Whole-life costing of commercial vehicles is a system which smacks of the actuarial aspects of life insurance. And indeed why...

Annual report concerned at idealistic EEC proposals • The lorry and the environment and industrial unrest have been the two...

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, announced this week that from May 2 vehicle tax on UK goods vehicles...

• Three British MPs and a peer . have been selected to sit on the European Parliament's Transport and Regional Policy Committee...

by Martin Hayes • National Travel, the National Bus Company's subsidiary, seems likely to be beaten to the post in the race to...

• MAN trucks are to be available on the UK market by early 1974 with the first vehicles ready for operator appraisal by the...

• Cumberland County Council is opposing any attempt at the present time to ban commercial through traffic from A591 Kendal to...

• A circular advising local authorities on the effective measures which can be taken to deal with the problems caused by heavy...

• The offer for sale to the public of RollsRoyce was advertised on Monday and it was expected that the application lists would...

• Copies of revised speed limit regulations which came into effect on May 1 are now available from HMSO. The Motor Vehicles...

We apologise to readers and advertisers for the non-publication of Commercial Motor last week. It was not possible to produce a...

from our Parliamentary correspondent • It will cost between £.820 million and £830m to build the Channel Tunnel. according to...

by a CM reporter • An attempt by British Leyland to acquire the proving ground facilities of the Motor Industry Research...

' unreasonable shop steward' • Three brothers who operate a family haulage business at Kingsley, near Cheadle, Staffs, have...

• DAF Trucks (GB) Ltd has launched a major sales drive in the UK with a mobile truck exhibition which will be making a total of...

• A Guy tractive unit with a Gardner engine and towing a Crane Fruehauf trailer was stolen last Friday from the yard of British...

• New speed limits are being imposed on bridges and cross dock routes between Birkenhead and Wallasey. The speed limit on...

• The final link in the dual carriageway route between London and Glasgow was completed last week with the opening of the...

• A high-security lorry park, complete with drivers' accommodation, cafeteria and vehicle servicing facilities was opened last...

J. K. Isaac has been appointed director of operations of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive. He will succeed F. A....

• Tower Sped, the international cargo-carrying company, has started a trailer service to Finland from London. Birmingham and...

• Industrial Freight Ltd incorporating Rennie Hogg is the title for the newly created freight forwarding company formed by the...

• A new LDoY centre has been established in Buckingham. The Bucks competition will take place on Sunday, June 24, at the County...

Vehicle maintenance costs taking flight! • "Maintenance costs on a multi-shifted 32-tonner over a 10-year life are likely to...

Three awards for outright winner Results Class winners were: — Outright concours d'elegance, Mr J. P. Jordan, Northampton,...

• Evidence of a continuing reluctance by many local authorities to subsidize lossmaking bus services is contained in The Annual...

• A new design of bus doors, which is claimed to be considerably safer than Current types, is undergoing trials with Merseyside...

• Despite the Government's prices freeze, two Yorkshire local authority undertakings are to increase their fares on May 14. Mr...

• Mr Len Votier, managing director of the Norwich-based firm Mascot Coaches, whose turnover is now approaching the £200,000...

• An appeal hearing in Manchester on Monday was told that if a decision by the North Western Traffic Commissioners to refuse an...

• A Suffolk haulier, Mr C. C. Fairhead, claimed at the Transport Tribunal on Wednesday that vehicle examiners sent to inspect...

• United Automobile Services Ltd is to introduce express commuter services into Middlesbrough from Billingham, Stokesley,...

at £950,000. Between onethird and two-thirds of all adult fares in the 3p to 9p range will be increased by lp if the...

• After more than 40 years as Manchester's terminus for long-distance buses and coaches, the city's Lower Mosley Street bus...

• A north-western tipper operator who admitted using an overloaded articulated trailer was fined £60 by Glossop (Derbys)...

• An appeal by Southern Linen Services Ltd, Eastbourne, against a decision, in January, by the South Eastern deputy LA was...

• Green ham Plant Hire Ltd trading as Scottish Plant Hire with depots at Edinburgh, Glasgow Ladybank, Aberdeen and Evanton,...

• A Maxaret wheel-sensing unit has been developed by the Allied Products Suspension Division of Dunlop Ltd to provide skid...

by Gibb Grace • The first Fiat commercial vehicles will be available on the UK market by October this year and although final...

• The Transport Development Group Ltd has acquired the entire issued share capital of Duke Haulage Co Ltd and its two...

MORE TROUBLE TO COME OVER HILTON? By James Millen, deputy editor. Accountancy klournal of the lnstitute of Charmed...

• The new broom Ralph Hilton Transport Services without Ralph Hilton will take a lot of getting used to. The new (temporary)...

the freeze in Finland by Gibb Grace ONE of the reasons why cold-starting and cab heating on commercial vehicles have improved...

siberia by lain Sherriff ANY DAY now a Russian ship will slip its moorings at Tilbury and head out across the North Sea and up...

COUNT IN RI" DESIGN by Martin Hayes Pictures by Harry Roberts THERE are a few pundits on the public transport scene, either...

by Johnny Johnson PERHAPS one of the least recognized agencies through which vehicles are exported from the United Kingdom is...

by Gordon Crabtree AN AUCKLAND haulier using ERF trucks has just completed a giant three-year task : carrying logs from New...

Co-operation in road transport is a frequently-proposed formula for success which is all too seldom applied in practice. In May...

by Paul Brockington BUSINESS ETHICS in the UK are immaculate compared with those in Europe generally, according to Mr Alastair...

IF BRITISH MANAGERS have been obsessed with labour relations problems in recent years, the emerging picture of conditions in...

Copybook maxims EPIGRAMS associated with the name of Parkinson have an insidious attraction. One which has been attributed,...

Jack Scrivens • The national chairman of the Transport Manager's Club for 1973 is Jack Scrivens. Jack reckons he was destined...

Subsidies accepted but‘no'to free travel DELEGATES to this week's UITP Congress at The Hague heard seven papers relating to...

In reply to the letter, "A matter of licences" (CM April 13), of course there is a difference between hgv and psv drivers — the...

The Ministry (Department of Employment) as recently as April 5, have re-affirmed that "the Government take the view that the...

I have never been particularly impressed with the arguments of the "anti-light-van lobby", but here is an interesting little...

lain Sherriff's excellent article "The Missing Link" (CM April 20) is, unfortunately, so true. Sadly one ponders, should his...

The Routemaster article by John Darker (CM March 30) was very informative and in these times of escalating distribution costs,...

We were most interested to read the article by John Darker "small firms can profit from computers" (CM March 30) and welcome...

mill. Could you tell me the basic wage rate for this type of work, and also if this rate is the same as for haulage drivers (my...

One of our depots in Lincoln is involved in the delivery of materials to building and other sites, and though it could be...

film and photographic location transport; it is at present taxed as a private work-o bus and the unladen weight is 2 tons 4cwt,...

use it for transporting physically handicapped and old people on outings to the seaside and so on. No charge is made for these...

matters by John Darker AMBIM Mrs 11 Per Cent! This is the estimated proportion of women in the road transport labour force...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CM MIMI, AMIRTE Noise (4) DURING the past few weeks I have been examining the law which creates the...

Air-operated tools are so popular these days that it is worth while for even the small operator to understand compressors IT...

Known as Four Point Service Mobiles — Series 200LX — a range of multi-purpose mobile servicing units produced by Dynaflex is...

A range of safety-first fork-lift trucks, known aethe GD series has been announced by Hagglund and Saner of Sweden which is...

A heavy-duty anti-seize lubricant, formulated to stop . metal parts from jamming under extreme temperatures and to prevent...

Normidaire has re-designed its range of mobile trolleys and stands to accommodate the new metric ' , A" size paper. The...

A boxed assortment of grease nipples has been added to the range of replacement part kits produced by Stenor. The kit augments...

The LTFL100 fan from Ventilation Jones is intended to extract petrol and diesel exhaust fumes and grinding dust, etc, from all...

Precision Screw & ManufE turing have issued a 40-pa catalogue giving informati about their full range of capti fasteners for...

by Trevor Lon gc roft be big new chassis-straightenig machines. whose capa, ilities have been detailed in M. are slowly...

A high-pressure cold-water washer designed for cleaning vehicles, industrial and agricultural equipment, farm buildings and so...

An electric version of the company's L11 manual sweeper has been developed by Columbus Dixon. Guided by finger-tip control, it...

Two power washers have been announced by the Warwick Pump and Engineering Company which are known as the 2000E and 20000 and...

A heavy-duty power-operated hydraulic breakdown crane with a safe working capacity of 12 tons that is suitable for dealing with...

he new Lucas 6M90 preingaged starter motor is suitable or all petrol-engine vehicles up o 2.5 litres and obviates the wed for...

The WashJet spray nozzle made by Spraying Systems is rated for working at pressures up to 150 psi. It is made in a series of...