T WEEK we reported that the Transport and General Workers Union has praised foyers on their sensible approach to this year's...

THE TRANSPORT and General Workers Union has added its support to the Road Haulage Association's campaign to remove the Post...

UNION and employer pressure is building up to resolve operators' problems on the Northern Ireland/Irish Republic frontier....

IRISH OPPOSITION to the mem bership of the Commons selec committees has delayed the ap pointment of the transport com mittee....

THE CAUSE of down-licensin has been brought no nearer b the Road Haulage Association i its formal response to the Di partment...

TTISH DRIVERS could be the first in Britain to have their 38e wage rate incorporated into basic pay scales, writes ALAN AR. -...

POSSIBLE privatisation of maintenance and improveschemes in parts of Devon be met by strong union rence despite county council...

BRITISH ROAD Services' account card scheme Transcard has been relaunched in cooperation with around 2,500 Mobil and Texaco...

THE INTRODUCTION of the environmental criteria for operators' licensing in May will make contested cases very like County Court...

HEAVY GOODS vehicle dri test and driving licence feel set to rise by nine and 10 cent respectively, and the F Haulage...

PRESSURE was growing on the build a second Severn crossing. A conference of 150 industrialists, trade unionists and...

THE WINCANTON Group has appointed a new transport development manager. Alastair Elder takes over the post and will be based at...

CM's PARENT company Business Press International has appointed a new managing director for its Transport Press sub-division....

NEW COMMERCIAL and marketing managers have taken over at Lucas Kienzle Instruments, the tachograph and speed limiter company....

ERIC PULFORD has retired af 13 years as personnel manac of National Carriers Parcels. He moved to the Birminghi based National...

NEW GENERAL managers hr been announced for thr National Bus Company subsic ries — Trent, West Riding z Alder Valley — from...

Dobson of Edinburgh to accelerate the planned growth of Dobson's distribution activities. His main drive will be initially in...

(UK), based at the company's major new premises Rain ham, Essex. Before joining Mitchell Cotts he was managing director of Cu...

41 per cent of foreign cies were overloaded. total of £26,590 in fines was )d on 59 foreign drivers from ifferent countries,...

THE ROAD haulage quotas system should be scrapped at once, said Freight Transport Association international executive Dave...

NEW LEGISLATION to regulate road freight transport will be submitted to the Irish Government shortly, according to Jim...

applied for a freeport site BLUE CIRCLE INDUSTRIES h THE MOTORWAY maintenance going very well, but there is s Minister Lynda...

A CENTRALISED availability and reservations system has been established by Brittany Ferries Freight Services for all three of...

company is alrea developing a major new rollroll-off port would be a mode purpose-built facility. In Blue Circle's application...

of Longtot near Carlisle, provided an ERF B-Series tractive unit and semi-trailer to ca a 54-year-old 76ft Norway spruce...

IE 150-acre Righead trading estate in Motherwell, North narkshire, may soon be turned into a distribution park by the ottish...

ITES on Sealink roll on/off serces on the Holyhead/Dun ioghaire and Fishguard/ )sslare routes will be inmsed by 7.5 per cent...

ALARMED by a recent series of severe accidents, the EEC Commision has written to all Common Market countries urging them to...

to become increasingly popular according to West German manufacturer . Robert Bosch. TIM BLAKEMORE reports. Speaking in London...

Al INTERNATIONAL Motor Engineering of Maldon, Essex, has signed a marketing and manufacturing agreement with Van Hool, the...

of Andove mounted on a Ford chassis e ables the load platform of Tru House Forte's airport caterir vehicle to match up with II...

IMPORTED flat and dropside b dies from the Netherlands a being marketed by Industr Mechanised Products of Soul borough,...

; OPERATORS can do more to improve the standard of service provide for their customers. That was one of the messages came...

KYSOR maximum speed controls are to be incorporated in the design of the Quest 80based Plaxton-bodied VM-type coaches being...

GAC Ireland has completed its first high-floor touring coach which will be shipped to Los Angeles for the next Olympic Games...

SCOTTISH Traffic Corn sioners have refused to giv decision on applicatior Western Scottish to op two services jointly Bennetts...

or 00 litres capacities) of rston Trinicon's liquid conlers, were on view last week he premises of its north-west nt, ABAC...

DANA EUROPE has opened a new driveshaft and universal joint assembly plant at Lyons, .France. The 930sqm (10,000sqft) plant...

THE MULTILOWDA tipping semitrailer from Don-Bur Bodies and Trailers of Longton, Staffordshire, is the latest addition to its...

CAME AWAY from this year's Dad Haulage Association conrence feeling that the 100 or so ink and file members that atnded the...

YOUR correspondent, Robert Preston (CM October 8), was right in saying Cumminspowered ERFs were made prior to 1961. The...

I READ with interest RHA manager Mr Brattin's comments regarding my criticisms of poor service in the haulage industry (CM...

HOW ANNOYING and frustrating to find that road users still use the high-intensity rear lamps even when there is only the...

RI engineers feel re is tremendous tential for reducing tg by the use of a )perly engineered p seal. How do they ive at this...

ALTHOUGH the occasion now seems to belong to another age, it is only four years since the industry awaited the Parliamentary...

:o's r&d programme articularly resting in that it races the work of nany companies in nany countries. ham Montgornerie been...

FIERCE competition in it years in the parcels - less shows no sign of nishing. It has had much to ith the aggressive Rting...

ECTORS of the National Consortium are olders and must have to shareholders' views, 3 representation of olders on the board...

A CAMPAIGN to encourage pedestrians to wear something light and easily visible in the dark, and drivers to exercise extra...

JOBS change but the names remain the same. In what seems an age ago Sir Arthur Armitage was advising Norman Fowler, Transport...

IN SUNDERLAND, reported the Newcastle Journal, "bus crews and passengers are being driven around the bend." In Cramlington, to...

HAS JOHN Prescott, Shadow Transport Secretary, pioneered a new fashion in protest by swimming two miles down the Thames to the...

CONSTANT pressure on the Government from all sides, including its own, to increase spending on roads seems to be having some...

apply — and o engineers had y interesting lems to contend in building one E REPORTED in the August of CM, Volvo has supplied...

is fast pushing its if the all uering computer to al and awe ring conclusions. lay is not far Ived now when its iners will be...

Doyen of the industrial designers, this Letchworth studio has had a great influence on the shape of many of the vehicles on our...

IT CANNOT be denied that the tone of much that appears in this column is highly critical of those whose activities are...