LONG BEFORE Sir Geoffrey Howe had returned to his Front Bench seat after presenting his 1980 Budget, Honourable Members on both...

'ERATORS throughout the country are becoming concerned put the increase in the number of prosecutions for use of :hnically...

ERE WILL be another td Haulage Association id Transport Show next r, along the lines of the ;hton event last October. HA's...

MANUFACTURERS are suffering no real hardship due to the shortage in steel supplies. At Dunstable, Dodge lorry production...

CHESHIRE Fire Engineering Ltd has been awarded a Elm contract by the Greater London Council for the supply of 26 Dodge-based...

ROAD TRANSPORT costs are up by at least two per cent following last week's Budget, but in general the industry feels that it...

A VIGOROUS call for an energy policy went out to the Government this week when Freight Transport Association director general...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR's calculations show that operators' costs have risen by around three per cent as a result of the Budget. This...

THERE has been a gene welcome for the Chancellor the Exchequer's Budget de sion to end vehicle excise di on electric vehicles....

iE RULES governing the movement of goods hides between the United Kingdom and Ireland e to be brought into line with those for...

L THE ASSETS of the National Freight Corpoion will be transferred to a company formed cifically for that purpose, announced...

SUSPENDED prison sentences and fines of E1000 were imposed on two partners in a haulage business this week after they admitted...

HAUL BUT WHAT has an incomplete candleholder got to do with the legislation which — according to your point of view —...

BLACK PICTURE of overweight, poorly maintained, and Lngerous lorries putting London's citizens at risk Was painted week when...

E Lorries and the Environnt Committee cannot see y 40 tonne vehicles should t be introduced, provided e weights are not...

"LORRIES of a higher payload need not be larger, more road damaging or environmentally unsatisfactory." That opinion was...

A TAX OF ABOUT £30 per day to enter London by heavy lorry is proposed by the Campaign Against the Lorry Menace. Speaking to Sir...

BRITAIN should put up with the present lorry problem until a new transport plan is formulated. So said the Council for...

AN OPERATOR whose eyesight was so poor that he could not read vehicle inspection records has lost his application for an extra...

TRANSPORT MINISTE Norman Fowler has al nounced measures which w help British road haulie making journeys to or throul Austria....

■ REATER London Council's thoughts of a ban on drawbar thicles over 15m were defended last week when GLC assistant hief planner...

RITAIN is stuck with road . ansport for urban distribuon, whether we like it or not. hat was the honest message Thich British...

John Withers GILTSPUR BULLENS Transport Services' new national sales manager for its computer and machine moving division is...

LEYLAND'S Titan double-decker's future should now be assured, now that the much-rumoured transfer of production to the Leyland...

NOW THAT the minimum age for bus drivers has been reduced to 18, the driving of large passenger vehicles by young drivers is to...

TRIAL AREAS, in which roa service licences are ma needed, will be able to b operated for between two an five years, instead of...

R GEOFFREY HOWE's Budget brought no particularly bad ?ws for bus and coach operators. The removal of the 5p difrence in fuel...

ONCE a so-called "pirate" London bus, a 1925 Dennis open-top double-decker which was absorbed into the fleet of the London...

LEEDS UNIVERSITY's 12th annual seminar on public transport operations research is to be held from July 14 to 16. Among the...

PUBLIC service vehicle casualties fell slightly in the third quarter of last year with six deaths, 314 serious injuries, and...

A NEW 6 x 4 model based on the Dodge G1613 has been developed for tipper operators by Tricentrol Chassis Developments Ltd in...

A SMALL CRANE is being marketed by Hazemin Ltd of Canterbury, Kent, for the light commercial vehicle operator. The compact...

THE Saudi Arabian Royg Commission has taken dc livery of a fleet of 2 premium-grade specific atio Shelvoke and Drewr municipal...

1ELFAST freighter aircraft have , een introduced into service by 'AC HeavyLift Ltd from 1tansted Airport, Essex. The ihoto...

FOR A LOOK at the airfreight carrier business, who better to visit than the man who actually coined the term "air freight...

SEVERAL MONTHS ago I took one of your road test writers to task slightly over his suggestion that the Albion six-speed gearbox...

CONGRATULATIONS on your 75th year. In the past few years I have bought Commercial Motor now and then, but now have it delivered...

RAY BUCKTON (CM, March 8, p23) failed to observe that in the same way that "lorries are smashing motorways to pieces", trains...

THROUGH our Press Cutting Bureau we received your kind report on our company with regard to the marketing of forklift trucks...

I WOULD LIKE to support many of the favourable comments made on Leyland's Roadtrain, but some of your remarks (CM, March 15,...

I HAVE imported a 1949 Morn Commercial Type ECV9 /40 tipper from Jersey for restoN tion and would be interested i hearing from...

WHAT GOOD SENSE th representatives of URTU tall regarding not raising the spee limits for hgvs. Instead ( relaxing the speed...

SCOTTISH BUSMAN who is admitted to a Barnsley hostal with an injured hand in )29 forged a link — which has isted ever since —...

S IT Edward Lear or King r who said: "I know two gs about a horse and one of 1i is rather coarse?" Whoit was, he would have...

ACCORDING to Ian Irwin, chairman of the Scottish Bus Group and president of the Confederation of British Passenger Transport,...

JACK ASHWELL, commercial group secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, has attended more inquiries than Sir...

JACK's fraternal enemy, Ray Buckton, general secretary of ASLEF, didn't miss a productivity trick when he gave evidence to Sir...

CM's £6000 study award scheme, announced as part of our 75th anniversary, is open to anyone engaged in transport or transport...

■ VEHICLE off the road waiting Dr spare parts is always bad iews; but if the vehicle is iperating several thousand iiles away...

MOST shippers employ a freight forwarder to handle theii business for them at an airport, and it is estimated that there could...

THE AIRFREIGHT tariff system is now so complex that i almost defies interpretation, says the British Shippers' Coun cil (part...

LESS than a year after the introduction of its Euro-Shuttle express van service into Denmark, Carryfast International Ltd has...

■ AOST PEOPLE'S definition of 3ir freight would probably be along the lines of "freight that joes by air". A logical enough...