THE AXE has fallen on the International Freight Transport Convention which was to have been held in Malta during March. The...

A BID for £5m has been made to the Training Services Agency by the Road Transport Industry Training Board. If agreed, the...

OPERATORS are being faced with tax demands covering subsistence payments to drivers over the past six years — and at least one...

A CAMPAIGN to get more help for the financially troubled bus industry has started at Westminster led by Mr Leslie Huckfield, MP...

COULD the Government's Dock Work Regulation Bill triumph by eight votes in the Commons last week turn out to be an empty...

THE overall aim of the Government should be a better law relating to drivers' hours rather that a delay in introducing European...

NOW in service with Whittaker Transport Ltd, of Bollington, Cheshire—Britain's first Scania 140 with de luxe cab option. The...

THREE tachograph manufacturers—Lucas Kienzle, Smiths Instruments and Veeder Root —have been asked by the Department of the...

THE introduction of a new code o practice by the tipping functional group of the Road Haulage Association is a timely reminder...

The use of road transport means less aircraft and lost landing fees for Manchester. "We have got to try to get an income from...

NATIONAL Carriers—until 1968 part of British Rail—is to switch parcels and freight from the railways to road transport. But an...

A MINI-BOOM is taking place in the vehicle bodybuilding business, according to E. M. Wilcox Ltd, of Peterborough. Wilcox has...

TOTAL REVENUE from road users exceeded expenditure by £140m in the last financial year, by £438m in 1973-74, and by £626m in...

AN OWN-ACCOUNT operator had its 0 licence curtailed by the South Eastern LA at Maidstone last week by the suspension of one...

Spreading tentacles THE FIRST of the lightweight Leyland Octopus eight-wheel lightweight trucks are now roiling off the...

COMMERCIAL vehicle sales plunged by almost a fifth in January compared with the same period 12 months ago. And figures...

and refusal THE South Eastern LA, Mr R. S. Thornton, at Maidstone last week renewed the 0 licence of Diamond Transport Co,...

STOCKPORT Council is to get tough with transport operators who repeatedly park theirvehicles in residential areas. At a recent...

HOW does one go about obtaining type approval and whose responsibility is it are just two of the questions to be raised at a...

"WHY are you back again ?" a Maidstone haulier was asked by Mr R. S. Thornton, South Eastern LA, who was taking his first...

IF society was not to be buried under its own waste or poisoned by the effluent of its industrial processes, road haulage in...

A DISTRIBUTION complex costing £250,000 was opened on the Isle of Wight by British Road Services Ltd on Wednesday. It will be...

Devon depot UNITED CARRIERS Ltd has opened a new £100,000 distribution depot at Dawlish, Devon, on the Shutterton Industrial...

'Context Pr SINCE a regional crime squad operation against container thieves, under the code-name "Operation Context," thefts...

A STATUTORY Transport Manager's Licence would be of no real benefit as it would need to be of a low standard to cover all...

NORTH WEST GAS transport manager for the past 26 years, Col Henry Slack has retired after a career in which he was responsible...

RASC and ended the war as an assistant director of supplies and transport. Joe Moore has retired from Unigate where he was...

A REQUEST by Carlisle City Council that it should retain a separate fare scale was turned down by the North Western Traffic...

THE Midland General Omnibus Co Ltd and its sister company Trent Motor Traction Co Ltd could perhaps benefit from further...

"THE most ambitious project since the introduction of Moseley Continental Coachwork into the UK in 1968." This is how Moseley...

Dial no more DIAL-A-RIDE operations between Golders Green and Hampstead Garden Suburb will cease on March 1, announced London...

SWEDEN'S Axel Johnson group has developed a new type of vehicle-mounted weighing system, the Aton Load Indicator. Using...

One of the smallest gully emptlers in the UK is touring local authorities on demonstration. Based on a Bedford CF, the...

Westinghouse on trial AN anti-jack-knifing system made by Bendix-Westinghouse is undergoing field trials with the NFC, and the...

A CONTROL UNIT now available in the UK enables a driver of an HIAB lorry-mounted crane to operate it anywhere within a 9-metre...

IN the past two months the situation regarding anti-skid systems in the USA has changed so rapidly that for a spell truck and...

THE conversion of a two-axle Bedford KE to six wheels has been carried out by the Primrose Third Axle Co Ltd of Blackburn,...

A NEW forklift truck—the llonator—equipped with a unique steering system demonstrates a principle discovered by Mr Bengt Ilon....

THE Kienzle EDA 21 electronic tachograph chart reader can now provide a read-out of the more detailed information shown on the...

Few facts ; fewer figures THE National Freight Corporation managed to keep their figures and statistics out of the public eye...

bypost One hundred Postbus services are running in rural areas in Britain and more are planned. But two is likely to be the...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CO), MIMI, AMIRTE IT is an offence to give driving instruction on a car for payment unless one's name...

ALTHOUGH a handful of defections can make the Government's overall majority disappear, few people seemed to think that the Dock...

TWO weeks ago in this column I forecast that at least four vehicles would collide with the new "traffic pinch " on Telegraph...

Our Man in the North recently called on the genial Bob Kaye, proprietor of Norths of Leeds, in the pretty Yorkshire village of...

by Graham Montgomerie MMXIOU years after Julius Caesar first set foot in this country, the new Roman invasion consists of...

by Johnny Johnson IN an atmosphere of severe economic recession and falling traffics, the survival of small operating units in...

Like the Hawk (CM January 16) I agreed with every word written by Mr K. Shaw (CM December 26) because I have had an exactly...

With reference to the article in CM January 23, I would like to discuss in more detail the problems involved with the...

May I refer to your report headlined " The First Lady" (People, CM January 23). Mrs Shaw is by no means the first manager or...

Choosing your words carefully A DRIVER employed by Charles Armstrong & Son (Haulage Contractors) Ltd, of Rotherhithe, London,...

A BRITISH removal company has just won a major contract worth 04,000—and dealt a body blow to some of Europe's old and...

This is a problem which applies to most automatic and semi-automatic gearboxes currently available on the British market. The...

blocks. We do not, normally, rope these loads as the blocks are loaded flat on to the bed of the vehicle body and only one tier...

the UK, with particular reference to those vehicles under 3 tons unladen? A The maximum speed at which goods vehicles may be...

not assigned to a regular service shall carry an individual control book. It makes no stipulation about goods or passenger...

The science of tyre/road adhesion THE Transport and Road Research Laboratory published a graph in 1973 which showed that the...

Differing views on driving hours, tachographs and gross weights by CM reporter CHAMPION driver Colin Burrows, of Esso, was...

FAILURES and accidents are all to some extent unexpected, but that does not mean that they are all inevitable, or that planning...

THERE is no one knows better what a haulier needs by way of service than an ex-haulier. A new vehicle recovery service on the...

by John Darker, AMBIM MARKETING techniques deserve Ito be more systematically applied than they have been in the past. They...

WE are pleased to answer readers' questions and help them to sort out problems —but please put them in writing. We cannot deal...

From Aqua-Tec comes a highpressure washer kit offering a 50 per cent saving over ready assembled units. The DIY kit is...

TricLamp, from P. J. Dodd & Son, is a constructional system for building virtually any type of storage facility. It comprises a...

To meet 'the increasing need for a 100V power supply where portable industrial power tools are being used, Black and Decker...

Woolworth has introduced its own, Winfield, brand of motor oil. A 20W./50 multigrade, it is suitable for light vans and trucks...

ICI has up-dated its Manual of Vehicle Refinishing. Prepared by the Technical Services Department of ICI, it shows how to lay...

From SKIL comes a vice which has a jaw opening of 7.5cm (2.95in) and a jaw width of 7cm (2.75in). It can be mounted on a work...