EST MIDLANDS Licensing Authority Arthur Crabtree very properly heard local thority opposition to an 0-licence application by...

IERE WAS sharp disagreement between British Euro-MPs at rasbourg when the European Parliament debated European Ecomic Community...

E LEAD content of petrol is to cut from 0.40 grammes per e to 0.15 grammes per litre by end of 1985. 'here will be increases...

THE FIRST major distributior cost survey since 1968 we: launched in London this weel by the centre for physical distri bution...

iAULAGE CUSTOMERS must be prepared to pay substantially !meter rates once the recession ends, and operators must take idvantage...

THE Transport and General Workers Union in Tyneside has imposed a new "agreement" on employers in the area which will give...

ANY investment in electrification of Britain's railways should be in addition to, and not instead of, road investment,...

THE road haulage industry is t backbone of free enterprise this country, director general the Institute of Directors Wall...

THIS YEAR'S CM Lorry Driver the Year Competition is derway and the Cumbria Di sion heat winners are as follov Class A, C....

training proposal ERE IS no case for the establishment of a training board designed encompass all heavy goods vehicle...

E 74,000 goods vehicles un3.5 tonnes gvw are expected irovide nearly four times as ch tax during the current rncial year as the...

WIDE SUPPORT for a Channel tunnel which one Euro MP suggested should be called the Europe Tunnel was given in a debate in the...

E RIGHT way to tackle congon in big cities is through iagement of the road system the improvement of car aliatives, according...

SCOTTISH hauliers are campaigning against haulage or warehousing companies being allowed to set up business in the enterprise...

IT WOULD be a cat and mouse operation to deprive an Aberdeen operator of a licence for a third vehicle for the rest of this...

CMS LEGAL expert Doug Ainley has uncovered an app case under the 1980 Empl ment Act which has impli tions for haulage...

THE DECLINE in lorry traffic through Dover has started to slow, w a March deline of 3.71 per cent contrasting with a 7.06 per...

_DER VALLEY'S new traffic 3nager is Tim Archer who has en assistant traffic manager Derations) for Ribble Motor rvices in...

Scotland A77: A 12 tons axle limit and 50 ton gross vehicle weight lirn applies at the Water of Girvan bridge until December...

RANGE of tipping gear specifially for British use has been deeloped by Multilift Ltd, a memer of Partek, one of the largest...

HE Royal Automobile Club is le latest recruit to the everrowing ranks of the Associaion of Vehicle Recovery rperators (AVRO)....

A NEW radial tyre for light col mercial vehicles, claimed combine improved econon performance and comfort, h been produced by...

A SKIP loader for 7.5 tonn vehicles chassis has been pr duced by Deltayn Ltd of Gre Easton, Dunm ow, Essex. The specification...

ENAULT'S attack on the non3r derived sector of the British larket (see CM, May 3) is tworonged with the Trafic and %aster...

two fully I. den vehicles, a T800 Trafic NIE and a short wheelbase diesel Master van. Over a 105km (65 miles) roui through...

price menace has poured scorn on the initial LEADING independent coachman erformance of British Coachways. The Government...

LONDON Country Bus Service! and Southdown Motor Service! joint Green Line Flightline 77 coach service between Londo and Gatwick...

LAST week we reported thi five second-hand Leyland Attar teans supplied to Hong Kong b the Paul Sykes Organisatio joined five...

AN INCREASE in the number of psv registered in April 1981 an April 1980 is shown in the monthly figures provided by the Sociei...

cuts waiting time GNIFICANT improvements in )th the quality and quantity of is services were reported in mdon Transport's...

rUDENT coach fares are to be cut by National Express from May ' and, at the same time the upper age limit for reduced...

'FOLLOWING Lothian Regior failure to gain Government a proval for subsidising reduct Scottish Bus Group fares, tv e tmunity...

LSBESTOS-FREE friction iaterial, high-speed brake fade, nd quality control were just ome of the subjects discussed t length...

WHILE we await advances batteries, there can be fu savings of between 50 and per cent through the use of h brid electric...

'HE AXLE interests of GKN are now all trading as a single company, iKN Axles Ltd, with production now centred at two main...

A GEARBOX test rig installed recently in Strathclyde Passeng Transport Executive's Larkfield works in Glasgow is claimed make...

,LTHOUGH the Highway Code as now been in existence for 50 ears and every learner is tested n it, many drivers behave as lough...

'SUCH straitjackets as would be lecessary for effective co-ordilation and integration [of transport] would so greatly add to...

A WOMAN and four children in a burning Range-Rover probably owe their lives to Victor Matthews, a lorry driver employed by an...

A HIGHLY desirable qualification in an employee of United Transport Zululand is the ability to shin like lightning up a tree....

CONTRARY to uninformed t lief, footballers do not spend their time being fired, bouc and sold, booked and sent c and in...

BEG LEAVE to suggest that our editorial comment (CM, Aarch 21), that the effects of the ludget on transport running :osts were...

There is no way in which any industry can carry increased cost imposed from outside their Co ntrol. These are legitimate...

I READ with great interest of VBG's Consultancy Service (CM, April 11) of how to operate a drawbar outfit particularly their...

I WAS AMUSED to read The Hawk's pithy report of my comments at the "West Midland area dinner" (CM, March 28). Actually they...

AS A long-distance driver parking overnight at many service areas, I would like to disagree with a statement on page 3 of CM,...

YOUR DETAILED coverage of the DAF range of vehicles (CM, April 18) and the operations of the company was up to its usu high...

I AM in the same depressing situation regarding Class 1 licences as Jonathan Hamiltor (CM, April 14).. Having passed my hgv...

That's the theme of the 12th annual conference of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers at Solihull. Graham Montgomerie...

FTER an extensive cost/benefit lalysis carried out jointly by uto Transit, the Swedish parent )mpa ny of Electrolux, and Tor...

oil seepage FRANCE is the latest Europe country to introduce legislatii regulating the collection ai disposal of waste oil...

John Durant reports on the Vehicle Maintenance Recording Standards scheme — perhaps the Institute of Road Transport Engineers'...

it all began A leader -in CM, January 7, 1944, advocated the formation of a Road Transport Engineers' Institute. "We are...

Alternatives are still very much at the experimental stage, says Graham Montgomerie, so manufacturers must home in fast on...

That's what Tim Blakemore has been doing with CM's Ford Transit 80 for the last five months. So far the relationship has been a...

Tony Wilding, who gave a paper at this week's IRTE conference, considers commercial vehicle design developments and takes a...

What is the present state of the art? Wht_Vs in store for the future? Are manufacturers giving operators enough choice? These...

T HE NEW Seddon Atkinson 401 is based on one of the most successful British trucks ever produced. But in developing our new...

Dishonesty at work, by Douglas Ainley OFTEN when employees are suspected of dishonesty, employers may think that dismissal is...

are not. At any rate, the Licensing Authorities don't think so. "And the proposed strike ould shut the door altogether,"...