Of the 124,600 0-licences held by operators, 109,300 are for fleets of less than five vehicles. More than half the total...

NERAL ACCEPTANCE of the European Court's ruling that Lain should adopt the tachograph has been underlined by vernment and...

A NEW NATIONAL pallet scheme has come into operation for a six-month trial period in the South London and Kent area. Called...

OTTISH Bus Group's fares were increased by nine per cent t weekend, following a unanimous decision by the Scottish affic...

ICHOR Euro Transport of lixstowe has reduced its )upage rates to Italy by e-third following the ,ning of a new exclusive ency...

IMPORTS accounted for 18.7 per cent of new commercial vehicle registrations in February. Reporting this in the House of...

FORD has launched a new repair credit scheme for international Ford Transcontinental operators. Called International Repair...

UNEMPLOYMENT in the road construction industry now amounts to three per cent of the total of all unemployed in Britain,...

THIS YEAR'S Auto: exhibition at Wemble mirrored the component accessories sector's com tion to Britain's export ket, where last...

LEYLAND NIGERIA's £37m assembly plant at Ibadan was opened last Saturday by British Leyland president Lord Stokes. The plant,...

WORK is to start shortly on the realignment and widening of a stretch of the A40 in South Wales. The quarter-mile section at...

NEW LIGHTING and ventilation equipment is to be installed in the Rotherhithe Tunnel under the Thames, The Greater London...

WILKINSON Trans opened a new parcels anc tribution depot in Southi ton earlier this week. The new depot, on Nursling...

THE GOVERNMENT I poses a "relative" taxatio diesel when vehicle ex duty is abolished and pc made dearer. Transport Secret...

X DRIVERS in the hire and reward have "destroyed the confidence of • try," a Sainsbury's director said last And he warned that...

EFFECTS of dividing a -town bus route into two routes are described in a t just published by the ;port and Road Research...

THE TRANSPORT Development Group's pre-tax profits for the year ended December 31, 1978, were £2.76m higher than in 1977. The...

THOMAS Nationwide Transport of Sydney has recorded record half-year net profit figures. The half-year figure to December 31,...

ALL THAT was missing was the gentle twittering of birds in the background. There were deer and badgers, trees and tadpoles,...

GREATER London Council had its operator's licence xed last week — but for only two and a half years, and only a public hearing...

NEW DEPARTMENT of Transport regulations effective from March 6, which require that the height of vehicles, including loads,...

A CAB DISPLAY unit showing tile overall height of a vehicle is being marketed by York Truck Equipment Ltd to conform with new...

.OWNED Carryfast Inttional is extending its pean services to give a on-Madrid service. e twice-weekly service .tes out of...

A MATLOCK haulier, Michael Thomas, was allowed to keep two vehicles out of three on his licence after the East Midland LA was...

BRITAIN'S road safety rec is one of the world's best, there is still ample room improvement, Transport ister William Rodgers...

OVER 75,000 copies of a poster publicising the new road tai labelling regulations are being distributed by the Health Safety...

CM's Tables of Operating Costs will be published in mid-Ju this year. They will include increases introduced in the C cellor's...

le six-mile route from Hackney to Greenwich is now plete. It cost nearly £50m and is the largest local authority construction...

E WIDESPREAD lorry s under consideration by Greater London Council parts of outer London Id not be repeated oughout the...

DEVON and Cornwall citizens were warned last week that their lifestyles would be affected adversely if heavy lorries were...

STONEFIELD Vehicles, the Ayrshire-based manufacturer of 4x4 and 6x4 cross-country vehicles, is laying off 40 of its workforce....

APPLICATIONS for this year's Chartered Institute of Transport research grants must be submitted by May 31. Scholarships of...

ONE-THIRD of all heavy goods vehicle mileage is empty running, says a report by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory....

NEW office premises for B Tippers of Cheshire w recently opened in Stockpo The 3,300sqft office mises were opened by 1...

THE ROAD Haulage Association's Transport Show is tak place in Brighton on October 27-29. The object of the show is to be...

KA CRANES Ltd of Blackpool Road, Preston, Lancs has 'eloped the concept of its hydraulic-lift fifth-wheel coupling )roduce a...

VOLVO has announced that it intends to increase production at its Scottish plant to around 1,350 chassis this year. According...

DESIGNED for export markets, Scottorn Trailers Ltd, part of the Boughton Group of Companies based in Bell Lane, Amersham, has...

UNITED Service Garages (Portsmouth) Ltd has become sole agent for the Detroit Automotive No-Spin differential unit for the...

7 OPERATOR Albert Morris's vehicles were not properly ntained — yet because the Traffic Commissioners regarded as a "very...

MERSEYSIDE County Council has been accused of dragging its feet over plans by Willowbrook to build bus and coach bodies at the...

;TERN SMT has lost an application for an interdict to 'ent Park's of Hamilton from running express coaches teen Scotland and...

METRO-CAMMELL Weymann Metrobus double-deckers are entering service this month with Tyne and Wear PTE and London Transport. The...

GREATER Glasgow PTE's plans for a no-change fares collection system are ging hindered by a demarcation dispute among the...

NORTHAMPTONSI-11 County Council has reviewed the past nine mo operation of its spons( Lilbourne Minibus Schem4 Its minibus...

LONDON COUNTRY Bus Services Ltd has announced that it is to launch a new inter-airport express coach service on April 28. The...

WEST YORKSHIRE PTE's loss-making Hanson coach company has been sold to a Halifax operator for an unspecified price. Geoffrey...

!VER £3,000 has been made vaiIable by the Chartered Initute of Transport for six difrent awards. The awards will a made to...

Alan Millar visits a Pershore operator whose challenge established me nods of fruit and veg transport led hi on to cao - ure o...

Leyland's bread-and-butter 16-tanner, the Clydesdale, lacks urge on the road , ahnough it is well-appointed reports Steve Gray,...

ead with interest CM's news Port (March 2) on a driver's nefit being cut after an cident in Saudi Arabia. It is exactly to...

In your issue of February 2nd, on page 19, you report a case under the heading "Driver had no cover, took wife shopping," which...

Janus and even more so by The Hawk in Bird's Eye View in CM, February 16, referring to the recent drivers' strike. I would...

With reference to the article in your issue dated February 23 concerning the cancellation of the Agristock Conference, I feel...

6 1)-bial) What a load of clap-trap The Hawk writes about seat belts. I've been driving 31 years and do not feel it's...

Re your report of the West Midlands LA Arthur Crabtree in the matter of Bawling Bros, Birmingham Ltd and the GV9 issued to two...

By way of a change from research topics, the Engineering Edi this week turns his attention to service back-up for new ranges, a...

MAN-VW Truck and Bus Ltd is, one must admit, a bit of a mouthful. An exuberant Leslie Jones, managing director of the new...

With Britain immersed in gloom and frustration, Leslie Jane: bubbling energy was a tonic. When, after his address to the press...

"Each vehicle on our truck park now costs at least £5 in interest charges on borrowed money each day, Alan Crombie comptroller...

The copy of Truckman, a foL page tabloid in black and whit arrived on my desk as I wi studying a similar report in Av( News, an...

About 20 years ago John Birch took a coach party from Wood Green, London, to Lourdes and San Sebastian. When the engine seized...

John Birch and Fred Speight worked in double harness for nearly 30 years in the former Passenger Vehicle Operators'...

Cyclists will have to take back the uncharitable things the have said about heavy lorries. The Europe Domestic Divisio of OAF...

Mac's rope trick AN OPERATION believed ever to have been attempted efore in Europe, four 26-ton rucks roped together like nk...

FOR NEXT YEAR'S Olympic Games in Moscow, the Russians will put on the road a new fleet of buses to supplement existing...

BUS enthusiasts are thinner on the ground on the Continent than in Britain, but the preservation movement is picking up...

National Carriers have promoted Dick Pole to manager of their Peterborough branch. He has been with National Carriers since...

in a cut-throat markei Graham Montgomerie summarizes what's availabh in the most competitive market segment of all-16-ton...

Economic benefits for the operator. Obviously, it is more efficient to manufacture trucks on a large scale than in small...