Don't dig this tunnel ON MONDAY Sir Peter Parker is expected to visit the proposed site of the entrance to the cross-Channel...

HOW WILL THE MINISTER tackle the opposition to heavier vehicle weights from across the House and from his own back-benchers?...

TRANSPORT Secretary David Howell came face to face last week with the quieter and safer lorries which he hopes will persuade...

HAULAGE traffic through Dover rose by nearly a quarter in January, compared with the same month in 1981. Figures released by...

The TGWU's road transport commercial group has circulated proposals for a two-tier wage structure, with a national committee...

BRITAIN'S minor roads rr eventually become impassal to all but the most robust vehicles, the British Road Fl eration has warned...

LAST YEAR'S 10p per gallon cut in dery duty should be a first step towards harmonised rates across Europe, Freight Transport...

A CONSERVATIVE MP ird duced a ten minute rule Bill Tuesday this week, to bring • Dykes Act into line with the r tric system....

'EAKINS have released more Wails of its new Q14 family of rngines, the first of which is :cheduled for production in 1985. It...

THERE are no Greater London Council plans for bans on existing heavy lorries, only on vehicles over 32.5 tonnes, GLC transport...

B+I LINE has delayed the introduction of its controversial Holyhead/Dublin ro-ro ferry service. until Monday next week, pending...

ALL FORECASTS of cross-Channel traffic can be accommodated at low cost on existing ferry services, says the Dover Harbour...

iE FORMER transport manier of Poplar Transport (Lymm) d, a company now in liquirtion, successfully applied for a :ence of his...

CONTROLLED experiments with wheelclamps should be carried out in London, the Freight Transport Association has told the...

A MAN whose first instinct is help anyone in difficulty ceived a cheque for £200 fro John Farrant, managing direct of Southern...

SCOTTISH SECRETARY George Younger has safeguarded three strategic trunk routes around Edinburgh, but Lothian Region's lack of...

JEL SUBSIDIES to remote co iswer to their problems than trathclyde Regional Council has cottish affairs committee. rnmunities...

HE SURFACE transport corn'thee of Merseyside Chamber f Commerce has added its Ace to complaints over police rocedures when...

AFTER "bottoming out" at the end of last year, the international road transport market is poised for a recovery in 1982 says a...

THE RIVER THAMES is greatly under-used and could relieve much of the congestion from the roads of London, said Leonard Faram,...

THE heavy lorry is the single most-intrusive-element, and the most persistent and pervasive source of disturbance in the lives...

ALL FORD plants in the Londi area are heavily dependent I road transport, says Kenne Bowden, manager of Dagenha general...

ALL the submissions made t the pro-road lobby should t disregarded because they al written by people with veste interests,...

E attraction of London as a shopping centre and a tourist radise would fade if weight restrictions were introduced. So say '75'...

A 24-HOUR day and a sevendays-a-week operation at Tate and Lyle's main London factory means that any night or weekend lorry...

RISING UNEMPLOYMENT, falling population and increased car usage are all blamed by Greater Manchester Transport for a likely...

PUTTING certain bus routes Scotland out to tender wot inevitably mean that son would attract private inve ment, leaving the...

iiheap•fare scotched Ayrshire 'pretender' HEAP FARES are unlikely to generate sufficient extra traffic to be roved worth...

THE SCOTTISH Traffic Commissioners have reserved decision on an application by a second independent to operate a stage service...

IN the latest stage of its expansion plans for its London/Scotland express coach routes, the Scottish Bus Group has placed...

LUCAS GIRLING and the Dayton-Walther Corporation, of Dayton, Ohio, are to establish a joint company in the USA to manufacture...

LUCAS KIENZLE'S wide array of tachograph storage and analysis aids has been extended further with the introduction of...

A NEW spark ignition engine designed to run on petrol, diesel or "anything in between" has been introduced into the largest...

AS PART of a scheme to reduce the cost of replacement components, a range of re-manufactured clutch cover assemblies, some with...

DAVID KIRKWOOD has becom a director of Tesco Managemer Services Ltd, having joined th company last year with respor sibility...

ATIONAL demonstrations, a uch used and abused weapon the arsenal of most lobbies, ) not seem to be favoured by ipporters of the...

UGH FEATHERSTONE'S vision Licensing Authorities' 3arings of operators' licence 3plications being "besieged by Iarmy of...

NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO should be a contender for the title "International Shrink and Stretch Wrap Year". For at last week's 1982...

THE CULMINATION of your learner driver's training period is the test itself. He must be at least 21 years old, unless he is...

TOO OFTEN, minibuses designed to meet the special needs of the aged are a compromise with necessary features such as tail-lifts...

dal and could be a little disconcerting at first. However, I soon became used to this vehicle. The Volkswagen LT31 highroof...

"ARE FOUR cylinders better than six at 7.5 tonnes?" This was the question posed by CM in 1979 after we had tested seven...

)NE of the measures that could yell be included in next week's kidget is a switch from unladen o gross weight as the basis for...

MANY BRITISH commercial vehicle manufacturers missed a great opportunity to penetrate the lucrative Saudi Arabian market when...

THE FIRST CM livery competition of 1982 was judged in two areas by our panel of three designers. Area one covered the West...