DRIVERS WHO have been hounded from one London borough to another by parking bans may find a little comfort in the proposals for...

LAYS in the reception of ods in city shops cost the d freight industry £120m a r, says the Lorries and Ennunent Committee...

SMALL Warwickshire ich company, which has n a High Court appeal with ;ts over its local council's ler to ban the use of its...

WINCIAL BUSMEN in major cities all over Britain were due ;(3 on a 24-hour strike today (Friday) unless local authorities proved...

THE AUTOMOBILE Association's Gold Award for Safety has gone to the Quinton Hazel' company for its underrun bumper — as fitted...

THE RISK of a medium to heavy goods vehicle being involved in a serious injury accident is about twice as great as for a car...

RAISING the tax on diesel fuel or increasing the commercial vehicle road fund tax is an inflationary action said Road Haulage...

PROFESSOR Alec Nove, professor of economics at Glasgow University, was guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Scottish...

PRIME MINISTER Ja Callaghan was attackec drivers' pay in the Comn last week over action w led to the pay rise, and lat( was...

FOLLOWING the lead set by Kowloon Motor Bus in Hong Kc the colony's other principal bus operator, China Motor Bus, I...

E MONEY must be made available the rates to subsidise passenger ;port authorities, said Jack Green week. d a share of...

SUSPENSION is now offered by Trucks (GB) Ltd as an option on the axle for twoand three-axle rigids or tractive units in the...

WY LORRIES are to be ned from a Northamptone village's narrow main at following a plea from the I parish council. ounty...

NINE PROJECTS in three nationalised industries have been approved under Section 8 of the 1974 Railways Act. Transport Under...

IT COULD be argued that there was only one MP who took a realistic view of the Seat Belts Bill, which received its Second...

,IMS from Yorkshire iers that the M62 is not g up to its reputation as an weather motorway" were ted by the county council. le...

)DUCTION of commercial icles so far this year is rung well above last year's by contrast with car duction which is slightly...

FREIGHT TRANSPORT is the industry that practically never fails. Freight Transport Association president Malcolm Banks made...

NO SPECIAL concession had been made to lorry drivers to claim expenditure on meals retrospectively, said Robert Sheldon,...

AN ORDER worth 0.5m has been placed with Chrysler UK by the Post Office. Chrysler has been contracted to supply 2,546 Dodge...

SUPPORT FOR low-paid local delivery drivers came last week from Eastern BRS managing director L. W. Atkinson when he addressed...

PROFESSOR Christopher Foster allayed fears that 0licence applications could turn into "motorway-type public inquiries" when he...

TOW1V1ASTER TRANSPO a division of Arthur Bell, whisky distillers, shows a fit of £2,000 for the half-yea 31 December, 1978,...

REEK coach operator was fined a total of E400 last week at r Street Magistrates Court, London for permitting the use of ach...

A NEW wage agreement with its crews means that South Yorkshire PTE will begin its articulated bus trials later this year....

OPERATORS are still generally in favour of a coach with a chassis — although they are prepared to concede that the integral...

LEYLAND will have an eight-vehicle line-up at this year's RHA Tipping Convention and Exhibition, covering its complete range....

GEORGE NEVILLE'S first ribless body to be built in trailer form will be shown on the Telehoist stand outside the RHA Tipcon...

A NEW trailer manufacturing company, Redmond Trailers Ltd, has been set up by Geoffrey and David Redmond, who were formerly...

NEVILLE Charrold's exp sion of its Mansfield work the first of three plan' phases that will provid , capability for a 40 per c...

LEYLAND Parts Division introduced a range of veh and workshop accessoriet complement its normal pz The items fall into th brand...

week's guide covers the traffic areas East Midlands, Eastern, ropolitan, South Eastern and Southern. e of the stations have a...

Noel V illier devises a double-decker test route in e word's mc taxing conditions —London. Pictures by Dick Ross ROAD TESTS...

This year sees the introduction of new test routes for all categories of vehiclesmaximum-weight, mediums, light vans, tippers...

By Bill Brook pctures by Brian WeatherIE FOR SOME TIME at CM we have talked of improving our light van test route. Our most...

by Steve Gray TO BRING our road tests for medium vehicles up to date, we have decided to change our Midland test circuit....

by Bill Brock: pictures by Brian Weatherley PPERS operating throughout e length and breadth of the tuntry, mostly work within...

at's what RHA I inks of Professor Foster's report. By Eric Russell IN THE VIEW of the Foster Committee, a licensing system...

Graham Montgomerie describes ne evolution of MIRA and examines some of the test work it undertakes REGULAR READERS of CM will...

Steve Gray describes how most of the test results from the V IRA proving ground need only basic measuring equipment JR ROAD...

Sponsorship of Ford's top drivers in premier UK rallies has been redoubled this year by Eaton's Materials Handling Division....

Transport 2000 is not beyond redemption. It at least has a sense of humour, which is more than can be said for the supporters...

Once upon a time a man became the owner of the world's fastest lorry by freezing a 38ft 20-ton whale named Little Irvy. Tyrone...

Sponsored jointly by IranSpec, Edbro distributors in Australia, and Thermo King, Super Boss went to Australia to do battle in...

am intrigued by the award of the Castrol gold medal of the Institute of the Motor Industry to the British Road Federation for...

Originally a painter, Douglas Burgess, of Magirus Deutz (GB) Ltd, has become a' noted glass engraver whose work is widely...

A young man described in Guardian as a "haulage age' has founded a new politi party, the Christian DemocrE He is David Hardwick...