and overkill The IRTE Conference last weekend highlighted more problems than solutions, but it is only by identifying problem...

by CM reporter • "We are now in a sellers' market for road haulage", national chairman Mr John Wells said at the Road Haulage...

Members of the Road Haulage Association will be told by their national chairman that towards the end of May they should be...

• New ranges of advanced engines, gearboxes and axles as well as expansion in capacity were promised for truck and bus products...

by our industrial correspondent • An agreement signed this week by dockers, lorry drivers, port employers, road hauliers and...

from our parliamentary correspondent • A private Bill to ban the operation of employment agencies for lorry drivers may be...

by John Darker • A Department of the Environment survey published this week could be construed as a massive gesture of...

from our Parliamentary correspondent • An attempt to increase the weight of lorries affected by Heavy Commercial Vehicles...

• Transport Minister Mr John Peyton is being urged to condu6t experiments in the use of liquid petroleum gas for the powering...

• Proposals have been published for a sixmile extension of M56 North Cheshire Motorway from its present westernmost terminal...

• Spending on transport by the Department of the Environment is expected to be about 1750m during the currentfinancial year....

• British road safety standards in the hgv test should be adopted throughout the EEC, the Freight Transport Association has...

• Lorry driver and stone mason's labourer, Patrick Harry Green, 29, of Paddington, was fined £80 with £20 costs at Acton...

and CM'S staffnnen are there to examine them, photograph them and report in next week's issue on the Nice Coach Rally. Held...

• The problem of unemployed lorry drivers automatically losing their hgv licences after being out of work for six months is to...

• London should have 60 square miles of lorry parks by the end of next year. This was the target set by the GLC in June last...

Large-scale bus use the best way to conserve oil reserves • In a situation where the rapidly diminishing world power supplies...

• "Eyes on the road" is the title of a symposium which is being organized by the Association of Optical Practitioners on...

• Carlisle's road safety committee, with the co-operation of the police, are taking steps to prevent heavy lorries parking...

• "There are always a number of people who undermine the reputation of the best. Every case of bad driving or parking is a bad...

to labour relations in road transport by John Darker spoke, he criticized the view that drivers are only concerned with money....

Weymouth Rigida Class A: up to 20ft; over 1 ton and up to 30 cwt unladen: 1. M. C. Wyatt (PO Yeovil) Leyland, 225 penalty...

• Seven new road/sea routes to West German cities have been added to existing Davies Turner services. Two-way runs between...

David N. Marsh, 42, has been appointed operations director of Humber McVeigh Transport Ltd. He has been with the company since...

We record with regret the death of Jack Lewis. Mr Lewis, 46, was chief transport engineer of Associated Biscuits Ltd of...

• Three amendments to the Public Road Transport Association's articles of association are to be proposed at• the Association's...

• Bold new facia panels with directional signs in white on bright red are the most obvious feature of NBC's remodelling of...

0 Volvo's latest single-deck passenger bus, the B59, to be marketed by the Ailsa Bus Ltd is fitted with heating and ventilating...

• An appeal by Rosetta Passenger Utilities Ltd against the decision of the East Midland Traffic Commissioners to revoke the...

• Commenting that he was being most lenient and that he had been considering revoking the whole licence, the Western LA, Sir...

II As a result of an application for more vehicles, a fleet check was carried out on 3 GB Group Ltd and two delayed GV9s...

• Mr Jon Tempalski, whose licence was revoked by the Eastern deputy LA last September, successfully applied for a new 0 licence...

• An application by Eastern Counties Bus Company to increase fares by lp was both "reasonable and modest," decided Eastern...

• A rotating plastics cylinder operated by an air motor, a wiper blade and a water spray are features of a self-cleaning rear...

• Bread vans now being put into service in South East London by Associated British Foods are being equipped with bodywork by...

• CAV's replacement starter and alternator scheme for British vehicles has been extended to cover Scania and Volvo vehicles and...

• Lex Tillotson (Gloucester) Ltd, Britist] Leyland distributor, is holding an exhibitior next week, from Tuesday to Thursday, o...

• Plans have been announced to introduc to the UK the Atlas hydraulic tail-lifl currently manufactured in Germany b H....

proving ground by Paul Brockington • A pave track with a computer-designed profile for heavy commercial vehicle tests is...

• The fifth Materials Handling Exhibition in the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow was opened by Sir William Lithgow, chairman of Lithgows...

)OWN-TO-EARTH day-to-day problems luch as exhaust smoke, parts supply, vehicle iesign shortcomings and the roles of fitter md...

Clutching at straws SUPPORTERS of lost causes such as that of the railways have one advantage which they can exploit to the...

The free trip to the Amazon rain forest, or the Khyber Pass tour? Faced with this choice at Victoria Coach Station last week I...

National Travel's express services executive, Derek Fytche, told me that if the experiment proved successful it could be the...

Ken Jackson, the TGWU's chief road transport official, tells me that the enforcement file of the Road Haulage Wages Council is...

It's an ill wind. . and on this occasion the soaring price of meat is giving not only the fish industry but also the fish...

In New Zealand they have coined a name for road accident injuries and deaths — they call it impact disease. Something, perhaps,...

I see that "Teddy" Gleason, 73-year-old president of the International Longshoremen's Association, told the New York and New...

Orders for the Lucas llin. headlamps have come from an unexpected quarter. When Belgian State Railways saw the new light unit...

by John Darker CO-OPERATION is not a new idea in road transport but practical formulae are greatly outnumbered by idealistic...

DELEGATES to last week's International Union of Public Transport congress in The Hague agreed that the bus of tomorrow would be...

Alonvide the IMP congress was a first-rate exhibition of more than 30 city buses. Indicating the importance manufacturers...

What the owner account operators want THE INFLUENCE of the British Parliament and domestic commercial undertakings and trade...

Mr J. Symonds, training manager, Dunstable, Ralph Hilton Transport Services Ltd, states (CM April 20): "An increase in course...

to company policy and operations; three-day induction to vehicle. enabling trainee and firm to appraise exercise at early date....

We in Centrax Gears Ltd have just returned from participating in the BAUMA Exhibition in Munich, which is perhaps the most...

I have read with great interest the article on "Reducing maintenance costs" (CM April 20). I did not, however, see any...

I refer to the somewhat lengthy letter by the managing director of Manpower Ltd, Mr Lance H. Secretan (CM April 27) in the last...

Evelyn Denington • Mrs Evelyn Denington, a sprightly 62year-old who has succeeded Mr Horace Cutler as chairman of the GLC's...

can be called upon to drive our breakdown vehicle ff necessary. Provided I do not drive at the wheel for more than 10 hours, am...

of over 7.5 metric tons to hold a hgv licence, I will be 19 years of age. If 1 have been driving a lorry of over 7.5 metric...

a court decision, qfter the operator exceeded the permitted length limit. The judge found that an articulated unit must be...

or a concrete mixer with a lorry under 3 tons uhv? Also when the tax changes come into force in January 1976, will there be any...

1 wish to train as an hgv driving instructor. I could use the vehicles to train my own drivers to DoE standards. Could you tell...

A friend tells me he read in CM a while ago that the organization had fallen through, though I do still read of them from time...

matters by John Darker AM B M How Shell-Mex and BP choose foremen FLEET MAINTENANCE foremen are a scarce breed of men. They...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE Causing danger EVERYONE has a duty to his fellow citizens: the builder must ensure...

Details to save down-time (21) If new equipment is not saving you time, check it out, and don't forget to keep a watch on...