he biennial Scottish Motor Show is becoming more international and onsequently overcrowded. Despite the increasing interest of...

A Leyland-style appeal to members the Road Haulage ;soaation has asked haulage companies to explain to their ivers the possible...

LJMOURS at the Scottish Motor Show that Iveco GB had been rmJ were denied by the man whom speculators had named as e anaging...

ALL THE FREIGHT Transport Association's vehicle inspectors have been given special instructions to report, particularly on fuel...

HEAVY investment to improve international transport links in Europe is recommended in a paper published by the Brussels EEC...

NBC CHIEF Executive Robert Brook claimed, whilst presenting the Henry Spurrier Memorial Lecture at the Chartered Institute of...

THE HOME Office has admitted that it is becoming 'increasingly concerned' over the health and safety of Hestair Dennis managing...

MR G. D. CAMPBELL, Pr , sident of the Scottish Moti Trade Association, told tf members on Monday evenin that the Scottish Motor...

NIKER drivers working for Shell and o iave turned down a pay offer - tl around 20 per cent in total. Intri 1 action has not yet...

E LAW as it affects lorry vers will not be considered ring the Government iew of motoring offences. [le case of these drivers I...

THE ARMITAGE inquiry will consider any evidence received by the end of the year. This extension — Sir Arthur had originally...

MUCH more of this and MPs will be expecting danger money. As if it wasn't enough to have metal badges showered on them by an...

THE RETREAD Manufacturers' Association has launched a campaign to improve the industry's poor image with haulage fleet...

ECEiNISING AUTHORITIES were required to pay particular ten t rn to drivers of heavy goods vehicles who were likely to !co e a...

NOTHING is being considered in the Transport Department that will reduce the safety requirements imposed on vehicles, assured...

DESPITE RAMPANT infl tion the fee to enter ne: year's Commercial Mot' Lorry Driver of the Year cor petition is not to be...

CHESTER Industrial Tribunal has ordered the reinstE nt of a lorry driver they adjudged to have been unfairly They also ordered...

THE GOVERNMENT is going ahetjd with plans to reduce the amo nt of lead in petrol. T e Transport Minister No an Fowler told MPs...

THE Government will want to make shares in the National Freight Corporation available to its staff, said Mr Norman Fowler,...

GLC to help hgv THE Greater London Council plans to spend £57m on roads and public transport during the coming year, about...

Relaxation does not mean weakness-DT THE PROPOSED relaxations in bus licensing laws will not weaken the quality control...

FULL DETAILS of route setting-down and picking-u points, and parking place around Twickenham Rugb Union football ground hay...

IT HAS been proposed tha bus fares should be increas in , Dundee. A special meetin of Tayside Region Transpor Committee decided...

VVENE FOUND no magic universal solution to the rural -anSport problem," said Richard Balcombe, a leading member f the rural...

ENORMOUS reductions will not be made in school transport costs, but giving local authorities the freedom to choose their own...

TECHNICAL America's VW pickup AN IMPORTANT milestone was reached at Volkswagen's North American factory last week with the...

A DEVICE which ca automatically detect the pr( sence of water in dery an lubricating oil has been dew loped by Aceyork Ltd,...

DUBLIN-BASED lorry manufacturers, Dennison. have reached an agreement with R. Cripps and Co Ltd of Nottingham to provide...

SHELL Oil, the Severn Trent Water Authority and Vaux Breweries are three companies which have first-hand knowledge of a "system...

SEDDON ATKINSON is t spend £1.5m on new produci next year, managing direct( Barney White announced Kelvin Hall last week. With...

YORK TRUCK EQUIPMENT has introduced an adaptor for ISO wired tractors coupling to SMMT wired semitrailers or vice versa. An...

HE ROAD HAULAGE ASSOCIATION supports the European :onornic Commission's latest proposals on weights, it has told ie Armitage...

OUR technical editor says that because of lack of manoeuvrability, it is highly unlikely that any operator would want a...

Steve Gray and Tim Blakemore report that foreign connoetitors are building vehicles aimed specifically at the UK market....

Noe Millier samples the coaches, including two making their British debut No Leyland double-decker bus is exhibited at Kelvin...

ntinued W S pleased to read John T. lai es' letter about Leyland ehi les, October 26, 1979. ! it is nice to see that some eo...

THANKS for your thoughtful and informative comments and news on wage negotiations for 1980. May I mention your report of last...

I MUST take my hat off to John Silberrnann, the national. chairman of the Road Haulage Association, for doing a good selling...

I DISCLAIM responsibility fo two misleading statementl attributed to me in the article or the RHA head office staff (CM....

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Armitage Committee may be symptomatic of the state of mind of whoever drew up the instructions.' IUSSOLINI'S infamous...

st year it was the turn of the the first vehicle to use the dified version of the Club of r cab. We have already ed two...

If John Silbermann succeeds in streamlining the Road Haulage Association area organisation, he will deserve to have his name In...

bound British operators will have a chance to find out just how farfetched these American films are, for MAN-VW Truck and Bus...

- If truckers didn't have bad luck, they'd have no luck at all," says a character in Steel Cowboy. The epigram comes from...

Ro-ro ho-h "Despite the fact that Br Seaway is opening a lift-on off service from Cork to Flusl in Holland, Donal Hor chairman...

All roads and loads lead Dagenham, or so it seems ft the fact that more than 4 commercial vehicles an hour driven through about...

The Associations face special problems in Scotland. particulatly win regard to pay claims. John Darker goes non of ne borcer to...

ACHOGRAPH installation and alibration will inevitably mean )ng runs for some Scottish perators in outlying areas. Our list of...

IESEARCH AND DEVELOPIENT in the commercialehicle field is very heavily deendent on testing, be it of Dmponents or complete...

First Scottish IoTA chairman for 30 years FROM HIS BOYHOOD days when he bounced and bruised his way to school on the back of a...

Tayside Regional Transporf is comprehensively monitoring the performances of four additions to its bus fleet, Noel Millier...

PINIONS might differ on the urden — or stimulus — of ?ing an employers spokesman ! the current round of pay agotiations between...

THE GERMAN associate of Alusuisse has developed a novel process which, when applied to the floor and sides of aluminium tipping...

DEVELOPED by the Austrian subsidiary of MAN for the Post Office, prototypes of battery electric two-tonners are now being...

piggies SEEN as a significant c cession to the call for hig gross vehicle weights in many, drawbar trailer c binations and...

CLAIMED to show substz fuel savings when usei semi-trailers and tip employed on site work, hy , lic motors fitted to trailer...

PROPOSED motorway tolls in Belgium are strongly opposed by the country's trade organisations as well as by Dutch hauliers.'...

The loTA is more than a mutual admiration society. it exists to educate and to broaden horizons as John Darker report H SO...

1Iexander Trotman has taken iver as vice-president, truck iperations, Ford of Europe. He ucceeds Philip Benton who is o return...