Like the good soldier he once was, Mr Alan Law has made a smart about-turn on tachographs for the second time as he prepares to...

NEW Government has given the go-ahead for the indeent inquiry into heavy lorries and their effects that was ■ unced by former...

EW extension to a cargo groupage service to West Africa recently been started. frican Container Express (ACE) is now operating...

LEYLAND Vehicles has won an order worth more than Om to supply vehicles to Tanzania. The country's State Motor Corporation,...

GOVERNMENT plans for the future of the State-owned businesses, including the National Freight Corporation, were showing signs...

TRANSPORT Minister Norman Fowler has stated that he doi not intend to alter the age limits for fare concessions on buses In a...

A NEW SPLIT in the strife-torn Birmingham branch of the Transport and General Workers Union has emerged following statements...

GOVERNMENT consultations on the implementation of the EEC tachograph regulations are to start soon, Transport Minister Norman...

THE GOVERNMENT find it difficult to dispo the NFC companies, eithe whole or as individual I according to a financial lyst. The...

The Government may to sell NFC until it is maki true profit but it may also separate companies withir Corporation for sale. The...

THE SHEFFIELD district auditor has declared payments of a man to South Yorks PTE staff to move offices as little as 100 y...

ITISH Transport Group chairman Donnet hit out this week at the Lecessary" expense of fitting tachohs to many of its 3,900...

VIMERCIAL vehicle registrations continuing to flourish. The Society dotor Manufacturers and Traders )rts that April was yet...

IF SHE MEANT to be taken literally, our new Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher must have been burning the midnight oil getting...

Dr licence objections FOSTER Committee's recommendations for operators' ing objections on the grounds of environmental damage...

TECHNICAL Panel Industries — maker of Glasonit grp/ plywood body panels — has introduced the Kargonit insulated body....

BRITISH Association of Removers special study group chairman David Trenchard told delegates at the BAR annual conference at...

The results of the first area heats for CM's 1979 Lorry Driver of the Year are coming in. These area class winners go forward...

THE NORTH Eastern set of the Vehicle Bodybuil and Repairers Associati( holding a meeting next m( the theme of which is Ho...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association has elected its nati executive board for 1979/80. Malcolm Banks of the Littlewoods...

IMPORTANCE of specifying the true operating centre in pplication for an operator's licence is shown in a reserved ision of the...

NEW Volvo commercial vehicle dealer has just opened at Licistone in Kent. 'rinces Commercials is in Beddow Way, Forstal Road,...

A REVISED list of recommended limits for airborne concentrations of over 500 potentially toxic substances has been published by...

Peter Quick has been named as the new general manager of bulk haulage contractor Saunders Transport, part of Ocean Transport...

He is joint managing and marketing director of Phillips Truck Services, main distributors for Seddon Atkinsons in South...

0 BASIC MODELS in ty years must be someig of a record in the Dmotive industry. This k I test-drove the third in of Volkswagen's...

TOYOTA last week entered the increasing UK utility market with its new Hi Lux fourwheel-drive pick-up. Based primarily on...

KARCHER (UK) has p duced a simple sandblast attachment for fitment their high-pressure cleaner The attachment, which be fitted...

PRODUCTION has started at Thornton and Garnett, Settle, North Yorkshire of a new type of hydrostatically driven fourwheel...

KIRKBY CENTRAL has opened a new Elm complex at Bolton in Greater Manchester. The complex includes a Vauxhall and Bedford...

AFTER a lengthy hearing al the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners, Cosmos Coach Tours lost its third application to run British...

THE IMPORTANCE of effec tive bus control where ex treme traffic congestion i! apparent was the theme of az international...

FAIRER competition betw express coach operators British Rail may be on way, now that a joint wort party with British Rail been...

AUTOMATIC fare collection machines are to be removed from London Transport's fleet of one-man-operated double-deck buses and a...

COACHES seldom ride well, often have unsatisfactory heating and ventilation and sometimes have distinctly uncomfortable seats....

JR ARTICLE "LT slow to e problems" (CM, May 11 '9) is another typical case of ticians poking their noses ;re they are not...

I READ with great interest the letter from Len Payne (CM, April 6) about the obligation the haulier should feel towards his...

AS ANCASSISTANT fleet superintendent at the Post Office supplies department, I am always aware of the public's criticisms of...

YOUR CORRESPONDENT W. A. Sharp (CM, May 11) rightly points out that the northern end of the Greenwich-Hackney Mway peters out...

Katina Theodossiou, the astrologer, who has cast a horoscope for Lionheart, the 64ft yacht that Britain is entering in next...

According to John Silbermann, chairman of the Road Haulage Association, one of the effects of inflation is that bankers hold...

The links between hauliers and Ford were stressed by Sir Terence Beckett, Ford's chairman and managing director, responding to...

Fifteen weeks" strikes and "'hundreds of lesser disputes" cut Ford's expected profit by £158m to £242m last year. The company...

Two Ford men stood unsuccessfully for the Labour party in Tory constituencies in the General Election. Both are Irishmen from...

The lorry drivers" strike ti North Eastern British Roac vices" projected trading pr . ( £73,000 in January ir trading loss of...

The Post Office urgently r the attention of Sir D Rayner, joint managing dir of Marks and Spencer, whi been appointed by the F...

Flexible thinking anc clever use of bus grant has kept Cleveland Transit ahead of e game. Feature by Noel Millier Pictures by...

Brian Chalmers-Hu t reports from e BAR AGM at Blackpool OPENING the Annual General Meeting of the British Association of...

EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION, 3 THE EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION (CONSOLIDATION) ACT 1978 by Les Oldridge, Tech Eng (CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE ONE...

John. Durant goes on a No err) grand tour to see how hauliers' morale is shaping up under the new Government Dick Ross drove...

CM's reporter talks to - wo hauliers from the Non East oo -- ) of whom have succeeded in Petering themselves..„ URRAY HOGG is...

Steve Gray takes a look at some of e manufacturers based in the \o East and the products they offer MTH EAST BRITAIN has...

I THE NORTH of England LonNI seems a long way away. Ithough parts of the vast georaphical area are greatly sufiring from the...

THE FUEL INJECTION system on the Cummins engine is entirely different to those already discussed in this series. Known as the...

Graham Montgomerie report on what nearly became an American take-over of the IRTE Solihull conference. TRANSATLANTIC extension...

HE IRTE exhibiton was omewhat over-shadowed by le conference, but there was till much to interest the opera)r at the exterior...