You've just qualified for our free offer Foden trucks are as tough as they come. But accidents can happen to the best of us....

Doctor at the roadside Five months ago under this heading CM described the unique emergency accident service operated in East...

New hope for changes in the law on drivers' hours and a willingness to discuss load tolerances and younger hgv drivers •...

• A month from now Cummins will be revealing full details of the computerized maintenance service which its new subsidiary...

As an alternative to large single bodies on maximum zpacity tipping trailers, which can encounter stability problems at 41 tip,...

.datest goods ;urvey shows road ransport's ontinued Towth o Of all goods tonnage carried by inland ansport in Britain during...

• A driver without a clean "ordinary" licence may be unable to obtain an hgv licence, if legislation is brought in on the lines...

• With the official opening on Monday of the Derbyshire Transport Training Association there are now 100 group training...

from a special correspondent • It has been reported by a Midland operator that the transport trade unions are "interested" in...

• A "new deal" in trailer leasing has bet launched by Merriworth (Engineering) Lt Richmer Road, Erith, Kent. The schen . ] is...

excluded, road transport accounted 1 some 90 per cent of total goods ton-rnilea in Great Britain in 1968. The tonnage carried...

Mr John Peyton, Minister for Trani - port lustries, who met RHA representatives ormally in South Wales last week and ird of...

• On Tuesday Mr John Peyton laid before Parliament the Heavy Goods Vehicles (Drivers' Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1971...

• Next Monday, May 17. sees the opening of the fourth International Materials Handling Exhibition at Glasgow's Kelvin Hall...

• A new scheme for the recruitment, training of hgv drivers has been started Burn Transit Ltd, a subsidiary of the E Group of...

• "Our aim is 100 per cent trade union membership in the commercial road transport industry in Scotland". This ambition is...

• Economies to be obtained in trans systems will be the theme of European Transportation and Distribu Congress at Berlin from...

• A new depot for Humber Warehousing Co. Ltd., was officially opened at Avonmouth on April 30 by Mr T. D. Corpe, the well-known...

• The executive committee of the nati Association of Warehouse Keepers recommended to its members that should be revised, with...

ince a new incentive scheme was introxi by the Northern General Group of ['milks at its central works at Bensham, labour force...

• An order for 10 special airside coaches with a passenger capacity of 100 has been placed with Portsmouth specialist...

• Swaledale is to lose its only bus link with Richmond through the news last week that the operators who have run it for more...

by Gordon Crabtree • Although the South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive completed its...

• Subsidies which local councils agreed pay to help run unprofitable services are be cut by 46 per cent following a check I...

William McMillan re-elected RHA chairman William McMillan, director of James Hemphill Ltd, Glasgow, has been re-elected...

• A transport interchange, where bus and railway services combine on the same site, is planned for Bolton in Lancashire as part...

As a result of operating in "impossible - Editions" from Rainham in Essex, Mr J. Burke had his licence for three vehicles...

An application by the Torbay Pool lerators for two new express licences was thdrawn from a public sitting last week ter the...

Dr West Lothian operators Following convictions recently of a irnber of coach operators at Linlithgow ieriff Court (CM March...

• Application to vary the condition of an existing excursions and tours licence, -to which objections were lodged by one coach...

• Belfast eliminating round of the LDoY 'Competition has been brought forward a fortnight to June 5. The new date follows a...

• John Barrie (Contractors) Ltd, century-old Glasgow haulage company, had its licence for 168 vehicles and 56 trailers reduced...

• A haulage contractor who admitte stealing two lorries, valued at £400 and £8( and asked for a further offence c attempting to...

• At Wisbech magistrates' court recent]; A. Neaverson and Sons, of Peakirk, ne Peterborough, • were granted a condition;...

• The Goodyear Tyre Co Ltd has published findings of a detailed survey into tyre life on three-axle semi-trailers. Because the...

• The Distributive Industry. Training Board has announced that grant claims for training carried out during its first training...

• Mr Peter Walker, Secretary of State fol Environment, while visiting Ford's nev, smoke emission laboratory . at Dunton Essex,...

• Rollalong Ltd, of Ringwood, Hants, has developed a new diesel-powered version of its 22-ton universal mobile gantry for...

• Scammell Lorries Ltd, pioneer of auto matic semi-trailer coupling gear, i ceasing production of the tractor portion o these...

• The Scammell Routeman eight-wheele lorry chassis is now available in longer fort as an additional model of 16ft. 3m....

The recent take-over by a new mpany. John Ratcliff (Tail Lifts) Ltd, of ivious Ratcliff companies and a rival Aucer of...

to unify by John Darker THE annual conference of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers at Torquay...

by Paul Brockington HAULIERS had a good day at the Birmingham LDoY round on Sunday which this year was held at the GKN...

SHELL - MEX and BP Ltd, whose driver, I Newman. was champion at Coventry in 19 . 7 made it a double on Sunday when J. Shat...

DOUGLAS MORGAN, BRS Parcels Ltd, who won his class– -flat or sided artic up to 33ft—at last year's final, will return to...

BY UTIC OUT OF AEC by Derek Moses FIRST SHOWN at the British Coach Rally in Brighton last month, a 53-seat fully integral...

During the past 12 months, hardly a week has gone by without some detrimental comment being made in Commercial Motor about new...

In Commercial Motor on April 16 you had an article concerning recession in trade among haulage contractors, particularly large...

May I comment on ludicrous points raised in your report - Tipper men busy at Blackpool" (CM, April 30)? The idea of a tipper...

In your report (CM. April 30) of the BLM offer of joint consultation with operatol made at the fifth Annual Tipping Conventic...

I The limit our printers had special blurred type would ask them to use it for my page is week. CM's offices are opposite a...

32-TON-GROSS ARTIC by Tony NA/ Ming m m ec hE IT IS unusual to find a 32-ton-gross artic that is able to restart fully laden...

Harold Russett • While the citizens of Bristol were wreathed in smiles last week when the university students sponsored "Make...

Benchwise: cool It AMONG transport engineers one frequently hears the opinion expressed that skills and crafts are being lost...

y Pa u I B rockington, MI MechE k The role of lutonnatics • ONLY a fully-automatic insmission as cheap and efficient as the...

by Janus S ATISFACTION with the road programme is no greater now than it was 10 or 20 years ago. Pressure continues for more...

cedures for hgv drivers are subjects ohich have been mentioned frequently in re Press and elsewhere but! have not seen .7.tual...

success, to obtain a device which when fitted to a diesel engine would enable one to limit the maximum top speed of the vehicle...

certain chemical products to Continental countries with our own vehicles in the near future and we have been informed that...

delivery to customers all over Great Britain and always return to base by train. Is the time spent travelling on the train to...

and stock control staff under training for future responsible positions within the company and we are anxious that they should...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Transport and distribution consultants No 4. W. S. Atkins and Partners 'omputer vehicle...

Les Oldridge AMIE, AMINI1 Wien date of birth must be disclosed ICE June 1, 1970, a police constable has it able , when he...

by John C. Vann • You rnay hate form-filling. But it cannot be avoided in insurance. For instance, a completed proposal form...

THE AIMS of the RSA Diploma in Road Transport Subjects in providing the school leaver at 15 with an opportunity to gain some...