THE DAY fast approaches when tachographs will become a reality. January 1 is that day and now is the hour when operators must...

E GOVERNMENT this weeki :epted the National Freight rnpany management's propoto buy the company for I.5m, provided that at...

NATIONAL FREIGHT buyt is nothing more than privatition of State-owned assets, d is not good enough for its )rkforce, Transport...

THE CHANCES of reaching harmonious wage settlement i North-east England look as elt sive as ever, following err ployers'...

Plaskett THE ROAD Haulage Assoc' tion's proposals for reorganis tion will not be painless, dire tor-general Freddie Plaskett...

AY must be related to performance and not to some idyllic belief 'tat increases each year are a right or an entitlement,...

VON County Council is to con It interested parties bere going ahead with any lorry ins in Bristol or other urban Intres. At a...

BRITAIN has negotiated additional road haulage permits with the Austrian, French, Hungarian, and Portuguese governments. For...

A SWISS plan to introduc special tax on foreign Ibr passing in transit across Si zerland has been rejected by EEC authorities...

TROUBLE may be brewing for the major oil companies, with Transport and General Workers Union having rejected all the four...

THE GOVERNMENT will retai some industrial training board: Employment Secretary Norma Tebbitt pledged in London. He told the...

ESS there was a break of a clear week between the dismissal of mployee and his re-engagement the employment was deemed a...

pri vately financed Channel tunne or bridge could be made by the end of the year, Transpor . Secretary David Howell told the...

THE Canterbury by-pass ha: been opened by Junior Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke. The completion of the four and a half mile...

IOMAS MEADOWS lnternaIna! Ltd has appointed Bill own to a new co-ordinating le in the expansion and delopment of its overseas...

A NEW NIGHTLY road haulage service from North-west England Northern Ireland has been jointly launched by Gobowen Transpl Ltd,...

;URRENT public policy will inevitably mean a "real and damaging" lecline in bus services in the remoter areas, and passengers...

SOUTH YORKSHIRE Passenger Transport Executive's cheap bus fares policy was one of the major topics at the Association of...

LABOUR councils which I pose to charge low fares really charging "below the b fares, Transport Secretary a Howell told last...

VOLVO is ready with an z ulated version of its B1OM ci chassis for the British mark, soon as Department of Ti port requirements...

ADIBUS, a new scheme ,rated by the Voluntary Sere Council for Reading, is one the first of its kind for «bled people in the UK....

NICIPAL bus operators can 3 themselves in many ways the future, a management sultant told the Association District Councils...

campaign by cutting tt level of off-peak and teenag bus fares. A new off-peak Clippercar bus ticket came into operatio this...

for lightweights NEW LIGHT commercial !hide range, a development of at and the Peugeot-Citroen oup's joint partnership, has St...

Road, East Lond has been appointed sole distributor for Sno-Way lid snow-ploughs. Sno-Way Ini national inc is an American cc...

FORELINE PRODUCTS, a division of Aqua-Marine Mfg (UK) Ltd Southampton, has introduced a new electronic reversing warni device....

HGV ENGINEERING Ltd of King Street, Langton, Stoke-on-Tre was officially opened this week by S. G. G. Rankin, the West M land...

E LATEST Edbro Hi-Lift aircraft service lorry was on view at the )ort 81 show at Belle Vue, Manchester. he lorry is the first...

THE FIRST vehicle of a contract for the Westminster Plant Division of FL Costain has been delivered by Welford Truck Bodies, of...

capable 01 producing 4,200 lorries and 200. 300 buses a year. It is hoped thai by 1985 the new plant will bc meeting about 12...

FOUR apprentices from Soundwell Technical College were the winners at the final of the National Vehicle Trades Apprentice...

#RKETING is the third reveion in transport, according to e managing director of itional Carriers, Brian yward. "I put...

!CASTER Transport ailment is celebrating the drawal of its last half-cab ble-decker — a 16-year-old ad PD2/37 65-seater — with...

CING about the use of ochips on the garage ;ourt, Chris Ensor, BP Oil ailing manager, said ntly that there was now the 3rtunity...

TWO HUNDRED youngsters, many of whom have suffered severe brain damage in road accidents, are being given a useful start in...

I DON'T recommend Liberia as a destination for British international hauliers. Cal Harrison Pennue, a former deputy commander...

TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union leaders are reported to have pleaded with Blackpool bus and tram workers to call off a...

THEY SAY you can never be too early when you want to convince someone of the justice of your cause. That certainly is the view...

LETTER from B. A. Palmer, augh in Commercial Motor Po ut the problems he has had th Bedford vehicles. At least has had...

rERYONE connected with our lustry would doubtless agree st it is vital to unite and unter the propaganda of the ti-lorry...

MY LETTER, which you published in Commercial Motor September 26, was headed, "I'm for coach travel" and yet it implied to many...

I WAS most concerned to s the news item on page 15 of October 3 issue of Commen Motor describing a pick-up conversion on the...

CALLING all owners of Scammell lorries, be they operational or preserved — 1! is the 60th Anneversary of famous make and we are...

The Road Haulage Association must reorganise and it won't be easy, says chairman. E 1981 Road Haulage AssoLion conference at...

On that date their use is compulsory, but how many operators have still not made the change? The great majority, suggests David...

Bill Brock finds significant fuel savings, particularly on long runs, with both Leyland and Ford fitted with Laycock o/d GHER...

CORRECT CLOTHING can add to personal protection. Special clothing, such as a rubber apron and Wellington boots for steam...

Continentals ready to attack UK market, reports Bill Godwin from Kortrijk KHIBITION held at Kortrijk gium earlier this week,...

by Douglas Airwley .0YERS have no legal duty ovide alternative work for idant employees and no :o create a suitable vacancy 3...

SONS HOLDING certain essional qualifications are iidered "professionally ipetent" for the purposes of rators' licensing. I...