A sick German truck driver and two Swiss truck drivers, one of them an owner, are languishing in prison or are under close...

by David Lowe • The latest move in the West Midlands industrial dispute is a ban imposed by the TGWU on the recruitment of new...

• The IRU has this week issued a warning to all operators using the Turkish frontier post of Kapikule, where three drivers were...

• Announced today by British Leyland truck and bus division is an extension to its range of medium-weight vehicles powered by...

but few clues offered on parcels integration strategy by John Darker • The National Freight Corporation told top union leaders...

• A call for a public inquiry was made in York after all 32 men at the local National Carriers Ltd (Eastern Region) repair...

• Is it really possible to require "large" vehicles on town outskirts to transfer goods to unobtrusive "small vehicles for...

• The possibility of holding the national finals of the CM-sponsored Lorry Driver of the Year competition at Crystal Palace,...

• Spinks Transport Services Ltd, Darlington, for which a receiver was appointed recently, has been bought by Mr Cecil Attwood,...

• The North-East Transport Advisory Committee is protesting against proposed higher tolls for the Tyne tunnel between Jarrow...

• A research study on the small firm in the road transport industry, prepared for the Bolton Committee Enquiry on Small Firms,...

• The two-year standstill on the development of the Merseyside headquarters of Containerbase Ltd, is likely to end soon....

• Heavy goods vehicle driver training from scratch to Class I standard, and including conversion courses from rigid to...

• Eden Vale was represented for the first time in the Express Dairy Company Driver of the Year competition. held on Sunday at...

• On Monday September 27. R. A. Dyson and Co Ltd moves its London office to larger premises and the new address will be: 28/30...

• From October 1 the minimum height above the road for electricity lines will be reduced from 20ft to 1911. Operators of...

• Increases in subscriptions are announced by the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, taking effect from January 1 1972, as...

• Goods vehicles not exceeding 30cwt unladen may have to report to heavy goods vehicle testing stations if the Government's...

• In his report to the annual general meeting of the British Electric Traction Co Ltd the chairman and managing director, Sir...

• King Truck Equipment Ltd demonstrated on Wednesday of last week the new 150-ton modular heavy haulage trailer ordered by...

• Crane Fruehauf Trailers this week announced a pretax profit of £514,000 for the six months ended June 30, 1971, compared with...

• Last week British Leyland announced that it had sold, for £2.5m, its shareholdings in Fodens and Seddon Diesel—"in line with...

• At an inquest at Brentwood. the coroner, Dr Charles Clark, recorded a verdict of accidental death on 30-year-old Preston...

• The overall theme of a Chartered Institute of Transport conference, held at New College, Oxford, last weekend was:...

• Modification to the hydraulic system of the Pengco Load-O-Matic demountablebody equipment, and the use of stronger structural...

• Concern for the future of bus services in Britain. and particularly municipal buses, was expressed by Mr J. C. Franklin,...

Highland Omnibuses Ltd is seeking annual subsidy of £72,531 towards the ist of uneconomic bus services in Inver:ss-shire, it...

• At a meeting of the Grimsby and Cleethorpes joint transport committee last week Mr A. Smith, the transport manager, reported...

• The South Wales Traffic Commissioners have granted a full licence to Mr Peter Smith to operate his own bus service on routes...

• Although Rochdale Corporation has now agreed to hand over the surplus on its transport accounts at December 31 1969 to...

• A suggestion that motorists should be "imprisoned" on city car parks during peak hours on the roads has been refuted by Mr...

• Ulsterbus chief Mr Werner Heubeck is to meet union officials to discuss economies which may have to be made to offset the big...

• SELNEC PTE has improved its engineering situation, although only on the basis of considerably increased expenditure. In the...

in Tired tyres What do you do with old tyres? I have a couple of clever answers trembling on the typewriter this week. First,...

A MEETING PLACE for the entire freight transport world—this, it has been predicted, is what next week's Interfreight '71, the...

Small and large in the RHA RHA SUBSCRIPTIONS are a matter of more general importance and interest than some might imagine....

by David Lowe. mInstTA. AM BI M TILBURY is faring well these days. Much Press coverage over recent months—and years—has tended...

A testing time for transport management Report and pictures by CM staff • Will productivity become a dirty word, and deals...

y our tax by R. H. Grimsley Bcom.Rac 7. Capital allowances CAPITAL ALLOWANCES in taxation take the place of depreciation in...

by Handyman Benchwise: cool it (20) IN some cases of mechanical failure a driver may not realize that the cause—indirectly—is...

Voyage to Lilliput TO the innocent eye of the computer or calculating machine the road haulage industry reveals few secrets....

I have recently read three articles, two in the trade Press and one in a national paper, which are, on the surface, seemingly...

With reference to the September 10 article in Les Oldridge's really excellent "Know the law" series, readers will no doubt like...

I thank you for the excellent coverage (CM September 101, which you have given to transport courses run by this College. May I...

• Leslie Huckfield, MP for Nuneaton, is not the kind of man you would be liable to miss in a crowd. Slightly built, he comes...

Public transport, politics, and the grass roots report by Derek Moses POLITICAL INTERFERENCE with the operation and planning...

am restricted to driving vehicles which have an unladen weight not in excess of 2 tons. Yet in Commercial Motor August 27 a...

sidering the operation of two br three 15-seater minibuses to convey elderly people to the various Old People's Clubs in their...

is possible for telephone calls to be dialled automatically. Could you tell me anything about this system because it would be...

information to back up a study and thesis on the future of employment in the passenger transport industry in this country Where...

edition of the CM Tables of Operating Costs? From the introduction to the Tables on pages 27, 29 and 30 respectively, it is...

previously I was a psv driver. Now that I have reached the age of 60 do I need to pass a medical examination even although I no...

matters By John Darker, AM B M How consultants boost profitability WHEN consultants are asked to look at a transport or...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Stationary vehicles (1) PARKED VEHICLES in urban areas are a major problem and there is little...

New look for the Chartered Institute of Transport by George Wilmot; Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies. University of...

by John C. Vann Fire, fire! • Fire—in the wrong place—has been one of man's main enemies ever since he learnt to make it....