THE Road Haulage Association Tipping Group surely lost a great opportunity to promote the interests of its members last...

CIVIL SERVICE trades union has thrown a lifeline to the industry offering to buy the 91 heavy goods vehicle test stations from...

CALL for heavier lorries to be opped at the Scottish border as made in the Commons last eek. It came from George Foulkes...

THE ARGUMENT on the future of the Government's heavy lorry plans is not between Conservative wets and dries, but between...

PROPOSALS for the heavier lorry will be put before Parliament within a "couple of weeks", Transport Secretary David Howell said...

THE "NONSENSICAL" system of limiting EEC haulage permits by national quotas is "encouraging a flourishing black market", a...

THIS YEAR will be the toughest yet for European commercial vehicle manufacturers, according to a report published this week by...

OVER 150 Road Transport In dustry Training Board em ployees will become redundan at the end of this month, and a least five...

NEWS of the latest de velopments in the continuins struggle to reduce delays al Community internal frontier: came during this...

IAJOR Common Market transport projects could be financed by hie EEC taking a slice of tax revenue on fuels and oils, the...

ICHOOL LEAVERS are being vooed into road transport by wo Careers and Occupational riformation Centre booklets on hiving and...

THE ROAD Haulage Association man from the Western Area. He as vice-chairman since 1978, and Vice-chairman Bert Neely, of A....

IN future it will be easier for the Department of Transport to deal efficiently and clearly with certificates for type-approved...

MOBIL's tanker drivers look set to accept an eight per cent deal, which will take their basic pay up to £126 a week from May 1,...

of Removers titled the theme of its annual conference earlier us week "Our Industry — the next ten years." DAVID WILCOX...

THE CM Lorry Driver of the Year class winners last weekend include: Milton Keynes: Class A: I Trainer (Post Office); Class [3:...

The company, which is a Scottish Transport Group subsidiary, has suffered from the drop in demand for Scotch whisky and from...

EVERY VEHICLE belonging to Sheila Holding, trading as S. Holding and Sons, of Telford, Shropshire, that was inspected by a...

THE MV Norland, requisitioned by the Government for the Falkland crisis, has been replaced by North Sea Ferries' Viking VI....

D. A. STUART Oil Co Ltd made every possible mistake when making one of its two drivers redundant, a Birmingham Industrial...

THE main road into Cornwal the A30, must be swiftly in proved to cope with the grov ing demands on it, according I the British...

CURRENT development and arguments about intermodel transport systems will be discussed next month at Transmode 82, an...

ALTHOUGH the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Fraud Squad have stopped investigating an alleged Elm fraud, a number of...

THE London Electricity Board has recently taken delivery of this unusual looking Dodge Commando 2 RG 16 from Welford Truck...

EARTHMOVING and cons1 tion site preparation specie M. H. Clarke (Contractors) Li Tamworth, Staffordst operate over a radius of...

KYSOR Industrial has started full scale production of specially adapted radiator shutters suitable for Austin FX4 taxi cabs....

IVECO is to launch a new tract unit for the 32.5-tonne sector the Motor Show in October. Known as the 165.24, it v have a...

lighter A NEW load securing system, for which Swedish-based Bargningsteknik claims to have a worldwide patent, attracted much...

E LATEST electric vehicle to be designed and manufactured by ■ mpton Electricars of Tredegar, a Hawker Siddeley company, is...

product is claimed by Rubery Owen-Rockwell for its axle using composite materials. Shown for the first time at the Institute...

THE EMOTION created by former Transport Secretary Norman Fowler's decision to open the streets of Whitehaven to bus compe...

AN EAST ANGLIAN cog operator, F. E. Underwood, ti ing as J. J. Starling, has b given a last chance by Trans; Secretary David...

THE GOVERNMENT hz accepted an amendment to tl Transport Bill which enables tl Scottish Bus Group to make i testing facilities...

)RD is instructing its dealers contact owners of Transit inibuses equipped with an opmal minibus pack. The pack includes a...

IURNLEY and Pendia Joint 'ransport Committee is joining he ranks of municipal bus iperators diversifying in to long listance...

that now plagues British coach firms operating on the Continent has been concluded between the EEC and the eight non-member...

GEORGE RUFF, deputy managing director of P&O European Transport Services, takes on divisional board resonsibility for P&O Group...

RECENT moves at the Road Haulage Association have resulted in the following elections: Long Distance National Functional...

HE LIFE story of Harold Russett, le Road Haulage Association's ew national chairman, is very 'Lich a case study of the British...

AVE just noticed the letter by ). M. Ingham-Johnson (CM, ptember 26, 1981). This letter ses serious questions about t...

WE ARE a small transport company running vehicles from 1-ton pick-ups to 4-ton lorries. We bought a Mazda pick-up truck last...

I WAS horrified to read in CM May 15 that the Greater London Council wants to ban lorries over 32.5 tonnes from the capital,...

NEED the salesman confess? (Dave Martin, CM May 1). to apologise or confess is surely top of the DON'T list for everyone and...

THE McCARTHY tribunal's longawaited judgment on the locomotive drivers' precious eight-hour day does nothing to justify more...

"THE MAIN challenge to the railways ... is how to keep in business," Sir Peter Parker, British Rail's chairman, wrote in his...

AFTER a worldwide search, the oldest Perkins diesel engine still working has been tracked down in Southampton (see picture...

A DOUBLE decker converted by the National Bus Company to a mobile play centre has been presented to Jimmy Saville, president of...

ARTHUR Beckenham, who contributes the valuable managemenpfbature of Commercial Motor, has been honoured by Loughborough...

"ONE car's tyres were slashed and bother vehicles were daubed with orange paint," sak a newspaper report, adding tha the Orang...

On-board axle weighers, overload tolerance, sideguards, and, of course, Armitage were discussed. Air-operated automatic tipper...

and buy for the present Armitage was the big influence, reports Graham Montgomerie, but a panel tackled vehicle selection and...

The Seddon Atkinson 401 proved itself well able to operate at a gcw of 38 tonnes — indeed, Tim Blakemore felt it better suited...

The Leyland Land Train is me of the many foreign manufacturers' kits assembled in Kenya by the local work force. Bill Brock dug...

Operators thinking of launching a service, be it urban or rural, would do well, says Noel Millier, to consider this 25-seater...

WHILE BRITISH vehicle exports generally did not do well during the past 12 months, many manufacturers have retained shares of...

Leyland's Spanish operations have been remarkably successful, and much of this is due to a rather unlikely product. Steve Gray...

Bedford's ascendancy in Malaysia has been swept away and its future prospects hang precariously in the balance. Noel Millier...

Three brothers from Yorkshire are set to confront the giants of the coach manufacturing world. They have designed and built...

The Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators met last week for its annual conference and exhibition. Debate was lively — the...

■ TUDENTS can enrol now for the CMSpecial Offer course for the :ertificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage...

units to meet the long-term energy requirements of both the customer and the legislator. That fact was certainly evident at a...

)RIVERS are vulnerable to nugging, hijacking is not !xclusive to Tanzanian aircraft. ;o you should know the two Possible...

PUTTING forward its plans for ationalisation, Labour Party ratory is much more sparing iese days in references to the eed to...