Delegation of power to new companies in a move towards more specialized services Managing directors of six of the new regional...

Registered titles for the seven new BRSL regional operating companies have yet to be approved by the Registrar of Companies,...

BUT MUNICIPAL VEHICLES TO CONTINUE • No more Dennis trucks are to be produced. That was the surprise announcement this week...

• Road transport's "Three Musketeers" — Heatons, Craddock Bros and Panalpina — arc to appeal to the House of Lords in an...

• Road transport training levies of 1.4 per cent and 2.0 per cent of payroll, depending on a firm's size, have been approved...

tells CM: We will streamline Investigation of HTS accounts to follow profit shortfall • The Ralph Hilton haulage group has...

• Highland road haulage services by David MacBrayne Ltd no longer need a Government subsidy, the Scottish Transport Group has...

Official Solicitor brought in • The Official Solicitor, Mr Norman Turner, whose dramatic intervention in the Chobham Farm...

This type 68LXB eight-wheeled 26-ton-gvw tipper operated by F. W. Whinfrey, Sheffield, has recently been modified by the ERF...

Govt spokesman warns Lords on higher prices implicit in less flexible transport system from our Parliamentary correspondent •...

• Hargreaves Transport Ltd, road tanker operator, showed a modest improvement in profit for the year ended March 311972, says...

• The Freight Transport Association is holding a one-day seminar on Warehousing and its effect on transportation at theNational...

• Commercial vehicle exhibits at last week's Essex County Show, one of the most popular of the Home Counties' summer events,...

• At Leeds last weekend Chris O'Reilly, Petrofina's Class F driver who was the 1969 Bramcote Champion, made the day's best...

order • Mr Maurice Macmillan, Secretary of State for Employment, has approved proposals submitted by the Distributive Industry...

• Complete public ownership of the nation's road passenger transport industry, and a two-tier system of national and regional...

Rigid vehicles Class A: up to 20ft and over 1 ton unladen: 1, J. Louch (Rank Films) Morris, 202 pis; 2, F. French (Rank Films)...

Rigid vehicles Class A: up to 20ft and over 1 ton unladen: 1, F. Wilkins (PO, Leeds) BLMC, 317 pts; 2, D. Hird (PO, Sheffield)...

Class F: box or tank to 40ft: 1, C. O'Reilly (Petrofina Ltd) AEC, 169; 2, R. Handforth (Shell-Mex and BP Ltd) AEC, 241; 3, G....

Quite rightly, haulage companies are demanding higher and higher standards in truck diesel design, particularly at the heavy...

No range of electronic calculators is better suited to handle the variety of calculations used in transport and haulage. The...

• Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive achieved a £481,000 surplus for the year ended December 31, 1971; operational revenue...

4111 Trials of the second of two prototype battery-electric buses sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry, and built...

• Five school buses which have entered service with the GLC's Inner London Education Authority have doors on both sides for...

• Mrs Margaret Thatcher, the Education Minister, is being urged to hurry up the report of the working party reviewing the...

• The next annual conference of the Public Road Transport Association will be held in Brighton from June 12-14, 1973, inclusive.

• Edinburgh may soon have its first Sikh drivers and conductors on Corporation buses. The transport committee has agreed that...

• When critics complained at a Birmingham city coucil meeting last week that bus services in the area were not as good as they...

• The Seddon - Caetano 12m coach delivered to F. G. Wilder (CM June 16) has a five-speed ENV gearbox and not a David Brown box...

• Sixty-four charges against a Yorkshire haulier and two of his drivers showed "a deliberate, calculated and cold-blooded...

• In a written decision, following a Section 69 inquiry at Lincoln on May 31, the East Midland LA has directed that two...

• After the RHA dealt with a new 0-licence application on behalf of two Lancashire hauliers they began to operate their...

• Drivers' records of a Birmingham haulage contractor, Chelmsley Transport, were in a deplorable condition, it was claimed by...

• A Birmingham owner-operator who had no proper maintenance facilities whatsoever had been "keeping maintenance records in name...

• The Scottish LA, Mr A. B. Birnie, has urged Northern Irish companies operating into the UK through Scotland to study the...

• A claim and counter-claim between Leyland Motors Ltd and Stoke-on-Trent hauliers, Joseph Kimberley and Sons Ltd, concerning a...

• The Transport Tribunal has reserved its decision on the appeal by Spinks Interfreight Ltd, which was heard in London last...

• Two appeals by F. J. and J. A. Fry and CameIford Rural District Council have been dismissed by the Secretary of State for the...

• That there were special difficulties in maintaining vehicles in the Shetlands was accepted by the Scottish LA, Mr A. B....

Lord Stokes, chairman and managing director of BLMC, has announced that George Turnbull, a deputy managing director of BLMC...

• Tanker operators will probably benefit from the new axle spread regulations to a greater extent than other type of goods...

• The Department of the Environment is consulting interested organizations on a proposal that, by October 1973, most new...

• Low-cost stainless steel exhaust systems for light commercials took a step nearer on Tuesday with the introduction in London...

• CAV Ltd has formed its UK and overseas activities into three businesses — Fuel Injection Equipment, Electrical Equipment and...

steering low-loading trailer • A system of hydraulic rams mounted on the fifth-wheel coupling fitted on a standard three-axle...

• Amendments to the Construction and Use Regulations which specify unsafe combinations of tyres have been laid before...

• A new trailer company, A. H. P. Trailers Ltd, has been formed and is due to start production this month. The address is Heath...

• The prototype of a York car transporter demonstrated at Cannock last week stems partly from pressure by the users of York...

by Derek Moses THE CONCEPT of employing dial-a-ride bus systems to supplement or replace existing bus services in residential...

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

The measurement of productivity • A correct appreciation of managerial techniques is highly desirable for small transport...

by Gibb Grace, DAuE, CEng, MIMechE MANY OPERATORS who run 180 bhp vehicles at 32 tons gcw bemoan the fact that from April 1...

by one who got away HAULING for a living is a form of lunacy, and a pernicious form at that. I have met literally hundreds of...

have ITT STAR mobile radiotelephones installed in all their vehicles which range from light vans to 32 ton articulated...

view by the Hawk • 0? Oh! You imagine Applications and Decisions to be dull lists, perhaps? Not a bit of it. The Metropolitan...

by Handyman Understanding metrics (2) MECHANICS may feel inclined to question the wisdom of moving from the BSF and Whitworth...

Chrysler believe that the reputation of Dodge, Commer and Karricr vehicles for reliability and longevity is just as important...

Total loss control by John C. Vann • Have you yet heard total loss control? It's a comparatively new concept in this country....

meet Arthur Beckenham • Educationists are notoriously enthusiastic supporters of their cause and Arthur Beckenham is...

Honesty is catching LAST WEEK'S celebration of the lath anniversary of the Vehicle Observer Corps brought out strongly that...

expert staff will gladly answer your queries. Letters should be addressed to: and Ti and 'A' Bureau, .Commercial Motor,...

The historic Appeal Court judgment: Heaton's Transport v TGWU VERY FEW pundits in industrial relations expected the Court of...

by Les Oldridge AMIRTE MIMI Disposal of Poisonous Waste Act (2) LAST WEEK I dealt with the criminal offences under the...

learning by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies,...

Swedish waste compactor is reliable from Malthouse Hunter at is known as the Orvak 5028 id will, it is claimed, compact fuse to...

is suitable for a - iety of jobs. such as drying t the distributor head and iition system, quick-drying of intwork, de-icing of...

Developed for Fuller gearboxes by Drum Engineering, a 55 hp pto operates at an output speed up to 1000 rpm. To facilitate...

Collapsible roll pallets having four sides that remain permanently attached even when folded down are now included in the range...

Hunter (Mechanical Handling) has developed a range of electro/hydraulic medium-duty liftables that enable a demountable body to...

A non-drip, non-run, hardsetting oil sealant has been evolved for pipe joints and gaskets by the RAS Advanced Sealants Division...

A buffing machine for commercial vehicle tyres has been announced by Retreading Equipment that is power operated and...

A set of side reflectors of a ty that is compulsory for vehicl over 8m and trailers over E and is ECE approved is ric available...

. battery-electric industrial latform truck marketed in the K by Malthouse Hunter has a latform size of 61 x load capacity of...

A Havoline engine oil formulated by Texaco is claimed to resist thickening, even under very high engine temperatures, and to...

are available as portable or static machines powered by a petrol or diesel engine or by electric motor. One of the models has...

by Trevor Longcroft Iritish operators who are njoying the facilities of the tyre ,reakdovvn scheme run by the ational Tyre...

Designed to enable rapid fork-lift loading and unloading of trailer-mounted shipping containers, a long mobile ramp is produced...

From Partridge, Wilson and Co comes the Davenset battery tester designed for testing 12V batteries up to 100 Ah and to provide...

Avdel has announced an addition to the company's Nutsert range of threaded insert fasteners, which is known as the Thin Sheet...

A portable hydraulic test unit manufactured by T. Webster can be inserted anywhere in a fluid circuit to indicate flow,...

Kysc Industrial is applicable to a dies( or petrol engine and afforc protection of the unit in the ever of low oil pressure or...