iE END OF A YEAR is not a bad time to take stock; but the end of a decade probably even more appropriate. During the Seventies...

ill many more? SURREY haulier has been sent a £75,000 bill for alleged nage to a road, and the County Council has the backing...

THE GOVERNMENT'S Tachograph Regulations were approved by a 108-25 majority when the measure was discussed in the House of...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has produced a new guide to goods vehicles drivers' hours. Available for £2 net from Her Majesty's...

TRANSPORT 2000 claims that heavier lorries will increase our nergy consumption and become less efficient, contradicting...

HE GOVERNMENT does not tpect cuts in local authority )ending to have an effect on le clearance of roads during were weather....

LANCASHIRE County Cott cil has told the Governinel that heavier lorries will eau greater environmental pr blems. It complains...

TIBBETT AND BRITTEN opening a new internation, depot at Enfield on January which, it is claimed, will sat at least two days on...

CHESHIRE County Council wants to ban heavy lorries from many country roads in South Cheshire. The original proposals put...

RIVER who was sacked after a row with an "exceedingly oxious" supermarket manager has been awarded £1,093.50 pensation for...

RO-RO freight traffic using UK-Continental ferries has grown dramatically this year. The number of vehicles, in cluding...

OLVO is joining a multitional venture to develop ergy resources in third rld countries. Under the control of the wly-created...

SEEN HERE receiving a gallon of whisky each are Tom Bonnes (left) and Tom Graham (right). Making the presentation is Bill...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR is tc sponsor a visit to the Amsterdam Show from February 6 tc 9 at a cost of E95. Full detail and a booking...

ORKSHIRE Licensing Authority Maj Gen V. H. J. Carpenter refused an operator's application to extend his 0-licence m one to four...

M ways at three ALTHOUGH the traffic ex, pected to be using M25 in tin late 1990s calls for more thar dual three-lane...

Haulier criticised on sleep and drive man CRITICISM was fired at a haulier last Industrial Tribunal rejected a driver's for...

LN ATTEMPT to exempt ;cottish drivers from the rigors of EEC regulations on riving hours has been ejected by the European...

A PLEA for more lorry parks was made at a meeting oi Lancashire County Council when Councillor Len Proos claimed that police...

THE WELSH OFFICE inviting tenders fo strengthening the Chepsto river bridge. Carrying the A48 over th River Wye at Chepstow,...

lacks on the roads PID GROWTH of the "piggy bank" transport system is ecast in West Germany where Government policy is to itch...

GOODYEAR Tyre and Rubber Company has promoted Bob Tinsley to the position of production manager at the company's main factory...

1E POSSIBILITY of a driver keeping two tachograph discs, .d claiming that another driver had just left the cab on the mpletion...

oivo has no immediate ans to import B1OM air Tung coaches to Britain, and e B58 will remain in producm in right-hand drive form...

KYSOR radiator shutters are being offered as original equip. ment on Leyland National 2 single-deckers. Used in conjunction...

HESTAIR-DENNIS plans tc extend its Dominator bus chassis production line tc build 400 a year from 1980. While it accepts that...

THE DUNSTABLE-based Tricentrol Travel Group has taken over another coach company in the East Midlands as part of a planned...

TOWNSEND THORESE1 Holidays is to launch a majol programme of courier escorted Continental coacl tours in 1980. A programme of...

coaches dropped last month, a importers increased their penetration, according to the Sock of Motor Manufacturers and Traders....

THE LEICESTER Transmission Division of the Central Electricity Generating Board has taken delivery of two Stonefield 4 x 4,2800...

SPECIALLY equipped serice vehicle to provide 24 ours, seven days-a-week, padside emergency repairs )r Ford commercials perating...

A RECENT check of nearly 300 wheels by Dunlop engineers revealed that nine per cent had their pressures up to 10 per cent...

NEILL TOOLS has produced a User's Handbook with 272 pages of technical information for students, apprentices, engineers and...

BRITISH LEYLAND is taking steps to re-open its assembly plant in Southern Rhodesia following the lifting of sanedons....

FUEL leaks are the most common cause of energy loss in lorry operation, says the Freight Transport Association. A survey of...

ut what's in it for hauliers? NEXT YEAR there will be we ferries with more freight pacity and more competiion on the English...

VICTOR PAIGE'S modestly titled lecture, "It's all, about people," was one of the most stimulating I have ever heard at the...

NHO COULD FAIL to be wor'led by some of the statistics luoted by Victor Paige? For inaance, in 20 years , time the vorld...

BETWEEN you and me, BP and Volvo are in hot water. The oil company is to pipe water at 150°C from its refinery at Gothenburg to...

LARRY SMITH, Transport and General Workers' Union 'executive officer, is the epitome of restraint, even when moved to anger by...

IN AMERICA even the environment can damage your health. According to Dallas health authorities, cicadas, which perch up trees...

ALTHOUGH outnumbered two to one, two National Carriers men chased intruders off the company's premises and foiled thefts. Brian...

ACCORDING to the US Jo' r a. of Public Health, if all obesE Americans slimmed to theii proper weights the country would save...

"I AM a retired pharmacist an have to take about 10 differen kinds of drugs daily," passenger writes to Fare, th staff...

HEN HE LEFT the Royal Naval )llege at Dartmouth and beme a submariner, Hugh lompsort could have had no aa that at the age of 47...

-IE JAPANESE cult of the impany anthem seems to proote loyalty in workers so why A try it here? BL, with its link ith Honda,...

iERE IS a man in the West idlands who is as addicted to ises as any junky was ever 'eked on heroin. He believes has ridden on...

SPONSORSHIP is one of Britain's few growth industries and the more unlikely the link, it seems, the better. For instance, a...

IT MAY seem odd that the F Ld Transport Industry Training Board should have chosen the Midlands for a concentrated campaign to...

IF, after a tachograph has been fitted, a driver reduces tyre wear and maintenance costs and improves fuel consumption, is he...

"THE BAD MANNERS and fou language"' of angry passengers trying to board London buses that are already full, or strug• gling for...

Edited by John Durant urvival class IANAGING the Survival of mailer Companies, by A. C. azel and A. S. Reid, is ublished by...

MANAGING THE SURVIVAL OF SMALLER COMPANIES Since this book was first ublished in 1973, the proems facing small businesses we...

company expansion .1.C. Ilazel end. 1.S Rcid you understand the consequences? The book is largely an easy read, and ends up...

Over and out, citizen SO THE Home Office through Minister of State Timothy Raison have once again put the block on CB radio....

D. MALLINSON'S letter on the T45 (CM December 8) finished with his asking when we are going to get an "I'm backing Leyland...

I REFER to the photograph of a welder in full flight in Commercial Motor, November 10. No good workshop manager would allow a...

I AM researching material for a book on "Zest and the Art of Management," which will deal with the indefinable quality that...

GENERAL HAULAGE is not an aasy service to sell and few ,mall or medium-sized fleet operators employ a sales force. The...

The end of a year is often a time of taking stock, and these 4 suggestions from a director of Williams & Glyn 's Bank may help...