Another major blow to the principle of one-man bus operation was struck this week with the publication of a report on bus...

TRIBUNAL SLASHES "TOO SEVERE" PENALTY; LA's DECISION WAS WRONG IN PRINCIPLE • The Transport Tribunal has overruled the...

from our political correspondent • The appointment announced this week of Signor Carlo Scarascia Mugnozza to the 13-member...

3ritish star of the Brussels Show {January 281 will undoubtedly be ER F's latest sion of its European 38-ton-gcw truck. 3...

/Jai Gen Sir John Potter has been bted by the Secretary of State for the ronment, chairman of the Traffic imissioners and...

• "The transport system should not be an intolerable nuisance, with noisy lorries shaking our buildings to bits. The role of...

• A warning to lorry drivers working on power sites of the dangers of electrocution has been issued by the North Eastern...

• The Transport Industries Committee of the Trades Union Congress announced this week that it is playing an active role in...

• North-east officials of the Trans and General Workers' Union are to so 100 per cent wage rise for lorry drii bringing their...

• A summary of the provisions affe transport contained in the Local Go' ment reform legislation is now avai from the Department...

• During 1972 Smith's Electric Vet Ltd, Team Valley Trading Estate, G head, produced more electric vehicles in any other year...

chicle observer corps in the Moroi police district were called out 299 during 1972 as compared with 250 previous year. Giving...

orthem Ireland Trailers Ltd has aced a new service in the Republic of 1 to provide faster distribution of ige traffic from the...

• Pitt Trailers Ltd, the Wigan, Lancs, based subsidiary of the Central Wagon Group, is to cease production at the end of this...

• An index to place names in the South East and a set of exceptionally clear street maps of London, with detailed index, are...

• Useful to both route planners and drivers is the Motorway Atlas of Great Britain just produced by Autocar. It is unique in...

• The City, which is now waiting for the Ralph Hilton results, will have .to wait another month. Mr J. MacNaughton, managing...

• A basic reorganization of the marketing and trading structure of Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd, instituted on January 1,...

• An electronic fuel pump payment system called "Money Card", which has been developed by Automated Fuel Dispensing Ltd, of 151...

• The Transport Association is to approach the Department of the Environment shortly about a revised form of goods vehicle...

• "A waste of public money" is how Mr J.T. Parnell, RHA West Midlands area secretary, describes the Birmingham city centre ban...

By John Darker • The rate increase of 5 per cent im on the day of the freeze by the State-c National Carriers Ltd and BRS Farce...

• The DAF group of Eindh Holland, is to separate its car and operations in the UK and form a company for the marketing and sa...

Ntn important precedent of significance British operators and their drivers has created by what is thought to be the ever use...

• The 224-mile-long section of M5 between the Portbury interchange midway between Bristol and Portishead, south of the River...

• The programme for the "Third NRPRA Rubber in Engineering Conference" which takes place on March 29-30 at Imperial College,...

• "Helping the Distribution Manager" is the title of a one-day seminar arranged by the Imperial College of Science and...

• Travel to Scotland by air, sea or rail and you can buy a drink while on the move. At Perth, on Wednesday, Sheriff Stuart...

• London Transport is selling its fleet of 47 Leyland Atlanteans although they are only eight years old. The buyer is as yet...

• South Wales Transport Co Ltd, theNational Bus Company subsidiary in South Wales, is to close its Neath Abbey bus depot. Staff...

• East Lothian Planning Committee is to ask the Post Office to consider expansion of its minibus service to areas other than...

luals Efm k one-second reduction in the average times of buses in central London would an annual saving of £500,000. This is...

• In a surprise announcement this week, the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Authority appointed Mr Ronald Cox, general...

An appeal which would result in the ever co-ordinated bus service between intoul and Keith, Banffshire, has been Ad by the...

• The South Eastern deputy LA, Mr G. Mercer, curtailed last week the nine-vehicle licence of Southern Linen Services Ltd and...

0 When G. E. Farrant (Transport) Ltd of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, appeared before Maj-Gen A. F. J. Elmslie, the South Eastern...

• After taking over another firm moving into the ship-dismantling trat Hull scrap metal company neglectec condition of its four...

three-month period from September to her, 1972, 27 vehicles said to be by a Danish company, AGS Con1 Transport, had been...

Skegby. Nottingham, garage :tor who inspected, maintained and ed other operators' commercial s was himself called to a Section...

vo vehicles were removed from the ;hide licence of A. and R. Latta of islang by the Scottish LA last week ng a conviction for...

• John Hamilton (Coal Merchants) Ltd of Baillieston with a licence for 22 vehicles and operating 18 had their licence cut to...

COMMON MARKET SYMPOSIUM HIGHLIGHTS SOME PROBLE11 FOR BRITISH TRANSPORT MEN by John Darker • A spirited debate between Road...

• John Griffin (Transport) Ltd, Frome, Somerset, has put into service the first Titan aluminium bulk feed tipper body to be...

The H. Clarkson Freight Group (the freight division of Shipping Industrial Holdings) has been reorganized to include the...

• The "freeze" has made it diffict ERF (Holdings) Ltd to predict final for the year but it expects them to s marked improvement...

• Following the recent sale of the port Equipment (Thornycroft) sub factory at Basingstoke, British Ley moving the design,...

• Millburn-Wilkinson Ltd, corn vehicle trading subsidiary of Automobile, has concluded agreemei British Leyland for...

• In a Mercedes-Benz advertisemer issue, the reference to operating wil operator's licence should refer vehicles not exceeding...

; quite overcome to see that two utive issues of Commercial Motor mbar 17 and 24) carry articles apper; to road tankers. It is...

I was interested to read both Paul Brockington's article on aluminium versus grp tankers (CM November 24). It would be idle to...

We can reliably inform your correspondent (CM December 29, CI and A) that heavy goods driver training is NOT grant aided by the...

We read with interest George Wilmot's article on "Grading road transport managers" (CM December 29) and would like to enlighten...

1. With the expansion of motorway urban expressways, we expect to see s and fairly substantial growth in the volui goods...

can be almost certain that road rt will continue its expansion during t 10 years; worldwide, the economy Mg. Within the EEC,...

1. I think it is inevitable that road transport will grow in continental Europe. As economies grow, actual tonnages being moved...

1. Expanding road transport market yes. Several factors indicate this will happen, almost certainly at a rate exceeding the...

1. In our opinion, the enlarged EEC will bring about an expanding road transport activity over the coming years, with an annual...

1. Obviously we at ER F feel there is an expanding road transport market in the EEC otherwise we would not be developing a...

1. An increase of around 1.7 per cent is probable in the road, transport sector cl■ next 10 years, calculated on the basis...

foresee considerable expansion of the . ansport market in the EEC and for the 'ear or so have been taking positive owards...

1. In actual volumes of freight carried by trucks we 'see a considerable expansion over the next 10 years. However, unit sales...

1. With rising standards of living, road transport is going to be called upon increasingly to distribute goods and services to...

1. We foresee a general expansion rate of 5 or 6 per cent per year in France and the EEC over the next 10 years. The same...

1. The road transport market must certainly expand in the EEC as industrial output grows. The rate of expansion may be...

by John C. Vann • An excess in insurance jargon is cliff from the accepted meaning of that wc everyday life. In insurance...

THERE IS A FASHION in statistics as in most other things. The Department of the Environment has been grooming for future...

Theoretically, VAT will cost little to the haulier who is registered at the standard rate of 10 per cent. But slow-paying...

Market, is to be host to the first European truck show to be held in the enlarged Community. Belgium is at the geographical...

Services, of Wednesbury, nit their drivers into a sunshine league: maintain an accident-free record from er 1 1972 to September...

workshop by Handyman Details that save down-time (4) For overhauling steering boxes, a useful trick.is to wrap sticky tape...

• A new man in a new job, Dr Wade, as London Transport's medical in charge of research, has a chat future. He is studying the...

IIITOMATIC AN by Trevor Longcroft AUTOMATIC VAN has become :asingly popular for town delivery work dthough the automatic...

When and how the transport legislation bites NOW that Britain is a member of the European Economic Community some of the rules...

park( commercial vehicles on the roadway ut lights during the night. Could you re under what circumstances this may ire? The...

people who , took a vain:?yesight test at the Earls Court Show ear failed; and as a result I have since dered whether my...

Community is it still necessary to operate abroad under TIR regulations or is there another form ((Customs convention? A It...

A No, his term of office has just ended. The ECMT chairman is now Mr Kruisinga, Secretary of State for Water Control and...

record sheet, can he be prosecuted? I know that in some circumstances alterations are permissible but I cannot find any...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM A modern employment service THE provision of "a lively and dynamic public employment service",...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI D rivers' hours of work (1) THE Drivers' Hours (Goods vehicles) (Exemptions) Regulations 1972,...

by F. Fawsett, Transport study developments in Manchester FOR some time, a Transport Advisory Committee has been advising the...

For the next seven days FRIDAY January 12th. IRTE (South Wales) meeting. "The Leyland National Bus" by G. R. Brown, BLMC....

WINGATE &JOHNSON Wingate & Johnson Ltd, and together with its as company Tenens Wingate Routiers Ltd, has moi head office from...