R Arthur Armitage's committee cannot exactly be accused of haste in eir inquiries into vehicles and the environment. It could...

S THE steel strike entered what union leaders described as a long, difficult and bitter" stage this week, the road haulage...

THE ESSO tanker drivers' wage dispute lurched into another phase this week when 250 men at the West London terminal went on...

HE STEEL strike has already arted to hit manufacturers, Id harder times are predicted or next month. One of the first to be...

FIAT and Magirus Deutz have the UK to form Iveco (UK) GOMERIE. Although the group will have integrated marketing, parts,...

A Om LOAN is being made available to ERF by the European Coal and Steel Community to finance its expansion programme. The...

AS SIR Arthur Armitage prepared to examine various organisations on their evidence to his inquiry into lorries, people, and the...

SIR ARTHUR ARMITAGE has begun to take verbal evidence for his lorry inquiry, and around 15 organisations will be examined on...

THE DEPARTMENT Transport has warned ow account operators taking a vantage of no-permit arrant ments for UK-France trat that...

PRINTING difficulties have delayed the issue of new Wf German road haulage permits, but the Department of Transpc plans to...

DTp has scrapped a planned iublic inquiry into the proosed route from near Leeds orth-eastwards to the Al lear Boroughbridge,...

ON MARCH 15 Leyland Vehicles is due to launch the T45 to the public. This date coincides with the 75th Anniversary of CM,...

FODENS have revealed that the company almost folded four months ago during the engineering strike. Chief executive Bill Foden...

k LORRY DRIVER who was forced to resign when his !mployers split up has had his constructive dismissal appeal ejected by...

Just cars taken for a ride? CAR TRANSPORTER firms are under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading which has begun to...

TALY has imposed a new fuel tax on vehicles leaving the ountry with full or partially full fuel tanks. The tax was introduced...

A DRIVER'S dismissal was unfair because it was given by telephone although his employer had good reason to sack him. That was...

HALLSPEDITION th Tilbury-based trailer operatoi has been taken over by Rot . Line UK Ltd, part of th Swedish Johansson Group....

A NEW 24-hour breakdown service for commercial vehicles is to be set up by Transport Information Computing Ltd of Greenwich....

FUEL prices in France jumped sharply last week as th , French Government passed oi the recent OPEC price in crease to...

1ERE has been a 25 per cent increase in road haulage activity ice 1968, according to figures released by the Department of...

NEW publication designed • put companies requiring oad freight transport in touch ith those providing freight !rvices has just...

AN ESSEX transport company has extended its services by establishing links with a West German operating partner. Chelmer Cargo...

THE Centre for Physical Distribution Management is organising three courses next month for distribution managers. The first is...

AN INCREASE of 40 per cent, from 835 to 1170, is to be made in the double-deck bus fleet of the China Motor Bus Company of Hong...

BUS OPERATORS throughout the country have reported a slump in the resale value of obsolete double-deck buses, still in running...

COACH OPERATORS w: have the opportunity to stuc for their Certificate of Pr. fessional Competence for IN operators (national)...

FODENS LTD are developi a front-engined double-de bus chassis to help meet t demand for this type of vehil from operators in...

GOVERNMENT statistics show passengers carried by bus and c passenger travel fell from 1968's According to Transport Statistics,...

Phase twe of odic bus trials SHEFFIELD'S articulated bu trials moved into their secon phase on Monday, when fou vehicles took...

LONDON COUNTRY is celebrating the golden jubilee of its Green Line services, and is conducting an evaluation of new coaches....

ALEXANDER is to body all 144 of the Dennis Dominator double-deckers ordered by South Yorkshire PTE. ' Earlier plans (CM,...

TYNE AND WEAR Passerig( Transport Executive has re , ised and reorganised its bt stage fare system into a ne zonal-based system...

VITH all the buses involved in the joint CM-Tayside Regional• :ouncil bus evaluation in Dundee now in service, early results re...

SIR Horace Cutler, leader ol the Greater London Council has publicly attacked Londor Transport's bus operation in London...

WEST MIDLANDS PTE has taken delivery of its first two Rolls-Royce engined MCVQ Metrobuses. The undertaking, which already has...

AN ITALIAN-MADE battery booster cable with clamps and injection moulded in ABS is now being sold in this country by Autocessory...

EPCO LTD, which has been manufacturing hydraulic jacks since the 1920s, has closed. A strike began at the factory in Leeds on...

R. D. FIELDER Marine Ltd of 62 Aidgate High Street, London, is importing the American Nycal Turbo-Lube unit which provides...

DAF has launched a purposebuilt tipper and mixer chassis on to the British market. The FAT 2305DHRE is a 6x4 chassis with...

DUNLOP tyre scientists at Birmingham have been applying infra red measuring techniques to the study of prototype tyres under...

CREUSOT-LOIRE Enter prises, a group within tip Empain industrial empire, ha recently expanded its vehicl. 'activities by...

WE ARE ORGANISING a visit to the Amsterdam Motor Show on opening day, February 7, and the booking list is now open. The party...

refer to your report on the avidence by the Council for the protection of Rural England to he Armitage Inquiry, entitled•...

In G. Johnson's letter, (CM December 29) regarding the Leyland T45 he appears to be confusing BL's car plants with LV's truck...

I never cease to be amazed that our captains of industry, whose whole object in life is to make profit and to confine their...

Several reports have appeared in CM regarding the use of Citizen Band radio. A few weeks ago I did a trip from Halifax, Nova...

I note in your issue (CM De comber 15) that on page 2z under the heading "GMT buy! Volvo" that you indicate that thr B55s are...

MORE and more operators are turning to remoulds for maximum tyre life — allied to safety. And the tyre retreading industry is...

HE BRAKING SYSTEM is one )f the more important areas of a :ommercial vehicle. That much ;hould go without saying. So it ollows...

The anti-lorry lobby has certainly got its message across to "Armitage". Everything except the hot air balloon has been...

Leyland, Ford, Fodens:and MAN public relations men must be worried. Last week in London at the Classic Cinema in Oxford Street,...

The augury for DAF Trucks' entry into the Swedish market is good. The company has won the Inforfilm International award in the...

The popular illusion that artics that jack-knife necessarily have badly adjusted brakes is dispelled by A. Pomeroy, a haulier,...

Leyland's decision to spon: the Williams Formula 0 racing team will undoubtedly received with scorn in cert. quarters as an...

"The Forth Bridge Joint Board agreed yesterday to spend two million pounds over six years to clean and paint the steel...

Ten or more of the 20 Sed( Atkinson 400 vehicles opera by Archibald Brechin Ltd, G gow, are running on chas( The score of...

Then there was the driver ol alcohol-fuelled Fiat who, w charged with drinking driving, pleaded that he I been overpowered by...

The vast majority of yes give e operator excellent value out ey are not infallible. What can you do if a ye fails and it isn't...

Les Oldridge, T Eng (CEO, I M I lISCRETIONARY" and bligatory" disqualification m driving for certain motoroffences were...

TYRE DEVELOPMENT depends on two factors: first, on precise specification of the tyre service; and secondly, on performance and...

tyre tread compound, road surface textures and the angle of the tyre with regard to its direction of motion. This last is known...

Regraded or sub-standard tyres: In some exceptional circumstances some new tyres fail to reach the very high standard laid down...

TYRE MAINTENANCE and supply is a worry for any large operator. Any way of removing this concern has to be worth while, in...

GENERAL HAULAGE is not an easy service to sell and few small or medium-sized fleet operators employ a sales force. The...

N THE EARLY DAYS of enjineering when two parts of a :nachine had to fit together, one )art was made and then the ,econd part...

This is warmth whether or not the engine is running: which can be night or day. Central heating, heat for cold running engines,...

its director of personnel. Mr Wilson, who was previously head of employee relations, will now be responsible for training,...