- here is a change of mood in the ranks of road transport employers. The old ittitude of peace at any price has gone. A...

3 UCTIVITY will dominate road-haulage wage negotiain the coming months even although this year's settler' will be moulded by...

THE ROAD Haulage Association Road Transport Show was not the success in crowd terms that the organisers had hoped for. RHA...

ROAD Haulage Association director general George Newmar told members not to panic into any kind of negotiations with Um...

CUTS in public expenditure could lead to more night and weekend enforcement checks at the expense of day checks and heavier...

A plea for the compulso use of the tachograph to 1 delayed in Scotland because that country's poor roads m with no official...

THE EEC Commission's "timid" and "niggardly" proposals to increase permit quotas next year by only 20 per cent was fiercely...

SPORT and General Workers ii n district secretary was fined £750 A eek after being convicted of extorig money from a haulier...

"QUIET Heavy Vehicle" le eloped by the Transport in Road Research La ratory is to go into active ce this month. xfordshire...

UK AND international haulier Chris Hudson (International) has run into financial problems and the receiver is inviting bids for...

HAUL IT COULD, perhaps, be argued that it is part of the process of open government. But that is certainly not how Labour MP...

YSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE and Industry has or the raising of the permitted maximum gvw, and for an ecision by the Government to...

Public • • inquiry HUNT Engineering, the truck supply and repair firm which aroused strong opposition from residents in...

HE UK's general quota of )ad haulage permits to West , ernitany is to be more than oublecl by 1981. Transport Minister Norman...

FTA training centre opened by Minister AFTER NINE WEEKS' operation, the Freight Transport Association's residential training...

THE Pandoro FleetwoodDublin freight ferry service which was delayed because of an industrial dispute finally sailed last...

BECAUSE TWO valid ph ning enforcement noti4 were in force in regard to operating centre of E. P. E and R. A. Sparrow, Plant a...

Another freighter THE BUSY Hull-Rotterdarr (Europoort) ferry route of North Sea Ferries is beinf served by another,...

THE VEHICLE BUILDERS and Repairers Association is holding a conference and exhibition at St George's Hotel, Solihull, on...

A NEW contract-cleaning company for road freight vehicles has been set up in Greenwich, south-east London. The company, called...

M.25 is set to go ahead whatever restraints are put on public spe ding. T e road is under no public expenditure constraints...

k NOTTINGHAMSHIRE coach operator wants Transport lVfmister Norman Fowler to modify some of his proposals for tachograph...

In a bid to modernise Smith Coaches, the Reading compa ny's owners, Aureole Invest ments Ltd, have applied fo permission to...

3 ost UK exports IC BUSES could win ri a big share of the inea ng world demand for idi uses and could beat 'pa ese competition,...

TRAFFIC ON Watford's local bus services has grown since a new route network began last March. Hertfordshire County Council...

Insurance extended COACH INSURANCE broker Chapman Stevens has extended its Continental accident/breakdown insurance cover to...

TO COMMEMORATE the first motorway express coach service in Britain, exactly 20 years ago to the day, National Travel (West) ran...

DAF TRUCKS (GB) LTD is the first DAF subsidiary company to use a new mobile training school built on a semi-trailer chassis at...

Forged aluminium whe weighing up to 23kg (511b)1 than comparable steel whe are being introduced ir Europe by the Aluminil...

T. I. BAINBRIDGE SILENCERS Ltd, manufacturer of vehicle exhaust systems, has introduced a new range suitable for commercial...

ENGINES OF THE 500 type 1160 (fitted to DAF 2800s) have been fitted with steel head gaskets in place of composite ones. The...

.0AD-HUGGER" is Boates name for an additional Kiel of Tautliner trailer with lined load-bearing curtain les which can constrain...

Palfinger adds another A new small lorry loader has been added to the Palfinger range. The PK 4600 has a lifting capacity of...

t the Scottish Motor Show next week Boalloy Ltd of Congleton ill reveal another of its latest developments for curtain sided...

WITH REFERENCE to criticism and suggestions alluding to the demise of the North-west Owner-driver's Association, we are...

THERE HAS been a lot of publicity recently about the tachograph, but no one seems interested in how it is going to affect "the...

THE VACUUM created in Mrs Parnaby's Granada fuel tank (See CM October 19, 1979) was almost certainly not caused by the cap...

WE LOOK after public relations for Haulamatic Limited, who are a little upset over the piece which appeared in Commercial Motor...

I HAVE in my possession an early 1950s Austin Loadstar. The condition is good, with only 30,000 on the clock. It is an ex-radar...

I WISH to take this opportuni of congratulating W. H. Dines Co on finally winning its appe to operate its business despi...

- Ai THE EFFECT of increasing fine . and orders for costs, unlike f gen ral price rises, is mildly disinfl tionary," the Lord...

Both Derrick Clarke, National Carriers group director of sales and marketing, and E. M. Estes, president of General Motors, ag...

It says much for the Bedford OB Duple Vista coach that an example 31 years old is still in daily service with H & M Coaches, of...

The almost funerial atmosphere at the RHA Exhibition on Saturday would have driven the stand-holders to despair had it been...

How do British Rail and London Transport, which incur huge losses on their own operations, manage to make profits out ol...

Two models launched by Fodens make their delar at the Scoltisl Show: - ne ligh - weight Haulmaster six-wleeler a the lower end...

MANAGEMENT must be more professional than ever. That was Road Haulage Association national chairman John Silbermann's theme as...

e should not lose sight of the fact that transport is only one component in a more cornpie picture. Potentially bright ide s...

IT WAS INEVITABLE that employment secretary Jim Prior's speech would provoke discussion. You cannot live through a national...

equivalent to the CPC before taking office. "You've got to grow up. It is just not practical to do so. I don't see how you can...

Quality and price vital QUALITY IN TRANSPORT is as important as price, according to former Chartered Institute of Transport...

EMPLOYER UNITY will be the watchword of the 1980s, according to RHA directorgeneral George Newman, who warned members of stormy...

THERE WILL BE no dramatic changes in heavy commercial-vehicle design in the 1980s — that's the message from this year's Fleet...

nit MINISTER of Transport, who made the opening remarks at the conference, was last at a FMC in 1977, when he was Opposition...

DELEGATES were told by John Spooks, national fleet manager, Mercedes-Benz (UK) Ltd, that because demands on management time...

D HAULAGE ASSOCIATI N national chairman, Jo n Silbermann, appealed to Transport and General ricers Union to accept the A...

THE ROLE of the trades unions in the Eighties was the title of the paper by David Buckle, Oxford district secretary of the...

APART FROM industrial relations, there are few subjects more likely to raise operators' feathers than the EEC and its "imposed"...

NATIONAL FREIGHT CORPORATION chief executive, Peter Thompson, gave little he for any improvement in the) financial position of...

SIR DANIEL PETTIT was mildly pessimistic in his summing up. Little had changed, he felt, industry was at the mercy of the same...

'There are greater savings to be nade in terms of time, fuel and inance through careful routeing han through any other...

MOVE which may be the end of the wedge toward its )Ivement in lower-weight .gories, Volvo has annced a sixteen-tonner for the...

by Graham Montgomerie 5 - 1 WINTER was exceptioly severe not only because of lormally low temperatures, also because it lasted...

During e Scoltish.Motor Show, car parking around Kelvin Hall will be very limited. If you decide to leave ne car at home,...

In that case • 'The British and French Governments need to agree on the definition of "own-account". Naturally, the terms are...

With management time increasingly a a premium, computers are becoming \Atli administrate aids. DAF VCR system at Marlow grea -...

RRYFAST, the national pars carrier, has named Peter Mum as manager of its depot Vorth Kilworth in the Western lion. Mr Graham...