PETER Thompson, chief executive of the National Freight Corporation, chose his subject well for the 1977 Henry Spurrier...

AN ANGRY Norman Fowler, Tory transport spokesman, criticised the Government last week for hiving off important Common Market...

committee of that will review s' licensing — and it no representatives of stry. ews was greeted with reaction by the indus...

NISTRY of Transport will never condone the National Freight Corporation's settling for more than a 10 per cent pay increase, a...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers announced on Monday that he is to write off £53.1 million of the National Freight...

ROAD Haulage Association vice-chairman John Silbermann appealed to the Government to be honest and realistic when planning the...

INSPECTING and testing transport equipment should be 'done by only one government department — and that should be the...

ROAD HAULAGE in the UK is in bad shape. It has been getting steadily worse since 1970. And the deterioration began with the...

OPINIONS on delays at Dover docks given by drivers in a new survey of British ports carried out by the Continental Freight...

CRANE Fruehauf has finally lost its mammoth 14-month battle to stay'independent of the Fruehauf Corporation of America which...

Jubilee event and already there is a great deal of enthusiasm. Anyone interested in setting up new centres anywhere in the...

around when the Price Commission publishes its report on the road haulage industry. And Roy Hattersley, Secretary of State for...

R employed by Sleighthohn (Potatoes), York, was found to have two sets of record each day, Selby magistrates were told. If...

;1112 DECEMBER 23 is probably not the best day to sit down quietly with CM but we have ensured that you will have some...

A DRIVER who was said to have driven a tractive unit despite warnings that the brakes were not operating, and crushed a...

A Northern groupaige cargo agency has been set up by Trident International Freight Services Ltd and Kent-based Astran...

Leyland plant LEYLAND Truck and Bus is going ahead with a comprehensive £33.7million technical centre at its Leyland...

ALLEGATIONS by a driver that he had been pressurised into resigning by his former employers Yardley Transport Ltd have been...

AN APPEAL before the Transport Tribunal by G&D Services that the company should be granted an 0 licence was dismissed when the...

)1SIMUNITY bus works, was the message put forward by Sir Frederick Wood, chairman of ional Bus Company, when he recently...

DEVON Conversions, the Sidmouth-based coach builders that specialise in passenger and motor caravan conversions of Volkswagen...

GOTTLOP Auwarter of Neoplan fame has just completed the first articulated doubledeck luxury "Hotel Bus" for a Dutch-based...

A NEW generation of duty axles known as th launched by Eaton III designed to s meet the l( tance economy demE the premium truck...

CRANE Fruehauf ta axle low-semi trailers, with four adjustable st are used as the base for rubbish pulverisers. Manufactured...

THE biggest tail-lifts to be inset within the rear end of vans are featured in two 50cum (1,800cuft) pantechnicons added to the...

TYTRAK are to introduce to their nine depots a comprehensive range of service exchange Turbocharges for Scania, Volvo, Leyland,...

to provide a servicing point on cc tion sites, particularly Middle East. The . general layot equipment specificatiot 2.4 x...

Tough one LUMA (Automotive Products) Ltd, of Bury Road, Epping, has produced a new lorry rear lamp called the Lurnaflex. The...

Sir lari Morrow hs been appoint ed to the board of DAF Trucks (GB) Ltd as a riorixecutive director. Sir Ian has .previously...

good news for Leyland d Bus last week when Transport made it iat they are to place a der for 450 buses. Part der goes to LTB...

There's no justice in this world. I'm sure, At CM's Lorry Driver of the Year finals last September Scenic organised a balloon...

Here's en opportunity for some enterprising body builder and semi-trailer manufacturer. Transport Investments (Private) Ltd of...

T HE CRUSADER was introduced on the home market in a 38/44-tongross weight range 6x4 configuration in 1968. Then in the early...

DURING a recent visit overnight I got talking to an operator who was complaining bitterly that his costs were escalating...

Venues Continental NEXT •year's Continental show calendar includes four major events at which commercial vehicles will be...

cd 6110 From Mrs Shiers' letter (CM, November 18) she is clearly suffering a great trauma over her uncertain future in the...

I note from your article "Give carriers a chance — FTA" (CM, November 18) that the FTA has recommended that the Post Office...

I am a provincial coach driver operating into London regularly and, while I, too, have encountered bad driving from bus...

!selves • • • I MMEDIATE communication between staff can cause problems even for the most efficient road transport business....