Throughout the road haulage strike negotiations, one important Government minister was silent. There was not one word of...

IMS that member companies of the Road Haulage ciation had broken the two-week-old drivers' strike by ng outside the national...

THE UNITED Biscuits Group has formed its distribution operations into a separate company, UB Distribution Services Ltd, as an...

YORK Trailer Holdings Ltd has formed the Anthony York Company by acquiring the assets of Chicago-based vehicle equipment maker,...

A meeting of managers of freight offices run by the member organisations of the BAOD is to be held in Coventry on January 28 by...

PERMITS for vehicles going to Portugal will have to stay at the same level as for 1978, according to a Department of Transport...

A NEW FLEET of 20 buses has been bought by Central SMT at a cost of £600,000. The new Leyland Nationals, each with a seating...

BRITISH manufactur exhibiting at the Brussels] tor Show which opened week had the chance to sl their products in the "neut...

InEMORE bus operator has claimed that pressure from nds Omnibuses has led to the Aviemore Centre refusing rmission to run a...

of new commercial vehicles in 1978, at 256,285, were 13.8 t higher than in 1977 in the UK. igures issued by the Society of...

JOHN GRANT, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment, has called for industry and magistrates to "wake up and...

;DODS vehicles are carrying a gradually decreasing amount of 3nnage, but carrying it a longer distance, say new figures from le...

FTER an 80-year wait, a road bridge to replace a level-crossing ?.ar Nantwich railway station is to be included in Cheshire...

HAULIER P. Priestner, of Moore, has been refused permission from Warrington plans sub-committee to use land in the town for...

A RECENTLY-formed Cardiff company operating on an interim licence had its application for a substantive licence reserved by the...

THE SURFACE Transport Committee of the Merseyside Chamber of Commerce and Industry will be represented at a public inquiry into...

:eschi axle was port of distribution !legal, says judge "A GALAXY of systems ranged around strategy as its central sun", is...

DCD (UK) Container Servi+ has opened a new contait depot at Felixstowe. It is adjacent to dock g. No 2, and replaces the old...

EEC update EEC TRANSPORT commissioner in Brussels, Richard Burke, will open an Intern-. ational Cargo Handling Co ordination...

A low-profile weighbridge, first supplied to the Amey Roadstone Corporation, has met with approval. Orders totalling £125,000...

William Rodgers, Secretary of State for Transport, appealed for the motoring public not to makeunecessary journeys into London...

THE road transport section of the Dutch Department of Traffic is now constructing a new test facility for motor vehicles on...

BESIDES running the fam Relais Routiers stop-ox• for lorry drivers in France, Les Routiers organisatioi now adding a chain...

A FORTNIGHTLY rollroll-off service from Till Docks to the Mediterrane; being started on March ; the Swedish Orient Line (E part...

VIN-STEER conversions for Seddon Atkinson 200 -ies chassis are now being ered by the Primrose Third le Co Ltd of Blackburn, rhe...

,.,OR1DE Automotive Batteries have just announced their ) range of Chloride, Exide and Dagenite range for cars and imercial...

A FIERCE row is in the offing between the Department of Transport and the SMMT, backed by some British and Continental vehicle...

A PORTABLE battery-powered leak detector for refrigerants and other halogenated gases has been introduced by the Robinair...

DAF is to make its own single-spine version of the 2100 series available in Britain. First announced at the 1978 Amsterdam...

ARMSTRONG Patents have introduced a new heavy-d shock absorber for transcontinental heavy lorries. Designa the N68, the new...

SHELL has just taken delivery of the first of 40 ERF B-Series tractive units fitted with what is described as an economy...

CHILDREN at the Turvers Junior School in the West Midlands were the first to have lessons about the local bus services from the...

WITH British Rail drivers taking action for higher wages CM's feature writer, Brian Chalmers-Hunt, a regular rail commuter from...

THE environment magazine Vole this month has published an extraordinarily biased attack on the standards of the British coach...

"PUBLIC Transport — 1 eighties and beyond" is I theme of the next Associat of District Councils anni passenger transport m....

GERMAN coach manuf turing is to form part of subject of a seven-i educational and study toui Germany. The tour is being run by...

by Graham Montgomerie THE Frankfurt Show in September, Man and Volkswagen launch their joint new vehicle range. In the UK the...

WHEN selecting hand tools for the workshop, it is essential to choose those which will be capable of dealing with all the...

IT IS more essential than ever to get the best possible productivity now that drivers hours have been reduced to nine and a...

protective elothhig NEVER BEFORE have safety and worker protection been so much in the public eye as they are today_ The...

EVERYONE in haulage needs a basic first aid knowledge so . that they are to some extent prepared should an accident occur in...

HE TWO FIRMS that we look : this week are based in rural ssex. One, • G. B. Beeston & on, was established in the 9th Century...

..E. Jones, chairman of S. ones Industrial Holdings td, is not just concerned bout the plight of school?avers without jobs in...

'ou might think that Ford Anaysis of Car Transport Statistics, he progeny of Ford and Hos:yns Systems Ltd, would tell rou how...

At least two MPs will now be able to take an informed part in debates on transport. They are Stephen Ross (Isle of Wight) and...

Australian long-distance lorry drivers. I read, tend to be a neurotic bunch and their Canadian buddies are liable to be bloated...

The fruits of a discussion between Dick Farmer, chairman of the Atlas Express Group, Jack Brown, chairman of Atlas Express Ltd,...

A new $2,000 million transport plan for Melbourne, Australia, includes the purchase of trams to replace 340 that are more than...

Jack Maddock, the dynamic editor-in-chief of Truck and Sus Transportation, Australia's thriving 180-page monthly, has abandoned...

OAF Trucks are changing from contractors' to ownaccount transport to improve their spares service still further. Regular...

AT THE START of his career a motor vehicle apprentice is likely to have no tools of his own but to use those belonging to the...

Europe there is nearly always a - showtime special" — a model designed to attract attention to the stand without necessarily...

It is said that every cloud has a silver lining and the lorry drivers strike is no exception. What an amazing change of tune...

A friend showed me a copy of the Foster Report on Operators' Licensing, but I suggest that all transport offices should find it...

I am sure you will have noticed, as I have, the almost total lack of the use of the word "juggernaut" prior to and during the...

With reference to your annual historic vehicle road test in your Christmas issue, it might be of interest to other historic...

Why is it that Britain, which has the most road-oriented transport system in Europe fails in the provision of good cafés and...

I collect materials published vehicle manufacturers an would like to obtain brochu on the following vehicles: G AEC, Albion,...

I would like to reply to Mr Syk letter - Tough talk on tende (CM, December 29). He does not seem to unc stand how frustrating...

April 6 is the big day PPER men from all over the K will be gathering at Harroite on April 6. That is the inue for this year's...

A Study Manual of Professional Competence in Road Transport Management by David Lowe (Kogan Page, E8). WITH the many...

'HE DAIMLER-BENZ /305G pusher artic bus has ad an outstandingly good aception and is already in ervice with many German nd...

ONE might have expected the lorry drivers, in their latest round of negotiations, to have followed the example of the Atomic...

.ased at Fleetwood, Mr igh has day to day responlity for the overall operaof Pandoro's fleet of 2,000 lers and 250 tractive...

while the new sales executive in the Bristol area is Alberto La Barbera. William Rodgers has announced the appointment of...