[NES totalling £1,100 were nposed on five Continental Try drivers in East Sussex st week, following a swoop v police and county...

MAJOR CHANGES to the draft regulations on admission to the occupation of road haulier have been warmly greeted by the industry...

GLOOM shrouded the road haulage business on Tuesday night after the details of the Budget were announced. Both the Freight...

committee to discuss the future of wages negotiations at top level have been firmly rejected by the transport workers' union....

line on rail NINETY per cent of all rail freight is consigned by Freight Transport Association members and there is on-going...

SWEDEN has issued new regulations for heavy vehicles in Sweden during the holiday period, including restrictions on the times...

consortium E"T get LT backing LONDON TRANSPORT vk be allowed to take a 20 p cent stake in the future pi duction of Leyland's...

M CUSTOMS and Excise are amping down heavily on 3erators who lose or destroy teir GV60 forms. The GV60 is issued under le...

A PL LA for greater help and protection to LK lorry drivers on long-distance trips to the Middle East has been made by the Road...

CIVILISED D . Et.. Apart from a discreet `D' on the rear nameplate, there's nothing to distinguish the Citroen CX 2200 Diesel...

IOW IS the time for own ccount operators to dispense 4th underworked fleets and ire vehicles as required from auliers who have...

GOVERNMENT figures show that there is now no case for any increase in the taxation levels for commercial vehicles, claimed...

HOW IS the economic value of a motorway worked out? That was what Frank Hooley (Labour, Sheffield, Heeley) wanted to know....

semi-trailers which will make their first appearance at the RHA Tipping Convention at Harrogate between April 28 and May 1....

Irish Dart DART Containerline is to open its new office in Dublin today (Friday) as part of the company's expansion plans in...

NORTH Western Licensing Authority R. D. Hutchings decided to be lenient with a Manchester haulier who lost interest in...

THE SETTING up of London's first freight complex moved a stage nearer this week. The GLC Transport Cpmmittee decided to proceed...

At a press conference held y the Food, Drink and Toicco Industry Training oard, the Board said it ,lieved around 35,000 heavy ■...

ENGINEERS can make a positive contribution to energy saving by their vehicle design and engine performance as well as by...

MOTORWAY drivers can expect longer waits for their sausages and chips at some of the older service areas. Parliamentary...

LTHOUGH C.A. Thurley . ading as Arrow Freight ternational) failed to appear the Metropolitan Traffic purt last week, the...

NEW director of general highways at the Department of Transport is T. P. Hughes who takes over from J. A. Jukes who is to...

FODENS have appointed new distributors in Greece, - Turk, Tunisia and Morocco following the company's appearance the Munich...

in transport laws A BILL to liberalise the laws governing the Irish road haulai industry is now in draft form. It proposes...

ICKFORD'S Heavy Hauge exhibition handling ivision is to move its office .om London to Birmingam to be on site for the ew...

THE next EEC Council of Transport Ministers is expected to discuss proposals by the German Transport Minister to transfer...

SUTTON International Freight Terminal has been approved as an official office of departure and destination for goods moving...

Ailsa access AILSA Bus is considering moving the turbocharger from the top of the engine in its vehicles, in order to lower...

A BUS control system that allows vehicles to pull up at stops only 3mm from the loading platform has been developed in Sweden...

Ia n REORGANISING bus servic to continue catering for 95 p cent of existing passenge could be done in some are with around 66...

E 1 /2m boost A PARTS and service centre costing Si million was opened last week by Kirkby Central Ltd at Anston near...

THE BRIGHTON Line Commuter's Association, under the guise of the Society for the Preservation of Old London Buildings, ran its...

GLOVER Webb and Liversidge, Ltd, municipal vehicle manufacturer of Hamble in Hampshire, has announced the introduction of the...

wind deflectors following a three-month trial with one vehicle which resulted in a four per cent fuel saving. It is estimated...

ei PAIR of custom-built light illoy semi-trailers offering a 10 per cent increase in payload ?.apacity have been built to meet...

to LeicesT Corporation, this Mk. 2 Lilly emptier is also the first to fitted with the 152mm (6in) Dom stretched to swing over...

TO EASE the problems of transporting loads which are bulky rather than heavy, Wisdom and Co Ltd of Dudley Road, Wolverhampton...

AN extra fuel tank designed for the ERF B Series tractive has been designed by Barwoods Ltd of Tottenham which is claimed to be...

Built to the full urn (36ft lin) maximum length allowed for a four-wheel rigid, the Mere can take four 2.08m • square pallet...

Test trials in safety THE AIM of Commercial Motor's Lorry Driver of the Year Competition is to get companies and their drivers...

or quite some time the rade unions have been aying that haulage ompanies who require rivers ought not to take nqualified...

iote from your publication ted March 4 comments on recent report of the lytechnic of Central London Fares Elasticities on...

kiwi Upo . . . I presume that your contributor, Ron Douglas (CM, March 4) is writing about the distant past when he recounts...

I was interested in the letter from Mr J. C. Cooper, who so greatly underestimates the possibilities that the conversion of...

Did you get the impression that the Bullock report was proving a wee bit embarrassing to the Government and it had been quietly...

Edward Booker of North London, who doesn't want his address released but supplies his telephone number of 01-223 7497, has won...

I wonder if I can claim just a little credit for these optical intrusions of the environment disappearing. You know what I...

Whatever happens or May at the GLC elections, Horace Cutler will not stop, even if he could, the special ticket which London...

NHILE CM assistant technical .ditor Stephen Gray was in the Jnited States ("Recovery: ' JSA Style", CM, March 25) le met...

THE APPROACH of an operational research (OR) man to the challenge of goods distribution in Europe differs vastly from that of...

NHEN YOU are forced by . ;ircumstance to call in the services of your repair agent, it s a 50/50 chance that when he job is...

A spark-assisted diesel would have a comparable fuel consumption but consume less energy in the refining process WAY BACK in...

THERE is no universal bromide for the problem of providing seats at all times for too few bottoms, said Mr Guy Neely, finance...

"NATURALLY," said Maggie's brother Cromwell, you will be subscribing towards my fund to save the Road Haulage Wages Council for...