The biggest industrial dispute in the history of road transport in Britain is over. The day of reckoning is dawning. The rifts...

/IAN and the German trailer ompany, Schenk, have deve3ped an aerodynamic device or use specifically on the railer of a drawbar...

from our European correspondent The European Court of Justice issued its judgment this week on Britain's failure to implement...

THE LONG-awaited G-range from Mercedes Benz is announced today. This is a four wheel drive machine which has been developed in...

NATIONAL CARRIERS showed a small net profit in 1978 for the first time in their history. This was helped by the effects of the...

FREIGHT Transport Association director general Hugh Featherstone told members of the south east region of the FTA that the...

at opportun i st critics THE DRIVERS' strike decided Prices Secretary Roy Hattersley not to freeze road haulage rates. He...

FORMER British Association of Owner Drivers chairman George Kelly and vicechairman Harry Boland have resigned as directors of...

THERE are no plans to ii crease maximum lorr weights in this countr Transport Minister Williai Rodgers will tell his Europea...

YORK Trailer is to sue nine pickets who, it claims, Megan: picketed its Northallerton factory and forced it to close for thre...

-IAULIERS throughout the country are 'aced with going to their customers to isk for a 17-18 per cent rate increase. A large...

TRANSPORT Under Secretary John Horam last week gave MPs a list of new safety measures for buses — and was immediately told that...

THE GOVERNMENT'S proposal to abolish Vehicle Excise Duty on petrol-driven vehicles and replace it with an increased fuel tax...

IT TOOK only a moment of Parliamentary time — but it could herald hours of "squabbling. The Yorkshire Woollen District...

six approved training ntres are extending their tzfreight programmes this mmer to include Hazpet urses for petroleum tanker...

SECURICOR plans a massive investment in new vehicles and property to expand its door-to-door parcels delivery service. The...

THE NUMBER of goods vehicles imported into Britain from countries outside the EEC has more than doubled over the last five...

CONTRARY to what was previously understood, most vehicle and speedometer manufacturers were not in fact currently providing...

PSV safety improves THE NUMBER of public service vehicles operating in Great Britain dropped from 74,306 in 1973 to 73,437 in...

HOC has launched a new refrigeration system aimed specifically at multi-drop delivery vehicles. Called Transcool, it utilises...

WHAT ARE believed to be the largest-ever non-hgv Luton vans have just been added to the fleet of an Oldham haulier. Target...

THE GOVERNMENT m issue hard facts about loi drivers' pay — a half-prom to do so was given in the 1. per House last week by IR...

BING Mersey tunnel tolls would have a big impact on haulage ontractors, a Government inquiry in Liverpool was told. The road...

VIERCEDES-BENZ has an- Jounced plans to build an Assembly plant for commercial vehicles in the United States. The plant will be...

More powder trailers PANDORO has purchased eight more bulk powder tanker semi-trailers to add to its fleet. The 8.2m (27ft)...

INSPECTION records protected an operator and they demonstrated to a vehicle examiner that there was a proper maintenance...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has announced arrangements for allocating additional road haulage permits for France and Italy....

'EGOTIATIONS begun last year between the East German Einistry of Foreign Trade and Volvo, of Sweden, are expected to ?, brought...

A NEW 6x6 tractive unit plated for 250-ton operation is to be introduced by MAN-VW Truck and Bus Ltd. The latest addition to...

THE ANT three wheeler, manufactured by BTB Engineering of Blackburn, is now available with refrigerated box-van body. With a...

BRITAX, part of the BSG International Group, has introduced a range of vehicle care products for both DIY and professional...

WITH the latest 16-tonners commissioned by Plysu Containers, consignments can be offloaded from any part of the 62cum...

GREATER Glasgow PTE is using an novel but cost-saving heating scheme in its Possilpark bus depot. The system is basically a...

A BENCH grinder claimed to have extra strength and safety features has been produced by RJH Tool and Equipment company of...

OT ON THE heels of Scania. hich announced the reormisation of its bus mariting effort in the UK last eek, MAN-VW Truck and is...

UNLOP is pulling out of the bus and coach tyre business this ar in an effort to reduce excess capacity in the European tyre...

CAR SHARING, rather than community minibuses, will serve rural communities' transport needs best, says Tayside's director of...

LEYLAND'S leading double-decker of the 1980s now looks certain to be B45. the model which was conceived originally as the...

DELAYED deliveries and serious teething troubles with its latest batch of Leyland Atlantean AN68 double-deckers has caused...

GREATER Glasgow PTE has restored ten of the routes which it suspended last November during the fourweek strike by maintenance...

EAST Kent Road Car w fined a total of 000 with costs when it was convicted 12 offences of operating will out a road service...

PUBLIC transport users in Kuwait are soon to experience t advantages of the double-deck bus. A Northern Counties-bodi Leyland...

:0ACHING and private hire bus work must seem to be an )bvious source of revenue to any impecunious stage carriage )us operator,...

Now that CM's circulation has hit 40,000, it is developing its editorial staff by adding an engineering section. Graham...

at CM years as assistant enginee with South Wales Transport. Greater Glasgow PTE's nev chief engineer is Moir Lock head, bus...

Your correspondent, The Hawk (January 26), seems to take such delight in vilifying Profes sor Foster, chairman of the Committee...

In CM, January 19, there is an advertisement for a tyre regroover from Regrooving Equipment and Supplies Ltd. This...

I should like to appeal through your letters page to haulage contractors everywhere to "do their bit" in rescuing haulage...

"Silver lining" and "Disappearing juggernauts'', were well written and that their authors were quick off the mark. I do...

Would Mr D. Thomas please contact us and let us have the name and address of the customer who is paying some lucky person £900...

...says Noel Villier, who has been to the Yeadi testing centre to see the men from the Minis checking public service vehicl...

...that's Brian Chalmers-Hunts acvice to buyers of washing and cleaning equipment TRANSPORT MANAGERS usually take great care...

f in the general knowledge section of the Mastermind :elevision programme a contestant were asked how many )edestrians were...

Nanting to know the 3pproximate number of buses )perated by Singapore Bus Ser/ices, Commercial Motor :elephoned the Singapore...

pinching Even if the European Communities Commission thinks in hundreds of millions of EUA, it obviously believes in looking...

'he Trade Descriptions Act is he Smart Alec's charter. Its yovisions are reported to have )een invoked by a man who :omplained...

Figures quoted in Road Accidents Great Britain 1977 lend weight to my suggestion that accident casualties who could be proved...

Only one British manufacturer of heavy goods vehicles failed to sell more in the first 11 months of 1978 than in 1977. I offer...

In the USA where time is money and everyone uses three words if one will do, drivers' "perception, intellection. emotion and...

In Russia every driver has to undergo a stringent test of his physical and mental conditions before he or she is allowed to...

REGULATIONS 107 and 108 of the Motor Vehicle (Construction and Use) Regulations 1978 deal with the condition and maintenance of...

One wcek to co TIPPER men from all over the UK will be gathering at Harrogate on April 6. That is the venue for this year's...

.. and then the Dip examiner will not be the first tc find them. Steve Gray repairs on ceffing your vehicle in shape for the...

TRRL to answer.. • AS WE REPORTED in last week's News Extra, the comparative tractive unit trials done by the Transport and...

IT WILL be remembered that in the last article in this series it was stated that an in-line fuel injection pump consisted of a...