So Mr Peter Walker is to adopt a get tough policy with fly-tippers ? Unlimited fines or five years in jail should act as a...

• Police might not have brought prosecutions against fly tippers in the past because the maximum penalties were only fines of...

transport from our political correspondent • A big boost for the road transport imdustry—hauliers and commercial vehicle...

• Mr John Peyton has made revised International Circulation Regulations which come into force on April 1972 governing the...

• The national council of the Industrial Transport Association is to recommend to an extraordinary general meeting of the ITA...

• A few newcomers are to be admitted to Anglo/Italian road haulage. This follows last month's announcement by John Peyton,...

There are also CIT sections in Ulster, Eire, Ghana, Malawi, Malaya, Nigeria and five Australian centres at New South Wales,...

• A widening of Battersea Bridge, linked to the existing structure by a central reservation, was recommended to the GLC at its...

• A system of differential taxation whicl would lead to heavy lorries using roads a night, and so reduce daytime congestion was...

• A survey into the problems facing the road freight industry is being carried out by the DoE, with the full support of the FTA...

• R. K. Crisp (Haulage) Ltd, major transport subsidiary of the Richards and Wallington Group, has formed a business liaison...

• Because of the Government's decision not to proceed with a statutory Transport Manager's Licence or to provide funds for the...

• The Dutch-managed Arcade Line has discontinued its freight roll on/off and container service between Shoreham and Le Havre,...

• Mr G. D. James (Wrekin Roadways Ltd, Salop) was on Tuesday re-elected chairman of the Road Haulage Association heavy haulage...

• New regulations to govern and standardize and simplify the rules about the parking of unlit vehicles are to come into force...

• Headquarters of P&O Road Services Ltd—formed to manage and develop the Group's UK and European operations in specialized and...

• Inaugurated last August, the RTITB/ DoE scheme for offering training awards to boys aged between 15 and 17 to enable them to...

• A delivery system has been introduced by Whitbreads in the Southend area, which, it is claimed, will give still better...

• Durham county council has announced plans for the construction of a transport interchange at Heworth, Felling, in connection...

40 Carlisle city council is now negotiating with a firm of developers for the creation of what may be the first of the national...

• The Secretary of State for the Environment has refused permission for a I2-acre road complex at Penrith, Cumberland, near A6...

staff, which have taken place over a considerable period, reached a further stage last week when the TGWU subsidiary...

Noise and smoke emissions the main theme of the papers. New automatic gearbox control announced • A new automatic gearbox...

• Agreement has been reached between the Southampton Cargo Handling Co Ltd and the TGWU in connection with the driving of...

• This year the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club's London to Brighton Run will be held on May 7, starting at 6.30 am from...

• British Magirus Deutz subsidiary, Magirus Deutz (Great Britain) Ltd, is making a special offer from this week onwards to...

• BOC is making available the facilities of its 20 Autogas filling stations, sited throughout the country, to operators of...

W. L. Foden, D. C. Foden and S. P. Twemlow become joint managing directors of Fodens Ltd from April 1, following the retirement...

• A Metro-Scania version of the Swedish Scania Bussar "quiet bus" is to be supplied to Leicester City Transport as part of a...

ei Representatives of bus crews of the Nest Midlands Passenger Transport kuthority have demanded urgent consideraion of their...

• The introduction of a system of free bus passenger transport travel throughout the area covered by SELNEC would mean a rate...

• An application by Barton Transport Ltd to increase all adult single fares on stage services between 2p and 25p by 1 p was...

• A revised pay offer which will add al estimated 8 per cent to the annual wage bill and may lead to a further increase in bu...

• Glasgow Corporation Transport had a total deficit of £555,202 during 1970-71, giving an accumulated deficit of £1,386,813,...

• Blackpool Corporation Transpc successfully applied to the North Weste. Traffic Commissioners in Manchester ( Tuesday to...

• Scotland's strangest bus went ir service in Glasgow recently. Although it owned by Glasgow Corporation's transpl department,...

Renowned for producing buses or rolleybuses of special design, Walsall 7orporation Transport standardized for ome years on...

Mr Cecil Johnson, of Stanley (Co. irham), a headmaster and member of inley urban council has protested to the wthern General...

• It was very helpful to the Traffic Commissioners when applicant and objector held discussions with a view to reaching an...

• At a public inquiry under Section 69 in Leeds on Monday the Yorkshire LA, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, reconsidered his decision...

• After changing a plea of not guilty, to guilty, regarding a summons for permitting the use of a motor lorry with defective...

an extended CM service This week Commercial Motor announces a new service for its readers: an introduction to a professional...

Two Wisbech (Cambs) men pleaded not uilty to making a false statement in conection with an application for an hgv cence when...

Norman Hargreaves and Sons Ltd, ancaster, pleaded guilty before Lancaster .agistrates last week to 44 charges of =thing...

• Ruling that the prosecution had failed to establish fraudulent intent, Mr Recorder Rankin, QC, allowed an appeal at Liverpool...

• An Aberdeen haulage company; Albert S. Walker of Dusksdum, had one of its 11 vehicles removed from its licence, for two...

• Close on the news that Leeds has an electrically powered bus now in service (CM last week) comes the announcement that...

• Crane Fruehauf Service Division now offers from £900 a full TIR conversion for any 10-12-metre flat platform semi-trailer....

• Dumpers, excavators, bulldozers, concrete-mixer vehicles, cranes, elevators, earth-moving equipment, fork-lift trucks and...

• Scammell Lorries Ltd this week announces its M range of automaticcoupling semi-trailers which have been built to metric...

• Road-Link Ltd, the storage and distribution member of the Medminster Group, has set up a sales development division which...

I The 36-ton test vehicle which David rown Gear Industries are using to test eir new type 08-750 gearbox has now )mpleted...

Is this the beginning of the end for the internal combustion engine? by Paul Brockington at Electrex '72 • The big talking...

• A highly sophisticated vehicle maintenance reporting system developed in the United States is shortly to be made available to...

• At the first meeting of the Metrication Board's Steering Committee for distribution and consumer interests under the...

• A transmission system that provides hydraulic drive to the rearmost axle of an articulated vehicle has been developed by...

by David Lowe, MInstTA, AMBIM AST week I defined the four basic lements of vehicle costing—namely, standg, establishment,...

Tony Ridley • Dr Tony Ridley, director general of Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive, is undoubtedly the right man in the...

Need for mates I would like to see a lot more mates employed on lorries. They could do a useful job and this would reduce...

view by the Hawk I Cash interest hear that some RHA members in the outh are taking more than a passing iterest in the...

by Gibb Grace and Trevor Longcroft THE BEDFORD CF van has been well received in all quarters and since its introduction some...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (12) THERE is little doubt that the component with the toughest job on the road...

by Derek Moses THE ANGRY reaction unleashed by the bus industry on learning of the proposed road service licensing reforms...

• The charging of a toll for all lorries entering London's new flower, fruit and vegetable market seems to be in contemplation...

EEC Referendum UNTIL not so long ago, the division between operators for hire or reward and operators on own-account was...

It's a gamble by John Vann, FCII • A haulage operator worried about his mounting expenses told me : "I'm trying to cut down...

rigid vehicle fitted with air brakes and a mechanical air brake, when the engine is not running ? Is it legal to use a rope...

plated at 12.75 tons; and which has a ratchet handbrake. Some time ago I was given to understand that in 1972 the plating...

strong paint remover in TSE. We require something of this nature to remove chassis paint. Could you tell us the name of the...

not exceeding 30cwt carrying capacity for my own business purposes and have been told I do not require an operator's licence....

with 1595 cc engine. The engine number stamped above the petrol pump is 313161, but in the registration book it is given as...

problems of securing loads and recall seeing some while ago in your TSE section an advertisement for 'Load Lok'. This was...

weighing in the region of 2 tons lOcwt unladen are subject either to goods vehicle annual testing or the light car test? A...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM The Industrial Relations Act 20, What managers should do now IN this concluding article "action...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE. MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (11) ONE OR. TWO ITEMS in the special section of the C and...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. The importance of the loTIITA merger THE NEWS...

BC p Can we start with Europe? Your company has made quite an inroad intai Belgium; could you say a little abOut the sort of...

THE MILES by Trevor Longer - oft The ERE A series fitted with the Cummins NHK220 diesel engine option possessed one of the...

We'll give you some good reasons to specify the new Lipe LP Clutch. First, the heavy-duty LP Clutch requires less pedal effort...

A SERIES by G - ibb Grace, CEng, DALIE, ERF is aware of its difficult position in having to compete with the giants of the...

STARTS IIEHE by Go r do n The need for vehicle manufacturers to provide fast and competent after-sales service from both...

OF NAME by Tim Hoare The names of bodybuilder J. H. Jennings and Son Ltd and ERF have been associated with one another for...

Paul Benjamin Sollie is the Flemish-speaking proprietor of Transposies Deleon of Louvein near Brussels. He is more — he is also...