The collapse of the Government's pay policy and another non-event mini budget from Healey should t grasped by management and...

Mow only nine days to 7 7 -day EW regulations allowing ivers to use tachographs in ace of drivers' record books me into force...

CM has been asked to point out that Partco, a division of Quinton Hazel' Ltd, has moved from one branch in Newmarket to new...

)RE flexible arrangements help traffic flows over the /ern Bridge during the iday period have been iounced by the Department...

IN 1CHE next round of pay talks between the Transport and General Workers and the employers, a 15 per cent pay rise will be the...

LEYLAND Truck and Bus has announced the resignation of Trevor Webster, sales and marketing director of the passenger vehicle...

FODENS has turned a 1975 group loss of £1,023,886 in to a 1976 profit of £1,738,015 according to a preliminary statement from...

MANCHESTER-based Gardner engines now seem likely to sell out to industrial giants Hawker Sickleley in a £14.7 million takeover...

customs s 'norma DRIVERS are now regarding 12-hour wait at Dover Eastern Docks customs normal. This startling claim has be...

A SWINGEING attack has been made on European Gove ments that provide the "stumbling blocks" to harmonisation international road...

Isle of Man, has been road tested by CM. Fitted with a Crane Freuhauf box body and a payload of 4,400kg (4ton 3cwt 3qr) a very...

EATON TRUCK Components will be three new axles at this year's Frankfurt September. • showing Show in A single-drive unit, the...

HAUL WHEN he is in the Commons, David Hunt gives place to no one in his respect for the Chair ... after all, when he became...

IE new Common Market log iok for lorry drivers was Red a Chinese puzzle in urt this week. It caused such nfusion that men at a...

tOPOSALS to increase rking charges for goods hides in Bromley, Kent, to a ucimum of £7 have come der fire from the Freight...

THE Southampton-based haulage firm, Meachers Commercials Ltd, has been appointed an ERF distributor. Sales and service of ERF...

YOUNG managers and small operators, alike, should be on guard, for they face being "severely threatened from outside." That...

AN ATTACK on increases in the licence fees for permits to keep petroleum spirit has come from the Freight Transport...

pick-up market JAPANESE Pick-up manufacturers captured nearly one third of the 'total light commercial market in June helping...

LORRY driver Adam Kyle was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, last week, for having explosives an his vehicle when he was...

GRANTS for drivers taking part in the CM Lorry Driver of 1 Year competiton have been approved by the Road Transp Industry...

A BIRMINGHAM Industrial Tribunal has ruled that a lorry driver, dismissed for redundancy reasons by Peter Warner Transport Ltd,...

CM is looking for a news and feature writer to replace Johnny Johnson, who is leaving us in September. The successful applicant...

POSALS for an accidentirting procedure — covering dents at work and serious fatal accidents to the public 1 work activities —...

AN OPERATOR who had already served the suspension of a vehicle had an appeal to the Transport Tribunal over the suspension...

FERRYMASTERS Ltd has been refused planning permission to build a £1/2 million depot on an Ipswich industrial estate. The...

SCOTS councillors have hit out at the movement of plutonium and other dangerous substances on secret routes through...

big order NATIONAL Bus has ordered 1,502 vehicles for delivery during 1978. The order consists of 17 Bristol Plaxton LH6L...

NEWPORT (Gwent) bus undertaking is hoping to save C23,000-a-year from loan charges alone, by cutting the number of vehicles it...

OR PSV IBILITY RELIABILITY is the key. That was one of the main conclusions reached by delegates at the Institute of...

DARLINGTON Boro u Transport has ordered Dennis Dominator bus chal to be fitted with 1 lm (3( dual entrance single-de bodies....

WAVENEY District., Council, Lowestoft, is to shut down its bus undertaking. This has been decided by the council's policy and...

ADMISSION to The Occupation of Road Passenger Transport Operator is the title of a new booklet published by the Road Transport...

CLANMAC Minibus and Taxi Hire Ltd, of Simpson Drive, East Kilbride, will not be allowed to operate more than one vehicle until...

KENT County Show visitors last week had a surprise preview of a new Mercedes-Benz model to supersede the 1418 tractive unit in...

VERY publication issued in rs by the Departments of nvironment and Transport is 'eluded in the latest edition of le "Annual...

URING the first six months this year, around 30 per !nt of the total Leyland offal° production was fitted ith the...

IN spite of a heavy initial cost penalty, the Milk Marketing Board has proved the overall cost-effectiveness of the alkaline...

A detachable tailgate from E. M. Wilcox Ltd, of Peterborough, will help increase the versatility of the bulk tipper body for...

Jesu preview... FOLLOWING CM's operational trial of an automatic Volvo F86 tractive unit, we have now been able to test the...

Steve Geary asks . . • 15 IT BACK TO SQUARE ONE? A FEATURE of the commercial vehicle scene during the past few weeks has been...

September 12 is the day when 310 men and one lady compete for the CM LDoY championship !UST after Easter, 3,100 !rivers with...

but two of our parcels too ore than a week to arrive ONCE upon a time, it was possible to send a parcel from London to the...

THE PROBLEMS that face the parcels carrier tend to proliferate, rather than diminish, as his business develops. Apart from the...

Ltittatilf• ligett• • • I feel that "The Hawk," writing about tachographs in the July 1 issue of CM, is labouring under a very...

tiefeame I observe the comments of tlr Julian Davis (CM June 24) at foreigners be banned from .ritish coach rallies. Why...

I have read Mr J. S. Lawton's letter (CM July 1) with great interest and I find myself, from pure technical considerations, in...

Thank you for the credit you gave me in a roundabout way in Noel Miller's article "People problems" (CM June 24) on the life of...

ONE-TON payload capacity pick-ups are sadly neglected by British commercial vehicle manufacturers. But the Japanese are only...

breakdown service. Some months ago, I pulled in a broken down vehicle after an accident; the owner had only third party...

We often send vehicles to exhibitions and sirniler functions which might involve drivers taking vehicles for long distances. So...

A Section 190 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 defines a "heavy motor car." In general terms, it is a load-carrying vehicle of more...

I hired out was found to be defective in that it had a tyre with insufficient tread and, at the time of the inspection, was...

by Les Ofdridge, T Eng(CEI), MIMI, AM IRTE MoT tests: new points to watch SCHEDULE 3 of the Motor Vehicle (Tests) Regulations...

Steel freight spells danger WHENEVER STEEL is being loaded on to a vehicle — as sheet, gratings, bars or slabs — special care...