MOST members of the Association of Public Passenger Transport have now joined the Confederation of British Road Passenger...

THE heavy sector of the road transport industry will carry the heaviest burden from Mr Healey's low-key Budget. The 71p...

THE REVISED proposals for drivers' hours at present being considered by the EEC Commission were described as nonsense and a...

aper's bitter pill fo auliers by CM reporters GREEN and hard to swallow —that will be the medicine which the Government will...

The Government had maintained a strange silence on the matter, said Mr Fowler. It had refused to say in the House whether it...

MAJOR CHANGES are on the way in London's freight handling facilities if the GLC accepts recommendations from its transport and...

BRITISH Middle East drivers are being caught up in a 400vehicle queue on the Turkish border with Bulgaria following the...

AN EXTRA £3.8 million has been granted to the Road Transport Industry Training Board to further the recruitment and training of...

DESPITE having a bad deal from the EEC on the latest drivers' hours proposals there are still grounds for looking on the bright...

There is understandable confusion over the implementation of the Trade Union and Labour Relation (Amendment) Act, which...

THE Freight Transport Association has told the Government that it regrets the decision to end the plans for security lorry...

by CM reporter THE Freight Transport Association wants the proposed regulations governing the use of tachograph discs for...

A DRIVER whose lorry was run into by a motorcyclist after he took his vehicle home without permission and parked it without...

TO improve trunking Roadline is operating two 10.2 tonnes (10 tons) capacity four-wheel rigids each towing a dolly-mounted 10.2...

NEARLY 40 per cent of the light commercial vehicles which took an MoT test last year failed—mainly through brake faults (CM...

FOR the first time, a Transport Minister found out for himself what training facilities the road haulage industry has provided...

THE largest contract ever undertaken by Pickfords Removals at Chichester is being worked on now. The contract was for the...

THE Tarmac Group's Roadstone Division has bought the whole of the shares in Brownhills Motor Sales Ltd, bodybuilder and...

Bristol CMLDoY THE Bristol regional CMLDoY committee has named Sunday, June 13 for their competition. The Whitchurch venue...

TWO YORKSHIRE lorry drivers who were called before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Maj-Gen V. H. J. Carpenter, for...

AMERICAN lorry driver members of the Teamsters Union have settled their three day strike which threatened to paralyse the...

Founder Jack retires After 22 years as managing director of G and K Haulage Jack Creese has retired, leaving a company that he...

PREFERENCE for big trucks in the form of lorry lanes was urged by West Midlands County Council Sir Stan Yapp at the Association...

A TOTAL of seven Foden-Northern Counties double-deck buses are now on order. Northern Counties' managing director Mr David...

IN its original form the Carterton, Oxfordshire, dial-a-ride service covered little more than one-fifth of its operating...

AN INTEGRAL double-decker bus with mechanical components manufactured by General Motors will soon be announced by a leading psv...

A £25,000 SURVEY, aimed at improving bus safety standards, is being jointly financed by the Department of Industry's Mechanical...

"A RIDICULOUSLY I o w figure" was quoted by the West Riding Automobile Co Ltd when it tendered for a works service contract...

FARES on London Transport buses and trains will be going up by an average of 25 per cent later this year following Greater...

CENTRAL HEATING and air conditioning component supplier, Nuawe Ltd has taken delivery of a 7.3m (24ft) van equipped with the...

AN ELECTRONIC test system, the 1588 Dieseltester, has been announced by Souriau (UK) Ltd, of Shirley Avenue, Windsor, Berks....

by Trevor Longcroft A DUAL-PURPOSE trailer suspension offering either single or tandem-axle operation has been introduced by...

WAKEFIELD could soon be famous for something other than its Rugby League team— for if the planners have their way it will...

IT'S A FORTUNATE MAN who can walk away leaving his phone unattended and not have a nagging fear that as a result he may be...

RADIO TELEPHONES were once considered to be playthings for the Rolls-Royce, Daimler and Merc chauffeur limousines. After...

secretary WHILE telephone answering machines serve the highly useful purpose of providing a holding exercise, there is much to...

BUSINESS efficiency is all about cutting out wasteful procedures and maximising resources—or in simpler terms earning as much...

continued from page 37 Addressing Systems International Ltd, Rosedale Road, Richmond, Surrey. This is claimed to be the...

me to drive a vehicle pulling a drawbar trailer if the hauling unit has no more than four wheels in contact with the road sur...

a load and weighs over 114 tons or 7i tons it is a heavy locomotive or a light locomotive, according to its weight. It may,...

offence of using a vehicle with an insecure load I am likely to have my driving licence suspended. I did not think that this...

if I had driven psv during the past 12 months, and had I not done so, I understand that my application for renewal could have...

continued from page 39 road haulage documentation, particularly control hooks. As most members of the principal trade...

T.A.G. Halford-MacLeod (CM March 26 letters "Too cosy") in supporting your Editorial of March 12 in knocking the bus industry...

I should like to comment on some of the points made in a recent article "Easy teasing for those who could buy." Leasing, hire...

its machinery of regulations t as not, True, the industry l'as got bigger and worse by more centralisation and the reasons are...

Colin Burrows (CM March 26) is indeed fortunate to be employed by a multi-national company. However, I differ with him...

I am very indignant at the increase of hgv test fees from £5.50 per test to £11. Even I, without reference to my Japanese...

A SIGNIFICANT GAP in the range of Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles is filled today with the announcement of a new 16-ton rigid...

Benz 1617 at 16 tons gvw Road test THE Mercedes-Benz 16-tanner developed for the UK market (and described on pages 44-45)...

40mph should not be too much to ask from a 16-tonner but the Merc required 37.6m (123ft 6in) stopping distance. Although the...

management in a public transport undertaking." "Management must know where it is going," he said. "Management information...

continued from page 53 He also said that within LT, the Planning and Market Research functions (including external contract...

by Sue Copeman ALL commercial vehicle operators will have third-party liability insurance cover and many will have...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE TOWING disabled vehicles with wreckers is a rather specialist activity, and one must...

by Martin Watkins THE chance to drive and ride on buses representing London Transport's standard designs for double deckers...

continued from page 69 Access to the cab of the 1959 Routemaster was far simpler than the RT and the flat floor inside made it...

Peter Carr, who was appointed to the sales team of Seddon Atkinson, Australia, recently, decided to have a short break before...

Who would of thought 10 years ago that the RTITI3— I know a man who still mixes up the initials—would still be going strong ?...

Talking of toasts, that was an impressive toast list at the Scottish section of the CIT last week. The toast "The City of...

ROSPA has produced yet another comprehensive safety pack on the Green Cross Code for children. It's got everything from jigsaw...

Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven AS far as one is likely to be able to tell from the new...

frame, and this was traced to a copper heater pipe, where a loose hose clip was resting. It was then found that the nick in the...

THE transport conference of the influential Association of Metropolitan Authorities at Birmingham last week brought local...

A 16-page booklet listing oil and air filters applications for most commercial vehicles and plant is now available from...

From G. Hunter comes a range of lift tables designed to meet the safety regulations of the BSI code of practice. The lift...

Three additions have been made to Norman Butter's range of welding equipment. To cater for more flexible operation in ivIIG...

Euro-Tools have introduced the Strasmann three-flute-end mill for machining keyways, slots and pockets. The cutter has three...

continued from page 75 of the emission problem. "We believe that this will be a major battleground of automotive engineering...