If the Foster Committee Report's recommendations are implemented, George Orwell's 1984 will become a reality for the road...

' THE recommendations of the Foster Report are implemented Government !partments will co-operate to supply information about...

MEN and women in transport featured prominently in this year's New Year's Honours list — amongst them a high proportion of...

AS PROSPECTS brightened for a settlement in the tanker drivers' dispute, the picture looked bleak for hauliers, with drivers in...

BRITAIN'S balance of trac the commercial vehicle se has shown a 23 per cent rh imports and a 10 per cent ( in exports over the...

AT1ONAL Carriers has anointed seven new ianaging directors to look 'ter its regions — and all but vo are former British Rail...

NEW definition of the warng week came into effect is week with the introducn of the EEC rolling week m January 1. The week...

FOSTER committee chairman Professor Christopher Foster has aimed to produce a new system of heavy vehicle licensing that would...

HIGH Court decision to thold the imposition of the 'indsor Cordon traffic heme merely means that affic problems will be moved...

AILER manufacturer me Fruehauf has reorganI its constituent companies. 'hey will now all trade Jer the name of Crane Lehauf,...

A BRITISH international haulier has taken delivery of two refrigerated vans fitted with tri-axle suspension. This is the first...

MORE than three-quarters of the visitors to the Motor Show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham want to see the...

THE NORWICH depot of Ford and Slater, the commercial vehicle dealer, has acquired the sole distributorship for the Seddon...

A REVISED UK-Italy road haulage arrangement came into force on January 1. The main reVision in the arrangement concerns...

Piggyback promotion THE EUROPEAN Conference of Ministers of Transport held its 48th session in Paris recently. It was attended...

THE COMPLEXITIES of the law in regard to industrial relations have been attacked by a Shrewsbury Industrial Tribunal in a...

A BLEAK outlook for the staffing levels of the haulage industry is foreseen by the Overdrive agency in a new report published...

k SCOTTISH road haulier hit out at owner-drivers' criticisms of his handling of work in Saudi Arabia this week. Bill Wright,...

IVERNIGHT parking of eavy commercial vehicles in le City of London is to be anned from Monday, anuary 15, 1979. Vehicles ver...

Dearer Fords THE PRICES of Ford products increased by an average of 4.9 per cent on January 2. Ford says the increases were...

NATIONAL Carriers has promoted John Everett to Regional contract services executive for the Southern Region. He was previously...

port has appointed Geoff Whitaker traffic superintendent of the Stockport district. He was previously traffic superintendent of...

LTHOUGH a road along which Ipswich Borough Transport oposed to extend a stage carriage service was not wholly itable for bus...

:EVE Burgess has introced a new Ford Transit ver,n of its Reebur 17 miniich and they will be availle through Ford Truck Tialist...

Village bus for Severn MIDLAND Red's revision of bus services in the Greater Worcester area takes place on January 13 and will...

A SCHEME to cover heavy vehicle service throughout Europe, based on an international credit card, has been launched by Volvo....

,N ALL-NEW DAF sixheeler is to be launched at le Brussels Show on January 7. It is aimed at the tipper, ulk and crane-mounted...

A NEW mirror suitable for incorporation in a vehicle's glass heating systems has been introduced by Magnatex, for use with...

A RANGE of acoustic cab linings has been developed by Revertex Acoustic Products of Rushden, Northants. They include linings,...

A NEW ball coupling designed to bridge the gap between a car coupling and the full heavy vehicle drawbar item has been...

by Arthur Sherlock Mesher 'T IS NO accident that until us retirement from the Natiokal Freight Corporation on )ecember 31, Sir...

own decisions • by Mary Frayne SINCE its inaugural meeting in November 1977, the RHA's Young Executive Section has built up a...

GENERATIO\ nce and look at road haulage re at first hand. The French up made a return visit in ober at short notice, cornng...

WERATORS can often exend the useful life of a hassis or have a new model lore closely tailored to their eeds by means of an...

fter reading The Hawk November 17), I must )mment on the item about the merican vehicle system that aces the driver's cab low...

CM December 1, D. S. Benn comments on the state of lining in the road transport Justly. He highlights the diffiIty colleges...

Those of your readers who operate road tankers carrying hazardous goods should be warned that the responsibility for fitting...

otiditigitt I refer to your leader of December 1 entitled ''Cowboy Coachmen - . These people are, of course, a public...

Roadline is in the money — even if it will not buy anything in Britain. The BBC Blue Peter children's television programme has...

Ironically I had to read a new book about Ford in Europe to appreciate the company's close involvement in America's space...

Even in a country of vast distances, such as Australia, 79 per cent of the tonnage of goods consigned goes by road. According...

Seddon Atkinson and Pat Kennett, the noted road transport writer, also received boosts in the same television programme. The...

It is tragic that union members in the British branch of a cornpany employing nearly half a million people in 30 countries...

British bus operators, crawlif to their political masters f every penny of subsidy, may I forgiven for the sin of envy will...

It is seldom that one can fi righteous about a hangover t it is ample consolation for pounding head to remember if possible —...

Steam is not being consigned to museums in Australia, wh Commonwealth and State ministers of transport are worr about the...

EHICLE manufacturers we, over the years, sought provide more and more 7:cessories as part of the ital vehicle package in a bid...

WHEN it comes to the sort of accessories drivers would like, the list is very nearly endless. Overall though, probably the...

tomorrow's needs But tinted glass has real benefits. Triplex's Sundym green tinted glass is an example. This, its makers say,...

Most children enjoy the kind of puzzle which involves joining a sequence of numbers with a continuous line until a picture...