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Enough's Enough On Lorry Speeds
GARY TURVEY, the Freight Transport Association's new director-general, has given lorry drivers a timely warning that they are on probation. Now that speed limits are realistic,......
Where Not To Look For High Reward
HAROLD RUSSETT, the Road Haulage Association's chairman, would not have chosen the title given to the paper on the operation of 38-tonne lorries that he read to a conference of......
The Man Who Was Everyone's Friend
SIR REGINALD PEARSON, who has died at the age of 86, had the rare ability to stand with one foot on the factory floor and the other in the board room, and be equally welcome in......
Racial Harmony In A Dustcart
BRIGHT SPARKS in the patrician London Borough of Camden came up with the idea of naming municipal vehicles after people famous for either anti-racist or pro-black activity,......
Anna Valley Meets Its Waterloo
THE NAME TASKER has been heard in Hampshire's verdant Anna Valley for some 175 years. Alas, it disappeared at the end of March and a chapter in Andover's industrial history......
On The Cold Line To Chelmsford
THE NOTORIOUS flyover at the Army and Navy roundabout on Al2 at Chelmsford has had to be closed several times because of ice. To avoid this inconvenience a sacrificial policeman......