The prompt enforcement of the new weight regulations suggests that the DoE really means business in its campaign to discourage...

• The Chartered Institute of Transport and the Industrial Transport Association will join forces to form a single body if the...

go metric? from our political correspondent • December 1975 received the Government's formal approval as the target date for...

Operators incensed at officialdom's new charges and advance payment scheme by John Darker • Behind a recent Parliamentary...

• Action against overloaded vehicles under the newly implemented regulations (CM January 28) started on Monday and-I was...

• The latest "Survey of the Transport of Goods by Road", published by the DoE this week, is, writes John Darker, a vast...

• The EEC Commission proposes to submit a programme shortly for Community action on air pollution by motor vehicles. The aim...

• From April 1 this year West Germany is increasing the tax on goods vehicles over 12 tons gross as part of a plan to raise...

• The date for the Dunfermline eliminating round of the 1972 LDoY competition has been brought forward to Sunday, May 21. The...

Aston University and British Road Services Ltd have devised an exercise to develop management skills in road haulage operation...

Irish Freightliners • With the launching of new Freightliner services from Britain to Eire and Northern Ireland,...

• A one-day conference organized by the Eastern area of,the RHA is being held on Wednesday April 12 at the Copdock House...

• At its meetings in Brussels this month the transport committee of the European Parliament, disappointed by the slow...

• "Associated Deliveries Ltd give Chiltonian Biscuits effective national distribution at a cost favourable by comparison with...

• There would be an estimated £30m annual drop in revenue if there were a cancellation of the increase in hydro-carbon oil...

• Operators with traffic for London docks this weekend should check before dispatching their vehicles. It is likely that the...

Are the politicians now agreeing about 'rate transparency'? by John Darker • Almost continuous discussion, with two...

• • The recognition and acceptance of a code of practice for professional engineers, as a means of enabling members of the...

• An indication of the rapid growth in international transport, particularly among own-account operators, was given by Mr...

• A marked improvement in the domestic truck market in 1972 is forecast in the annual report of the British Leyland Motor...

• Hammersmith flyover will be closed at nights and all day Sundays from Monday next (February 14), until the end of May, for...

• A one-day course on international road haulage operation is being run by the RHA Essex Group Training Association on...

4 for Bullens • Bullens Transport Group has been awarded a contract by Asiatic Trans-Pacific Inc, of San Francisco, USA,...

• The £7m grant to the National Bus Company (CM December 31 1971) and proposals to relax licensing laws in the rural areas,...

• Merseyside PTE may co-ordinate a scheme whereby groups of workers can dial-a-taxi for the journey to and from work. The...

by Derek Moses • Despite the fact that the Scottish Bus Group's 1972 rolling stock programme announced this month shows a...

• The fact that site investigation began on Tuesday renders topicality to a progress report on the Tyneside PTE rapid transit...

• The TGWU has called the 16 drivers employed by Neales Tours and Travel Ltd, of Teddington, Middlesex, out on _official...

• Leaders of the Transport and General Workers Union will recommend acceptance by London Transport's 23,000 busmen of a new...

• Coach operator Ivor Griffiths, called to a Section 127 inquiry before the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners on Tuesday,...

• Glasgow transport committee has considered the proposals For a Passenger Transport Authority for the Greater Glasgow area...

• Officials of Newport Corporation Transport were asked if they were aware that almost £40,000 had not been claimed in fuel...

Westminster parked at Vauxhall Bridge Foot on a "joint ticket" arrangement costing 50p per coach, shared equally by the car...

• One of the fleet of luxury coaches operated by the international coaching organization Europabus is to make a seven-city...

L. W. Leppington, 54, at present deputy general manager, London Midland Region, British Railways, is to succeed T. G. Gibb as...

With the death at the age of 73 of Herbert Seddon a family link with the commercial vehicle manufacturing industry spanning...

• A West Midland ex-mechanic who attempted to - run a fleet of four vehicles from the kerbside and a piece of waste ground,...

• When reapplying for an 0 licence to cover one vehicle. Mr J. T. Tempest. a Manchester wastepaper merchant, claimed that he...

• The question of whether a diabetic being treated with daily injections of insulin could be considered fit to drive a heavy...

• At a hearing under Section 69 in Manchester last week, the North Western LA, Mr C. R. Hodgson, took no action against an...

• When Mr J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbons, Western LA, had Modeluxe Linen Services before him recently he reduced the company's...

• The Times Guide to the Industrial Relations .Act by Innis Macbeath (Times Newspapers Ltd, Printing House Square, London...

• The 1972 edition of the FTA Yearbook is now available. Freight Transport Association members receive a copy free and...

the IRU speaks out • The absence of uniformity between the various national regulations concerning the maximum weights and...

• The addition of an excellent index makes the second edition of the Road Haulage Association's Haulage Manual, just...

• The containei industry is reaching maturity and, despite problems, the system offers consignors "the most efficient and...

• "How will your face fit?" is one of the factors considered in a new book Changing Your Job After 35, which is published at...

• Five papers on various aspects of electric vehicle design and operation will be presented at the Colloquium and Vehicle...

• The research and development agreement between MAN and SAVIEM, the Renault truck-producing subsidiary, has been approved by...

• Ford has extended its parts exchange plan for trucks. The range of eight exchange diesels recently added to the scheme is...

• All the steel components of York Trailer Company's Freightmasters' loadbearing body structure are now being treated against...

• A one-day course in London on February 22 and again on February 24 will be devoted to explaining and demonstrating the...

• A new code of practice for dealing with road accidents involving dangerous chemicals and toxic substances is being urged on...

• A tax paid trading profit of £165,591 revealed in the Dennis Motor Holdings Ltd statement of accounts for the year ended...

• Although for many years a subsidiary of a well-known municipal vehicle body engineering company, J. F. Buckingham Ltd,...

• Fleet Hire Ltd of Birmingham has launched a national heavy-vehicle leasing and contract hire scheme which is backed by...

• A new international service is being launched this month by Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd which will market a range of parts...

• In 1972 the Chartered Institute of Transport offers the following scholarships and grants to assist research and study in...

view by the Hawk • Round the bend Have you seen the "British Leyland — The Champions of Road Transport" advertisements? The...

What would you say to the idea of the RHA or the FTA being given the chance to take part in the opening ceremony of the...

A senior Ryder truck rental executive on a flying visit to the UK this week had a nice tale to tell about a hire driver who was...

Ralph Bennett • When Richard Marsh appointed Mr Ralph Bennett a full-time member of the then London Transport Board in 1968,...

32 ton range by Gibb Grace, CEng. DAuE. MINIechE BRITISH LEYLAND truck and bus division has today announced three new...

by John C. Vann When drivers are off work • Most operators select their drivers very carefully. Yet even a first-class...

A Dunlop challenge that Gibb Grace accepted — and was suitably impressed as a result LAST WEEK I had the opportunity of...

New look for training HAULIERS will find much to confirm their suspicions or to raise their hopes in the Department of...

IN its third year of life the National Guild of Transport Managers desperately searches for a viable policy to justify its...

by Alan Bunting, MIMechE This final week: the Multiloader equipment marketed by Mukicargo Systems Ltd, Atbion Industrial...

Haulier responsible for injury to docker • Who would have thought that the Joloda rails inside a trailer could be...

• This is the last in the present CM series of articles under this title, written by Alan Bunting. This unique series has, we...

Auto-electrics for the mechanic (8) FURTHER on the subject of the two-brush dynamo and its external constant voltageregulator,...

over from wet-type cylinder liners to the dry type despite the known advantage of wet liners that they provide better heat...

our business which involves the collection and delivery of boats on trailers, having been informed that new regulations are to...

of Operating Costs, but would like to know, in the case of a new vehicle, what figure is taken for the cost of a set of tyres?...

the law? He had never driven a lorry until six weeks ago but he is now driving a lorry without hgv "L" plates. His ordinary...

1968 vehicles become effective in 1973, will it be permissible to use a tractive unit equipped with a three-line braking system...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM The Industrial Relations Act 16, Emergency procedures THE "right to strike" is the final...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (7) FROM January 1 1972 all spark ignition engines on...

Improving the image of road transport in schools I WAS VERY PLEASED to speak about management training in road transport to...

Eric Cole Transport Ltd. Cap: £20,000. Dirs: E. Cole, Diana M. Cole. "Sundawn" Bretforton Rd, Badsey, Worcestershire. Sec: D....

For the next seven days. p RI DAY February 11th IRTE (S. Wales) meeting. "FailFRIDAY safe brakes" by J. A. Davies, ER F Ltd.,...