AN OPPORTUNITY to draw up an agreed minimum operating rate which road hauliers can charge has been given to the chairman of the...

ESSO tanker drivers have re jected their company's pay an productivity deal by a ten to on majority. The 14 per cent pay offe...

A MARKET research project t find out exactly what tippe operators are looking for as re gards vehicles and bodies is be ing...

12-POINT pay claim from the United Road Tranport Union calling or a reduction in the working week and a basic wage of E90 per...

HE OPERATIONS of Kilmerock-based haulage company lcCall and Greenshields have een integrated with those of its ssociate...

A NUMBER of Gardner Engines' workforce are still occupying the company's factory at Eccles, near Manchester, and have their...

SINCE July 21 this year, a further 23 cases of dropped beams have been identified in the Midland Link motorways elevated...

TACHOGRAPH chart manufacturer Tachodisc has reduced the prices of its charts. As from November 1 a box ol 100 charts cost...

ENGLISH EUROWAYS partner Wallace Arnold has challenged thr validity of a consortium of private coach operators who have caller...

'HE ROAD Transport Industry Training loard welcomes the Manpower Services :ommission's recent report, Outlook on 'raining, and...

/E HAVE a limited supply of the idex to CM for the period July )79 to December 1979. These . e available from our editorial...

DAD has raised the prices of its -Series range and its R-Series Dach chassis by five per cent. e increase took effect on...

DESPITE rumours to the contrary the Department of Transport has clearly stated that the Transport and Road Research Laboratory...

make life very uncomfortable for the Duke of Atholl when he leaves his newspaper work in London and makes for the ancestral...

THE GOVERNMENT'S first priority is towards roads which will aid economic recovery, according to Junior Transport Minister...

AVIS Truck Rental has accused cutting and says it is not going to Managing director of Avis Truck Rental Bill Johnston said...

A £2.3M ONE-WAY traffic scheme near Willesden junction has been given the go-ahead by the Greater London Council's North Area...

BRITISH RAIL is looking for firm commitment from the Gin ernment on the BR/French Rai ways plan for a single-bore rai only...

IN AN ATTEMPT to boost it cargo transhipment business a the port, Noblett and Un derwood has opened a Dove office and will now...

DRIVING a commercial vehicle in Britain is a comparative!) hazardous occupation, according to accident statistics compiled 13)...

AIDUSTRY welcomes the London M25 but sees it only as a first step towards solving the country's biggest traffic problem — and a...

A SCHOLARSHIP scheme for 16. to 18 year olds has been introduced by Eastern BRS. The Arthur Dexter Scholarship in Transport...

THE MANY and varied problems involved in managing a distribution depot are to be tackled in two-day course next month. It is...

NO SINGLE road in London will lose even 15 per cent of its presenl traffic to the M25. This claim was made by Andrew Warren,...

1EJECTING lorry driver Mr A. J. Jenkins' claim that his company lad unfairly selected him for redundancy, a Birmingham...

kN ESSENTIAL reference book or all employers has been pubshed by the Advisory Conciliaion and Arbitration Service. The...

NORTH-WESTERN Licensing Authority Roy Hutchings said at Manchester last week that he would need a lot of convincing that an...

EIGHT additional ECMT permit will be available next year, an operators are being given unti the end of the month to appl. for...

OVER £300,000 of European Re gional Development Fun: grants are going to Freightline for expanding three Scottish de pots....

- ANKERFREIGHT, the specialist iulk handling and storage cornany, has appointed John Darcy, ormerly contracts manager...

Scotland: M90/A90. Between the north end of the Forth Road Bridge and the Fife regional boundary there are lane closures due to...

LEYLAND VEHICLES is sponsoring the Saudia Leyland Grand Prix team in 1981 following its world championship triumph in 1980. LV...

THIS MAN-VW MT 8.136 has the delicate task of carrying fresh eggs from the Monkhouse farm in Penrith, Cumbria, throughout the...

SEDDON ATKINSON has r, ceived orders for five 16-tc rigid versions of the 300-Serif drawbar model — though basc on the drawbar...

A. E. EDMUNDS Walker h. been appointed the distribut for Knorr Bremse brake pr ducts in England, Scotland ar Wales by the sole...

THE DODGE 50-Series range of light vehicles is now fitted with a larger, 85-litre (18.7 gal), fuel tank in place of the...

MEY Roadstone Corporation Id has taken delivery of a 6x4 eyland Super Mastiff which has een converted from leaf prings to Norde...

A RANGE of 11 maintenance-free 12v batteries for light vans and cars hat been introduced by Fulmen (UK) Ltd of Aldershot....

AN INTERMEDIATE model between the Tamplin/Lister ST1 and ST2 donkey engined tipping power packs has been announced by Tamplin...

ORDERS for over 150 chassis equipped with Cummins engines were taken during the NEC Motor Show, the company said this week....

HE British Airports Authority has taken delivery of the first producion Gloster Saro Javelin fire crash tender for use at...

A NEW electric reach truck, claimed to be the most advanced of any currently on the market, has been introduced by Montgomerie...

HEYFORDIAN Travel launcher its Oxford-London deregulate( coach service on Monday thi: week. The Capital Express service which...

NEWCASTLE University's 12th innual public transport sympo;ium is to be held from March 31 o April 2, 1981. Marketing Public...

CONTRARY to reports in the national press the Government is not prepared to offer counties any financial inducements to set up...

ARDENVALE Tours of Solihu West Midlands, have fitted thri of their B58 Volvo coaches wi . Fidus top-speed governors. The device...

THE ASSETS of Baker West Lt of Borden in Hampshire hay been bought by coachbuildE and sales and service organise tion Moseley...

INDEPENDENT bus services in West Dunbartonshire ended las Friday when Phipps Bus Services suddenly gave up their two month-old...

HE FIGURES for fuel consumpan we obtained recently in Italy ith IVECO's new turbo range iggest that when the Fiat and lagirus...

HE WEATHER at Scarborough ist week during the RHA conferrice matched the mood of the aulage industry — it was lining. I know...

I NOTICED with interest the very nice eight-page advertisement for Mercedes-Benz vehicles in the October 18 issue of Commerical...

A MISLEADING error appears under the heading Quality Counts in your News Digest (November 1). As is quite clear from both that...

HOW HEARTILY I must agree with the Hawk in his comments on advertising by the motor industry of late (CM, October 25, p29). We...

HAVING recently returned from the USA I have only just read the October 4 issue of Commercial Motor. Full marks to London...

WITH REFERENCE to your editorial of November 1, I must point out that the RHA's directorgeneral's comments at the Scarborough...

I THOUGHT I was an early rez of your publication when father bought me a copy wh was 12 years old. But my son astounds me;...

NHILE the recession deepens Ind transport remains generally n the doldrums, some sectors ;how significant advances. One lire...

ICC BUSINESS RATIOS last week brought out a business ratio report on Vehicle Rental and Leasing comparing the performance of 99...

THERE WERE 113 bankruptcies and 164 liquidations in the industry during the period January to June, according to the latest...

THE FIERCE haulage rates war tvhich raged in 1975 quietened iown but rumbled on in the late Seventies with spasmodic ocalised...

TRADE has indeed slumped Jvhen a haulage business as reputable as Frank Porter Ltd of Derby continues to lose money after...

RODUCTION of an earthmover ere 10ft in diameter from Jayule, a rubber obtained from wild shrub grown in the southest United...

ONCE upon a time there was a company that did not sponsor an event, worthy or fatuous, for profit or charity. It was not Bandag...

ABOUT THE TIME the Seddon Atkinson 400 was introduced, John Dickson-Simpson and his fellow enthusiast John Dalzell of Transport...

TO Sir Michael Edwardes, chairman of BL, a carburetter is a "fuel management system". There's posh executive suite, isn't it?...

IN THE last article the theory of the dynamo was considered. In practice the dynamo takes the form illustrated in the photo,...

DAD HAULAGE has never nked with the stock market or operty development as a way quickly reaping rich rewards if )u have some...

HE ANNUAL accounts tell lany people many things. They are, by design, your tatement to the outside world, ut they are also...

ERHAPS SURPRISINGLY, the easurement of bulk fuel spensing has never been ibject to statutory control. ReJlations have been in...

NY small and not-so-small Jliers are now finding their - y existence in danger as they tipple with punitive interest es,...

THE FOLLOWING vehicles are exempt from excise duty by Section 4 of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971: fire engines; ambulances;...

Unkindest cut of all NOBODY outside the Government seems to be in favour of the proposal to transfer heavy goods vehicle...

a to the operator FOR AS LONG as road transport has existed there has always been a special relationship between vehicle...