THE DAMAGE done to British Rail's future by the ASLEF dispute can only be roughly estimated. It is not an exaggeration to say...

iE EEC's "ineptitude" in decidg on such issues as lorry eights and spending money to move bottlenecks may now ad to a hearing...

LAST Thursday we received the "Journal of the Year" award at a presentation in Quadrant House, Sutton. CM was voted "Journal of...

TRANSPORT Secretary David Howell told members of the Administrative Staff College at Henley, Oxfordshire that the Government is...

EMPLOYMENT Under Secretary another defence of the Employm movement. Speaking at a joint Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration...

THE Post Office is offering a 30 per County Parcels Service during Sep Following its decision to freeze all main published...

SIR Campbell Fraser, presi of the Confederation of Br Industry, told 300 business that there was neither sans logic in...

E prospect of lower interest as has been welcomed by Sir .ence Beckett, director genii of the Confederation of tish Industry....

For the third year running road transport firms are likely to be disappointed by the increase in the number of international...

THE Department of Transport has made arrangements for the allocation of a limited amount of French permits to operators who...

published a guide to It gives advice on the likely cost of sending an executive to a city, with the probable price ranges of...

OMPSON JEWITT (Scotland), ropean exporter groupage erator, is now offering Scoth importers an import grouge service from...

AVERAGE operating costs of the Road Haulage Association Express Parcels Functional Group members have risen by 6.4 per cent...

In an unusual claim for unfair dismissal heard in Edinburgh recently the Scottish Industrial Tribunal found in favour of an...

PROSPECTS of heavy lorry weights being increased before the elections are receding over the horizon. Some claim they have had...

A CLAIM for unfair dismissal against Fife and Kinross Motor Auctions Limited of Kinross was refused by the Scottish Industrial...

A LORRY driver who made I entries in his record book exceeded his permitted wor day has been fined magistrates at Woolw...

A MOVE to speed up the payment of compensation to victims of and run drivers has been welcomed by Transport Under Secret Lynda...

.URE to face up to the challenge of employee involvement may had a large influence in the growth of excessive union power. is...

XIINGTON College in Lonn is holding two short irses on computing, with parliar reference to the motor de industry. be...

COMPENSATION of £3369 has been awarded to an Arbroath man by an industrial tribunal in Dundee. The tribunal upheld the claim of...

THE weighbridge at School Street, Newton-le-Willows is to be closed because it lies on a site to be developed as a superstore....

HANIEL International Forwarders has started new freight routes to Cologne, Hanover, Nuremburg and Munich. A consignment loaded...

A SERVICE bulletin issued recently by Clayton Dewandre, the brake component manufacturer, warns again of the extreme danger of...

MORE THAN 270 fleet engirv and coach operators braved weather for two days of bral demonstrations at Lucas ling's Warwickshire...

ROCKFORD bodybuilders G save Ltd has reduced the pi of its 3m (10ft) Luton body by per cent to dealers. Designed to suit Ford...

to Cathay opportunities York Jumbos NEW lightweight pick-up from s week. Vlanufactured by Hyundia, the ny pick-up is a...

A SURVEY on articulated vehicles which looks at the suitability of tractive units currently available on the market has just...

two new "Jumbo" size GRP Envoy vans to Cathay Pacific Airways, who operate from Gatwick Airport. The chassisless construction...

with Metn LONDON TRANSPORT compare the performance c Leyland Titan and the MCA trobus on a Sidcup roul South-east London....

PLANS by Robert 'Tinsel! Coaches (Tyneside) Ltd, trading as l Fell Coaches, to operate a bus service in competition with the T...

DON AFTER starting a Iccessful motorway coach link ttween West Wales, Swansea id Bristol, National subsidiary Hith Wales...

THE National Bus Company has been researching the possibility of replacing some under-used railway branch lines with coach...

MINIBUS pooling is the subject of a report by R. L. Jackson recently published by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory....

BARELY three weeks after the launch of Ford's South African-built, Cortina-based one tonne pick-up, the P100 (CM wie July 3 and...

THE Council of the Chartered Institute of Transport has elected LEN PAYNE, past president of the Freight Transport Association...

MAZDA CARS UK Ltd no cludes a simple epicyclic tion unit in its list of accessc for the 81800 pick-up. Priced at less than...

A RANGE of self-propelled scissor lift access platforms originl developed by H. W. Edghill of Hook, Hampshire, for servicing w...

ERE has been much cussion within the nmercial vehicle industry Icerning the merits of ceramic, tch facings and their lormance....

CONGRATULATIONS are due to Frank Tinsdale for his most excellent article — "Say it loud — we're heavy and proud!", and what a...

IT IS understandable that D. Knowles (CM, July 17) should not wish to see the Mateo at High Ercall close, as anyone who had a...

I WAS AMUSED to read your account (Bird's Eye View, CM June 19) of the transport of Ramades' head for the English National...

A Daily Telegraph reader has discovered that "funerals" is an anagram of ASLEF and NUR. The railway cemetery is where the...

THE NEWS that Fodens' American owner, Sandbach Engineering, was to withdraw financial support from that great British...

IF YOUR outside leg measurement is 22ft you can g a pair of long-lasting nylonfabric jeans for about £1,500. A similar sum...

A 20-MINUTE colour film has made Roadline the winner of the first award ever captured by a UK parcels carrier in a British...

A SURVEY of bus services by Surrey County Council to discover how well passengers' travel needs are being met is hardly likely...

IMPROVED roads are said to be encouraging organised cattle rustling, which seems to be particularly serious in parts or...

David Wilcox has been talking to some c the staff of the National Freight Consortiu about having a stake in their own compar...

NFC: a good start — or is it? THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the first financial statement of the National Freight Consortium — after...

IN THE offices of those who make major purchasing decisions in the road transport industry, company reputations generally count...

industry that many operators take the equipment for granted. To some extent this is justified in the sense that more research...

1HE EMPLOYMENT BILL is .1xpected to receive the Royal ekssent either at the end of July )r in October. Either way, it will...

CM's Tables of Operating Costs were published on June 25. Nine tables covering a wide range of vehicles — from...

ROAD TRANSPORT operators worrying about fuel prices, taxes, declining business, and finance for future investment, as if these...

'COULD you turn the heat up please, driver? it is too hot down live; it is stuffy here." How many times on an averige...

A COMBINATION of the modern designer's expertise and up-todate production methods gives the operator a vehicle which should be...

HE previous article described a 3ring brake actuator for perating shoes through nkage. It is also designed for tting directly...