MEMBERS of the House of Lords and Commons will demonstrate an unusual level of comprehension if they fully understand the draft...

by Steve Geary RT users at Dover have ?n HIM Customs and Excise even day ultimatum to prove the clearance system Incoming...

ANSPORT Minister Warn Rodgers is not ranted of the attitude taii is taking towards ho graphs — but sometimes finds it rather...

DETAILED discussions have been taking place with manufacturers on measures to apply new braking standards which will reduce the...

LAST WEEK'S protest blockades against Austria's controversial transit tax may have been organised by West German operators. It...

INNER London — especially the depressed docks area — will benefit most from Greater London Council's £1,370 million transport...

BRITAIN is going ahead with regulations for strengthening coach roofs without waiting for the EEC. Draft regulations for...

E.; pr spect of Japanese commercial vehicles being liable and assembled in Britain has been pushed yard further by the...

RYSLER's long-awaited assault on a greater share commercial vehicle market will come in the shape he e 0 Series panel...

PROTESTS from coach drivers and operators caught in spot checks by DTp enforcement officers have shown that there is a general...

CM'S Fleet Management Conference is here again. It takes place at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, on September 13 and your...

ENTRIES for Class Aof Livery Competition closes on Friday (July 21). Class A is for vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes gvw. There is no...

IT looks like becoming standard procedure, at least until MPs mend their ways . . before each Question Time in the Commons...

Our Word For It re know that Kenprest Truck etreads are unbeatable performers. hanks to the unique compression ea (world...

E BRITISH Association of ner Drivers took a further p forward last weekend en its steering committee d its first meeting at...

at Law will be one of the speakers at the Institute of Traffic ministration's IoTA '78 exhibition in Newcastle on October 6 El...

A LATE result in from the organisers of CM'S Lorry Driver of the Year competition is from the Leicester centre. Class winners...

A LORRY driver who refused to take out a load, left the premises and did not show up for work the following day, was unfairly...

COMPANIES which offer employees season tickets for travel to and from work will not burden the employee with additional tax...

A HAULAGE contractor who runs five vehicles on his Operator's Licence found himself before the deputy South Wales LA in Cardiff...

MAND for commercial tidies has increased in 2tnt months but production Elritish commercials dropby1,000 in May. .ompared to...

E MAIN holiday season is roaching and drivers have reminded that the day route system will be rating in the South West il...

A GRIMSBY bedding manufacturer claimed last week that GV9s issued over a five-year period were "not for serious things". L....

Blacklist hauliers FIVE road haulage firms are "subject to discretionary action" — on the Government's blacklist for breaking...

CRAVEN Tasker (Sheffield) Ltd has introduced a new refrigerated trailer designated the Mk IV Taskold. Weighing only 8.2 tons...

PROTOTYPE 12m (40ft) lg special semi-trailer has en built by the Primrose ird Axle Co Ltd, Blackburn, r the transport of liquid...

A TWIN-compartment, 9,090 litre (2,000gal) capacity road tanker, operating at 16 tons gross designed specifically for the...

CHESTERFIELD Borough Transport and East Midlands Motor Services clashed over the provision of services to a housing estate...

LONDON Transport is extending its programme of short term bus service improvements to its night bus routes from tonight. Two...

Converted NORTH Eastern Vehic Builders' Ltd of Prudha Northumberland, has d signed a midi-bus conversil for the 542-ton gross...

COACH operators have been asked by the Action on Smoki and Health (ASH) organisation to make some provision non-smokers on...

NATIONAL Bus Company subsidiary Eastern Counties i placed in service a second community bus in North Norfolk. The second bus...

1LVO'S new city bus chassis the 1110 R launched at the tent International Congress blic Transport Systems in ban Areas in...

'ares evasion cost Manchste4 Transport an estimated lm !a year until the PTE set ip a flying squad of uniormed inspectors to...

NBC research NATIONAL Bus Company subsidiary Lincolnshire Road Car Company is starting an intensive advertising campaign in...

national good A COUNTRY cannot survive without its transport system, and a transport system cannot function efficiently...

R HA and NEC in trying rotect their interests at axpense of owner-drivers would-be owner-drivers. ut I was horrified to read he...

arding the continuing saga ie Leyland Reiver with 410 o engine, and your reader's Ty about not being able to the header tank...

Modern society depends upon the movement of goods and people. People have the right to demand that the products of the world...

We note with deep interest the very long letter of Jackson Moore (CM June 30). Perhaps you could refresh the reader's short...

attitudes to the so-called "juggernaut" can only be applauded, if for no other reason than its illustration of the fact that...

Van rental customers talk to Alan Mill VANS in rental company colours can be seen on our High Streets every day, but why are...

WHEN AN operator takes delivery of a new vehicle, like all new things, it will be completely free of defects. End of fairy...

REVIEW. BRITISH LORRIES 19 , 1975, by S. W. Stere Stratton, published by Allan Printing Ltd, Shepr ton, London, at £3.95....

FIFTEEN years have passed since I sent my first direct shipment of clothing from Leeds to Paris on the first crossing from...

IANY local shop-owners Id small traders consider at transport for their busims is a necessary evil, only bp tolerated to enable...

his was the biggest shotlist in the competition; the standard was exceptionally high and the final decisio , which lay between...

A well-meaning European Communities Commission reminds Britons that it can be expensive to be taken ill while abroad, but...

"I must apologise for the quality of that programme," said the announcer after the BBC comedy show which I heard on the car...

and-ahalf Driving in London, I noticed a wedding car decorated with lavender-coloured ribbons instead of the usual chaste...

The Exmoor Authorities have proved that motor vehicles and the environment are not incompatible. Car and coach parks are well...

Every operator has been longing for a Chrysler pentastar on the front grille and larger chromium-plated Dodge name letters on...

If Chrysler finds me hawkish, they should have greater respect for language. So should the Freight Transport Association who, I...

I have for years cherished the belief that drivers behave better on holiday than they do normally. Recent experience on narrow,...

Transport managers look back on their week at the FTA, by John Durant A/HEN ALAN KEVAN, controller of education and training...

ALAN WOOD, with the help of two of his garage fitters, Ian Caunce and Ian Hill, is saving Bass North West thousands of pounds...

Steve Gray tests - ne Forc Fiesta 1.1L klI T DERIVED light vans e, Of course, nothing new. makes economic sense for m...

Gear ratios a compromise by Preceptor THE GEAR ratios chosen for gearboxes are something of a compromise. For example, for...

4E 1978 Fleet Management wiference takes place on iptember 13 at The Royal incaster Hotel, London. Innding delegates can reg:er...

RTETI "Success within our organisation is based upon the reliability of our equipment so that we can guarantee the kind of...

Ted Wall for Iran with NF From August. Ted Wall will be managing director and chief executive (Iran) with National Freight...