Some critical problems of small and medium-sized transport operators in this country were touched on by the managing director...

• The roll-on/roll-off berths at Southampton are in danger of losing their ferry traffic to Portsmouth, Newhaven and Shoreham....

• Ryder Truck Rental, the big US vehicle hire company now establishing itself in Britain, on Tuesday wrote to the Freight...

• The introduction today of Boxer tractive units and Terrier tippers represents a signficant extension of the range of British...

transport by Joh Da ke Too many hauliers are under capitalized, warns TDG chief, and the profitability of many depends on...

Training Act • It is strongly urged by the Road Haulage Association that value-added tax should be applied to fuel in the...

• The half-completed Motec 2 at Livingston, near Edinburgh, was visited on Tuesday by 16 Scottish MPs as guests of the RTITB....

• Work is expected to start soon on the 51--mile dual-carriageway link from the centre of Sheffield to Ml. The DoE announced...

• More publicity should be given to the existing codes of practice on the distribution and storage of meat products, the Urban...

• Tipping gears which in twin front-end form have a lifting capacity of 46 tons are included in a new range of single and twin...

• Better understanding between the engineers who build, highways and the engineers who build trucks and buses was called for on...

• Essex will need . . two new motorways costing some £60m, forecasts the British Road Federation in a report published this...

• Exports of Bedford trucks and vans, says Vauxhall Motors, set up a new record of 59,667 units in 1971 despite a worldwide...

• No real attempt has been made by Government to match the supply of roads to the demand. Unless an all-out effort is made in...

• Proposals for a road haulage complex at the southern entrance to Penrith, originated by a former local haulier, will be the...

• The Transport Association decided at its meeting in London this week to extend its field of activity to embrace European...

Especially appropriate in an issue of CM devoted largely to communications is news of an emergency resuscitation ambulance...

NIGEL DESPICHT'S STIMULATING VIEWS • - Our technological skills have outstripped our political abilities. The real problem of...

• Retaining the Operator's Licence is the subject of the first of CM's 1972 seminars, which will be held in London on January...

• The introduction of a new non-stop Bristol to London express service running via M4 motorway was successfully undertaken by...

• Ribble Motor Services' application for a fares increase will be considered at a public inquiry on March 1. Director and...

• Mr Frederic Lloyd, director-general of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, is to get a pay rise that will put...

• A net profit before taxation of £720,428 was achieved by Plaxtons (Scarborough) Ltd for the financial year ended August 31...

• When Preinier Travel Ltd adopted a computerized payroll system, pay for office staff of subsidiaries Premier Travel and...

• Following the success of 200 Autofare machines installed on buses operating in its south division, West Midlands PTE is...

I Lowestoft Corporation's new transport )(lard, faced with the task of finding E10,000 to break even this year, was ;eemingly...

Sir Francis bows out: arise Sir Harold • News that Aid Sir Francis Griffin, chairman of the West Midlands Passenger Transport...

A. Fraser Menzies, 38, has been appointed director of distribution UK, Reckitt and Colman Ltd, in place of L. A. Carey, 64, who...

• Two officers connected with public transport in London are visiting Rome to learn at first hand the results of the recent...

• Fears that its £50 monthly lucky ticket draw might be contravening the Lotteries Act have caused Barton Transport Ltd to...

• The Metropolitan LA, Mr D. I. R. Muir. adjourned a Section 69 case against Purle Brothers (Holdings) Ltd because a key...

• Since being given a probationary licence in October 1970 — before this the operator had a history of 17 immediate and 32...

• "I suppose the vehicle is in use among the natives in Ponga-Ponga now", the Yorkshire Area LA, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, said...

• A copy of the Commercial Motor issue for December 17 was produced before Huddersfield magistrates last week in support of a...

• Charged at Terrington St Clement (Norfolk) magistrates' court with having made a false declaration when he filled in an...

• Tru-Fresh Ltd, egg packer and distributor of Freckleton, Lancashire, was fined a toial of £50 with £32.35 costs before Lytham...

• Just because an operator was not mechanically minded he could not "shut himself up in a box" and leave the 'inspection and...

• A 47-year-old lorry driver who appeared before Altrincham, Cheshire, magistrates accused of careless driving and who was...

• A Birmingham Industrial Tribunal rejected a redundancy pay claim last week by six drivers who had worked at a depot where, it...

• Weaknesses in the design of some braking systems of certain commercial vehicles were discussed this week at a Devizes...

• It is essential that haulage contractors engaged on demolition sites and motorway construction ensure that their vehicles are...

• Mr Henry Patrick Hull, an hgv driving instructor and area secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, was fined...

• The recent legislation allowing singlemanning of drawbar units by a Class III hgv licence holder has prompted Ford to market...

• One of Britain's youngest chief ambulance officers recently published his concept of a hover ambulance of the 1980s. As a...

• All vans sold by Vauxhall dealers under the quality tested scheme are now covered by an undertaking to repair or replace...

• The British Plastics Federation has issued in handbook form a Code of Practice for the construction of plastic reinforced...

view by the Hawk • Behind the scenes More than ever this year the Annual Reports of the Licensing Authorities (CM last week)...

EFFECTIVE communications are helping CETI (Co-operative d'Entreprises de Transports Internationaux) to grow rapidly. This...

THE South Eastern Electricity Board at Hove, Sussex, serves a population of some four million people in an area of 3000 square...

THE Bristol-Marconi B-Line bus location system, which will provide a means of controlling Bristol buses from a central point,...

WHEN Hales Containers Ltd of Cheshunt decided to apply radio control to some of the company's waste-disposal vehicles, the...

THERE ARE 800 commercial operators in the Vehicle Observer Corps and they, together with the police and the thousands of...

KEEPING TRACK of some 12,000 ISO containers circulating in industry, on freight routes in the UK and the Continent and at sea...

ANOTHER USER of radio telephones is Leicester City Transport, which is undoubtdly a leader in the field of public :ransport...

THE Forestry Commission has been operating radio-controlled mobiles fitted with Pye or Storno equipment since 1952/1953....

ONE of the most recent subscribers to the Air Call Ltd Service is the Cheshire company of Runcorn Transport Services Ltd. In...

GLASGOW CITY TRANSPORT is installing radio-telephones on its buses on an extensive scale. Storno radio-telephones have been...

THE opening words of a well-known Beatles song "Help, I need somebody!" could well be the signature tune for Securicor's...

HEAVY TRANSPORT (ECC) Ltd and associated companies in the West Country provide a fine example of the intelligent use of...

METHODS used in industry and commerce for transmitting operating information are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Some of...

SEVERAL COMPANIES, acting as distributors for equipment manufacturers, will provide installation and transmitting facilities to...

Glasgow in-company link THE MOVEMENT of parcels between the South of England and the whole of Scotland is the specialization...

IN an age when computers are used for anything from taking the blindness out of blind dates with "computer dating" to...

MAT Transport Ltd, the international haulage and forwarding organization, operates two distinct communications systems. One is...

IN the Greater London area all fire service calls are directed to the control room at the Embankment Headquarters, and this is...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for .the mechanic (4) WHEN recharging a stored wet battery remember to do this not less than once...

DISTRIBUTION . by Alan Bunting, MIMechE Body swop test Freight BonaHack's demountable system is readily identifiable through...

The Govt wants to help' • If anyone can't believe that the Government helps small operators, he should read the Bolton...

Operators should be planning administrative changes needed to comply with VAT next year, and both goods and passenger transport...

As transport and distribution costs become an increasingly large percentage of commodity prices, operators and hauliers are...

I note that the "Demountable distributor (7)" feature (CM December 31) make: reference to the inclusion of a rear dropwel in...

Last rites CONGRATULATIONS are due to the Department of the Environment for publishing the reports of the Licensing...

Monty Prichard • At a time when the Motor Industry Research Association is having to look tc individual users to replace much...

tion" hgv licence holders have to take the hgv test before applying for their next hgv licence? Is there anything at all in the...

and levelling 2perations, as required on farms in this irea, I have to transport bulldozers, crawler 'rectors and similar heavy...

research studies in connection with the transport industry and require information on manufacturers of goods vehicles...

matters By John Darker, AMBIM The In Relations Act 12, bargaining units NEW MACHINERY is proposed under the Industrial...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (3) REGULATION 13 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and...

by George Wilmot, Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London A future for the TML committee IS there any...