Other State-owned companies still in the queue for increases by CM reporter • After protracted discussions, the Price...

from our political correspondent • Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, will be authorized to use Britain's veto...

• E. J. Hamilton, removals and haulage contractors of Southampton, intend to appeal against a judgment of the Transport...

• Both sides of the Road Haulage Wages Council, the unions and the employers, were due to meet today, on an informal basis, to...

• National Travel's London-Frankfurt regular coach service was officially announced on Tuesday, with the first trip leaving...

• The National Guild ofTransportManagers is to retain the services of Guardian Business Services Ltd to act as consultants and...

• SPD, the Unilever warehouse and distribution company, is to distribute the full range of Martini and Rossi products to wine...

controls by John Darker Institute of Work Study Practitioners discuss EEC transport policy • In a notably candid address, Dr...

• As forecast in CM last week, the shareholders of William Nuttall Transport are unlikely to accept the Dundee, Perth and...

• The Road Haulage Association is upset about the way that the Road Transport industry Training Board proposes to mplement its...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board has been warned to "square its accounts" before the new system of financing...

committee rise approved • "Emotive and so called descriptive names for the commercial vehicle" used by the news media and...

from our industrial correspondent • Hauliers with expanding business may be able to benefit from improved removal grants...

• Some agreements and restrictive practices between transport undertakings are prohibited under European Economic Community...

• The share price of Shipping Industrial Holdings rose on Tuesday to 350p as a result of speculation about a possible takeover...

• Mr Gilbert Hunt, managing director and chief executive of Chrysler Unite( Kingdom Ltd, is to become chairman and chief...

• A guide to eating facilities with easy reach of turn-off points on MI hi been published by John Waddington Kirk stall Ltd,...

• Stricter enforcement of the axle-weight regulations was made easier and quicker on Monday when the DoE's first electronic...

• Hugh Williamson of Inverness failed in an appeal in Edinburgh against a refusal by the Scottish deputy LA at Inverness on...

display at Cleansing Conference • The 75th annual conference of the Institute of Public Cleansing at Torbay this week was...

• Because accident statistics show an increasing incidence of traffic accidents at light-controlled intersections, apparently...

by John Darker • The Institute of Marketing, with 17,000 members, is anxious to launch a marketing group for the transport and...

• The Manor Way swing bridge, across the ship passage between Royal Albert Dock and Basin, will be temporarily closed to...

• Nine major road schemes for Scotland — estimated to cost a total of £21,127,000 — have been approved by the Scottish...

• Cosmos managing director, Mr W. H. Jones, who attacked the system of road service licensing (CM June 8), himself came under...

• A single-deck Leyland Leopard coach, the latest addition to the fleet of Rennie's Lion and Comfort Coaches of Dunfermline, is...

Performance of electric bus was disappointing, says annual report • A net deficit of £253,000 was recorded by Merseyside...

• One of the two Crompton Electricars' electric buses is now operating on an experimental basis in Norwich. The bus, which has...

• Bishop Auckland Urban Council and Weardale Rural Council have agreed to subsidize the Bishop Auckland-Stanhope bus service...

• The Department of Employment has been asked to overrule a decision of the Pay Board not to allow a 10 per cent shift...

• A delayed prohibition was more serious than an immediate prohibition, Mr C. Hugh James, the South Wales deputy LA, told a...

• Because he thought he was not being paid enough money for his job a 53-year-old lorry driver decided to forge fuel receipts,...

• Holding his first public inquiry since taking up office as new Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Mr R. S. Thorton decided to...

b Mr Thomas Jefferis. 72-year-old nanaging director of Docks Haulage Co, of iouthampton, delivered an angry outburst it Poole...

• The Scottish Traffic Commissioners have granted fares increases to the Scottish Bus Group to commence on June 24. During the...

• At a public sitting in Manchester last week, Mr C. R. Hodzson, the chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners,...

Patrick F. Reason, 32, at present district superintendent (south) with East Midland Motor Services Ltd, has been appointed area...

for ZF by Gibb Grace New 'heavy' gearbox will suit 360 bhp engines • Following the announcement last week that ZF, the German...

• Increased ground clearance when tipped is a special . feature of the Pneumajector Mk VIII tip and-blow powder tanker that was...

• The new development in pollution :ontrol known as Vapipe, announced by the Jepartment of Trade and Industry last veek (CM...

• Skidding accidents can be significantly reduced by giving road surfaces a special skid-resistant finish. In a TRRL study of...

• Trucks based on Dennis Dominant 15.5 tons gvw four-wheelers and Defiant 22 tons gvw tractive-unit chassis are being produced...

Hauliers hear of agricultural transport problems; the effects of EEC membership on sugar beet and livestock carriage; and the...

by James Millen A £77m multi-national transport group is eyeing the European road freight market THE fierce competition in the...

GUIDE TO MONEY )ELEGATES to this week's annual onference of the Public Road Transport Usociation held at Brighton heard two...

Cosmos Tours — the major operator replies I refer to the report by Martin Hayes in the June 8 issue of CM. I have not...

I have seen the report of the IRTE conference in CM May 18 and noticed particularly the remarks on maintenance made by Mr K. P....

Vehicles which are engaged on arduous work need special attention before taking the annual test. Johnny Johnson has been asking...

/wner-drivers visited in /erbyshire and the West :ountry get more out of leir vehicles by knowing bout them and taking 'ouble....

• Cordon Bluey An Australian contemporary, Truck and Bus Transportation, is currently carrying a series of four-page Leyland...

A tipping subframe with twistlocks is a way to widen the scope of the business OPERATORS who have taken up George Neville...

Roland Barrett • Mr Roland Barrett believes in the family business: its the backbone of our country, he says. As founder...

After the big fish BY WAY of a change, the latest version of Labour Party policy has little to say about transport. This does...

A 70-vehicle Walsall operator is phasing out all his 32-ton-gvw articulated tipping vehicles in favour of 30-ton gvw rigids. He...

by Johnny Johnson "Owner-driver fleets" are usually associated with truckmixer work but there is no reason why the system...

Tipper operators who take advice from enforcement officers can stay out of trouble, but enforcement effort is still too thinly...

reader who had a vehicle with a demountable livestock body and wished to know how to determine the unladen weight. The vehicle...

a better position for myself. Realizing the importance of transport, I want to undertake a course of study to enhance my career...

weight and propose to add a trailer on two days a week. Will an operator's licence become necessary and will the driver have to...

transport paper — not yours — about Volvos not being assembled in this country after all, I am wondering what the situation is...

Local Authority is not exempt from operators' licensing — but surely this does not apply to its refuse collection vehicles? A...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Swedish transport co-operatives are tough on the rule-breakers THIS YEAR'S Tipping Convention...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI, AM1RTE Tyres (2) NOW THAT I have discussed the offences committed when unsuitable tyres are...

Details to save down-time (25) by Handyman PROBLEMS on earlier systems of automatic lubrication could often be attributed to...