-but EEC Ministers fix high er quotas from our Brussels CO DESPITE a complete failure to make any progress on a common...

THE British Road Services group is expected to announce within a few days that it is entering the truck rental market....

INDUSTRY is to be en. couraged to send good! by rail instead of mac under a new scheme tt start next year. This wa: revealed in...

ALAN LAW, Birmingham district official of the Transport and General Workers' Union, has set a target of £50 as the basic wage...

DURING the last 18 months haulage costs have risen on average by 40 per cent, according to Mr Jack Male, a vice-chairman of R H...

BUS SERVICES operated by Crosville Motor Services in the Wirral, in Cheshire, were at a standstill earlier this week as the...

THE Editor and staff of Commercial Motor wish all their readers a very merry Christmas, and a prosperous New Year.

THE present designated area of the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Authority will be reviewed with Strathclyde Regional...

A NEW SYSTEM of Government support for the railways, designed to encourage industry to send by rail goods which would otherwise...

y Michael Matthews HE BUILD-UP to Christas usually sees an increase I lorry thefts, and is a time F year when operators and...

THE CM prize for success in the Royal Society of Arts Examinations has been won this year by Malcolm 0. Dodd, assistant...

THE Transport Minister is examining the possibility of introducing more specific requirements for the security of lorry loads....

ROUTES for heavy lorries defined by the GLC and South East counties under the Heavy Commercial Vehicles Act 1973 may determine...

A COMPREHENSIVE guide to speed limits throughout Europe was published last week by the Economic Commission for Europe. It...

IN the first six months of operation, Finfreight 1.td, a subsidiary of Transcontinental Freight Ltd, Heywood, Lanes, realised a...

A FULL CO-OPERATION agreement has been reached between Cave Wood (Transport) Ltd, (a subsidiary of the Price and Pierce Group...

A NEW terminal has been opened at Addington, Kent, by Astran International 1.td, to cope with a large amount of additional...

FIGURES just released by Dover Harbour Board show that in the first ten months of this year 208,733 lorries passed through the...

SWEDISH LLOYD are to double the size of their rollon/roll - off terminal at the Pert Of London Authority's Tilbury Docks. The...

Greater demand for tours expected in 1975 SHEFFIELD United Tours Ltd had 15,632 seats unsold out of 21,000 on offer for...

A CALL for a national subsidy system for bus services, in place of the present subsidy for local authorities, was turned down...

THE free Liverpool city centre bus service, which is now carrying 18,000 passengers per week should be continued next year says...

TWO NEW FORMS of computer have been installed by subsidiaries of the National Bus Company. Both are MDS 2400 key-to-disc...

A DECISION by Grimsby and Cleethorpes Transport Joint Committee to cut bus services in Grimsby and Cleethorpes from December 1,...

Rail Propery Board and a full-time member of the British Railways Board, has been re-appointed as a part-time member of the...

AFTER paying over £500 for repairs to a truck which had attracted an immediate GV9, the proprietor of a Manchester construction...

A GOOLE haulier, Mr. J. Patterson, whose licence had been revoked after twice failing to appear at disciplinary inquiries and...

A DEFENCE suggestion that a lorry driver might have only feared, in an emergency, that his brakes were not working was put...

NOT ONE but two reasons are cited by the Transport Tribunal in a written decision issued last week for rejecting an appeal by...

ports • BRITISH LEYLAND recently repeated its assurances when RHA technical committee members met the company that it took...

IN a unique transport operation under the overall control of Big Lift BV, of Dordrecht, a Dutch operator specializing in the...

THE first of a new type of combined vacuum and pressure pump tanker designed for the needs of the regional water authorities...

battery performance THE improved lead acid battery seems assured of a market for vehicle propulsion according to a two part...

TELMA Retarder Ltd has experienced a problem in the mounting of its Focal type retarder which is fitted directly to the axle of...

Il-IE RESPONSIBILITY for designing truck of the Seventies would probably lave sent a fearful shudder down the nainframes of...

Despite the additional constraints of licensing hours, the Merrydown Wine Co Ltd is distributing a large annual production in...

If you've any teenagers around over the holidays, try pitting their wits in the challenge posed to mechanical engineering...

One of my colleagues who drives to work each morning past the new Covent Garden market in Vauxhall, London, tells me that there...

by Les Oldridge TEng (CEI), MIMI, AM1RTE COMMERCIAL MOTOR readers who are restoring veteran or vintage commercial vehicles...

I Gordon Murray HE Yorkshire Engineering and lidding Co Ltd has specialized in uilding bulk tanks for transporting oil,...

"People who write for the Christmas cracker market seem to have lost their sense of humour," said Maggie's brother Cromwell....

and for some time now have been sending unaccompanied semitrailers under TIR across the English Channel to Dover. Most of these...

7: Industrial action by John Darker "INDUSTRIAL ACTION" is a common expression to describe a strike, go slow, or lock-out...

May I be allowed to take issue with one or two points of detail regarding buses and trams of the Netherlands mentioned in your...

The figures given in your news item on the savings claimed by the tachograph makers are so incredible that at first I thought...

A hot water high-pressurejet cleaner, the 113, has been added to the range from Psimat. Powered by a 2hp electric motor the H3...

INCREASED safety and greater efficiency are claimed for the Yale battery-electric hand pallet truck from Eaton. It has a lift...

An electronic tester which can also be used for checking the condition of various electrical components has been announced by...

The Freshtex oil-gulper paper wiper from BFF is a laminate of four plies • of highly absorbant crepe tissue strengthened with...

An underbody wash lift that will tilt a vehicle high enough from the floor for easy cleaning has been produced by Laycock....

Mounted on a two-wheeled aluminium frame, the Sedco 2.E 1000 high-pressure cleaner operates at a maximum pressure of...