The Transport Tribunal's judgment, reported in this issue, on an appeal by Selby Morton and Sons Ltd, of Northumberland, is a...

Eastern LA's written decision on J. Wyatt Junior follows 12 overloading offences in 27 months • The 30 articulated vehicle...

• One of Holland's largest operators — Gelders Transport — iS moving into the United Kingdom with a base at Birmingham and jobs...

5 to 8m freight tons a year, no concession to BR from our Parliamentary correspondent • Freight services would provide the...

• A local row which could have implications for sales of the long version of the Leyland National throughout the country is now...

• A strike by members of the Civil and Public Services Association which has so far affected three traffic areas — Scottish,...

• The Minister for Transport Industries, Mr John Peyton, has turned down a suggestion by Mr Leslie Huckfield, Labour MP for...

• Mr Maurice Macmillan, Secretary of State for Employment, intends to vary the scope of the RTITB by amendments to the...

normally carry trains in one direction but they could operate in either direction and there would be cross-overs. The English...

• Few people know that 85 per cent of the nation's goods are carried by road and that they are carried by this means because...

• Legislation to require catering establishments on trunk roads to provide facilities for lorry drivers is being urged on Mr...

• -Between junctions 9 and 10 on Ml, and between junctions 4 and 6 on M4 motorway, over 50,000 vehicles pass in a typical 24...

• BBC televisions Man Alive programme plans to screen a discussion on the "disruption caused to small towns and villages" whose...

• The French Minister of Transport and the Minister of Equipment have agreed standards for fitting calibrating tachographs....

• Alternative lorry routes to the Blackwall Tunnel are to be discussed by Greenwich Council and the GLC. Complaints from local...

• Final dividend recommended for the year ended December 31, 1972 will be 13.1 per cent, the Transport Development Group has...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board has quickly followed the publication of the DoE's Safety of Loads on Vehicles with...

• As part of a campaign to give its transport, civil engineering, industrialized building, quarrying and other activities a...

• An estimated additional 5500 smaller firms will be excluded from payment of levy to the Distributive Industry Training Board...

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, has announced that the DoE is reviewing proposals for eight miles of M27...

• Two teams of drivers from London Carriers' Croydon depot won first and second place in a drivers' quiz last week, organized...

• A guide to the UK manufacturing plants. main parts centres and distributors and dealers which handle British Leyland truck...

• Geest Transportation Ltd, part of Geest Industries Ltd of Spalding, is to make 44 drivers and yard men redundant by the end...

• In our road test report of a Foden 30-ton-gvw eight wheeler (CM March 2) the price of the optional radio was given as £9. It...

John Jepson, chief engineer of the Eastern National Omnibus Co Ltd and Tillings Travel (NBC) Ltd. has been appointed chief...

• Details about the operation of National Travel (NBC) Ltd's pioneering service between London and Frankfurt emerged this week....

• A major European exercise in city bus design is now underway by four groups of manufacturers following a substantial pilot...

• Representatives of London Transport's 23,000 busmen on Monday lodged a claim for a "substantial" pay increase. This brings to...

• Ford of Britain has won a £500,000 order for 250 of its R1011 bus chassis from Taiwan. The chassis will be shipped in ckd...

• The needs of disabled passengers, including luggage space, are being discussed with the bus industry, Mr John Peyton,...

• A large city bus powered by batteries is currently being developed by the SELNEC PTE. Details revealed this week indicate...

• Hopes of early rises in fares levels were dashed last week by the Department of the Environment. Two meetings held by the DoE...

• A temporary lull in the battle over the disputed 0.8p in the £ which the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority says is...

• A bus service which would be London's fastest has been proposed by London Transport to the GLC. The proposed service would be...

• Mouldy biscuits and discoloured apple cores were found behind the seats in a John Kane of Lesmahagow bus by vehicle...

• The Institute of Body Engineers is holding a lecture and discussion meeting at the Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street,...

• A report issued by trade unions on Tyneside has called for greater co-ordination between different types of public transport....

• Northumberland education committee is to be approached for a third time by Wallsend on Tyne education committee to subsidize...

• A South Wales company which operates 20 tractive units and 36 trailers from bases in Cardiff, Liverpool and London and which...

• The first major revision in 40 years to Cambridge City bus services was allowed by the Eastern Traffic Commissioners last...

• The directors of a Bristol transport firm resigned following the issue of a GV9 for one vehicle. The Western LA, Maj-Gen Sir...

• The problem of how to impose a penalty on a company no longer operating vehicles from the base which gave rise for the...

• A variation of the arrangements made for the maintenance of its vehicles was admitted when J. H. Cobden (Farms) Ltd, of...

• The Transport Tribunal, in a written judgment, has dismissed an appeal by Selby Morton and Sons Ltd, of Wooler,...

• A one—vehicle operator who told the Eastern LA that it was virtually impossible to prevent overloading when carrying...

• Three main factors led to the breakdown of the maintenance system for a ninemonth period in 1972 of a Norwich company, the...

by Gibb Grace • Golden Wonder. (Crisps) Ltd, which runs its own vehicle fleet has, in joint consultation with Ford Motor...

• Deliveries to France of packs of highdensity polythene material by vehicles with demountable bodies by C. K. Addison Ltd, of...

by Gibb Grace • Several leading oil companies have told me Britain is safe from any shortage of diesel fuel such as is...

• Figures released by the SMMT show that total British commercial vehicle production dropped to 408,019 in 1972. This is the...

• The training of service personnel for the diagnosis and repair procedures of automatic transmissions is being catered for by...

• G.S.U. (Vehicles) Ltd, of Trafford Park, Manchester, has acquired Central Trailers Ltd, formerly the trailer hire company of...

• All D series Ford commercial vehicles will now feature Custom cabs as standard. In addition, four-way hazard warning flashers...

by Martin Hayes 1N-COACH catering could be the way to give your tours or express services a new boost — and the difficulties...

Machines for the Gods • SOME of the embarrassment of the railway unions not directly involved in the current industrial...

TYRE-CHANGING DANGERS ARE STILL TAKEN TOO LIGHTLY CARELESSNESS and ignorance are still resulting in death or serious injury to...

Cameron Mann • James Cameron Mann has always believed that the key to success in any type of industry lies in the application...

• Minicure I've long been a supporter of mini things. My happiest driving memories are of my three years with an early Mini,...

BUDGETARY CONTROL OF OPERATING COSTS by Reg P. Block WHEN the vehicle record form for the daily entries of vehicle /driver...

The European Court of Justice COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT of other Community institutions, the Court of Justice is required to...

Newcomers in the removals industry RE the article "Are newcomers undermining the removals industry?" (CM March 9). Your...

"Profit from Learning" (CM February 23) reminded me of the time approximately 30 years ago, when in a desperate effort to get...

THE Brazilian road haulage association, the NTC, has only about 300 members but although it is small in numbers it is well...

workshop by Handyman Details to save down-time (14) Spray-painting cannot be hastened by hothouse booth conditions: too much...

vehicle to turn over when it is negotiating a roundabout, notably an artic. I appreciate that the overturning couple is the...

as a means of improving diesel engine performance. What is the principle of this process and is it currently employed? A...

A The Commer T3 (Rootes) two-stroke engine was produced in various versions, the most recent type having a capacity of 3.52...

Transit minibus? At present I am using two 12-seater Transits for private hire, taking groups of people to the West End, etc;...

any purpose, having failed its annual test and what is the position if the vehicle is involved in an accident, and the fact...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM The law of hire-purchase Vast numbers of commercial vehicles are acquired under'hire-purchase...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI. AMIRTE The Public Service Vehicle (Lost Property) Regulations 1934 ANYONE who has any...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. The critical final weeks of examination...

For the next seven days MONDAY March 28th. TMC (Notts and Derby) meeting. Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne, Derbyshire, 7.30 for 8...