The shortage of hgv drivers is highlighted in the annual report of the Transport Development Group, which points to the high...

PROTOTYPE HEAVY ARMS WITH AN 80 DECIBEL SOUND LEVEL • Prototypes of quiet heavy lorries are to be produced by British Leyland...

Delay in type approval scheme may mean queues for fitting • The Department of the Environment has told tachograph...

by Gibb Grace • Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd, which makes the Eagle diesels as well as Rolls-Royce cars, is being offered for sale as...

The Department of the Environment as unfairly increased entry fees for coaches the Royal Parks, Mr John Stevens, London coach...

• Increases in transport costs are to be allowable costs for companies seeking to increase their prices under the revised...

continued from page 17 may ban hgv the Palace ceremony even though their coach is not carrying a permit. At the moment tours...

• The annual general meeting of the Freight Transport Association will be held in London on Tuesday, May 1. The report for...

• Because of increasing demand for haulage, customers have been more willing than in the past to consider rate adjustments,...

• The unworkable nature of EEC Drivers' Hours Regulations was emphasized by employers' representatives on the European...

• Transervice training centres of T.I. Transport Equipment Services Ltd at Bridgwater and North London have been combined into...

• Peterborough's £3m northern primary road — third stage of an outer-ring-road system to relieve town-centre jams — has been...

• More than 350 delegates representing both goods and psv operators, are expected Lo attend the CAV Conference at the Grand...

I From April 1 the various divisions of 'ecalemit (Engineering) Ltd will be formed Ito separate companies. All based at...

I An all-year-round freight-only service tarted this week between Barry in South Vales and Dublin. The service operated y...

Richard E. Bottrill has been appointed Edinburgh Corporation transport manager at a salary between £7512 and £8097. He is at...

by Martin Hayes • Britain's first LPG-powered bus entered service this week with Teesside Corporation Transport. It is fitted...

• A blow to promoters of the concept of fares-free public transport was dealt last week by Cllr. D. Gilroy Bevan, chairman of...

• SELNEC PTA announced this week .hat it will meet the £1.3m cost of r.toncessionary fares during the first three months of...

• London Transport has run into snags over its plans to introduce quieter one-man double-deck Daimler Fleetline Londoner buses...

• A dispute between Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive and Newcastle on Tyne City Council over the amount of a rate levy to...

• Unless action is taken to counter hooliganism TGWU members, who say coaches have been damaged and some conductors even...

• Aberdeen Corporation has ordered 24 Leyland Atlantean double-deckers with 10m 74-seat bodies by W. Alexander and Sons of...

• The Transport Tribunal, sitting in Edinburgh, reserved its judgment this week on the appeal of I. and H. Brown (Plant) Ltd...

• A mobile off-the-shelf parts service will from Monday be operating from each of the nine truck equipment factories of York...

• A fleet inspection ordered by the Eastern Traffic Commissioners following disciplinary action last year led to the operator,...

• The person who hires a self-drive vehicle is responsible for its condition. This fact was stated by Mr H. R. Aylmer, the...

• The Northern Traffic Commissioners have approved an application by United Automobile Services Ltd, Darlington, for revised...

• Golders Green tipper operator A. Pannell Ltd was ordered to curtail its 57 vehicle fleet to 50 vheicles for three months by...

• A wholesale delivery frontaccess/rear-off-loading refrigerated Luton van suitable for mounting on appropriate Ford, Chrysler...

• Fiat is introducing a new range of medium-weight trucks with nominal gross vehicle weights between 10 and 13 tons. The range...

Nedex '73 by Bill Godwin • The Transport Services and Equipment Show in the Ahoy Centre at Rotterdam last week turned out to...

Enthusiastic exponent of the Road Haulage Association and chairman of the Yorkshire (West Riding) area foi23 years till last...

have just finished reading Martin Hayes' 'nide (CM February 23) entitled The Long, -lard Night" which I found most annoying....

Vith reference to the article entitled "How to fleet maintenance standards" (CM March 2), : is noted that in the paragraph on...

With the introduction of Marker Boards to BS AU 152 on December 11970 and as a motorist covering some 15,000 miles per annum it...

In his article dealing with VAT in relation to hire-purchase or leasing of vehicles, (CM January 19) Johnny Johnson cited as an...

ABOUT THE COMMUNITY TRANSIT SYSTEM by kin Sheniff IT IS no longer necessary for goods travelling under guarantee between...

by Cyril A. Reid, refrigeration consultant. Massey Coldshield REFRIGERATED semi-trailers for longdistance work are these days...

workshop by Handyman Details to save down-time (15) A night shift or incentive bonus scheme are controversial possibilities...

Delivering frozen food and freezers direct to the consumer raises handling problems for the driver. A newcomer to the field has...

Two test reports A purpose-built articulated outfit and a light bus have been tested by CM's technical staff recently and the...

Jim Gray • Putting the Murphy Group on the map is the current aim of 44-year-old Jim Gray, managing director of a concern...

The Editor concludes his report from South America with a look at the booming bus business . THERE were 300 drivers asleep at...

An opportunity lost WHEN news was first announced of the Government's training opportunities scheme, the road transport...

THE term "industrial policy" is so wide that it inevitably interacts with other major policies in the European Community, such...

matters by John Darker AMBIM Small firms can profit from computers London University team can develop a tailor-made program...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE The Contracts of Employment Act 19 72 SOME WHILE ago I discussed the 1963 Contracts...

as good as, "#' not better than, new oil. What is your opinion? A Nearly all types of engine lubricant are treated with...

for a recovery vehicle. When towing a vehicle on a bar, is there a minimum number of persons required to be in the cab of the...

Marshal but have been unfortunate in that the vehicle developed a rattle in the transmission which ultimately made the fitting...

tricycle and under 8 cwt which has been convened to a chassis, cab with a platform. I have found that it Is not big enough to...

learnin by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Road transport management and degree...

portable tester, produced by tpton-Triangle, is designed to wide a simple method of plementing the Lucas proJure of testing...

Whizz-Kid air-powered der from Ingersoll-Rand is in. long and weighs just er 1.51b. It has a non-slip grip design and is...

An addition to the range of medium-duty flat-belt conveyors, produced by Associated Conveyors, comprises a mobile elevating...

A high-torque nut runner from Atlas Copco is available with clockwise or counter clockwise rotation and for horizontal or...

A fire-proof turbo pump capable of handling and transferring highly inflammable liquids from road tankers involved in road...

GKN Lincoln Electric has introduced a further range of Arcmaker Sprite semi-automatic welding equipment designed in modular...

Maximum security locks suitable for most types of doors and gates other than domestic or light commercial ones are marketed by...

A rotary nozzle tank cleaning device developed by Shell-Mex and BP engineers has enabled them to reduce some vehicle tank...

The Butlers 2103 rear-warning foglamp has a one-piece moulded body shell of abs plastics and produces a very high light output...

KL has tackled the problem of sun-visor movement on CV caused by vibration. A locking plate and twin tensioning screws hold...

Powder Couplings Ltd, Aired Works, Hunslet Road, Leeds,1 been appointed by Wellwor Engineering Co Ltd to act a( spares and...

Lubrication Engineers (UK tributors) now market a range paraffin-based lubricants cluding Monolec engine oil. The company says...

nice touch of luxury that is sonably cheap and at the ne time genuinely beneficial Inds impossible. But a CM ffman has recently...

Wade Engineering is marketing in the UK flow meters manufactured by Liquid Controls Corporation. There are seven models with...

by Trevor Longcroft most large workshops the r certain method of tracing -injection system malfunc s is the time-consuming one...

Hatcher Components have developed a slide-on-mudguard bracket suitable for different guard widths. The hollow-square section...

The Slack and Parr hydraulics division has published a leaflet on electro-hydraulic power-packs suitable for on-vehicle...

A range of Maxigrip circlip tools, announced by Sykes-Pickavant, comprises three types designed for single-handed removal of...

Airmatic Ltd has introduced a heavy-load moving system known as Pneu-move that is based on air bearing techniques developed at...

Three chassis dynamometers marketed in the UK by Leslie Hartridge Ltd are claimed to provide simulation of road test...

From Crypton comes a battery tester suitable for 6V or 12V lead-acid vehicle batteries it gives the state of charge on a...

From Pyrotector comes a fl alarm smoke detection unit v% separate signals for alarm E fault, so that the alarm will operate if...