Carlisle proposes to ban lorry parking from Juiy 31, but its new Transportel is incomplete by CM reporter THE FIRST of the...

BRITISH Leyland and Coras Iompar Eireann, the national transport undertaking of. the . Republic of Ireland, have signed a new...

US maker estimates f350-a-year saving per heavy truck in British conditions By CM reporter DRAG-REDUCING, fuelsaving air...

by John Darker MR Philip Morris, secretary of the Transport and General workers' Union's 5/528 car transporter section, said...

MEAT deliveries in Liverpool were again at a standstill this week as 41 lorry drivers picketed the city's cold store depots in...

Dock brief Mr Michael Foot's determination to bring private enterprise ports within the dock employment scheme has been...

day week, seems to have tailed-off since that period according to the latest Road Rates report compiled and published by...

The claim was due to be ruled on by the National Industrial Relations Court later this month. In June the Union was granted a...

HM Customs and Excise have decided that where VAT-registered firms pay mileage allowances to employees using company vehicles,...

A NEW day release course for bridging from Chartered Institute Licentiate grade to membership of the Chartered institute of...

is to be al, blamed for any deterioration in the environment .0.0411 though in their book wZi Campaigning jar he Envirenmem. R...

R. P. Spencer, BRS Parcels traffic assistant at Tottenham, becomes Canterbury branch manager. , K. D. Angell, traffic operator...

Government may also change definition of dock work MR MICHAEL FOOT, the Employment Secretary, has angered employers and Tory...

THE new Buckinghamshire, North, LDoY contest produced, on Sunday, the fourth lowest score in any round, and the lowest Class C...

SPEAKING at a joint meeting of the Greater London Council's transport, policy and resources committees Dame Evelyn Denington...

A BRAND new design of coach seat announced today is the first product of a UK company specifically et up for the purpose of...

A CONTRACT to develop an automatic vehicle monitoring system for the Dublin City Bus Services has been awarded to Storno Ltd....

THREE District Councils, those of Cumbria, Eden and Allerd ale, have joined forces to resist an application by Ribble Motor...

FARES for all but short journeys on Aberdeen Corporation buses are to rise by one penny from July 21. The increase, approved on...

UPTO 30 passengers per minute can pass through a new electronic ticket barrier developed by Automatic Revenue Controls Ltd....

IT WAS only "the mercy of providence" that no passengers on coaches operated by a Perthshire hire firm had been injured, the...

AN eleven vehicle Norfolk sand and gravel haulier was told by the Eastern deputy LA last week that he had "come within an ace"...

by CM reporter A SCANIA LBT 140 Super 6x4 tractive unit up-plated from 70 to 110 tons gross train weight was a striking exhibit...

MR L. S. Payne, director and executive vice chairman of the National Freight Corporation is leaving to join the board of J....

A UNIVERSAL base frame for demountables which is claimed to encompass all operational applications has been announced by Pengco...

A NEW range of chassisless van semi-trailers, using single sheets of Glasonit laminate for sides and front, has been introduced...

A FALL in profits for Fodens in the year ended March 1974 has been reported. Pretax profits fell £843,333 to £300,673 while...

by Graham Montgomerie FIAT is planning to introduce suitable models from its 130 range to the British market (CM July 12) and...

THE partner to KlocknerH umboldt-Deutz in the construction and sale of commercial vehicles was revealed last week as Fiat....

Why did lorry drivers have to wait for an imaginative commercial undertaking to provide them with a guide to good eating at...

Proof that a national scheme could attract good school leavers to a driving career is provided by Williams Brothers' of...

by Les Oldridge T Eng (CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE GOODS vehicle examiners are appointed by the Secretary of State under authority...

AS an industry with a very high proportion of small operators, road haulage should be one of the biggest customers for the new...

How Reece Brothers changed their investment plans overnight by lain Sherriff, photographs by Dick Ross WHEN Reece Bros...

by Bill Godwin When Neoplan, the German bus and coach specialist, last year opened its branch factory at Pilsting, 350km east...

PTRC Summer Meeting at Warwick University Report by John Darker BIGGER mileages and hence higher costs resulting from...

by Jerry Rodwell, who has just had a look at how they organize these matters at Humber McVeigh TRAILERS are not every man's...

JUST published by Commercial Motor is a 30-page CM-size book designed to answer many of the questions which we receive week by...

FROM what has been published on the subject in the past it might be supposed that hauliers would be in a hurry to establish...

Household removals have tended to be tailored down to a price instead of up to a standard but this is changing and a more...

by John Darker AMBIM In recent years there has been an encouraging readiness on the part of many companies operating large...

against the drinking and driving laws and if so what is the maximum period of disqualification which can be imposed?...

the way to the scene of removal, the ambulance could not be towed empty and had to he loaded onto the recovery vehicle....

use on the Continent where they must be used in some countries to denote a breakdown or other mishap. I do not think that they...

an indivisible load which will measure about 151: wide. 1 assume that 1 will have to move this under the Special Types General...

16 cwt) towing unit together with a drawbar low-loading trailer which we wish to use unladen for exhibition purposes. What is...

A new range of low-profile manhole covers has been announced from Emko Wheaton UK. The company claims that the latest design...

An infra-red exhaust analyser designed to measure carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons resulting from incomplete combustion in...

Skit's new jig saw, the VTS 497, has continuously variable speed facilities to suit it to many materials. trigger pressure...

Key-controlled electric starting is now standard on Primrose fixedbeam (four-legged) gantry cranes. The 1.5-tonne and 2-tonne...

by Jerry Rodwell Maintenance savings and fuel economies can be made by adapting a vehicle's hydraulic power steering system to...