The question and answer session with Labour's Transport Minister (page 3) makes interesting reading. I emphasise that Bill...

RANSPORT Minister rilliam Rodgers is condering holding a public iniiry into the future of lorry eights in Britain. He...

LONDON TRANSPORT passengers will pay proportionately less for a better service next year, says the Greater London Council this...

.rs OFFICIAL — road tax is on the way out. The road fund licence, a tax that dates almost to the beginning A the...

AS NEWS arrived of an attempt to rescue the British Association of Owner-Drivers following the resignation of three of its...

OPPOSITION transp spokesman Norman Fow has written to the Prime 1V ister asking about the use Government resources what he...

PROMISES of "generous" redundancy payments seem likely to soften any resistance to Leyland Vehicles' plans to close its AEC...

THE FRENCH Ministry of Transport has issued a new list of hauliers who have been banned from French roads for permit offences,...

UCE Commission predictions that the chograph will save money have been ,lled into doubt by the Road Haulage isociation in its...

Indeed, it is said, unjust reflections have been cast on his personal honour. And that blow at a Civil Servant who — until the...

A MAXIMUM-weight commercial vehicle no noisier than a modern saloon car was demonstrated at the Transport and Road Research...

ROAD hauliers are as concerned about the preservation of tjie beauty and heritage of this country as pressure groups, according...

POLICE in Strathclyde have mounted a major investigation into large-scale pilfering from Glasgow road haulage firms. The...

THE DECISION of brewers, Samuel Webster and Sons Ltd., to dismiss a driver who refused to take out a second load of wines and...

SHELLIWAY Transport L Warrington, will cease tradi from December 1 with drivers and four oth employees including manai ment and...

WINTER of industrial disontent was predicted last veek when Scottish Conederation of British Industry hairrnan Alan Devereux...

THE LIMIT on the statutory amount of guaranteed payment to workers on short time or temporary lay off under the Employment...

Good idea — but ... SPECIAL payments for victims of road accidents, to be met by a special levy on petrol were not favoured by...

LARGE organisations in transport should do more to counter anti-lorry propaganda. So said DAF Trucks (GB) Ltd managing director...

A PURPOSE-BUILT vehicle fitted with the new Cargolif in-built lifting platform has been supplied by specialist bc4 builders...

BAD NEWS for potential London and South-East England road hauliers is contained in a financial survey published by Inter...

iE UK offshoot of Renault ahicules Industriels, Renault . ucks and Buses UK Ltd, is to :pand its range of vehicles r the UK...

THE STANDARD specification of the Berliet TR305 has been modified slightly since the model's announcement at the Birmingham...

NATIONAL Travel is launching a major marketing campaign in a bid to get back lost passengers and make its National Express a...

THE MONTH-long Great Glasgow PTE bus strike end last weekend when its 7 maintenance worke accepted an offer within t]...

BARGAIN off-peak and rail fares are being offered by Greater Manchester Council on Greater Manchester Transport and British...

A SYSTEM-WIDE fleetname has been created for all publi transport in Strathclyde Region. Ogilvy Benson and Mather (Scotland)...

IERGY shortages make 'Went bus services more portant than ever for the :ure, says a report from the sociation of District...

CONCESSIONARY FARES for all — that's the idea from one district council in the South-west. Woodbridge District Council has...

REGULAR coach auctions are to be held by the Moseley Group at Shepshed, Leicestershire following the success of the initial...

PLANS to resolve the Ulsterbus urban single-decker bus problem have been thrown off course by the high development costs of the...

A NEW five-bay chevron bus station was opened last week at Glenrothes new town in Fife. The fully-enclosed terminal, to be...

CALL for a reduction in the minimum age for bus drivers was irned down in the Commons last week. Michael Shersby (Tory,...

TIR Compass Guides, are available from W. H. R. Godwin, 36 Swains Lana, London N6, at £4.00 each (£15.00 for all four) or...

IN ' How to give the fleet its riew lease of life?' (CM, November 3), the correspondent refers to the comparisons between...

I agree with your editorial on the Motor Show (CM, October 27) issue, but possibly for totally different reasons. It should be...

I am twenty years old and I work as assistant stores manager at a motor factor in Lincoln. I visited the Motor Show last month,...

in the past year 900 big "A" emblems. The explanation could be that if you cut the crossbar from the "A" and turn it upside...

• Show was not on for Ion enough. G. PITTS, PTS, Barry, S. Wales at Hee After a visit to the NEC, I feel that I must pass...

Would you please clarify the lav on paid breaks on duty. At our terminal we carr: petroleum spirit and quite oftei our...

WHEN I lost my psv badge a little while ago, I realised how wide open they are for misuse, There is nothing to stop a person...

a willing workhorse 1E 32-ton ERF B-Series has en updated since we last sted it two years ago, so we ok the opportunity to...

Frank Ormerod, general manager of the Motec at High Frcall, has probably done as much as anyone to break down hostility to the...

The warning about fuel supplies and prices given at the Road Haulage Association's conference at Eastbourne (CM, October 27) by...

Brimming with his usual vitality, Marcus Fox, MP, shook me warmly by the hand at a London reception held by the British...

In a plea for the whole transport industry to be covered by the Road Transport Industry Training Board, ,Kenneth Turner, the...

Jonah is on a world tour at the expense of the World Wild Life Fund. He is a 69ft stuffed whale weighing 58 tons. Brittany...

Would it be unkind to describe Tony Painter as a gamekeeper turned poacher? Before he became executive director of the...

A conducted bus tour of Glasgow is a bloody bupiness. It takes in 17 Sandyford Place, where, according to the guide, Dr...

A newspaper correspondent suggests that those doing physically arduous work, among whom he includes longdistance lorry drivers,...

SUSPENSION, 4 AIR SUSPENSION is used, to a limited extent, on commercial vehicles. Fig 1 shows, in diagrammatic form, the...

by Les Oldridge, T.Erig(CE1), MIMI, AMIRTE Changes in C &U Regulations, 3 REGULATION 18 of the Motor Vehicle (Construction...

SUPPLYING thousands of items of knock-down furniture to 60 retail outlets throughout the country is enough of a headache...

Mariano Mateu Casadevall of Spain has been elected president of the International Road Transport Union for 1979/80....