kST YEAR the United Kingdom exported 70m Ions of goods Europe — East and West — according to a recent survey. is represents...

E ROAD Haulage Association has reacted bitterly to unofficial ion by Transport and General Workers' Union members in Liver01,...

THE ROAD Haulage Assoc tion's vehicle and traffic formation scheme (VATIS) is have a third and final trial peni from September...

SALES director of ERF, Bo Chadwick, left the company thi week with deputy chairman Eni Green now responsible for ERF' sales....

A SERIES of seminars entitled Transport Law — Current and Possible Changes is to be launched by the Freight Transport...

GULATIONS extending and updating the existing legislation on .1 carrying of dangerous substances in road tankers have been laid...

APPEARING BEFORE a ban ruptcy court, a 37-year-o haulage contractor has de cribed how the 1979 ste workers' strike spelt the...

an open day at Castle BFI staff will be available on a consultancy basis to advise people interested in all the group's...

FOLLOWING a three-month dispute between dockers and ti British Transport Docks Board at Southampton, shipping lines set ing the...

A WORLD conference on ri search into transport problem with the theme Research ft Transport Policies in a Changin World, is to...

PRESTON-based Foster (Tachographs) Ltd has installed a cornputerised tachograph analysis system as part of a £115,000...

DUT 75,000 general goods !ides are currently licensed to drawbar trailers, Junior insoort Minister Kenneth rke said in the...

STOREMASTERS LTD at Canning Town, East London, is to act as a receiving depot for Ferryrnasters Scandinavian and West European...

A SPECIAL competition for owner-drivers is being staged on Satu day, September 19, the day before the CM Lorry Driver of the Ye...

A BID to introduce a lorry bar Alston, Cumbria, has failed, county councillors have agri it would be too expensive to grade the...

servic from September 7, with additional trains and improved tannin equipment. A new daily service is being started to...

Only six months after the a nouncement in Parliament that was under consideratio Langthwaite Grange boasts th it offers a more...

HE Department of Transport reognises the usefulness of the hecks carried out by its vehicle xaminers at night and at weeknds,...

has be jointly organised by Liverpo Polytechnic and the Charter Institute of Transport. Speakers include Ron Ar strong of...

Jr written warnings. The first is in February 1980, and conrned a delay of three weeks in taming an MoT test date for a hicle....

the ores unched last we week in the ores unched last we ice of Northern Ireland Envinment Minister David Mit The service, which...

.td, Tony Hammond, has noved to the position of direcor. Mr Hammond started with he company in 1972 as a traffic lerk and over...

LEYLAND has joined forces wit Nino to supply buses to Austrz lian customers. If You've Go The Passengers We've Got th Buses is...

DESPITE being faced with a r duction in rate support gra and voting to cut spending 1 £15.2m, Lothian Regional Cou cil's...

IS YEAR's steady downward nd in the registrations of new v is continuing, according to latest SMMT figures. rhe most dramatic...

BUILT TO transport the world's football players during next year's World Cup tournament in Spain, the Pegaso pictured below is...

HE FIRST modular Valiant bus odies destined for world marets have been completed at adham-Stringer's new factory t Stanton, in...

A LANDOWNER'S reluctance to confirm coach parking arrang ments in writing, led to an operator's application for a psv liceru...

A DRIVER with Lothian Regio Transport, who was sack after twice driving for a privi company, has lost his claim unfair...

PUR NEW body options – tipr truck, dropside truck, Luton n and milk float – are now ailable on the Mitsubishi L300 assis cab,...

ma are expensive pieces of equa ment. However, a Kent-bas company has now produced indicator that is both versat and relatively...

ROAD-MARKING body which an be swopped for a salt-carry g body in the winter months, as been produced by the wedish National...

SEVERAL British manufactur are sharing a large order to bt. specialist equipment foi Middle East country under major supply...

THE DODGE 50-Series Electric will be road-driven in the UK for ti first time next month. The new vehicle, aimed mainly at...

74: All traffic uses the southbound carriageway at Johnstonefge, Dumfriesshire due to long-term bridge widening. 77: A 12-tons...

THE TIME he had packed his gs and vacated London for the mmer recess, Transport ?cretary Norman Fowler had It Britain's public...

V1ETIN1ES an argument in a tic court arouses a strong iression of what the French dela vu. It has all ipened before and a long...

IBODY can say the Transport d General Workers Union sn't believe in give and take: union takes and everyone e gives. This is...

IRELAND's preoccupation th territorial unity the bconscious reason why the B I Line, which operates the rries from Cork and...

AS A contribution to the Year of the Disabled, members of West Middlesex Coach Operators' Association are to supply 15 coaches...

THE Consumers' Association is determined to out-shout British Railways Board, the railway unions and the Government in its...

ANTICIPATING a bull and coNA. the Springboks' rugby match Hamilton, New Zealand, the police, heavily outnumbered, used cattle...

At least the EEC has made through borders transit much easier than 10 years ago, John Farrant, chairman of the Road Haulage...

JANUARY 1978 saw new legi lation whereby anyone responi ble for operating goods vehicli for hire or reward must be jar...

OVER 100 views of buses, frorr the First World War to the 1970s are contained in Alexander Al bum, an illustrated history of...

E CM Special Offer course the Certificate of Dfessional Competence in ad Haulage (International) low available and students ly...

IE MOST imaginative delopment on the roll-on/roll-off ry scene since our 1980 guide is published is the launching a through...

ALMOST without exception, North Sea Ferries market the products through the intermediary of professionals the respective...

lashings 3signed for use with container 3ts and roll trailers, has been unched by Antrak Freight Ltd, London El, said to offer...

They're certainly middlemen, so do we need them? One or two could hammer the naive haulier but a reputable company can give a...

STUDENTS can enrol now for the CMSpecial Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage (Nation in...

If you're unlucky enough to get into wrangles with the law, costs can be crippling. A legal expenses insurance package could be...

These are the checks a driver must make prior to an international transport operation, according to the 1RU's TIR checklist....

International operation is a specialised field — but that shouldn't deter potential newcomers. John Durant looks at the...

Joining the circle of operators engaged in overseas operation is difficult, but the RTCC says there is potential for British...

The lorries board, the ramp closes and t vessel slips out to sea. But what do th( men who regularly take our loads abro think...

HE CMR — that's the simple tie of a book by Alan E. )onald on a complex subject. or the initials stand for the :onvention on...

This could be for pa ABOUT HALF the haulage in a country — the own-account an large fleet operators — are represented by the...

I WAS sorry to see the recent disappointing results of ERF Holdings. This again shows the British motor industry strugglin in...

Nineteen years ago C. Bourne became Seabourne — after all, why shouldn't a daill road freight service to the Continent match...

on boa than a fuel gauge, and can iron out installation and calibration problems often associated with the cable-driven breed...

Never has it been more vital for the transport industry to unite and counter the propaganda of the anti-lorry brigade, urges...

Later information by Douglas Ainley HE FAIRNESS of a dismissal nd the reasonableness of an mployer's action must be idged on...