The Department of Environment admitted this week that hauliers from abroad are able to use their permits time after time...

by CM reporter FOREIGN HAULIERS can bring their loaded trucks into Britain illegally without any fear of being caught—and...

DEMOUNTABLE bodybuilder Pengco has gone out of business despite having money in the bank. The Peterborough company claims it...

ESTABLISHING the reputation of hauliers as true professionals will be the aim of Mr Jack Ma Le, who was named this week as the...

A MODEST relaxation of licensing and a couple of experiments did not amount to an adequate response to the urgent situation...

a non-starter: RHA MASSIVE increases in commercial vehicle taxation would just mean increases in the cost of living, Road...

A DEPARTMENT of the Environment purge on drivers leaving the country without permits or with forged permits has brought...

BRITISH RAIL plans to increase the amount of freight carried by around 20 per cent to 211m tons a year over the next two years...

HIGHER FARES for years to come is the bleak prospect facing London's bus and Underground passengers unless the Government can...

Whatever the ills of the country might be, the British road transport industry as a whole is in good heart. There is ample...

Law Young hauliers' section plan by RHA PLANS to set up a young executive section have been announced by the Road Haulage...

CURRENCY restraints and exchange rate changes were blamed for a financial year in which DAF Trucks (GB) only managed to hold...

THE Road Haulage Association is to hold a series of 15 one-day seminars throughout Britain to discuss industrial relations....

PACIFIC Intermountain Express of America is expanding into the UK/Middle East haulage business and has been granted an...

GRIMSBY magistrates, who fined an operator and its driver last week for operating a vehicle with an insecure load, were told by...

NORTH Western British Road Services must have picked a four-leaf clover when they gained a £3m contract from B&I Line last...

THE OLD and the new were on display when Mercedes-Benz held an open day at its Boreham Wood truck centre last week. Alongside a...

Leeds CMLDoY OPERATORS in West and North Yorkshire have received first notification this week of the West Yorks regional...

WINNER of the West of Scotland heat of the CM Lorry Driver of the Year contest on Sunday was Mr Henry Vogwell who won his class...

HALF the class awards at the Weymouth CMLDoY contest on Sunday were taken by Esso drivers from Hythe and Avonmouth. Class...

A DIRECT weekly driveraccompanied trailer service between the UK and Frankfurt has been started by Transflash Units Ltd, the...

NEW SAFETY legislation for Marcus Fox, MP for Shipley, Yo at the annual conference of the In Bournemouth this week. He had...

BRITISH RAIL seemed too easily disposed to get rid of freight traffic, complained Mr Bob Cryer (Labour, Keighley) in the...

Drivers' reward LORRY drivers are being offered a £1,000 reward for information about hitch-hikers or hikers given a lift on...

A ONE-DAY seminar on current vehicle legislation is to be held in Birmingham on May 19. It will cover EEC legislation as well...

A ONE-DAY conference to discuss the Department of the Environment's Consultation Document on Transport Policy will be held at...

MINISTER for Transport Dr John Gilbert last week rejected the idea of an official inquiry into the metrication of speed limits...

tune, says FTA THE FREIGHT Transport Association is far from impressed with the EEC's draft directive on the harmonisation of...

INDUSTRIAL relations comes under the spotlight in the latest issue of the Freight Transport Association's drivers' wages...

THE British Association of Removers on Sunday elected its youngest-ever president. He is Fred Hoult, 37-year-old managing...

in West Mids by CM reporter EIGHT operators have been called before the East Midland Traffic Commissioners at three public...

IN 1977, 1978 and 1979 the Leyland Group will be producing four types of double-decker bus—and this situation could continue....

A PORTSMOUTH coach company, and three of its directors who were fined a total £3,000 for fraudulently avoiding paying VAT, were...

PLAXTONS' PROFITS for the six months up to the end of February 1976 dropped to 09,000 after tax from £67,000 for the equivalent...

A REGULAR coach service from Manchester to Paris in 14 hours is being launched by the Godfrey Abbott Group next Friday. The...

THE Irish Transport Trust's fifth bus and coach rally in Co Down recently attracted a record turnout. The rally began in...

Leyland intends to fit a retarder to production B15 buses—but has not yet decided which type to use. Although none of the...

FOUR of this year's five Design Council awards for the British Motor Vehicle Industry have gone to the commercial vehicle...

IT IS understood that the first model of a new range of heavy trucks—codenamed T45—to take Leyland into the 1980s will be a...

A NEW DEVICE has been announced which locks the braking system of a tanker as soon as the discharge or loading connections are...

THE FITTING of the Dynair temperature-controlled fan has been given the engineering okay by Gardner, the Patricroft-based...

Or, as we call them, D1614s. Last year the British Everest Expedition took them on a journey few British trucks have ever...

Sell repairs, to outsiders Making Co-op workshops viable THE SALE of surplus workshop capacity is not new in the Co-operative...

She's gainfully employed ! When a Miss is as good as a male by Patrick Prekopp IT WOULD be easy to label Alicia Gains in...

And another thing... It's incredible—for months we hear nothing of Jackson Moore and URTU then, abracadabra! up they pop twice...

As I read that excellent report of the tipper conference in last week's issue of CM I pulled up short at the phrase "We have no...

That 20 to six point victory for St. Helens over Widnes in the Rugby League cup final last week must have done Bob Heaton a...

True to its tradition of "No business papers at our meetings" the London Transport Manager's Club had Sandy Duncan, the British...

How's this for service ? Our ads man in the North had a roll a few weeks back from an operator. "I want four semitrailers with...

I was asking Graeme Smith, of Intertruck, why they chose Monte Carlo for their conference. "We Wanted to get the delegates away...

The editor was telling me when he came back from that Monte Carlo conference last week—oh ! he does have a hard life—that...

Survival technique EVERY DAY, or so it seems, and sometimes twice a day, an economic forecast tells us either that we are on...

Prolongation of the present situation has raised additional problems, but the individual operator has made very much the...

One million Land-Rovers The Land-Rover—Workhorse of the World by Graham Robson. Published by David and Charles. Price: £4.95....

Supplement to Motor Vehicle Technical Regulations by C. C. Toyne. Published by Liffon Engineering Services, 102 Fourth Avenue,...

Croner's Road Transport Operation. Loose leaf in plastic cover containing information about legal aspects of road vehicle...

reported by Photographs by Graham Montgomerie Harry Roberts How much bhp for 32 tons? THE NINE papers presented to the...

IN THE EXHIBITION at Solihull, the principal point of interest so far as the vehicles were concerned was the number of new (or...

hPpon CmCOMPARISON oy Graham Montgom erie photographs by Dick Ross THE eight-wheeler is a traditionally British truck so...

Bob Beresford, Truck and Bus Division chief engineer (vehicle engineering), talks to Graham Montgomerie of the enthusiasm...

Bedford CF 220 at 2.2 tons gvw A VERY NIPPY vehicle in spite of its gross weight of over 2 tons—that's the Bedford CF 220 van...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE HOW careful must we be in exhibiting excise licences in the proper place ?...

The position regarding public service vehicles is different for these have to carry, in readily legible characters not less...

AINTENANCE ow hot for solder? SOLDER, silver solder, brazing and welding may seem an unnecessarily large range of processes,...

Inter truck conference at Monte Carlo praises British operators by Lain Sherriff THE WAY AHEAD for the British road transport...

Tubeless tyres can be permanently repaired without special tools—only a pair of pliers is required. That is the claim made by...

SINCE Chris Carter has decided to set himself up as a haulier, opting to trade as a private individual rather than as a limited...

Are we allowed as transport managers to correct any mistakes made on the log sheets in the adding up? If you have obtained the...