There is a long and firmly held belief among many transport people that the driving test and the hgv driving test are too easy....

HE FREIGHT train service rough Germany to Ljubljana town as the "piggy-back" rvice has been suspended, id at the same time, the...

DOVER Customs and Excise charges are acting aginst the national interest by forcing up the prices of goods imported, say the...

DIRECTORS of Fodens have formally rejected the £8.4 million bid made for the company by Rolls-Royce Motor Holdings. The board...

Committee, chairman Mike Llewellyn reveals that in 1976 the users paid £200,000 for out-of-hours Customs attendances — and the...

TRADE union leaders have rejected Road Haulage Association overtures aimed at getting a national wages negotiating body into...

MANUFACTURERS and suppliers attended the Institute of Solid Wastes Management Conference and exhibitions of cleansing vehicles...

TRAINING safety officers is not a way out of taking responsibility for safety at work, Employment Under SecretaryJohn Grant...

ROAD Construction Uni have been accused of heir "self-perpetuating oligarehie: in a leaflet handed out by ti Friends of the...

:ABINET rifts over the ques[on of rail subsidies and plans 3r an overhaul of Britain's arcels carrying system have merged this...

it is knitted together with the railways says Preston (North) MP Ronald Atkins. He told the House of Commons that he was not...

A SHORT film made by BP Chemicals effectively illustrates the new HAZCHEM system of marking tanker vehicles carrying hazardous...

to pass through Syria on its way east, the Department of Transport announced this week. As yet no details of the ban are...

of Canterbury has placed an order for a further four Volvo F89's and four Crane Fruehauf 40ft trailers. And following the...

TRANSPORT minister William Rodgers has welcomed the publication of a House of Commons Select Committee report on British Rail...

A CONTAINER manufacturing order worth E2 million has had to be turned away by York Trailer because of an "unofficial dispute...

THE explanation of a faulty weighbridge was accepted by magistrates at Appleby, Eden Valley when it granted conditional...

Moving to SBRS SOUTHERN British Road Ser . . vices has appointed two new managers this week. John Tetsell is promoted from...

worth over £35 million in the first five months of thi year. The value of the orders is for chassis and Leyland coachbuilding...

FORD Motor Co has denied a report in CM (June 3) that the company is about to increase the prices of its commercial vehicles....

Most of the costs amounting to thousands pounds — would have to I absorbed by customers an that would drive trade awa from the...

EXPERIMENTAL equipment has been installed on the MI i Bedfordshire as part of the Transport and Road Researc Laboratory's...

FOR POSSIBLY the first time ever, an operator has managed to have the conditions on which his 0 licence was granted changed,...

THE Government is making a huge profit from Scottish road users, and this year the surplus from road taxation will exceed all...

Mid-East transport mag MIDDLE East Transportation, a magazine to service the growing transport and freight handling market in...

ONE of South Yorkshire PTE's electric buses has made its London debut at the International Electric Vehicle Development...

six psv licences suspended indefinitely by South Wales Traffic Commissioners after persistent vehicle defects. Prohibitions...

LANCASTER City Transport is using the only half-cab single decker left in municipal service in the country to operate their...

COLCHESTER Transport': annual fuel bill has risen 13± £4,000 since a new traffic scheme was introduced in thc town. This was...

EAST Lothian District Counci would like to see Edinburgh' bus services extended inn their area, particularly n Musselburgh and...

A RATCLIFFE electrichydraulic tail lift has been incorporated into an outside television broadcast van built on a Mercedes-Benz...

THE latest model in the Crane Fruehauf Holmes range of recovery equipment is the H475 which can be used as either a recovery...

A NEW range of 32.5 tonnes (32 ton) TGW extendable platform iemi-trailers has been introduced by Taskers Trailers of kndover....

RECORD orders for the first quarter of 1977 have been received by Whale Tankers, the Solihull based tank maker. Up to the end...

and Operation of Public Service Vehicles sponsored by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and Cranfield Institute of...

LAWRENCE David Ltd, the Peterborough based body builder, has announced its Max-cess van body suitable for both rigid vehicles...

PROFESSOR Scofield, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Michigan Technological University is to present a...

opencast contractor operat ing at the MBC's Dora open cast site, has, added a fielc lubrication lorry for dispens ing...

levention on roads by Brian B. Powell of the Cumbrian fire sereke FIRE prevention in commercial vehicles is as essential as...

mild Fick low • .• tour commment on page 21 (CM, May 27) is undoubtedly bound to be misunderstood by the industry in...

Having read your news story "Cowboy coaches face showdown," and being a small operator myself, I welcome any investigation...

Re Mr E. G. Taylor's query on Gamer and other commercial vehicles (CM April 15), his best source of information would be Old...

Don't play ri fire People cause accidents and there is also a human element in ires, but without any one of the three main...

On pages 22-24 of this issue two experienced fire prevention officers discuss the subject in detail What are you doing about...

NO CARE IS TOO MUCH Tougher 0-licence for chemicals haulage is on the way... TANKER DRIVERS are special: to the usual hgv...

Choosing mininnu risk employees IF an employer cannot trust his employees to look after his business interests when his back...

OFTEN we are asked how much manufacturers pay us to carry out a road test or with an appropriate nudge-nudge-wink-wink, what...

What is it about the Celts that makes them so attractive to the Transport Salaried Staffs Association? For years Invernessian...

Leicester-based haulage contractors Hercock Continental are giving European exports a Jubilee flavour with a special...

I wonder why the Prime Minister chose to open the new section of the M5 last Friday. Seems a bit of a lowly task for such an...

A Part VIII of the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1971 contains the regulations which govern the requirements for side...

under trade plates. It weights 61/2 tons. Does the driver have to be over 21 years of age and have a heavy goods vehicle...

we sheet to ensure that there is no spillage. However, I often see vehicles carrying similar loads which are not sheeted. I...

service vehicle and does this have to be marked on the side of the vehicle? A The carriage of standing passengers on psv is...

Bill Brock tests the Bedford CF220 THE Opel-made 2.1-litre diesel engine was introduced by Bedford into the UK last September...

Beware cheap offers THERE IS always a temptation to use a slightly lighter and cheaper vehicle for the job than is really...

Drivers train for tanker hazards rhe Hazchem and Tremcard labels top and centre) are not obligatory mt the product description...

by Les Oldridge, T.Eng(CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE Gets grip on tyre regm REGULATION 99 of the Motor Vehicle (Construction and Use)...