State your case NOW THAT David Howell has said that proposals for heavier vehicle weights will be put before Parliament "in...

Did you know that it is Information Technology Year? Has the message got through? For that is the whole crux of information...

HE GOVERNMENT has no intention of penalising responsible perators, Junior Transport Minister Lynda Chalker assured MPs on...

THE GOVERNMENT is proposing to introduce wheel clamps in an experiment to give the Metropolitan Police an extra measure to...

NEARLY HALF of Britain's hauliers will turn in losses in 1982, according to an ICC Business Ratios report on 100 leading...

HOUSE OF COMMONS transport committee member Gary Waller (Conservative, Brighouse and Spenborough) has succeeded Epsom and Ewell...

WITNESS summonses requiring the attendance of representatives of tachograph manufacturers Lucas Kienzle and Veeder Root were...

A HAULIERS co-operative wants land to be made available for operators when surplus Ministry of Defence land in Portsmouth is...

UNITED PARCELS made a pos tax profit of Dim for the ye ended January 30(1981: £3.6m Cross County Carriers Lt1 based in Dublin,...

311R MEN who had been in business as freight agents and were lid to have swindled hauliers and others out of 000,000 were ven...

NEW initiative to reduce the igh number of manual handmg accidents has been , unched with the publication of consultative...

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL has been chosen by the EEC Com mission as a priority project when Common Market funds are available to...

THE International Road Transport Union has awarded its Grand Prix d'Honneur to a West German lorry driver. In May 14, 1980...

HAULAGE rates for larger consignments rose by an average of 6.6 per cent in the quarter to March this year, according to the...

THE BEST PAID distribution HE FIRST joint annual conference of the Centre for Physical Distriution Management and the Institute...

CORAS lompair Eireann, Ireland's semi-state transport company, has relaunched its parcels delivery service as Transtrack, a...

HE CM Lorry Driver of the 'ollowing results: Londonderry: Class A: F. E. ) earson (British Telecom); Class 3: J. Hamilton...

At a ceremony to mark the event at King's Norton railhead in Birmingham last week, Cartransport managing director (Graham...

AN operator who had his licence revoked for not informing the Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority that he was changing the site...

THE Department of Transport is likely to decide within the next few days if Tyne and Wear County Council can impose a 25 per...

TERRY STALLARD o Blackheath, London, trading a Terry Stallard Transport, ha had his case referred back to tiv Metropolitan...

ROADS used by lorries running to and from ports in East Anglia will be given the "highest priority", according to Transport...

BREWER AND TURNBULL, the Preston-based removals and storage company, has launched a priority moving service for industry and...

iN UPDATE rather than the final results of the Centre for Physical istribution Management's distribution costs survey was given...

BANSPORT Driver Training's orogramme of courses for the pring and summer include Inlustrial First Aid on May 27 and lune 24....

A YUGOSLAV incentive scheme has been devised to encourage road hauliers destined for the Middle East to travel via the Koper...

RYDEWELL Suspensions Ltd has become part of the McCahill Group of Companies in a deal finalised only last week, after several...

KING TRAILERS of Market Ha borough, Leicestershire, has al nounced an order worth mm than Elm for the supply of large number of...

CRANE FRUEHAUF is to become fitting and servicing agents for Avolift, manufacturer of tailgate loaders. Operators who need...

Bid to boost buses THE CONFEDERATION of Briti changing its name to the Bus £500,000 campaign to rescue the The change of name,...

MORE rigid enforcement of rules governing "closed door" coach tours by French authorities have resulted in stiff fines for some...

PASSENGER levels on Tyne and Wear PTE's integrated bus and Metro network have risen beyond the predicted level. Total...

COACH OPERATORS allowing football hooligans on their coaches could have their operator's licence suspended or revoked, said...

LONDON TRANSPORT is too i portant to be treated as a pol cal football, Confederation British Industry deputy direc general...

UGH FARES charged on buses operated by Crosville Motor Serrices in Rhyl in North Wales have prompted local independent Les...

OPPOSITION transport spokesman Robert Hughes tried to regulate the hours worked by part-time bus drivers this week, when the...

TAYSIDE Region's transport committee has approved a £1.7m order for 30 Volvo Ailsa B55 double-deckers. Fifteen buses are to be...

Neoplan US order THE Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has placed an order with Neoplan USA Corporation for the supply...

STRATHCLYDE PTE has conducted a two-week trial of a Chloride-powered Dodge 50Series battery electric 19-seat midibus. The bus,...

A DUBLIN Transport Authori is still high on the Irish Gover ment's list of priorities, accor ing to Transport Minister Jol...

The 2100 and 2300 series connue but with a rationalised pecification and to these will be dded the 2500 series. All three...

AECONOGUIDE piston (CM, indurance test in a 1275cc petrol Test results to date have ihown a reduction in engine fricion of up...

CARTWRIGHT Freight Systems Ltd of Altrincham, Cheshire has launched a new demountable body system aimed at reducing the capital...

ROR gears A NEW range of power operated landing gears designed to speed up the coupling and uncoupling of trailers has been...

ENERGY and Waste Systems Ltd of Westbury, Wilts is now marketing the Go-Gator and Terra-Gator chassis cab for an on/off and off...

WHAT ROBIN KNOX-Johnston calls "sailing's answer to the boxing ring" is being sponsored by Volvo Truck and Bus (Great Britain)...

WITH PRINCESS ANNE presenting the prizes at the Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year Competition and the Duke of...

I WAS SURPRISED and gratified that the Press, which is usually the last to figure in a list of guests to be welcomed, was...

HOWEVER, THERE ARE some who would think it odd that, at a time when road haulage urgently needs constant favourable publicity...

IF I WERE a commercial vehicle manufacturer I might think twice about boasting of record sales of replacement parts. I might be...

BATTLES ARE SAID to have been lost for lack of a nail in a 0 horse's shoe. But when the first Royal Mail Postbus service was...

AS AN organisation representing the interests of the owner operators of this country, who comprise over half of all road...

IT IS SAD to see the way the big bus operators struggle to hang on to their monopolies when private companies have the...

REMEMBER all those times when you are sitting in your office, thinking that life is going smoothly, and some awkward colleague...

FROM the Factories Act to VAT, from industrial training levies to accounts: all are covered in Groner's Reference Book for...

EVERY year goods worth flOm are reported stolen from road transport, according to Kogan Page, publisher of the Road Transport...

THE continuirvg changes in vehicle design and the improvements in technology, which invariably result in increased performance,...

WHEN a new vehicle is bought, tyres are too often an incidental which is lost in the total price. They should instead be a...

STUDENTS can enrol now for the CMSpecial Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage...

Accidents can happen and they can be crippling — physically and financially. John C. Vann describes an insurance policy that...

RESEARCH and development are two closely related topics which account for a sizable slice of company budgets. Although the...

iE DIFFERENCE between a car id a commercial vehicle tyre is A one of size alone. When the r tyre punctures, the motorist ies...

THE TEMPTATION for drivers and operators to ignore batteries is a strong one. Manufacturers often locate them in inaccessible...

CLIVE DURRANT, formerly divisional manager of British Railways Eastern Region, has become director of marketing for...

AT BP OH International's seminar earlier this month, delegates examined a Finnish monocoque road tanker similar to two...

reckoned that every kilogramme saved was worth about E3 per year. On that basis, the extra cost of this monocoque tanker, which...

IN THE last article it was said that air braking components could be divided into four groups (1) Compression and Storage, (2)...