Each time we test a truck-and-trailer combination we are reminded of the inappropriate speed limit of 30 mph which is still...

would create havoc FTA Government will not oppose Hugh Dykes's Bill from our political correspondent • Mr Hugh Dykes, Tory MP...

• The formation of a new organization to represent all licensed hauliers in the Republic of Ireland was announced in Dublin...

• Twice since the introduction of checks on overloaded foreign vehicles, a French haulier has been stopped at Southampton...

• The Road Haulage Association's five-year scheme on costs and pro ductivity (CAPS) which is run by th Centre for Interfirm...

Seddon Motors Ltd introduced a new -ton-gcw tractive unit called the 38:Four the Brussels Truck Show which closes on nday. The...

The Motor Vehicles (Construction and se) Regulations 1973, which consolidate e existing regulations, were laid before xliament...

• Government transport policy for speeding up trunk road improvements to the ports, remote regions and development areas are a...

from our political correspondent • The transport policy of a future Labour Government will involve a major switch of traffic...

• The TIR Customs convention will continue at least until the end of this year although the Community Transit procedure is...

• Because of doubt as to whether 1 Maplin airport and seaport will be ready time to cope with the "overflow" container traffic...

• Britain's allocation of 99 El multilateral haulage permits proposed Brussels last December (CM December 1972) was discussed...

• Operators who intend to move go between Spain and Britain under the Anglo-Spanish agreement can now ob guidance notes on the...

North Western British Road Services J. has established two new clearing uses, at Liverpool and Manchester. Announcing the...

New headquarters for Western Transnt Ltd were opened at the Severnside rading Estate, Bristol BS11 8AG (Avonouth 5571) on...

I The Suffolk Group Training Associaion has formed itself into a limited ompany, with a share capital of £30,000, nd has taken...

Conducting an inquest on Friday on a roman who was burned to death in an M6 cid tanker accident last month, Mr Ronald loyd....

• The Greater London Council has agreed to the proposal that lorries of 40ft or longer should be banned from entering an area...

• A significant decrease in the number of drivers who get less than three weeks holiday per year is one of the findings of the...

• Certain categories of heavy goods vehicle drivers are, for the first time, to be admitted to Institute of Advanced Motorists...

• The EEC proposals for a 40-tonne (39.3-ton) gross weight limit are inadequate, but the 11-tonne axle weight proposal is...

• Following the takeover last year by the British company Ralli International of the Swiss group Neptun Transport und...

• Road-Link Ltd, Barking, Essex, is expanding in northern England with the take-over of the Stockport based storage and...

• Howard Tenens Services group has taken control of the Belgian road and maritime transport firm of Rematex, which has depots...

• The European Community wot involve each member country making contribution — a stand on some speci issue — and the weight and...

• Locomotors Ltd, 520 London Roa Mitcham, Surrey, has been given sole U marketing rights for the Ronway U load and Model 35...

The Greater London Council has not ised its proposals for Ringway 1 and the extension. Mr Richard M. Brew, chairin of the GLC...

000 overnight ops There are nearly 200 town plans and er 4000 hotels, motels and motor hotels the 1973 edition of the chunky...

Just published by the Institute of Motor uctioncers is a 20-page booklet, "VAT Id the Motor Trade". Written by Peter arman,...

• A country-by-country guide to the current state of containerization and unit load transport facilities, including projects,...

1 A new Dinosaur bulk materials handng model has been designed by Powell luffryn Engineering, Llantrisant, Glam, 3 give fleet...

• A proposal will be on the desk of Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, today, from the RHA that the heavy goods...

• Contract hire facilities are among the services set out in a new, free, colour brochure published by Mitchell Cotts Transport...

• Concessionary and subsidized travel has been facilitated by the formation of a new company, National Transport Tokens Ltd....

• A direct Aberdeen-London express bus service could be running this summer if an Aberdeen coach hirer's plans get the go-ahead...

• April I is the date from which drivi of road passenger vehicles with more th nine seats including the driver will ha to...

• Mr Peter Daykin, the traffic manager West Yorkshire Road Car Co, which h been running the experimental door-to-do bus service...

.• The Museum of British Transport Clapham is to close on April 23, prior to t move of the railway exhibits to the ne National...

the first Metro-Scania to reach a private rator's hands is now being resold — er only three months. The vehicle — ich was...

The recently announced decision of erman's Wilson Line to withdraw the 00 ton ferry ship Spero from the all-Zeebrugge service...

• The Chartered Institute of Transport announces that the BET Road Passenger Transport Award will be available for presentation...

I Leicester City transport committee was told on January 17 that 35,329 passengers used the department's two Park 'n' Ride...

• Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Transport is thought to be the first municipal operator in the UK to get an excursion and tours...

• Because of increased traffic congestion, British European Airways' bus service between the West London air terminal and...

G. W. Quick-Smith has been appointed to the Transport Tribunal. He retired from the National Freight Corporation, where he was...

• SELNEC PTA has decided to enter Europe from the tours point of view in a big way. A travel company has been formed and, from...

• The National Bus Company announced this week which of its subsidiaries are to supply Bristol FLF Lodekka double-deckers to...

The North Western LA, Mr C. R. dgson, adjourned the application last .Trk of K. Stainier Haulage Contractors acclesfield), Ltd,...

Confusion concerning two Glasgowsed companies resulted in both being led under Section 69 by the Scottish LA. he of the cases...

• The licence of Regent Construction Co Ltd, of Swansea, was curtailed last week by the South Wales LA from eight vehicles to...

• A haulage contractor lost his cage against the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers at the National Industrial Relations...

• After a Mouldsworth, Lanes, rubber company failed to appear under Section 69 in Liverpool recently, the North Western LA, Mr...

• The Organisation of Teachers of Transport Studies will hold a symposium, open to all people with experience of teaching the...

• Loughborough University of Technology is holding a one-week course on road vehicle transmissions •on February 19 to 23. It...

• The repair pit in premises used by Bardsley, near Oldham, haulier was block by a derelict car, a vehicle examiner told t...

• A one-day seminar dealing with curre techniques in transport management b been arranged by Davies and Robson, f February 6 at...

ireight coolers by Paul Brockington "ransport refrigeration units from a newcomer The capacities of a range of . rigerating...

Cor-Ten steel, a material noted for its ,ceptionally high strength and corrosion sistance — which until now has been ?ailable...

Gibb Grace Speaking to a capacity audience at an titute of Road• Transport Engineers Lure in London last week, the export xtor...

• The new truck leasing division of Godfrey Davis, set up three months ago, is now taking its first heavy-vehicle contracts; it...

• Noel Penny Turbines Ltd has bought a 3+-acre factory in Coventry that was built by the late Harry Ferguson for the...

• Latest additions to the trailer rental fleet of Transport International Pool are 31ft single-axle box van trailers. These are...

The new Glasgow PTE's first director-general, who moves from gm of Edinburgh Corporation to take up the post, outlines his...

THE CORRECT WAY T( APPLY FOR AN 0 LICENCE Operators' licensing has settled into a pattern. Both new and established operators...

The transport role in the Common Market THE Rome Treaty has a number of articles with a bearing on transport. The Community is...

ACCORDING to reports from a normally unreliable source, a deputation of haulier; waited on the Prime Minister last week wit' ....

workshop by Handyman Details to save down-time (6) If a battery has lost charge, don't automatically plug in a booster...

Bulk transport Operator experience in the bulk carriage of wine, chemicals, milk, fuel, feedstuffs and flyash is detailed in a...

by Alan K. Baker, CEng, IVIIMechE, and Alan Colinson, Ferodo Ltd ONE PROBLEM which has begun to cause concern to operators of...

view by the Hawk • Dogged does it Pat Mullen is deaf and dumb and is unable to read or write but he's got plenty of...

In his letter (CM January 12) Mr Bill Jordan, assistant secretary, National Guild of Transport Managers, takes exception to my...

I would like to take up a point arising from .the answer to the third question on page 47, Q & A, CM January 5. It is not made...

At 6.10 pm on Thursday, June 22 1972, an accident occurred on the Ovangle Road at Heaton-with-Oxcliffe in the Lancaster Rural...

Eric Jenkins • At the age of 40, Eric Jenkins is one I the youngest chief engineers of any large pi undertaking in Europe. He...

removing engines and lifting other Ings on several different sites which are me miles apart. Could this vehicle be 'xed for ES...

wagon on a vehicle covery — just a tow back on a bar. As e broken-down vehicle was unattended, had to send a mate to steer it....

in all sectors of transport, do you consider that enough training is king done on behar of employees and managers in road...

was exempted from the need to take a test when my current licence was issued in 1970. Could I apply for a new hgv (although I...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM The TGWU's policy for the Seventies MAJOR SPEECHES by trade union leaders on transport policy...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Drivers' hours of work (3) THIS WEEK I AM continuing the examination of the Drivers' Hours...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Studying by correspondence the Transport...