The Government's avowed intent to cut public spending has raised the predictable political wailing from the Opposition. Public...

CHARTERED Institute I Transport director-gener Brigadier Donald Locke pr sented the Centre for Physic Distribution Managemel...

LATIONAL Carriers' Homeward" home delivery ?rvice is no longer a national .rvice and the operational tsponsibility for Homeward...

Fs GRP (glass reinforced plastic) tanker has now received learance from the Health and Safety Executive to deliver petrol the...

-TRANCE is to enforce speed imits strictly and in some :.ases reduce them as part of a mckage of measures designed .o cut the...

MERCEDES-BENZ may bring in a new range of engines to s its model range of over 16 tons at the Frankfurt Show September. New...

HULL IS to have a new freight service aimed at cutting out the low-price freight services that have been offered from the Hull...

A NEW RANGE of transmission with six, nine and 13speed models is to be introduced by Eaton at the Frankfurt Show in September....

NATIONAL Carriers has ch lenged a survey which claim that many small carriers I not increase their prices 1978. It says that...

THERE WILL be news sot about the inquiry into lorri and their impact on the e vironment. Transport Minist Norman Fowler said in...

GOVERNMENT expects the ean tachograph regulations to be the autumn. 5 forecast was given in the Cornlast week by Parliamentary...

SMMT working party on demountbodies is shortly to announce a lard that will allow clear-deck dert system interchangeability on...

ectric THERN ELECTRICITY d's Chairman John ;ewood has commenced ectric vehicle evaluation ramme which, if sucal, could mean...

WELL, they've got over their first hurdle. The Government's transport team and their Labour opponent have been blooded at...

DRIVER who injured his back at work and became incapable performing work of the kind he was employed to do was not fairly...

IE GOVERNMENT hopes to roduce during this session Parliament some of the legttion needed to reform the affic Licensing system,...

[STAIR CHAIRMAN David Hargreaves told CM this week Lt the special vehicles division (Hestair Dennis and Hestair ee) lost...

REPRESENTATIVES of Berg Paints were present in Londo last week to receive th Commercial Motor Liver Competition class award....

IT WAS NO excuse for holders of hgv driving licences to claim that they were not aware that they must be surrendered to the LA...

ONLY 44 per cent of the Scottish companies profile( a financial survey increa: their profits over a 12-moi period. Two years'...

TRANSPORT and General Workers Union Leeds regional officer David Bolton has hit out at campaigns to introduce Citizens Band...

BRITISH ROAD Services could be competing with its former sister company, Freightliner, if a customer wants a rail/road system...

HE PRINCIPLE of heavy vehicle bans that should allow lverS to reach their overnight lodgings has been upheld by Usk agistrates...

THE GREATER LONDO Council is to go ahead with planned £104m relief road serve London's dockland but it has deferred a decish on...

DEFENDING THE .Gover ment's decision to look age at Labour's plans to do aw with vehicle excise dut Transport Minister Norm,...

TRANSPORT MINISTER Norman Fowler last week gave an assurance that there would be a free vote on the seat belts bill which, he...

RATCLIFF TAIL Lifts have reduced their range of mobile loading banks to three. The lifting platforms are electrohydraulically...

THE BRITISH Rubber Manufacturers' Association's Service Manual for Truck Tyres now incorporates new legislation affecting truck...

THE AUSTIN-MOR1 Sherpa pick-up is now av able as a fire appliance. ' approved conversion, kno as Firesprite, is being done Town...

A MODULAR second; decking system, called Di II, is now being manufactu in the UK by BKL Extrusii Ltd of Birmingham. Deck II...

ENAULT TRUCKS and ises have introduced a new intender in the under-7.5-ton nge of commercial vehicles. Plated at 7.38ton gvw,...

I soon found that the best ear-change points were 3000 )m upwards and 1600 on the .ay down. With the 4.55 eandard axle ratio,...

THE 16-TON RIGID fri Magirus-Deutz is now avg able for the UK mark Known as the 168M 16FL was first shown in protot3 form at...

FOR THREE WEEKS the city of Hamburg has been host to the largest-ever European transport exhibition. The show, which closes on...

vehicles, introduced a new 6 x 6 tipper chassis retaining the unique Tatra spine chassis but using a KHD air-c000led V8 diesel...

GREY-GREEN TRAVEL of London sponsored the Great British Showbus Rally at Hillingdon for the first time last weekend. The...

THREE-QUARTERS of registered in 1967-8 are stil the road — compared v only 15 per cent of hgv. So says ROSPA's newspa Care on...

THE GOVERNMENT has no intention of introducing a natio scheme of concessionary fares at present. Stating this in the Commons,...

TRANSPORT SUBSIDIES are needs, said Kenneth Clarke, Transport, last week — but local money from their own spending William...

1OBILE LIBRARIES are as aried as their contents. They ange from Ford Transit-based ehicles up to 40ft conainers and are...

Brian Chalmers-Hunt reviews rie Solid Wastes Management exh'ibition at Scarborough. Harry Roberts took the pictures. VISITORS...

International Harvester faced its biggest challenge ever when it won a 214-Tuck contract for Saudi Arabia POSSIBLE to set down...

WAS AMAZED at Mr F. K. 'eachey's comments on .eeping lorry weights down CM, June 8). He claims his Niel peaceful street has...

John Durant visits a local au ority with a part council, part-contracted rubbish collection Pictures by Brian Weaterle , THE...

Price of progress Like bungalows in comparison with houses, single-deck buses have risen in price even more steeply than...

Noel Miller reviews e market for welfare transp( and spots likely builders from e regio PUBLIC EXPENDITURE cuts will clearly...

Local government reform has meant sweeping changes in tie management in Stra clyde. By Alan Millar. Pictures by Dick Rc...

WHEN the new council was established it soon found that most of the old authorities had only half costed their transport. The...

A RATIONALISED vehicle policy is being introduced slowly throughout the department, but cutbacks in the region's budget have...

:LJEL SUPPLIES were very nuch on my mind when I met )ick Housley and John Lindsay, iut they feel happy about Inter al...

at one big gulp Fergussons argue that municipal operators will do better to invest in higher capaci - y gully emptiers, Graham...

If the quality of training has anything to do with it, then they migh just be ambulancemen. Report by David Wilcox Pictures by...

FORD'S C3 automatic gearbox has been used for some years on the Granada car range. We tested a Transit 80 with it fitted this...

Alan Millar looks at a multi-puroose transport cancer which could spread. Pic - tires by Dick Ra THE TRANSPORT problems of...

National Freight Corporation company Western British Road Services has announced two senior management promotions. Brian...