Hours dilemma faces new Minister by CM reporter EEC also under Continental pressure to reconsider 543/69 ONE of the most...

speed limit? RECENT coach crashes had highlighted the need for the imposition c)f a 60mph speed limit on coaches using...

A NEW MAN model for the UK is to be shown to operators for the first time next week. The 19.330 FT 44-ton model has MAN' s V 10...

Port plans un j ust ified COMPLETELY unjustified and unnecessary is how the Freight Transport Association describes the port...

look' from our political correspondent TRANSPORT looked like becoming the Cinderella of Government policy as Mr Wilson had to...

LABOUR MP Mr Leslie Huckfield is to address the closing session of the Road Haulage Association's Agristock Conference this...

Ralph Hilton fined £2,500 Pride caused downfall of transport empire boss PRIDE brought about the tragic downfall of Ralph...

A ROAD service between London and Lagos is to be started in September by Terminal Transport Services Ltd of London. The...

TRANSPORT gains eleven awards in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, published on Saturday. Two of these honours go to military...

CLOSURE of the Lebanon's Ministry of Public Works from May 13 to 30 has been given as the reason why a British operator's...

Coach passengers deserve reassurance at Ministerial level that this form of transport is one of the safest ways to travel. The...

tractor you can depend on—and a mobi ie advertisement for the operator's good judgment. This is a truck with clean modern...

THE Regional Crime Squad in the North West has set up a special stolen lorry section to deal with the growing number of thefts...

FIVE contests in the Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year competition were held last weekend. London, Leeds, Norwich,...

CM reporter MASSIVE survey of manwer in road • transport pubhed by the Road Transport lustry Training Board on mday reveals a...

THE ATTITUDE of National Travel to road service licensing was attacked by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd, before the Metropolitan...

LORRIES and coaches using t Mersey Tunnel will in future ha to pay a flat fee of 50p, a Mers( side committee decided last wei...

Sir William Batty, chairman of Ford of Britain, has been elected president of the SMMT. Sir William succeeds Sir Raymond...

by Martin Watkins ti NEW DRIVE - LINE on a conrentional self-supporting chas;is is planned by Dennis for its [976 prototype...

THE IMAGE of London Transport had to , be changed from that of a " down-at-heel" agency to one that was well thought of and fed...

by Martin Hayes WHEN Alexanders introduced its S-Type integral tnidibus at the Earls Court Show last year, many operators...

Tim Hoare, photographs by Dick Ross E main exhibit of interest last week's series of open 's at the Transport and Road :earch...

ONE of the unexpected side effects of the referendum, or perhaps the arguments which preceded it, was the appointment of a new...

Dff their feet by CM reporter :VELOPMENTS in air shion technology and design ty be opening up new busiss prospects for the...

THE maximum weight section of the truck market in the UK can be roughly divided into 32-tonners pure and simple and those...

Reverting for a moment to last week's Bus Confederation conference, this really was a great success from every point of view,...

Glasgow's bus passengers have been told by a writer in The Scotsman that by 1979 the new three-tier fare of 8p, 10p and 20p...

THE Channel has been calm under our recent heatwave but South Coast resorts have been deluged with waves of transport men, with...

For outstanding value, it seems, one must go farther north in Scotland. The second edition of Crane Fruehauf's Egon Ronay Guide...

the rigid Bison in that it exhibited a peculiar tramping motion at certain speeds. This was most noticeable at around 40mph and...

kssessing the electromagnetic retarder on haulage trunk work LTHO UGH many British )ach operators have had elecic retarders...

By Les Oldridge, TEng (CE!), MIMI, AIVIIRTE WHEN a fitter on a night shift recently found himself short of milk for the " brew...

VIRONMENTAL pressure noise reduction in trucks and .es has led to changes in legison and considerable research [ development...

Further short-term improvements can be expected from the engine itself on which there has been separate development activity,...

THE VOLVO SYSTEM SERVICE introduced by Ailsa Trucks Ltd last year provides documents for fleet operators, although intended...

BUS is the most efficient of energy in terms of .r1 work done in relation to used—but it must adapt :ce the future oil...

PRELIMINARY TEST results for the Silent Rider battery electric bus developed by Chloride and now in service with Greater...

Dealer Network Ash Grove Motor Engineers Ltd Lime Street Hull Yorkshire Hull (0482) 23573 Borderman Trucks Ltd Woodlands...

British Road Passenger Transport was quoted as saying that the EEC Social Regulations do not affect regular passenger services...

tonnes) gross, under 3 tons unladen. On January I, 1976, when EEC driving licence regulations apply, we understand there may be...

boxvan as a fitter's mobile workshop dealing with customers over a 15-mile radius. Would I need the vehicle specially taxed?...

igh-level advice and information about meeting new gulations, controlling costs, specifying vehicles and using new industrial...

!gulation of road transport, 1976-80 R. J. E. Dawson ow that Britain has voted to remain in the Common irket, road transport...

Driver legislation's effect on distribution by A. J. West Stemming directly from the changes to be discussed in the first...

n CiT examination structure George Wilmot HERTO, it was a matter criticism that the CharterInstitute for Transport ')...

by Gordon Murray WHEN the Carpenter brothers Hughie and Ivor needed. vehicles quickly, the only chassis suitable for drawbar...

by John Darker, AMBIM 'HE Secretary of State for :mployment is empowered inder 5.2(4) of the Hearth and iafety at Work etc Act...

workshop heater which burns any all types of waste oil has an developed by Benson mponents. The heater, which a be mounted on...

With this background and bearing in mind that the first three months of the Act 407 improvement nOtices and 262 prohibltion...