A SHROPSHIRE operator has been fined after a series of overloading offences came to light. The charges arose from checks made...

THE ROAD Haulage Association's going down without a fight, and Insurance Services, the company Bain Dawes. While RHA director...

IRELAND'S Fianna Fail government was poised to liberalise the country's ailing haulage industry before it was brought down last...

THE EEC Commission is co ering amending EEC rule that retail traders and local transport drivers are exam from tachograph,...

BYPASSES for Ferndown I set) and Brampton (Cum have been given strong Bo Road Federation support ii cent days. In a written...

NEW FREIGHT Services Division of the National Services Group recently completed its senior management team arrangements. 3n...

ROAD Haulage Associa's next secretary almost cerly will be Len Harper, an cutive officer who has been the RHA since 1968. ie...

LORD STOKES, past chairman and past president of British Leyland, has been elected president of the Institute of Road Trans...

LONDON TRANSPORT International, the consultancy that sells LT's public transport knowledge around the world, has been...

LEIGH POMLE'TT has become manager at the Hereford branch of Midlands British Road Services. He takes over complete...

OUR ENGINEERING EDITOR, Graham Montgomerie, has been through the Transport Secretary's announcement to examine the nuts and...

to be Windfoiled IDFOIL and Leyland Vehicles come to a marketing mement whereby the former produce a modified version he...

'ENERGY efficiency and good design are interestingly linked, according to Lord Skelrnersdale, Government spokesman on energy in...

T g ha rs t Bill HUGE BUS FARE increases in England's big cities now seem certain following the Government's attack on...

will cause permanent darru to the public transport syste in the metropolitan counties. AMA planning and transpo tion committee...

CONSERVATIVE MP Jon Wheeler (Paddington) has challenged London Transport to reduce its fares by improving efficiency. He said...

THE BEDFORD design-styled aluminium coach body fr Robert Wright and Son of Ba mena is making its UK debu the SMT coach show in...

ONE OF the first Leyland Royal Tiger Doyen integral luxury coaches to be delivered to an operator was due to be handed over to...

PLYMOUTH has re-launched its the new banner of Plymouth City Plymouth CityBus features a completely restructured timetable as a...

A NEW GENERATION of rear-engined rural buses is being developed for Cores lam pair Eireann, Ireland's semi-state transport...

FEEDER BUSES will form par a rapid transit rail service wh will be introduced in Dublin 1984. As part of a rail electrificat...

THE NATIONAL Bus Company's external financing limit has Ix fixed at this year's £69m level, Transport Secretary David Hov...

THE FOLLOWING events are scheduled to take place next week: November 14-19 Freight Transport Association CPC national course...

THOUGH agriculture has aliys been the mainstay of Eire's onomy, there has since the rly Sixties been a steady owth in...

Financial results for the two state transpor companies in the province are quite amazing. Despite terrorist attacks that •...

After six months in Davy Jones's locker, the Belfast-Liverpool ro-ro ferry service is sailing again, but with a new firm at the...

;INGLE-PLATE clutches with the :lamping force provided by coil iprings were discussed in my ast article. In recent years,...

Leyland is using the computerised windtunnel at MIRA in its search for the 'perfect' cab shape. One present object is to...

The Irish haulage industry is not east in thE British mould. David Wilcox has been learning about it through the eyes of...

"EVERYBODY SAYS it's a good idea but nobody is using it." The man who finds himself in the predicament of a prospective...

The words of Noel Millier, who considers the Leyland Royal Tiger a mighty prospectin the rear-engined integral coach market...

WHO SAID: "If the motor industry is to continue to invest, to grow and to export, then it can only be on the basis of a healthy...

FULL MARKS to National Carriers for the design of a neat visible-index file measuring about 81/2in by 6in and giving...

AN ACTIVE centenarian who regularly travels on Cardiff buses has been given a free pass for the rest of his life as a 100th...

EVEN ON THE motorways which were built primarily for them, lorry drivers can never do right. If they cruise at the legal...

STRAINED TRADE relations between America and Britain are being mollified by Leyland double-deck buses. These are replacing San...

'or so it would appear rom the unenthusiastic esponse they gave )oth to important iurveys and the nvitation to attend the...