ON THE SAME DAY that Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" celebrated its 30th birthday, a long running Westminster farce came to...

T IS ALL OVER and more corn 3overnment had a surprisingly n the final battle to increase writes our Parliamentary corres Only...

THE VOTE in favour of a weights increase was a "pretty considerable victory" for the transport industry, Freight Transport...

LONDONERS should learn next week whether 38-tonners are to be banned from the capital's roads. The Greater London Council's...

THE GREATER London Council has applied for a quarter of the bids for lorry action area status, Transport Under Secretary Lynda...

It is preparing operators for the next Transport Council meeting on December 16, when the community quota may be increased, and...

TIBBETT AND BRITTEN has rationalised its clothing transport distribution operations. From January 10, the company will operate...

OWN-ACCOUNT operators should be able to carry cabotage loads, the Freight Transport Association said last week. Commenting on...

THE CAMPAIGN for a dual carriageway Al/M1 link in the East Midlands was given a further push last week, when the British Road...

OPERATORS will soon be able to use vehicle breakdown figures for their fleets from A A/BRS Rescue. British Road Services...

IN A FURTHER study of transit tran non-EEC countries, the European Common Market member states bourg correspondent. Looking at...

NORTH-EAST English hauliers have rejected the Transport and General Workers Union's £100for-35 hours claim as "unrealistic"....

THE COST pressures on hauliers were intensified this week when Esso announced another 3.3 per cent increase in dery charges...

A EUROPEAN MP has appealed to the EEC Commission to take action to end the terror caused by organised robbery and attacks on...

THE TOLLS policy of the Road Haulage Association may soon be brought into line with the Freight Transport Association's newly...

WIGAN POLICE want to hear from any haulier involved in Continental operation who has been approached by people who say they...

PLANS for Ireland's first toll bridge were approved last week, on the eve of the country's general election. The 1R£7m (£5.5m)...

THE SCOTTISH Development Agency's plans for a distribution centre at Bellshill, Lanarkshire, are expected to be released in...

Information from the Beirut office of Jordan Express, Whittle's local agent in Lebanon and Jordan, states that trailer traffic...

THERE MAY be some weight restrictions on old bridges as a result of an increase in gross vehicle weights, but few will have a...

THERE IS nothing so expensive as a cheap road, the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors told the Commons transport...

SHROPSHIRE County Council has come under renewed fire from Rolls-Royce Motors management over its continued opposition to...

THE PRO-ROAD lobby has begun to hit back in the fight for improvements to the Al at Archway, North London. Jeremy Hawksley,...

DANISH SEAWAYS' British haulage subsidiary has changed its name to Harwich Transport, reflecting its change of operating base....

DAVID ANDREWS, chief executive of Land Rover-Leyland believes that technological innovation is the key to the future for the UK...

LEX TILLOTSON Southampton has launched a 24-hour rescue and roadside recovery service which is available for all makes of...

GRANNING UK of Barking, Essex, is importing from the United States, a full air triaxle suspension suitable for the proposed...

TOLEMAN• AUTOMOTIVE has ordered 165 new 165.24 rigid, drawbar, chassis cabs from Iveco (UK), which will be fitted with special...

Maureen Hope has taken over as distribution planning consultant at BRS headquarters in Bedford, after a management career...

FRANCOIS ZANNOTTI has resigned as president directeur general of Renault Vehicules Industriels, the parent company of Karrier...

ANOTHER PTE director general is retiring early. Desmond Fletcher, Tyne and Wear's director general since 1976, retires on March...

ARTHUR BECKENHAM, the Chartered Institute of Transport's director of education and training, is retiring for health reasons...

JULIAN BELL has become financial director of United Transport International, parent company of the United Transport Group. Mr...

MINIBUSES could provide the first new large-scale public transport initiative in London since the 1980 Transport Act if a...

ALL PUBLIC service operators have a duty under the 1978 Transport Act to co-operate with one another and that duty was not...

WEST MIDLANDS County Coun cil's bid this week for a £46n subsidy and a 10 per cent fare reduction was turned down Iv Transport...

DUPLE INTERNATIONAL, the coachbuilder's parent company, made a £995,000 loss before tax in the year to August 31, against a...

NATIONAL BUS has sold its 50 per ers (Holdings) to Leyland Bus, thus Involvement in bus building. ALAN The change means that...

DUPLE Coachbuilders and Volvo are jointly exhibiting at the World Travel Market being held at Olympia until December 5. The...

RIBBLE has produced a cheap and easy-to-handle storage and dispensing facility for new £1 coins. Designed for the o-m-o bus...

THE READING bus war continues. The local National Bus Company subsidiary has hit back, saying that Reading Borough's claims of...

THE IMPLICATIONS of the 38tonne-weight increase were discussed at a talk-in arranged by York Trailer last week. More than 220...

THE BRITISH Standards Institute has revised its guide to the stowage of goods in freight containers. BS5073, just published by...

YORK Trailer Company has in troduced two self-steering axial with seven and 10-tonne capaci ties to be used as the third exit...

THE ADDITION of the two latest charge-cooled models to Scania's range gives it a total of 10 engine variants with maximum power...

LOCAL AUTHORITIES' involvement with operators' applications is increasing steadily, not least in the West Midlands where the...

YOUR Passenger Transport Editor, Noel Millier, makes some very pertinent points in his excellent article "The Revolution has...

After a terrible setback three years ago, Eaton's Manchester factory has been rebuilt and reclaimed its former position. Graham...

Ken McIver managing director of Leyland Bus, and Les Wharton of Leyland Parts — the requirements, the techniques are distinctly...

AN UNINSURED motorist who had been drinking orphaned four children when he killed their parents while they were crossing the...

CANADIAN lorry and car drivers are not the best of chums. Rolf Lockwood, editor of Bus and Truck Transport, delivered a...

In all of this I detect a certain amount of British operators at least do not have to contend with hostility from the RAC and...

IF you have a special friend, such as the taxman or certain tradeunion leaders, to whom you would like to give a burial place...

THEY SAID anything could happen and it did when a Dennis Dominator double-deck bus with Gardner 6LXB engine covered 550 miles...

COMMENDABLE consideration for the blind is being shown by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, which has cooperated with...

SHROPSHIRE County Council has installed a special escape ramp to prevent hedgehogs from becoming trapped in a cattle grid on...

Hauliers faced with the expense of achieving the necessary five axles to spread gvw may find hiring a feasible alternative....

THE PRESIDENT of the FTA, Ian Dallison, was not only right when he suggested recently that the Government should stimulate...

Noel Millier loves Paris in the autumn as he does in springtime — 'Oh, toutes les journalistes anglais dit cela' — and samples...

This traffic area has unique problems and an approachable Licensing Authority. It's an area with 18,000 goods vehicles and one...

Send it samples of your engine's oil and Shell will tell you if anything's wrong with your engine. David Wilcox tests the...