Before the management of the National Bus Company merges the activities of its 70 companies into three regional units it should...

• Tuesday this week saw the arrival of the first Belgian MOL truck in this country. The vehicle, a 6 x 6 rigid, is designed for...

SHOCK PROFICIENCY PROPOSALS IN EEC DIRECTI • EEC proposals for establishing an examination of professional proficiency for...

9 , Martin Hayes Optimism is the one word which 4 . ational Bus Company executives now use 3 sum up their feelings about the...

from a special correspondent • The continuing rail disruption is providing a bonanza for road hauliers. By Wednesday one large...

• Craddock Brothers, the haulage firm granted an interim injunction against the Transport and General Workers' Union last week...

• A five-year programme of modernization of the Scottish Islands shipping services is being launched by the Government....

There is unlikely to be any practical :rnative to road delivery for most types goods over the next decade. The Department of...

The Government hopes that the mpdown on law-breaking foreign tmercial vehicles, resulting from the id Traffic (Foreign...

• A change of plan for the North Midlands, Leicester, LDoY centre sets the date for Sunday June 11 at the Wholesale Fruit...

by Bob Holliday • Effects of the newly introduced method of "charging" heavier penalties for touching kerbs, marker posts,...

• A provisional Code of Practice for the carriage and disposal of waste materials, drawn up by the Institution of Chemical...

• The theme of the annual report of the Road Haulage Association 1971/1972, published this week, is "growth despite...

• In a letter to RHA members Mr W. McMillan, the Association's chairman, has urged them to seek rate increases of up to 5 per...

• The last commercial vehicle to qua] for the Don Safety trophy was the Beth"( KM, back in 1967. Hopes that this ye award would...

A completely redesigned superstructure ncorporated on a new TIR tilt-body from York Trailer Co Ltd, which has been eloped by...

• A one-day conference on the theme of "Land use planning and the transport operator in urban areas" is being jointly sponsored...

• Six subjects have been chosen for the 1972 FISITA Congress, which is to be held in London from June 25 to 30 at the Royal...

• A new low-cost automatically controlled two-level forced-ventilation and heating system has been designed by KL Automotive...

• A bus designed especially for link services, between densely populated areas or between town centres and distant residential...

Robert Campbell, 44, has been appointed commereia I manager, Northern Ireland Carriers Ltd, as I) - om May 15. Mr Campbell is...

A Wisbech (Cambs) haulage company, ystar Haulage Ltd, was called before the tern LA on Monday to explain how it incurred four...

A Blackburn (Lancs) farmer and his 'e whose two vehicles were found to be in "shocking" mechanical condition were icribed as...

• Skipaway, the Chatham waste disposal firm, had its fleet of six vehicles cut to four under Section 69 in Maidstone before the...

• Sixty charges brought by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority against Mr Ernest Frank Cobberdale, a haulier of Church View,...

• Hours and records offences led to fines totalling £134 being imposed on Edward Bell Transport Ltd of Bradford, Yorkshire, and...

CF saves 9cwt • The prototype of a Crane Fruehauf TIR 12m side-loading tilt type semi-trailer with aluminium drop sides and...

• Carntyne Transport Co Ltd had its fleet authorizing 45 vehicles and five trailers curtailed this week by the Scottish deputy...

Due to be published by the terworth Group, 88 Kingsway, London :2B 6AB, at £1.70, is Value - added Tax ' the Bill Explained,...

• A new Whale tanker recently delivered to E. H. Lee Ltd, Peterborough, has been fitted with a pneumatically operated automatic...

by Gibb Grace, DAuE, CEng, M1MechE BY Western European standards Yugoslavia is still an underdeveloped country but vehicle...

Qualitylquantity licensing dilemma • Road transport looks to be heading for another round of governmental disturbance. Past...

view by the Hawk III Four horse power A vehicle 150 years old with four horse power will be starting on a 393-mile trip from...

is one of those unflappab phlegmatic characters who is rare enou today to be interesting. Bob Brearley's ca approach to life...

by Gibb Grace, CEng. DAuE. MiMechE AF, the Dutch vehicle manufacturer, is a lative newcomer to the UK commercial arket having...

by David Lowe, MInstTA, AMBIM THE THREE BASIC constituents of vehicle costing, standing costs, establishment costs and running...

With reference to Mr G. Smith's letter on Continental drivers and vehicles (CM March 101, may I correct him on his points about...

I would like to comment on the letter from Mr G. Smith (CM March 10). One is presented with a situation of the kind he...

In his letter regarding all-in licences (CM March 241 surely Mr Jack Wood is getting confused with tests set by the transport...

While BLMC have a complete monopoly supplying PTAs with buses, I feel that t panic speech of Mr Robert Redmond, h (CM January...

Ife savings EATH AND INJURY on the road are most forgotten these days in the more shionable clamour about pollution and the...

Commercial vehicle passengers by John Vann, FCII • When a group of lorry drivers discussed commercial vehicle insurance...

by Tony O'TOOLE THE National Coach Rally, 12th in series organized by the Wigan and Disn Excursion and Tours Operators' Assoc...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (16) ALTHOUGH I mentioned the alternator in an earlier article it will be as well...

own engine for their ides and if so what size was it, and when they stop making it? Guy did produce an engine for their...

facturer of Electric Retarders, suitable for use on Ford DT1400 dump trucks, which have a gross vehicle weight of 24 tons. A...

on the raising of plated weights, the article does not appear to cover my vehicle. I own a 1970 Ford DT 1700 six-wheeler,...

licence expires on April 15 1973, and is therefore of the old type. However, as I was under 21 when this licence was taken out,...

matters by John Darker AMBIM Management controls (2): Roadstone Ltd ROADSTONE . Ltd is a large Irish company producing and...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (15) REGULATION 81 requires that lamps and reflectors...

learning by David Lowe, MInstTA, AMBIM Driving managers THE TREND for increasing numbers of transport management staff to...