IS GARDNER keeping an uprated version of its longserving 6LXIt engine under wraps until the Commercial Vehicle Show at Earls...

by CM reporter NEARLY half of Britain's fleet operators would like to see major changes in the way they pay their...

OFFICIAL Turkish sources were adamant this week that their stiff new transit and fuel taxes are being charged—but reports...

ERF's midway loss ERF (Holdings) reports a before-tax loss of £264,000 for the 28 weeks ended October 11, 1975; comparable...

MORE nationalised transport undertakings are to be investigated by an MPs' "watch-dog" committee. A sub-committee of the...

UNLESS a national minimum wage agreement for coach drivers can be negotiated, the Transport and General Workers' Union may take...

THE GOVERNMENT had "sold the pass" on tachographs, alleged the Tory Shadow Transport Minister on Tuesday. Speaking at a...

THE FIRST sailing on the new UK Nigerian ferry between Felixstowe and Lagos (CM January 2) leaves next weekend with a full...

CHARGES concerning an overweight vehicle being heard at Stanhope, Durham, magistrates' court on Tuesday were dropped after the...

THE survey of driver pay and productivity schemes reported on page 2 paints a brighter picture of such schemes than we would...

MOUNTING trade union pressure now seems certain to compel the Government to tone down the effects of its controversial pocks...

IRISH Road Haulage Association officials are concerned at the failure of the Irish Government to enforce the Republic's...

THE impossibility of British Rail making its commercial freight services—now losing £70m a year—viable within two or three...

THE LONG-ESTABLISHED name of Sparshatts is to disappear from the commercial vehicle world. Two years ago Wadham Stringer...

THE new boss of BRS Overland Ltd is Ron Fortune. He has taken on the additional responsibility for this new company along with...

Mr Boreham goes to ABC having spent his working life in the transport industry. He started his career with Cotrali Ltd and also...

NORFOLK LINE Ltd has broadened its operations to take in Scandinavia with the start of a new door to door trailer service...

SILVER ROADWAYS Contracts, part of the Tate and Lyle Transport group, has trebled the size of its tanker fleet at its Millwall...

A £400 FINE on a Norfolk operator for overloading a lorry was reduced on appeal last Friday when the company, Chic-Grit Ltd, of...

I-o-W's new haulier RED FUNNEL Group's newest company, Vectis Transport Ltd, started operations from its Newport, Isle of...

until October. Problems had arisen over providing information because all correspondence had been sent to Mr Sayers and he,...

FIRST JOB for the newly formed consultancy service of the National Bus Company will be a review of transport on the Isle of...

HAMPSTEAD'S Dial a Ride service may be scrapped and replaced with a scheduled minibus service if a recommendation to the...

HE first of London Transport's order for 164 Metropolitan louble-deckers has just been delivered. After crew training, 12 >f...

THE BUS industry had failed lamentably in getting over to the public and to politicians that public transport could not pay in...

THE Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners last week granted the South Yorkshire PTE permission to raise stage carriage fares in...

Hawson Garner A PSV VERSION of HawsonGarner's passenger body on the Ford A-series chassis is being developed and should be...

The way the new SP cab, fitted to' all ERFI3' Series vehicles, stands up to impressions, is very impressive indeed. Thsted at...

Dry-ice cooling is £600 cheaper REFRIGERATION by dry ice (solidified carbon dioxide) has been chosen by Van den Berghs and...

MONOCOQUE bodies designed for rigid vehicles and having canted-in top rails to deflect and contain the cargo within the body...

crane swings THE first Primrose Trans-Hand 1-ton swingbeam side-loader gantry crane to go into operational service has been...

by Johnny Johnson FULFILLING a dual role of trunking and distribution vehicle, a new sliding-door, 16-ton-gross unit which has...

Light alloy The new vehicle has a 7.51 (23ft) long light-alloy bod mounted on a Leyland Box( R12 chassis giving an overa...

A MOBILE conveyor belt has been installed by the North West Postal Region's Parcels Division in Bolton in order to facilitate...

TO meet forthcoming AT] hygiene regulations, Loco motors of Andover, Hamp shire, has redesigned th Lococool fridge body. A...

The original intention was that ',a security alarm system would be connected to all the doors on the vehicle, but Roberts were...

FIVE nathes will figure prominently in the heavy vehicle market In the Western world by the early 1980s, according to Dr Heinz...

THE successful case of Eldridge Haulage Ltd is encouraging, but its lessons must be understood with care. The statements in...

by John Darker FOR at least 20 years Britain has needed an efficient system for pooling pallets. Many large organisations have...

A GOOD IDEA is always worth copying, especially when it's profitable. That is as true today as it was in 1958 when Jack...

stowe. Goods bound for European markets frequently go into the Mendlesham "transit camp." The mainstay of the Anglia business,...

continued from page 42 seems unlikely that it will move away from the lucrative traffics of Felixstowe, Great Yarmouth and...

One aspect which has already been tenatively embarked on is warehousing leasing. Anglia has leased a complete warehouse to...

Having agreed with almost every word that a frustrated i driver/fitter wrote in a letter published in CM on December 26 under...

History happens quickly these days. Talk about the days when fuel cost four bob a gallon and it seems like an •age ago, but in...

Telephones in the CM office, never quiet for long at the best of times, have suddenly come alive with repeated requests for...

Midlands CIT members at a recent seminar at Birmingham University were tickled 'to read the following notice on the Education...

by bin Sherriff GOODS worth £50m are stocked at the Greenford warehouse of Butler's Warehousing Distribution Ltd, and a...

continued from page 47 Egyptian State Shipping Co at a South Coast port. Garonor? This high-security, computer-controlled...

The cheapest one? Or the strongest, most reliable one money can buy? Would it not be the same as the sort of truck you would...

While appreciating many of the points raised by Mr Shaw (CM December 26) I think that there are so many obvious reasons today...

WHILE pressing on with its measure to extend the dock labour scheme, the Government still has not bothered to explain the...

by Les Oldridge, ung (CE!), MIMI, AMIRTE THE Pedestrian Crossing Regulations 1971, which brought into use the now familiar...

should be checked before the programme is laid down. There are a number of areas that require special attention on these...

Warehousing and HAULIERS should concentrate on that traffic which they can handle best and not accept a diversity of freight...

overweight (gross) and with excess weight on the rear axles. I was fined for this offence and convicted also for the dangerous...

was stopped by the police I was a short distance from a weighbridge to which I was taking the vehicle for weighing. Could you...

If you have been disqualified for a period of two years or less, then no application can be made and .the disqualification must...

with a hired 41-seater coach without a road service licenee? I have a psv driving licence and the vehicle would, of course, be...

As a major supplier of refrigerated vans to the food industries both in the United Kingdom and overseas we would like to draw...

I was interested to read (CM December 5) about the D-I-Y wrecker. We built a wrecker about 12 months ago on an AEC Mustang and...

Further to the subject of part-time coach drivers: how wrong Mr L. J. Smith (CM October 10), is. I drove on this basis for...

A grease-gun filler pump designed to fit 51kg (1121b) grease kegs has been announced by Kingfisher (Lubrication) L. Three...

From OCL comes a serdes of information sheets designed to aid economical and secure stowage of cargo in containers. There are...

fork lifts Rebuilt fork-lift trucks of Most European makes are now available from Reddey Mechanical Handling. Known as...

With a capacity of 16 metre/ tonne (52ft/ton) the PK16000 is a new truck-mounted loader from Palfinger. The boom can be...

continued from page 63 and salaries. Pre-tax profits as a percentage of sales have averaged 15.6 per cent between 1970 and...