TRADES UNION leaders have reacted with surprise to Road Haulage Association national chairman John Silbermann's calls 'or "more...

THE INLAND REVENUE has agreed that subsistence of up to £8.75 will be free from income tax. Following talks with the Road...

WEST YORKSHIRE police continued their purge on foreign drivers last week by setting up 'Operation Truck. stop' on the Al, near...

THE WEST MIDLANDS Joint Industrial Council was due to meet as we went to Press on Tuesday this week. It now has the formal...

HAULIERS face a grim 12 months ahead, but 1982-84 should be growth years, according to the Henley Centre for Forecasting,...

THE Road Haulage Association is encouraging its members to use tachograph charts before they become compulsory in January,...

LORRY LEASING is bound to rise over the next five years, according to British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association president...

THE QUEEN'S AWARDS fol export and technology has ad! year gone to five manufao turing companies associate( with the transport...

FREIGHTLINER is to launch a nationwide computerised container storage, maintenance, and repair scheme at a cost of around Om....

PLAN to tackle the unfair competition which ,EC road haulage firms face from State-run mnsport undertakings in Eastern Europe...

IVECO (UK) Lt is still to establish a central parts facility in Warrington, but it will not open until 1982. Following union...

PASSPORTS or certificates of cleanliness which will allow lorries to pass through secondary picket lines ... call them what you...

A CHESHIRE haulier has had his 0-licence renewed despite convictions for false entries and the use of an unlicensed vehicle....

John Bryant, currently ar engineer (South) at Alder V ley, has been promoted assistant chief engineer of t Aldershot division...

CHLORIDE AUTOMOTIVE has introduced a new range of batteries for the UK commercial vehicle original equipment market. They...

BCT EQUIPMENT of Adam House, 58/66 Birmingham Road, Kidderminster, has announced the introduction of Dumpit underbody tipping...

TRANSQUIP has introduced an additional model to its Superneck range of lowering gooseneck low loaders. The new model — with a...

TEXACO'S has announced an all-purpose 15W/50 multigrade diesel oil, Ursa Super Plus, as an addition to its Ursa series. The...

BUS AND COACH sales con tinued to rise last month, an importers have raised thei sales more than fivefold ove March 1979. The...

VIEW of how the Transport Bill will work in practice, and the rects it will have on the traffic commissioners, was given last...

PROPOSALS by the Lancaster City Passenger Transport Department to introduce a runabout ticket available on its stage carriage...

PROPOSED MOVES to stop fans carrying alcohol when they travel by bus to certain Scottish sporting events would have to be...

I FEEL it to be in the interests of all to reply to the comments proffered by G. Murphy (CM, March 22) concerning the ''atomic...

(b) The heat energy absorbed initially by the water has a quenching effect on combustion which lowers normally associated...

I REFER to "A peek at TESSA" (CM, March 22) in which John Darker interviewed the Research Officer of the Transport Salaried...

I WAS somewhat perplexed the reference to the ETA in ti letter by Mary Jb Beal head+ "The price of passing exam: (CM, March 22)...

THE WILD and beautiful countryside of remote Northumberland may not immediately lend itself to bus operation, but a small...

NEXT MONTH the Andalusian capital of Seville will welcome more than 800 delegates representing all sectors of road transport on...

Tipper maintenance can be a real heacache for driver, but Greenham's scheme eases as Tim Blakemore finds out Wea erley took...

Graham Montgomerie looks at a particularly bright spark. modern electronics technology— Fidus Controls THERE ARE not many...

It's transport by mail order HAVING been defeated by the mail, the Post Office wants to be allowed to sell tickets for...

CAN YOU look a Customs officer straight in the eye without feeling a constriction of the chest and a surging of the pulse? If...

ALMOST TWICE as many people use a car to get to work as travel by public transport, says the AA. A survey is said to have shown...

LORRIES and buses spanning more than 60 years of transport will be driven in convoy from Chester to Tatton Park, Knutsford,...

ECHLIN Ltd proudly announces: "We are producing a series al humorous, some 'downrighi disgusting,' window stickers foi cars,...

A FLOUR TANKER is like a red rag to a bull. It conjures up visions of steak pie and is especially distressing to an animal that...