=OR YEARS the United Road Transport Union has adopted a strongly iggressive attitude to the tachograph. It has been voluble on...

3PERATORS are pressing the Government to act quickly over :achograph calibration centres which are charging more than :he...

A STAFFORDSHIRE lorry driver has been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and with assault...

THE ROAD Haulage Association has released its controversial reference tariffs for international haulage, as required by the...

THE Freight Transport Association has told the Chancellor of the Exchequer that there is no case for an increase in lorry...

FREIGHT transport users expect that amenity lorry bans will cost the country at least £75m by the end of the year, and the...

ABOUT 2600 tonnes of pumice-stone was last week unloaded from the Greek coaster, Athina B which was grounded on Brighton's...

TRANSPORT Minister Not man Fowler's assessment a the Foster Committee report i now almost complete, and h will publish the...

AN OPERATOR who failed to attend the public inquiry, the outcome of which was that the Licensing Authority refused to renew his...

;BEATER London Council was meeting his week to discuss proposals to restrict he use of drawbar outfits in the capital CM,...

AN APPEAL for an increase in lorry speed limits has come from deputy director general of the Freight Transport Association,...

DEMAND for automatic tachographs has exceeded the industry's expectations, according to Lucas Kienzle director and general...

PORTSMOUTH City Council is to carry on with its plans to prevent the transit of animals (other than breeding stock) through the...

WHEN PRINCIPLES raise their ugly heads, then commonsense flees, defeated. That might not have been one of the things which...

Northern Traffic Area County Garage Ltd, Wakefiel( Road, Kingstown, Carlisl. (Veeder-Root); Cowies o Sunderland, North Heatoi...

A COMMERCIAL VEHICLE was described as a warehouse on wheels by Simba Security Systems managing director Robert Dunley, when he...

et COVENTRY operator had its standard national licence issued ast week on condition that its professionally competent trans3ort...

LARNE HARBOUR handle( record freight traffic in 1979 t( remain Northern Ireland': busiest roll-on roll-off port. Commercial...

ITALY has taken steps to meet some of the objections b; international road transport firms to the new tax on vehicle leaving...

RITISH CARGO Airlines is introduce a new regional )ad feeder service from Eanchester and Birmingham March 3, using the...

NT OPERATOR who appealed to the Transport Tribunal after ie North-western Licensing Authority had revoked his perator's Licence...

WOLVERHAMPTON market trader, J. S. Grewal, has had his three-vehicle licence suspended by the South Wales Licensing Authority...

IN A MOVE to fight lorry thefts in the county, Suffolk Constabulary is conducting surveys to find out more about lorries left...

IN SCOTLAND, the two final sections of the M9 were opened last week and a decision was made on the route of the A9 Perth...

Why not drive a bus EIGHTEEN-year-olds will be able to drive buses in future, but only on journeys of under 50km Labour...

NATIONAL Bus Compan subsidiary Maidstone and Di: trict has placed in service Leyland National sing1( decker equipped with...

3ECRETARY OF STATE for :old the Scottish Bus Group to . eliable and efficient. The Government has given he Group three main...

ALTHOUGH no firm decisior has been made as to the futun location of Leyland Titan pro duction, discussions are no under way...

A THREAT to rural buses was mentioned in the Commons last week when a Tory revolt over the proposal to allow charges on school...

AFTER a slight delay gainini insurance acceptance of a nev single fuel tank arrangement South Yorkshire PTE's firs liquid...

BUS OPERATORS will not have to display identification discs on their vehicles. But the name and licence number will have to...

HAROLD MOTE, chairman of the Greater London Council London Transport Committee, has cited illegal parking, particularly in bus...

DETAILS of changes for some cif the MAN-VW vehicle ranges for 1980 have been announced. The MAN eight-wheeler is to be fitted...

FODENS have taken deliver of an ITT 3280 visual displal system at its Sandbach Head quarters. Valued at over £60,000, th4...

'IAN-VW is aiming to sell 10,000 vehicles in the UK this year, Iccording to John Jackson, marketing director. This total will...

LEYLAND VEHICLES last week signed a licensing agreement with Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG (ZF) of West Germany which will...

PYE Telecommunications are to supply mobile radio equipment to the Trent Regional Health Authority and the Scottish Ambulance...

ACCORDING to Removatap "drivers can take the heat ant fumes out of badly ventilatet cabs" by fitting a tilting) removable glass...

Anthony Stanton has been made managing director of Cory Distribution. He has worked for Ocean Cory Ltd since 1955 when he...

CHESWICK Silencers Ltd )f Blackpool has announced )lans for a 050,000 expanion Hid modernisation scheme at ts Dutch plant at...

THE Bostrom Division of UOP Ltd has announced plans for a Om expansion of its manufacturing plant in Northampton. Four existing...

MANAGEMENT information is the last point of contention in the long and weary tachograph war. From January 1982, almost every...

Graham Montgornerie v,sits - wo consultant organisatons in e Soun one concernec with building up power, the o - ler wi ensuring...

YOU WERE RIGHT to give prominence to the proposals by North Yorkshire County Council to ban through lorries over a 300 square...

THERE is rather more than meets the eye in the proposal by Sir Monty Finniston to set up an engineering authority (CM, February...

I WOULD CONSIDER it a favoi if I could remain anonymous this letter because I am sure speak for a number of operato in the UK....

HE FUNCTIONS of a carbureter fitted to a motor vehicle enline is to mix air and petrol in uitable proportions and quanities...

HOW TIRED Sir Barrie Heath, president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, must be of apologising for the British...

TRADITIONAL rivalry between the great transatlantic liners is echoed in a minor key by the Blue Riband of the Channel presented...

LORD THOMAS, who died recently at the age of 82, was the youngest editor ever to be appointed by Temple Press, which founded...

LONDON BRIDGE may not be falling down, but some of the capital's other bridges could be without the Greater London Council...

THE LATEST recruit to the National Freight Corporation's brigade of heroes is a tankei driver whose courage preventec what...

GROTESQUE LETTERING (wit apologies to the exceller typeface of that name) is ba enough in computers without it use on vehicle...

The RHA and e HA are very much alive and kicking in Soutn, anc John Darker stresses the real benefits of mem oership, Dick Ross...

N THE LAST article (January ?6, 1980) special types of 'chides used under the Motor /ehicles (authorisation of ipecial Types)...

P. D. Wharfage and Transport Limitec runs a successful operation at the Port of Shoreham,. bu this company's sights are set on...