Ibby gets a drubbing as Chunnel goes and MuIley warns further transfers from road eporter ransport will play the leading...

G of fitting tacho'hen do nothing. .! advice which the ransport A ssociarepeating to its this week followeeting with Fred...

I re to be held he Lothian regional id the Scottish Bus iiscuss ways of im co-ordination the two undersews of the move...

A SUGGESTION that the PTEs might club together to build their own buses was made last week by ClIr Stan Yapp, leader of the...

THE COMMONS considered the effect of dearer petrol on the bus services during a debate on the price of petrol last week. The...

THE ONLY WAY r efficient integrated policy was to imple quantity licensing ; in the 1968 Tram claimed Mr J. L. (Labour, Hull...

IENT plans to .e pace on freight from ,e to the railways delayed by a - tage of rolling ! the general limate. Mulley, Minister...

a severe blow to British Rail's plans for providing a fast industrial rail link between the Midlands and the North and the...

A NEW WAGES bargain between the Transport and General Workers' Union and representative Road Haulage Association employers in...

Devon routeing scheme AN ASSURANCE has been ,given by the Road Haulage Association to the Devon County Council that it will...

DISCUSSIONS on the proposed withdrawal of the Belfast/Heysham vehicle ferry service operated by British Rail have been held...

AN ARRANGEMENT which comes into force on February 1 allows - UK licensed goods vehicles carrying for hire and reward or on...

A SIGNIFICANT drop in the number of lorry thefts in the London area last year is reported by the vehicle security committee of...

WAYS and means of reducing rolling noise produced by vehicles is the subject of a report. Rolling noise and vehicle noise, by...

HAULAGE costs a by an average of 3 per month, accol the results of a sui published by th Haulage Associal the five months ei...

lurst, director of s at Tyne and Wear mes acting directorlater this month Tony Ridley leaves inother post — in mg. A permanent...

We record with regret the death of P. W. Smith. Mr Smith was British Leyland truck and bus division coach sales manager and...

A NATIONAL seminar on plans for lorry -routes is to be held in March, Mr Fred Mulley, the Transport Minister, announced in the...

6x2 versus 6x4 examined by Scania engineer THE 6x2 truck can offer significant advantages over the 6x4 model -provided a bogie...

ER LIAISON manufacturers and operators on both esign and the speed- spares supplies was r by members of the rt Association at a...

SCA (FREIGHT) LTD now guarantees a transit time within 36 hours, five days a week, for transporting goods by road to Italy. Any...

CASH AID of £20m and far increases in March of 25-35 per cent are being sought by the National Bus Company to help it out of...

WOO :it for dee MORE THAN 80 I buses have now beei with a device which , warning when the vel crew is being attacl hooligans....

dispute has fareffects on pasyalty and the vital a sustained period is all too clear. .irectors. hope that go down in history...

PLAXTONS has extended its Supreme body range — introduced on Bedford and Bristol chassis at the Earls CoUrt Show to the...

AN APPEAL by the Thames Valley and Aldershot Omnibus Co Ltd against the decision of the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners to...

BUS AND CAR — the American-owned Belgian bodybuilder whose plans to enter the British market were exclusively reported in CM,...

TUESDAY Jan 28. FTA (East Midlands) "Roads in the Midlands" by F. J. Charlton (chairman, Midland Road Development Group). Grand...

Speed bus snag 4 MAJOR SNAGS in the implementation of London Transport's proposed system of Speedbus routes have been accepted...

grant from central Government are likely to compel London Transport to implement further fares increases, Dr David Quarmby,...

TEN of an order of 31 land Atlantean dc deckers ordered by Pi Corporation Transport Alexander bodywork al as stated last week i...

,TIES imposed by ith Wales Licensing ity on a family road business were much 'ere, it was argued the Transport II in London...

Transport Tribunal .1 upheld the decision e North Western ng Authority, to put ree-vehicle fleet of tit Asphalt (Transtd,...

THE LICENCE of North Eastern Farmers Ltd for 38 vehicles has been curtailed to 32 vehicles by the Scottish Licensing A...

THE Scottish Licensing Authority decided to take no action against three hauliers called before him in Aberdeen under section...

AN OWN-ACCOUNT haulier in the Highlands, who sold out his fruit merchant's business last October, is fighting the Department of...

THAN 1,600 Leyland and buses worth nearly have been ordered the past three months )ur African states: 3, Ghana, Zaire and the...

MOVE designed to t possible Middle East 3tion of Daimler-Benz, rman Government has ized Deutsche Bank to se control of the ny....

A NEW VAN design, the Taskvan S. has been developed by Cravens Homalloy as an addition to its existing range of semi-trailer...

TRANSERVICE TI, the training and service organilation for Crypton, Bradbury and Churchill transport equipment, has opened its...

A NEW organization, under the company titles of Rolling Transport Systems Ltd and Rolling Transport Systems (Overseas) Ltd, has...

Middle Eastern money is everywhere these days. I learned last week that a commission from an Arab state has been buying...

Talking of market prices reminds me of a recent conversation with "Jim" Hale, director of Don's Coaches, well known in Herts...

They'll be packing 'ern in on the Bristol-London express coach service on February 10; to mark the 50th anniversary of a...

I see that, as well as taking measures to combat the increasing violence on buses, London Transport is training crews in the...

I was astonished to read in a A ilsa press release that Volvo b more than £50,000,000 (yes, million) worth of auton components...

Another link with the old d being cut workmen arc dem ing the former premises of Fost. Seddon in Broad Street, Sa This is the...

raham M ontgomerie tESTING detail differences in basically similar vehicles engineering talking point provided by the Club of...

Operational efficiency and public safety go hand-in-hand in the hazardous-loads business, and both benefit from thorough driver...

by John Darker AMBIM IF SERVICE is the name of the game for successful coach operators, its limits are essentially specific to...

Some of the bus, coach and goods body exhibits at the Belgian Show by CM reporter . om the new Mercedes 0.303 oach first...

SO MANY preconceptions have dissolved in the fuel crisis and the parlous economic situation that it would be surprising if...

I read in CM December 20o age of Class 1 drivers. One YOU pointed out, was the insurance, another problei have been...

We read with interest VOL the January 17 issue dangerous goods carrier! tachograph. You, I am sure, have e many operators on...

id your survey on van rental luary 3) most interesting and live. g visited a number of depots lg to rental companies, and...

by Les Oldridge TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE IN the second article in this series I mentioned Section 30 of the Transport Act 1968...

states that the holder may drive a vehicle --doe.. not belong to him cover the holder when driving a vehicle which might h,...

Before that I drove heavy goods vehicles. Sonic of the vehicles which I now drive are up to about 4 tons unladen, so could I...

opportunity to acquire a large breakdown vehicle with which we propose to recover broken-down buses. The snag is that none of...

need watching r ways of monitoring information may elpful to both sides; and external changes :A business at short notice by...

A fluid level detector switch for monitoring radiator water levels has been developed in conjunction with Vauxhall Motors truck...

A small lever-type light-vehicle lift for general purpose workshop use such as wheel changing or brake repairs has been...

A low-cost O' ring kit is no able ex-stock from UCC national. The kit mix is 25 of sizes 006 to 012, 15 off each 110 to 116, 10...

A 12V, 8W output. inspecti( having a current consumptio than I amp has been introd GP International. It has a proof fluorescent...

"We're operating 22 Seddon Midi buses in the Manchester City area and there's no doubt the Allisons do give the passenger a...