The Prices and Incomes Board's pronouncements on costs and charges were made after a detailed study of each case....

reduce jack-knife accidents TRRL reports on three-year study with BRS artics by the Technical Editor • A three-year study on...

• A sharp attack on the RHA's recommendations for rate increases of 10 per cent or more was made by Mr John Davies, Secretary...

• The Transport Development Group increased its six-month turnover to £35,364,000 (£32,954.000) and its tax-paid profit to...

• "The road transport industry's best assurance that it will not be hobbled by a complex of expensive but unenforceable...

Drivers and dockers still clash in retaliatory picketing from our industrial correspondent • Although it is some six weeks...

• A reduction in incidents of gross overloading from 60 per cent before the implernentation of the Road Traffic (Foreign...

• Under a scheme initiated by the British Aluminium Co Ltd a tipper operator will in future be able to phone a bodybuilder as...

• A technical visit, a talk with a Customs and Excise man about VAT and dinner with a senior official from the Department for...

• The road transport division of Gee Industries Ltd and Grounds Transpoi Services Ltd, both of Spalding, Lincoln shin merged...

• A "long-haul package designed t increase driver safety and comfort is no , being offered by Ailsa Trucks Ltd on th full range...

• On Tuesday the 25,000 dw containership Australian Endeavour saile from Seaforth terminal at Liverpool t inaugurate the new...

The European Commission has pro)sed to the Council of Ministers that minated windscreens should be fitted to 1 vehicles built...

I Removals company Bullens Transport iroup Ltd has signed an agreement with Hind Van Lines to act as Allied's UK gents. The...

• A new depot for the stuffing and tripping of containers was opened by the Iritish Transport Docks Board at Hull ocks on...

Europe by John Darker • The FTA's conference in London on Tuesday with the theme - Distribution Europe" opened on a lively note...

• Motec 2, the £1.8m RT1TB complex at Livingston. Scotland, has started its first autumn session with only half the number of...

II Volvo is setting up a factory at Irvine slew Town, Ayrshire, in which it plans to nanufacture a complete range of trucks...

• Having for a number of years entered its drivers in the CM-sponsored LDoY competitions, Total Oil Great Britain Ltd has...

• A report just published by a special working group appointed in the Northern Economic Planning Region says that hundreds of...

• The first commercial vehicle manufacturer to offer the Lockheed Antilok system. designed to prevent a vehicle's driven wheels...

• "I am pro-bus, the Minister for Transport Industries is pro-bus, the Secretary of State for the Environment is pro-bus — HM...

• Details of Stockport's new multi-storey bus station-cum-industrial complex — which will cost several million pounds — were...

• London Transport's new minibus route, serving the Eltham, Elmstead Woods, Bromley and Bickley areas, will start on Saturday,...

• The 40th Congress of the UTTP — the international public transport union — will be held from May 6 to 12 next year in The...

• Next year's conference of the Association of Public Passenger Transport Operators will be held in Liverpool in the week...

• The wording of an item, "Schoolbus fleets are building up", in CM September 22 implied that the Strachans Bedford BS buses...

• Starting on Saturday October 14 a special evening-late night bus service — the Star-Bus — will link off-street car parking...

• The first passenger-carrying service by a Post Office minibus operating in the Highlands was inaugurated at a special...

• An order — worth £750,000 — for 100 coaches has been received at Earls Court by Plaxtons (Scarborough) Ltd. The coaches — for...

William B. Batty, 59, managing director of Ford of Britain for the past five years, has been elected to the additional role of...

• Petrol which was put into the fuel tank of a diesel-engined Spanish coach was discharged into the gutter by the driver in...

• When a bus driver was charged at Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, with driving without due care and attention, his solicitor, Mr...

• Though holding a licence for 56 vehicles, Kestral Freighters Ltd, Barking, had operated only six, Miss E. Alton, appearing...

• Because he felt he might lose his job as the result of minor motoring offences, an Irish lorry owner-driver offered a...

• An operator had his operator's licence for two vehicles and trailers curtailed to one vehicle and trailer and then the...

I Too many goods vehicle operators in the ;cottish Highlands are neglecting safety, he LA, Mr Alex Birnie, said in Inverness )n...

• A Bromsgrove councillor who claimed that both his employers, Cartransporters BRS) Ltd, of Birmingham, and his union, the...

• A Cheshire lorry driver who made a false entry in his driver's record was told by the chairman of South East Cheshire...

• Headlamp wipers and washers will be standard on all new motor vehicles in Sweden from the beginning of next year; rear...

• The elimination of the flexible drive cable — a particular advantage for rearengined vehicles — is the main feature of a...

• Motor Panels (Coventry) Ltd, currently supplying cabs to ERF, Foden, Guy, Scammell and Seddon, is exhibiting a...

• Lockheed, member company of the Automotive Products Group which has been involved in developing commercial vehicle disc...

• The parts of a Cutrunins NHK180 diesel that powered an ERF 32-ton-gross two-axle tractive over a distance of nearly 500,000...

SEEING vehicles specially prepared for show on the stands at Earls Court and using them in service are two entirely different...

VALUE ADDED TAX would be completely neutral and should not involve a road haulage operator taxable at standard rate in any...

A COMPUTERIZED method of assisting operators in choosing the correct vehicle specifications for particular jobs were described...

CHAIRMAN for the first afternoon session was Mr John Mather, managing director of Southern BRS Ltd. who commented that the...

THE FINAL session of the conference provided a forum for those old — and perhaps too friendly? — adversaries, Mr Jack Mather...

by Gibb Grace VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS face enough problems today to daunt the most optimistic industry. Apart from pressure from...

B ut wider decks for TIR trailers to take side-by-side metric pallets, reports Trevor Longcroft THE TRAILER manufacturers,...

gut which method will Alin out, asks Paul grockington [HE QUESTION has been asked over the rears at Earls Court and at...

materials by Gordon Crabtree Lteresting developments in municipal ansport are being given a first showing at arls Court, even...

view by the Hawk • Colour and Style It's the Corporate Image Show, folks! Never have we had such a colourful, stylish and...

Tyre bills: economy practices • Move tyres around when one-third of their tread is worn • Start winter with good tread depth...

Last in first out but not always • When reduction of staff is forced upon an employer this is invariably a distressing...

Old readers start here FOR certain people of a certain age, Winston Churchill is remembered chiefly as the man who raided the...

Philip Ward • Philip Ward has been in the transport business now for 40 years, and judging from the perpetual smile on his...

will skid on ice or packed snow as readily as one having worn tyres. What is the explanation for this? A A tyre with a good...

the CM Table of Operating Costs reflect any discount terms which might be available? Does the maintenance figure refer to any...

products of a local firm which involves all smalls work mainly bags and drums. We operate three Transit 35cwt vans and one Ford...

fleet of artic units. Some of these we Bet/fords which, without the trailer, weigh less than 3 tons. Is it permissible to drive...

Shop stewards and the Law (2) by John Darker, AMBIM The recent House of Lords judgment in the appeal of Heatons Transport and...

Trade Descriptions Act (2) by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE. MIMI ON September 15 I discussed the offence committed under the Trade...

Road transport economies what is a monopoly? by George Wilmot "MONOPOLY" appears to be one of ti_ose economic terms which...