'HE FREIGHT Transport ssociation will expand on anuary 1 next year to take ■ ver the 200-member British hippers Council. This...

IE GOVERNMENT is about ntinental rules about drivers' to bring together British and hours and conditions. Eransport Minister...

THE latest attack on the heavy vehicle user from the Transport 2000 group has been slammed as "railway propaganda" and "a...

ROAD haulage permit quotas were discussed this week when Transport Minister William Rodgers met his West German counterpart...

THE INTERNATIONAL Road Transport Union has appealed to lorry drivers not to stop private cars from using roads. News of the...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has circulated proposals overall height signs to be fitted in the cabs of certain lorries. The...

DRIVERS of foreign vehic in Britain are giving th home-grown counterpart: bad name claimed the Rc Haulage Association t week....

THE ENTRIES for the CM livery competition in the own account class will be displayed at Reed House, Piccadilly, London from...

-OPERATION between Lish Leyland and European nufacturers on component elopment may extend soon wavy commercial vehicles. 1L has...

A CLEAR difference of opinion has arisen between Dyfed County Council and the Welsh Office over plans to administer rural...

AR park for this year's or show at the National libition Centre is on the )ng side of the mingham-London railway he 31 acre...

are becoming increasingly popular with own account operators such as florists, tv repairers and so on. Ford's latest offering...

FOR a while it seemed that it would he the mixture as before, that those many MPs worried about the inconsistencies in school...

E FREIGHT Transport ociation has doubted the ue of one-way lorry emes operated in Buckhamshire and South nberside. be two...

NEW systems of distribution of frozen food will be needed to cope with consumption of frozen food claimed National Freight...

Class winners of CM's Lorry recently were: London: Class A: M. J. Foster (Post Office); Class B: A. Hunt (Post Office); Class...

THE ROAD maintenance programme for the summer months has been reviewed very carefully so much of the work can be done around...

WHEN a Rhondda operator who had seven vehicles (four on interim) carrying furniture for a well known manufacturer appeared...

, "TIDAL wave of bureauracy" from the EEC was lamed by a solicitor when his lient appeared before Norrich magistrates last...

German exports nosedive EXPORTS of West German commercial vehicles over the first five months of 1978 are down 22 per cent on...

A FATAL road accident costs £64,600, according to Transport Under Secretary John Horam. In a written Comons reply last week,...

IMMINGHAM Freigh Services Ltd has formed a Swedish subsidiary to handle its UK-Sweden traffic. Ecotrans Shipping AB becomes...

BRS Truck Rental has introduced a refrigerated vehicle service. The company has allocated 7.37-ton ad 16-ton refrigerated...

TEN Leyland National buses bought by the Scottish Bus Group have proved so reliable in service that SBG has ordered a further...

A WEST Ross bus operator has started a new service between Ullapool and Lochinver in response to public demand. But there was...

IT WAS just 4.30pm on E cember 6 last year wh , William Laird drove his W( tern SMT bus into Kilmarno bus station. There, he...

kTIONAL Travel is to rearLiaise its London-based oerating company National avel (South East). All serces operated by National...

ONLY Leyland's latest Titan was absent from the ranks of the latest generation of double-decker buses at the annual National...

ANCHORPAC of Amersham, Bucks, has just secured two orders for its redesigned automatic front-loading vehiclemounted mobile...

IN AN attempt to attract more of the once-flourishing grain trade back to the east coast port of Grimsby, a private transport...

HONDA has just released details of its Acty 550cc range of light vans and pick-ups whic replaces the smaller TN 360. A new...

Bibby & Sons of Liverpool has taken delivery of this special Taskload-bodied Leyland Clydesdale which provides for maximum ease...

E . THE CM Energy Conference earlier this month, Michael Dnaghan of Ricardo was of the opinion that high octane petrol 11...

is now :rating at Heathrow Airport, using a special system for ming up the valves which feed fuel under pressure to the :raft....

The subjects of tachographs and owner-drivers are the talking point of the day and seem to have been with us for years now. On...

Let me reassure your correspondent W. J. Houston (CM, June 16) that State-owned transport is a major customer of the British...

that the! may well be considerable behind-the-scenes discord amongst TGWU officials, and certainly the advice offered to...

Ann, ()xon. Steven! ii Eiv,:ineering I .td., in Trading Estate. .11. ;ley, Sth. Yorks. Non: . :)1.1r1nrian Metal Ind. IS'S...

Isn't it sad when an illusion is shattered, when a hero becomes a villain, when the favourite uncle turns out to be an...

Despite the fact that the crime rate is rising, vehicles are more expensive each year — almost each quarter — and cargoes are...

by \oel IVIllicr FOR THE first time in its 75year history the British International Motor Show has moved from London to...

take on all comers e Society of Motor Manufacturers and iders is the 'watchdog' of the inufacturing side of the transport...

A SEARCH for more ver, Berliet has changed exhaust-driven superrger fitted to the TR 280's litre (750cuin) engine so t it now...

the choice is yours 11TH AN anticipated 50,000 attendance at this ear's International Motor how, there are obviously oing to...