Last Friday in these columns we called on Prices Secretary Roy Hattersley to break his silence on his decision to make an Order...

RICES Secretary Roy attersley denied this week at his announcement about lad haulage charges had iything to do with the prent...

ICKETS involved in the haul;e strike were causing "anrchy" in the port of Liver ool, George Alcock, nairman ot the Port Users'...

OT EXPRESS Line has added Bahrain and Kuwait to its sailing schedules. The line operates three large roll-on, roll-off vessels...

AS NEGOTIATIONS aimed at getting striking lorry drivers back to work were referred back to local negotiating committees of the...

A VEHICLE recovery company in Kent is contacting other similar companies with a view to setting up an independent national...

A NORTH-WESTERN road haulage operator has donated £300 to the Chartered Institute of Transport for the best paper on road...

WAGES are outstripping tui nover in the road haulage it dustry, according to the stud of 60 road hauliers betwee 1975 and...

IGNORANCE by top manage ment about implementation its safety policies is partly t blame for many industrii accidents. This is...

T ANOTHER Parliamentary row over ransport document sent to Labour rty members erupted this week. This le it was called...

MEETING was to be held this week to ;cuss the wage claim by West Midlands 'E busmen which caused a three day :ike before...

VOLVO'S proposed accord with the Norwegian Government has hit a set back, following a successful move by company_...

What would Parliament have done without the transport strike? For that matter, what would the strikers have done without...

kLES of imported commeril vehicles in the UK during 78 rose by over 50 per cent. This is revealed by figures cently released by...

IE GOVERNMENT has adtted in a recent White Paper public expenditure that it derspent last year's English d Welsh motorway and...

BET on a winner BRITISH Electric Traction's pre-tax profits for the half year period ended September 30 1978 were up by £5.37...

AN own-account operator whose vehicle was found to have 23 detects when submitted for annual test had his licence prematurely...

VOLKSWAGEN and MAN will have one of the most comprehensive commercial vehicle ranges available in Britain in three years' time,...

MEASURES are in hand tighten further standards exhaust emissions from peti engined vehicles said Trar port Under Secretary Jol...

ARLY £ 1 /2m has been spent by the Transport Department tee 1974 on reports from professional management consultts. A...

ENTRY of Spain, Portugal and Greece into the Common Market is unlikely to affect Community policy on road passenger...

Export capacity GOOD British exporters are a good match for overseas exporters, said British Overseas Trade Board chairman Sir...

'United Biscuits has appointed Bob Selkirk as managing director of' its new distribution company, UB Distribution Services. Mr...

ITISH busmen are keeping their eyes fixed on the outcome a strike in Eire which could give Dublin city bus drivers a ;lc wage...

CORAS Iompair Eireann's plans to build Americanengined West German buses at Shannon in Western Ireland are still bogged down...

YSIDE Regional Council is :ouraging wider use of DliC transport by offering nday bargain tickets to For 70p, two adults and...

LEYLAND'S Vehicles' high hopes for the Leyland National in Moscow may never come to fruition if Hungarian bus manufacturer...

A LONG-AWAITED local bus service started this week in Erskine New Community in Renfrewshire. Western SMT, with support from...

ULSTERBUS expects to reach a decision later this year future vehicle policy, and this could be the answer to Ireland's bus...

DAF Trucks has added two new passenger chassis to its vehicle range. The SB210 DKL is a horizontally-mounted rear-engined...

THE GREATER London Council has a £239m transport budget for the next financial year. £137 million of this is revenue...

WRECKERS International of Hertford has introduced a new light wrecker called the Bulldog 2. It is a single-boom 12 or 24V...

MUNICIPAL Trailers of Bamber Bridge, Preston built this four-axled step-frame semi-trailer for Scottish Land Plant Hire at...

stepframe tipper A HAULIER is getting an extra 4.6cum (6cuyd) from each of five tipping semi-trailers by using a stepframe...

A NEW RANGE of additional fuel tanks for lorries has been introduced by Thermo Welded Fabrications of Loughton, Essex. The...

VOLVO has replaced the TD 120A engine in its bonnetted N12 construction vehicle with the latest TI) 120E version. The engine...

LATER this year DAF is to offer the all synchromesh S-130 gearbox from ZF as an alternative to the 13-speed constantmesh Fuller...

For heavy lorry applications, the six-cylinder versions are available in KT-450 and KTA-600 ratings with the type number...

Holset Engineering Co Ltd of Huddersfield, Yorkshire has bee awarded a contract worth E1/2m for Ford original equipment. The...

by Noel Maher ROBLEMS involved in the isposal of old buses have ecome somewhat contenous since Reading and Cariff started the...

Show report by Steve Gray. Pictures by Dick Ross ALTHOUGH there is little that's completely new at the Brussels Show which...

How on earth can the EEC expect to equalise competition between hauliers in the Community when there is such disparity in the...

With reference to CM'S Convoy Scheme during hazardous con.ditions on motorways, surely much more could be done within present...

au Fagot One of the objects of the Foster Committee was to recommend anything that will improve road safety. Then why was no...

the p David Page-Thomas might be angry with coach operators who are earning £900 per coach per day (CM, January 19). I am not...

MIK Up It must be one of life's greatest ironies that the vital necessity of the very thing which so many people would not...

You periodically feature article in CM about the Army and itS transport vehicles and I an' writing to ask if you might be able...

by Brian Chalmers-Hunt 3ELLING by auction is the :econd oldest business in the NorId but transport managers lave only regarded...

Dr Foster, you may recall, went to Gloucester in a shower of rain. Because of a cut in public spending and consequent neglect...

As if the British tax system were not already complicated almost beyond comprehension, Prof Foster, an economist to his finger...

I gather that the New Zealand Government is opposed to a fuel tax because it believes that it will give rise to widespread...

Thieves are still attacking lorry tyres with two 6in nails in a piece of wood. Three Roadline drivers have recently beaten...

The Road Haulage Association, which lost appeals to the Transport Tribunal against the grant of licences to three applicants...

Publication of the Foster repor recommending that roadsidE checks of lorries should be madE by night as well as by da coincided...

by Les Olding(CEI). MIMI, AMIRTE Chges in C &U Reptions, CONTINUING the 1978 Construction and Use Regulations, we now, that...

The compression ignition engine, 4 THE TWO main differences between the petrol and the compression ignition (diesel) engine...

by Alan Millar Pic - ures by Brian Weatherley VHEN a haulier or coach ■ perator sells redundant 'ehicles, he simply wants the...

from the smooth • teve Gray on what to look for in second hand hgvs GLANCE at the classified Ivertisement columns in %4 is a...