'CM reporter :KETING by dockers counter-picketing by irehousemen and vers have effectively loped the operation of ti East...

IS THE Post Office opting out of the parcels business? This question has been posed by the Freight Transport Association in its...

EXPORTS of British commercial vehicles to the original six countries of the EEC from 1970 to the end of 1974 rose by 183 per...

Market conditions will hit importers by CM reporter BRITISH truck makers are all set to stem the flood of Continental heavy...

THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY for the DoE this year was to press for an amendment in the EEC drivers' hours regulations, said Mr T....

AN ATTACK on the GLC"s plans for a London lorry routeing network (see page 17) was made this week by Mr J. H. Whitcombe,...

GWU general secretary ack Jones told Minister for ransport Fred MuIley last ionth that even if tachoraphs were fitted, his...

Permit, please As if road transport were not cramped and confined enough by official statute, it is also becoming a target for...

RE-AFFIRMATION of the Government's intention to carry out further nationalization of road haulage was given this week by Mr...

IN SPITE of the Government's plan to allocate more cash to the National Bus Company and the National Freight Corporation, as...

in UK too INTERNATIONAL journey permits will have to be carried on vehicles carrying goods to Continental destinations at all...

THE indentification system under consideration for use at Liverpool docks (C January 31) is concerned solely with security...

FOLLOWING the introduction of uprated engines for the Volvo F86 and F88 range of trucks, Ailsa Trucks Ltd, the UK...

POLICE NOW HAVE pow to retain vehicles removed parking infringements obstruction until the remo fee and any storage chef" have...

E managing director of a iipley, Yorkshire mpany, Alfred Swales d. admitted to the Yorkire Deputy Licensing' ithority, Mr N F...

/IKASAIR, a member of the ernational transport group, )mas Nationwide Transt (TNT), has reorganized its !nch operations....

A TAKE-OVER of Elah Broadbent Transport Ltd and Broadbent Storage Ltd has been made by D. Mortimer's Transport Services Ltd,...

DUTCH-based and istered international bulk lids haulier. Hempenius Stommel BV, which nsports bulk wine, spirits, 1 soft drinks...

YORKS is to form a centre for the Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year competition. A committee has been formed under the...

2sting operators f= FEARS that compulsory imposition of tachographs would damage industrial relations were expressed by te ....

A THOROUGH PROBE into the state of the motor vehicle industry — including commercial vehicle builders and ancillary firms is...

PERHAPS more useful most of the text books w purport to give a trans manager guidance is Tr port manager's lawyer ti ansport...

)■,/ John Darker Under the Industrial Rela ions Act dismissal may be air if the reason for it relates o the employee's...

The 1975 National Conference of the Centre for Physical Distribution Management will take place at the Heathrow Hotel, London...

NEARLY 700 DAF trucks were registered in the UK last year, 602 of them in the 28ton-gvw category and above, giving the Dutch...

A NEW national pallet pool with an initial investment ol £ 5m is to be run by GKN Chep Ltd, a company owned jointly by the...

YEATES GROUP of Leicestershire has taken over the Abbey Lane garage and showrooms, Beaumanor Road and Drummond Road workshops...

low London's lorry outeing may work R RIES of more than )7m (36ft) long and 16 s gvw could be restricted network of lorry...

Dial-a-Ride in North America has progressed far beyond the experimental stage but further research and development is needed...

BLACKPOOL transport committee is to consider proposals for further increases early in the summer in busand tram fares following...

COVENTRY County Council is saving £25,000 by rearranging the times of free travel offered to old-age pensioners. Pass-holders...

Mr Fred Mulley, the Transport Minister, has arranged to discuss the scope for improvements in the administration of the...

- L IS unrealistic to expect all xiblic transport authorities to ?liminate their deficit by . evenue alone during two rears,...

IN AN attempt to get better value for money from its financial support the Greater London Council has set London Transport an...

ALTHOUGH passenger travel in 1973 increased by a further four per cent, public service vehicle mileage fell during the year....

SIXTY Leyland National single-deckers have been ordered by Jamaican Omnibus Services Ltd in addition to similar vehicles...

THE Koin-Klip Packaging Co of Bootle have introduced a system of packing bus tokens. They are packed in card clips of five...

Easy route' rejected during debate THE GOVERNMENT last week dashed any hopes that There might be selective relaxation in...

. LEYLAND, Lancashire, indscape gardener had his berator's licence authorizig two vehicles, only one of rhich was in...

)NDAY Feb 17. CIT (South stern) Annual film display. mouth Polytechnic. ?pm. oTA (Leicester) "New icestershire Roads and...

FREIGHT AND PASSENGER road transport systems and vehicles will be featured in Transport-Expo 75 which will be held from April...

A GROUPAGE terminal aimed at importers and exporters in the Midlands has been opened by MAT Transport Ltd, at Hednesford,...

AS A RESULT of an accident in which an articulated tractor and trailer became separated; Oliver Hart & Sons Ltd, Coppull,...

A COMPANY whose work was said to be wholly export traffic would be more competitive if it had its own road haulage vehicles,...

AN OPEN top version of the Tidd Strongbox van body, which is able to be loaded by crane from the top, as well as in the normal...

'HE WEEKLY average rates if commercial vehicle ncluding chassis) producion by UK manufacturers for he whole of 1974 were less...

ORDER from Iran worth most £13 million for 1,000 2800 tractive units with ide-spread axle semi trailer is been placed with OAF...

FIVE more firms have joined Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles dealer network. Colmore Depot Ltd, 115 Walsall Road, Perry Bar,...

DURING last year there was an overall increase of 40,000 (2.4 per cent) in the number of goods vehicles being used in Great...

A NEW company, Winn Boughton Ltd; has been jointly formed by Winn International and Reynolds Boughton to manufacture and market...

BY CONCENTRATING its transport programme on single and drawbar demountable vehicles built by Abel Systems Ltd, a London carpet...

by lain Sherriff Unless you've been living on top of a mountain or shipwrecked on a desert island, you will by now have heard...

onstant close supervision of finances as become an essential for all sizes of 'ansport business K. J. Walker Vlr Walker is...

by Trevor Longcroft photographs by Dick Ross IN SEPTEMBER last year Volvo announced a new version of the TD 70 diesel engine...

Last week a Turkish haulage contractor visiting London phoned this office asking how to get a subscription to CM. We were of...

Ray Hardwick, the boss of the Bee Line coach empire and now heavily involved in his Dynair fan enterprise, has always been...

air photograph of a tyre assembly ge (CM Jam ary 24) after a tyre and ieel assembly had burst, prompts a to write to you about...

/as infuriated by the article "Limit ry numbers Civic Trust tells DoE" "I January 17). n these inflationary times I feel it is...

Hugh Featherstone's letter (CM January 17) drew attention to the inequity of the current licensing system which leaves the...

On a Monday, in January, I received a booklet from the Road Haulage Wages Council containing the latest rates of pay for road...

Under an EEC directive a transport manager's licence will become effective in January 1978 by George Wilmot SURELY the...

EXAMPLES of the difficulty of value judgments on transport issues have come in the last few days from the Transport and Road...

by John C Vann AFTER the introduction of the Social Security Act 1973 there as a tremendous amount of activity in the pensions...

of this equipment. Could you say what these are and do they refer to a limited distance over which they can be used? Towing...

"Milk-run" deliveries with lorries sent with part loads fc several towns are, in the opinion of many observers nc longer...

by Les Oldridge TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE THE Road Vehicles Lighting (S tanding Vehicles) (Exemption) (General) (No 2)...

a range of door shelters for weather protection and door seals for applications in which a controlled environment must be...

The Link - MK cabinet and tool case has a rigid front which folds down to make a convenient platform for tools. A service...

Catering for loads ranging ft 254kg(5cwt) to 5.1 tonnes , (5 tone new range of lifting equipment in duced by Welconstruct...

A range of universal hosereels wl are available to suit either high or pressure applications has been in duced by Dynaflex....

Adflow Engineering has added 33 Series shop air line coupling t , existing range. The coupling claimed to eliminate hose kick...