Underway parked for the night, gives an impressive 6,000 btu of warm air heat. *(DIL measures 318mm x 119mm x 122mm). keeping...

IAULIERS' eyebrows have been raised by this year's Scottish wage ettlement which pushes the basic rate for Class 1 drivers up...

HAULIERS' wage costs are likely to rise by 13 per cent a year from 1982 to 1984, according to a five-year forecast from the...

FESTIVE joy has broken out at Seddon Atkinson which restarts three-day working at its factories next month. The company has...

THE GOVERNMENT's roads White Paper for England is "satisfactory in the light of present economic circumstances", according to...

BECAUSE a vehicle that 111,4 over 3 tons was under the 7,5 kilos heavy goods vehicle lirr a driver had thought that he r not...

BRITISH HAULIERS have around 60 per cent of the market for international accompanied road freight from Britain to Ireland and...

Scotland: M8. Two-way traffic on eastbound carriageway for ( and-a-half miles west of St James interchange, Paisley. M90:...

NEW TOLLS for the Dartford Tunnel have been approved by Junior Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke, and take effect from January...

AT Industrial Suppliers Ltd has been ordered by a Birmingham Justrial Tribunal to reinstate a driver it dismissed as redundant...

E INTERNATIONAL Calendar his issue wrongly states the es of the Scottish Motor )w as November 6-14. The es of the Show have...

A COURSE entitled an Introduction to Physical Distribution Management, is to be run from January 12-16 by the Centre for...

WESTERN BRS's new Merthyr Tydfil branch has its first manager. He is Stuart James, previously the company's rental manager, who...

ERF's biggest-ever entry into heavy haulage market is this 6 x 4 tractive unit plated for 100 tonnes gross operation. The...

FIGURES computed at the Motor Show by Kysor Industrial indicate that fitting the company's radiator shutters could cut an...

THIRTY Mercedes-Benz 1626 tractive units are to be supplied by Spa rshatts of Kent Ltd to Car Transport Ltd. The vehicles are...

CAPITAL COST deters ma operators from trying elec1 vehicles, according to R. Day Initial Services Ltd. Speaking at a meeting...

STARTING the 1981 season of commercial vehicle shows the Brussels event — from January 15 to 25 — will feature a new layout to...

.LNESS is no excuse for psv not being properly maintained said e chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, Roy...

ITTER TOURS Ltd reports sk bookings for the Coachline vices launched last weekend tween London and Edinburgh I Glasgow (CM...

SOUTH YORKSHIRE's high level of bus revenue support has been branded "free spending" by Transport Minister Norman Fowler who...

JUNIOR Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke has approved new toll charges for the Dartford Tunnel, which take effect on January 1...

JOYCE WILSON is the brains of a new owner-driver haulage firm set up by her husband, Carl, with an Atkinson Borderer and three...

SANDRA and Martin Moss, proprietors of a Wakefield haulage company, Sanmar Containers Ltd, have turned their enthusiasm for...

IN the retirement of Frank Galbraith, a he-man director of Seddon Atkinson, who has served 45 years with the company and its...

THERE may be disagreements among members of the Government on various matters but they appear to be united at least on the...

A READER of The Birmingha Post who alleged that he w cruising in the middle lane of motorway at about 70mph cot plained that a...

THERE WAS a time 50 years e more ago when ratepayers the Steel City could apparer afford to reward their elected presentatives...

TRIED it and it works. From le to time CM puts the claims industry to the test. We use results to prove or disprove claim or to...

CHALLENGING OPEC to do their worst, which in any event they will, Volvo Truck Corporation has found a way of getting free dery...

JOHN WOODHOUSE, of J.E. Woodhouse (Haulage) Ltd, Newton, Powys, has four sons but none of them shows any inclination to enter...

READ with interest the John irker article on the Institute of ansport Managers in CM, Nomber 22, and would like to (e issue on...

TRANSPORT men with a pro3ional interest in training, we - e disappointed that your ining for Transport Number 4, November 29)...

SURPRISINGLY for Commercial Motor, John Durant's description of the press conference which launched the Marplan poll on lorries...

1. I REFER to your article on p23 of your November 22 issue relating to first-aid boxes on psv. 2. May I point out that the...

FEW VEHICLES nearing fifty years of age are used regularly and cover 10,000 miles a year, but Derrett Williams, film producer,...

helps you cut those repair costs PPRENTICE or unskilled perators can help themselves understand the hidden lysteries of the...

wiLcOx YOU build a quality product and people think it costs the earth. That's the myth that has grown up around the superb...

Steve Gray takes a spin in the latest of Daimler-Benz' trucks (and they don't come much later than 1898) and finds it a fiery...

AMMY CLAWS rubbed his odgy hands, partly to keep off le cold because he couldn't fford to heat his office properly, ut mainly...

How does distribution cope with that preChristmas rush? You can't get round the queues, you can't make shops accept goods on...

David Wilcox checks out the Atlas Express premium rush parcels service 1AVE YOU NOTICED how many ompanies use slogans and...

Alan Millar looks back over the highlights of a memorable 1980: Armitage, Roadtrain, Fodens, the new Transport Act, and the...

ECAUSE the starter motor has ly intermittent use, bronze ishes are used to carry the mature shaft instead of the lI races which...

Special lamps By Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI :EGULATION 64 of the Road 'ehicle Lighting Regulations 971 permits the use, by...

Vauxhalls carried our generals in the first World War and Bedford transported most o our troops in the second. John Durant...

January LATEST phase in South Yorkshire cheap fares policy. Drivers hand out money to passengers as they board. Duple responds...

NE of the most effective ways f selling goods and services is ) carry a smart and effective ehicle livery. This applies to oth...

Build up a library DGAN PAGE Ltd has just an3unced a bulk deal whereby a alection of books can be ipplied to form a transport...