The 4000 new councillors in the 54 local authorities in England and Wales have talked themselves into the council chambers;...

3 tons is the limit but local authorities can allow larger vehicles in city centres at their discretion from our...

• Britain's lorry manufacturers are selling every lorry they can turn out. Their order books have rarely looked better. But...

• The Department of the Environment has promised consultation with the road transport industry at all stages of the EEC Draft...

• Labour's sweeping victories in last week's local government elections bring the concept of free fares in Britain's largest...

• The Government is being urged to investigate the procedures for ensuring that owners of foreign commercial vehicles and their...

Withdraw from wages council: make agreements with drivers • While relations between hauliers and the Transport and General...

• Leeds Corporation is to have talks with the Yorkshire division of the FTA over setting up a permit system for delivery...

• The Ombudsman, Sir Alan Marre, has dismissed a complaint of maladministration of the system of licensing hgv, operators and...

• The deputy LA for the Scottish traffic area had not erred in principle or acted unreasonably when he considered the case of...

• As part of the rationalization programme currently being carried out by DAF and Volvo following the recent signing of the...

• The new rules governing hours of driving and record keeping, for goods vehicle drivers engaged in international journeys are...

• More use should be made of rail and shipping, Public Transport should be regarded as a social service, and there should be a...

• Following the recent takeover of bodybuilders Douglas Munro and Co Ltd by CMT Steels and Supplies (Scotland) Ltd, the name of...

• If Britain was to prosper, it would need — and the self-styled environmentalists equally would need — an increase rather than...

• The road transport and warehousing business of Watts Bros (Beverley) Ltd has been taken over by the British Fuel Company and...

• A new centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration is to be formed in East Anglia. A group of IoTA members from the...

• Introduced into the United Kingdom by Peak Commercial Vehicles Ltd, this week, is the Lagab swop-body system from Sweden. It...

• A series of 12 one-week courses on topics related to highways and transportation in order to improve computer use, etc, has...

• Alltransport has launched a new express groupage service between London and Brussels. Operated in conjunction with Louis...

• Work is expected to begin shortly on erecting tensioned beam safety barriers along 34 miles of the central reservation of the...

• Value-added tax may be calculated on the discount value of a transaction whether the discount offered for prompt payment is...

Stuart Senior, 37, becomes traffic manager of the South Wales Transport Co Ltd on May 1. He is at present chief assistant...

• A report recently published describes a computer simulation model of the peak-hour operations of a group of urban bus routes....

• Increased wage rates for bus crews and maintenance men of company-owned bus undertakings have been accepted by the TGWU and...

• A separate traffic force to police bus lanes . . . He foresaw this coming about one day, Mr Bob Brown, Labour MP for...

• Wm Caldwell, coach hirer of Dalriada Road, Greenock, had his psv licence revoked by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners at...

• The law is broken when vehicles are prevented from crossing a strikers' picket line by physical obstruction, Lord Widgery,...

• After sacking a fitter he employed at a wage, for a six-day week, of 160 a week because the man refused to carry on working...

• After hearing evidence from two vehicle examiners regarding a number of GV9s both immediate and delayed on an Accrington,...

• Two permanent decks of Weldmesh. full length floor drains, ventilation by four electric fans, a Ratcliff tail-lift and...

by Trevor Longcroft • Volvo has entered the turbineengined truck race, and expects to produce a prototype engine by 1980. Mr...

• The idea of employing a front-wheeldrive traction head to power a rigid forward-control transporter, designed for...

----' with Redman Fisher light crane • Redman Fisher Engineering, which last December took over front Hymec Engineering...

• A new, firm has just been created in Chile, which will construct 60,000 lorries in the period 1973 to 1980. The pact creating...

For the next seven days SATURDAY Apt41 2ixt. Belgrade Commercial Vehicles Show. Yugosisvia. (Ends 29th). TUESDAY 24tly. IRTE...

NRDC programme takes a step further A PROJECT, financed by the National Research and Development Council, to develop a...

The users: The response to Mr Wilson's paper confirmed several general points:Whole-life cost per goods ton-mile is more...

Brighton Coach Rally reported by Gibb Grace and Martin Hayes Pictures by Dick Ross THE UK's premier coach awards have Fallen...

Brighton coach conference reported by Martin Hayes OPERATORS who attended last weekend's coach conference at Brighton heard...

British Coach Rally 1973 Coach of the Year (Brighton Trophy): Winsway Ltd, Van Hool 40-seat body on Ford llm chassis (driver,...

Owner-drivers only want to "work", they have nc desire for paper work and this could lead to Mail eventual demise by lain...

. . . and press for a special share of training grants A REVIVAL of growth must be due for the road passenger transport...

Spanner in the roadworks ALADDIN, and other nursery heroes who with the help of magic were able, in the course of one Arabian...

Next week the RHA tipper men will be meeting in Blackpool to cast expert eyes over the latest developments in tipping...

THE legal basis, purpose and responsibilities of companies is currently the subject of intense debate partly because of changed...

Wilf Bearshaw • In a way Wilf Bearshaw is a man of many roles; liaison officer, trouble-shooter, ombudsman and — perhaps most...

El Boom-boom Nice to know that road haulage wheels are really spinning again. Reports reaching me by various means from round...

The work of a traffic office by S. E. Bradburn Good records, an accurate costing system, polite and efficient staff, and an...

the reprint of this series of articles which is now being prepared. It will be published as a 32-page booklet, full CM size,...

Your editorial of March 30 concerning the training and retention of hgv drivers raised some extremely pertinent points. The...

Last week's article about the Hull and District Road Transport Training group prompts me to write to you. After 20 years...

Topic by Janus (CM March 23) is surely optimistic to imagine that rail drivers reemployed as bus drivers would be less inclined...

haulage industry has a very large number of small hauliers — possibly a higher proportion even than in Britain. Are there any...

to a product demonstration vehicle. The only "goods" carried would be display boards and products which form part of the...

a driver, works mainly on other duties and drives only to make special deliveries. The vehicle used is a 10ton Bedford so he is...

carry goods from a manufhcturer's premises to a warehouse. Is it necessary to have this vehicle plated and tested when it is...

tyres to go for remoulding. Several cars passed by mounting their offside wheels on the pavement. Eventually, a car came along...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Are drivers managers? WHEN Mr Leslie Huckfield MP suggested at a recent Davies and Robson...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO. MIMI, AMIRTE Noise (2) 10 m REGULATION 29 requires that all vehicles are constructed so that the...

workshop by Handyman Details to save down-time (78) To save down-time accurate fault diagnosis is essential: common traps can...