SIR Terence Beckett's meeting with Mr Peter Shore last week should not give the Government's economic advisers cause for...

long-awaited report from Wood Inquiry into the is of heavy lorry bans in London has now been tponed until early 1983, rs TIM...

Transport Development ip has announced pre-tax ts of E8m for the half-year me 30, 1982. This compares nattily with the first...

THE Road Haulage Association's annual conference takes place at ,Torquay from October 9-11. The business sessions will be held...

SIR Terence Beckett, director of the CBI, has written to chief executives of the CBI this week, stating why he met the Shadow...

TOR LINE is increasing the capacity of two ferries on its Immingham/Rotterdam service by the equivalent of 200 trailer spaces...

JUNIOR Transport Secretar ginald Eyre explained to ployees at Mitchell and Bu Birmingham brewer the 1 fits of introducing a...

EMPLOYMENT SECRETARY Norman Tebbit has warned pay nl tiators not to forget the link between pay and jobs in the new round....

AFTER many years of endea-' vouring to establish itself as a British company, Volvo (Truck and Bus) Great Britain, the...

has reported a small profit for the three months ended June 3ut says that Government delay in sanctioning heavier lorries is...

4-YEAR-OLD lorry driver made redundant by National Carriers, I who used his redundancy money to purchase a vehicle from the...

E Association of County uncils is organising a seminar the overloading of goods fides. The main speaker will be nior Transport...

CENTRAL Motor Auctions has just published a revised edition of its Plain Man's Guide To Motor Auctions booklet. The new...

PROSECUTIONS involving allegations against Arthur Oakley Transport Ltd of false records had driven the company to the edge of...

THE failures of lorry wheel studs are being examined by the Department of Transport in a comprehensive six-month study aimed at...

THE ASSOCIATION of M politan Authorities' Plan and Transportation Comm wants new legislation to b traduced to accelerate...

THE Confederation of Irish dustry is worried that a re( price increase in diesel coupled with the sharp risl taxes imposed by...

(AN JARVIS joins CommerMotor as technical writer. He spent the past two and a half rs in charge of servicing and airing...

LAND-ROVER has introduced an automatic gearbox option on its Range Rover models. It is claimed to provide easier control and...

STANDMILL, a general nearing company base Whitchurch, Hampshire, ha come involved in the man ture of trailers for operatio to...

SKIDCHEK GB anti-lock braking systems made by Lucas Gir Ltd were fitted to Hestlr Dennis fire appliances recently delivere the...

USING two purpose-designed pedestrian-controlled Airfloat transporters, specialist vehicle body builder Wilsdon has solved an...

GEOFFREY HEY has been appointed director and general manager of a new company, a subsidiary of Boalloy Engineering Ltd,...

THE LATEST development in the Package Control range is the new Rolamat Rolaload, which is claimed to offer dramatic reductions...

MODUS Accommodation Warrington has worked hard five weeks to provide 40 in i lated accommodation cl tainers for the troops...

A RECENT report, Rubber Manufacturers and Processors, published by Business Ratios of London, states that the recession in tyre...

POWELL Duffryn's two waste disposal equipment companies, Powell Duffryn Engineering of Llantrisant, South Wales and Geesink BV...

WHALE TANKERS of Solihull has introduced spokeless, hand-wh type, rear-door clamps as one of several safety features on a n...

TELMA RETARDERS of Windsor has introduced a newly develop electromagnetic brake retarder to improve braking balance, parti lady...

iP1TE not having kept satisfactory vehicle maintenance records :e 1974, East Midlands operator J. J. Cowlishaw successfully...

NATIONAL EXPRESS has set up a new London-based information service to help the public obtain details of its "first-class"...

NATIONAL Bus Company subsidiary United Automobile's electronic engineer, Robin Plummer, has won a special commendation in the...

VOLVO will be showing a prototype 6x2 F12 chassis with a selfsteer second axle at the NEC Motor Show in October. It was...

DETROIT Diesel Allison UK proposes to phase out production at Peterhead by November 1982 and at Wellingborough by March 1983...

A NEW 4x4 vehicle is be launched by UMM Auto mob of Portugal, with five differ body options — one pick up four enclosed,...

A NEW light and sound warning system is soon to be available the UK market for emergency, recovery and road maintenai vehicles....

iEN buying a new hgv, the restment in a driver's ;pension seat normally adds ly a small proportion to the al cost. But although...

Security bodybuilding for Securicor is the main function of Bedwas Bodyworks — it ranks as one of the three leading British...

DAY after the Association of inty Councils told the Serpell nmittee on the Review of way Finances that the fernment should...

Transport planners in Dyfed grapple daily with intractable problems posed by geography. The population is distributed unevenly...

By April 1, 1984, bus operators will no longer be able to claim New Bus Grant from the Government towards the cost of new stage...

The day-to-day work of the highways department in transpat co-ordination is provided currently by the example of the village of...

Dyfed's Country Cars service is not be be confused with car sharing, but is the county's' name for a series of voluntary social...

Alan Dodd gave this example: In the morning a coach does a 40 children to school and 12 adults to work trip, and returns for...

Some major changes and ;proposals made during 1981-82i Bus arid coach services • South Wales Transport, National Welsh and...

The recession in Wales has done no harm , all to Catnic Components, nor has the supposedly depressed building industry. Mike...

THE SUMMER has traditionally offered road hauliers their one annual opportunity to reflect on life in general, and on haulage...

The Bedford TL has a power problem in the opinion of Bill Brock. Its lightly turbocharged engine makes it better suited to town...

FOR MOST of us, the "Glorious Twelfth" conjures up visions of crusty colonels in plus-fours declaring war on the national bird...

Williams Brothers of North Wales is a general haulage company with an impressive range of interests and a correspondingly...

by Greville Janner, QC, MP ersonal rights nd the new Bill E Employment Bill is likely to law by the autumn. It is iinly...

I HEADED the British delegation in the vast majority of permit quota negotiations from 1970 until my retirement from the Civil...

I AM writing to you to reply to Mr W. Scatterty's of Surrey letter, "He's all right he has an hgv." But what about these people...