le effects of the decision of the Road Haulage Association to abandon its actice of recommending scales of charges to its...

HE recently announcedobe into Road Haulage ssociation pricing should m up trumps, according to HA national vice-chairman Ihn...

Charges RHA charges cede was weless inric7n: scale ended ■ IDER strong pressure from the Office of Fair Trading, the tad...

TRONG denials have been lade by the National Freight .orporation that its chairman ir Dan Pettit has warned the lepartment of...

t NEW diesel-powered light van range will be announced by VECO early next year, probably at Amsterdam in February. Covering...

lust per COSTS will go up and traffic will go down if the Government's White Paper on the future of the railways is accepted...

BOUT 565,000 United KingJan vehicles were within the ope of the European egulation about tachoraphs, said Transport Min;ter...

MORE than 2,000 tanker drivers employed by Shell in Britain are negotiating a pay claim said to be around 30 per cent. A Shell...

and commercial veh bodybuilding business. It paid about £167,000 for 70 cent of PEM Trailers of B nemouth — a company ducing...

The private Scottish company manufactures vehicle tipping bodies and distributes Edbro tipping gear. It gets much of its...

COSTS have risen by over 18 per cent in the North West of England over the year ending December 31, according to a survey...

IREE devices for analysing a driver's breath to determine blood/ alcohol levels are ing operationally tested by the police in...

HE ARRANGEMENTS for he medical assessment of 'rivers of heavy goods vhicles and public service 'Aides are being considered ly a...

TO THE casual visitor in the Strangers' Ga ery of the House of Commons it was example of how British democracy is bei exported...

FORMER deputy managing director of Ailsa Trucks Ltd, Philip Ives, has joined DAF Trucks as deputy managing director. The...

HICLES of Leggetts Transport Ltd, Woolpit, Bury St Edmunds, had received something like 40 thibitions and defect notices since...

0 licence removed for next 3 year A CAERPHILLY-based corn pany granted a licence for vehicle and two trailers it June, which...

Scotland are posing no threat to rail freight because the railways just cannot match the schedules. British Rail Scottish...

SHORT HAULS to-ro to Lagos NEW fortnightly ro/ro serice between the UK and .agos is to be offered shortly y the Messina Line....

,nd a new ro/ro cargo service etween the UK and Portugal . scheduled to begin in mid ■ ecember, based on the ports I Felixstowe...

HE TOLL charged to heavy In-ries and buses crossing the E.' vern Bridge is to rise from to 40 in the New Year. Cars nd light...

THREE-day conference to . omote interest in automatic Id semi-automatic gearboxes heavy commercial vehicles to be held in...

iye, ed YORKSHIRE haulage contractors, J. & B. Haulage Ltd, had not acted unfairly when they dismissed one of their drivers...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers has announced an increase in road haulage permit quotas for Italy and Portugal. The Italian...

OWNER-drivers and small hauliers are banding together to fight the current situation where permits are issued for international...

FULL resumption of work at Sutton & Son Ltd, St Helens, one of the largest privatelyowned haulage firms in Europe, took place...

INCHCAPE has now dropped out of the bitter fight for control of the Crane Fruehauf company, leaving the field open for the...

A POSSIBLE road haulag agreement between Iraq an the UK has been under dis cussion during a meeting be tween Parliamentary...

stamps ... SELF-EMPLOYED people are to pay less for their National Insurance stamps in the future under a new set of rates...

:HARGES involving the operation of coaches without road service licences and without asurance against Lancashire coach operator...

DENNING of Brisbane, Austraia, a company in the Leyland Australia group, has allowed the Denning threeaxle coach to be built in...

THIS NATIONAL AEC is painted in a new pink and white livery of Travelscene. It operates a through London Amsterdam service that...

Cardiff buy Bristol Cardiff City Transport has ju started taking delivery of 26 these Willowbrook-bodiE Bristol VRT...

DNDON Transport bus and tube fares will go up by 10 per cent from mid-June. The increase is tended to raise revenue in 1978 by...

SUGGESTIONS that express service coach operators should be eligible for a fuel ditty rebate, and a Bus Grant similar to those...

LONDON Country bus services, which inherited over 11,000 London Transport "bulls-eye" type bus stops when it split from LT in...

The Executive has as the council's permissio buy 450 new double buses at an estimated co E17 million. The buses are t either...

, RANGE of steel cord, radial ly lorry tyres — 12000 — has een announced by Firestone. Made entirely with steel, the yrres...

A NON-ELECTRIC engi watcher, which is designed stop an engine automatical at a predetermined setting coolant temperature or I...

has led the East Anglian-based Ford and Slater Group to offer its own new back-up guarantee. They say that if any Marathon 2...

Goods can now be loaded and distributed from central-depots. The front 3m (10ft) of the van is separated from the rear 6m loft)...

ARLS Court is once again the mue for the Royal Smithfield how. First held on the cobbstones of Smithfield in 1799, ke show has...

Their largest exhibit w 2,540kg (2.5 ton) twin axle purpose container trailer an unladen weight of 6 (I3cwt) in the semiloading...

THE LEYLAND Cars Stand exhibit was made up of various forms of the Range Rover and Land Rover models, which included a six...

...Brian Chalmers-Hunt warns of the danger of driving while under medical care BUS AND LORRY drivers taking certain medicines...

Is big beautiful? Are owner-driv te-cutting cowboys? Peter Land: This is a group of people that Commercial Motor has brought...

F OR FIRMS of all sizes the role of marketing is today seen as a vital ,ne. A medium-sized or large lusiness can afford to...

Good PR pays off says Frank Lyon _IKE the 'word "juggernaut," public relations has become a erm of abuse. It still has its use...

otigg he reason why operators re shocked by the 281-mile ule (CM, November 25) is hat we thought even at this ate hour, that...

The RHA is no idle bystander when it comes to matters of vital importance to its members. So it was with great disappointment...

I write to support Bob Wilson (CM, November 11) on his comments regarding the RHA. I have been a member for some years and...

I"... is by exploiting their drivers, usually by encouraging them to drive excessive hours. I have always believed in free...

Derogatory letters have been published in CM concerning bus drivers. Take this quote from one letter: - The lowest form of...

tes I felt I had to answer the comments by John J. McKay, of London, and F. G.Larman, on Enfield, on bi drivers (CM, November...

) NCE an operator has selected the sector of the market in which he ants to operate, he must len decide how to let nential...

Vhat some people will do to get pay rise. The latest wage claim ly Greater Manchester bus lrivers contained a section deoted to...

he Road Haulage Associaton's ational council, at a meeting 1st week, discussed the annuncement (CM November 25) at from January...

We mustn't call the ' Beaujolais Race" a race be you don't race on British r explains the Air Freight G But Inter City Trucks...

)NE of the disadvantages of rater cooling is that the boiling oint of water is lower than the - lost efficient engine operating...

)URS BROCHURES these days no longer seem to come in any shapes and sizes: many of them — expensive colour bs though they are —...

ONE of CM'S editorial secretaries happened to g. into a travel agent to see what is on offer over the weekend. These are her...

)y Les Oldridge, T.Eng(CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE obiIe cranes LAFFIC LAW generally is complicated enough, but when e is dealing with...