Reaction from the bus and coach establishment to the Minister's proposals was both predictable and excusable. After years of...

AN PORT Minister Nor n F wler has announced es of the four advisors o e to assist Sir Arthur nit e, the Government's epe dent...

DRIVERS for a major transport group may soon break the magic 000-a-week basic barrier. Negotiations are understood to be going...

GERMAN Railways is to begin marketing its Kombiverkhr piggyback services later this year at the Road Haulage Association Road...

ERF CHAIRMAN and managing director Peter Foden told shareholders that the Government must increase maximum weights for heavy...

REACTION to the Government's plans to change the basis of heavy vehicle taxation and include the "social costs" of the vehicle...

HUNGARY has withdrawn controversial entrance ca system and replaced it witt voucher plan. The old system was wii drawn after...

FIAT UK has put the Fiorino van on sale in the UK. It was first shown at the Turin Show nearly two years ago and has been...

THE VOLVO F7 with the TD 70F charge-cooled engine is th first vehicle to better 8mpg over our new Scottish test route...

THE SCOTTISH Motor Show, due to be held at Kelvin 1 Glasgow, in November has been extended to include an flow show for...

iVEINMENT plans for exded car sharing amount to ying with fire and could ;troy Britain's stage bus work, says Confederation ;...

WHEN HE was Home Affairs Correspondent of The Times, Norman Fowler must have dreaded this time of year — the " Silly season "...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association is asking for an amendment to the Health and Safety Executive proposals on the notification...

ANSPORT and Road h Laboratory experts xamine the design of ston Bridge, Glasgow, g complaints from the Transport Association o...

T e Department of Transsays that the only need r perators is to note that 1 photographs of the h cles must fit in the box on Lg...

IF THE BOSS does not know an employee is mentally ill, he cannot be expected to take it into account. A Hull industrial...

NEW COMMERCIAL VEHICLE registrations hit a new peak of 19,422 for commercial vehicles in July — 11 per cent up on the same...

NORTH Yorkshire County Council is to meet environmental groups and amenity campaigners to discuss a prOposed heavy vehicles ban...

HOLYHEAD, North Wales, losing trade between helm and Europe because Brita does not conform with the 3 ton Continental weig...

CASUALTY figures for road accidents went up by about three per cent in 1978 said the Department of Transport. Serious...

HEAVY Vehicles enteri Southport from the Prest side are to be re-routed in 1 Churchtown area for temporary period of : months....

IN six de ing ERIM licence was granted to an international company v ehicles in the South Wales Traffic Area when they told uty...

STONEFIELD Vehicles is to supply 150 vehicles to Greece which, with parts, are worth Cm within the next two years. It is the...

Pandoro, the ferry and road haulage concern within P and 0 European Transport Services, has named John Ahern as senior...

JESPITE considerable publicity concerning EEC drivers hours Ind records requirements over a long period, "the gremlins of...

ANY LONDON tourist coach operators are reporting a serious . op in the number of incoming tourists this season. The strength...

ISLAY'S troubled schoolbased stage bus services were taken over this week by Scottish Bus Group's Western SMT. The services,...

SOUTH Yorkshire County Council was praised for its progressive policy on public transport at the Transport and General Workers...

SCOTTISH Bus Group fare: are to go up 7% per cent oi average later this month bu the Traffic Commissioners granting the group's...

LLANDOVERY'S rural transport experiments have turned out well, says a report from the Transport and Road Research Laboratory....

BRITISH Rail is to back a park-and-ride scheme to stem the flow of tourist coaches into Windsor. The town, with three million...

N ATIONAL Freight Cor)ora ion has launched an mer y-saving campaign :hroi4ghout the whole organsati n. The immediate objecive...

NEW from Electronic Brokers Ltd is a digital tachometer called the Tak-ette which although designed for use in a wide rang of...

VORTEX Powerclean Ltd of Grantham, Lincolnshire, manufal turer of hot and cold water pressure cleaners, has redesign( one of...

MAKING ITS debut at Garagequip '79 is the Kew B5 brake cleaner which is designed to wash hazardous asbestos dust from vehicle...

John Darker visits e top brass at SVIN/T and talks to them about eir improved plans for - ne combined Show is year anc e...

Graham N/ontgomerie takes ie panoramic view of e manufacturers who hail from the West Midlands and looks at how they're faring...

The Guernsey Railway Co hit on scheme 87 years ago that London Transport might hay welcomed in the past few years. Within three...

A century of public transport in Guernsey was celebrated by the issue of four colourful stamps on August 7. Their values are...

Maggots are valuable and delicate, and accordingly receive more consideration in transit than commuters to London, I discovered...

For completing 1921 years and more than 38m miles without accident, 153 Alder Valley crews have received Road Operators Safety...

August 12 marked not only the opening of the grouse-shooting season on the moors of Britain. It heralded the introduction of...

To find a suitable name for a new vehicle is becoming increasingly difficult as titles are appropriated and the names of...

What has happened in the West Midlands now? Alan Law may have stepped into the background but there is still trouble ahead,...

John Darker visits the West Midlands and reports on attitudes towards trade union membership and the RHA and FTA THE WEST...

Yo Ur Business Problems Sol ed, by Paul Jenner, is published at £5.95 by David and Charles, Brunel House, Ne on Abbot, Devon....

Freight Transport Association Yearbook 1979 is published by the FTA, Hermes House, St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4...

TYRE SUPPLIERS in the Manchester area are suggesting that one reason for nonavailability of Michelin XZA tyres in commercial...

1W ULD LIKE to comment on you passenger page news story (C , August 3) headed "Co muter express not viable"' on a Transport and...

More roads less fuel 'In the end the Government will have to pay more in putting the damage right than it has gained by...

)PEtATING subsidies to nem ers of the Dutch mssenger transport operators' Issociation — ESO — next year yin amount to Fl. 420...

KIRK, third-ranking French in terms of tonnage and in the early stages of a ar expansion programme vide new docks, roads and...

STUDIES are now in progress to establish whether a "free zone" transit corridor for commercial vehicles can be established on...

Brian Chalmers-Hunt describes a large national-owned operatior at knows where to look for its business THE ROAD TRANSPORT...