THE LAST word on the Dock Work Regulation Bill has been spoken. The Bill has become an Act. It was all too simple reducing the...

by CM reporter HAS INDUSTRY been conned over the dockers' reduced corridors of power? Now that the dockers' exclusive...

WARNINGS of high increases in ferry charges has been issued to international road hauliers by the Road Haulage Association. The...

HIGHER bus fares — perhaps as much as 20 per cent — will result from a reduction of £30 million in the Government's Transport...

DESPITE advice from the Chief Constable of South Wales, West Glamorgan County Council is to introduce lorry routes. The Chief...

see that more money is spent on signposting roads, so that heavy goods vehicles avoid towns, met with little success in the...

EXPERIMENTS with fare reductions carried out by Crosville Motor Services succeeded in attracting more passengers to the buses....

FEARS of a dispute over roll-on roll-off services on the south coast diminished this week as Portsmouth dockers allowed cargo...

nationalised industries and politicians and civil servants are the main reasons for the lack of success at the National Freight...

AS Black County hauliers signed a new pay agreement with the Transport and General Workers' Union last week Scottish hauliers...

A GREATER London Council plan to impose a system of permits for hauliers bringing lorries into London was expected to be...

their rates trimmed by the Prices Commission — by a fifth of one per cent. The original increase sought by the NFC was an...

the Government would be thankful for the brake Parliament had applied to the port plans. So said Mr John Silbermann,...

THE UK Association of Frozen Food Producers has updated its code of practice for handling of quick frozen foods. The code...

Paid for drinking tea, playing cards SOME drivers were being paid not to work because they threatened to go on the dole unless...

ZF GEARS showed off its semi-automatic Transmatic transmission, comprising a gearbox plus torque converter, at the Public Works...

APPREHENSION about the possibility of Waste Disposal Authorities applying dual standards to site licensing was voiced by two...

BRITISH Rail is making a concerted bid to win international freight business by introducing new fast services to Europe without...

go-round FOR the first time since it was set up in March, the Employment Appeal Tribunal went on circuit last week to hear...

ANOTHER warning to hauliers to keep a close eye on their charges came last week from Road Haulage Association national...

Dr Ing Hermann Bruns has joined Leyland Truck and Bus as chief engineer, test operations. Dr Bruns, moves to Leyland from BMW...

THE FUTURE expansion of international road freight movements to and from Germany will have to be met by special quota...

BOTH State-owned bus companies — the National Bus Company and the Scottish Bus Group — are hoping to make a profit in the...

THE NATIONAL Bus Company has completed its "full house" of decker types by ordering one of the first Dennis prototypes. It is...

APPLICATIONS for road service licences for a proposed European express coach service are being opposed by a number of bus and...

service from Mansfield to Nottingham has met with objections from Trent and East Midland, but Rainworth is confident of...

POSSIBLY because of the novelty the venue this year, the Public Works Exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre at...

union 'bogey' by John Darker TRADE UNION membership is a "bogey subject" for removers, said a member of the British Association...

TRADITIONALLY at this time of the year we review the performance of trucks and buses which have been tested by Commercial Motor...

George Allott, CM's Lorry Driver of the Year, joins John Durant for the trip of a lifetime ANDERE VERHALTNISSE. Or, as it is...

TALKING about things being too easy to join William Wolfe, chairman of the Scottish National Party and principal guest at the...

CLEMENT FREUD, the chap who, before they made him an MP, used to appear with Henry, the bloodhound, on Telly, started an...

LAST WEEK'S BAR conference in London was in the typical BAR mould — a fashion now being copied by others. There were no golf...

FRANK TINSDALE, the Magirus Deutz British md, got a mild shock last week at about 30,000ft He was making one of his not...

THIS industry of ours has seen many changes over the years, but one part of the establishment that remains constant is the...

In Johnny Johnson's article on weight checks in the port of Newhaven (CM, Nov 12) he states that the criterion which this...

Having just found time to completely finish reading CM September 24, the Show issue, I feel I must write to say how excellent...

of the drivers able to claim hgv licences under the Road Traffic (Drivers' Ages and Hours of Work) Act 1976 have yet claimed...

been offered livestock traffic which can carry by adding a demountable container. This will increase the unladen weight of my...

logbooks to buy their products. This involves four daily logsheets being printed to the first page of the book and three...

motor trader in accordance with the provisions of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971, and, although it was agreed that my business...

Martin Watkins road tests the Leyland National 'Suburban Express'. Dick Ross took the photos With just 2,000 miles on the...

ALTHOUGH we tend to think of safety as a case of meeting with the selection of a various regulations, it really starts vehicle...

ACCORDING to George Bernard Shaw, it is foolish to get into contention with somebody who believes that the earth is flat. He...

by Les Oldridge, T.Eng(CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE FOR THE offence of theft to be complete there must be an intention by the thief to...