The Government is buying itself out of trouble by putting up £35m to assist the Port of London Authority to increase severance...

1IK Ian am' ye Tit f he a ns rke lch Po nd m i eeti io tnci ues t ion R drivers in the s are considering achich could mean...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers opened a new skills testing centre for the Road Transport Industry Training Board at...

EXPERTS are baffled by a mystery wheel fault which has put most of the Scottish Ambulance Service's Bedford CF25 vehicles off...

EFFORTS are being ma quash the bid for road ta dependence" by supportl the ancient Cornish minster parliament. The High Court...

CAV LTD is to change its name to Lucas CAV as part of a move towards a closer association between Lucas and its operating...

HARRINGEY, London is to extend its lorry ban to bring it into line with other borough councils. This will mean a complete ban...

EXTENDED one-man operation of buses will not yield large benefits to London Transport, according to a report published by the...

A NEW marketing agreement, with the possibility of co-operation in building new vehicles, has been agreed befween Mack and...

The one thing about the law which everyone knows is that ignorance is no excuse. So, full marks to the Department of Transport...

CPT mit len :ut He ion a r n pro ire es.' gns fo a MS and incidences of caused by industrial should be reported to alth and...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers has received a report telling him to adopt strong measures to improve motorway food and...

EW In ler esi to id DOT cia vovee so ter ca ow alat port users association set up by freight forat Dover who are sick ....

"FOR whom the road tolls?" is the title of a 20-page booklet setting out the case for government assistance with the cost of...

111 I P the ) in ver : to ea rice sed iste CENT increase in production of commercial vehicles ome market has been accompanied...

IMMEDIATE steps are being taken to tighten up the regulations controlling vehicles carrying dangerous substances — and new...

NEW REGULATIONS affecting procedures at industrial tribunal hearings have been laid before Parliament for approval. The new...

MIGHT be more nomical in the long term to e a leadless petrol than to Lice speed limits, said Lady C. Under-Secretary for the...

A DIRECTOR of a company who did not appear to know what the Articles of Memorandum were and did not know what type of...

Tanker hero A TANKER driver earned praise from a Welsh fire brigade last week when he stayed at the wheel of his blazing...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers is likely to order a crackdown on operators who are dodging paying the full amount of road...

INCREASED transit taxes are being applied to all vehicles entering Turkey from midnight on August 4. The basis of charges...

MR WILLIAM RODGERS, the Transport Minister, revealed in the Commons that he is responsible for making 146 paid public...

THE BATTLE over the provision of services into a housing estate, between Chesterfield Borough Transport and East Midland Motor...

VAN HOOL has confirme intention to retain its slim the British coach market. The company has. nounced that it will soot...

A PLAN to use buses instead of trains for a feeder to a Wales-Ireland car ferry has run into local opposition. B&I Line's new...

r OV ER NMENT amendt to the Transport Bill has criticised as "unssary and misguided" by Confederation of British Passenger...

■ IAGEMENT, drivers, fit, cleaners and all coned with the efficient run of Newport (Gwent) bus ertaking were warmly sed by the...

Ombudsman for traffic monopolies? AN OMBUDSMAN was needed to pursue obvious questions of maladministration in the nationalised...

CARGO capacity is up by 10 per cent on Hako Ferry Service (UK) Ltd's fleet as a result of special design features on its TIR...

E VERNMENTs defeat th introduction of the latD k Labour Scheme is not o be the last attempt to ce rough this part of the tor...

IN AUSTRIA Semperit is the largest company in the rubber business. Although it produces a wide range of goods from rubber...

I must say straight away that many of us who rush up and down the motorways do not realise just how much effort has to be put...

Itavto. , ete iv@ disturbed to read the or (CM, July 14) in which u c ncluded that "there is a ner I lack of awareness in the...

fety, save cash ALTHOUGH retarders have been a popular fitment on Continental lorries and buses for many years, only during...

memory Until now almost the only people whose efforts and achievements in the CM Lorry Driver of the Year Competition have not...

I am able exclusively to reveal that back-door diplomacy by lain Sherriff, our editor, who is believed in usually well-informed...

Glyn Samuels, the new chairman of the Transport Association, would like to know the metric version of a bushel. A member who...

I recall another luncheon organised by the editor of CM which had profound effects on the road haulage industry. It was held at...

- I should like to see two three other circular bus rou introduced in Central Londoi said Dr Gordon Taylor, the n chairman of...

"Pauline Holloway has IN ten a smashing essay TUs," says TGWU Record is not true that she mar copied out the Indust' Relations...

Special test models of the advanced passenger train which has caused such controversy among railway workers, are to be run...

e universal ff.!. Graham L T OF people have ;urrd that the disc brake II e the panacea for all 3vy vehicle braking probns. But...

1IL E travelling down the I. t e other day, the inside e oi the leading axle of a ni-trailer ahead of me blew E. The loud,...

Graham Montgomerie tests LV's medium-weight rigid. AS FAR as the overall commercial vehicle market is concerned, Leyland is...

COMING appropriately at the end of term, a report from the L hour party says 'that, although Bill Rodgers has made some...

WHEN a brake lining comes into contact with a rotating brake drum, it is inevitable that wear must take place at the interface....

ITAIN'S Pirelli Ltd is inching a new tubeless lial ply cv tyre in the UK for a at high speeds over long lances. It is the...

THE 978/79 Commerc Motor Tables of Operat Costs will be publish today, Friday. August 4. 1 content of the tables been extended...

r- TIOPLE . National Bus has appointed Ralph Roberts, West Yorkshire Road Car general manager, as its northern region group...