eter Thompson's gloomy outlook for the 1980's presented at the Fleet lanagement Conference cannot be discarded lightly. Nor can...

MIDLANDS lorry drivers are set to begin a campaign of y strikes aimed at demonstrating the opposition of the rt and General...

THE GOVERNMENT has this week announced that it wishes to sell "on new long leases the major part of the Government's interest...

TRANSPORT Minister Norman Fowler reaffirmed his commitment to denationalise the National Freight Corporation this week when he...

BRITISH Leyland will find the capacity to continue building the West London Park Royal plant Titan despite the closure of the...

The Transport and General Workers Union, seems to be changing its management relations policy. At the FMC this week David...

AS TRANSPORT Ministe Norman Fowler's Transpor Bill makes its way to the star ting blocks for its run throug Parliament, the...

k CLAIM for a 25 per cent increase on basic minimum wages has wen decided upon by the Transport and General Workers' Jnitm. A....

Leyland loss Leyland Vehicles' light/ medium division is expected to make a substantial loss this year. General manager of...

LN EXPERIMENT aimed at keeping lorry drivers on the right racks has been launched in Gloucester. Five information panels ave...

£6.25m highway linking the M55 Motorway with South Blackpool and Squires Gate. The new dual carriageway will take about two...

ULD-BE haulier who had his 0-licence application refused get a second chance. The Transport Tribunal heard his in London this...

TOLLS for crossing the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge are to go up next month. Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Kenneth...

'HE I AD of the transport enri branch of the HighInds and Islands Developlent Board has been elected ado al chairman of the...

A PRIVATELY-OWNED transport firm with depots in Liverpool and Northern Ireland, and which started with a £40 lorry, has been...

CENTRAL Regional Council of Scotland, based at Falkirk, is seeking to provide suitable lorry-parking facilities in that area...

A 24 HOUR express parcels service has been launched by the London region of Roadline, the National Freight Corporation...

GLOOMY forecasts for the transport industry made in th presentation by NFC.'s chi f executive Peter Thompso at CM's Fleet...

The Department of Transport has assured Merseyside Chamber of Commerce and Industry that it is taking steps to prevent delays...

LORRY driver Thomas Ellis of Kirkcaldy, Fife, succeeded in his claim for redundancy payment against his employer, R. S. Kennedy...

Jnion officials should have advised lorry driver Arthur durphy to make application for compensation for unfair lismissal well...

THE Transport and General Workers' Union has called for the setting up of a body to co-ordinate energy policy, in which the...

AF ER successful trials with on vehicle, Scottish and Ne castle Breweries has now pu into service 12 Scania L 1 tractive units...

NTEREST CONTINUES to row in ways of improving the erodynamics of commercial rehicles (chiefly to improve 'uel consumption), and...

FINES and costs totalling £232 were imposed on minibus operators T. Canham & Sons Ltd, Whittlesey after March, Cambridgeshire,...

SCANIA is pressing ahead with its plans to sell doubledeck chassis in Britain from next year, and will unveil its first BR112DH...

THE Metropolitan Police has published its coach-parking arrangements for the Oxford Street and Regent Street illuminations in...

; PLASTIC BUS of the future ;being developed at Cranfield istitute of Technology, and he first complete 25-seater rill be ready...

ALDER VALLEY bus engineers have developed their own test rig for Leyland National power-steering rams. Assistant area engineer...

BRITAIN'S first penalty-fares scheme took effect on October 22 when Merseyside PTE introduced a new fares scale. To deter...

AN EXPERIMENTAL flywheel-electric bus is being built in the United States by the General Electric Company. The company has won...

DAIMLER-Benz is believed to have won an order for 1050 buses for Israel. The buses have been ordered by the Israeli bus...

aymond Edwards has been - .pirated to managing direcir Of the Henry Long Group 'Bradford, a subsidiary of the cean Transport...

Your editorial (CM October 12) is very much to the point but confusing in interpretation. You feel that Leyland Vehicles are...

I think there is a lot wrong with your observations in the editorial of September 14: 1, A fair number of areas had "JICs"...

Whether we agree with tha necessity or otherwise of economics in our road repair programmes, there must surely be certain work...

-low fortunate the Road Hauage Association was to find Adian Graves, Fodens' former )ublicity manager, when the )ost i f public...

er S • • uslated golfers will be le t work off their inhibims on Freight Computer rvicies' stand at the Road ansport Show at...

Brian Hayward, managing director of National Carriers Ltd, understands the importance of trust between management and unions...

Perhaps Brian Hayward's biggest task when he became managing director in 1976 was to establish credibility in a company that...

Two strikes have affected National Carriers, at least temporarily. The engineers' weekly stoppages cost the company £20,000 a...

A special limited edition of the LeYfordson Junkmaster 32tonner will be introduced at the Scottish Show. Indeed, the edition is...

John Durant talks to John Siloermann, RHA's national chairman, who explains flat ne show A main aim is to make a // dent in ne...

RHA S Road Transport Show will provide a rare chance for transport organisations and ne public to get toge er. Bibn...

by Les Oldridge, T. Eng (CE I), MIMI, AMIRTE IN ADDITION to the exemptions referred to in the two previous articles on this...

IN HIS PAPER The Owner Drivers Role in the 80s" Mr John Silbermann, chairman of the hundred-vehicle Brent Group and the RHA,...

0 .N SPEEKS, who was inolved in the UK establishment .f the Mercedes-Benz (UK) Ltd 'rartsport Consultancy Service, escribed how...

KEN MUNRO, Assistant to the Director-General of Transport at the EEC in Brussels, introduced delegates to the complex structure...

TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union Oxford district secretary, David Buckle, in his paper in the role of the trades . unions...

HE CONFERENCE theme had een in general terms, transort efficiency. When Peter ho pson, chief executive lati nal Freight...

AT SEVERAL different places on a vehicle's engine and transmission system a situation arises where oil must be prevented from...

A ur Sherlock-1Vesher introduces the men who make e RHA tick and points out eir vital roles In safeguarding members - interests...

Mr John Silbermann, chairman of the RHA, is chairman of the Brent Group of Companies, an industrial holding company which...

is s fe city bet Noel Millier tests .-- )e new British Volvo B55 and finds its smoo gearbox anc impressive acceleration...