AT THE HEART OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY.

Call our Sales Team on 0208 912 2120

14th April 1978
14th April 1978
Page 1
Page 1, 14th April 1978
Close

Page 4

Keep off the road

The offending clause which was introduced to the Transport Bill giving British Rail the right to carry goods by road has been...

Page 5

BR HAULAGE

GOVERNMENT amendlent to the Transport Bill that rould have given British Rail re right to enter the hire and .ward sector of...

RAILCONFIDENCE

BRITISH Rail is ready to fight for more freight business — that is the message from BR chairman Peter Parker, and he has no...

NO!

briefly debated on Tuesday when it came in for strong criticism from MPs from both sides of the House. Transport and General...

MP's hit at board grant

l'HE ROAD Transport InJustry Training Board was miticised from both sides of he Commons last week for its 'ailure to give...

Severn weight

The 32-ton weight restriction on vehicles using the Severn Bridge will remain until June, even though all four lanes will...

Page 6

COURT THREAT OVER TACHOS

BRITAIN'S answer to the EEC's "reasoned opinion" on our failure to implement tachograph regulation 1463/70 was due to be...

Improvement in m-way food, but...

MOTORWAY cafes are improving — but they are still not good, that is the verdict of the latest report from the Egon Ronay...

Why in Pa 1111031

NATIONAL Freight Corp( ration chairman Sir Da Pettit is to be asked to e: plain why BRS manage] held an annual conferenc in Las...

...TGWU says

buy up areas MOTORWAY service areas should be subject to compulsory purchase orders and there should be rigorous inspection of...

Page 7

Spillers fleet up for sale

SPILLERS' decision to leave the bread industry will leave the company with 2000, vehicles, including 250 bulk tankers, for...

Prices team look at LT

LONDON Transport is to be investigated by the Prices Commission, which is unhappy about its latest application to increase...

TRANSIT TAXES PLEA

REVISED lorry tax proposals by the Austrian government have come under fire from the International Road Transport Union. In a...

WESTMINSTER HAUL

JUST A passing thought .... would Woman's Hour have been so sorely missed if transport questions had been answered on that...

Page 19

'Small man in trouble'

:C DRIVERS' hours regulaIns could spell trouble for all hauliers, claimed Inverss MP Russell Johnston last !ek. Fie told the...

Home drivers' club

BRITAIN's Continental Freight Drivers' Club is to cater for drivers on UK domestic work as well as international drivers and...

LLW

BRITISH SPARKS COMPETE CAV are now to service competitors' equipment on diesel engines fitted to public service and commercial...

Page 20

[PEOPLE * National Bus Company chief executive Robert Brook has been

appointed to the new, additional post of deputy hairrnan with NBC. He will share some of the chairman's duties. Mr Brook...

Additional post for NBC chief executive

W. Allen (John Waddington Ltd). East Scotland chairman, M. W. Jones (D. B. Marshall (Newbridge) Ltd); vice chairmen, W. M....

Time to talk on tachos

TRANSPORT Ministi William Rodgers was la week urged to have discu sions with the industry and ti unions about tachographs....

Page 21

Illasts-hgvs blamed

Ieavy lorries have been blamed njured five people and wrecked The news follows a report lublished last June which darned heavy...

Mersey partners

vIERSEY Docks and Harbour .7ompany is going into the oad haulage business. They Lave joined forces with oils, ats and commodity...

Licenses made clear

ANYONE operating for hire or reward with a restricted 0 licence will be liable to a fine not exceeding £200 and, if he has been...

Risks handled

MORE chemical manufacturers now require drivers to attend an official training course before they allow them to drive bulk...

Page 22

Scottish shine

SCOTTISH operators won the top awards at last weekend's National Coach Rally in Blackpool, which attracted a record entry of 75...

Page 23

Fares row hits SBG

, ROW has broken out over ?marks made by the Scottish 'raffic Commissioners in their ?port on an application from cottish Bus...

Builders 'too slow'

A MAJOR coachbuilding firm is having to turn away orders worth several hundred thousand pounds — because it cannot produce the...

Multi-ride ticket scheme dropped

ITIE PRE-PAID multi-ride ticket system used on six London rransport routes is being dropped. The machinery fitted to buses on...

Page 24

Standard vanguard

A STANDARD British bus design should follow the German VOV design of the Dutch "five cities" bus, said an engineering director...

Page 25

[Battery takeover

LONG-TERM switch to ectric road vehicles is needed ; fossil fuels become scarce, Lys a Department of Energy port on transport...

Page 26

Conspicuous consumption!

HESTAIR Eagle launched a new intermittent refuse collection vehicle at its redeveloped factory at Warwick this week. Since...

Page 28

hoteityt wade — (got tke beat

With reference to H. Gray's letter, I as one driver welcome Wahl and have asked to join the long waiting list. Can any London...

A peace—

tot otaie? With reference to the new legislation coming into force in 1979 regarding the Certificate of Competence for all...

D ea

This is, to me, another step towards our becoming a police-run state. This new law must be one of the most ludicrous ever...

Con toot lie adequate

May I say that I agree with the point made by your correspondent R. H. Rowland (CM March 17) on the matter of public liability...

flout ouigex thiveito eau butane

May I congratulate Steve Geary on his excellent article "Owner drivers are banding together" (CM March 17). This showed...

kb a/ Kigki La bgo tea

I would - like to warn otht lorry owners and drivers last month, while parkin! lorry in a lay-by in South Yorkshire, I was...

Page 31

Economy hints 'are not policy'

N INCREASE to 30 tonnes n five axles would not cause ny increase in road damage yet the fuel productivity of le heavier...

Page 33

DRIVING FOR

ECONOMY 1E of the biggest single tors influencing the fuel isumption is the driver_ rget all the high techno-. y terms of high...

Page 39

Stilt not too late to change

The Dodge Drivers Club has been reformed by Chrysler. Membership is open to drivers or mates who work on Dodge Karrier or...

Which reminds me...

must be the season for good le-off publications. Vanguard igineering have produced one health and safety at work. ;sisted by...

Motor show bonanza

The first commercial vehicle show at the National Exhibition Centre is developing into quite a bonanza. Quite apart from what...

Page 42

KNOW T

By Les Oldridge, T.Eng (CE MIMI, A M I RTE Reckless driving Hidden away in this hotchpotch of legislation is Section 50,...

Page 46

ENERGY ) RECOVERY...

BREAKTHROUGH OR PIPEDREAM Regenerative braking — the recuperation of kinetic energy as opposed to its dissipation as heat — is...

Page 48

IS COAL THE ANSWER?

How many millions of tons of coal lie beneath the surface of the earth cannot easily be estimated but we can be sure that there...

Page 50

Auto economy

IN RECENT weeks CM has carried two reports on automatic transmissions. The report on the IMechE/IRTE conference said that...

Page 54

LEYLAND - 5 NEI

'PER V CAB. AT ONE TIME YOU ONLY G IN A 3 Ns KIND OF COMFORT INNER. Leyland's new Super 'G' cab looks lore like a luxury...

Page 59

Speedy M-way van

Ate test the Peugeot 304 van, based on the well-proven estate car THE PEUGEOT 304 van is derived from the estate car of the...

Page 63

Future bus specs

Papers were presented on - he Usefulness of research in lublic transport by R. A. Chapnan of Newcastle University nd London...

Page 66

SIMPLE MECHANICS

UTCIIES I A VEHICLE powered by a steam engine has the engine directly coupled to the road wheels and when it starts away from...