One sector of the community which has been strangely quiet over the Government's plans for London's Ringway 1 is that of the...

Layfield report on GLC Development Plan is against restraint on lorries from our political correspondent • A decidedly...

• Minimum ages for driving some vehicles in Great Britain will be changed from January 1 1976, to bring them into line with EEC...

• Plans to set up an advisory council to formulate proposals for the regulation of heavy lorries in urban areas under the Heavy...

• The first purpose-built drivers' hotel and security park in the UK will be opened next Thursday, March 1, at Felixstowe. The...

• The rental division of the York Trailer Company has established an independent rental administration system at its new depot,...

by John Darker • There was some hope that the dispute involving 18 BRS midlands depots could be resolved this week — but only...

• An immediate survey of the transport requirements of the City of Sheffield is being called for by Mr John Osborn, Tory MP for...

• The Transport and Road Research Laboratory has engaged the consultants Atkins Planning to carry out the freight survey,...

• Haulage contractors using the Royal Docks in London will find the Connaught Road Bridge closed from 8 am tomorrow (Saturday)...

• The board of Ralph Hilton Transport Services Ltd (HTS) announces that agreement has been reached for the formation of a joint...

• British Leyland Motor Corporation has announced that the recently formed Truck and Bus division of Leyland Industries,...

• Mr R. S. Thornton has been appointed chairman of the Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority for the Yorkshire Traffic...

• Scania (Great Britain) Ltd has moved from its premises at Cranford to 11 Mount Road, Hanworth Industrial Estate, Hanworth,...

• Lorry and van hire firms could be severely hit by Government plans to make owners of vehicles as well as drivers responsible...

• Although the FTA has accepted in principle the proposals of the GLC to ban vehicles exceeding 40ft in Central London, it has...

New regulations; new tests; new centre; new trophies • This week the local secretaries of the Lorry Driver of the Year...

Test 1 — Diminishing Alley This test represents a situation which frequently faces drivers and which requires them to...

Reproduced in this test are conditions often encountered by drivers involving, as it does, manoeuvring in confined spaces and...

This represents the difficult manoeuvre of positioning the vehicle as close to a kerb while driving forward and into a...

Aberdeen: SUNDAY, JUNE 3. Mr A.G. McKenzie, do Road Safety Department, Police Headquarters, Queen Street, Aberdeen AB9 1BA....

• Value-added tax — only five weeks away — will affect different businesses in different ways, and transport is fort u nate in...

• About 26,000 extra goods vehicles were licensed in 1972. This provisional figure was given in the Commons by Mr John Peyton....

• A national competition, sponsored by Imperial Tobacco Group Ltd, offers a first prize of £1,500 to the winning team of three...

• The twin tube of the Kingsway Mersey Tunnel between Wallasey and Liverpool will open at the end of December. Completion has...

• A new 10-minute filmstrip and commentary has been produced by British Road Services Ltd. It publicizes a new method of...

• The Don Safety Trophy, sponsored by the Manchester-based Don Brake Lining company, will not be awarded in respect of 1972....

• It will be April or even later before the future of a proposed low-cost Aberdeen to London coach service is known. The...

• Fifty-one applications have been received for director-generalship of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, the post...

• Schemes to restrict traffic to buses, delivery vehicles and taxis in five major shopping streets in central London — similar...

• Leicester City Transport is introducing an improvement to the radio-control system of its bus network. A device will give the...

• There was a major slap in the face this week for Mr Geoffrey Rippon, Secretary of State for the Environment, from the...

• Coach wheels and tyres worth £730 were stolen from the Loughborough factory of the Willowbrook coachbuilding concern by...

• Mr William Murray, present general manager of Glasgow Corporation transport department, has been appointed director of...

• A series of tests to find the most suitable coach for long distance services and tours is being run by National ,Travel (NBC)...

• An application to operate a direct coach service between Teesside and Edinburgh and Glasgow has been made by United...

Peter Liusey, 41, who joined JCB Sales a year ago as managing director. has been appointed a director of J. C. Bamford...

• The latest 13 students to qualify at Bromsgrove College of Further Education for the Diploma in Road Transport Engineering...

• Western SMT showed "an abysmal and inept" failure to liaise with a steamer company in its own group when it advertised a tour...

• Thirteen convictions for overloading during the period 1970-1972 brought J. Wyatt Jur (Haulage) Ltd of Diss, Norfolk, before...

• Mr P. F. Lackey, a Liverpool furniture remover, had his application for an additional five vehicles refused at a public...

• A leaflet entitled Lorries and the Environment is published today by the PTA. Written in simple question and answer form the...

• It was to be regretted that although there had been allegations during the Section 69 inquiry that the maintenance records of...

• A Birmingham haulier, Mr Ernest Percy Lloyd of Shady Lane, Great Barr, who pleaded guilty by letter to 16 offences concerning...

• A pigeon-carrying trailer, which had a fibreglass roof designed with openings to allow the pigeons to breathe, lost its roof...

• A special type outfit drawn by a tractive unit, plated for 32 tons gross, can not exceed that weight, Widnes Magistrates were...

• At a public inquiry in Birmingham last week a Worcester pallet manufacturing company had its operator's licence curtailed...

• A Chorley, Lanes, road construction concern which had been the subject of four unsatisfactory maintenance reports in the past...

• Glasgow Corporation is seeking Parliamentary Provisional Order powers to control the overnight and Sunday parking of lorries...

• As a direct result of the Government's quiet commercial vehicle project, a heavy lorry with an exterior noise level of 80 dBA...

• A weight-trimming exercise by cost-conscious Scottish Gas has resulted in the unladen weight of their appliance delivery...

• York Trailer has now completed negotiations with a number of companies to distribute its trailers in France. The six new...

• Single-intensity stop-lamps and rear direction indicators will continue to be permitted, for six months as an alternative to...

• On April 11 and 12 the National Materials Handling Centre will be holding two-day seminar at Cranfield in. Bedfordshire on...

• To provide the necessary information required for a satisfactory revision of BS 1133 (The Packaging Code) Section 8, Wooden...

• The Swedish Volvo group has confirmed that it has begun negotiations with the Michelin company with a view to taking over a...

• Cradle mounting of the tank in the lowered position is a special feature of a 3600ga1 vacuum-filled 30-ton-gvw rigid sludge...

by Gibb Grace • The Central Kent Productivity Association, whose aims and objectives are to promote higher productivity by...

• Truck and car tyres, international tyre legislation and tyre design are included in the subjects of papers to be presented at...

• Ferrymasters Ltd has placed an order for 60 TIR semi-trailers with Cravens Industries Sales Ltd, Anna Valley, Andover, Hants,...

• Big sister On the very day that the Anti-Discrimination Bill had its second reading in Parliament, a letter dropped on my...

workshop by Handyman Details to save down-time (10) Quite a common fault is splined yokes being reinstalled without the lugs...

The nesting habits of lorries EXPERTS ON THE MIGRATION of birds, and on many other aspects of their life cycle still find...

George Carruthers George Ca' rruthers, the National Bus Company's new group executive, public relations, began his passenger...

ABOUT LEGAL MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS by W Balne GETTING a licence seems to amount to little more than filling a form which...

Rolland Although road transport operators in the Netherlands have designs on British traffic to the Continent, at least one of...

I was interested in the "Hawk's" reprint of the latest ROSCO poster emphasizing the need to approach roundabouts with care in...

With reference to Mr Trevor Longcroft's statements in Commercial Motor, February 2, regarding suspensions for bulk vehicles. In...

manufacturers over a long period. There is strong support for the view that, cost apart, air suspension provides the best ride...

I was. pleased to read Paul Brockington's article (CM February 2) regarding George Webb's experiences in handling flyash. Here...

It would seem that Mr P. J. Walker's statement (Letters, last week) "Every transport man knows that at a given traffic density,...

The EEC Commission (2) AS THE EXECUTIVE ARM of the Communities the Commission has wide powers under the Treaties. Additional...

Or how Martin Hayes spent 11 hours getting from Edinburgh to London by coach "RIGHT", said the editor, "as you're going to...

and A bureau said that the driver of a psv not carrying passengers needs to have a psv driving licence, but is this answer in...

A It is not known why you should wish to do this but exemption is contained in Section 109 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction...

the chassis of a Thames Trader, for ease of moving the welder from site to site. This is the only purpose of the lorry and it...

Germany as an hgv driver. I am at present employed driving a 2L5 tons articulated vehicle, but have, in fact regularly driven...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Can the computer save paper? The Army's approach to money-saving in road transport THE...

by Les Oldridge, T. Eng.(CEI). MIMI. AMIRTE Police powers (1) ALTHOUGH many people think the police have unlimited powers,...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Lessons from the disappearing students TO GIVE...