As the Chancellor delivered his first Budget speech on Tuesday, the Opposition benches offered no more than token disapproval....

BRITAIN'S hauliers are coping with the fuel crisis, despite reports that some companies in the South West and the Liverpool...

SICREASE in the rate of ving by two per cent will vely increase the cost of .afts to 17 per cent. This tuation which operators...

The UK is bound to implement any increase in the EEC standard maximum weight. The union has already warned that it opposes an...

VEHICLE MANI TUREFtS are saving pen the cost of pounds to tors by fitting spurit non-standard drive cat tachograph heads, i...

Nearly £1.3m has been set aside for four road projects in England by the European Regional Development Fund. This EEC Fund...

ROADLINE has started a new service designed to open u] Highlands by offering new collection and delivery faciliti Inverness,...

IERS — and van fleet operators — with large excesses in comprehensive cover or with third party fire and theft. ince should...

TRAFFIC MANAGER toyed by W. Alexander & (Northern) Ltd, told a ring of the Traffic Cornsioners in Dundee on 7 that Alexander's...

A NEW £4m harbour development for Sealink Scotland ferries, which carry more than 250,000 vehicles and 800,000 passengers on...

WORK WILL START next year on the removal of the Windsor Bridge roundabout, the last bottleneck on the A6 through Salford. When...

ALL VEHICLES in Great Britain are now recorded on du computer at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre in Swan. sea,...

tons gross, fitted 5LW Gardner engine, 557/480 D/B Box 18802 Eaton 2 speed rear axle. First registered 1967. 4 ERF 54G 4...

tE MANUFACTURERS are it steel ply tyres have a long spokesman for Semperit CM in Vienna this week radial steel tyres are so...

THE MANAGEMENT Development Division of the Road Transport Industry Training Board has produced a unique Health and Safety...

L LET YOU OFF with a fiver," said Sheriff Isobel Sinclair, , to a lorry driver at Stirling, and she added: "1 hope your...

HAMBURG's International Transport Show has brought together the latest developments in commercial vehicle and psv design from...

THE SWEDISH Government has announced measures tc reduce petrol consumptior next winter to avoid rationini and has ordered...

HEAVY VEHICLES should not be banned from York despite the pleas of environmentalists, according to the North Yorkshire engineer...

BUSINESS is booming leasing companies. A survey which investig 231 companies nations showed that almost all I had massive...

DEAFNESS in lorry driver an industrial injury, says a Transport and Gene Workers Union official. Road transport commerc group...

FUEL TAX increases will increase costs, the Freight Transport Association has told the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Prices had...

CLASS WINNERS from previous years struck again in the East Midlands heats of CM's Lorry Driver of the Year Competition. The...

kSSIVE fraud that "could have destroyed the whole basis of nternational permit system" came to an end when seven Wants pleaded...

THE BRITISH Government should follow the example set by the French Government and save by fuel encouraging the use of retreads,...

TANKER DRIVERS have been accused of delivering short loadt to oil company customers and disposing of the rest of the loac...

A TRANSPORT company was maintain a tanker which ran out its brakes failed. Southdown Transport Ltd, of Pound Lane, Thatcham,...

TRANSPORT and General Workers Union Scottish commercial group secretary Peter Talbot has called for the union to block any...

TRANSPORT LECTURERS are invited to attend the at conference of the Organisation of Teachers of Transport end of the month. The...

ACH FIRM was caught out when it left off two words from ficial application for new British tours. • the two extra words led...

MANY National Bus subsidiary companies are applying for small interim fares increases. These are in tended to combat increased...

GREATER GLASGOW PTE's recently launched City Happer service, designed to provide a last link between Glasgow's two main railway...

fho's Who VEL and Transport Ltd of gate Street, London EC I niblished a new edition of vular guide to the public ors of the...

A POLICE REPORT has backed London Transport's view that bus services are delayed by illegal parking on a massive scale....

BUS DRIVER Ronald Tibble found himself in deep water with the law the day he was accused of driving his bus through a puddle....

LONDON TRANSPORT'S radio-controlled buses now have a new central control room in Baker Street. The new centre, which replaces...

WHYTE'S AIRPORT Services are extending their servk Heathrow Airport from July 1, when they will take ov( long-term car park to...

LONDON TRANSPORT is stepping up its drive to recruit more bus staff by converting an AEC Swift single-deck bus into a mobile...

DESPITE PROBLEMS, the 1978 Motor Show was a success for the West Midlands PTE, The PTE made £108,000 surplus on the park and...

CK's UK distributors have the US parent company's ihead to assemble the ise-Hauler in Lancashire. ick Curcio, executive...

FRICTION MATERIAL manufacturer Trist Draper has opened a new service depot in Liverpool. The new 4000sqft (370sqm) building...

CM has made some initial tests on the DIP Metal Hygiem rust-removing product recently announced in this country. This product,...

NEVILLE-Charrold Ltd of Mansfield is now producing specially designed access ladders which can be easily attached to aluminium...

'ORTABLE bench has been - oduced to the "Welfix" tare tube frame bench ge made by the Welcon uct Company of rningham. It is...

IE LATEST VAN to enter -vice with Control Comments Ltd, of Corby, Nortints is a 24-ton-gvw 6x2 rd fitted with a 127kw 'Obhp)...

COST-SAVING, efficiency and safety are the claimed advat tages of the latest Pan-Aqua range of hot and cold wat( high-pressure...

FOR MOST of its history the road transport industry provided its highly competitive services, to the general satisfaction of...

'VOULD like to make one small ply to LT chairman Ralph mnett's statement (CM. May 1). He says: - Under LT's bus an, new...

HAD a distinct déjà vu sensaon when I read the item eaded "Faithful but gormless" 7,M, May 18) by the Hawk. inly the previous...

I REFER to the article 4. May 11) - UK builders export world wide." With figures like 127,439 vehicles exported, worth £441m,...

YOUR FEATURE "Don't be caught on the Continent" (CM, June 1, 1979) contains a surprising omission in that it does not mention...

THIS YEAR'S National Coat Rally at Blackpool was held miserable weather which r doubt depressed your writer much as everyone...

Alan Millar sits in on the BRS management development course at Aston University and talks to some of the managers of the futu...

engineer of Rolls-Royce Motors, diesel division, on various aspec of current and future engine design and performance IF THERE...

for high tension The bus driver's lot is a difficult one in these days of one-man operation and traffic jams. Noel IV illier...

kigh pass rate David Wilcox visits Western Transports own driving school; which has branched out into ins - ruction for...

The encouragement of "positive" cricket is one of the aims of the new Holt Products Trophy. This is not to be confused with...

For their part, ERF and their distributors are encouraging goSfers. They are inviting operators to play in four matches at the...

Manufacturers expected a decline in commercial vehicle sales this year and they cannot explain the current boom. According to...

Although I am no advocate of nationalisation, I would regard any attempt by the Government to dismember the National Freight...

A special centenary train consisting of historic catering vehicles will make a commemorative run from Leeds to Kings Cross in...

Mark Thatcher, the Prime Minister's son, a 24-year-old accountant, is working with Ian Sayer, managing director of the...

A WEST MIDLAND depoi manager of a warehouse and distribution concern in a Transport Development Group Cornpany, who wishes to...

;ERMAN firm has made an Jsual breakthrough in exting fully the legal possibil3 of maximum-weight opera' for non-hgv drivers....

FITTED with axles and Other components already used in the Mercedes-Benz 0.309 minibus, new wide-body variants of the...

EASURES designed to save argy in rail and road services erated by the Paris Transport thority — RATP — include ts in heating...

Today, more than ever, it is necessary to have a well trained workforce ven if that force is only one man. Bill Brock describes...

Brian Chalmers-Hunt describes the TOPS retraining scheme and interviews e manager of Poplar's Skikentre, ROAD HAULAGE is to...

John DarKer analyses e role of ne Road Transpo Inclustry Training Board since its inception twelve years ago and finds that...

Rhythm versus the tachograph `There is already no statutory room for the driver who wants to do his own thing' OWEVER strong...

Lord Ironside was re-elected . esident and the new airman is N. E. H. Wade of insing Ltd, with Dr B. D. lwards of Chloride...

covering north-west London and part of Hertfordshire; Fred Austin, 58, moves from managing bus operations in east and north-,...

. The mileage ploy. You'd expect to be charged mileage on a rented 'actor. But on a trailer? That's really not on. A lot of...