NAS abundantly clear at the recent Road Haulage Associan conference that operators are concerned over the next ge round...

4LY ONE representative of the operating industry is to serve on a Greater London Council's lorry ban inquiry panel which meets...

A REGULAR EEC survey of the state of the road transport industry shows that Britain's hauliers are facing above-average...

A NETHERLANDS court was expected to decide on Thursday this week on a battle between DAF Trucks and International Harvester...

LORRIES crossing Romania now subject to a supplement transit tax which requil special permits if vehicl weights and dimensions...

ROADLINE UK is making a for a greater share of • contract distribution market, offering Sigma, a balanced pa age of dedicated...

/ERNMENT Ministers have given strong hints that operators on II islands should not install tachographs in their vehicles while...

RPOOL-based Mancon Shipping was planning to bid for the ned P&O Liverpool-Belfast ferry service this week, and may duce new...

THE GOVERNMENT is open to, and looking for, new forms of finance — including private finance — for roads and the transport...

HAULIERS should get better training in economic driving, says a report from the European Parliament. Pointing out that better...

AVIV DRIVER has been ed from driving for four after a tachograph proved ad been speeding at the of a fatal accident. wcastle...

DRIVERS' attitudes need to be changed if accidents in Britain are to be reduced, according to British Safety Council lecturer...

AN APPEAL against a judgment by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority was turned down by the Transport Tribunal in London last...

'HE SELECTION of Pembroke port in Wales by 13+I for ferry service o Cork has been condemmed by a spokesman for the newly...

1USINESS on Atlas Express .td's Gold Band next-day par:els delivery service went up by 15 per cent in the first nine nonths of...

A DETERMINED effort to represent the interests of cattle hauliers in Devon and Cornwall has been launched by the Road Haulage...

OVER 100 charges again; Lichfield operator were journed until March, last is pending criminal proceedin! Stafford Crown Court....

A BOOKLET published by Health and Safety Execi gives details of the pathogens notification re! tions. The regulations take...

E. IRISH Government expects to formulate proposals for the res:turing of the country's road freight industry before the end of...

PLANS to build purpose-di signed lorry parks in the Tynt dale area of Northumberlan have been shelved. The lorry parks,...

WITH BARELY a whisper, Leyland Vehicles this week freed the first 145 replacements for its high volume middle-weight Gcab range...

TERBERG, the Netherlands heavy haulage vehicle builder, is to be represented in Britain by former IVECO (UK) managing director...

ZF GEARS (Great Britain) I ready for an upturn in the B vehicle industry, accordin managing director Bob Rea Speaking at the...

. rt for me A NEW LIVERY design servie for all types of commerci vehicle has been introduced t Bearcroft Advertising, of Dert...

ONSOLIDATING into one Act le provisions relating to the perating and licensing of public arvice vehicles previously confined in...

iLOUCESTERSHIRE coach operator Swan brook Transport proprieor Bill Thomas wants to run Cheltenham town services, and is sported...

DUPLE's new high-floor Goldliner coach is to be available only in 12m form on Volvo, DAF and Leyland chassis. Aimed directly...

THE CONFEDERATION of Brii Road Passenger Transport approached advertising age Ogilvy and Mather to put ward proposals for its...

LOTHIAN REGION'S Edinbur city bus tours will be cut bi next year because of the coni uing recession in the tourist dustry....

THE FUTURE of South Yorks! . PTE's pioneering articulated I services are in doubt, due t continuing industrial dispi over extra...

IE HEREFORD and Worcester trial area has been a success so far, inior Transport Minister Kenneth Clarke claimed in the House of...

LRES PLEASE? is the title on a port published by the Scottish insurner Council, which exaInes urban public transport oblems and...

RAPID PROGRESS is bell made in coach safety, but it w unlikely that the roof streng requirements can be adopt , before next...

THE GOVERNMENT believes that coaches cover their road cosi declared spokesman the Earl of Avon last week in the House Lords....

lOLEX (UK) LTD has entered the iutomotive liquefied petroleum las market with the Gasmaster ;ystern. This is a conventional...

:ARRIER MOTORS LTD has lade its first major appoint- lents since Renault acquired a 0 per cent interest in the cornany which...

MANUFACTURERS and c sumers stand to gain from increasing application of MI electronics to vehicle des according to Junior...

VHEN SUMMING UP at last ieek's Road Haulage Associaion conference in Bournelouth, national chairman Ken ogers said that there...

UGGESTIONS have recently aen invited for a new system of ,gistration marks starting on anuary 8, 1983. Originally it was...

REGARDING the news item {CM August 29) concerning pickets at Seaforth Container Terminal attempting to enforce the 'drivers'...

IN ANSWER to Mr M. Spencer's reply (CMAugust 15) concerning the Fruehauf GLZ outfit, his point is not valid as it provides no...

I NOTED, when reading your Training Guide (CMAugust 29] that the only heading under 'Preston' related to the Day Continuation...

WITH reference to B. A. Palmers's letter regarding the problems he has had with a Bedford TL. !would like to point out that...

2 model ige, which has more than 100 ecifications changes from the iginal 1973 design which curntly accounts for about 17 per...

Colin Burrows, this year's CM LDoY champion, returned from the Michelin Study Tour last week. He learned a lot aric taught a...

John Durant looks at the history of nnovini and hears about its growth area from Hug Wilson, in the heart of industry, but...

by Graham Montgom€ 7 z7 )al 0 ( C a F7( 0 "71 I Aluminium is facing a strong challenge from glass fibre/wood composite in...

Removal contractors are feeling the effect of the do-it-yourself trend but Mike Rutherford finds that they are joining the...

The years of painstaking research and development of anti-corrosion technology for cabs have finally finished for Volvo Trucks....

ETER Thompson, Crown Prince f the National Freight Co, is tiser but not sadder as a result f his excursion into company...

IRS MARGARET THATCHER, rime Minister, her husband and ir Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of le Exchequer, watched a demonstration of...

NOBODY was ever more appropriately named than John Trotter, an Eastern Scottish bus conductor at Edinburgh. He has covered more...

TNT Overnite had the embarrassing experience of getting egg on its face at the RHA Conference at Bournemouth. According to the...

HAVING FAILED the driving test twice because he was alleged not to have used the mirror sufficiently, John D. Morgan, of...

IF THE FOUR licences needed I Kuehne und Nagel to export 2,900 tonnes of pork from Germany to Poland were laid end to end, thwy...

ARNOLD HANDLEY, writing in Body Shop News, published b the Vehicle Builders' and Repairers' Association, warnei "It is no good...

The old days of lOnnpg for 10-ton loads by max-weight two-axle rigids have passed, reports Tim Blakemore WAS when a rough and...

Blow, blow thou winter wind, thou art so unkind as minute wax crystals in the fuel system. Graham Montgomerie prepares ft the...

APLOYERS DO not have to it until a criminal trial has ien held before deciding tether or not to dismiss em)yees who have been...