This Christmas weekend is neither the time to reflect on the pains of Christmasses past nor to contemplate the Yuletide of...

kN Pettit, chairman of tional Freight Corporashed out last week at posed financial reconan of the NFC as de1 the Transport...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers last week published the first of a promised series oi Transport Bills. The Bill consists of...

HON from the transport industry over the Government's ort Bill has been predictably mild, even hushed only people with very...

"WE MUST stop the rot in public transport," said Transport Minister William Rodgers on the publication of the Transport Bill....

I firm LONDON-based film industry carrier FTS, ir'ading for 55 years, was forced I dismissal notices to all its 125 drivers...

THE RELEVANCE of ideas put forward as long ago as 1945, at the first post-war road transport conference at Margate, were...

dustry, and between industries, in 1945. The factors to be taken into account were familiar: skill and 'effort required;...

SUGGESTIONS of a fighting fund to help hauliers ride out prolonged industrial action have been rejected by the industry as...

OH THE TROUBLES caused to Ministers by those seemingly innocuous little questions! When does the Prime Minister intend to...

NEW AND more widespread regulations governing the carriage of dangerous goods by road can be expected within the next 12...

THE HEALTH and Safety Commission has published proposed guidelines on the paid time-off for training which representatives will...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers has announced a Transport Supplementary Grant of £219 million for the year 1978/9 compared...

TYTRAK has recently opened a new Depot in Dundee which brings up the total number of depots in the UK to nine. The depot in...

politics —Fowl( BECAUSE 1978 is tips be election year, the Ge ment has deliberately h important measures could have been...

The land of Fe er Christmas HOW MANY children will receive, in their Christmas stockings this weekend, a copy of J. R. R....

sport... EFFICIENT TRANSPORT is critical to television especially for outside broadcasts during public holidays. To see what...

ENGLAND is renowned to producing the finest bloodstock for both racing and s howing. The same can b said of the vehicles we...

at fuel ME car drivers claim to a marvellous fuel misers, ld as it's Christmas-time ecided to reveal my own in this direction...

E THE AA Motorists Atlas of Great Britain is available to members at £3.95 post paid or at the same price for nonmembers...

J. W. Walker, 204 pages published by HFL (Publishers) Ltd, £3.95. E IF you get financial indigestion every time you try to...

• The British Motor Bus, by Gavin Booth, published by IAN ALLAN at £4.95. E THIS volume, one of the best of its type,...

and, therefore, a very appropriate time for the publiaation of a new book on an old subject. It is in the same series as...

4 9 s in good hands CHRISTMAS comes but once a year — or does it for those who are involved in carrying parcels? Already...

On page 13 Peter told of drivers whose average hourly rate is only £1.34 per hour and this drew a seasonal response from my...

On page 17 of his lecture, where Peter talks about thousands queueing up seeking entry to an already overcrowded road haulage...

'There was another phrase in Peter's lecture that for me produced an entirely different picture of a transport manager. It...

vehicle posses i heat. This is accomplished in various ways, but before going into details of the various types of brakes, the...

with Big Cats I WON'T say Malcolm Elvy is handicapped. When you've two artificial legs, but your hgv driving instructor says...

mer's ride... CHRISTMAS-TIME timely season to go on gon, but when the cha given me by Tom Varle son David to have a go e test...

THE ONLY KNOWN survivor from over 500 steam waggons produced by Atkinson Vehicles Ltd of Preston between 1916 and 1929 —...

The articles, letters and your editorial published in CM, December 9 really showed what a mess our industry is in. The RHA is...

After applying to Swansea recently for an endorsement removal, my licence was returned to me just as I had sent it, together...

geue*a e I have read with interest and indignation letters from F. G. Larman and John J. McKay in CM, November 25. My husband...

May I offer a solution to Cumbers (CM, December his problem with a Clyde: I also considered the purr of a "St. Andrew's Cross...

Woo I refer to your news itei headed "Dominator get orders boost" in CM December 2. I would like to take II opportunity of...

(EN and turkey breeding is big business these days at this season — and there are several large combines iusing in this...

NOUSTRIAL Relations Code of Practice, as far as it s to disciplinary procedures (paragraphs 130 to 133 lye) has been superseded...