Peter Walker and John Peyton must surely be confused men this week. Both will remember how the Road Haulage Association, only a...

by John Darker • Militant members of the United Road Transport Union were agog this week at rumours that the union was on...

• Road hauliers in the general and long-distance sectors who have not raised the rates since 1969 now need to increase...

• Rates in the tipping vehicle industry should soon begin to rise. In the aggregate and roadstone sector are expected to rise...

• Mr John Peyton, - Minister for Transport Industries, will be the principal guest at the Road Haulage Association's annual...

Leyland models — the Super Comet and Bear — thus completing the programme of component rationalization undertaken by...

• The Transport and General Workers' Union was on Wednesday of last week fined £5000 by the National Industrial Relations...

• By a narrow majority the Road Haulage Association national executive council last week voted to tell Mr John Peyton,...

• The Freight Transport Association's annual report, published this week, urges the Government to place transport at the top...

• An appeal to the High Court by an owner-driver, Mr L. Borthwick, of Hartlepool, is under consideration following an...

• In his report on the past year's work of Lhe RHA express carriers' group, the .:'hairman. Mr H. A. Russett, expressed the...

• The Department of the Environment has taken further steps to improve the safety of automatic half-barrier level crossings....

• As announced in CM last week the DoE has arranged a programme of smoke emmission demonstrations at heavy goods vehicle...

• A tax of 1 lip per gallon is to be applied to liquefied petroleum gas from July 3. This was announced in the Commons by the...

• A study of the problem of the effect of heavy vehicles on minor rural roads is to be undertaken by the County Councils...

• The application by the Alruba Manufacturing Co of Burton-on-Trent for a new 0 licence to cover three vehicles and three...

• A new survey of drivers' pay publish( by Incomes Data Services Ltd shows th; the average working week of men cover( by the...

• A former haulage contractor, Kenneth McBridge, aged 30, of Mill St., Liverpool, admitted liabilities of nearly £11,000 at...

• A Lim order for 98 Foden 30-ton eight-wheel vehicles has just been completed by Warrington Commercial Vehicles Ltd, Foden...

9 For the first time the woman's point of hew will be voiced from the hitherto al - tale platform for the Institute of Road...

11 A seminar on the theme "The effective rtilisation of human resources in the 70s" s being held from April 23-28 at the...

The 14th International Mechanical andling Exhibition is to be held at Earls ourt from May 9 to 19 1972. A one-day discussion...

C. Ezell has relinquished his directorships of United Transport Co Ltd subsidiaries Bulwark Contracts Ltd and Leonard J. Stamp...

by Derek Moses Another Welsh reshuffle • A further step in the rationalization of National Bus Company operations in South...

Dn the rates I Edinburgh would soon be one of the zw cities running a bus undertaking which as not subsidized, Cllr Tom...

A Scan Coin 12000 electronic coin )unting and sorting machine has been stalled by Automaticket Ltd, of 197 Tardour Street,...

• Scotland's free bus service for the elderly is to start in Paisley. But some old people do not want it. In a protest...

• Mr John Peyton, the Minister for Transport Industries, hopes that forthcoming legislation will overcome the difficulties...

• The new 16-ton-gvw Super Comet announced today retains the current engine and transmission units but incorporates many...

• Two Scania turbocharged diesels, the DS8 and DS11, have achieved British Standards certification. The eight-litre DS8...

this series, are quently referred to as overhead costs but is term is not strictly correct. They are sts which relate directly...

INCREASED INTEREST and activity in the field of drawbar operation has been apparent in recent months and last November at the...

The chain for enforcement • For enforcement of licensing whether carriers' or operators' the role of the driver has always...

CONTROL 'by Mart i n Hayes PLANNING new premises for transport, warehousing and storage is often a process beset with...

The fortune tellers IF the current proposals are accepted, road haulage licences in the EEC will be subject to satisfactory...

BUT THEY WILL BE BACK, SUGGESTS DEREK MOSES TWO EVENTS of considerable significance to the public road transport industry...

view by the Hawk I Greasing tip tre's a chance for the bright boys in the lustry to shine. Step Industrial Equipment d, the...

David Maund • While most of the country's transport managers were relaxing over the Easter weekend, one man was packing his...

car is psychologically a very critical event, If all the elements of a new model launch — press road tests, advertising,...

Steps an operator should take by John C. Vann • The slogan used to be — "Crime does not pay". Nowadays, unfortunately,...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (14) AT THIS STAGE in the series, we must take a look at electrical wiring...

Following a report on tipper rates in this week's issue we look at the pro and cons of rigid and articulated tipper operation...

all-types psv licence. However. I am puzzled by the new groups of vehicles in the ordinary driving licence. I am licensed to...

26 1971, on the Biasing Locknee demountable body system, we are interested in getting further information on this system. Could...

steer a broken-down vehicle while on tow? So far as we can ascertain, there is no law which requires a person steering a...

me whether a Smiths vacuum gauge would work the same as a manometer and if it is possible, to make a manometer oneself? if it...

A The figures shown in the Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs do not provide for specialist types of vehicle, they are...

plastic or composition corner boards to protect the load from chafing by the ropes? A We have not been able to find anyone...

matters by David Barnett Company manpower planning in road haulage MY PREVIOUS ARTICLE discussed in detail the particular...

What's in a name? by George Wilmot Senior Lecturein Transport Studies, University of London. IN this age of fine sounding...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (13) REGULATIONS 68 to 75A deal with the maximum permitted...