)1* MIRA E Motor Industry Research ociation has put a capital estment proposal to the fernment for a joint invnent. he total...

TISH own-account operapassing through the igarian border are being A to use a standard type of i-account certificate linable...

POWYS County Council has been told that a proposed lorry ban will provide no overall environmental gain. The Freight Transport...

OWNER-drivers have elected new officers for the struggling British Association of Owner Drivers in an attempt to keep the...

LONDON Transport's pre-paid bus ticketing experiment in Havering has not sped up one-man buses sufficiently to justify central...

)ENS chairman Leslie Tolley led a ish Institute of Management delegawhich this week told the Chancellor he Exchequer that...

CIONAL Carriers Ltd has gained anr specialist arm to its activities by uiring the business of Publishers ksellers Delivery...

IETY of Motor Manufacturers and lers president Sir Barrie Heath called an end to uncifficial strikes in the )r industry when he...

MR RODGERS can sleep easy. He is not going to be sacked. Not that anyone really expected him to be, not even Mr Dafydd Wigley,...

RTERED Institute of Transport director of education and ing Arthur Beckenham announced details of the new CIT dnation structure...

kL authorities will ve more Government if they have to find when petrol goes up and und licences are stopped. Guy Barnett,...

THE NEW Nordic Volvo company came a step closer last week when AB Volvo and the Norwegian Government signed their proposed...

Coming in IN THE first nine months of this year, Britain imported 7,750 motor vehicles for the transport of goods or...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers last week refused to change his policy of giving no subsidy for rail freight. He had been...

GOVERNMENT transport will be provided to the inquiry into the north Devon link road for all local people who have views but...

PARCELS product manag the Post Office II McManus announced press conference in Lot last week that its parcels vice was...

• warnings The Government last v turned down a suggestion it should allow more si restriction signs on dange roads. Mr John...

A DEPARTMENT of Health and Social Security hazard notice has been issued in light of the Scottish Ambulance Service's...

FE of the first groups to )port the Government's nned abolition of vehicle Ase duty is the Electric [tide Association of Great...

TO the end of November en spillages of hazardous terial were reported from d tankers or small coniers, and these involved one...

HE REGARDED it as unsatisfactory that the transport of chlorine was not specifically covered by regulations, said John Horam,...

MIDDLETON (Lanes) Magistrates dismissed summonses against the Premier Poultry Packers Ltd., Fir Street, Heywood, and two...

INTERNATIONAL hauliers were hit this week by a strike of Italian veterinary inspectors at the Mont Blanc tunnel border with...

THE PERCENTAGE of ex); accidents in which hea , goods vehicles were involv remained consistent at E during the last two years —...

MAGIRUS Deutz, is planning to move out of its Win sford factory to Warrington New Town in the next two years. Magirus, is a...

EVON Conversions who Aid motor caravan and inibus conversions are going to Europe. The company is set up a joint operation with...

LAVISHLY illustrated )oklet tracing the history of ?.dford goods vehicles from 131 to the present day has ?.en published by...

FOUR NEWLY built Bedford CF vans with Lucas electric drive systems recently left Sparkhill, Birmingham and made the 113.6 mile...

TYRES for light vans and cars should be sold on safety, according to Peter Taylor, marketing services manager of Firestone...

WHAT is believed to be the first Volvo F88 rigid eight-wheeler at least in Britain, has been created by the Primrose Third Axle...

MASSEY International Coachbuilders of Market Weighton, Yorkshire has won an order for the supply of 318 mobile clinics for use...

CRANE Fruehauf is to expand its Leaderplan' purchase sch( to cover its range of platform, platform skeletal and TIR trailers....

THERE can be no possible doubt about the attractiorm commercial characteristics in diesel engines to military user This was one...

CROMPTON Electricars introduced the first of its B2000 ra of platform vehicles at the International Plant Engineering...

FOREIGN tourists in London could be forced to forsake their tour coaches and use a coach shuttle service between London's main...

D unite ACH operators in the rthand centre of Hampre have formed an )ciation to represent their Tests. The North and...

LIMLER Fleetlines made ir auction debut at .mingham on Thursday Len they were among 12 ming and 56 non-running Able deckers...

ACH operators Keith tches of Aylesbury, Bucks, 'ways and Pilot Coaches at ,h Wycombe, Bucks, and mier Albanian of Watford . e...

THE NORTH Western Traffic Commissioners are very disturbed about the attitude of some operators towards mini-buses: whether...

EIGHT bus drivers and 56 passengers were killed last year, according to John Horam, Under Secretary for Transport speaking in...

NEW regulations which govern the amount a person has to pay to recover property left on buses and coaches have been laid before...

OXFORD-South Midland the first National Bus Co pany subsidiary to use articulated bus in passeni service. The MAN "Bendibus"...

THE SCOTTISH Bus Gr( says it will not apply Grea Glasgow PTE's all-syst Trans-Clyde fleetname to sides of its vehicles. The...

o at least it has happened! ixteen years after the fateful )-called "amalgamation' of lose two longstanding rivals, ayland has...

have been a psv driver for 17 ears. Due to the imminent losure of our national depot, I hall possibly be made redunlent. When...

I visited the NEC Show and came away with two firm conclusions: Mixing commercial vehicles and cars did not work. There should...

One of the aims of this institute is to gain Government recognition for our members, because as the law stands at present, any...

The Press, TV etc have all said how successful the NEC Show was, especially the Commercial Motor Show side. To me, as an...

I would like to point out that the folding-down gooseneck on the Transquip Trailer (CM, November 10) is not a new idea. I have...

In a speech reported by CM (November 24), RHA's national vice-chairman talked about attacks on road transport by...

"We have heard of breakfast kippers curled in their death agony being served on cold, chipped plates; guests shown to rooms...

Will the Freight Transport Association one day operate road patrols like the AA and RAC? The question is prompted by its new...

The late and great Graham Walker, one of the most colourful figures in the prewar motorcycle industry, maintained that...

Six members of the Road Haulage Association who had disputes with suppliers and salvage firms have been saved more than £1,600...

A committee of inquiry to end all committees of inquiry has be proposed by Malcolm Banks, president of the Freight Transp...

General Motors are offeri what seem to me to generous inducements employees in ni warehouses from Southan ton to Liverpool to...

A five-a-side football team representing Southern British Road Services beat Wandsworth prisoners two games to one, with one...

One of the rackets worked in Hong Kong has been exposed by the local Hester Rancid. Some furniture removers quote a rate for...

ELECTRICAL failures, either directly or indirectly, are by far the most common cause of commercial vehicle breakdowns. So many...

kPPILY for the RNA and e FTA in South Wales, the ro "secretaries" have both 'own each other for a long ne. Terry Barnes, the...

MANY valuable road projects have been completed since the Welsh Office was set up but much remains to be done if Wales is to...

All seemed to be well and after two or three days of constant checking, I decided that it was just one of those things and...

their mettle••• by John Darker HE MEDIA have made most 3ople aware that Wales has Ben facing specially difficult roblems in...

HE GOVERNMENT, district D uncils, parish councils, and w ironmental groups are all rorried about the decline of Kai bus...

THE FORD factory at Swansea has one advantage over Dagenham, Langley, Brentwood and the rest in that it enjoys a view of the...

WALES, as far as Traffic Areas are concerned, is divided into two areas. The Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport...

Alan IV i ior' interviews a professional transport trainer ROAD TRANSPORT owes much to strong men who have supported unpopular...

"FOR the ideal Christmas present," said Maggie's brother Cromwell, "I would choose an appointment to a quango such as the Price...

Bill Kirkland has filled a new junior executive post at South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive. He is now controller of...

Phelps' successor as chief engineer is Robin Westbrook. Mr Westbrook joined the company in 1973 as an area engineer and was...