There are growing signs that operators are paying insufficient attention to their paperwork. It appears that operators tend to...

Article painted `zunvarranted and irresponsible picture' of road transport industry • "Unwarranted", "irresponsible" and a...

• Two-hundred lorries blockaded the Tilbury container berth on Wednesday -part of the biggest demonstration yet by lorrymen...

The current battle over the principle shift pay for Britain's 80.000 municipal ismen is to be referred to arbitration. us move...

• A new company, Luis Gordon Transport Ltd, has been formed by wine importers the Luis Gordon Group to carry the group's own...

2m a special correspondent Demountable bodies do not qualify for lower rate of excise duty unless the :.rator can conclusively...

• The DoE may "look into" criticisms of the red and yellow rear markers on lorries which have been made, in a letter to The...

Nearly 150 firms on pickets' embargo lists • "To all drivers in the United Road Transport Union. Dockers will not work lorries...

• The meeting which was held betweer the unofficial dock stewards' committe( and stewards representing drivers - last Friday,...

• Legal argument continued in the Hou of Lords this week in the appeal in whit five Law Lords are being asked to give tl final...

tobens committee calls for iajor change in law A major change in the law on the safety id health of transport workers was...

• The Essex Group Training Association has formed itself into a limited liability company, Training Development' (Transport)...

• A demand that the practice of carrying out routine goods vehicle enforcement checks on motorway hard shoulders should be...

• The Tetley section of Allied Breweries Ltd, at Leeds, has put into service a Ford lorry with two steering axles. The vehicle,...

• Ryder Truck Rental is to enter the leasing market, in addition to its hire-drive activities. The president of Ryder, Mr Van...

• Lorry drivers who had come forward to admit their own involvement in "Deplorable acts of fly-dumping" of cyanide were...

• "Long haul", the new colour film depicting road transport in Europe, will be shown as an extra item — illustrating a paper on...

by Paul Brockington • Farmers had their first opportunity to look at the new eight-wheeled 30-ton bulk vehicles this week at...

• A list of the ways a bus operator can improve his services are included in a report published this week by the Organisation...

• Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive has joined the growing number of undertakings to latch on to the idea of painting...

• Scotland's first country bus service sponsored by a local authority has gone £100 into the red after its first three months'...

• There is potential for a "significant reduction" in operating costs by optimizing the correct mix of men and buses in order...

• London Coastal Coaches Ltd, the NBC subsidiary which controls London's major coach terminal — Victoria Coach Station — has...

• A call to set up an Edinburgh Passenger Transport Authority is to be made to the Secretary of State. The city's transport...

• The staff of Highland Omnibuses at Inverness have devised a new method of heating buses to help warm up early morning...

• When Purle Bros (Holdings) Ltd appeared before Mr H. E. Robson, Eastern LA, last week in Cambridge, Mr Patrick Ground,...

• An Eye, Suffolk, operator who failed to appear at a Section 69 inquiry had his licence curtailed from 13 vehicles and four...

• The failure of the offside rear wheel assembly of a six-wheeled lorry, converted from a four-wheeler, was due to a fitter's...

• Disagreement between two brothers who were partners in a transport company was responsible for the business suffering and as...

Every goods vehicle operator had to alize that the road haulage industry had a id image in the eyes of the public, said Mr R....

While inspecting a goods vehicle which tad been parked outside a Manchester public louse, a DoE vehicle examiner was assaulted...

• Although Jacksons of Hull (Haulage) Ltd had, in theory, a satisfactory vehicle maintenance system, in practice it was not...

• Eight GV9s issued on two vehicles and three trailers in a period of three months coupled with a vehicle examiner's report...

• An application by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd of Leeds to start an express coach service between Castleford and Llandudno was...

• A West Midland own-account operator who failed to keep 0-licence application undertakings had his licence curtailed under...

Alan Richards, present traffic manager of National Carriers Ltd is to become assistant managing director — the latest senior...

Veteran body gets new chassis Too good to sell for scrap. . . that was the verdict of W. G. Eales (Transport) Ltd,....

• Because the switchback roads of County Donegal play havoc with normal leaf spring bogies an Irish Shell and BP distributor,...

by Gibb Grace • It was announced in Turin last week that Fiat is currently setting up a commercial vehicles sales and service...

hew by the Hawk Weight of tidence e AA's recent attack on overloaded lorries tde prominent use of figures published by (then)...

BY ABOUT 7 PER CENT LAST WEEK copies of the 1972 edition of the Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs became available...

by Gibb Grace DAuE, CEng, MIMechE FOUR TRUCKS in the Fiat range will be available in the UK from early next year and the 32...

Some recent examples of purpose-built bodywork, new methods and materials BETWEEN the exotic one-off special body and the...

We welcome letters for publication on transport topics. Address them to Commercial Motor, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London...

Dy Handyman Understanding metrics (6) NE basic premise of the metric system and :he one that makes it so universally...

Paul Sykes • Former motor mechanic and excavator driver 28-year-old Paul Sykes who started a business in Wakefield and...

rransport Ltd 111 r0T-SHOT APPROACH by John Darker, AMBIM THE EXPLOITATION of North Sea gas and oil finds continues to make...

range of hydraulic truck readers. An important part of my duty is to iemonstrate the truck loader to my .?ustomers. Our...

ONCE AGAIN the politicians are at their word games and on such occasions transport is a favourite subject. The main difficulty...

Insure against continental tummy or worse by John C. Vann • While more and more British vehicles are running to the Continent...

Labour relations in the North West (1) by John Darker, AMBIM A STRICTLY REGIONAL view of labour relations makes little sense...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Disqualification and endorsement of driving licences A HEAVY FINE and sometimes imprisonment...

Attention to detail in examinations by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. ONCE AGAIN,...

Eight months to learn VAT • Hauliers should have no major difficultic in dealing with value-added tax which COMf into...

ortable high-pressure cleanand-degreasing machine has developed by Morrison les that incorporates a water :er and operates at a...

A transistor stroboflash — Type 1209D — announced by Dawe Instruments is claimed to provide a high-sensitivity input which...

)mbined jump lead and tow of West German origin is g marketed in the UK by sport Information Services is known as the Combi...

Stanelco-Thermatron Ltd has introduced a range of plastics sheet welding generators that is the outcome of a development...

Known as the FE5A, a flameproof battery-electric fork-lift truck of 50001b (2270 kg) capacity has been introduced by...

Derritron Electronics have developed a torsional electromagnetic vibrator that operates on the principle of a reciprocating...

A round-shoulder, flat-tread • of cross-ply tyre — KM-3 introduced by the KE Springfield Tyre Company. available in 10 sizes up...

A 12 /24V circuit tester has t added to the Steadfast re produced by the Tool Divisio Balfour Darwins which eaten the...

by Trevor Longcroft some years CAV has offered it exchange scheme (UES) ring a number of replacecomponents for diesel les,...

Designed for application to semi-trailer bulk vehicles, the Holmes blower is known as the type RBST size 68 and is of the...

A crawler jet for tube, funnel and pipe cleaning has been introduced by Michen Industries. The crawler jet is fitted to the...

Two windscreen washer kits are now being marketed by Intertruck. These units have been introduced to meet the requirements of...

A system for washing commercial vehicles has been announced by the Transport Industries Division of Diversey that, it is...

A semi-mobile stackable container, announced by Thorpe Bros {R h yi) , is said to be particularly suitable for use in confined...

A range of self-contained motorized actuators known as the Mini-Pac and designed for a wide variety of power applications...

To coincide with the Code of Practice for reducing the exposure of employed persons to noise, recently announced by the...

Granges Essem (UK) announced a material facilitate the erection buildings and reduce c Known as the Vessem inst. cladding...

A locking ring made from metal and used in conjur with an aluminium sleev provide a quick-release coupling for bulk unloadim...