This early in the parliamentary recess, the Minister of Transport is busily engaged in projects which will demand parliamentary...

s coach and bus road service licensing faces its biggest tphe val for 50 years with proposed changes which will be nco orated...

TRAILER rental companies are foreseeing a boom in the rental business as more and more operators find it impossible to fund the...

3V RNMENT lorry inves;ato Sir Arthur Armitage s as ed for written evidence hi inquiry into the heavy d the environment. Me...

OR is going ahead on a ijor expansion programme F ightliner's Coatbridge -ml al, near Glasgow, for ic the company has ei ed a...

HEAVY goods vehicles are to be made to pay more for their effect on the environment by a tax system based on gross weight and...

ELEVEN Euro-routes are proposed in the United Kingdom but many of them require improvements or new construction work before...

SPOT checks on good vehicles in the Midlands foun that 40 per cent of the lord( weighed were overloaded. The checks were...

AN EXPERIMENTAL trafficflow scheme through the Blackwall Tunnel started this week in an attempt to reduce delays to northbound...

NEW FIGURES from the Road Haulage Association have revealed that hauliers' costs rose by a staggering 10.5 per cent so far this...

BRITAIN has still to be told the cost of the European Cot hearing on the UK failure implement the tachograi regulations...

SWINARDS have got their licence for British tours. In a reserved decision the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners permitted...

WITH CUSTOMS and Excise officers working to rule, goods and passengers coming into the country are facing greater delays than...

FUEL, both diesel and petrol, may soon be sold in litres if the garages' organisation has its wish. The Motor Agents...

ANTI-ROAD campaigners who disrupt motorway public nnquiries are "deliberately thwarting a major plank in Britain's industrial...

VERNMENT inspector has recommended that the heavy s vehicle ban on the A58 Leeds-Wetherby road should stay. e decision was...

KENT COUNTY Council is looking for a site for an emergency lorry park to serve the hard-pressed Dover Eastern Dock. Local...

ERF has opened a new training centre for its customers and distributors. The new centre has two lecture rooms and two...

BEDFORD commercial vehicles are to be sold in West Germany through a new marketing organisation. General Motors is to...

THE Institute of Traffic Administration is holding its annual transport exhibition at Bristol this year. Bodybuilders, vehicle...

HER TOLLS for using the Severn Bridge come into force on nesday, August 29. ansport Minister Norman Fowler decided to increase...

BECAUSE a West Midlands operator's vehicle had been off the road since June 27 and because he had been impressed by the...

LORRY DRIVERS will jumped at the chance o £1250-a-week bonanza wil earn every penny of it, says M Den Washington, an Oxford...

THE CONDITION of the M cross-Pennines motorway being investigated by the E partment of Transport. T Department has admitted a...

A SMALL road haulage company in Hertfordshire is setting up an organisation to help other similar small general haulage...

ETE BOROUGH firm of specialist vehicle bodybuilders was rted a temporary High Court order on Tuesday preventing a ler mployee...

CARRYFAST, the parcels carrier in the SPD group, has a new managing director. He is Martyn Oldroyd, a chartered accountant who...

BESPOKE COACHES built to individual requirements are to be sold here by the latest contender in the British coach market. A...

BUS UNION leaders at Coventry have given full support to a call to withdraw union cards from trade unionists convicted of...

A COACH OPERATOR who is charged with using a public service vehicle without a licence is not to get away scot-free — though...

A HIGH COURT judge last week refused to order National Bus Company subsidiary Crosville to hand over survey forms, which...

FIRST-AID courses run for staff by Passenger Transport Operators may now be eligible for a grant if approved by the Road...

LAN WESTWELL, Tayside Region's director of public transort, is to be Greater Glasgow PTE's director general. A special...

HERTFORDSHIRE coach operating group Hale Bros, which controls Don's Coaches (Hale Bros) Ltd, Progressive Coachlines (Cambridge)...

EXCLUSIVE TO CM this week are Bill Brock's driving impressions of Volvo's 8x4 F7 with automatic transmission. The vehicle we...

T 1 TREND towards factory rust proofing of new cars and the r van derivatives has rec ved a cautious welcome fro Arne Ask,...

ALCOA Manufacturing (GB) Ltd, of Droitwich, a subsidiary of the Aluminium Company of America, has updated information of its...

GEQUIP '79 will be held t 0 mpia, London this year ro September 24-28. The ho , organised by the oci ty of Motor Manufacure s...

A NEW "liquid brush" attachment for use on the Brentex Systems Ltd range of washers will be exhibited at Garagequip '79. The...

A NEW RANGE of cushioned-tyred counterbalanced lift trucks has just been announced by ACR Lift Truck Ltd. The trucks are...

I READ with interest Brian Chalmers-Hunts article "'Lease of life in credit squeeze"' (CM June 22). I have been driving for a...

WITH REGARD to the present discussions over the alternative Commercial Vehicle Show to be held at London in 1980, we have...

I WAS interested to read C, features last week on runn vehicles to Italy, Spain, PortL and Southern Ireland, Graham Montgomer...

Osculation is to be nationalised, though none of the parties in the General Election thought fit to Mention it. A new British...

k "Government health warun9 is part of another new Iritish Standard covering the lesicn and performance of jacks )ought...

alcclm Banks, president of the eight Transport Association, operly criticises the sweeping iwers of objection to 0-licence...

The oil debacle has pleased at least Cyril Bleasdale, managing director of Freightliners He is quoted in the TSSA Journal as...

The National Freight Corporation's splendidly produced and informative report for 1978 shows how difficult it is to generalise...

I was intrigued to observe that Sir Daniel Pettit, who retired as chairman of the NFC at the end of last year, was not the...

WINTER is now as far behind us as it is ahead, and we can be forgiven, I suppose, for discounting for the time being many of...

AS vehicle costs go up, so do the monthly payments — and the credit company's risks. But what Nappens if a haulier genuinely...

Some hauliers get into trouble by being too success - ulthey overstretch themselves and when - ne bills aren't paid promptly;...

WHAT is it that most companies seem to value about factoring? International Factors told me that, first, it means that they...

Peaks and dips in seasonal business-or in exchange rates for foreign currencydon't worry Armchair ; who make up fleet to...

The Chancellor's changes will not make a great deal of cifference to lease fleet operators) says Alan Millar AFTER TWO MONTHS,...

How can you afford to underquote this year wn vehicle replacement costs rising at the current rate? Stick to CN/'s rates for...

hat's Alan Millar's recommendatron for anyone proposing to make a go of a new haulage business in these days of expensive...

_says Brian Chalmers-Hunt who has been studying just how he average haulier can do that and how his accountant can help, WITH...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE THE Hazardous Substances (Labelling of Road Tankers) Regulations 1978, which came...

THE RIMS for private motor cars and light commercial vehicles ar invariably of the well-base ty e. Figure 1 shows a wheel a d...

Brian Chalmers-Hunt surveys the trailer hire firms and anatomizes e costs and terms of the business "IF ONLY I had read the...