By any standards the Government's discussion document on trades union reform must be regarded as mild. It amounts to giving...

WEEK that the Greater London Council started to talk Us on motorcars in Central London, the London Transssengers Committee has...

A 20 PER CENT increase in permit quotas for international road transport in 1980 has been proposed by the EEC Commission and...

THE BRITISH road haulage industry has hit back strongly at the Swiss report which said, amongst other things, that commercial...

THIS LATEST D-Series Ford to enter service with W. T. Aldridge and Son Ltd is a 5.7m (226in) wheelbase D2818 with a drawbar...

A NEW WEIGHBRIDGE opened to the public yesterday. It is in South-east London near the Blackwall Tunnel. The new weighbridge is...

AT THIS YEAR'S Comm( Motor Lorry Driver oi Year National Finals at field on September 16 I will be a variety of static plays...

SUPERMARKET chain To is contributing towards fuel-saving effort by fit over-cab mounted aerofoil The company experimei with...

• ESPONSIBILITY for sal by auction of a vehicle so the vendor and not the tio eer, according to a Ise if Lords judgement this...

THE PUBLIC'S views on the alternative routes for a by-pass on the A55 Bangor-Chester trunk road are to be invited by the Welsh...

still under , wraps FIAT IS to enter a joint venture with the American Rockwell Corporation to produce commercial vehicle...

EVERYONE has met the frustration — you buy something new, it goes wrong and then you find it is cheaper to buy a new...

THE ROAD Haulage Association has paid tribute to E. B. R. Smith when he stepped down after five years' service as chairman of...

NATIONAL BUS Company subsidiary Northern General is to get a new chief engineer. He is Frank Carter, currently chief engineer...

COMMERCIAL vehicle registrations in Great Britain during the first half of this year were well up on those for the...

AN Elm-PLUS ORDER has been won by dump truck manufacturer Haulamatic of Heanor, Derbyshire. It comes from the Ministry of...

iVERS working within n 431 miles) of their base (riving for less than four rs a day, such as local dery drivers, need not come...

THE FUTURE of Scotland's busiest non-motorway trunk road hangs in the balance. A feasibility report on the replacement for the...

"SLEEPING POLICEMEN" may soon be permitted on the public highway at the discretion of local authorities. The so-called...

DAIMLER-BENZ's commercial vehicle exports were down by 16.6 per cent last year compared with 1977, according to an Economist...

BRITISH and other European hauliers operating into Greece are paying the price for Greece's campaign to preserve its diesel...

ROAD maintenance which sure to bring delays stai today on a busy stretch of 1 M6. The section affected is b ween junctions 8...

DATES for the 50th Geneva International Motor Show next year have been announced. As usual, the commercial vehicle part of the...

ST WEEK'S 50th annivery Kent County Show, 'ays more than an agriculal show, previewed some of first V-plated vehicles. The le...

DUBLIN'S DENNISON Truck Manufacturing has sold its first tractive unit for operation in Britain after two years of production....

A POWERFUL new highpressure cleaner comes from Psirnat Ltd of Newtown Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon. The C6-130 cleaner is said...

CRANE FRUEHAUF has traduced a range hydraulically-coupled,deta able front-end, low-loadi semi-trailers. Four basic models, co...

IONAL BUS Company's I'; I new vehicle programme s a virtual thumbs-down for le -generation doublelee ers, but Leyland's...

TRANSPORT MINISTER Norman Fowler is looking for a best way to relax the licensing system to encourage the development of less...

THE BUXTON DEATH crash coach operator had been "wickedly negligent", it was alleged last week. He had allowed his coach, which...

SEAT BELTS in coaches are unlikely to save lives. Transport Minister Norman Fowler squelched any suggestion that they might in...

LONDON TRANSPORT is being hindered from providing the best possible service by the Greater London Council, a union official has...

HIGHER FARES on the Scottish Bus Group are driving passengers away. And if SBG continues to force them up, the service will run...

ONE OR MORE new bus garages will be built in Glasgow by 1984. Greater Glasgow PTE is negotiating for three possible sites in...

SOUTH YORKSHIRE PTE is to sell all its Scania Metropolitan double-deckers next year, and other modern buses will follow. The...

NO PLANS exist for more people to get cheaper fares. This firm reply was given last week by Kenneth Clarke, Parliamentary...

SHROPSHIRE independeni coach group Whittle Coaches have now taken over th( Bridgenorth Shropshir( operation of Morris Coaches....

S ME POLITICIANS, and ev n some busmen, are talking no about the "Republic" of So th Yorkshire. Bus fares in th county have not...

Great Yarmouth is back on the map again after slumbering in decline since the Middle Ages. Once again its trade with the...

A family firrn which took off again when a new generation of managers took over-thcr "s ipswich 's W. Carter (Haulage)....

by Graham Montgomer E IN THE LAST feature in this series I described some of the research work being done on noise. This time...

The only answer is to own your fleet, says Graham Allsebrook. Steve Geary reports on another successful Norfolk man WHEN...

I READ with very special interest John Durant's article, ''GLC says: We'll help the hauliers," (CM, June 8), but despite all...

WITH REFERENCE to Stephen Geary's article on mobile libraries (CM, June 29) we should like to correct two points regarding the...

WE ARE HOPING that some large Bedford fleet owners in the London area have come up with a modification to the following problem...

I HAVE been taking CM for the past 12 months and know that it is Britain's number one transport publication. I found it a great...

HAVING just read the Hawk's comment on "Price of progress", (CMJune 29) I would just like to add a further comment. 20-odd...

John Darker, brought up under the keen influences of the East wind, tests his wits with the smart hauliers of Anglia AT MOST...

D UBLE-DECK bus built at he rototype shop of the Hamur. City Transport-associated :FG organisation was handed )ver on Monday to...

ENGINES must work harder in Finland than in most other European countries. This does not normally reflect more arduous...

One-sided debate on rates If even one buyer of transport spreads the word that National Carriers have a bargain basement,...

As people live longer, the suitability of public transport for the elderly and disabled will become increasingly important. A...

Greater Manchester seu of Transport in Boyle aet Cheetham Hill, which be open every Sunday until >te ber 2. It appears igs de...

The problems of catering for old or infirm passengers on buses are of course, alleviated by the provision of transport by...

It is an appalling commentary on the future of so-called civilisation in this country that London busmen run greater risk of...