The road haulage industry has an enviable industrial relations record. Disputes are the exception rather than the rule and...

15,000 drivers in England and Scotland continued their ppling strike action, it became clear that at least some of takes...

A NEW draft directive from the EEC Commission could mean British hauliers using 40-tonne vehicles in Britain — as long as they...

TRAFFIC congestion in Ce tral London has hit an all-tir high and caused Lond( Transport to go through i worst-ever period of...

OWNER-drivers are waiting for the British Association Owner-Drivers to stage a phoenix-like recovery this ye following the...

WE HAVE just put Volvo's FI2 through its paces over our revised Scottish route. Afthough it is obviously designed for...

'REIGHT Directorate Under-Secretary Joe Peeler said that the ublic should be educated into accepting heavier lorries when he...

BRS group managing director David White has accused the Foster Committee on operators' licensing of ignoring trailer rental as...

'HE TANKER drivers' dispute as nearing solution as CM rent to press this week Tuesday). Esso, Shell and BP ad accepted wage...

ENLAND'S B21 low-height city bus demonstrator has been tracting a lot of attention in Australia. Fitted with a dual-entrance...

LEYLAND Vehicles is building a specially-modified Leyland Leopard single-deck bus to meet the city bus requirements of...

NATIONAL Freight Corporation has welcomed aspects of Foster Committee report on Operators' licensing, but it feels e of the...

A MASSIVE drop in the profits of Fodens has been blamed on the need to keep big stocks for immediate export, coupled with a gap...

TRANSPORT secretary William Rodgers has laid regulations before Parliament to amend the Drivers' Hours (Keeping of Records)...

IT TOOK a West Midlands haulier less than a fortnight to adapt a vehicle to suit a recently won contract. MPW Transport of...

E vehicle manufacturers re in a newly-published ey of Britain's 50 most itable engineering comes. the lead, with a 55 per net...

New groupage depot R. F. INTERPORT Movements of Leigh, Lancashire has expanded its cargo groupage service operating to...

A VAN driver who refused to repair his vehicle and who then claimed constructive dismissal was awarded £233 as compensation by...

MORE accidents at work wei notified to the Health an Safety Commission in 197 than in 1976. HSC's yearly report revea that...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association has said that the .EEC common transport policy is having an "increasing influence on what...

Motor traffic on roads in Great Britain in the second quarter 1978 was three per cent up on the corresponding period of 19...

kNSPORT and General Workers Union general secretary ss Evans pledged this week to bring industrial relations up to a in the...

Container service P AND 0 Roadways has launched a new service intended specifically for container movements. Called...

THE MILK Marketing Board helped get itself out of the post-blizzard situation by hiring road tankers from Arthur Guinness....

PLIF1ED record books for short-distance lorry drivers come compulsory use from February 1, according to the Departt of...

Bobby Lawrence has taken over as chairman of the National Freight Corporation following the retirement of Sir Dan Pettit. He...

DIESEL version of the Daihatsu 4 x 4 has been introduced to le UK. It has a 2,530cc (154cuin) capacity engine with eleconic...

LIGHT VAN repainting serce introduced by Texon Ito Painting Ltd, of Surbin, Surrey, is claimed to offer erators savings of...

CHRYSLER is to offer the Cummins NTE 250 power unit as an option on two of its Dodge 300-Series models, but this option will...

THE NEED to grease fifth-wheel plates is obviated by a new product called the Lube Liner and marketed in the UK by Doughty...

THE FIRST Scammell Routeman eight-wheeler to feature Leyland's recentlyintroduced TL11 engine has gone into service with the...

A NEW low-height version of Craven Tasker (Woodville) Ltd's all-welded aluminium Tasktip 35cum (46cuyd) tipping semi-trailer...

A NEW road-brush mounted on an agricultural tractor three-point linkage and driven from the pto is being made by Leeford...

A PROBLEM inherent in the waste disposal industry is the c , of replacing stolen containers. This problem has been accentuated...

'0 statutory instruments to end the Minibus Bus Act '7 have been laid before liament. he Minibus (Designated lies) (Amendment)...

LONDON could face a critical shortage of hotel rooms by the mid-1980s warned hotel consultants Horwath and Horwath at a recent...

DING Borough Transport had an application for a .!.s increase refused by the ith Eastern Traffic COM;sioners after Berkshire...

VOLUNTEER car schemes for the aged and infirm run by the Women's Royal Volunteer Force are costing Clwyd Council as little as...

BRITAIN'S cold start to the New Year has created numerous problems for bus operators up and down the country. Accidents, frozen...

STEWART Wrightson (Ea Midlands) Ltd at Leicester introduced a new insuranc scheme for coach passenge and drivers. The scheme...

FOOTBALL hooligans can made to pay their way could even make money coach operators who take Alec Tonge's idea. Mr Tonge...

THE REPORT of the Foster Committee on Operators' licensing, published last week, contains scores of recommendations aimed at...

witY the article "Scania is growing ong in Brazil (CM December ') it was stated that there is a )n to encourage the ownervers...

John Darker's report "Welsh hauliers on their mettle (CM. December 1 5, 1 978) makes me sad and a bit mad. The same thing is...

A report in CM, December 8 under the heading "Target drivers" said that RHA members are urged to give their drivers Giro...

well-worn 4x4 recovery vehicle which had a loaded six-wheel tipper on a suspended tow. As there was no visible means of...

THE PROBLEMS of lawlessness and their effect on the transport industry were discussed last week at a Chartered Institute of...

The man to whom the Road Haulage Association's East Kent sub-area may well owe its continued existence received the OBE in the...

Until I read Pat Kennett's new book, Seddon Atkinson, I had forgotten that Atkinson once dabbled in passenger vehicles. For...

According to Murray Clifford, a New Zealander on the staff of Truck and Bus Transportation of Australia, the standards demanded...

Any Lorry Driver of the Year 'who was able to halt a 142ft, 115-tonne-gross road train within 2cm of a given point behind him...

"As I drove back to London down M6 and M1 . . my admirat went out to the heavy lorry drivers, tail to tail, mile after we...

Fourteen tracks of country music originally written for American lorry drivers have been combined to make a cassette entitled...

A Russian old-age pensioe is reported to have walk 6,250 miles across the So% Union from Riga to Vladi , stok. The walk took...

In Sydney, Australia, once a stronghold of the double-deck bus, Public Transport Commission has withdrawn all its...

In Scotland an old double-decker bought for £800 is to converted into a play school for children under five in Dunferml Two...

y Steve Gray IE petrol engine has probly had more effect on our es than almost any other rention, apart from perhaps B wheel....

.IE HEART of the diesel engine is the fuel injection system d, more specifically, the fuel pump. A precision piece of iuipment,...

price, high power MING the last decade several new types of rechargeable ttery have been under development. The idea is to get...

is satisfactory. If however readings for individual cells y by more than 0.040, the tery . has an internal fault and ther...

'he compression ignition engine, 3 E compression ignition ene lends itself more readily to )-stroke form than its spark ition,...

The voice of no ustry neec sbg hculiers to out trc nsoor s cc se I have read at a lot of CBI policy statements, and spent some...

REGULATION 33 of the Motor Vehicle (Construction and Use) Regulations 1 978 requires that all motor vehicles be constructed so...