HERE'S TO THE year that is gone. ad as 1982 might have been, it was in many sectors better than 1981, and 1983 looks like being...

F has started on its road to ovary, and made a £60,000 ding profit in the 28 weeks to tober 16. The comparable ure for 1981 was...

)NY GILROY, Freight Rover's lanaging director for the last vo years, moves today to beme managing director of Land Dyer. Mr...

TO ENABLE companies to conform with the Dangerous Substance Regulations 1981, E. P. Training Services of 6a High Street, Esher,...

1THE ROAD Haulage Association has beaten the Freight Transport Association this year in the race to submit its Budget request...

A RESEARCH programme into heavy vehicle weights and dimensions is to be undertaken in Canada at a cost of £1.2 million....

SCAMMELL, the specialist and military vehicle-building division of Leyland Vehicles, has won a £25m contract for tank...

TASS, the Soviet news agency, has sent us this view of a (AZ 45408335 lorry, a new Georgia-built design for use on agricultural...

A SURVEY of 400 carriers in United States reveals that t number one problem is "s licensing, taxation and• paperwork burden"....

VERNMENT proposals to drop the statutory requirement for fic orders to be published in the London Gazette should be indoned...

DOUG TAYLOR, the Road Haulage Association's industrial relations officer, is leaving his post this month to work for a...

BRIGHTON-based car delivery specialist Carlink is opening a new storage and distribution centre at Hither Green, South East...

THE SCOTTISH Freight Company and its two operating companies are moving this week to new offices in Falkirk. SEC bought the...

CM's new light vehicle test route over which the Talbot Express van (page 27 this week) was tested is just one of a number of...

GOODYEAR Tyre and Rubb enjoyed the leading share of t world tyre sales in 1981 accor ing to US industry leading an lysts,...

THE Automobile Association has expanded its training courses fo patrolmen in support of the joint AA/British Road Services...

LEYLAND and Plaxton have shared orders for 29 Tiger coaches for two independents, but another Leyland customer has placed its...

Cowan Recovery flourishes where some other firms have crashed. Keystone of its expansion? The accounts department TWELVE YEARS...

ONLY A GLANCE in your local newspaper or Yellow Pages is needed to discover the overwhelming abundance of competing vehicle...

The ins and outs of these methods of vehicle acquisition are explained by George Malcolm ORE THAN a third of the 1,782...

ERIC RUSSELL, who on Christmas Eve retired as secretary of the Road Haulage Association (page 32), knew better than to...

IF HE HAD not been a chartered secretary, Eric Russell would have liked to have been either a journalist or a lawyer, although...

WHAT HAS Enfield Town railway station to do with cricket? The answer is that the meeting at which Enfield Cricket Club was...

AN INTEGRATED transport policy, as seen by the writers of that inspired television series, Yes Minister, is political suicide...

BURLY, BEARDED Brian Hayward, 45-year-old member of the main board of the National Freight Consortium an' group managing...

WHATEVER ELSE the outcome of the Armitage Report and the subsequent debates in Parliament and country may have done, it made it...

Talbot's new van is no sloth, but Tim Blakemore also discovered that its parts supply was half a step behind when he made some...

The retiring secretary and the incoming secretary of the Road Haulage Association talk to Arthur Sherlock-Mesher of their...

From today, tanker drivers must comply with new regulations for dangerous substances. David Wilcox has been attending a...

Legislation introduced by Norman Tebbi . means that workers can no longer be dismissed for not belonging to a trade union....

A DAY OUT of the office. What a desk-shackled sub-editor dreams of. Released to sample the sightseeing tours of London. Two...

Here's a demountable solution to overnight stops. The aerodynamics ensure that fuel consumption does not suffer unduly A TOTAL...

THE BUS industry probably shook off its cowboy image around 1930, when the Road Traffic Act entered the statute book, and much...

AGE of the train? Even in 1912 the railways were losing out to the crudest, most legislated against road vehicle of all — the...

FIE 1980 EDITION of Statistics f Trade Through United ingdom Ports is now available, rice £15, from the Bill of Entry nit, HM...

HE Ordnance Survey has just ublished the 1983 Edition of its °pular route planning map at :625 000 scale (6.25 kilometres D l...

THE FIRST MOTORWAY in Britain was opened in 1958 by Premier Harold Macmillan; The Times reported that a new era in road travel...

THE 1983 Port of London Handbook lists the wide range of services and facilities available throughout the port, operated both...

IN 1926, AEC — "the builder of London's buses" — produced an experimental Tri Tractor. If you are a tractor buff, you will like...

Cave Wood is still recruiting despite the recession THE CAVE WOOD Group, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, has ordered new...