THE SPEECH to the Freight Transport Association by Audrey Lees, Controller of Transportation and Development at the Greater...

S TRUCK RENTAL has nched a four-hour guar.ied delivery service for any le vans or tractive units in its De. ailed Suretruck,...

ABOUT 30 Road Haulage Association livestock group members have been affected by the foot and mouth alert in a 1,000sqm area...

THE STONEFIELD on/off highway vehicle wrested itself from the hands of its receiver last week, and is to be built by a...

THE ARMITAGE recommer tions have been welcomec outline by the Food Manufac ers' Federation which says 1 the Report contains...

THERE SHOULD be no incre in lorry weights until t European Economic Commiur enacts a policy of social lei lation with the lorry...

HANNEL TUNNEL is an indispensable symbol of Europe which have to be built, European Parliament transport committee irman Horst...

AT A Transport Forum held in London last Friday and sponsored by Commercial Motor, Professor Christopher Foster (a management...

PROFITS of Britain's top 300 road haulage companies have pped so much in the last year that few operators will be able to e...

JUNIOR Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke said last week that a healthy distribution industry is vital to Britain's economic...

DRIVER from Forest Gate, East London, has been sentenced to ro six-month prison terms, suspended for two years, and banned im...

of the prohibitions were Bosworth Plant Hire (Anglia) Ltd appealed against the decision of the Licensing Authority for the...

THE MAXIMUM gross weight of Irish lorries should be raised to 37 tons, according to Irish Road Haulage Association president...

ROADLINE UK has won a distri bution contract for the bul movement and storage of nev Thomson local communit directories which...

SINCE THERE were 80,000 registered hgv drivers in Yorkshire for 40,000 vehicles, a driver who gave inadequate service to his...

A SPECIAL insurance package for owner-drivers has been launched by Ernest A. Notcutt of Beckenham, Kent. The package has rates...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport is "the sponsor directorate of the road haulage industry", claims a book published this week....

LIVERPOOL City Council I been asked to prepare a sche for the proposed Speke En1 prise Zone. The 340-acre EZ, like th( planned...

STOREMASTERS have been granted a wet bond by HM Custor and Excise for their Canning Town warehouse. This enables wi and spirit...

HAULIER'S application to add four vehicles to his existing twothicle licence was opposed in Birmingham last week by Coventry...

LN EEC WORKING party has een appointed to examine -ontier delays in Europe and gill soon be submitting propoals for reducing...

ROAD Haulage Association national chairman Ken Rogers has struck a blow for the extension of private enterprise by telling a...

SMALLER lorries might becom( more attractive to industry if en vironmental factors are throwr into cost benefit analyses...

Davies Turner has made Stephen Shepley the manager of its Stoke-on-Trent branch, after five years at the company's Manchester...

A NEW DESIGN of exhaust valve has been developed for the Gardner LXB and LXC engines, incorporating a chrome flashed stem to...

FITTING overdrive can save average of 12 per cent on fi claims Laycock Engineering of Sheffield. After post-Budget fuel...

THIRTY-THREE self-contain vehicles, with a crane and s attachment as standard, hE just been completed for the PI Office...

E CLOUDS over busmen's horizons took ' this week with the revelation that the . oduce taxi sharing. on a distinctly blacker...

RATHCLYDE PTE has been d to give more details of the mber of passengers using ser:es it wants to cut back. rhe Scottish...

BEXHILL Town Bus Services, the Sussex bus company formed by a group of ex-Maidstone and District busmen, is prospering — weekly...

THE HONG KONG Government has given its seal of approval to the Jumbo-sized Ailsa double-deck bus underframe subject to the bo....

COACH OPERATORS sendini vehicles to London for the Chel sea Flower Show on May 18 an 22 should obtain Police permit to allow...

DESPITE ASSERTIONS by Cardiff City Transport that an indep dent bid for stage services in the city represented a "wart...

'TER the hammering the ulage industry sustained from e Budget, operators - oughout the country are word that increased costs...

iE following is a copy of a tier sent by my husband to the lancellor of the Exchequer, the Honourable Sir Geoffrey Dwe,...

inter two hgv, stage right 4STS of burden or draught, ging from elephants to don's, are not uncommon on the aratic stage but...

This successor to the D-Series, involving a £145m investment, is one of the two most significant launches during the past ten...

While the Ford Cargo package was no secret, it has interesting engineering desigt points, says Graham Montgomerie. But do too...

Providing in-cab entertainment is no mere cosmetic operation, says Tim Blakemore. The right apparatus, properly installed, can...

There are an estimated million sets in the UK: Brian Chalmers-Hunt investigates the legal background and suggests that once the...

Do you understand the systems available and know whom to contact? Brian Chalmers-Hunt investigates THE USE of two-way radio in...

Several express service operators are tuning up for two-way radio, reports Davic Wilcox. But it can't be installed overnight,...

These days passengers expect more thar just radio, says Noel Millier. PA, TV, cassette and even video recorders are 'in NOT SO...

Union negotiators have been compelled t , give way in the latest round of pay agre€ rnents, according to our wages survey, an...

by Douglas Ainley THE TUC opposed the repeal of the 1975 Employment Protection Act's recognition provisions and Schedule 11,...