Quality-Quickly. • The YORK VB series is one van body that doesn't come as a kit. It comes as a complete integral box which...

National objection campaign launched by CM reporter WOULD-BE hauliers and own-account operators who do not have proper vehicle...

from our political correspondent A LABOUR Party study group, set up when the party was in opposition. has this week put a big...

A CALL for the Government to pay more attention to the problem of overnight lorry parking instead of the provisions of the...

by CM reporter PROPOSALS published last week by the Department of the Environment for extending the 29-year-old dock labour...

FRENCH lorry drivers blockaded maior roads in and around Paris last week in a protest at fuel charges. The union of small...

ONLY a week after Pickfords International announced that it is pulling out of the unit loads traffic another leading carrier,...

THE coach fleet of Sightseeing International is to be put into storage. This was announced by owners Davies and Newman who now...

NEXT WEEK sees the opening of a new branch by Eastern British Road Services Ltd. The depot, at Heath, North Derbyshire, will...

'a landmark' A LANDMARK in road transport history was how Mr Len Castleton, immediate pastpresident of the Freight Transport...

Specs call for 70 mph disc-braked 32-ton tractive unit with many fittings, and twin-steer 10 bhp/ton delivery truck by CM...

Brewery Transport Advisory Committee specification for a trade delivery vehicle for urban operation: Moderate road speed, good...

Main points in the Brewery Transport Advisory Committee specification for mufti-purpose unit: Vehicle to operate on urban and...

Ine-day seminar reported by John Darker. IS VERY difficult \ to :tify all-purpose, out-ofAin transhipment centres economic...

from our Parliamentary correspondent A MORE IMAGINATIVE approach by Traffic Commissioners . .. the merging of postal and bus...

A TOTAL of 98 passengers can be carried on a new airport coach delivered to British Airways at Gatwick Airport last Thursday....

A NEW 1Uxury 45-seat body known as the Challenger has been introduced by Charterway Coachcraft for the Mercedes OF 1313...

operating companies: Nicholas Barham, J. H. Transport Group Ltd — previously operations manager, Hertz Truck Rental; Graham...

MPs work out side effects THE first step towards placing barriers between London bus lanes and the rest of the road was taken...

FROM the passenger viewpoint buses have many design faults. This is one conclusion of the London Transport Passengers Committee...

ONLY ONE of the appellants before the Transport Tribunal was successful in obtaining a variation of the penalty imposed by the...

A PliBLIC service vehicle operator engaged in school contract work for Knowsley Education Authority was fined a total of E225...

THE Home Officeapproved prototype grp tanker for : carrying petroleum (CM May 10 1974) has now been in operation for 14 months...

A NUMBER of additional items for checking are expected to be covered by amendments to the light van and car annual testing...

TVVO British firms are to manufacture a German make of piston which is-claimed to reduce oil and fuel consumption, ring-groove...

TUESDAY April 1. CIT (North Western) Agm. Gas Development Centre, Whitworth Street West, Manchester. 6,15pm. WEDNESDAY April...

A NEW brake manufacturing and assembly operation in the UK and Germany has been announced by the Rockwell International...

DEMOUNTABLE van bodies which include a special refrigerated compartment for perishable foods form part of an order for Freight...

AN ORDER worth f1 1 /4m has been secured by Crane Fruehauf Overseas Ltd from 'Hungarocamion. The Hungarian State Transport...

3i11 Godwin reports from Nedex in Rotterdam WHEN Fred Mulley, MP, vlinister for Transport, oured the large British ection at...

British and foreign vehicles are now being fitted with tachographs as original equipment. A Midlands haulier has used these...

by Tim Hoare 4E PRICE of a typical 22.5 inch steelaced radial tyre is now approaching 10 and only the most ardent of 'flutists...

;eorge Wilmot explains that the EEC's TML requirements rovide a wonderful opportunity for the UK to update road ransport...

IN THE minefield of iti dustrial relations only the expert c n tread with any hope of survivaL He is trained not to see the...

Little support by motor industry by Bill Godwin ALTHOUGH the original title of last week's "Road and Rail" show at Essen was...

REDUCTIONS IN THE number of applications for operators licences in the year October 1973 to September 1974 are reported by many...

The extent to which driver acceptance -and in a wider sense' trade union approval -affects vehicle design and selection came•...

When a Brighton Corporation conductor stopped his bus while he nipped off to buy a comic, a passenger wrote in complaint and...

still apply for the issue of a heavy goods vehicle driving licence without taking a test? A Part IV of the Road Traffic Act...

Costs are not now available. Can you tell me how lean arrive at the information they contain, and can . vou answer the...

now wish to operate this vehicle in conjunction with a drawbar trailer. With extra brake-lines fitted, what will he the legal...

in length and fitted with over-run brakes i,vith close-coupled . four wheels — similar to a caravan chassis. On this we are...

by John Darker AMBIM t TALKED recently with Mr G. F. Mee, head of personnel of British Road Services Ltd. I was anxious to get...

Co-operating with the police by Les Oldridge T Eng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE IT PAYS to co-operate with the police; and, in fact, a...