THE LABOUR PARTY this week discussed its transport policy document at Blackpool with the anticipated generation of much heat....

HE INDUSTRY was brought into the sharp focus of public concern st weekend when a Salford transport depot was destroyed by...

THE LABOUR Party came out in total opposition this week to increasing maximum lorry weights to 40 tonnes. At their Party...

TRANSPORT and General Workers Union regions are deciding the final details of the coming winter's haulage drivers' wage round,...

IPROVED facilities for lorry [rivers and better lorry handling ielped attract further business o Dover, the town's harbour...

THE GOVERNMENT is not practising what it preaches on cost cutting, Freight Transport Association deputy director general Gary...

SELLERS and Batty (Haffield) Ltd, formerly part of the Lex Service Group has been bought out by its management team. From now...

KARRIER MOTORS will stop ir porting Renault's J-Serif medium range commercia from next year, and will dello . its efforts to...

DATAFREIGHT, British Road Services' computerised load matchin service, has entered its second phase this week with the launchin...

LANE CLOSURES are in operation on a quarter-mile section of the westbound carriageway of the M4 at Hounslow, West London...

ILIC AUTHORITIES have been criticised for their lack of support dectric vehicles, reports our Parliamentary correspondent. le...

THE TINKERHILL section of the main Belfast-Newry road is to be upgraded to dual carriageway standard at a cost of £1.6m. The...

THE LABOUR Party's doubts about nationalisation of road haulage are borne out by a public opinion poll commissioned by the Aims...

months of 1982 only 10 per t expect to increase their f, against 15 per cent in the te period last year. the three months to...

GRAIN MERCHANTS should thin hauliers offering attractively low tion's agricultural hauliers' group It is concerned about the...

DISCUSSIONS are taking place at the EEC between traffic experts on the problem of heavy or awkward loads passing by lorry from...

JOINT PLANS for the development of key road/rail freight distribution and warehousing complexes in major cities were unveiled...

THE HENRY SPUR)IIER Memorial Lecture to be presented to the Chartered Institute of Transport by Society of Motor Manufacturers...

OPERATORS who hire vehicles need to watch carefully the length of the hired period otherwise they might find themselves facing...

A SCOTTISH solicitor cla last month that two Dutch drivers had appeared in because of feelings of il against the Dutch in...

FOR ELLIOTT takes over as tor of South Humberside ;port Ltd, a road transport any within the Melton aing Group. the past three...

KEITH POWELL has joined TI Bradbury of Braintree, Essex as commercial manager. He will be responsible for the running of the...

TWO new appointments have followed the opening of Rentco's branch in Rushden, No Ron Suley has been promoted from Birmingham...

EDBRO of Bolton, manufacturer of hydraulic power systems and lorry bodies, has reorganised its sales and marketing force....

ICEDES-Benz (UK) has enlisted the services of Henry Harvey to over the marketing of Marcedes-Benz Unimog and MB-trac lucts...

IAN LONGWORTH has succeeded Harry Armstrong as operations manager of National Travel West's Manchester coaching unit. Although...

We record with regret the death of John Paul at 70. Mr Paul was area transport superintendent to the South of Scotland...

TALBOT Motor Company, the British subsidiary of the Peugeot-Citroen (PSA) group, has released details of the Express range of...

THE first two automatic S24 Scammell 6x4 heavy haulage tractive units to enter service in Britain are operating with the...

1RD'S 1983 model year TL : middleweights and VAS 3 bus chassis will have higher-powered variants Iford's 3.6-litre and 5.4led...

PERKINS ENGINES has spent over Om on installing cylinder block and head machining lines at its Eastfield Peterborough factory....

TRANSPORT SECRETARY David ware of the public's need for bus tion of Metropolitan Authorities, After a meeting between the AMA...

BERTIE THE BUS, the E Coach Council's campai trobus was blacked bri the Transport and G Workers Union last week The bus, which...

ANOTHER of the National Bus Company's large operating subsidiaries — Western National — could be divided along Midland Red...

GARDNER has released details of a horizontal version of its sixcylinder turbocharged engine aimed at the coach market, and...

IMED to be the first event of ind, a group of professional Ts is to undertake a tenare tour using National Ex m scheduled coach...

YEOWARTS, the Whitehaven, Cumbria operator in competition with Cumberland Motor Services, is planning to run more stage...

BLUEUNE COACHES of London has beaten National Express in the race to start a prestige coach service between London and...

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT Permanent Secretary Sir Peter Baldwin was scheduled to launch London's first alternative transport...

4 The Institute of Road Transport Engineers is holding . a talk on the "Recycling of Lubricants." L. Kilbourne, a technical...

PIE has followed Plaxton by introducing a front-end conversion :kage to update coaches with Duple Dominant 1 bodies. cle is...

A NEW AXLE aimed at allowing a only slightly more than a current Rubery Owen-Rockwell. It is claimed that the axle, designated...

FORD UK and Lucas Ltd hi joined the Petrol Engi Working Party set up by the search Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Authority at...

Government and Transport was the theme of the Chartered Institute of Transport's conference last week, which ensured that...

The Bus and Coach Council unveiled details of its forthcoming national publicity campaign at its get together last week. It...

The Dodge 50-Series S66E electric vehicli acquitted itself well over our 91km route and its operating costs were a third of a...

IN the continuing recession, it would appear that apart from the banks and the debt collectors, another peripheral of industry...

OVER the past years we have heard much about the use of the right-foot in the conservation of fuel. It is appreciated that...

JOHN DURANT'S report in CM, September 4, reminded me of the excellent work carried out by the Area Maintenance Advisory...

E ROYAL British Legion, ich, incidentally, trains twods of London's taxi drivers, is )ealing to the public to be lecially...

E GREATER London Council's )posal to levy a special tax on ■ torists entering central ndon has been compared by RAC with T. E....

PETER THOMPSON and his colleagues started something infectious when they floated the scheme to buy the National Freight Co. The...

WHEN GEORGE NEWNES, who was created a baronet in 1896, founded the magazine, Tit Bits, and a fortune in 1881, he can have had...

THIS STORY is claimed by Private Eye to be true: "Greatly to my embarrassment I have been forced to turn season-ticket buyers...

Progress in electrical systems has been limited in recent years but Lucas is hopeful that a production breakthrough will lead...

THOSE WHO write for the specialist road transport press can count on a sympathetic readership when they indulge in a little...

Graham Montgomerie assesses the state of electric vehicle development, and looks at the crucial costing figures that will...

Inadequate destination displays on buses and coaches can produce much irritation and even, at times, panic among passenge Noel...

OST DISCUSSIONS about gislation concentrate on its erits or defects. Talk might rn to obscurities of wording; e format is...

THE ONLY SURE WAY to gain your Certificate of Professional Competence is to set aside a period of time in which to study the...