the Freight ransport Association in a ubmission to the Economic oevelopement Committee for aternational Freight Movelent. The...

whether to allow the controversial rules on hours to come into effect next year or to wait for a new rule that will also make...

IN A SURPRISE visit to London this week Herr Walter HMI, a senior official at the Department of Health and Social Security in...

OFFICE of Fair Trading director-general Gordon Borne has denied that his office has told the Road Haulage Association to...

designed to "secu in the long run the disintegr tion of the network of b services and its replaceme by a series of beg o' n...

Tachos v logbook THE EUROPEAN Commission is warming to the idea of a test to compare the merits of the conventional log book...

Mr Burke pointed out that if British and Irish hauliers did not fit tachos for national journeys it could lead to a distortion...

CHAOS reigned at the Severn Bridge over the Easter weekend as hundreds of heavy vehicles found the bridge closed to lorries for...

FORTY hgv drivers were fined up to £60 in East Sussex for ignoring signs marking banned routes. East Sussex has operated an...

NATIONAL Freight Corporation prices are to rise by up to 12 per cent as a result of buoyancy in manufacturing industry and the...

PLEA that the Scottish )evelopment Department mist maintain the much-used .7.oupar Angus route was made )57 the chairman of the...

A FINE recovery for the York Trailer Company was signalled last week when the annual results for 1976 were published in its...

TRADE unions unhappy about a removals industry training scheme are calling for an end to the new scheme. The trade unions' main...

A NEW lorry park for longdistance drivers could be located in the near future on the outskirts of Falkirk. A Central Regional...

CHANGES in speed limits for cars have not affected limits imposed on commercial vehicles, the Department of Transport confirmed...

THERE IS no excuse for neglecting the law regarding transport when it is an essential part of a business, an Eccles, Lanes,...

NIONS and the Road Hauage Association now seem kely to join in a national ommittee to discuss the ndustry's problems at top...

SINCE the British Association of Removers set up BAR (Services) Ltd — a scheme to help its members to buy packing materials in...

decreased costs form a major part of the Conservative manifesto for the Greater London Council published last week. Tory aims...

A CAVALCADE through London's West End of various buses which have served Londoners during the 25 years of the Queen's reign,...

SUPPORT from Tayside Region saved coach operator Ernest Yule of Pitlochry from having his psv licence revoked last week. A...

DISPUTES over the allocation of Transport Supplementary Grant paid to county councils from central government funds for bus...

carrying 700 passengers a week, it needs subsidy from the local authority to make it viable to run. So says a report just...

APPLICATIONS to offer extended tomfacilities direct from the Birstall area of West Yorkshire, have been made by a number of...

lorries following a fatal crash on the M62 Motorway at Clifton, near Huddersfield, in January. And if the recommendations of a...

ONE OF the first Scania LB 81 Automatics to go into service with a UK operator has now been working for over five months in the...

he declines to 'grasp the State Parcels nettle in the soon-to-be published Transport White Paper. The meaningful integration...

Report can only be guessed at. In due course the responsible Ministry summoned up enough willpower to create the Sundries...

Vlay I suggest that you use he undoubted influence of (our publication, to )ersuade the dunderheads )f politicians, Ryder, et...

transport business is nothing like the British transport business." The man was speaking in general. He is the Irish agent of...

ID ICHAEL MURPHY has just won something of a celebrated case in Irish road haulage circles. He was being prosecuted for...

HEN Dublin's Dock Milling Company Ltd wanted to expand its transport fleet there was some difficulty deciding which vehicle to...

Not for Beverly Smyth anyway. In the 1 30 or so years since the company was started by John Beverly Smyth (who has to take...

The crates are specially made to measure by the company, lined on the inside with foam and waterproofed. That the precautions...

work comes from shipping the wealth out of the country and in taking the bits and pieces out of old castles. Among the objects...

bi l i 8i ri l g F t E D R t h R e l E c o S ni , a p c a c n o y r d ; spokesmen, ' is a, ""semi-State"corpora tion. . The...

Ws so easy to lose £500 on tyres TYRES form quite a large slice of my operating costs and I have always kept an eye close to...

profitable in the network have risen seven times from 1973, when an annual season ticket cost £213 and which today costs £489....

FINLAND managed to reduce its foreign trade deficit last year by almost 50 per cent over the record figure of 7,800 million...

PARIS, which already has more common user road terminals than any other city in France or even in Europe, is about to open...

THE MESSAGE from the Chancellor to road transport operators has taken some time to penetrate. When they have understood it...