There is a strange new atmosphere throughout the operating industry. It manifested itself at the Tipper Convention in Buxton...

• The Fife, Scotland, haulage contracting firm of Hutchison Bros, Boreland, Dysart, which has a fleet of 20, had its licence...

clearance by Martin Hays • Operators in the South Wales and the North West are up in arms at a new procedure being adopted in...

• A. J. Rafferty, H. L. Verinder and l McKeown, the three Transport and Genet . ; Workers' Union officials alleged to ha) made...

• Four experimental London Transport mini-bus routes will start at the end of the summer, it was announced this week. Sixteen...

• The TGWU has paid the £55,000 contempt fines imposed in the Liverpool container dispute, the National Industrial Relations...

• Ryder Truck Rental Ltd announced this week its agreement in principle to acquire Fisher Renwick Services Ltd, leading British...

• A contract worth about £400,000 h been awarded by the British Transpo Docks Board to John Mowlem and Co Lt for the...

• An agreement on International Road Haulage between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain has been signed and will...

• The Government last week turned down a suggested ban on commercial vehicles with exhaust emission on the "wrong" side. Mr...

• A new leasing arrangement for vans up to 8cwt capacity, and possibly later to medium-capacity lorries, was announced this...

• The Transport Minister is expected ti make a statement soon about Governmen thinking on the banning of heavy lorrie from city...

• Systems Interfreight, a subsidiary of th US-based American Export Isbrandtse Lines Inc, of New York, is operating weekly...

• A new undergraduate cours "Transport Management and Planning", to be run by the Department of Transpo Technology of...

The MacBrayne car ferry Iona, which ame into operation on Monday (May I) tween Stornoway and Kyle, is expected o be. sailing...

• Peak Trailers Ltd has, from this week, a sales and service centre located in the heart of London. In association with Dovers...

• Telehoist Ltd, Cheltenham, has extended its handy tipper range to include a model which removes the utility mini-lorry look....

• MPs who expressed anxiety about the condition of self-drive hire vehicles last week heard Mr John Peyton, the Minister for...

• Business and Industrial Training Ltd is prepared to accommodate a few more delegates at its Haulage Business Exercise Seminar...

• The results of this year's St Austell LDoY eliminator, which took place last Sunday, bear a remarkable resemblance to last...

from our Parliamentary correspondent • For the first few weeks of its life the Road Traffic (Foreign Vehicles) Act will be...

• British Leyland has set up a Europea truck service organization designed to serv British and European haulage operator using...

• A staggering drop in the use of bus services in the Manchester area by 1984 is °recast by the SELNEC Passenger ansport...

• Ribble Motor Services came under fire, and under comparison with Cumberland Motor Services of Whitehaven, at the quarterly...

• Carlisle city council is submitting to the Association of Municipal Corporations complaints that recent applications by...

• An official of the Department of the Environment has held an inquiry at Newcastleupon-Tyne into an appeal by Bee-Line...

• What will almost certainly be the country's first Dial-a-ride bus system will begin in Abingdon, Berks, next month. City of...

• A strong case for hiving off urban bus services run by the NBC to passenger transport authorities is made by Dr Tony M....

• It was a double-first day at Nottingham on Monday when the corporation transport department took delivery of its first coach...

by Martin Hayes Proof that it is possible to stimulate ural road passenger transport was emonstrated this week by the West...

• A bomb explosion on the route of Northern Ireland's first bus and coach rally last weekend failed to stop the event being a...

• Officials of Leeds City Transport are considering the ideas submitted for a tape record warning to be given by the noiseless...

• A resolution passed this week by the Labour-controlled London borough of Lewisham demanding that the principle of free travel...

• The row over the Dundee Transport department's huge loss (CM last week) — expected to reach £353,000 in the current year —...

• No change in the policy of subsidizing rural bus services is foreseen as a result of British entry into Europe, said Mr Eldon...

succeeded Goesta Nilsson as chairman of Scania-Vabis (Great Britain) Ltd, subsidiary of Saab-Scania of Sweden. Leonard R....

The Freight Transport Association elections 1972/3 national committees have taken pl and the results are as follows: Technical...

BRS contract vehicles being used by National Star Brick and Tile Idings Co Ltd had to operate in lorable conditions, including...

James Grant and Co (West) Ltd, retail niture store operators, appeared under :Eon 69 at Glasgow on Thursday last ek, its second...

• At a sitting at Cockermouth, Cumberland, the Northern LA heard complaints against Castle Hill Garage, Haltwhistle, relating...

• The South Eastern Deputy LA, Mr G. Mercer, reserved his decision in Eastbourne last week when Hall and Co (South Coast) Ltd...

• The owner of a Volvo tractive unit with trailer was given an absolute discharge by Carlisle magistrates last week following...

• Records offences, which were described as technicalities by the defence, led to a Yorkshire haulage firm and one of its...

Transport managers planning freight services into Europe, or worried about the effects of the new labour relations law in...

• A. J. Thomson, of Almondbank Perthshire, appeared in Dundee on Tuesda of last week and admitted two charges o overloading and...

• D and D Transport (Dundee) Ltd appeared last week at Dundee, facing four charges of wilful alteration of drivers records. For...

• Mr J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northen LA, emphasized at a public inquiry it Cockermouth. Cumberland, last week, tha any vehicle...

v Gibb Grace Exhaust brakes are fitted as standard plipment on almost all heavy overseas ;hicks yet they are virtually unknown...

• The turbocharged Perkins 6.354 six-cylinder diesel becomes the standard power unit in the Dodge KP.700 two-axle tractor, with...

for Scania DS14 • Scania's heaviest diesel engine, the VE 14.2-litre DS14, has now been tested anc approved to BS AU141a 1971....

eBuyers of semi-trailers equipped with York axles can now specify larger brakes, offering higher output torques and...

v Gordon Crabtree and Anthony O'Toole CONTROVERSIAL NOTE was struck the opening of the Road Haulage sociation's sixth annual...

y David Lowe, InstTA, AMBIM HE International Mechanical Handling xhibition which is to be held at Earls ourt from May 9 to 19...

Vehicles around 30cwt • Confusion can arise whether the smalle goods vehicles are subject to goods vehicles orprivate car...

ave you considered how much you really se when you're forced to trade in after years. ist when the H.P. finishes and you iould...

iew by the Hawk • Vehicle run This Sunday morning, bright and early, at around 6 am if you want to be precise, CM staff will...

Sam Lyne • The new general manager of the RT1TB Livingston Motec 2, Mr S. F. L. Lyne is a familiar figure to thousands of...

Civic mistrust MUCH of the growing body of literature on the environment derives its sustenance from the report on Heavy...

by David Lowe, MinstTA, AMBIM IN writing about profits and how they are calculated last week, no mention was made about the...

'Runaway' services • Both manufacturing and service industries need to be efficiently managed and operated if they are to be...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (18) THIS WEEK I want to go further into the care of the alkaline battery and in...

should be fitted with rear elective markers but which do not have hem. I have particularly noticed that motor ar transporters...

hgv driving licences and rear reflective markers 2R vehicles used with demountable body systems. Could you advise me if such a...

be used to drive the following (a) an artic unit without trailer less than 3 tons unladen weight? (b) as above but coupled by...

blue and white smoke produced by a diesel engine. What does cause this? A Smoke emission of any type normally results from...

the position when the vehicles go for annual test with the tailboard removed in order to allow the load simulator machine to be...

November 7 1972 and I have been driving hgv for 10 years. When will I need to apply for an hgv licence, and on what date will I...

matters Warehousing and distribution: European developments THE RECENT INITIATIVE of the National Association of Warehouse...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (17) THE DANGER caused by the careless opening of motor...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. A move away from formal lectures THE MAIN PLANK...

Roof racks varying in size from 96in. by 40in. to 56in. by 131in. arid considered suitable for most types of commercial van,...

by Trevor Longcroft The standard of driving mirror fitted to heavy goods vehicles in the UK sometimes leaves much to be...