So there will be 500,000 lorry journeys less to the Channel ports by 1980 if the Channel tunnel becomes a reality. The...

by CM repo r ter • A row is brewing over the growing use of tipping vehicles without tailboards in the Yorkshire area....

• When Mr Keith Speed, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for State. DoE addressed the FTA at Eastbourne yester day he stressed the...

• Cheshire's chief inspector of Trading Standards and Consumer Affairs, Mr Kenneth Nattrass, says in his annual report that...

from our Parliamentary correspondent • Transport has been selected in a debate at the Conservative Party Conference in...

This impressive looking Scania and Dyson outfit is claimed to be the first fully armoured articulated unit to be operating in...

• Reports on the M1 crash at Tinsley Viaduct, Sheffield, when a 5-ton capacity, scrap metal laden lorry swerved across the...

• Measures to outlaw bonus payments to haulage drivers are expected to be recommended to the European Parliament by its...

restrictions on heavies • Heavy lorries may be banned from two-thirds of Norfolk's 5000 miles of roadways in a bid to keep...

• Vacu-Lug has speeded vehicle turnround with the use of demountable equipment; and at any one time at least three 24ft bodies...

• Transport and trading group Dundee, Perth and London Securities has trebled its profits again and is looking forward to not...

• Ferrymasters Ltd has completed current plans for further expansion of its Immingham office and transport equipment depot. It...

• Accused of stealing a tipper lorry valued at £3000, 24-year-old David W. Millington, of Adswood Lane West, Stockport, was...

September 8. This was decided at the national executive committee meeting in London on Tuesday. The committee is again applying...

• A conference on "The European Motor Industry" on October 9 and 10 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, will deal with the...

Distributing Industry Marketing Group of the Institute of Marketing will be addressed by Mr Richard Marsh, chairman of British...

• Surprise, that tilt tests applied to buses did not extend to lorries, was expressed by the Mayor of Bootle, Cllr William...

NOUS ork to start within a month for completion y the end of 1975 on realigning and imroving a section of A94...

• Drivers using a three acre demolition site for overnight parking in Gateshead. Co. Durham, are becoming the victims of a...

D.L. Green has been appointed traffic manager of BRS Parcels Ltd. He was previously sales manager His new appointment arises...

• An inland port area covering 35 acres will be part of a £2m project at Didcot's new Milton Trading Estate due to be completed...

• P.T.H. (Clitheroe) Ltd, the transport handling division of Primrose Third Axle Co Ltd, — formed in March of this year — has...

A spacious room with a good view and a comfortable bed — thi ngsadriver likeswhen he'sa long way from home. He's got them in...

• Two Danish drivers arrested and detained by police for driving their vehicles while under prohibition notices for overloading...

• A North Wales minicoach owner, the holder of a Hackney carriage licence, was said to have committed a number of offences...

• James S. McCallum of Edinburgh, operating one vehicle, had it suspended for one month, the whole of October, in Edinburgh...

• The licence of John Barrie (Contractors) Ltd of Glasgow authorizing 108 vehicles was curtailed by the Scottish LA last week...

• Three firms which each had a delayed prohibition order issued in respect of one vehicle, appeared before the deputy South...

• A report on the Manchester Bus Demonstration Project, published this week by the Department of the Environment, shows that...

• Bus and coach makers and operators in Vv est Germany are expecting new national regulations which will require public...

• A bring-back-the trams solution to Edinburgh's traffic and public transport problems was put forward last week by the...

• Major reductions of journey times have been announced by National Travel (NBC) Ltd. The improved services are part of revised...

• Eastern Counties Omnibus Co has dropped a scheme to provide special buses to take shoppers into Norwich from a car park on...

• A tipping vehicle, under 3 tons unladen and completed only last month, was on show at the Works and Highways exhibition at...

by CM reporter • One of several new tachographs revealed by Kienzle Apparate GmbH at the Frankfurt Show, which closes this...

• A Ford D1614 tractive unit has been converted by Kays Commercial Vehicles Ltd of Derby for use by the Tamworth Road Surfacing...

• New fourand five-speed gearboxes for the CF range and full underbody sealing for the HA vans are among specification...

• A major effort in the competitive electronic diagnostic equipment field is to be launched by Souriau UK Ltd, the new name for...

UK faces 'transport explosion' A few years from now, says president Len Castleton, today's existence will seem cosy: facing...

reported by John Darker The reconstituted national council would concentrate on transport and distribution matters and overall...

view by the Hawk • Knowing the ropes For many, the LDoY competition is a once-ayear event. It provides competition....

BECOMES SHOWCASE FOR EUROPE by Gibb Grace Pictures by Dick Ross AS THE TARIFF barriers come down between EEC countries the...

BE LAZ Concessionaire: UMO Plant Ptd. Blackhorse Road, Letchworth, Herts. The Soviet-built Belaz 256B 6x4 dump truck is...

whether they would do so again. This is what they told us. THERE is no lack of theories about why so many imported heavy...

by Gibb Grace Pictures by Harry Roberts WITH the pressure on operators to be more efficient on the one hand and the beginnings...

While there is little prospect of the battery electric taking over from the ic-engine vehicle for more than a relatively small...

onto a bolt tightens further and is more firmly retained V the thread is lubricated than V it is not lubricated. Could you...

a constant-horsepower diesel engine and that use of such a unit would enable the vehicle to operate without gear changing over...

for a number of years now. They are used by members of the union for sports trips, visits and trips to conferences and are paid...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Transport planning a local authority view The new planning laws will place a huge...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI. AMIRTE , Drivers and roads (1) WHAT do the words "drivers" and "roads" mean in law? It is...

The great bore REGRETTABLY, those interests which are against the Channel tunnel show no disposition to unite. Its supporters...

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