"100,000 miles with every new set of Michelins" says Graham Armstrong, General Manager of St. George's Laundry in Worcester,...

Speculation about the effects of the Industrial Relations Act on road transport is not made any easier following this week's...

•• In his Budget statement on Tuesday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer revealed that powers were being provided for the...

• Ralph Hilton Transport of Charlton is to make an offer for the 120-vehicle fleet of its near neighbour J & H Transport Group,...

• The present situation on goods vehicle drivers' hours rules is unsatisfactory, agrees the Minister for Transport Industries,...

• The Department - of the Environment is examining the possibility of fares increases being linked more directly to wage rises...

• Plans to charge mobile shops with a levy based on turnover so as to protect ratepaying traders from unfair competition are...

• The first stage of the Stirling by-pass section of the Edinburgh-Stirling Motorway (M9) will open to traffic on Tuesday. The...

• Beck and Pollitzer Road Transport Ltd, of London E14, is to go into voluntary liquidation, it was learnt this week....

• A new international haulage company, called Eurocross Ltd, has been set up by a City group with substantial insurance...

• The 1971 Lorry Driver of the Year Competition commenced at Weymouth on Saturday with a clean sweep for BRSL. Three entrants...

• • A 26-year-old man, injured when a trailer wheel exploded in his face, had not been warned to deflate the tyre before...

• A fully illustrated and informative booklet on the bulk handling of feeds, seeds and fertilizers has been published by the...

• There is a real danger that restrictive traffic legislation would wreck the nation's delivery systems and damage irreparably...

• Sixty Bedford trucks worth £140,000 were delivered to Tizer Ltd in Southampton yesterday in a ceremony marking the largest...

• "The outlook for road haulage undertakings is good, particularly for those who provide specialized services, such as tanker...

Normandy link ended • The joint roll-on/roll-off freight service operated on the Southampton to Le Havre route by Thoresen Car...

by John Darker • What is believed to be the world's first civilian training course for wrecker operators—vehicle recovery...

• A warning that lucrative sections of the National Freight Corporation, which has assets of £80m, are to be denationalized was...

• The vehicle appointment schemes now operating in the Port of London are being further extended with a new scheme introduced...

• German writer Jan Tebbe has collaborated with Norman Douglas to produce Containerisation International Year Book 1971,...

by Ashley Taylor • Possible fresh approaches to public transport were considered at the Newcastle upon Tyne University's...

• Concern that London would lose all its buses soon has been expressed in evidence submitted to the public inquiry into the...

• Glasgow bus crews, who brought the city's transport services to a halt for one day on March 15, have agreed on an award of up...

double decker in service with SELNEC PTE • The EX1, a prototype double-deck bus designed jointly by the Northern Counties...

• It was announced this week that the Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee (part NBC, part Halifax Corporation), the local authority...

• Holidaymakers staying at Blackpool this summer will have to pay more for a ride along the resort's famous Golden Mile...

• A public sitting which was adjourned by the Northern Traffic Commissioners in Darlington on January 28 is to be resumed in...

Batty - Holt Tours • Shearings Pleasureways Holidays have acquired the extended tours licences of Batty-Holt Touring Service...

• Local authorities in south-west Scotland will have to find £4m in subsidies to make their rural bus services viable, said Mr...

• Ignorance of the law concerning filling in a log book did not prevent a Norwich florist from being granted an 0 licence by...

Sam Morton, 38, who joined Frigoscandia Transport from A. D. Forsey (Transport) Ltd, of Weston-Super-Mare, where he was...

• One of five Foden dump trucks demonstrated at an Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation quarry in Kent on Wednesday, an 8E6/24...

. . from Fiat • Convincing demonstrations of the effectiveness of an anti-wheel locking system developed by Fiat of Italy were...

• An Eaton anti-skid system applied to all the axles of a five-axle artic equipped with air brakes was demonstrated on film in...

• When BOAC's fleet of Boeing 747 Jets enter service this month, special ball-surfaced Ratcliff tail-lifts will be used to...

• Fiat has developed an electronics control device for diesel engines to take account of operation at high altitudes. When...

THE IXDLTST1U AL RELATIONS ACT DO TO TRANSPORT? LIVELY CONTROVERSY AT CM-SPONSORED CONFERENCE report by John Darker • Among...

• Promising start No doubt about it, the CM/P VOA conference last week was a most promising success. It was the first joint...

OPERATORS from many parts of the UK attended the conference "Psv Operation in the Seventies" at the Connaught Rooms, London,...

John M. Birch • Although John Birch relinquished his appointments as deputy chairman and deputy managing director of Birch...

workshop by Handyman Bench wise; tool tricks (2) broken twist drills MANY JOBS in the vehicle repair shop are, of course,...

Section 64 of the Transport Act 1968 requires the Licensing Authorities to ensure that operators have adequate maintenance...

We welcome letters for publication on transport topics. Address them to Commercial Motor, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London...

by Tony Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE MOST of the news at the 1971 Turin in the major Italian cities and a similar international...

14.89 litre V8. This model is now available in Italy with an OM badge on the front and it appears at the Show as a solo...

by janus F ANTASY and fact are not always clearly distinguished even in what seems to be a straightforward news item. We can...

appears to have been accomplished with far less difficulty than was expected on the problems of conversion. When it comes to...

A The vehicle lighting regulations them' selves are confusing because they are spread over so many documents going back as far...

as a spark-ignition unit could a satisfactory performance be obtained? I am considering the conversion of a small diesel to run...

reflectors on trailers? Must they be fitted to all trailers and are they as I have been told—necessary on draw-bar trailers...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Building the Brent Group John Silbermann's business philosophy MR JOHN SILBERMANN is an...

by Les Old ridge AIRTE, AMIMI The Abrasive Wheels Regulations 19 70 (1) EVEN the smallest commercial vehicle repair workshop...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studios, University of London. Learning from the Royal Corps of Transport THE...

It's traditional • Vehicle loading is probably considered a semi-skilled job by the layman. Those conversant with road...