A CLOAK OF secrecy surrounded the Government's sanction placed on West Midlands haulier T. Baker & Sons Ltd this week after a...

negotiations affecting ween 1,600 and 1,700 ihers in the North West . e expected to have been npleted as CM went to ss. oad...

NIOR shop stewards, representing 2,200 Shell tanker drivers, have agreed to accept a new pay Inula put forward by the company...

NEW PRODUCTS, a close look at manning levels and more new investment — that is what the future holds for Leyland Vehicles under...

PROPOSALS currently being prepared by the Health and Safety Commission for new general regulations controlling the conveyance...

THE FREIGHT Transp , Association has sever , criticised the Road Haulz Association's Conditions Carriage, saying there sho be...

Soviet depot • A new 10,500 sqm depot and service workshop has been opened at Carmyle Avenue, Glasgow by UMO Plant Ltd,...

At least not if you are hoping, as a result, to learn all about the Government's pay code blacklist, how and when a firm gets...

■ I INTERNATIONAL joury is not necessarily one in Inch either the vehicle or the iver is bound for another luntry — but an...

CHRISTIAN Salvesen (Transport) Ltd, which announced the closure of its Aberdeen depot last week, said it would do all it could...

DESIGN standards for the MI-Al link road are still being considered, but it is expected to be largely single carriageway, said...

MORE than 100 jobs in the parcels delivery sector have been saved this week with the announcement that the Liverpool-based...

)r idles COMMERCIAL vehicle sales soared by over 30 per cent in January compared to the previous January — and it was the...

vehicles have been prepared by the Department of Transport and the DTp is to invite applications for designation as testing...

NATIONAL Freight Corporation (International) has won a contract for consultancy work on the building of another new cold store...

A SCATHING attack on the EEC drivers' hours regulations has come from Freight Transport Association south eastern controller...

Harold Musgrove, general manager of Leyland Vehicles (formerly Leyland Truck and Bus) was appointed manufacturing director of...

OBJECTIONS to an application for an increase in fares charged by an Invergowrie coach firm, were heard at a sitting of the...

; at ms Transport Minister William Rodgers is carefully monitoring the bus situation in London and its surrounding areas,...

THE LOW PROFIT margin of coach operators has recently been pointed out in a survey published by Jordan Dataquest. Of 141...

LEYLAND'S passenger vehicle division has appealed to its workforce to face the increased challenges from new and active...

In a report of proceedings involving Bee-Line Roadways International of London, heard by the Metropolitan Traffic...

Transport lecture TRANSPORT in Cities — The Problems and Prospects is the subject of a lecture to be held at the Royal Society...

A STANDARD specification for vehicles sold in Europe — code-named Eurospec — was launched by British Leyland at the opening of...

TWELVE independent rebuilders of automatic transmission have formed a trade association, the Federation of Automatic...

uts automatic costs ICI is to buy 16 Seddon Atkit son 400s powered by the Rol Royce 265 L engine and equij ped with ZF...

MOTORWAY-type crash bai riers have been fitted as extr body protection in the event c accidents to three Cran Fruehauf chemical...

VOLVO has announced a nc diesel engine — the TD40 for short haul delivery vehicl ranging between 6 and tonnes gross. Because...

Where the driver would normally be forced to change down on a hill, a kick down . device operates to bring in the torque...

Winch option LYKA CRANES LTD of Blackpool Road, Preston, Lancs, has made its hydraulic lorry-loading cranes more versatile by...

ALL LEYLAND vehicles marketed in Europe from now are to be fitted with a Kysor automatic radiator shutter as standard. The...

RHA 'S Bob Ward defends that 15pc West Mids deal ROAD HAULAGE Association members have prayed for many years for the intensity...

Tian Hale is completely baffled y the new 450km (281.2 rides) regulations. His problem ; safety. How, he asks, does a achograph...

One day last week The Guardian's letters column carried a letter from Ron Douglas, of Chariton Bishop, Devon. It was not our...

Another letter that caught my eye last week (apart from all those in CM) was the one from Jackson Moore, of URTU. JM's...

...And the order Dks are full BRITISH coach bodybuilders now are all reporting full order books for the coming season. I...

...One brand to push European sales, all the way East lN February 3 the Dodge 300;eries was launched in Holland. This will be...

EXTENSIONS to the Club of Four ranges from DAF and Volvo and news of a "Leyland for Europe" campaign are the main items of...

.EYLAND announced nproved cab interiors for the - errier, Boxer, Mastiff and iuper Mastiff models at the tAI Show. The UK...

5eme have noted the comments nade about Mr Russell and the 1HA and we endorse these :omments, especially as the ates...

The caption to a photograph of a Unit Continental trailer in an article "Minimum insurance is not enough," by John Darker (CM,...

I have sent the following letter to the Secretary of State for Transport: Dear Sir, Re: The Heavy Goods Vehicle (Driver...

; 3 drivers... THE 01614 supplied by Ford for us to test was fitted with a 6.98m (9cuyd) Teiehoist body and front-end ram....

VEHICLE DESIGN and suitability, those evergreen subjects among transport men, reigned supreme as a topic of discussion between...

EFORM of Parliamentary procedure could bring advantages the road transport industry. Operators should, therefore, ke an...

Twenty years ago the municipal transport undertaking at Wolfsburg, the home of the Volkswagen and 1 even now continuing to grow...

EVEN Switzerland was caught out at the end of January by extreme weather. Severe disruption occurred to services and road...