Sir David Orr, chairman of Unilever, has highlighted, this week, what the cost of a weak distribution netwoi could mean to...

RANE 'Fruehauf is now ghting off a new bid from its merican shareholder the ruehauf Corporation for the !maining two-thirds of...

smash code WEST MIDLANDS hauliers have defied the Government's 10 per cent pay guidelines and signed an agreement that will...

"We, together with certain employers' representatives, have arrived at a figure that's been agreed by our executive council, he...

kULIERS with vehicles returning from the Middle East, welling through Turkey with empty lorries, can now obtain ecial permits...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers is a firm believer In value for money, he told an international symposium in London this...

RUMOURS that ERF is to be taken over have led to rises in the company's shares — now Gardner and Rolls-Royce are being tipped...

THE GOVERNMENT is almost certain to introduce a new Transport Bill in the next session of Parliament said Industry Under...

GRAVE FEARS over the future of British PTE operations if 1 EEC drivers' hours regulations come into force in January hg been...

CM is making a special offer to all UK students of Thc Chartered Institute of Transport, Institute of Traffic Administration...

IN A heated exchange in fro of more than 600 delegat from transport manageme last week, Alan Law, a seni official of the...

ALTHOUGH it is at present losing too much money despite a considerable increase in passengers, the Cumbria County Council...

INTEGRATED transport would result in a national transport agency, bureaucratically allocating traffic between different sectors...

COURSES for transport managers who need to take the admission to the occupation of transport manager examination to become...

NEW general haulage okerage service, called earfreight, has been launchby Southern British Road rvices to provide clearance r...

A CONDITION that "no vehicle must be parked overnight on the public highway, unless it is closed to other traffic," has been...

This claim was made by counsel for the Irish interest, Dermot Sheridan, at a hearing by the Transport Users' Consultative...

Leaving Leaf hurst HAULIER Smith and Robinson, of Leeds, has appointed :a new depot engineer for its Manchester depot. He is...

Transport Minister William Rodgers is to receive this recommendation from his Department. At present, there is doubt about the...

TRANSPORT workers' leader Jack Jones wants to start British section of the continental drivers organisation — Routiers — that...

A DRIVER who limited the range his potential duties was refused compensation for unfair dismissal by the Industrial Tribunal...

FAMILY haulage company und themselves before the mth Wales deputy Licensing uthority, Ivor Pugh, in Carif after after the 13th...

40-TONNE five-axle vehicle will do 17 per cent more damage 1 roads than a 32-ton four-axle one, according to the Civic rust....

.ent age, they were not placed and so, the fleet had en reduced from 26 vans to 3. That reduced the amount general work as well...

In the bunker CHRISTIAN Salvesen (Transport) Ltd has opened a depot to handle its expanding operation in the South East. The...

BP centres BP OIL Ltd is now blending and fitting packages of lubrication oils to stock. And these stocks will be located...

JOHN WATT, driver with Melrose-Drover Ltd, wine and spirit merchants, of Edinburgh, lc awarded £279 for wrongful dismissal by...

SAFETY experiments being carried out in South Yorkshire are expected to cut £360,000 from the cost of road accidents in the...

LARGE SCALE fraud was alleged when a leading firm of road transport and forwarding agents and their London overseas manager...

waiting for by the Passenger Editor AID'S long-awaited uprated Series psv chassis is revealed clay. The engine, mounted in...

Holiday plans NATIONAL Holidays Christmas holidays 1977 range includes three new destinations — Buxton, in the Peak District;...

DEVON Conversions, of Sidmouth, is aiming for a bigger share of the small bus market with its new range of Volkswagen-based...

BUS AND coach operators are very conscious of their image an they endeavour to project that image in the styling and livery...

;olls-Royce engines are to be offered as an ption on, certain Saviem models in the near uture. Previously, the French company...

mmbulance RATCLIFF Foldaway lift, vith a capacity of 500kg lOcwt), has been fitted to a 4ercedes-Benz wheelchair mbulance....

the standard Roman 6 Adding a third axle behind the drive axle of a Roman 4 x 2 16-tonner has enabled the Primrose Third Axle...

Bantamweight CONSOLIDATED Pneumatic Tool Co Ltd claims that this is the smallest 9.5mm (hin) pistol grip air wrench ever...

Take ten NIXON High Pressure Washer Sales, Brougham, Penrith, Cumbria, has introduced a high-pressure washer which enables a...

ALCAN Transport Services of Birmingham New Road, Tipton, West Midlands, has introduced two new body kits for the light van...

chicks A CONVENTIONAL Cran Fruehauf skeletal semi-traile is used by John Bradley an Son Ltd, the transport subs: diary of J....

INFLATION, for the road haulier can be, and all too often is, a killer. During the last decade, inflation has grown steadily...

THE Training Opportunities Scheme organised by the Department of Employment appears to operate in strange ways. I've heard of...

Forty years to the day since the forerunner of the RHA — Express Carriers Group — was formed, they will be meeting in London to...

Peter Foden, chairman and md of ERF Ltd, always a handy man with the golf club, was partnered, last week, by Bruce Forsyth at a...

I see a timely warning in the CPT newsletter, this month, concerning football hooligans. Confed believes that the day could be...

OLLOWING in the 1 tyre tracks of the • Fiat 619, the 170 I 26 uses the same 3.8 (842cu in) litre six linder diesel engine -...

NOW TO MAKE AtilDs PAY OFF this, the second of three tides, Ken Pattison offers me practical advice on .113s. He also talks of...

SURVIVAL and growth of road freight transport now depends on a higher set of standards than the industry has ever known. And to...

INDUSTRY under-secretary LESLIE HUCKFIELD told delegates that consultation would be the essence of future Government moves on...

THE SECOND SESSION "On whose account?" — started off as a feud between own-account and hire and reward hauliers. But several...

DO VEHICLE manufacturers meet the requirements of the customers? That was the westion which dropped VICroR WRIGHT, General...

THE FINAL debate: "Whither Industrial Relations" provided something of a Punch and Jud act between JONATHON LAWTON, a lawyer...

THE PROFESSIONAL transport studies courses you have embarked on this month will, if you apply yourself, yield benefits in the...

by Preceptor Internal combustion engine 2 All engines fitted to motor vehicles, except small ones used on motor cycles, have...

the 9 0 P 6 I refer to V. F. Sharp's letter "Gaps in the UK market," (CM, September 16) While agreeing that there may appear...

peat G90 twig fitia tue out? Further to the correspondence by Mr Smart and N1r Edwards about the diesel half-track, during...

In CM July 19 on page 58 there is an article by Ron Douglas entitled "Don't scrap old spares". For many years, we have been...

isettacea° We are a firm of shipping and forwarding agents — with port offices in Dover, Folkestone, Portsmouth, Southampton,...

I have been reading CM's Education and Training series articles with great interest, and this has highlighted a very important...