-IE GREEN PAPER on industrial relations has been variously described as pathetic, )ysmal, useless. Nowhere will Mr Prior find...

RTH OF ENGLAND hauliers' lone stance against any wage inase this year has still to be broken, but Transport and General Ar...

AS PART of its streamlining programme, Roadline's western and southern regions have joined with the London region to form a new...

ALL for capacity controls in I haulage industry was on the arida last week when the ad Haulage Association and Transport and...

WAGE negotiations between the Transport and General Workers Union and the National Freight Company began yesterday (Friday),...

LEYLAND has restructured its commercial vehicle business after the sudden departure of BL Commercial Vehicles managing director...

THE ARMITAGE Report should be welcomed by the public and industry and be implemented as quickly as possible, Freight Transport...

WAGE increases over 15 per cent have been gained by Tennant Caledonian brewery drivers, and Class 1 hgv drivers now have a...

PRESSURE in the EEC to limit the number of Common Mark transport licences issued under the quota system grew this mon when the...

'THE BEDFORD plant at Luton to shed 1,800 jobs while neighbouring plant at Dunstal is to lose 900 as part of Vauxt Motors'...

iHTER controls on lorries emitting too much smoke are on the y. Junior Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke announced last week it...

TRANSPORT MINISTER Norman Fowler's Channel Tunnel dream may come true if a Tarmac contruction group proposal for a privately...

HIGH interest rates have reduced British Electric Traction's pre-tax profits for the half year from 30.41m to £27.97m, and it...

COTTISH operators have enlisted the support of North of Scotland uropean MP Winnie Ewing in their campaign to save the eight)ur...

..CITHING transport specialist bbett and Britten has ineased the general liability for )ods in transit insurance to 1,500 per...

THE WORST of the recessior may be over for road hauliers, but they are unlikely to enjol 1979's record demand again un. til...

ALL MAJOR oil companies have increased the price of dery tc their wholesalers by betweer 4.55 and 5.50 pence per gallon Esso...

A UNION claim that a driver was unfairly selected for dismissal because his employer made a statement in bad faith, has been...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport is reducing its involvement in planning applications for developments near trunk roads, according...

THE HEALTH and Safety Co mission has invited commel on a proposal for a system classifying and labelling all i plosives along...

EUROPEAN furniture remove business is booming despite t recession, according to Rott dam-based Eurovan. It says U . executives...

A WEEKEND transport finance and costings seminar is to be held North Worcestershire College, Bromsgrove, from April 3 to 5....

SCOTLAND's first Business to Business Exhibition, in which "business sells to business", is to be held at the Royal Highland...

BJECTIONS to proposed :avier lorry weights have been ade by Conwy Division berals who are also critical of le state of the...

AN experimental ban on all vehicles of more than three tons unladen weight is to be intro. duced in an area of Hayes,...

FREIGHT forwarder Hill and De !amain has strengthened it5 links with Zimbabwe and ha:. sent business development con. sultant...

ONLY 20 lorries per day using a nearby rubbish tip would not justify an earlier beginning to the Llanidloes by-pass, according...

FOLLOWING the management restructure at Roadline, Gerry Flanagan has taken over as head of the southern region, based at City...

OPERATORS are urged to bear in mind the following roadworks when planning their routes and are also reminded that in many areas...

OUR Bedford and three LeyInd chassis with bodies by :ergusons (Tankers) Ltd of 'ortsmouth have joined the itates of Guernsey's...

FUEL savings are claimed b Warrington based coachbuilder Marsdens Ltd with the introduc tion of a new aerodynamicall styled van...

TRANSQUIP'S latest 34-ton payload low-loader combines an hydraulic detachable gooseneck and an extendible load bed on the one...

' A PICKUP version of the Fiorir van — itself derived from ti Fiat 127 car — has been intri duced by the Italian company....

IN PLACE OF the more usu inverted Y restraint webbin! Smith of Maddison Ltd hi specified vertical restrair straps each side on...

NEW range of speed-control devices aimed at saving fuel and educing wear on engine, gearbox, transmission, brakes and tyres tas...

THE fifth quarterly digest oi vehicle recall campaigns, coy Bred by the Code of Practice in troduced in July last year, ha been...

TECHNICAL and engineering rtaff at the National Bus Corn'any have used information ob:ained from group operators :omputerised...

NATIONAL Car Parks Ltd has been fined a total of £200 plus £250 costs by Crawley Magistrates for bus operating offences at...

LONDON TRANSPORT is facin post-Transport Act competitio from a passenger group which i preparing to start its own se vices...

ATTEMPTS by Trafalgar Leisur International to start schedule bus services on the Channel h land of Guernsey have met wit...

FORMER Sussex bus conductor Peter Osmond who hoped to start his own bus service between Southwick and Sompting in Sussex had a...

HE South-eastern Traffic Area has removed fares conditions from the licences held by Alder Valley Services, despite objections...

3 PART of activities that raised ,747 to help to pay for an ght-year-old girl to go to rierica for treatment for leukeia,...

STEPHEN Tunstall, this is your Me." He had been lured to a 'ark bus depot, where he is uperintendent, in the belief that e was...

AFTER YEARS of inactivity the bogey of lung cancer and diesel fumes has reared its tiresome head again. It has been revived in...

WANTED: Half-a-dozen stou hearted transport men to hel David Sells to revive th Herts/Essex round of the Lori Driver of the...

- HERE is a lot of rubbish spoken ibout who is to blame for this ecession. Some people claim t's the PM's fault others say it's...

I AM sorry that when CM interviewed me (November 29) I did not refer at greater length to the vital issue of management...

I WAS FLATTERED to be de cribed in your editorial of Di cember 20 as pompous and in pertinent I really think I mu: congratulate...

The Motor Show's the launching pad for Roadtrain's assault on Europe, but what else is on display in Brussels? Steve Gray...

Too many operators think cost cutting begins and ends with the engine. But, as our Belgian correspondent J. Terlyn argues,...

■ IERTIA type starter motor rives described in the last artie are not suitable for the larger etrol engines and diesel enines....

IMITED WAITING and No Waitng orders made by local uthorities under powers given o them by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967...

Very little, Boalloy would hope, as the company claims it has never lost a load with its Tautliner curtainsiders. Bill Brock...

"We do like to be beside the seaside" could be the Continental bodybuilder's theme at this year's springtime rally in Brighton...

from a keen wind off the North Sea to keep Britain cool — Crane Fruehauf's works near Norwich, for example 'WORK for...

by Douglas Ainley THE GOVERNMENT proposes a statutory sick-pay scheme run by employers in which all employees for whom...