Budget day is four weeks away and operators can expect an increase in fuel tax. We anticipate three to five pence per gallon....

THE GRANT scheme under Section 8 of the 1974 Railways Act was achieving a significant and steadily growing transfer of freight...

A CONCESSION to customers' up-market demands has been made by Leyland. It is offering its Series B "rural" Leyland National...

NEW report on the carriage I' hazardous goods by road as just been published by ■ yez in its Intelligence Report ?ries....

HOT on the heels of Denl double-deck bus order ( page 24), another Engl municipal operator has c firmed a switch to the Vc Ansa...

TRANSPORT Secretary William Rodgers considers quota restrictions contrary to the principles of the Treaty of Rome and has made...

LAND-ROVER, the British Leyland subsidiary, has this week announced a new export model using the 3.5-litre V8 Range Rover...

THE BRITISH Roads Feck tion has called for an indep dent inquiry into the spend of transport cash on rail el trification and...

%SPORT Secretary William Rodgers yes that there will be improvements =try bus services — but, he warned yeek, if he is wrong...

,MERC1AL vehicle operators and ifacturers may be expecting their technical college-educated coyees to have qualifications that...

, QUICK response to the Govern's Green Paper proposing a nationscheme for concessionary fares for ..1derly, blind and disabled,...

Was it, after all, just a dream, a figment of the imagination? Certainly there were moments in the Commons last week when it...

JEST estimate of the cost of introducing European driving urs and restrictions was £350 million, with a 15 per cent loss in...

ate closures are likely to me into force again on the !vern Bridge this spring. All this week lanes have en closed while...

E4M ORDER for Ford commercial vehicles has been placed by e Sec uricor group. The company has asked Ford truck specialist...

THE ROAD transport settlement seems likely to raise the industry's costs on average by about eight per cent, but it was not...

NEARLY twice as much freight is carried on roads in Britain as in France and West Germany — though an exact comparison is not...

Kent ports growing ROLL-ON/roll-off traffic through south-eastern ports between London and Plymouth will increase by about 90...

A NEW code of conduct has been accepted by the Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators as a disciplinary guide for its...

THE ASSOCIATION of Vehicle Recovery Operators is to meet Department of Transport officials this month to discuss the future of...

BRITISH Road Services Rescue is to double its fleet of recovery vehicles by 1981 — but it will not be establishing any new...

IVERS of goods vehicles h an unladen weight of re than 2.5 tons are being tinded not to drive through ;hgate Village in North...

Maritime competition THE CHARTERE - 15 - Institute of Transport (CIT) has announced its OCL Maritime Transport Award. The...

A DRIVER who was dismissed by Modern Art Glass Co, for failing to check goods delivered to a customer against the delivery...

BRITISH commercial veh operators are unlikely suffer any effects of the c ure of Goodyear's Garscad tyre factory in Glasgow. A...

THE FIRST eight-wheel Bedford TM chassis (a Primrose conversion featured in CM on January 5) has been bodied with the first...

AMERICAN company has announced a new large capacity namometer, said to be capable of testing the most powerful hides likely to...

FIAT is currently running service courses for the new Daily light vehicles from a mobile training centre. Using an Orlandi...

A NEW 1979 version of Toyota's one-ton-plus Hi-Lux pick-up has been introduced on the UK market this week. Besides the external...

A CENTRALISED bu loading system being built Shell Chemicals UK Ltd at i Carrington plant in Great Manchester is to incorpora...

A NEW rear end panel for its trailers is being offered by Crane Fruehauf. The panel is vacuum-formed from white high-density...

INTERTRUCK Ltd of Dal ford, Kent, which last we announced a price reductii for its landing legs and Susi will be doubling its...

THE WARRANTY on Renault's J range of medium-weight rigid lorries sold in the UK has been improved. Warranty cover is now...

)NDON Transport's Round London sightseeing tour carried a ord number of passengers for the second year running in 78. Despite...

SPEAKERS arguing in favour and against subsidising public transport will take the stage at the annual transport symposium at...

THE ANONYMITY of many present-day long-distance coaches was strongly criticised by John Birch, one of the elder statesmen of...

MANY London coach and tour operators will have to rearrange their Stratford-uponAvon day tours this season when the City of...

THE VOLUNTARY cooperation of coach operators and drivers is to be sought to introduce 'a one-way or tidal system of toach...

LEYLAND'S ZF-geared Leopard coach should satisfy most AEC Reliance customers' needs, if it is available in time. This became...

MARK 2 Ailsas, Dent Dominators and Leyland Fle lines all figure in Derby C Transport's 1979/1981 doub deck bus orders placed ti...

( From the Orewiriq p i pp in g Graham Montgomerie examines the modern trend towards higl torque, low-rev engines as...

is awning West.. 1 Kamaz is attracting an increasing amount of attention at all European commercial vehicle shows so CM has...

D u r heading "Coachmen slow 1 new regs (CM, February 9, age 5) was quite unfair to )ach operators. Gwilym oberts, MP, may have...

le article by Janus (CM, ibruary 16) touches on one of e most fundamental issues ised by the recent strike, namely the way in...

any writer deserves to have his name on his articles this author does. He reports our Transport Minister, William Rodgers, as...

I feel I must comment why the British vehicle industry is in the position it is. My company, after many months of persuasion...

"MODERN COACHES — can you rely on them?" was again the first question asked at the second Confederation of British Road...

The British Association of Removers makes no bones about the skeletons in the industry's cupboard (if you see what I mean)....

After three days as Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle called fi the director-general of the Department of Economic Plannirm...

Frank Andrew, the new sales and marketing director of Leyland Vehicles Ltd, has announced the appointment of four more sales...

Speaking at a reception on th eve of the Amsterdam Moto Show, W. R. Price, a vice president of the Society of Mc tor...

A Mercedes-Benz 1 626 tractor has covered nearly a million miles in 31/2 years and could be the most productive vehicle in...

LOOK AT OPERATOR's licensing, Professor Foster and his team were told in December 1977. During 1978 it became clear that that...

Thousands of tons of salt have been spread on British roads tin winter to combat ne snow. But if left on ne undersidE of...

disorganiition have left the heavy !hide recovery business with image it can do without. As a iecies, the recovery man is ewed...

Waste of a thunderbolt 1RLIAMENTARY canlates expect to be quesfled on their opinions and eir policies, and will no ubt feel...

kTIONAL Carriers has pointed new managers at its icester and Northampton inches, both men having en promoted internally. lohn...

London Transport has announced two new appointments. Raymond Allen is to become engineering director (buses), a new post...