THE A2 Action Group, which for more than 12 years has been fighting to get improvements made to the Dover to London route, has...

THE NORTH SEA oil boom has meant an increase of almost a 100 per cent in the Seaforth Maritime fleet. This Aberdeen-based...

spares • pro ject MR P. G. GYLLENHAMMAR, managing director of AB Volvo, today opened a new 100,000 sqft parts facility as the...

by CM reporter AN AGREEMENT signed this week looks like bringing industrial peace to operators in the West Midlands. It also...

It includes an annual holiday supplement payment of £5.55 for each week of annual holiday with a maximum payment of three weeks...

PLANS to institute workers' disciplinary tribunals to investigate allegations of slackness against management (CM August 2) are...

HILTON Transport Services is no longer a transport operating company. As from August 1, HTS reverted to the role of a parent...

A NEW PUBLICATION issued free by NEDO Books this week is designed to help operators with export cargoes to cut time at docks....

ONLY 50 places remain vacant for the 1974 Commercial Motor Fleet Management Conference, at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London,...

Make them pay Seldom a week passes without Licensing Authorities being subjected to the indignity of calling public inquiries...

special correspondent 4 THE FIRST Containers in a new freight service between the United States and Britain arrived .at...

DAVIES TURNER has begun a direct scheduled freight groupage service from Scotland to the Continent. Groupage has previously...

THE Lofthouse-Whitley Bridge, Yorks, section of M62 will he opened to traffic on August 27, announced Transport Minister Fred...

THE SECRETARY OF STATE for Wales, Mr John Morris, has authorised an expenditure of almost £284,000 on the improvement of A487,...

If you have been waiting for Cornrnercial Motor's Tables of Operating Costs they are published today. For full details and...

BRADFORD-BASED Transflash Units have inaugurated a Continental groupage operation to Vienna. The service is driver accompanied...

GROUPAGE and full-load facilities are being provided three times a week between the UK and Iran in a new service started by...

BECAUSE a tachograph chart did not identify the date on which it had been used, it was dismissed as evidence at the Penrith...

A CLEAR pledge to back the bus has been made in a document published last week by the South Yorkshire County Council. The...

FIRST steps have been taken by the South Yorkshire PTE in implementing a policy guideline from the county council which points...

A MEMORIAL award to commemorate the late Frederick Speight, who died earlier this year is being organised by the Passenger...

A NEW bus station is to be built for the Scottish Bus Group in Glasgow to replace the station at Dundas Street and Killermont...

EARLS COURT will see the debut of a brand new 20seater luxury coach body from the Moseley Group. Called the Faro, the new model...

STAFF AT London Transport are to get their uniforms cleaned free of charge. In a new scheme staff will be given six tokens a...

THE 1975 Commercial Vehicle Show in Brussels takes place from January 15 to 26, at the Central Palace in Brussels.

SINCE the bus grant came into being operators up and down the country have rethought their vehicle buying policies in order to...

ALL-OVER advertising buses are to be phased out of Merseyside PTE's fleet because not only are they considered unsightly but...

THE LAST dinner and dance to be held by the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association before the formation of the Confederation...

MAJOR changes in responsibility for public transport in Scotland are explained in two circulars published by the Scottish...

MINISTER OF TRANSPORT Fred Mulley has been asked to introduce new regulations enforcing lower steps on bus entrances. Mr...

BUS CREWS campaigning for less Sunday work refused to drive into the centre of Mansfield this week. East Midland Motor...

IN a bid to overcome the problems of staff shortages at its London headquarters at Victoria coach station, National Travel...

Sir Richard Way, 59, who leaves his post as chairman of London Transport at the end of the year, has been appointed Principal...

METAL FATIGUE in the shaft of a 15-year-old trailer led to the deaths of two people decided the King's Lynn, Norfolk, Coroner...

A DRIVER for Crosville Motor Services Ltd, a member of the National Bus Company, was cleared of driving his bus without due...

TWO TANKER drivers who admitted to stealing dery and supplying it to the proprietor of a garage at Grappenhall, near...

APPLICATIONS to increase fares to cover the cost of payments made under threshold agreements were refused by Traffic...

THE South Eastern Traffic Commissioners are expected to agree to fares increases in the Brighton transport area (BATS) on...

A BRITISH lorry driver, Richard Wilson, 24, is to go for trial in Hungary at the end of this month, charged with attempting to...

WEIGHTS and measures inspectors for the East Sussex County Council are learning foreign languages in an effort to control...

A form of lightweight construction for small aluminium boxvans in which preformed vertical sheets lock into one another to form...

THE London Philharmonic Orchestra took delivery yesterday of a new van for carrying its musical instruments and five custodians...

ITS NEW HYDRONECK is to be exhibited by King Truck Equipment Ltd at this year's Commercial Motor Show. The equipment has an...

New tubeless radials quicker to fit A TUBELESS version of its P555 tubed radial truck tyre — but with the same tread pattern —...

THE York Trailer Co Ltd says that the outlook is that everything now points to another good year both in sales and profits,...

A STEEL VERSION of its timber dropside builders' truck is to be introduced by Hawson-Garner Ltd, Sunbury on Thames, at next...

FOLLOWING the company's hydraulic demountable body system, W. E. & F. Dobson Ltd of Nottingham has introduced a mechanical...

UNITED CARRIERS are to buy 150 7-ton Bedford rigids for their express parcels fleet. The company, which operates 650 vehicles,...

FOLLOWING the introduction of its F6 lowloading semi-trailer, for concentrated loads up to 45.7 tonnes (45 tons), at last...

THE pretax profits of Arlington Motor Holdings Ltd amounted to £768,000 for the year ended April 3, 1974, and not £236,916 for...

So far the North Western office of the RHA has received more complaints about the difficulty in getting spares than instances...

TWELVE lorries refuelled with a mixture of petrol and diesel fuel at the depot of haulier W. T. Sanderson Ltd, of Featherstone,...

a patent ipplication was filed in France by Marcel Achille Violet for a scheme Nhich enabled, it was claimed, the final...

THE most popular truck in the Volvo range available in the UK — the F86 — is to be fitted with a modified version of the...

Denmarkhas deferred to the end of this year a final decision whether to go ahead on the joint project with Sweden to build...

The Belgian market has attracted a third Spanish vehicle manufacturer — after Ebro and Pegaso — with the introduction recently...

Acquisition by Renault and Saviem of 20 and 25 per cent respectively of the share capital of the Societe Sovel brings closer...

ea sy meat by Johnny Johnson photographs by Dick Ross KEEPING one's cool is often a difficult job in the transport business but...

The status of management by John Darker AMBIM IN the past year or two transport and distribution companies have been enriched...

by Les Oldridge TEng(CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE THE rapid growth in recent years of the carriage by road of potentially hazardous...

New edition now available THIS week, after some delay caused by production problems, Commercial Motor's 1974 Tables of...

A fantastic amount of work goes into preparing publications, pamphlets, brochures, and publicity material for the Commercial...

THE Byzantine obscurity of the RTITB's Employers' Guide for 1974/5 makes me think it is the bureaucrats' revenge on critics in...

But numbers games need not be confined to the RTITB. If you've got a pocket calculator and a couple of minutes to spare, try...

A plaintive wail this week from Bob South, transport manager of Aerosol Research Ltd, at Portsmouth. In his capacity as...

Bus crews in East London have apparently been having a pretty rough time with some of their latenight passengers, and...

This body builder provides a 'consultancy' service by Gordon Murray FINDING something out of the ordinary in bodywork these...

WHAT with inflation, a shortage of sugar and other harbingers of doom, it must be harder than usual to work up a satisfying...

THE new chairman of the RHA's labour relations committee, Edward "Ted" Smith, sees dark days ahead in the haulage industry....

I read Johnny Johnson's article about training young men for hgv drivers. "They catch them young in Wales" (CM July 19) with...

I was pleased to read in CM July 12 of your interest in the paper on the Heathrow Personalized Bus Service which I presented at...

We read with concern on page 15 of your July 12 issue of a six weeks' wait for David Brown gearbox spares as reported at a...

First of all, let me thank The Hawk for his kind comments (CMJuly 19)on our new Guide to Transport Cafes. I would hasten to...

of road haulage could you refresh my memory of a scheme put forward some time ago by the National Freight Corporation for the...

to result in any major changes. whether in legislation, control procedures, or operating practice, in the road movement of...

under 30 cwt unladen for which I am having a drawbar trailer built. Will the addition of such a vehicle to form a drawbar...

The Repco vacuum brake system for trailers offers positive braking via a single air line and is suitable for many smaller...

An epoxy adhesive that sets in 5-15 minutes without heat treatment, and a method of ensuring that this adhesive should be...

A high-pressure wash pump specially designed to operate from almost any vehicle having its own ancillary hydraulic system has...

A new small workshop heater on the market from E. F. Allchin is claimed to provide free heat by the simple expedient of burning...

by Jerry Rodwell Few operators now re-line their own brake shoes, as service stations charge so little to do the job for...