Economists tell us that the OPEC cartel will increase crude oil prices by 15 per cent before the end of this year. Already we...

TOP industry executive has lisappeared in the Middle :ast. He is Hestair Dennis's ranaging director John mith, who was...

TANKER DRIVERS working for two of the big oil companies have already accepted new pay deals, and drivers at a third oil company...

VOLVO BUS (Great Britain) has re-christened the frontengined Ailsa double-decker the British Volvo B55. Company general...

VEHICLE EXCISE tax coul be done away with at a cost less than an extra 16p a galloi This figure was released by th Treasury...

TWO of the largest importers of commercial vehicles in Britain have taken on new executives. Chrysler UK's national truck...

on new flee . NEW VEHICLES wor £225,000 form part of a nE delivery contract signed bc ween Renwicks Freight a . Reed...

E F EIGHT Transport Association tol the Health and Safety Commist its draft proposals for regulating ge of dangerous goods by...

PO ICE and fire officers probed the sibi 'ty that a £300,000 fire at a Dundee isp rt yard had been started delibery, t e...

S ARE parts for MAN and Volks;en ommercial vehicles are held now he ew centre at Bradford in West ksh re. he 5,000 sqft depot...

IT JUST goes to show that you shouldn't believe everything you read. In newspapers at least. There it was, confidently forecast...

1ERKSHIRE County Council wants its controversial Windsor 2ordon to become permanent, and is making moves to put it nto effect...

HE TRANSPORT Minister as asked in the Commons to 'sure that adequate free parng would be available for avv goods vehicles when...

DON International, manufacturer of brake and clutch linings, has opened a new distribution depot in Bristol. The 6000sqft...

DIESEL and petrol prices in Sweden went up last week following the latest OPEC rise. Diesel went up by 20 Ore a litre,...

A SURVEY on the financial state of the road haulage industry published this week and covering 300 companies for 1978 shows that...

IN MANY of the area heats for the 1979 Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year cont. est tanker drivers are pickinE up most...

THIS YEAR'S Fleet Management Conference, which takes place on October 24, has already attracted 520 delegates. The conference...

THE VAT INCREASE o freight charges will t reflected in operators' charge but it will not affect their cos or their...

A RAPID expansion of tl present network Government-approved cot mercial tachograph centr( particularly in less dense populated...

FODENS went into the red by more than aim last financial year. The company blames poor exports and depressed sales of...

THE GREATER London Council will not take special steps to short-circuit the normal planning process for the building of the...

STRATHCLYDE Regional Council's internal transport department is buying 342 vehicles and plant as part of its 1979/80 vehicle...

RETREAD TYRE manufacturers are trying to improve the image of their industry and product. The Retread Manufacturers'...

WORK is proceeding on draft regulations to require compliance with new EEC braking standards for lorries, and comprehensive...

CAMBRIDGESHIRE Count3 Council is to go electric wit} its fleet of mobile libraries This week a Hydrotechniel British-built...

.,43 ER SPEED restrictions or c immercial vehicles would 'ed ce wet weather spray 'ro heavy lorries. That's the' on lusion of a...

A TANK for testing cylinder heads for porosity or cracks is now available from Purpose Engineers Ltd, Duffield Road, Little...

TRANSPORT Minister Norman Fowler still refuses to take Governmental action to ensure that bus companies have all the fuel they...

METRO-CAMMELL Weymann is thinking of converting its Metrobus providing the basis for a trolley or dualmode bus for the future....

TRANSPORT Minister No] man Fowler may direct Joe authorities on ways to encoi rage private enterprise min coach services. "I...

WATER BUSES should be used to ferry tourists into Windsor while their coaches park on the outskirts of the town, Christopher...

A £3.3M SCHEME has been proposed for rebuilding and expanding the St Margaret's bus station in Leicester to cater for all...

DAF HAS appointed another specialist coach dealer to supply its MB 200 DKL passenger chassis. Erringtons, of Oadby, Leicester,...

CRANE FRUEHAUF'S new range of hydraulic neck low loading trailers (CM, July 20) look set to be winners. Last week in Suffolk,...

kS A MEMBER of the en)ineering staff at London Transport's Fulwell Garage, I am writing to refute, before they 'Awl the now...

WAS MOST interested in the .1tter from David Lock (Dear Sir, une 15) who has been trying to in London Transport as a bus rive...

HOW REFRESHING to read your recent article about Ulsterbus and in particular to note the comments of its managing director...

I REALLY must take exception to the comments (CM, June 29) by Mr Bolton of the TGWU on Citizens' Band. Surveys conducted in...

I HAVE noticed a lack of comment on the very relevant and topical subject of Citizens" Band radio, in your editorial and...

ABOUT the story in CM, June 29, "Union raps CB radio." surely Mr Bolton's place is to worry about his members" wishes. The cost...

Tim Blakemore calls on operators to take eir own fate into their hands and slow down even if they only run 6,5 tonners THE CM...

Bill Brock continues CM "s slow-down theme with another set of comparative runs, this time with a DAF 16-tanner o r transport...

WITH THE rapidly increasing cost of derv, more and more operators are looking at what is available on the market to help them...

The bus is intrinsically fuel economical, says Noel Millier, so if the bus suffers fuel cut-backs, it will eventually cost the...

THE EXHIBITION of London bus posters that closed at Foyle's on July 18 was much more than that. It was a microcosm of social...

A TRACTIVE UNIT with a trailer loaded with a container goes by. There's no livery. What would be the chance of anyone working...

COMPARABILITY studies have been extended from incomparable jobs to the prevalence and acceptability of dishonesty. They were...

IT WOULD BE pleasing if th new attraction at the home c the British motor industry — th Museum of British Road Tram port,...

NEXT WEEK CM publishes its 1979/80 Tables of Operating' Costs. Orders should be placed now for this indispensable publication....

Bill Godwin reports on the latest developments on energy saving from Sweden, Germany and Italy. MILITARY NEEDS for an engine...

by Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MI I, AMIRTE VEHICLE OPERATORS 30M times ask how long a prok n-down vehicle can be left pn he hard...

IN HE LAST article it was stat d that the improper mixing of r dial and cross-ply tyres is dan erous as well as being illegal....