The deputy chief constable of Lincolnshire says that the dock pickets' violence this week at Neap House Wharf, on the Trent,...

by our industrial correspondent • Voting 53 to 30, dock delegates on Wednesday called off the national ports stoppage — work...

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, has called for an urgent survey by the National Ports Council of the role...

Four weeks to Earls Court • Every other year the commercial vehicle industry joins forces to present at Earls Court, London,...

• Too many large vehicles were making unnecessary smoke, said Mr Eldon Griffiths, Under Secretary DoE, in the Commons. He was...

Commercial Motor will be covering the Show comprehensively in three muchenlarged issues. The first, dated September 15, the...

by Jahn Darker • The massive reorganization of British Road Services Ltd, involving the establishment of seven regional...

• Government vehicle examiners are to investigate the condition of commercial vehicles arriving in this country from the...

• Proposals for dealing with the problems of heavy commerical traffic through Greenwich and Deptford would, if implemented. be...

• Signals to stop traffic on roads outside fire and ambulance stations, where there are special difficulties for emergency...

• Guest of honour at the FTA Yorkshire Division's first annual dinner, in Leeds on October 6 will be Mr Richard Teager,...

• The Home Secretary's Standing Advisory Committee on Dangerous Substances will be considering the exercise of controls over...

• Drivers are requested by the GLC to avoid Oxford Street, London, during the August Bank Holiday period. Part of the street,...

Sheffield trunk route chosen • After 2+ years of local study the route for the Sheffield to Manchester trunk route has been...

• Revised rules for hgv licences are being sought by Mr Ted Garrett, Labour MP for Wallsend, to assist unemployed lorry...

• Transport as a separate activity tends to have been swallowed up by the apparently wider concept of physical distribution...

• In 1946 Only 31 foreign commercial vehicles of all types were imported into Britain. By 1956 this had reached an annual...

1 A telephone call to the Ford Locator iquiry Office at Aveley, Essex, is now II that is needed to discover which of the...

• The four models of Cummins diesel to be shown at Earls Court next month will include the V-555 of 9.1 litres, which is new to...

• Through a printing error, the number of daily sailings of the Stranraer /Larne ferry service (No 96 in our list published on...

• The Freight Transport Association has suggested that the requirement for the unladen weight of most locomotives, motor...

• The integration of the Calor Gas road fleet and Monkton Motors into a single Transport Division of Calor Group is recorded in...

• A reduction on Severn Bridge tolls is to be offered to regular users. During an experimental two-year period they will be...

• In this, its 10th year, the Fork lift Truck Driver Competition, which is sponsored by the British Industrial Truck...

• The United Transport Co Ltd made a record group profit of £7m before tax last year, a 13 per cent increase on 1970's result....

• According to amendments made earlier this year to the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1971, all...

• The new £20 fine for using a commercial vehicle in the Royal Parks is less in real terms than the £5 fine it has replaced,...

service bus from Willowbrook • Full-scale production has just started at Loughborough of a new model of Willowbrook service...

• A misadventure verdict was recorded on a coach driver who received injuries which led to his death, when a coach rolled back...

• Increases in some London bus fares recently approved by the GLC will be introduced from Sunday, September 10, London...

• The majority of county councils in Wales and a number of district councils are currently grant-aiding rural bus services at...

• Bus fares in the Warrington area of Lancashire will go up by an average of lp on August 20 because running costs have...

1/ The new Greater Glasgow Passenger 'ransport Authority comes into operation a October 1. This is the effect of the ireater...

• Ailsa Bus Ltd has been formed as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ailsa Trucks Ltd to market a range of Volvo bus and coach...

Wallace Arnold • applications • Some 20 objections by coach, bus and municipal operators were made to a scheme proposed by...

• The West Midlands Traffic Commissioners have been asked to defer consideration of an application by the West Midlands...

• Despite the issue of seven prohibition notices, four of them immediate, in recent years, the Northern deputy LA, Mr J. A....

• Haulage contractors who buy vehicles intending to re-sell them should remember they are liable under the 1968 Transport .Act...

• While considering a case under Sectiol 69 in Plymouth on Tuesday the Westeri LA, Mr J. R. C. Samuel Gibbon, referred t( a...

• A lorry driver who was said to be earning £25 a week was given 16 years to pay off fines totalling £4000, when he appeared...

• After being served with a number of prohibition notices, Ready Mixed Concrete (Northern) Ltd, of Langley Moor, Durham, a...

• A contract for transporting copper bars worth £8540 from Runcorn docks was sub-contracted from firm to firm until it reached...

• The Transport Tribunal has amended the decision it gave verbally at the conclusion of an appeal made by P. J. O'Donnell...

• A one-vehicle fanner and haulage contractor who, said the Eastern LA at Chelmsford last week, had not been able to operate it...

• When a Lowestoft, Suffolk, company took over another haulage firm in 1968 it so strained its resources that by March 1969 it...

• A company with a fleet of 30 vehicles and 14 trailers in the Metropolitan traffic area was questioned closely by the Eastern...

• A long-established Gateshead tipper operator engaged on quarry and other rough transport contracts, told the Northern deputy...

Four vehicles from the licence of G. H. Transport Co Ltd authorizing nine vehicles were suspended for three months last week...

• The Code of Loading Practice for Heavy Goods Vehicles will be issued in October, said Mr Eldon Griffiths, Under Secretary...

F. M. McGill, of McGill's Bus Services, has been elected national chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association for...

semi-trailers into self-contained drawbar trailers has been introduced by the Primrose Third Axle Co Ltd, Blackburn, Lancs....

diesels will be exhibited at Earls Court by Dorman Diesels Ltd, Stafford. It is the 8F1 and is the turbocharged version of the...

• Eight-speed gearboxes — the new 08750 David Brown with 750 lb /ft input torque capacity — are now available in Atkinson heavy...

• York Trailer Co Ltd has developed a revised version of its established Metrovan bodywork to suit plating and testing...

IP The results of a concentrated assault on a-cab noise will be seen in the Atkinsons at he Commercial Motor Show next month....

II A revised range of six-wheeled chassis, three with new engine options, will be shown for the first time by Seddon Motors Ltd...

id new tractive unit Extension to UK vehicle range by Gibb Grace • Mercedes-Benz (GB) Ltd is to launch a major selling campaign...

The first engine of the new Mercedes-Benz 400 series was announced at the Frankfurt show in 1969. That engine was a V-10, but...

The well-run clearing house has plenty to offer the tipper operator by Martin Hayes An undercurrent of suspicion has always...

erms for the Ten There has been much talk about a common transport policy for the EEC but not much examination of the...

view by the Hawk • Nipper narks Thank goodness for some sense and straight talking in the current confusion, at least on one...

by Trevor Longeroft Al RTE IN SIZE and capacity the Fiat 850T forward-control van lies between the familiar British car-based...

As members for a considerable number of years of the Road Haulage Association we feel that the Public Relations department of...

I was very interested in the article entitled "GV9 for council after driver's complaint" (CM July 28). The Scottish Licensing...

Ralph Cropper's concern about the meaning of breaks on and off duty in the goods vehicle driver's record book (CM, Cropper's...

It was with some disappointment we read the caption beside a photograph of our new Commer Van (CM July 21). In that caption...

Reg Cole • Among the new appointments by British Road Services Ltd in its reorganized structure (CM June 23) is that of Reg...

About 40 years ago, to my surprise, the late Sir John Maxwell, first chairman of the Road Traffic Commissioners, invited me...

Lorry spotters A WRITER in an educational magazine has come up with a suggestion that children armed with air pollution kits...

by John C. Vann Unlit lorry danger • A motorist was driving along a road in his car one night after dark. Suddenly a shape...

workshop by Handyman Noises off and what they mean THE DAYS are gone when a transport driver who heard an unfamiliar sound...

Can haulage survive? Complaints by the haulage industry on the problem of making ends meet are frequent and specially rife...

m apprentices in its maintenance workshops. this is a new venture for us. What rate of ;Wary should we pay these lads? Could...

through the Department of Employment for unemployed people to be trained for HGV Class I licence. Could you give me details of...

anything to suggest that a nosmoking rule applied to psv drivers. I myself have heard nothing on this subject. Is there any...

licence, and the appropriate forms were sent back because I had renewed my licence in November 1966 when I was 19 years' old...

cannot find the issue in which this was published. Could you please repeat the main facts. A Vehicles first registered before...

secondhand 15cwt to 1-ton van which can be adapted to carry up to 12 scouts and camping equipment. What are the legal aspects...

bus services" mentioned a report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Where could I obtain...

by John Darker, AMBIM Amending the I. R. Act THERE IS now little doubt that the Industrial Relations Act will be re-drafted....

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Theft and the taking of motor vehicles (2) SECTION 12 of the Theft Act, 1968, makes it an...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Loughborough introduces transport first-degree...

Laurence Healy Haulage Ltd. Cap: £100. Objects: To carry on the business of haulage contractors, etc. Subs: W. J. Reichmann, S....

portable strain gauge iensor /indicator that records )eak gauge readings is being )roduced by Graham and White nstruments. It...

Aluminium, steel, copper and other material combinations of rivet are now available from Gesipa Fasteners. The range includes...

York has published the latest edition of its service manual which runs to 107 pages. Subjects covered include maintenance of...

A three-way temperature-control valve has been added to the range of valves produced by Spirax-Sarco. It is known as the Sarco...

An electronic ignition system announced by Mobelec is designed to last the life of the engine without the necessity of regular...

To ease the loading of containers, Helifit Engineering has introduced a telescopic loader into its range of material handling...

A fully retracting twistlock with a screw adjustment that enables any type of corner fitting to be accommodated has been...

Low-priced polypropylene and sisal securing ropes are available from lntertruck in made-up lengths and in coils. The two types...

Kismet has introduced an improved version — the KWE 1500 — of its high-pressure hot or cold water wash. Output is now 135 gph...

A range of markers for front, rear or side projecting loads comes from lntertruck. The markers are made from 16-gauge...

A commercial vehicle lubrication chart — 3-tft x 2ft — designed to assist commercial vehicle operators, especially those with...

Because of the axle thrust exerted on bolts by the Schnorr patented washer, the likelihood of the bolt becoming loose is said...

Designed for open-type skips, a compactor—the Black Nodderhas been introduced by Presses Balers and Crushers, it is made in...

A reference list of administratioi and statutory safety, warnini and direction notice leaflet ha been produced by Focal Display...

A one-pint squeeze pack ha: been added to the range o products of Comma Oil am Chemicals for dispensing oil tc gearboxes and...

by Trevor Longcroft my mechanics will be familiar th the name - Loctite!' but few likely to know how extensive s range is....

A range of thin jaw-pulling tools has been introduced by Sykes-Pickavant. Designed to perform difficult extracting operations...

Two hand trucks have been introduced by Johan Quist. One, a folding hand-truck, is made of tubular steel and has a double frame...

An air compressor announced by Joy Manufacturing is named the Twistair and has a capacity of 105 Cu ft/min (2.9 cu m/min) .FAD...

Thorpe Bros have added a heavy-duty coil pallet to their range. It is constructed from heavy-gauge mild steel sections...

Ultrasonic sensing devices have been developed by Westool for operation in vehicle washing plants and are being used to control...

An improved version of the Radolarm water-level alarm system, designed to prevent engine seizures through loss of cooling water...

An effective, low-cost way to protect the decking of platform lorries, van floors and so on from impact damage, rot and...

A tubeless radial truck tyre, SP111, has been introduced Dunlop both for origi equipment and replacerm markets. Available in...