FODEN has announced two export orders from the Middle East which between them have a total value of over ElM. The first order,...

A RAIL freight terminal has been opened in Stranraer and it was built and equipped at a cost of more than £250,000 by a...

A GRIM FUTURE for the sleeper-cab was on the cards this week fallowing an announcement by the International Transport Workers'...

FREIGHTLINERS are on target for a Elm trading surplus this year in contrast to their deficit last year said National Freight...

ULIERS are "scared to death" that they will be left enceless against trade union "brute force" if the Road alage Wages Council...

ONSERVATIVE MP Ian Gow failed by just three votes to get -mission to introduce a Private Member's Bill into the House Commons...

THE 'Volvo TD100B engine fitted to the F88 series of trucks achieves an even greater degree of operating flexibility with the...

A REPORT by a study group set up by the British Association of Removers has revealed that at least 87 companies replaced over...

ERF THIS WEEK strongly denied the report — not in Commercial Motor — that they were about to be taken over by any one of a...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has been given until January 1977 to unfreeze bus grants to municipal operators. Otherwise...

NEW REGULATIONS imposed on freight traffic are threatening to freeze traffic developed over the years to the Middle East. That...

victory TRANSPORT and Gener Workers Union officials a claiming victory in the mil tachograph battle followir the removal of...

to the public )VERNMENT is taking more and more notice of public rticipation and the industry must stand up and be counted, Id...

IE GOVERNMENT is unlikely to carry out its threat and nish the rebel South Yorkshire County Council by cutting off share of the...

kTIONAL Bus orders for 77 show an almost equal lit between Duple and Plaxn. All the bus body orders go expected to Eastern...

There is one issue which requires the immediate attention of the Transport Minister — tachographs. He has said he will not make...

kSY ENTRY to the road ulage industry, the growth own account operation and e too lenient administration the Transport Act 1968...

LANS to introduce a traffic Lanagement scheme in York we been attacked by the reight Transport AssociaDn. Mr David Green, FTA...

The Handbook gives a detailed account of information the trucker should know, from the very basic to the more detailed...

CONVICTIONS RECORDED against a number of Yorkshire operators engaged in Continental haulage, hit directly at the root of the...

TRANSPORT TRIBUNAL president Mr G. D. Squibb has rejected an appeal from a Peterborough operator following a prohibition issued...

PLANS to cover the cost health service treatme should the drivers of hew vehicles be injured in act dents have come under attal...

P & 0 FERRIES hay announced a new roll-or roll-off ferry service to th Shetland Islands, to con mence operation on April 1977....

IALLETT SILBERMAN, the eavy haulage division of the rent Group of companies, is ) set up a European subsiiary in the new year....

THE GOVERNMENT has been warned of the dangers of trying to push through its Dock Work Regulation Bill. The warning came from...

from satisfactory" has led to the refusal of an appeal to the Transport Tribunal against the revocation of the company's 0...

director. He succeeds Derek Collinson who moves to a new job as deputy general manager of the Ocean Group personnel division....

to revoking, curtailing or suspending the current 0 licence Mr Crabtree had a list of convictions before him with more offences...

FREIGHTLINERS have opened a new Elm extension to their Coatbridge, Scotland, terminal. It is expected to double the .handling...

SOME of the vehicles of Sco tish Parcel Carriers Ltd an Tartan Arrow Services Lt were absorbed by other subs diaries of the...

IREATENED cuts in pastiger transport support cash mi the Government will do rm to public transport in • ndon. That is the view...

A BOLT-ON unit to prevent engine damage by over-revving has been produced by Martin Transmission Developments. It can be fitted...

Get together ARRANGEMENTS between Maidstone and District and London Country Bus Services to give a better service in the...

CURRENT transport policy should be replaced by a plan investment directed at a co-ordinated system involving methods of...

PLANS are well advanced for the London Borough of Hillingdon to operate a stage carriage service from Ruislip to Rickmansworth...

THE public service vehic licensing system has accumi lated a £3.6 million deficit sinc April 1974 and is causing th Exchequer a...

individual consum• councils should be represent( on the boards of the industril they represent have be rejected by the London...

THREE models from the Japanese Hino range of heavy commercial vehicles will be available for British operators from February...

A DEVELOPMENT of the Ray Smith demountable system has meant that bodies can be lowered to ground level after they have been...

THE FIRST of two MAN 16 232FD drawbar outfits has now entered service with Hull Ships Stores Co Ltd. The two vehicles are being...

THE PRICES of all Volkswagen commercial vehicles have been increased by 12.5 per cent for 1977. This means that top of the...

REEVE BURGESS LTD has introduced its Burcran range of pressure/vacuum tankers to complement its existing range of specialist...

FODEN MISSED last weet article "Road to Fore4 Parts" because it was finali mg one of its Middle Ea service points. All Foden's...

H, they do like to be beside the seaside! For down at astbourne the Road Haulage Association's annual conference ot off to a...

He is the son of Joseph Male, vho was one of the RHA's first ionorary members and served or six years as a national...

ANY MODE of transport which does not genuinely pay its way should be phased out. With these fighting words — clearly aimed at...

Norman Fowler, MP for Sutton Coldfield, is the Shadow Transport Minister. Since his appointment earlier this year he has...

NEWCOMERS to road haulage do not always join the RHA although the advantages of joining the ranks of experienced professionals...

I keep reading about this tachograph business. I can understand the employers' complaint about the cost of retro fit. That's...

The Road Haulage Association has never been short of good chairmen! Over the years, each in his own way and some at...

If you spotted a group of dinner jacketed transport men slipping into Ealing Technical College last Thursday it was not, as...

Another farewell this week to part of the Manx Electric Railway. Since the late 1800s the Manx trains have trundled noisily and...

Tomorrow night sees the end of an era when the shutters are pulled down on the stands at Earls Court. Well, it's not just as...

TWO WEEKS AGO a train carrying Italian lemons pulled into a siding at the Stewarts Lane British Rail depot in Battersea, near...

In view of the minimal attention given in the article (CM October 15) to our very real investment made in this market over...

In CM October 15 you called Transport 2000 "the pro-rail group." I know how tempting it is to polarise people and groups,...

issue headed "Safety burden on employers" I feel that I must make a comment about an excellently reproduced full colour...

Last year we decided to extend our fleet of heavy recovery trucks and purchased an ex-WD FV 1119 Leyland Martian 6x6 fitted...

I would like to congratulate Commercial Motor and thank you for the very good article "A Day in the Life of Fred Kirby - ....

ITS EASY to jump to the wrong conclusions when diagnosing faults, and a surprising number of engine failures result from...

THE TERRIER is a range of vehicles which is seen by Leyland as the operators' answer to the problems of short and medium haul...

TERRIER type numbers reflect the gross vehicle weight thus giving the TR738 a gvw of 7.38 tons. This of course has a metric...

THE TERRIER is available for the UK operator in both haulage and tipper form to cover gross vehicle weights ranging from 6.61...

THE SYSTEM for obtaining Terrier truck spares is the same as that for the Austin Morris range of Leyland Cars. The hub of the...

by Stephen Gray FEW TYPES of operations are more punishing on a truck than urban stopstart delivery. Usually the engine has a...

Councils now have tight budgets anc need versatile and flexible vehicles by Johnny Johnsor THE NUMBER of commercial vehicles...

THE POWER hydraulic braking system on the Terrier is light and powerful in operation. The system is powered by nitrogen under...

new model specifications for my fleet replacements I came across the expression — a traction ratio of 3,5 to 1". Exposing my...

/ am buying a coach from a municipal passenger Iran;port operator which I intend to VII as an enthusiast for show urposes. The...

a breakdown vehicle and though I felt that I had committed no offence and that I had proved my point to the court, I was...

the carrying of children on buses and the circumstances in which three children seated together can be counted as two...

by Richard Reed THE Continental Freight Drivers' Club now has 19 area officers covering some 30 counties in the UK. The aim is...

tough market by Stephen Geary C-TRAN INTERNATIONAL is a company with a difference. After only 18 months in business it has 20...

by Les Oldridge, T Eng, (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE SECTION 25 of the Road Traffic Act, 1972, requires that, as stated last week, after...

R !flab Ron Sprules 1:s Trunking Manager for Smith's Foods. At the moment they have 25 Rentco vehicles on Contract Hire and up...