ROAD HAULAGE costs rose by more than seven and a half per cent during the first nine months of this year, according to the Road...

A DRIVERS' PAY deal was signed and sealed by an assenting hauliers group late on Tuesday night — the first settlement in the...

CLAIMS that dockers in the South of England were attempting to recruit drivers to their section of the Transport and General...

;ONVOYS with armed guards should be organised to protect rivers on the Middle East routes while a complete investigation rite...

FEE Prime Minister detached transport from the Environment Department "because of the importance of transport in the...

ii MR WILLIAM RODGERS, the Transport Minister, is looking ,forward to a transport plan which will mean stability for the whole...

BRITAIN'S escape from bringing in Common Market hours and tachograph regulations is still strongly on the cards following a...

THE Transport Ministers Council in Brussels yesterday, included the usual report from the Commission on the development of the...

[141LE many municipal bus operators are having cash-flow ificulties caused by the non-payment of bus grants, the cash is ill...

CASH SUPPORT given to the bus industry — bus grant, transport supplementary grant, and fuel duty rebate — may be combined into...

A 12 1 /2 per cent increase in rail fares is on the way and another round of commuter battles is certain. Going on past...

BRITAIN is saving around E40m a year because of reduced consumption of oil fuel — and part at least of that may be put down to...

THE Transport Minister has no proposals to speed up the procedures of the Traffic Commissioners, but is willing to consider...

AN ATTEMPT to ensure that lorry drivers will not have to hand over their vehicles to dockers when they arrive at a port has...

A NEW freight operators' liability insurance policy has been launched by General Accident. It is designed primarily for road...

Extra sailings P AND 0 NORMANDY Ferries have added two extra sailings a day on their DoverBoulogne service because of the high...

THE LATE renewal of two vehicle 0 licences, held by an operator who had been working from the same premises for at least 20...

IN A TIGHT run contest, four first year motor apprentices from Carshalton College of Further Education fought their way ta...

TRANSPORT under-secretary John Horam told the Commons that there was probably no money and certainly no consensus of opinion on...

FERRYMASTERS have ordered 38 new Volvo F86 tractive units and 110 twelve metre trailers for TIR use from Craven Homalloy worth...

MR WILLIAM RODGERS, the Transport Minister, is planning moves to eliminate the National Freight Corporation's deficit. He told...

FOUR LORRY DRIVERS charged with hours and records offences were fined a total of £1,900 by Keighley Magistrates last week, for...

TOUGHER CONTROLS to ensure that diesel fumes do not exceed the laid-down standards are to be introduced early next year. This...

A LORRY driver was fined E100 in his absence after magistrates at Camberwell, South London, had found him guilty of forging a...

CRANE FRUEHAUF have formally rejected an offer by the Fruehauf Corporation of Michigan USA for the 67 per cent of the company's...

CARRYFAST, recently acquired by Unilever, have appointed Mr R. G. Hazeldine and Mr G. M. Oldroyd to their board. Mr I. W....

BUS OPERATORS experimenting with vehicles powered by liquid petroleum gas (lpg) will in future be allowed to claim rebate for...

AS NO member of the Government can attend the annual dinner of the Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport, on...

SUPPORT for Transport Secretary William Rodgers in his battle to reduce bus subsidies has come from "Movement for London," a...

DUPLE HAVE just pipped Plaxton to the post to win the lion's share of the 1977 coach order from the National Bus Company. Duple...

BY GRANTING a licence to the Manchester United Supporters Travel Club, for the carriage of pre-booked passengers to away...

COUNTY COUNCILS are likely to overspend by £53 million in carrying out their transport policies and programmes during the...

THE COUNTIES of South and West Yorkshire had developed distinctive transport strategies which were only part way through...

HYSTER introduced three new pneumatic models into its electric truck range. These are intended to complement Hyster's existing...

OIL COOLED immersed brakes will be in common use on commercial vehicles within the next 10 or 15 years, says Trist Draper the...

AT the Public Works Exhibition on November 15, Brockhouse Transmission Ltd will be showing a lightweight torque converter...

USERS of Aeroquip Cargo Control's range of load restraint systems may now take advantage of a 48 hour parts replacement...

RETIRED KEN SORTS OUT THE PROBLEMS THE PHILOSOPHY of the life of former Transport and General Workers' Union national...

Report by Martin Huckett Photos by Steve Back REG COOPER is an old hand when it comes to Road Haulage Association annual...

AS AN EXPERIMENT a formal meeting of the RHA's National Council was opened to ordinary members on the eve of the conference....

JIM MORTIMER, chairman of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, got more than he bargained for from this year's...

JOHN METHVEN, the new director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, struck the right note with delegates during...

NORMAN FOWLER, the Tory shadow spokesman on transport, fielded a number of tricky questions after giving his paper on Tuesday...

IT HAS been said over the years that the Road Haulage Association should offer more services to its members. With these words,...

KICKING off the open discussion session, one of the delegates returned to the wages negotiation theme. Mr T. Burt (Jacmil...

WINDING UP the business programme for the conference was the report back from the syndicate meetings followed by open...

Who would be a traffic clerk on Monday morning? Any Monday is bad enough what with weekend breakdowns, extra tonnage, a job the...

Talking of Monday mornings as we are somewhere else on this page, I wonder if like me you are made to feel a bit inferior most...

There was a bit of kite flying going on last week at the RHA conference, all nice and private and therefore more exciting. It...

It hadn't been a very good week last week. No nice phone calls, no pats on the back, miserable weather and the fact that Social...

Somebody is getting at me. Ever since I said I wasn't really an oldies man I've been receiving regular notices about vintage...

HRH Duke of Gloucester is emerging more and more on the transport scene. He has opened a motor show arid attended at least one...

by Graham Montgomerie (147bhp) at 2,600rpm. This particular unit is fitted with an air-to-air charge-cooler for lowering the...

PIACHINS TRANSPORT Surf bet) Ltd have been riticised by the Nottingham ridustrial Tribunal for the onus scheme which they...

I am writing with reference to your article "At your service" in October 1 issue of CM. One of Brian Booker's views on the...

I refer to your report in CM last week and would like to emphasise the position of C.T. (London) Ltd in the current haze of...

ARTON TRANSPORT showed recovery during the first six months of its current f cial ear. Profits of the group amounted to t87,00...

The lack of a suitable type of infinitely variable reversible transmission has hindered the use of flywheel energy as an...

and would like o be able to operate within the JK. Presumably I would have to have an operator's licence. .?.ould you explain...

and as such am required to drive any vehicle that may be allocated to me on any particular day. Much of my work is on express...

the side-lights and one or more fog-lights illuminated. I thought it was illegal to use fog-lights or spot-lights without the...

issued with a pass certificate. When I went to the local area traffic office to obain my full licence I was asked to pay a...

to install a tali-lift, but this means moving the number plate. Is there any legal reason why this should not be positioned at...

Almost 150 exhibitors from 13 European countries will be featuring services, vehicles and equipment at the Hamburg Transport...

The Volvo F86 is being superseded by a new F87 model incorporating a number of changes such as a front axle uprated by 200kg —...

Two psv developments by Neoplan, of Stuttgart, underline the growing sphere of influence by German bus builders in foreign...

WHAT are core plugs, and why are they fitted to cylinder blocks and heads? Some people have the idea they are put there so that...

IT IS REASSURING that Mr Alan Law of the TGWU and others of his fraternity so much prefer the mind over the machine that they...