Tilting at the needlessly complex wording of statutory documents is usually good for a sympathetic laugh, and the pastime is a...

hard-heade 9 RATES STAY DEPRESSED BUT d OPERATORS ARE OPTIMISTIC • Although haulage rates in Britain remained depressed in the...

• John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, is proposing to make regulations providing for the inclusion in the plating...

• The Minister for Transport Industries expects to announce by mid-March the system of allocating permits for the transport of...

• Special steps are being taken by Mr Peter Walker, Secretary for the Environment, to speed up progress on the Road Traffic...

• Goods vehicles are big, noisy, smelly and an obvious and unpopular element in the urban environment. Being audibly and...

Boards probe from our political correspondent • Drastic re-organization of the Industrial Training Boards will be proposed by...

by John Darker • The generation gap led to a lively debate in London last week when the London and Home Counties branch of the...

• The Congress of the Chartered Institute of Transport at Newcastle upon Tyne from April 5 to 8 this year will have the theme:...

• The Freight Transport Association has published a guide to the new GV9 goods vehicle prohibition notices system. It costs 10p...

• A fear that one of the primary reasons for the establishment of the Freightliners was to abstract traffic from private road...

• Founded only two years ago, Transfleet Services Ltd, Stirling, Scotland, specialist in commercial vehicle hiring and...

• Fife and District Tipper Operators' Association, representing 10 haulage contractors who operate to and from Longannet and...

• Hot on the heels of CM's Communications in Transport issue (last week) comes news of the use of radio in foiling a hijacking...

• Figures for 1970 and 1971 show a drop of just over 17 per Gent in the number of thefts of valuable loads from vehicles in the...

• The time was right for another and third attempt at instituting night deliveries in London, Mr D. Baker, transport director...

• York Trailer's range of van bodywork has been extended with the addition of a series of Luton Metrovan models. In their...

• The RTITB launched three publications on Monday detailing the progress made by the Board in three spheres of its activities....

• Caffyns Ltd commercial vehicle division in Tunbridge Wells is moving to larger premises at North Farm Road in the High Brooms...

• Profits before tax of £32.4m were announced by British Leyland last week for the year ended September 30, 1971. This compares...

• Changes are to be made in the Speedlink groupage service, says the NFC. They follow the recent formation of Pickfords...

• Patterns laid on the surface of a highspeed, dual-carriageway road at the approach to a roundabout have induced drivers to...

• There will be no commercial vehicles at the Paris Show this year after all. This had originally been planned as the usual...

• Opened on January 17 at Fulton Street, off Regent Road, Liverpool 5, is Godfrey Davis's new truck rental depot, from which a...

• A five-day residential course for removals managers has been arranged by the Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and...

• An objection by the North Western (Western) area of the Road Haulage Associ ation to a proposed restriction order by the...

• Ford has introduced a 20W/20 grade lubricating oil specially for diesel engines. Competitively priced, Ford Diesel Motor Oil...

• The well-known South London Vauxhall-Bedford dealership Croydon Automobile Company Ltd, whose commercial vehicle sales...

• New traffic signs and road markings are being introduced by the Department of the Environment to indicate traffic lanes...

• Strong backing for the London Transport campaign for bus-only lanes against the traffic flow from Piccadilly Circus to Green...

• A Lancashire Tory MP, Mr Robert Redmond (Bolton West), has written to Mr Peter Walker, Environment Secretary, in an endeavour...

• As from April next men over 65 will be able to travel free on West Midlands PTE buses in the Birmingham area. Women already...

• Bee-Line Roadways Ltd, Middlesbrough, is to seek permission to extend its services from the North East to major ports and...

• How do the other Passenger Transport Authorities and their Executives react to the reasons given by Aid Sir Francis Griffin...

• Passengers were nervous after travelling over Welsh mountains in double-decker buses, a witness claimed at a sitting of the...

• Although several factories at Atherstone, Warwicks, commenced work at 8 am, a Midland Red stage carriage service which...

• Falkirk town council may undertake bus operation in a bid to overcome the problems it will face when introducing a...

• An application by Albanian Coaches Ltd, St Albans, Hefts, to add a picking-up point at Letchworth Green on feeder services to...

squad • Four bus inspectors operating in the southern division of SELNEC are to have their photos printed on 30,000 leaflets...

• The Bristol company of Joseph Fish and Sons Ltd, with 28 vehicles and 52 trailers operating from Avonmouth and a further six...

• The hearing of a dispute over instructions given to members of the Transport and General Workers' Union working in the port...

• The licence of Security Express Ltd of Glasgow was reduced from 28 vehicles to 19 for five months by the Scottish LA when the...

• A Scottish operator who had been using only two of five vehicles authorized and only one of which had been used since October...

• Eight of 10 men who pleaded guilty at .Manchester New Crown Court last week to what was described by counsel as Britain's...

• Three drivers employed by Thomson (Bradford) Transport Ltd, who had used the tractive units of their articulated vehicles to...

• A well-known South Wales company of steel stockholders and structural engineers appeared before the South Wales LA in Cardiff...

• Dangerous driving by two lorry drivers, it was alleged at a Knutsford court, Cheshire, led to the deaths of five of the 10...

• Drivers could help a great deal if they reported faults to their companies, it was suggested by a vehicle examiner at an...

• A new tandem-axle trailer developed for the carrying of fork-lift trucks and similar plant has been introduced by York...

• To reduce delays because of load handling problems at delivery points, E. F. Beddard Ltd, of West Kirby, now uses a...

• As part of an international programme, Renault Ltd is introducing in Britain a free 90-point diagnostic check on cars and...

• The Metrication Board will be exhibiting at the Welsh Materials and Mechanical Handling Exhibition in Cardiff from February...

Peter Livsey, 40, director of truck sales, Ford Motor Co Ltd, for the past two years, has been appointed managing director of...

The handbrake regulations for 1973 applicable to pre-1968 vehicles are cut and dried but vehicle manufacturers and equipment...

Simons and Co. Ltd. by David Lowe MInsTA AMBIM iGHT HUNDRED retail deliveries before 30 am. An accomplishment which would ;...

Jim Skyrme • This year promises to be both exciting and challenging for the National Bus Company. This is the view of Mr S. J....

view by the Hawk • Truth will out "Hauliers, for obvious reasons, are inveterate overloaders. The de facto standard axle load...

Whether to own or hire • Because more stringent standards of commercial vehicle maintenance are now being insisted upon as a...

Self education SPECULATION about the Government's review of training boards seems to be agreed on at least one point. The...

by Alan Bunting, MIMechE This week: the Automount design from Davies Magnet Works Ltd, of Thundridge, Ware, Hertfordshire, now...

• It's too easy for newcomers to enter road haulage and LAs should be stricter on issuing them with licences — this is a view...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (5) WHEN CHARGING a battery whether at a high or low rate, the regulator settings...

I read Mr Larry Smith's letter (CM January 7) about my marketing paper with interest. I hate to cross swords with a fellow...

I agree with many of the points made by Mr A. Smallhorn (CM January 7). But I feel that he is not being quite fair to...

cedure to follow in order to book vehicles into the London docks with export cargoes? Also, which docks does this booking...

1971 issue concerning the newly titled Transport and Road Research Laboratory interested me particularly in view of your...

matters By John Darker, AMBIM The Industrial Relations Act 13, ballots THE SUBJECT of bargaining units was discussed last...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The construction and Use Regulations (4) REGULATION 18 of the C and U Regulations deals with...

Apprentice training by David Lowe WilnstTA AMB1M WITH some 34,000 persons employed in the motor vehicle repair trade and in...

For the next seven days. S ATURDAY January 22nd. Historic Commercial Vehicle Club meeting. Friends Meeting House, Euston Road....

Morey Cauemeetiee Ltd. Cap: £100. Objects: To carry on the business of haulage and transport contractors, etc, Dims: Elizabeth...

h Swedish underslung drawbar - let has a towing pin diameter of Ornm, that is counterbalanced, ives a wide angle of movement nd...

;tanelco Thermatron has proluced a travelling-head machine or automatically welding FIR Drry covers and tarpaulins. It is .nown...

Straight, extended straight and angled grease nipples, in BST and UNF sizes, are now available prepacked in tens from...

A do-it-yourself gadget that simplifies sump-oil changing is being marketed by Stylex Motor Products. Called the dredger oil...

Exhaust ball valves recommended for use on systems using compressed air and non-toxic gases are marketed by Dyna-Quip Ltd and...

Pre-insulated polypropylene connectors providing an easier safer method of linking cable are now available from J. Lucas. The...

A type of roller race conveyor, the individual design of which can, it is claimed, be varied to give virtually limitless...

A simple-to-operate strapr tensioning tool, designed pallet applications, has b introduced by a division Lawtons of Liverpool...

A range of four fast-curing, c to use, epoxy putties, each which has wide repair maintenance application, been announced by H...

Kay has made two additions to its range of , Kontite-therm'x catalytic heaters which convert bottled gas (butane or propane)...

The LFK hot spray incorporating four electrically heated holders for instant colour change, is being marketed in England by...

The Goon-box recently introduced by Electronica C. G. provides an audible warning note when a vehicle's direction winkers are...

The latest edition of the KEW Chemical and Transport Equipment illustrated catalogue, comprising the revision of its stock...

Landing gear that, it is claimed, can be raised or lowered within a few seconds as against a few minutes with conventional...

by Trevor Longcroft The coldest winter weather may not have arrived so far and many people yet may find the need for...

Alloy . Couplings for use with bulk vehicles which are claimed to be approximately 50 per cent cheaper than their brass...

A system of removable garment rails based on the Shorfast cargo control system manufactured by B. Dixon-Bate, enables both...

Twelve models of ready-to-use extension cable reels have been introduced by Lexor Dis-Boards. Cable lengths range from 30ft to...

A petrol-driven high-pressi cleansing unit able to draw water from a tank or wa course has been announced Speed-O-Klene...

The -Deltight Industries Grc now produces spring lockwa: ers. Kantlink, as they are call are available in either high-grE...

A low viscosity rust inhibitor sealing compound to be used undercoating is made by Daubert Chemical Corporation Applied with...