A NATIONWIDE STRIKE by drivers is firmly on the cards if hauliers go ahead with the introduction of new subsistence claim...

rubbish RUBBISH is one of the causes of serious accidents on Britain's roads says the AA magazine Drive. The rubbish is left...

RATE CUTTING in the tipping industry has taken a dramatic new turn—things are getting so bad that operators are quoting rates...

ARE FOREIGN hauliers re-using permits time after time to bring loads into Britain? And are they getting away with it because of...

THE OPPOSITION is to try to get changes in the seat belts Bill which begins its committee stage this week. Among the changes...

BETTER breath-testing equipment and more effective methods of keeping drinking drivers off the road plus the possibility of...

OPPOSITION spokesman on transport Mr Norman Fowler has attacked the Blennerhassett Report proposal on random breath tests as...

BRITAIN stood up to the recession in the commercial vehicle market better than any other country and emerged as number one...

ROAD haulage costs have risen by 2 1 1 ,per cent in the first three months of this year, according to Road Haulage Association...

COACH operators in parts of Oxfordshire are being offered by the county council two-tier contracts covering the supply of local...

THE IDEA of a merger between National Carriers and Roadline UK was turned down in the Commons last week by Dr John Gilbert, the...

The derisory cries which greeted part of Jack Jones' speech at the FTA last week caused more than embarrassment to the...

SOME DRIVERS over the age of 50 had been successfully trained as heavy goods vehicle drivers under the Training Opportunities...

LACK of publicity has meant that the young driver's training scheme is not attracting the numbers of companies or trainees that...

A BILL to compel manufacturers to include in the quoted price of their vehicles the cost of such "extras" as number plates,...

ALL TYPES of LPG-fuelled vehicles will be available for demonstration at an exhibition to be staged by Yorkshire Autogas Ltd,...

EXPORTS of commercial vehicles in the first quarter of this year were up by more than half on the same period last year—and...

says RHA chairman THE Government should either change the law or exercise more restraint when bringing prosecutions against...

NATIONAL Freight Corporation has appointed Mr John Farrant managing director of Southern BRS in succession to Mr Brian Hayward,...

THE LONG and satisfactory history in the transport industry of livestock haulier Ron Marsh Ltd, of Newcastleunder-Lyme,...

EXPRESS parcel carriers have been advised by the RHA not to accept parcels addressed using the post codes only. The RHA says...

DEMOUNTABLE body-system builders have joined together in a new group of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. The...

RESTRICTIONS on the numbers of vehicles operated under the Merchandise Licence system in Ireland are to be cut by new...

• • . fewer buses JUST SUPPOSE the bus industry was allowed to run right down . . . Would the Government be worse off? Yes, Mr...

SELNEC TRAVEL—the coaching offshoot of Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive—has been re-named Charterplan. The...

LEYLAND'S PLANS to export eight Leyland Atlanteans to New York have again been set back. First there were delays with the...

THE TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union "Coach Fair List "—a list of coach firms who pay their staff at the union agreed rate...

BUS GRANT payments to stage carriage operators are to be resumed on a temporary basis—they had previously been suspended...

Glasgow tour GLASGOW is to run its city but tour again this year following the popularity of the tour last summer when more...

FROM the wide range of demonstration vehicles in the park at Tipcon '76 I chose two to drive, the Leyland Octopus 30-tonner and...

The Seddon Atkinson 200 was loaded to 16.3 tonnes (16 tons) and carried a 10.1-tonne (9.9-ton) payload. It is fitted with an IH...

by Stephen Gray THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the Silent Karrier electric urban delivery van (CM April 30), a joint project involving...

BRITAIN is fortunate to have a system of State-subsidised training boards in industry. This was very evident from several of...

This was neither a test of Mr Rutter's criminal prowess nor a competition to decide who produced the best system. It was an...