drivers' co-op OWNER-DRIVERS in South Wales are banding together to form a company which will eventually operate as forwarding...

CALLING all operators—anyone driving a vehicle that weighs more than 3 tons unladen MUST have an hgv licence. CM is spelling...

THE NEW Turkish transit taxes and permits laws have been amended for British operators (CM January 9). Following negotiations...

A. MAJOR bus scheme with a flat-rate 2p fare to encourage aar commuters to transfer to public transport started in Cardiff this...

A CONSULTATIVE document an the Government's plans for transport is to be published in the next few weeks. This was promised by...

by CM reporter BRS OVERLAND'S plan to run a scheduled weekly service to Iran has been shelved—because there isn't enough work...

A STATUTORY joint industrial council should be set up for the road haulage industry as soon as possible, the Road Haulage...

THE Freight Transport Assc ciation is to fight plans b South Glamorgan Council t implement a restrictive ion: routes system....

THE familiar BAS Parcels livery will soon be a memory From this week the name oi BRS Parcels Ltd is changed tc Roadline UK Ltd....

FODENS launch their lefthand-drive Universal range of sixand eight-wheelers today at the RAI Show at Amsterdam. First shown in...

TRANSPORT minister Dr John Gilbert visited the Heckmondwike depot of Harold Wood and Sons Ltd, specialists in bulk liquids Ind...

News reaches us this week that some operators are being threatened with prosecution because they have allegedly allowed drivers...

THE NUMBER of lorries warranting prohibition notices because of defective brakes points to the need for continued vigilance by...

Containerbase BIRMINGHAM Containerbase got a shot in the arm this week with the news that a major expansion scheme is now...

MEMORIES that Peter Moreton may have of his Leyland Boxer will be anything but loving, and he has published a death notice on...

THE government is to try to put a figure on the damage done to buildings, roads and people by heavy lorries. Mr Kenneth Marks,...

ROAD hauliers paid the price of inflation during 1975—with costs rising by an average of almost 15 per cent over the 12...

CHAPTERS on the young driver training scheme introduced last year and the requirements likely to be imposed for access to the...

FINES and costs in excess of £2,000 were imposed by Widnes magistrates last week on operators and drivers who pleaded guilty to...

TYNE and Wear County Council is trying to compel freight traffic to use the new Tyne tunnel on which toll charges have been...

ON April 1 this year J. P. B. (lain) Sherriff will become editor of Commercial Motor. He has been deputy editor for the past...

THE NORTHERN LA, Mr B. J. Foster, granted an 0-licence to expire on December 31 for eight vehicles and eight trailers to...

ITALIAN-BUILT Romanazzi tipping bodies are to be marketed in the UK by Besco Bodies Ltd, Bedford Road, Northampton. Sales will...

OPERATORS are being recommended to change to the new EEC drivers' record books to record drivers' hours before the proposed...

Trailer tax? TRANSPORT MINISTER Dr John Gilbert is considering whether trailers and articulated lorries should be counted as...

HIGH-level discussions between National Travel and Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd are likely to result in an agreement over the...

THE OPERATION of special journeys, on a stage-carriage service operated by the West Yorkshire PTE, between Bradford and Leeds,...

BUS manufacturers are so conservative that models now on the drawing board do not incorporate ideas pioneered 20 years ago and...

TORY MP Mr Michael Spicer (Worcester S) called in the Commons last week for an end to the present system of road service...

This 11 metre Leyland Leopard coach with a Duple Dominant body is one of two delivered to Graham's Bus Service of Paisley,...

Cheaper IT WILL be more expensive per passenger to travel on a rural bus than to travel in Concorde with all the trappings of...

Special specials from Fergusson productions TANKERS for lubricating oil, for desert burnoffs and to meet proposed...

A CONVOY of three Russian vehicles is touring the UK as a mobile training school for users of Soviet farm tractors. The...

LONG-RANGE fuel tanks are to be fitted to some of Rentco Nationwide's contract hire trailers—some of which will be for the...

LOW LOADING heights, for maximum load height within the European 4m (13.1ft) overall height limit, is a feature of a new range...

A CURTAIN-SIDED Bedford fitted with an American-made TukA-Way underswung tail-lift has gone into service delivering Indesit...

TO CUT floor wear caused by pallet trucks during loading and unloading, Boafloy Ltd has fitted alloy wear plates to four...

A CASE concerning Grey Green Coaches of Stamford Hill, London, gives an insight into tribunal decisions. I have extracted the...

Why BRS Parcels changed their name to Roadline UK by John Darker THE GREEN VAN men will still use a green livery but the...

Being in the right place at the right time is usually a matter of luck rather than judgment. It is also the kind of situation...

Another man heading for West Africa is former CM staff man, now consultant, David Lowe. " It's got nothing to do with...

Can life, even in transport, really be as hard as it is portrayed in the Distribution Executive's Game produced by Wilkinson...

One man who foresaw the dreaded inflationary effect of linking wages with prices no less than 30 years ago, and therefore could...

Renewed activity in South East London these days, I see, in putting traffic pinches across back-double routes to deny access to...

Driving up M6 on one of the frosty mornings last week was made slightly hazardous by a situation that I'd not encountered...

THE FAMILIAR Cummins, Gardner and Rolls-Royce engine options can be specified by the operator for an eightwheeler ERF. Power...

THE MARKET leader for eight-wheelers in terms of sales is the Foden. As with ERF, engines from Rolls-Royce and Gardner can be...

IN TERMS of model numbers the Truck and Bus Division far outweigh the opposition with eight-wheelers being marketed by Leyland,...

continued from page 49 engine giving 153kW (205bhp) at 2,200rpm net installed while the gearbox is the same Eaton box as used...

NOW imported as a complete truck rather than in ckd form, the Magirus Deutz is the longest serving Continental eightwheeler on...

AVAILABLE as a haulage or a tipper chassis, the eightwheeler from MAN made its debut at Earls Court in 1974. Many of the...

ANOTHER relative newcomer to the eight-wheeler market, the Volvo is based on the mechanical components of the well known F86....

CUMMINS and Gardner engine options make up the power unit specification for the 400 series eight-wheeler from Seddon Atkinson....

Bodybuilders help hauliers to be versatile by Stephen Gray THE INTRODUCTION of new loading and unloading systems combined...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CE!), MIMI, AMIRTE THIS WEEK let's look at the MARKINGS-2 need for reflectors of various kinds. The...

YET ANOTHER Parliamentary debate on transport has produced little result. Mr Kenneth Marks, fairly new to his job of...

Beer distribution in bulk is affected by both weather and seasonal demand. Only a total distribution concept can satisfy the...

purpose-designed driver equipment are examples of the safety engineering which can be applied to road tankers THROUGHOUT the...

SHEETING UP bulk loads on open bodied tippers is a timeconsuming task most drivers and operator would be glad to be without....

He is a large grain farmer. When the Pinkerton farms included 200 acres devoted to vegetables, three lorries were owned for...

by kin Sherriff AVONMORE Farmer's Co-operative in the Republic of Ireland collects and processes 70m gallons of milk annually....

INCREASED consumer demand for oil has led a major oil distributor Chevron, to switch to larger capacity vehicles. And in an...

How much to spend on the worst? ONCE the better vehicles are operating on a proper preventive maintenance programme,...

by our Geneva correspondent LIGHT-FOOTED and happy 'drivers could cut fuel consumption by up to 10-15 per cent. And this...

To meet the new and proposed regulations on the carriage of hazardous loads is likely to cost £2,500 per artic tanker by CM...

have to be plated and does the driver need an hgv licence? A An electrically operated mobile crane does not have to be plated...

representative from a printer's firm called recently and offered to sell me the new EEC-type log sheets. I was under the...

the docks and hauling them to destinations in this country. This will be the first time I have undertaken this work and I have...

A The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, and Use) Regulations 1972 state only that "the said receptacle...

which I carry machinery. What is the maximum legal loading which can be put on this rear axle? RegulatiOn 87(4) of the Motor...

Commission seeks the industry's views by John Darker, AMBIM A CONSULTATIVE Document recently published by the Health and...

Guides providing comprehensive lubrication and maintenance data for trucks plated to 32.5 tonnes (32 tons) are now available...

The Cadet, a new airspray gun supply unit from Graco, weighs 7.5kg (16.51b) and can be flushed clean in around two minutes,...

Tension files which may be used to cut in any direction have been announced by Abrasive Tools. These are fitted with ring ends...

At a treatment cost of about lp per gallon, Redex claims that its new additive Redex for Diesel reduces fuel consumption,...

A tyre-cutting stand which permits one person to manipulate the larger sizes of wheel while recutting the tyre tread is...