Mr Albert Booth, the shadow transport minister, like his namesake in Stanley Holloway's repertoire, is putting his head into...

lE FUTURE of road transport will be back in the political arena if there is 'other Labour Government. In this issue we analyse...

kRLIAMENT will be given a sal say in the sale of heavy sods vehicle test stations, folwing the intervention of a )nservative...

THE FIRST salvo of the next road transport pay round has been fired, with the Transport and General Workers Union having lodged...

TOZER KEMSLEY AND MILLBOURN has withdrawn its 37 per cent shareholding from MAN-VW Truck and Bus, with Volkswagen UK (VAG)...

AN ALTERNATIVE version of the proposed restructuring of the Road Haulage Association was due to be discussed at a national...

THE FREIGHT Transport Association has won a battle, but not yet the war, in its long campaign for downplating to be possible...

THE Manpower Services Commission's Training Opportunity scheme to support heavy goods vehicles driver training is being...

EEC TRANSPORT Ministers may discuss proposed amendments to drivers' hours regulations at their next meeting, which is scheduled...

A FORTY-SQ-MILE area ban being considered by Het fordshire County Council. The "For access only" ban planned to extend from...

l'HE Association of Metropolitan )ort Secretary David Howell's han weights, and said that he and 'steamroller" through the...

/111 HOWELL has been asked in he Commons for a statement the special study on the true omparative costs of road transart...

TIBBETT AND BRITTEN has introduced the first mechanised garment handling system of its kind in the United Kingdom, at its...

A LORRY CAB is not a public place, and a driver who swore at a policeman in his cab did not use words and behaviour likely to...

HE LABOUR PARTY'S new ranspori discussion document eints to increased regulation, lirection and control of road aulage. It...

IMPLEMENTATION of the Labour Party's proposed transport policy would "discourage any rapid rise in motor traffic and this would...

BARRIO LTD, transport operator, of Borden, Sittingbourne, Kent, was granted a renewal of its operator's licence at Maidstone...

NEW SPEED LIMIT signs are being introduced on roads being resurfaced with stone chippings. The signs, which are black on a...

TRANSPORT studies in the City of Birmingham Polytechnic are being upgraded, following the formation of an inter-faculty School...

COMPANY DIRECTOR Cherie Leadham, of Acrise, nr Folke stone, has had his applicatioi for a heavy goods vehicl operator's licence...

RITAIN is so dependent on road transport that when a fixed Chanel link is designed it should make full provision for lorries,...

ROAD EQUIVALENT TARIFF, which equalises the cost of taking a lorry on a ferry with the cost of running it on the road, is...

THERE is no legal requirement for tachographs to be checked every two years, according to the Freight Transport Association....

LAND ROVER introduced stage three of its E200 million investment programme this week in the forms of a larger and more...

NATIONAL Tyre Distributors As sociation president G. M. Bali expects a change to be made tt the tyre law soon. Speaking to his...

REPORTED exclusively in CM it week, a new range of Hino hides will be introduced into land and then into the United igdom later...

DAIHATSU (UK) Ltd is now offering a high roof version of its 55 Wide small van. By raising the roof height by 152mm(61n)...

LONDON TRANSPORT has corr piled a document — Facts Abou Public Transport — whic outlines its position followin the 100 per cent...

UNDER Secretary for Emplol ment Peter Morrison is dir turbed at the Road Transport Ii dustry Training Board's decisia not to...

K COACHES, the Cardiff independent which ran in competition rith the city's municipal transport department, reached the end of...

DELAYS to a coach returning from Italy led to an hours offence and a Parks of Hamilton driver being fined £100 by Rotherham...

WESTERN SMT is to introduce a new streamlined bus service in Dumfries and Galloway later this year. The company plans a major...

SURREY-BASED transport consulting and design engineers Lawrence Designs Ltd has been formed to exploit the reawakening of...

THE INTERNATIONAL Associt tion For Vehicle Design wi sponsor a symposium on Moc em Vehicle Design Analysis t be held in England...

THE FIRST result of the agreement between Shelvoke and Drewry and the USA-based company of Dempster Systems Inc has gone into...

ational Bus Company's West iding group in succession to .N BUCHAN who is taking up a osition with West Yorkshire TE. Mr...

We record with regret the deaths Of MARIANO f1/1.ATEU CASADEVALL and RON WRAGG. Mr Casadevall was former president of the...

S MANAGING DIRECTOR OF ritain's No 1 Tachograph nalysis Bureau and an :knowledged expert in :cident/incident evaluation in ly...

PART of the TV programme Nationwide was recently devoted to hand-held radar speed-check devices now used by the police. During...

I AM SO glad that Commercial Motor (March 13) has added its cogent arguments on volume payload relationships to the formative...

BECAUSE OF the excessive cost of rail travel, I have recently undertaken a number of longdistance inter-city journeys using...

Japan is sensitive these days to the arguments of British protectionists and ha: been adopting a softly-softly approach. Steve...

Japanese cars have not been the first choice for fleet managers in the UK but there are signs that this might soon be changed....

All was not well, Tim Blakemore found, when road testing the Hino HE 336E tractive unit. It seems likely to satisfy only the...

Bill Brock scrutinises a selection of Japanese vehicles below 3.5 tonnes tested by CM AN OVERALL DECLINE in the sales of...

Do Japanese light commercial vehicles provide the same threat that cars do? Would there be a flood if voluntary controls were...

From South Africa, Sean Massey reports on his country's 'home content' regulations. It's an approach, he says, that the UK...

NHATEVER other shortages ifflict road transport operators rrom time to time cash, spare )arts, incompetent staff, traffic they...

THE THANET Council leader who had to resign after persuading a friend to pose as an Arab sheikh to induce Sally Viking to...

ALGEBRA has always defeated me but I have at least learnt that SBRS + VLF126X x 21/ 2 = rescue, where SBRS is Southern British...

IT'S HAPPENED at last. The dreaded "transportant", to describe a transport expert, has escaped into operational service....

IT SAYS MUCH for the esteem in which the Press holds Bertil Haggh, Volvo's chief engineer, that, despite the strike of London...

WAS Cecil Parkinson, Paymaster General and chairman of the Conservative party, speaking of Peter Thompson, director of the...

SEALINK has solved the Christmas-cracker-type riddle of how to travel nine miles in a stationary bus. MV Freshwater, which...

'ARANOIA is one of the ccupational hazards of road iaulage. Operators must feel on )ccasions that everybody's hand s against...

WITH its launch of the Ambassador range at the beginning of this month, BL has made a determined bid to win a substantial share...