majority, to accept the company's 22 per cent wage package and so withdraw an overtime ban and work-to-rule which has lasted...

NFC has said that heavier lorries should be welcomed but warns hauliers not to expect a bonanza. According to NFC only about a...

last year reached an all-time high, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. There was an in:I-ease of 15...

2hancellor of the Exchequer or a £1000 increase in persoial allowances as part of this (ear's Budget package. It 1,?irns this...

ower Services Commission hat under the tenets of the 973 Employment and :raining Act too much money ;oes towards the operation...

Day compensation for unfair dismissal after he had been sacked for not being able to change a spare wheel. The Tribunal ruled...

audience at the National Academy of Engineering last week of plans to encourage competition on express coach routes, for total...

establishment of a Greater London Passenger Transport Authority. He told a Dublin audience this week that the Authority would...

and one steel, called Envoy — have been announced by York Trailers. The main difference between the Envoy and the grp range is...

years ago to "launder" used diesel lubricating oil so that it may be used again in the engine, has now been launched...

THERE were sighs of relief all round this week when Esso tanker drivers voted to accept the company's 22 per cent wage package...

ANOTHER twist in the in flationary spiral looks set fi next month, when Transpo Minister Norman Fowler plat to raise Operators...

LEYLAND has done well i the early stages of the Paris Dakar Rallye Oasis. As we closed for press o Tuesday, its 6 x 4 Marathon...

HAULIERS were feeling the effects of secondary picketing this week, and several Road Haulage Association areas report thal...

EAVIER lorries should be authorised, but they won't bring cullers an Eldorado. That is the message of the National eight...

CAMPAIGN Against the Lorry Menace wants hauliers to pay £30 a day to bring heavy lorries into London, and has told Armitage...

DESPITE rising costs, road haulage traffic is still increasing, reports the Department of Transport. Provisional road traffic...

h e farm HE 'THUMBS-UP to heavier orries is given by the National armers' Union of England nd Wales in its Armitage ubmission....

WEST GERMAN road haulage permits were being issued as usual again this week, according to the Department of Transport. A fresh...

COMMERCIAL VEHICLE sales in the UK during 1979 reached an all-time high according to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders...

NEGOTIATIONS for the sal , of Essex-based Chris Hudsoi International are still in pro gress. The receiver has met severa...

COMPANIES should foster engineering innovation, and present engineers and engineering as matters of vital importance, says Sir...

If you're looking for anything from a 7.38 tonner to a 40 ton TIR tractor, there's probably a Renault to fit the bill. What's...

SMALL businessmen want the Chancellor of the Exchequer to cut tax burdens to provide greater work incentives and to discourage...

FITTERS are putting their lives at risk if they carry dis)osable butane cigarette Lighters in a workshop, accorling to the Road...

A HARROGATE haulier wa called before the Yorkshir Licensing Authority this weel even although there was n suggestion that his...

THERE has been an increase in the prices of TIR carnets and guarantee vouchers. Fourteen volet carnets now cost £10, flat-rate...

HIGH WYCOMBE-based Cave Wood Transport has set up two new subsidiaries to handle its European and other world markets. Cave...

SEFTON Cargo Express (Liverpool) have sold out to Tuffnells of Sheffield, who plan to expand, Sefton Cargo moved from Liverpool...

RECEIVERS and manager! have been called in at Brool Hire (UK) Ltd which close( down the Go-Fast parcel de livery service last...

LONDON'S first purpose-buill and strategically placed majoi lorry park could be opened al Beckton in the East EniJ within three...

MANCHESTER Industrial Tribunal awarded lorry driver Sampson Day 006 compensation for unfair dismissal after being told that he...

WHILE North Yorkshire County Council is drawing up detailed plans for a cordon-type lorry ban to keep heavy lorries out of...

LONDON'S Covent Garden Market Authority promises a fastei flow of vehicles as a result of the introduction of new entr3...

TRANSPORT CAFES ar overnight accommodation a listed and compared in ti 1980 edition of the Unit( Road Transport Union's Ye'...

'HE CASE for the free enterprise British bus was advanced last veek when Transport Minister Norman Fowler informed an Lmerican...

THE LEOPARD is really a Lynx, a Town-Lynx that is. It is one of the new-livened vehicles operated by NBC subsidiary Crosville...

IN CONTRAST to the spectacular growth in the sales of goods vehicles, UK bus and coach sales rose only slightly last year,...

3OUTH Yorkshire County :ouncil will have to subsidise Nest Yorkshire PTE's bus services in the Metropolitan county by an...

LONDON TRANSPORT should be incorporated into a new Greater London Passenger Transport Authority, according to LT chairman Ralph...

BUSES AND COACHES hal lost out where bicycles hal gained from a drop in tE volume of private car traff last year. Provisional...

TYNE AND WEAR rate could rise by 44 per cent nex year, largely to meet growin public transport expenditure. The county...

"HOP OFF with National Express" is to be the slogan of a marketing and advertising campaign to increase public awareness of...

'ORK Trailer Company has announced two new van models — ne grp and one steel. The main difference between the Envoy, s the grp...

N ERF A-Series has just been equipped with Edbro-TFL .covery equipment by G. Ward Motors Ltd of Lower House, ,urnley. Edbro...

NOW FITTED with a new tandem axle, DAF Trucks F2800 series 6x4 tractive unit is designated FTT2816. The change in design...

THE LIVERPOOL-based trailer manufacturer R. A. Dyson and Co is being taken over by commercial vehicle distributor, the Ryland...

A PROCESS developed by British Rail for "laundering" used diesel lubricating oil so that it may be re-used in the engine has...

tender CARMICHAEL FIRE, t Worcester-based fire fighti vehicle manufacturer, h supplied its first Sup Jetranger airfield crash...

SHROPSHIRE Fire Service has just taken delivery of a Ford D1317, with a water tender ladder body by Cheshire Fire Engineering...

A FLUSH AND FILL kit is now being marketed by Silver Fc Ltd of 40 The Vale, London NW11. Designed to alleviate the problems...

OW that the Boat Show has osed its doors to the public, e task of removing the :hibits from Earls Court has, all intents and...

Wynne Phillips was voted champion CM lorry driver of 1979 and so won himself a Michelin European study award Trn Blakernore...

THIS YEAR, on March 13, CM celebrates its 75th anniversary. We plan to mark this occasion with a number of special events which...

doubt that the diesel power unit will be able to fight off any challenges to its supremacy in the Eighties. But there's still...

RATHER suspect that Noel Aillier who wrote your ''Why he XRM?" CM, December 8) s not a bus passenger. He looks forward to the...

The Inc uisition-Bill Brock road tests the Spanish built C38 anc believes not despite major improvements British operators...

The Deparment of Trace has forecast that road haulage will need be - ween 6500 to 8500 more drivers by 1985. The RTITB,...

IT WOULD BE difficult to find a better neighbour than DAF Trucks. The company gladly joins in the social and cultural...

ONLY SUBLIME optimists really expect drivers to reduce speed drastically in response to a motorway signal if there is no...

IS THERE any reason why the boss should earn more than a subordinate? Arnold Handley, writing in Body, published by the Vehicle...

HARVEY Grammar School, Folkestone, has reason to be proud of three of its old boys. They are John Smith, Mike Haley and Roger...

THERE IS fluttering in rm . transport in New Zealand b cause the central government expected this year to stop co tributing to...

THE BRUSSELS Motor Sho. which is being held fro January 16-27, houses "an e ormous didactical expositior of how to save energy,...

'The industry's policy is to regain for itself the maximum possible freedom to c■induct its own training programme.' UMBLEDOM...

NATIONAL Freight Corporation company Eastern British Road Services has named three new branch managers. Taking over as manager...