by CM reporter • There is no substitute for the lorry, and the whole problem of transport and the environment has been...

but hauliers feel the pinch by Gordon Murray • Mr Edward Heath's statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday that the...

from our Parliamentary correspondent • To avoid delay the Government has decided to introduce the new Road Traffic Bill in the...

UK? Nonsense • Reports that the Government has given up its battle with the EEC to restrict the size of lorries on British...

• Lord Aldington, chairman of the PLA, and Mr Jack Jones, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, joint...

• A Norfolk lorry driver has successfully applied to the Eastern LA for renewal of his hgv licence following a 2-month ban....

• The proportion of overloaded foreign lorries arriving in Britain has been reduced from about 80 per cent to some 15 per cent...

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, has laid before Parliament, Regulations which will allow a driver who has...

• Reviewing his proposals to combat vehicle noise, Mr John Peyton, the Minister for Transport Industries, said in the Commons...

plan rejected —Dan Pettit tells CM conference by CM reporter • Because the trade unions are still discussing the...

continued from page 18 waterways. Nevertheless it considers that the railways' contribution can only marginally influence the...

• In a letter this week to the chairman of the committee the Minister has responded to the report on three points. He considers...

• Although his company had received 30 GV9s on a fleet of 55 vehicles and 37 trailers many of the defects complained of were of...

by Johnny Johnson • Despite the Continental flavour imparted to the Centre for Physical Distribution Management's conference...

from our political correspondent • The Government was last week given the go-ahead to proceed with preliminary work on the...

• Lorry drivers have won the second round in their battle against the Dykes Act — the Heavy Commercial Vehicles (Controls and...

• Ellis and McHardy Ltd, of Aberdeen, coal merchant, shipowner and now petroleum fuel distributor, is to expand substantially...

• Midland Red — which has taken over two Black Country independents and is negotiating with five more — is planning to acquire...

• No double-deckers are on order by the Scottish Bus Group. This is revealed by the Group's 1974 orders list released this...

• Leicester Corporation Transport restarted its Park and Ride services this week. In past years the undertaking has operated a...

notices. Several of these defects were • On inspecting a 41-seat Bedford coach belonging to a Rotherham operator, a DoE vehicle...

Teesside • After years of determined opposition to the idea, London Transport unions have accepted the idea of women bus...

• The four directors of the South Yorkshire PTE have now been appointed. The director-general, Mr Noel McDonald, general...

• The Scottish Bus Group is being urged to speed up bus services in the Scottish Border country by the Border Association for...

• Bus crews employed at East Yorkshire Motor Services have decided on a series of Friday stoppages from 4 pm to 6 pm. The first...

errors • At a public inquiry held in Plymouth on Tuesday the Western Licensing Authority, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, said he...

• Farmer Richard Locker was not breaking the law when he allowed a load of bricks to be hauled by a farm tractor licensed only...

• A Penrith haulage firm's four-year hunt for a depot site was described last* week at a public inquiry in Penrith. Barnett and...

• National Carriers Ltd is spending a further £1.475m on new vehicles in addition to the £ lm worth of orders already placed...

• After a large n r imber of defects was discovered on a vehicle taking its annual test, a maintenance investigation was...

• Seventeen lorry drivers formerly working for Storefreight (Northern) Ltd, Dunston-on-Tyne, which closed down in August, are...

• The Leyland 500 series range of trucks incorporating the Leyland-built Lynx, Bison, Buffalo and Super Buffalo models has been...

• A research system for calculating the fuel consumption of diesel or petrol engines using a sampling revolution counting...

• Power ratios of up to 8.62 bhp /ton are now available for Guy Big I4T 32-ton tractive units following the announcement today...

• The US Environmental Protection Agency has completed the first of its major tasks called for in the Noise Control Act of 1972...

loads from Ratc lif • A completely new design of tail-lift, capable of lifting up to 8 tons, has been developed for Lansing...

Today Graham Montgomerie takes over from Gibb Grace as Technical Editor of Commercial Motor. Mr Montgomerie, who is 30, has...

• "Noise, Dirt and the Diesel" is the title of a one-day conference to be held in London in December which follows last year's...

• The HIAB Hydrauto automatic handling system. which has been described in CM (September 28) was demonstrated by the sole UK...

• Fodens is to supply the Ministry of Defence with vehicles which are expected to form a large proportion of the Army's...

• Dayton-Walther Ltd, of Runcorn, Cheshire, has introduced its Series II Tru - lok fifth-wheel coupling. The new fifth-wheel...

• A Load Lugger bulk materials handling unit has been shipped to Poland by Telehoist Ltd, of Cheltenham. This brings to 101 the...

• The Magirus-Deutz version of the "Club of Four" middle-weight truck will be fitted with the company's 912-series air-cooled...

• An assembly plant formally opened by Unic last week at Trappes, near Paris, is part of a Fiat rationalization plan for...

• A new design of rear lighting, which includes high-intensity fog units, are now being fitted as standard to all new York...

• Offering paylo tons, a range of announced by Andover, Hants, F6 and has gvw to 54 tons. Featu of removable fabri rests on the...

• Three 12-seat announced this we Sons Ltd of Watf Toyota Hi-Ace van add between £105 of the basic van. There are three s...

• Mr John Peyton, Industries, has laid regulations, allowi exemptions from the for petrol-engined v vehicles first used 10...

• RenTco Nationwide Trailer Rentals Ltd has extended its operations to Northern Ireland with the forming of a subsidiary,...

• Cummins Diesel Sales and Service Ltd, the UK's national distributor for Cummins engines has opened a new service depot at...

view bytimHawk • Lioness's den? Brave RHA chairman John Wells — he's agreed to take part in a Women's Hour confrontation on...

by Trevor Longcroft FROM TODAY a brand new top-weight 270 bhp tractive unit is added to the Dodge truck range. Designed for 38...

I WAS one of two UK journalists able to drive two pre-production right-hand-drive models around a Spanish test track and over a...

AILSA'S double-decker, announced today, is the only front-engined model available on the British market. Its Volvo engine is...

ANNOUNCED today is Metro-Cammell Weymaim's integral double-decker, called the Metropolitan, which is a logical development of...

IN the development of the Reliant Robin TW8 5cwt three-wheeled van announced earlier this week, keeping within the legal...

continued from page 45 top. There are two inlet vents on the roof at the rear. These take in air which is fed, through two...

Sharing the training load COMPLETE HARMONY between the Road Transport Industry Training Board and operators is no more likely...

Fitters and qualifications The question to the Q and A Bureau (CM October 19) on fitters and qualifications was interesting...

THE FIRST PAPER, by Sir Reginald Wilson, chairman of Transport Development Group, was concerned with fundamentals of...

FREIGHT TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION national secretary, Garry Turrey, opened his . paper with a cautionary quotation from Hansard: –...

PROFESSOR K. J. W. ALEXANDER, of Stiathclyde University, opened his paper "Transport efficiency and regional policy" by...

THE FINAL session of the conference stemmed from visits by five pairs of fleet engineers and managers — from haulage and...

answer (CM September 21) given to a question about the operation of minibuses by a student organization but I would also like...

and regularly drive coaches carrying other employees between their homes and places of employment. For this service a charge is...

twinwheel solid tyred heavy-dray towing ambulance. Are any restrictions on speed or limitations on distance covered? Could one...

by John Darker Cross-border - components haulage develops apace Good industrial relations vital for motor components...

lay Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI. AMIRTE The Heavy Commercial Vehicles (Controls and Regulations) Act 1973 (2) BESIDES the...