FOUR-FIFTHS of goods freight is transported by road, yet goods vehicle operators are treated shabbily, almost discourteously,...

L TANKER drivers rejected wage increases of around 12 per at this week and imposed an overtime ban from 6am on )nday. They plan...

PRACTICAL advice for rural communities that are dissatisfied with their bus and public transport services is contained in a new...

the Manchester Ship Canal at Barton, to relieve the heavy congestion on the high level bridge which carries the M63. The bridge...

1980 Birmingham motor show is a 99 per cent certainty, cording to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. A SMMT...

Freight Transport Association now only 10 days away, the first appointment to the new group has been made. FTA South-eastern...

PUNISHMENT is on the cards for local authorities which do not devise properly balanced transport policies, said Transport...

FIRST limited trials sum that there is little to chc between heavier and ligl articulated goods vehicle respect of braking...

A PLAN to re-organise the National Freight Corporation into a part privately-owned company is said to be contained in the Tory...

THE DOCUMENT about the ending of vehicle excise duty and the rate support grant proposals gave the impression that the Scottish...

A TRANSPORT manager must be a full-time employee oi transport company under the terms of the Goods Vehic Operators...

TAIN'S hauliers must either put up rates now or be prepared to hold fire the next 10 months because Prices . etary Roy...

LVO'S British lorry assembly operais will not be affected by the :hcoming accord between the corny and the Norwegian...

John Horam, for one, must have heaved a sigh of relief when the Commons rose for Christmas. For if anyone had earned the right...

-ince Michael /11 chief S ROYAL Highness Prince ichael of Kent, who opened e International Motor Show Birmingham in October, is...

THE Department of Transport has issued a note of advice to operators and highway authorities reminding them of their domestic...

VEHICLE excise duty on goods vehicles of 30cwt and over is estimated to be €.246m this year. Robert Sheldon, Financial...

THIS YEAR the National Freight Corporation will produce its best trading results since 1973. Sir Dan Pettit, the Corporation's...

OVERLOADING convictions sustained by R. and R. Newhouse of Settle had arisen because the partners had not appreciated the...

NEW registrations of commercial vehicles dropped by 6.2 per cent in November but sales for the first 11 months of the year were...

A WORKING group has been set up with the Transport Department to study — in collaboration with the Railways Board — the rates...

The Transport Developrn Group Board has appoin John Muskett as dep chairman of Runcorn TrE port Services Ltd. Mr Musl has been...

kGE carriage revisions by Midland Red in the Coalville and adlincote areas of Leicestershire based on the company's rket...

MIDLAND Red's latest area bus service revision is to be launched in the Worcester area early in the New Year. The National Bus...

;'YLAND Vehicles Passenger !hide Division general anager Marcus Smith nded over the first Leyland ttional for Moscow last 1 ,...

THE FODEN-NC doubledecker is still under development, and both Fodens and Northern Counties told CM this week that they plan to...

TWO NEW trailers, specially manufactured to meet Belgian and Dutch type approval, are being exhibited by Craven Tasker...

FOUR-wheel-drive conversions for the Mazda B 1800, Datsun one-ton and Toyota Hi-Lux pick-up trucks are now being offered by a...

The annual general meeting of the XCM Club — an informal alliance of ex-members of the staff of this journal — is more the Mad...

.ire is the nucleus of a much re distinguished club in the holders of the award for galtry (officially described as leritorious...

ugs have this year attacked 85 West Midland busmen whose ly offence was that they were doing their job. To try to grapple :h...

Anyone who buys a 1979 Semperit UK calendar will be able to help to choose the girl to be featured in the 1980 edition. The...

If you are stuck for a Christmas present for Uncle Hector, what about the new Vatman M Sc II , pocket calculator. It has—and I...

I was surprised to learn that the European Court, to which the United Kingdom has been summoned for not enacting EEC regulation...

W E FIRST tested the Bean lorry in 1929, a year which may better be remembered for the Wall Street crash. Bean Cars Ltd of...

PreWorlclWar 1 engineering left the driver with problei I F ONE compares a heavy lorry of the pre-First World War period and...

Steve Gray finds it hard to believe that this F86 has done 1.7 million LOOKING at the number of Volvo trucks on the roads of...

The compression ignition engine, 2 IN A compression ignition engine, if the air already in the combustion chamber at the end...

Ws editor visited the Arctic Circle last winter; this year he has been 3 South America to meet the men who build, operate and...

D DATES are of great significance in Argentina's history: 9, 1816, when the country declared independence from in and March 24,...

LLIONS of cups of coffee will be consumed during the tive season, and it is a fair assumption that many of the und beans reach...

ly FRANK LYON A LICE became more confident when she discovered she could control her changes in size. She was sorry at the...