AS REPORTED in CAI last Friday, British Road Services are to set up a Truck Rental Division which will commence operations on...

THE recent road haulage wages agreement giving drivers £40 for 40 hours is already having an effect in the own-account sector....

MORE THAN 15,000 copies of a consultative booklet on ways and means of financing London's public transport system are now being...

WHATEVER fears operators may have for 1975, wholesale nationalization need not be one - of them. At a press lunch this week Sir...

by CM reporter THE SHORTAGE of Class I hgv drivers is being aggravated because operators believe that they cannot have men who...

dearer . fuel THE recently announced increases in the cost of fuel will be much more significant for the operator of...

THE Scottish Bus Group is to substitute Ford and Bedfords in its 1975 order programme for Leyland Leopards because Leyland...

PORT CHARGES are to be increased at all British Transport Docks Board ports by an average of nine per cent from January 1,...

Ford up AN AVERAGE increase of 9 per cent in the cost of its commercial vehicles has been announced by Ford. Examples of the...

PRICES of new vehicles from the trucks and bus division of British Leyland have been increased by an average of nine per cent....

AN ORDER for 95 single-deck buses on Bristol chassis' has been placed by London Transport for delivery in 1975-76 to replace...

A GROUP of Scottish Labour MPs has urged operators and local authorities to improve co-ordination of public transport...

FEES for operators' licences are being increased from £4 to £5 from January I or substantive applications. The £1 interim...

A WORK RESEARCH UNIT in the Department of Employment has been set up to help firms tackle problems of stress caused by boring...

EXAMPLES of how tachograph charts can assist in accident analysis and he • , used for driver training were given at an open...

Anthony Wedgewood Benn Secretary of State for Industry, has named the team which will investigate BLMC's affairs under Sir Don...

by CM reporter • THE past pre-Christmas weeks have been the first real testing time for the new Covent Garden market situated...

the main trunk roads connecting South Humberside with the rest of the country, has been opened by M. and H. Slater (Tanker...

A NEW OFFICE has been opened • by Northern Ireland Trailers (Scotland) Ltd at Larne. The new address is Redlands Estate,...

THE BRADFORD-BASED export shipping and warehousing company, W. Mathewson and Co Ltd, has changed its name to ConstantineLloyd...

A WORKSHOP for the repair of fractured cylinder blocks and cylinder heads, as well as other types of small castings, has been...

THE BEGINNING of next year sees the opening of a new UK branch for Eurofleet Rental Ltd, in High Street, Kingswood, Bristol....

ANOTHER DEPOT — at Grays, Essex — has been opened by Harold Wood and Sons Ltd, of Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, UK an international...

FROM January 1, 1975, the carriers business of S. Fry and Sons Ltd of Tower Road, Warmley, Bristol, is to be incorporated under...

A JOINT organization to help customers acquire haulage companies in Britain and on the the Continent has been set up by three...

THE LANE discipline of Continental lorry drivers was praised by Government spokesman Lord Melchett last week. He was speaking...

A TWICE-WEEKLY SCHEDULED service to Rotterdam from Manchester and Bradford has been organised by the Constantine Forwarding...

THE SECOND ro-ro ferry, Norstar, owned by North Sea Ferries, has joined her sister ship Nor/and on the Hull/Rotterdam...

INTERNATIONAL road haul, age by the Association of Soviet Automobile Carriers (ASMAP), which has recently joined the IRU, has...

A TRIBUTE to the abilities of Sir Richard Way, who retires as chairman of London Transport on Tuesday, has been paid by the...

SILENT-RIDER, the prototype battery-powered Seddon midibus jointly developed by the Greater Manchester PTE and Chloride Ltd....

COMPLAINTS about the time being taken to reach a decision about the report on school transport were rejected by a Government...

WITH public transport all set on what could be its first genuine boom since the war it is salutary to read of the industry's...

by Paul Brockington ONE of the results of the 'merger' of Berliet and Saviem and incorporation of Berliet in the State-owned...

A MEMBER of the Butterfield-Harvey group, Shelvoke and Drewry Ltd, has acquired the whole of the revised share capital of...

MOSCOW plans to convert 35,000 lorries, buses and cars to gas — according to the Novosti press agency. The city council, it...

AN ENERGY CONSERVATION programme launched in November 1973 by Perkins Engines of Peterborough, has helped the company save...

IN SPITE of York Trailer's Corby plant being on short time the company's chairman, Mr F. W. Davies, expects profits for '1974...

BRS PARCELS LTD has ordered 150 more Scammell automatic coupling units; 20 8.5 metres automatics are leaving Scammell's...

A REDUCED interest rate of 91/2 per cent is being offered by Reliant Motor Co, in conjunction with Hodge Finance, for most of...

ORDERS FROM South African Railways for 102 commercial vehicles, valued at over £1.28 million, for delivery during 1975, have...

A 10 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £227,000 from 206,000 was announced last week by Scotcros Ltd, the parent company of...

TRANSPORT Engineering Services (TES) have been appointed Mercedes-Benz truck main dealers for South West Scotland. The...

A CONTRACT with Perkins Engines to supply Volkswagen with diesel engines for a new utility vehicle is expected to be announced...

• DEDICATED to the nation's professional hauliers by a retired Brother, Michael Keogh, This Haulage Life costing f2.10p post...

AS a student in the immediate post-war years studying for the RSA examinations, I found great difficulty in obtaining an...

ALTHOUGH more suitable for the student of transport economics and the urban traffic planner than for the transport operator,...

A REPORT published this week by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory might have proved very useful for tipper operators...

Now there's a happy New Year sight for sore eyes — and one of the brighter spots in our life of journalistic toil. The gorgeous...

For years operators have been complaining that they couldn't attract high-quality men to driving jobs. I've never really gone...

small brewer by Paul Broclungl STRATFOR D QN -AVON is some 23 miles from Donnington brewery in the Cotswolds, near...

After more than two years of preparation by leading German tour operators, travel trade associations and coach builders, a new...

international coach rally on the Cote d'Azur in the light of present economic problems have now been dispelled with the...

Munich, which has several very long road underpasses crossing the railway yards outside the main station, this month originated...

An American scientist has announced that the composition of the heavily smoke-laden air in a typical "dive bar" in downtown Los...

The current trend in German luxury coaches towards high-level passenger accommodation has obviated special recommendations for...

A pre-war Hungarian device could provide a means operating a turbocharged compression ignition engine on i lowest useful...

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough PAST experience as described by other people is rarely...

)y Gordon Murray. rhe Midlands' new inland clearance terminal is rapidly proving ts worth 11TH international road freight...

applications. The first is a two-speed, full power-shift torque-converter transmission which features soft shift and...

Arc welders for use in garages and maintenance workshops have been introduced by Black and Decker. Three models are included in...

An electronic axle weighbridge has been added to the range of weighing systems by Molenschot Scales. The weigher is available...

The Jumbo-air compressor from H PM Compressor Services is a single-cylinder unit with a piston displacement of 0.08cum per min...

goods vehicle licence and test . fees. Can you say what the new fees will be if the proposals are implemented and when will the...

the provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1974 needed a Statutory Instrument before they became law though more recently you...

demountable bodies and, as we intend to demount the bodies with the goods inside them, we have been able to fax the vehicles at...

A Article 24 of the Motor , Vehicles (Authorization of Special Types) General 'Order 1973 lays down the requirements for...

8: N ew aspects of employment contracts by John Darker AMBIM IN an ideal world every new employee would be free to negotiate...

by Les Oldridge Teng (CEI) MIMI, AM1RTE FOR many years it has been necessary for psv operators to see that their vehicles...

Surely it is time for the haulage industry to take some action to prevent any further restrictions to the movement of its...

I was very interested to read the article by Paul Brockington concerning the use of aluminium in the building of chassis frames...

The article "Putting on the style" (CM, December 6) was very interesting in many ways. As our three best known manufacturers...

I was surprised that the Chancellor increased the petrol tax, and I would suggest, that since the cost of transport adds...

by lain Sherriff A REWARD is offered to anyone providing information leading to the discovery of the Walker Cup. Before golf...