A DOE spot check only takes ten minutes, If your vehicle is overdue for Plating or Annual Testing, you risk a fine of up to...

RTITB responds to industry's requests • About 34,000 small establishments —hauliers, psv • operators and garages —with...

• An attack on the Traffic Commissioners and local authorities who, he claimed, were responsible for many of the problems of...

• There are shocks in store for operators who leave semi-trailers in the trailer park at Dover. As from Monday March 1 the...

by Gordon Crabtree • The anticipated shortage of Class 1 Heavy Goods Vehicle Drivers could be mitigated to a large extent by...

• Part of the premises of a former machine tool engineering company in Stockport, Cheshire, which closed last October, is...

• On Wednesday of last week a High Court judge refused to grant a 10-year extension of the patent covering the rhombic drive...

• This year's president of FISITA, Dr C. M. Carreras, will give an address on "Design trends of heavy-duty commercial...

• Two years' detailed planning has gone into the special fleet of six tankers which form a key part of a modern bulk...

• Britain's first drawbar trailer for use with demountable bodies has entered service with the Debenham group of companies....

• The third centre (others in London and Cambridge) for the conversion of commercial vehicles to Calor Gas liquefied...

• A third Lorry Driver of the Year eliminating round has been established in Northern Ireland at the Antrim coastal resort of...

411 The Manchester Transport Training Group has doubled the rate at which drivers pass through its two-week hgv driving course....

• A lorry driver who admitted that during one period in August last year his working day covered more than 24 hours was fined...

• Containerization methods for the safer and more economic handling and storage of furniture have been introduced by Reece...

• The five-year study of road haulage costs undertaken by the Centre for Interfirm Comparison for the RHA continues to yield...

• Between 10 and 20 per cent of all Crane Fruehauf's trailer sales in the coming year are axpected to be financed by leasing...

Leslie Huckfield Minister refutes charges, blames Socialists from our Parliamentary correspondent • A row over Midland...

• A merging of the assets and liabilities the NBC subsidiaries Aldershot and Distrk Traction Co Ltd and Thames Valle Traction...

• Mr Eldon Griffiths, Under-Secretar for the Environment, last week rejected suggestion that expenditure by loch authorities...

Anomalies existing in the fares which ildren have to pay for journeys to and om school has led the Association of ducation...

I• A party of visitors were given the pportunity on Wednesday of seeing for lemselves Hull Corporation Transport's...

• A suggestion that Oxford Street should be closed to cars and the pavements be widened to make shopping easier was made by...

• A symposium on the topic of Rapid Transit Vehicles for City Services is to be held in London on April 22 and 23 in the main...

• In Birmingham on Tuesday, Mr John Else, the chairman of the West Midland Traffic Commissioners, granted an application by...

• The power, under Section 69, of the 1968 Transport Act, that can be exercised by an LA was questioned on Wednesday by a...

• Russell of Bathgate Ltd had its licence reduced by nine vehicles and 14 trailers at Edinburgh last week after a hearing...

• Midland Red made a successfu application to the West Midland Traffi Commissioners on Tuesday to reduce th frequencies of 30...

"We phone Hertz. They're everywhere' company can give us the convenience of so many locations. "We find, too, that it is...

▪ Coach proprietor Bee-Line Roadways ..td, of York Road, Hartlepool, last week 'ailed in a High Court move to get a licence...

• Newport Building Supplies (Salop) Ltd, af Newport, had its six vehicle 0 licence curtailed under Section 69 of the...

• At a meeting of the Tipping Co-operating Group, held in London on Wednesday, it was agreed to launch a pilot scheme for...

• The Western LA, Mr J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, told a Devon haulier before him at Weymouth on Wednesday under Section 69, that...

• The Transport Tribunal is to meet in Edinburgh on March 17 in the Quarter Session Parliament House, to hear appeals by J....

• The need for more stringent noise regulations for heavy lorries is foreshadowed in the first report of the Royal Commission...

as forecast in CM last week, with 500 semi - trailers and containers immediately available; but capital investment is £50,000,...

assistant secretary W. Mills, 44, has been appointed Freight Transport . Association assistant secretary—a new post created...

Carriers Ltd north-eastern area, centred at York. Mr Blaylock has been a marketing assistant at NCL hq since 1969. A. A....

Gerrards Cross to Long Island. New York, owing to his promotion to senior vice-president of Avis; Mr Marshall has spent the...

fleet sales director of Willowbrook Ltd, of Loughborough, a Duple Group company. Mr Crampton has spent all his career in the...

the National Bus Company's £21 prize for the psv company employee in England and Wales to obtain most marks in any five papers...

• Better roads. improved goods-handling systems and increased vehicle loading capacity have resulted in a reduction of...

• A new development by Crane Fruehauf frailers Ltd is the introduction of a wavy-duty all-welded aluminium tipper oody for...

D Eight dieseland petrol-engine test cells tre included in the equipment of a new 6000 3q ft workshop, built by Jellings...

II Model case Although John Clueit, of 22 Rose Vale, Heald Green, Cheadle, Cheshire, owns a fleet of 270 vehicles, including...

Eric Tindall • An excellent corrective for anyone who believes that the Road Transport Industry Training Board dreams...

by Handyman Benchwise: repair risks (9) WHILE a tank is being steamed out static electricity can accumulate. If this build-up...

CORDES AND SIMON of Schwenningen, in the Black Forest area of southern Germany, are typical German haulage contractors. The...

PIANN continued Cordes and Simon business, most of the other vehicles working locally and feeding the service. Much of the...

DURING my recent visit to Germany I had the opportunity to visit the tachograph chart analysis department of Kienzle Apparate...

and, of course, accident costs. The second aspect is traffic organization, covering vehicle routeing to avoid traffic hold-ups...

by Tony Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE AT the beginning of September last year. Perkins introduced its turbocharged 6.354 diesel. And...

We welcome letters for publication on transport topics. Address them to Commercial Motor, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London...

Keeping out of Carey Street by Janus O NE result that might have been expected from operators' licensing and its concomitants...

Q I have a 12-ton carrying capacity six wheeler which was involved in an accident with a mobile crane travelling in the...

matters by John Darker AMBIM Food distribution: the scope for improvement AT a recent Institute of Food Distribution seminar...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE,ArvlIMI Goods vehicle drivers' hours (1 ) QUESTIONS are still being asked concerning the permitted...

GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATIONS stimulated over the past 18 months by the Road Transport Industry Training Board, have made a...

For the next seven days from February 26 to March 4. FRIDAY IRTF (S. Wales) meeting: "Design.and construction of recovery...

by John C. Vann Watch out for snags • Art accident can happen to anybody and sickness can attack the most healthy...

New Internationall3" Loaders and Dozers run on Timken bearings The new "B' Series Crawlers from International Harvester are...