People who joined the industry after December 31, 1974, but before January 1, 1978, will be allowed until 1980 to obtain a...

under attack this week . om the National Guild of ransport Managers. The scheme was put forrard by the Department of ransport...

THE Bill proposed to free minibuses used by schools, churches and voluntary bodies from psv licensing requirements, introduced...

DRIVERS must have soniith: ing to hide if they object to having a tachograph in their cabs, according to the Royal Society for...

A NEW company, Crane Fruehauf Rigids Limited, was formed this month to co-ordinate, develop, manufacture and market the...

COURSES on effective fleet management for traffic staff are to be held in February, March and April by the National Association...

A WARNING that bread delivery drivers who refuse to deliver to shops selling bread below 18p a loaf risk being sacked, came...

LARGE-SCALE lorry routeir has been ruled out as impra. tical by most local authoritie A comprehensive survey t the Freight...

CHARGES for membership of National Breakdown Recovery Service (Commercial) Ltd, which begins operation in March, have been...

IRITISH Rail is looking for a saving of around E25million a year ly replacing rail services with bus links. It wants the...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers has said that the London Orbital — M25 — will be given priority when road building begins...

4. FORMER £6,000 a year area :raining manager has lost a engthy battle claiming he was infairly dismissed by the Road Transport...

CM's Vehicle Recovery special issue, published on January 14, has generated such interest in the subject that it has now been...

f ta . goes up SMALL communities and sparsely-populated areas could . suffer if Government proposals to increase lorry taxation...

ROAD haulier, Jack's Transport (Dundee) Ltd, was fined £100 by Sheriff Cox at Dundee last week when found guilty of possessing...

NEXT managing director of Containerway and Roadferry Ltd is to be R. W. Freeman — at present assistant managing director. He...

WACRO Lines Ltd of Felixstowe, is celebrating the first anniversary of its roll-on-roll-off service to Lagos. The service has...

'RITICISM of the managelent of the National Freight orporation's abortive French Tterprise came from NFC 'airman Sir Dan Pettit...

)LLS on the two Mersey umels are not excessive, 'ansport Under Secretary hn Horam told the ComDns when speaking on Mery County...

CHARGES brought by the Eastern Licensing Authority, against seven drivers employed by Turners (Soham) Ltd, concerning the...

Depot progress INTERNATIONAL freight forwarder Lep Transport Ltd is building a £1million export packing depot in Trafford,...

FREIGHT forwarder Thomas Meadows & Company Limited has commissioned a network of four new US sales liaison offices. The new...

MAN and Roman dealer MITM Plant & Commercials (Ireland) Ltd is to expand its Irish operation with the opening of a new facility...

TRAILER and container manufacturers, Crane Fruehauf Ltd, has appointed the General Contracting Company (GCC) as their exclusive...

AT a public inquiry before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, William Thomas Davison, of Rawmarsh, South Yorkshire, had his...

MANCHESTER Containerbase Ltd, a member of the Contai erbases Group which controls six inland clearance depots in tl UK, has...

AFTER two years of being stored in the open, most of the London Transport AEC Merlin buses have now been sold. Some of these...

THE first of the Government's rural transport experiments is now under way. The Welsh Office has written to 300 householders...

RESTRICTIONS should be lifted on the type of vehicle for which bus grant is available — If legislation allows the grant beyond...

MERSEYSIDE PTE would have a deficit from direct operations of £7,383,000 in 1977/1978, even if proposed increased fares were...

THE FIRST authorised regular coach service between London and Italy is to be operated by Wallace Arnold Ltd and its partners,...

PLANS for a luxury coact service from Sheffield ant Leeds are to be put before tlu Traffic Commissioners by Na tional Travel...

TOURIST bus trips through Stirling, organised by the local authority, cost approximately £450 a week to run, and took only £50...

A NAME known by many people for its service in the vehicle replacement parts field is A. E. Edmonds Walker. In a new 76-page...

6 x 4 . for UK? vIAN is extending its range of Zomanian built Roman trucks' n the UK, it was rumoured his week. The latest...

OPERATORS can now take advantage of an exchange power steering ram service being offered by Hydrosteer. Based at Arundel Road,...

S and D go west LOCALLY-based service is now available from the South Western municipalities from Shelvoke and Drewry Ltd's...

A ONE-TON capacity commercial vehicle has been introduced by Rada Industries (UK) Limited of Oldbury, Warley, West Midlands,...

by John Darker OMEN National Carriers Ltd announces the introduction of a tew Contract Services scheme, you can almost smell...

THE DRAWBACK with special purpose vehicles is that they are "special purpose." More often than not, they cannot be used for...

Petrol-driven vehicles in Europe discharge some 25,000 tons of lead into the atmosphere during the course of a year. This,...

And by the way, here's a point for urban transport planners to note. Where traffic lights have been installed in urban areas...

Lord Bullock, a Don of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and biographer of the late and great Ernie Bevin, will by now be...

BRS lorry drivers are good men to have around in an emergency, to judge by the the problem themselves. The questioner on this...

Russia, too, I read, has pollution problems, even in Siberia. I don't know whether they're too worried about it, but I do have...

Graham Montgomerie reports on the development of bulkers and that ever increasing price of their manufacture THE PRICE of...

ITHOUT DOUBT, the cononal sectioned tanker a uniform diameter g its length is still the popular shaped tanker general liquid...

IT WOULD appear more operators than ever before are looking for vehicles with bodywork of greater durability, to enable them to...

Therefore, an easier life for my brakes to the tune of 20 per cent could save me as much as £72, if I was currently changing...

. . . Paul Illungo visits a liquid-egg transport depot, and found the process of transporting liquid eggs one of the most...

loss of the cargo, each vehicle is steam cleaned inside and out, at the end of each trip. Built in at the top of each...

buses they own and operate when their budgets are being drastically reduced for all purposes would be stupid. Yet this is what...

WHATEVER the outcome of the revolt of the bread van drivers, Jackson Moore and his United Road Transport Union can claim credit...