AS ROADLINE UK reaches deadlock in discussions with the unions over plans to rationalise its organisation (CM July 16) the...

NIGHT CLEANING staff were joined by senior executives of the Trent Motor Traction bus company to drive buses clear of their...

is just one item in a new 10-point campaign to be mounted by the Transport and General Workers' Union. This new claim comes...

They raised the alarm at 1.30 am and by 3.30 am Trent general manager Mr Dion Wilson, in the job for just three weeks, had...

from our Parliamentary correspondent It IS 1110T proposed to publish any of the representations made on the proposed network of...

get their drivers', vehicle and psv licences for nothing in the future. This move, to help transport-starved rural...

"A CLOSE EYE" on what locali authorities are doing to implement controls under the Heavy Commercial Vehicles Act 1973 is being...

ITALY has upset the Euro laws applecart by going it alone on legislation governing the weights and dimensions of commercial...

ROAD transport operators and industrialists should insist on being heard in support of major new roads at public inquiries....

FODENS are making a profit again despite announcing a pre-tax loss of £1.01m, most of which arose at the interest payment...

AILSA TRUCKS, distributors of Volvo commercial vehicles, have slammed the Green Paper on transport policy — labelling it as...

This is the seed time; the harvest is a long way off, according to our political masters. It is possibly the. most sage...

NCLUDE the light van "cowboys" of the emovals industry in the Transport danagers' Licence procedure and apply )ther regulations...

WHEN something other than transport was the main business . there was a tendency to neglect it. In the case of Slack & Cox Ltd,...

THIS WEEK'S CM has been printed at QB (Printers) Ltd, Colchester, and we trust that you have received it on time. We apologise...

A CALL for higher vehicle excise duty to be imposed quickly on heavy lorries met with little Government response last week. Mr...

hits expansion snag TALKS are being held between Leyland and shop stewards at the Scotstoun Albion plant in Scotland to get...

A DISUSED AIRFIELD is to be used by a haulage contractor as a container park. This follows a public inquiry when Mr Ron Barker...

THE Great York Show at Harrogate last week attracted more than its usual quota of commercial vehicle exhibits. Almost every...

by CM reporter JPERATORS of battery-electric vehicles n the South Eastern Electricity Board area could find battery charging...

COMMERCIAL vehicles sales in June were down by 1.9 per cent on the previous year — but this still represents the continuing...

of the Scottish deputy LA to curtail its licence from 10 vehicles and four trailers to three vehicles and four trailers was...

THE 1977 Tyre and Equipment Show is to be held at Earls Court from March 22 to 24. The exhibition was to have been held in the...

Seddon Atkinson reshuffles SEDDON ATKINSON has appointed two of its senior executives to the main board of its holding...

THE SCOTTISH LA was right in principle to impose a substantial penalty on the Aberdeen Service Co (North Sea) Ltd at a public...

to outspoken criticisms of the Traffic Commissioners from county council officials. "The county council have been given a job...

AN EXPERIMENTAL scheme to improve services to outlying and isolated villages around Truro in East Cornwall will start on...

AN APPLICATION by a Southall coach company to run a service to the West Midlands serving Sikh temples was granted this week by...

THE WEST Country is to get its own Continental coach servic€ from the beginning of August. Following an agreement between the...

A DRAW-BAR outfit has been added to the Computer and Specialised Distribution division fleet of the Alltransport International...

BECAUSE of 'the unacceptable costs of damage to goods in-transit the chemical company of Diversey Ltd is fitting the Shorfast...

THE 30,000th F86 model from Volvo has left the production line for delivery to Haugesund in Norway where it will be used for...

main prize in a coMpetition organised by Joseph Lucas for the personnel of the company's commercial vehicle workshops. To...

ANCHORPAC has developed its first automatic, front-loading mobile compaction system for the removal of industrial and...

ordering a twin-corridor van for keeping used and sterile surgical Instruments separate in transit. The special van body was...

BRF poses some urgent questions by John Darker k FAIR SHARE of taxpayers' , Tioney must be spent on roads, urged by Mr Tony...

'What a pity Doc Gilbert missed the Birmingham Group Training Association dinner last week; by all accounts it was a lively...

Ken Turner, the RTITB chairman, never seems to age. For ten years he has been sniped at, attacked, and insulted; his job has...

It has been suggested' that I Was unkind in the July 2 issue when I referred to the fact that the DoE had taken so long to sort...

There's no doubt about it, when you mount a campaign the more heavyweights you have on your side the better. That's why it's a...

Middle East transport business is perhaps not as rewarding as it should be, what with depressed rates, agency fees, Turkish ....

There's been a minor Russian infiltration up in Bridlington. Half a dozen technicians have installed themselves in Carnaby...

Paul Brockington's article, Wanted — a better chassis for the body makers:" June 25, said a lot of things about chassis layout...

With reference to an article in Commercial Motor, March 26 — - NAAFI shops around for trucks." The bulk of the article cannot...

We, at I DC, always ensure that we have discussions with both our clients and their insurance companies prior to designing and...

by Richard Reed, Secretary, Continental Freight Drivers' Club THE BRITISH equivalent of that famous French lorry drivers'...

1EFORE 1970, when the heavy goods vehicle driving test as introduced, anyone aged 21 or over could drive goods ehicles of any...

by Paul Brockington PISTON TALK. Wellworthy rings the changes fISUALLY a piston is a elatively simple thing. But inalysing...

to improve its facilities? by lain Sherriff WHO would have thought a few • years ago that a local authority .wodld be in any...

by Johnny Johnson - UNLESS you are prepared to dedicate yourself wholly to the business, don't set up on your own in road...

of the Transport and General Workers' Union, found himself in a unique position. Across the negotiating table sat a senior...

TGWU commercial transport trade group. Despite this dependancy, there are advantages, primarily in high wages. "The road...

by Paul Mungo In 1975, Kent County Council found it necessary to construct a temporary access road leading to a refuse dump...

DAF TRUCKS (GB) LTD have found from their customer records that the 2800 DKS is being used for operating out of the country...

AT THE TOP of the DAF list, as the option to end all options, comes the Supercontinental designed for Middle East and other...

DRIVER 'KNOW HOW FROM THE driver's point of view the 2800 can be subdivided into two categories: the 248bhp DKTD model with...

THE AUTHORISED dealer network of DAF Trucks carries a cross-section of the normal fastmoving parts. On a high-specification...

is made easy TO SPEED UP the whole process of repairing the truck broken down in the UK, OAF Trucks provide an emergency...

2800 1N ORDER TO ASSIST in budgeting accurately for maintenance and repair costs, DAF Trucks has introduced a contract scheme...

THE Department of the Environment is anti-road transport, in the opinion of Mr E. W. Neely, chairman of the Birmingham...

Continued from page 12 The Birmingham Training Association, he said, had just completed the training of its 1,000th trainee....

A Mobile cranes are excused from plating and testing by virtue of Paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 of the Goods Vehicles (Plating and...

requirements for side marker lamps on vehicles are contained in Part VIII of The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1971 Under...

I understand, will not be plated and tested for 12 months. Could you say how I can determine the maximum permitted gross and...

like it confirmed that we can operate the complete outfit at 32 tons gross. Are you able to do this? A Regulation 81 of the...

sengers still aboard or is i necessary to draw the vehicli empty? The other day, one o my coaches broke down no too far from...

by CM reporter THE London-based removers Pitt and Scott have carried out some huge removals, and small ones worth a huge...

"HERE is still time to take idvantage of CM's special iffer of two fire extinwishers at a reduced price. Both extinguishers...

BEFORE long the road transport industry may find that it will have to adopt the knockabout practices indulged in by every...

by Les Oldridge TEng (CEI) MIMI, AMIRTE THE Employment Protection Act 1975 gives trade unions and employees important rights...

THE PRESSURE'S ON SO KEEP IT! AS ANYONE who has undone the filler cap of a hot engine knows, cooling systems are pressurised —...