Not very long ago Transport Minister John Peyton said: "It is Important not to be hysterical about the lorry which, by its...

All-party backing for Bill to restrict lorries from our political correspondent • MPs of all parties, proand anti-Common...

FTA director's counter-blow to MPs • A counter-blow to the "Dykes Bill" was delivered by Mr Hugh Featherstone, director of the...

• The Minister for Transport Industries has sent a congratulatory message to the chairman of the National Freight Corporation...

• A heavy haulage levy, to protect the environment and aid other forms of transport, has been proposed in a report by a body...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board has announced the value of the points which it has awarded to operators for the...

• Higher fares and the abandonment of tokens are likely to be early results of the taking over of Sunderland Corporation...

• North Sea Ferries has placed a £.20m order for two second-generation ferries of 12,500 tons — the largest planned for North...

And a vote for the 11-tonne axle • Development of a fresh range of Atkinsons and Seddons, with forward-tilting steel cabs, has...

Two weeks from now, in the issue dated December 8, CM will contain a free copy of the new edition of the Commercial Motor Guide...

• About 20 per cent of the foreign vehicles examined in Britain during August, September and October — 206 out of 710 —were...

• Overloading offenders are not being adequately discouraged, the Minister for Transport Industries has told the Licensing...

• The timetable for introduction of a common EEC driving licence is totally unrealistic, the Freight Transport Association has...

• Insurance companies will probably need to be notified by policy holders in advance each time commercial vehicles visit Common...

• The British Road Federation on Wednesday called for Government priority for 13 new motorways and other strategic roads...

• About one road casualty in every thousand last year resulted from an accident in which a lorry with a defective load was...

• More than 100 lorries were "booked" for illegal parking in the London Borough of Haringey when a party of 25 Tory councillors...

8000 in 1975 • Mercedes-Benz plans to sell 800 commercial vehicles in Britain this year, 2000 (worth over Elm) next year, 8000...

• A Leyland Buffalo and a Super Buffalo, each towing drawbar trailers, have been used in recent Forestry Commission...

• Blue Dart, the British Vita transport subsidiary, has opened a depot at Albert Road, Bristol, where the manager is Mr Stuart...

• Hill and Delamain Ltd has started a thrice-weekly TIR groupage and full-load service between its main centre at Concord...

• A major expansion of its international service is announced by the Freight Transport Association. It consists of sets of...

• A reconstructed course on warehousing, consisting of sessions on the location and operation of warehouses, is to be presented...

• Mr T. L. Beagley, deputy secretary, Transport Industries, Department of the Environment, will speak on "European Community...

• The second stage in the GLC's Oxford Street vehicle ban comes into operation tomorrow, Saturday. Drivers are warned that...

• Co-Ordinated Traffic Services Ltd, part of Mitchell Cotts Transport Ltd, opened a new depot at 5 Hucclecote Road, Barnwell,...

• Allied Polymer Group has changed the name of P. B. Cow Transport to APG Transport. In addition to its present function the...

planning and development for the British Road Services Ltd Group. Mr Beattie has spent four years with the former British Iron...

• Edinburgh area manager of Inter-city Transport and Trading Co Ltd, Thomas P. Cook, has won the £25 Commercial Motor prize in...

• A plea for an "identifiable statutory body" to be responsible for school transport is made by the London Transport Passengers...

• Cumberland County Council has agreed to make representations through the County Councils' Association on bus licensing...

• Although the total number of passengers carried by National Bus Company stage carriage services in the first nine months of...

• Several of the 140 Leyland Atlanteans in Glasgow Corporation's fleet which are fitted with separate entrance and exit doors...

• Hard on the heels of London Transport's announcement (CM last week) that it is to halt its one-man conversion programme,...

• The imminent closure of Manchester's Lower Mosley Street bus terminal — since the turn of the - century the base for coach...

L How will local government reorganization, which takes effect in 1974, affect urban and rural transport? O What does it take...

• The South Eastern LA, Maj-Gen A. J. F. Elmslie, reserved his decision at Southampton last week with regard to a north...

• Two companies who, for the second time, failed to appear for public inquiry, were at Ipswich last week, dealt with by the...

• When a Farnham haulier applied for an extra vehicle to be added to its licence, a fleet inspection was arranged — but a...

• An Aberdeen scrap metal merchant whose lorry was "grossly overloaded" had his licence suspended for a month by the Scottish...

• The Transport Tribunal last week rejected what it termed "this quantitative approach" when, considering an appeal against the...

on behalf of Mr G. H. J. Fry, of Dursley, Glos, who complained about the revocation of an 18-vehicle (15 trailers) operator's...

at the Transport Tribunal on Wednesday against the two Weeks' suspension of the firm's operator's licence, imposed by Maj-Gen....

• The South Eastern LA, Maj-Gen A. F. J. Elmslie, took into account the conduct of Mr S. A. Fish while in partnership with his...

• A Section 69 inquiry was adjourned by the Western LA recently because inquiries had established that the operator, Mr David...

• The TR 300 tractive unit introduced by Automobiles Berliet at the 1970 Paris Show has been replaced by the TR 320, a more...

• The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has launched a new membership scheme which should reduce the age at which an engineer...

• A new 10-ton self-steering axle was announced on Tuesday by the maker, A. W. Hunton and Co Ltd, Drayton Road, Norwich. It is...

• A lead trap has been developed by two Tube Investment companies, TI Silencer Services Ltd and Magnesium Elektron Ltd, in...

• A semi-trailer especially for carrying big caravans and yet with enough versatility to carry other loads on return trips has...

• Seven major motor manufacturers have joined forces to form the world's first action group to cope with the problems of the...

• The London Borough of Southwark, along with several other London authorities, including the GLC, is now using Taskers urban...

• By introducing a single Rubery Owen control valve, Finnish manufacturer of lorry tippers, Nummi Oy, of Pernio, has achieved...

view by the Hawk • Perfidious Albion The cat has certainly been put among the Continental pigeons by the Road Traffic...

Rayner Barker • A down-to-earth, no-nonsense "tyke", Ray Barker, who has been chairman of the West Riding area of the Road...

THERE have always been dock problems — stemming from the early years of the Second World War when the dock labour scheme was...

Power and torque to make the most of an eight-hour driving day by Gibb Grace LAST WEEK I was able to make an exclusive...

by Trevor Longcroft MENTION the name Reliant and many people will think of a three-wheeler. However, since the mid-Sixties...

by Handyman Tyre bills — polythene sheeting will protect covers • Always give the remoulder a dry casing • Watch your...

The case of the patient trainees THROUGH the trade union representatives, student power should have ample scope on industrial...

Like so many from the environmental lobby, Mr. B. M. Feilden (CM, November 10) argues from a standpoint of emotion and hearsay...

Much emotive writing has appeared recently in the Press, on the subject of so-called juggernauts. EEC negotiations in Brussels,...

I was interested to read the report in Commercial Motor November 10 under the heading 'World Wide in default over driver's...

May I use your columns to let it be known that James Cocker & Sons (Southport) Ltd, a member of the Cocker Group of Companies,...

Tanker design problems THE WORK HARDENING of aluminium by continuous high-frequency vibration when a tanker is running light...

Seeing the axle-weight dilemma from a French manufacturer's point of view by Brian Coffee The French have their own...

Bridge that insurance gap • "We wonder if there is not need for buyers of insurance to have some organization which could...

Body swop test Where demountable-bodied rigids are being introduced to replace articulated vehicles, a certain amount of...

legal in these circumstances: it is used as a recovery vehicle and its load is a traction engine (this is a disabled vehicle...

bureau (CM November 10) concerning driving in relation to a person steering a vehicle while under tow and a person steering a...

which will require 20-ton 40ft wagons on 10 to 300-mile runs but 1 have no idea what to charge. Could you give me the rates for...

bus fleet in the world; the reference was made again recently In connection with the LTE decision to cease one-man conversions....

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Money-saving ideas IN what was termed an "Ideas Workshop" the recent conference of British...

The production of documents by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI WHAT DOCUMENTS are needed by a driver before he can legally drive a...

The importance of keeping up to date by T. P. Cook Continuing our first-hand comments on transport education, this week we...