THE LATEST publication from the Freight Transport Association highlighting the cumulative debts of Britain's toll bridges and...

ME FREIGHT Transport Association is urging the Government to abolish tolls on bridges and tunnels in the UK, DAVID WILCOX ,...

A FINAL DECISION has yet to be taken on whether 38-tonne lorries will be able to use the Severn Bridge, but Government...

THE HEAVY LORRY Regulations, detailing the Government's proposals for 38-tonners and sideguards, were published on Friday last...

INTERNATIONAL operators are being faced with another non-tariff barrier on traffic within the EEC, following the French...

TNT is operating two Mercedes-Benz 1625S sleeper cab tractive units as part of a strict vehicle evaluation exercise for its...

THE CASE against Suffol haulier Barry Norman and tw of his drivers involving mot than 50 allegations of driver hours and...

SEALINK is to operate all of it Boulogne crossings from Folke stone instead of Dover next yea' It is increasing the frequency o...

OVERDRIVE, the temporary driver ing up its recruitment practices in rush. employment agency, is tighten readiness for the...

THE CHANCES of any hire or rew being completed before the end of week, as negotiations limped into MILLAR. ard haulage wage...

THE ABS anti-lock braking system is now available as an option on all DAF chassis with the current exception of the FAD 2500...

THE SCOTTISH Traffic Area office in Aberdeen is to be closed by March 1984, when all of its work will be transferred to the...

THE 1982 edition of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders' statistical publication is now available for £15 to SMMT...

VEHICLE OPERATING COSTS are tending to stabilise on an annual rate of increase of around eight per cent according to Freight...

THE BRITISH ROAD FEDERATION has criticised the Government for not allocating sufficient resources to the road programme in its...

EUROPEAN FERRIES has established East Anglian Ship Stores, a subsidiary providing ship stores services at Felixstowe port. The...

■ COTTISH HIGHLAND operators have pulled off a coup by arrangig a face-to-face meeting with the EEC's chief transport civil...

DRIVERS travelling abroad with dangerous loads will have to have a certificate showing that they successfully took a training...

DAVID COE of BOC Transhield was named Transport Manager of the Year last week in a competition sponsored by Overdrive and Motor...

FEWER THAN four per cent of the 43,000 vehicles coming under the Irish Government's compulsory testing scheme had been tested...

A CHANNEL TUNNEL would be a great symbol of European unity and a precursor of similar major projects across the EEC, a European...

TWO-DAY transport law courses are currently being run by the Freight Transport Association at regional centres, and last week...

BRITISH INDUSTRY loses moil working days through sicknew and accidents than througl strikes. Trades Union Congres1 general...

TWO COURSES on the Certificate of Professional Competence are being held by the Freight Transport Association. Students will...

OAD SURFACES should be strong enough to survive the pounding f heavier lorries, the Automobile Association has told the House...

THE NATIONAL Freight Consortium's expansion into Australia is a permanent one, according to NFC chairman Peter Thompson....

GEORGE CARRUTHERS, deputy chief executive of the National Bus Company, will be retiring from full-time employment on December...

ROBERT ARMSTRONG (Transport), specialist transporter of bulk wines and spirits, has promoted Mike Rice to director and...

AART VAN DER PADT has been elected chairman of the board of management of DAF Trucks. He succeeds Piet Van Doorne who died last...

CUMMINS ENGINE has made David Armstrong automotive marketing director, based at the European headquarters in New Malden, near...

ABERDEEN HAULIER Jame Paterson Transport has appoir ted Sandy Walker to the ne) post of general manager. N Walker, a native of...

RENAULT has made three changes to its sales team. Mike Mead joins the company from Ford (UK) as national fleet sales manager,...

VOLKSWAGEN'S Golf-derived pick-up, the Caddy, launched in Germany last week and due to make its UK debut early in 1983, will...

VAG (UK) expects the latest water-cooled Transporter petrol engines to help boost the model's sales in the UK from an...

THE 38-TONNE Regulations were published last week and clarify in detail the Government's proposals. Most of the new information...

COLLINS-YOULDON of Harlow, Essex has designed a new type of manhole cover for petroleum and fuel oil road tankers to meet the...

MECHANICAL Engineering Pub lications of Bury St Edmund has published Diesel Engines ft Passenger Cars and Light Dut Vehicles....

IVECO has appointed Clark Truck Centre as its Exeter main dealer effectively from November 1,1982, with Philip Clark as its...

KEIGHLEY-based haulage company James Watkinson has twice transported what it believes is the longest shipment moved by road in...

THE BUS AND COACH Council's Future of the Bus campaign is under way, and has had a mixed response so far. It was presented to...

W. STONIER and Sons, the Berresford Motors subsidiary, has asked the Transport Secretary for its application to renew its psv...

LONDON TRANSPORT is losing about £1 million per year thanks to commuter coach services. It says that 20 daily coaches serving...

ROBERT WRIGHT and Sons of Ballymena last week launched its new Contour all-aluminium coach body. The body, which was styled by...

CHASSIS DEVELOPMENTS o Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire has introduced rear axle ai suspension conversions for bott Bedford and...

GREATER MANCHESTER Transport has replaced the standard 4.5 litre engine in one of its Seddon midibuses with diesel electric...

THE NEW LEYLAND Royal Tiger Doyen integral coach is, so far as I am aware, the only commercial vehicle to have had a musical...

THE FOUR-day presentation of the Royal Tiger Doyen to more than 250 operators and the Press at Brighton was highly imaginative...

CHARLES OLIVER, technical director of Beck and Pollitzer Crane and Transport, has taken me to task about the cliff railway...

DAVE WETZEL, the distinguished clown and chairman of the Greater London Council Transport Committee, displayed simian qualities...

THE PERPETUAL griping about bus-fare subsidies is becoming distinctly tedious. The White Paper setting out the Government's...

GABRIELLE GERRANS, a talented 16-year-old Bicester girl, has won a competition sponsored by Impulse for a Christmas card design...

The Hellenes have a vast and lucrative use( vehicle market: one that could before long, provide opportunities for UK sales. On...

The British firm is anxious to re-establish its position in the Greek market, and three years' study of the capital's...

In addition, the Greek Government is desperately keen to encourage industrial investment. This must mean more trade and...

AFTER AN EXHAUSTIVE market analysis and planning programme, a consortium of a West German inland waterways operator and the...

THE NETHERLANDS has for the first time produced an articulated bus of wholly Dutch construction. Although they have been...

IN 1975 THE GERMAN Public Transport Association and the Association of the Motor Industry persuaded the Ministry of Transport...

years the public perception of motorways has changed . . . The public has become disenchanted with the interminable roadworks....

A ROAD TRANSPORT dispute has blown up between Canada and the United States. The subject? Cross-border "permits" — one of a...

IN CANADA, as in the United States, the "heavy truck market is rotten and auto production is at rock bottom". This is the...

LAY-OFFS, the recession, strikes — these are all too reminiscent of home to a visitor from the United Kingdom to Canada....

GENERAL Motors, which sells more commercial vehicles in Canada than any competitor, is emphasising more engine options and fuel...

HIRE or reward hauliers in Canada can join the Canadian Trucking Association — a sort of equivalent to Britain's Road Haulage...

A CANAD1AN-designed tailgate loader is on sale in Britain and was featured at the Motor Show in Birmingham on the stand of...

low to make lecisions IANAGEMENT is, among other lings, about deciding what to D, when and how. Therefore, r hen you are...