A NATIONAL network of lorry routes will be set up by the Government, it was announced in the Commons last week by Dr John...

THE National Freight Corporation is to be given grants of E8m over the next few months, Transport Minister Dr John Gilbert...

A YOUNG driver who took an unpaid job with a haulier because he wanted to drive a truck, died after a brake component failed...

'HE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board is heavily critiIzed In recommendations by the Road Haulage Association to he Board...

Future uncertain rHE Transport Tribunal reserved decisions on three ippeals by the Road Haulage kssociation against 0-licence...

A NEW-STYLE British Transport Commission is unlikely tc be the overlord of the integrated transport system which wit figure...

MAKING his first appearance as the Tories' Shadow Transport Minister, Mr Norman Fowler said in the Commons transport debate...

long distances. Mr Peter Fry (Tory, Wellingborough) accused the Government of proceeding in transport "by a series of nudges,...

BUS and rail workers need to be told where they stood in the transport policy review, Mr Leslie Huckfield (Labour, Nuneaton)...

says ETA THE FTA has hit back at accusations of driver poaching by the RHA, do not do their share own-account operators who,...

AN industrial chernist was flown by RAF helicopter to a storm-battered ferry in the North Sea this week to advise on how to...

WHEN convicted of traffic offences and disqualified from driving the holder of an hgv licence must surrender that licence to...

SECRETARY of State Michael Foot's controversial Docks Work Regulation Bill will come up for second reading in the Commons next...

Mr C. John French. publishing director of Commercial Motor and a director of IPC Business Press Ltd, is to retire on March 31,...

SHORT HAULS Take-off BRS Truck Rental got its new branch at Heathrow Airport off the ground last week by landing a rental...

THE Road Haulage Association was successful in opposing a Rothwell (Northants) company, Redbourne Transportation Ltd, when that...

PROBLEMS of unloading in the wet have been overcome by Vanplan's latest furniture vans. The new van has side doors that are...

DYNAMIC weighing equipment, has been installed at Mitcheson's Gill opencast colliery site in Co Durham by the National Coal Board.

BULK carriers in the Republic of Ireland are expected to contact their Northern counterparts to agree a rates structure for...

WHEN the Automobile Association's 4m annual Members' Handbooks are distributed in April this year they will travel in haulage...

The AA's solution is to trunk the copies in bulk from their printers in Leeds, using hauliers, to regional distribution...

FOREIGN commercial vehicle sales per cent last year while overall sales in the UK slumped by 24 fell by only seven per cent....

of information which at the time we had no reason to doubt, it was stated that the longestablished name of Sparshatts was to...

Jobs register A JOBS REGISTER for drivers is to be started by the Continental Freight Drivers' Club to find members both...

Children in danger THE CONDITION of some public service vehicles being used to carry school children under contract in the...

Cropper, who argued that Mr Bayliss wanted London Transport and British Rail to pay at the expense of others. He said any...

AFTER the drastic shortage of double-deck bus chassis in recent years bodybuilders now have more than they know what to do...

THE 1976 tours brochure of National Travel (Midlands) Ltd was so complicated and difficult to understand that it was on a par...

Pick-up a Datsun DATSUN has joined its fellow Japanese vehicle makers in introducing a pick-up truck— the 620—to the UK...

THE idea of using aluminium in truck design to keep the weight down has been around a long time but cost factors and fatigue...

SERVICING workshops for all makes of diesel fuel injection equipment—Bosch, Bryce, CAV, Cummins, Friedman and Maier, Gardner,...

six months by the National Freight Corporation has averaged 40.4 litres/100km (7.0mpg). And the pulling power is copious, even...

A NEW swop-body system has been announced today by York Trailer Co Ltd, after two years on operational trial. The system, known...

UP TO NOW we've been looking at the law on unfair dismissals and how it is interpreted by the tribunals. To illustrate the...

GORDON THOMSON, a traffic operator with Scotway Haulage Ltd, has won the Commercial Motor prize in the RSA road transport...

WHAT HAPPENS if one of your light vans, a vehicle which has to undergo the MoT test for cars, fails the test ? Do you or your...

motor cars and motorcycles should be subject to annual examination three years from the date of registration (or, in those...

EVERY manufacturer of demountable body equipment will tell you how the productivity of your company's transport organisation...

an d 0 for you -tontinued from page ht British Domes . c A h e hg 'system gonailack's L ' Js'ers °aDceder Davies Magnet...

There is a staggering logic about the Magirus Deutz decision to teach long-distance lorry drivers to cook. It is accepted that...

see that one of our South Shields readers, Stan Young, has had his company in the local news recently. He is the fourth...

like continuing to receive good service—as well as a stable product choice, about which I wrote recently. No fewer than 100 of...

for safety reasons, implying a need to modify the other make of equipment when interchangeability is needed. The more recent...

ideal for psv use because its overall width is only 1.8m (70in). But the Deansgate conversion of the diesel Sherpa Bus just...

more than four hours a day or more than 25 miles from his base be exempt from record keeping when the EEC driving hours come...

I intend to use as a public service' vehicle. Could you suggest a book which would help me to do this job and say what...

our porters considered to be crew members and must they, therefore, keep records? A In our opinion, your porters need not be...

himself in difficulty, that is they are not sent with the vehicle for that purpose. Neither do they habitually take an...

ALTHOUGH tippers have the shortest and toughest life of any vehicles in road transport today, it seems difficult to get them on...

FORECASTS of yet another comprehensive policy statement on transport, inspire a vision of Dr John Gilbert sitting down with a...

I read with interest the article (CM January 9) headed "Action call on driver poaching." In view of the comment made ' about...

In answer to Mr L. J. Smith's letter (CM October 6), he should get his facts right. I am a member of the TGWU and an ex...

1 am a director/partner of an international haulage company, and have read with astonishment the letter from K. W. Shaw, of...

A long-established reader of CM, I was interested to read Mr Shaw's letter (CM December 26) about his experiences in seeking...

Jonathan Lawton this week takes a solicitor's look at the procedure used to bring a dismissal case before an industrial...

by Les Oldridge. TEng (CEI) MIMI, AMIRTE A FAIR AMOUNT of legislation passed in recent years is aimed at making commercial...

by John Darker, AMBIM WHEN the present pay restraint policy runs out of steam there Is every possibility that productivity and...

A mini-computer system known as Redifon has been introduced by Redif on Electronic Systems Ltd. This manufacturer has supplied...

A wallchart detailing the laws relating to the use and speed limitations for car-derived and light van tyres has been launched...

Tecalemit has introduced an oil-change trolley which it claims simplifies and speeds up the job of draining large sumps and...

One of the advantages claimed for the Copy-Strip method of effecting a preventive maintenance scheme is its flexibility to cope...

and drivers' characteristics. A significant admission by Roland Bream, apropos stop start deliveries in the High Street, is...