CM's Lorry Driver of the Year competition must number amongst the most important single factors in the promotion of road...

:RET talks are going on between Colt and the Department of ustry aimed at setting up a South Wales plant to build anese...

IS now certain that there LL be a Road Haulago ociation stand at the Motor )w in Birmingham next nth following an internal v in...

PLANS by an Israeli company to buy 150 Leyland B21 buses are being held up by the country's transport ministry. The EGGED bus...

PROPOSALS for regulating the use of recovery vehicles have been submitted to the Secretary of State for Transport by the...

EMERGENCY arrangements to conserve stocks of Leyland Redline commercials are being made following the closure of the Bathgate...

THE SHORT wheelbase 16-ton Mercedes-Benz 1617 chassis has been modified to bring it more into line with the specific...

A ONE-DAY conference to educate fire service personnel in commercial vehicle technology is being held next week in Bradford....

STATE control would cre redundancies in road haula Opposition transport spok man Norman Fowler predici when he spoke to East Ab...

FORD led the field for commercial vehicle registrations in .1 with sales of 36 per cent of the 17,473 new vehicles. There was a...

NER drivers will be able to join the British Association of ter Drivers direct instead of having to belong to an area elation...

1DON ATKINSON is drop; two of its export bus ssi , but is not withvins entirely from the bus ket te Perkins-engined Pen, 4 and...

) sell ;A BUS is sending its prope double-decker to Far ern cities which are uniliar with double-deck S. lilt in 1973, it has...

ONLY a few places still remain for CM's 1978 Fleet Management Conference to be held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, on...

IE S by staff of companies vol ed in the transit of ad account for up to 80 per at if the losses of goods in Ins t, says...

FINANCING of a no-fault compensation scheme for those involved in road accidents has been criticised by the Freight Transport...

THE NATIONAL Enterprise Board and the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation have invested in BTB (Engineering), makers...

A LEEDS company appeared at disciplinary proceedings for the second time in just over 12 months following convictions for...

THE TRANSPORT Department is not prepared to recommend highway authorities to install "rumble areas" as a road safety measure....

MAJOR resurfacing work has dictated a one-way traffic flow for a section of the A453 outside Nottingham. Nottingham-bound...

Inflating GOVERNMENT income h soared by 7.25 times the ler of income in 1960 while nat.] nal income has risen by times. Aims,...

IN C trainee drivers and kg rmy drivers will be peting in the CM Lorry er Of the Year finals at kfie d on Sunday (Sep ). ree...

TS carried out by the Transport and Road Research • ratpry suggested that fuel savings of about five per cent be achieved by...

IGHTLINERS is to double its services to Ireland in October ve daily links to Dublin and Belfast via Holyhead. le new services...

Evans steps up Lothian Regional Council's new director of public transport is Charles Evans, its deputy director and general...

THE PRELIMINARY results of an energy conservation campaign in Sweden indicate that correct driving technique can cut fuel...

WADHAM Stringer Coachbuilders, the UK's largest ambulance builder and repairers, - has adopted the Dunlop Semtex "Easy Spray" ....

ANCHORPAC of Amersham, Bucks, has made a new version of its P-50 waste handling compaction system which will cost 25 per cent...

THE FUTURE of post bus services could lie in a decision of the Scottish Traffic Commissioners when they meet to hear a stage...

A NEW insurance service to cover operators on the Continent is being marketed with the approval of the Coach and Independent...

TWO-TIER fares are proposed for National Welsh's Bridgend town service for the last three months of this year. If the South...

BARR and Wallace Arnold Trust expects to return profits in excess of £2m this year. The coach tour, holiday, and motor group...

LONDON TRANSPORT I hit out at busmen who ; labelling its interim bus plar a series of "depressing serv cuts". Bus...

The Alexander Group, whi controls Walter Alexander a Co (Coachbuilders) Ltd, i creased its pre-tax profits 14 year to £2.36m....

NOBODY has been blamed for a five-week bus strike in Leeds this spring, but a committee of inquiry says it need not have...

A PARK-and-ride bus service is being provided for football fans in Southampton. Southampton Council has announced that cars...

APPROXIMATELY 500 tankers carrying liquified gas operate regularly on British roads and according to Martin Trowbridge of the...

E of the men I look ford t meeting at the Cornvia Motor Lorry Driver of Y r Competition silver le dinner at Cranfield orr w is...

PETER PRIVETT, who is now a company director in a substantial way of business, entered the first Portsmouth (now Hampshire)...

THOSE of us who were involved in the competition from its beginning in Coventry in 1953 made up with enthusiasm what we lacked...

ANOTHER MAN who recalls the first Portsmouth event and all those since is Basil Miller, who represents the Institute of Traffic...

JUST how far the competition has progressed in 25 years is made plain in the national stewards' reports on regional contests...

A BBC Mastermind television programme was produced last week at Cranfield, so competitors will be breathing rarified air (apart...

THE 1968 Transport Act and 1972 Road Traffic Act requires vehicle operators to • Have all goods vehicles (including buses and...

"Topic by Janus" (CM August 4) headlined "Rodgers must do better draws the comment "Yes, Rodgers must do better." If transport...

tti the Act I am amazed by Les Oldridge's dismissal of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 as dealing . . with a variety of...

4, private coach hire has never yet been authorised by road service licence. There have been occasions when Traffic...

We wish to convert a single. deck bus to a road-rail bus, anc would be pleased to know whether any of your readers could help...

BECAUSE electricity is a natural phenomenon and therefore has no national boundaries, commercial vehicle electrical circuits...

I.I. operators are looking at rays to cut costs and one ossible avenue is by inreasing the intervals betreen maintenance of the...

by James Boyd OACH HIRING is not the asiest of businesses to run; metimes you have more istomers than coaches and II too often...

ACCUSATIONS about cowboy coach operators and roadside pirates are only too common and summonses for operators to appear before...

Outlook for 1979 Worldwide Automotive Activity 1977 and Outlook . 1978/79, by Arthur Way and Richard Phillips, published by The...

need no checklists HE PAGES of CM carry all oo regular reports of operaors losing part or whole of heir operators' licences...

VEHICLE builders tend to resent the independent manufacturers and regard their competition as unfair. But today there are some...

ONE of Sir Dan Pettit's achievements has been to consolidate the relationship between his organisation and the rest of the road...