The road to bankruptcy is paved with general haulage traffic carried at marginal rates. That is the conviction which lies...

• British Road Services Ltd has advised trade unions and staff associations that more than 30 branches around the country will...

• Staff conditions. in the Road Transport Industry Training Board are being reviewed by the Board's finance and budgeting...

Ken Jackson talks frankly to CM on tachos, union monopoly and parcels by John Darker integration • The Commercial Services...

tailored tractor from Scammell Exclusive to CM, from a special correspondent • An entirely new tractive unit has been...

• The National Guild of Transport Managers remains confirmed in its opinion that statutory registration of transport managers...

• Mr P. Haxby, director of training of the RTITB, officially opened the Coventry Group Training Centre. known as the Heart of...

• With union opposition to the Industrial Relations Bill at its height, the future of Britain's industry is far from clear. In...

• Hauliers should either benefit from a differential tax on fuel, or a rebate as given to certain psv operators. This is one of...

• Opened in Bingley Halls, Birmingham, on March 4, the Midlands Materials and - Mechanical Handling Show displays the latest...

continued from page 11 clauses that the terms are not to be held to be legally binding. Today (Friday) Mr Jackson meets BRSL...

• Concerned at the effect on British international hauliers of Mr John Peyton's decision not to increase the 32-ton-gross...

• Kodak Ltd is now converting a high percentage of its transport fleet to the LPG dualfuel system marketed by the Cafco...

• Two further Atkinson tractive units are now to be available with the Gardner 8LXB eight-cylinder diesel engine. This power...

• Crane Fruehauf have formed a fully owned subsidiary company—Crane Fruehauf Containers—to handle the group's container...

• At the annual conference and seminar of the National Co-operative Traffic Managers Association in Blackpool (May 1-4) five...

• A warning that transport land was being swallowed up, with possibly dire consequences for hauliers in urban areas, was given...

• A recommendation that all railway land should be designated as transport land, and retained as such until a competent...

seminars

of one-day regional seminars on "The effective use of manpower and vehicles". The seminars will concentrate on the two most...

• On March I HB Everton Roadways Ltd, based at Droitwich, started trading under a new name—Haulfast Ltd. It is the longdistance...

• Sets of parts used in the conversion of appliances and other equipment to North Sea gas, are carried in a fleet of vans...

Patrick Daley Shearwood, who has spent three years as a NATO staff officer and was for three years an Air Attaché with the...

• The need to accept the principle of meeting capital costs for public transport with subsidies or grants was stressed by Dr W....

• Following suggestions last week of a possible takeover by the West Midland Passenger Transport Authority of The Midland Motor...

• The Williams Motor Co (Manchetter) Ltd is to show a prototype 12-seater passenger service bus to be called the Deansgate...

• The Scottish Traffic Commissioners were to hear applications yesterday by the Scottish Bus Group to permit complete...

• The Association of Public Passenger Transport Operators is to hold this year's conference at Blackpool; it will take place...

• A delegate conference of London busmen yesterday met to consider increases of £2 a week, offered by London Transport in...

• In a strongly worded letter to the Minister for Transport Industries the national passenger services secretary of the...

• A special sub-committee has been set up by Berwick County Council to consider the serious problems posed by the imminent...

• At a public inquiry under Section 69 of the Transport Act 1968 in Birmingham on Tuesday, Mr John Else, the West Midland LA,...

• A storm is brewing in Scotland over bus services, with organized opposition to the Scottish Bus Group now more evident and...

• The hearing of an express licence application by Wright Bros Coaches Ltd., of Newcastle, was adjourned by the chairman of the...

• Mr David Plant, 22, of Rotherby Road, and Mr Peter Clark, 22, both of Manchester, were each fined £20 at Chester Assizes last...

• Hoy Trailers, of Bridge Works, Skimpot Road, Dunstable, Beds, has extended its range of single-knock-out-axle...

• An agreement has been made between ERF Engineering Ltd, of Stoke-on-Trent, and Armshire Reinforced Plastics Ltd (ARP), of...

• Northumberland County Council has placed a repeat order for a further seven Commer VCA 815 chassis, fitted with Unipower...

• Third axle versions of Leyland Redline Boxer (BX #425) chassis—as reconstructed by the Primrose Third Axle Co Ltd, Blackburn,...

Len Patrick • On Tuesday morning, Len Patrick attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace to receive his MBE award. And his...

workshop by Handyman Benchwise: Silver solder and brazing ALTHOUGH the practice today seems to be wherever possible to weld...

That RTITB deficit When will the Road Transport Industry Training Board and those in government departments responsible for...

• Hospitality "Never in the history of this great empire have so many been entertained by so few. There must be something in...

NA 1 11 6. A sober look at LPG by M. swiss THE PRODUCTION of LPG intended for consumption in Britain will amount to no more...

by Paul Brockington, MI MechE IN his article on "A Sober Look at LPG," Mr M. Swiss refers to "those maintenance advantages one...

by Ron Cater, AMInstBE SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS can be made by converting a petrol-engined vehicle to run on LPG although they are...

by Derek Moses IT IS WISE not to jump to conclusions when discussing the rural bus problem and possible solutions. A viable...

Charter in perpetuity by Janus W HETHER or not the politicians are really aware in advance of the kind of monster that their...

and increasing its bore enables the rpm and output to be increased without raising the piston speed; and that the combustive...

for 31 hours and then act as an office helper for a further 8 hours and 40 minutes on each day of the week? If a man acts as...

13 "Changes in regulations", last paragraph "Power to Weight Ratio", I am not clear whether it also applies to vehicles first...

advantage over a full-flow filter? Until recently I had assumed that it was necessary to use a full-flow filter because it...

matters By John Darker AMB M Professional status for road transport IF road transport—or distribution, of which it is a vital...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. The new Intermediate examination of the Institute...

continued academically by the Institute of the Motor Industry or by IRTE for corporate membership and he would raise this ban....

Inflatables. Anyone who still thinks that distribution is a simple matter of transport from A to B can stop reading and turn...