THE EVE of the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court will see the official unveiling of the new range of trucks from Bedford....

LUCAS WILL be exhibiting a wash/wipe system for truck headlights at the Earls Court Show, A twin headlight version of this...

WHY CAN'T Britain use waterways to carry a more significant amount of freight, like other countries? Minister for Transport...

THE Government is to discuss with passenger vehicle operators' associations and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders,...

AGREEMENTS relating to the supply and acquisition of road haulage and a wide range of other transport services are soon to be...

AGRICULTURAL haulage vehicles should be exempted from the proposed route restrictions on heavy vehicles, Mr Lindsey Mason,...

by John Darker A COMMENCEMENT order has been signed by Mr Michael Foot, Secretary of State for Employment, which brings the...

The Government's continued — eve ii strengthened — refusal to increase the maximum permitted gross weight of trucks shows a...

AMONG the speakers at the Road Haulage Association, South Wales Area annual conference, next week, will be Mr P. Finnigan,...

THE NEED for the introduction of a more comprehensive labelling system to indicate the carriage of dangerous loads by road...

DAFaid, a 24-hour, 365 days a year get-you-out-of trouble service for DAF truck drivers is launched today by DAF Trucks (GB)...

TO MEET heavily increased costs, and at the same time maintain our service to readers, we have reluctantly been compelled to...

SIX new EEC road licences have been granted to the Republic of Ireland, bringing the total number to 42. s The Eire Minister...

A CONTRACT worth £6 m has been awarded for the construction of 54 miles of trunk road between Slochd Summit and Dalmagarry in...

THE fact that Licensing Authorities take into account recorded prosecutions before renewing operators' licenses may be one of...

FREIGHT Forwarders Rule Forwarding Ltd has innounced the introduction )f a new and regular, weekly ontainer groupage service...

HE Western traffic area has ointed out that there appliations for 0 licences in 1973 )se by 33 per cent and did ot drop by 33...

THE NEW Covent Garden Market took a step nearer to completion last week when representatives of the Market Authority, the GLC,...

THE consultation document on routes for heavy lorries issued by the Department of Industry has come in for heavy criticism from...

by a special correspondent BRITISH road transport, and especially the general haulage sector, is going to experience...

A TACHOGRAPH which will meet European Economic Community specifications will be generally available by the end of this year....

A MOST useful reference itu ide with the title Livport ilandhrmk has been updated and published by the British Overseas - trade...

7TRANGE Seymour Interiationale the Letchworth )ased Continental hauliers .re extending their express ervices with a nightly...

NORTH Sea oil is providing increasing business for Scottish hauliers. One haulier, A Noble and Sons, Aberdeen, and its...

FOLLOWING a transaction valued at 060,000, Tempco International Ltd, a subsidiary of the National Freight Corporation, has...

go to Earls Court Show . THERE will be well over 300 exhibitors at this year's Commercial Motor Show, which opens at Earls...

firm of stockbrokers where he was a senior investment advisor. After retiring from the RAF as a Wing Commander in 1966, he...

Will tachograph charts supersede written records when the EEC scheme takes effect in Britain? Can an operator fit and service...

COMMENTING THAT if there were any further lapse in the proper and regular maintenance of any of the specified vehicles held on...

A "Pick-me-Up" bus service introduced in Harlow on Wednesday is the fifth Diala-Ride passenger transport system in Britain...

NEW COACH services, new links, new weekend and dayreturn facilities and summer services running all year round are featured in...

1FTER a poor beginning to ie tours season, the holiay division of National 'ravel is enjoying what it escribes as "a booking...

A NEW organization catering for the needs of private bus operators throughout Eire has been formed. Known as the Private...

ONLY WEEKS after London Transport's first woman bus' driver got behind the wheel LT has appointed its first woman bus...

BUS FARES on London Country's bus and Green Line coach services are being increased from September 1. • Adult bus fares will...

'BRITAIN'S youngest woman bus driver — that's the claim by Glasgow PTE for 22-yearold Yvonne Kilgour of Burnside, who passed...

is for wasting time and money AN APPLICATION by Worths Motor Services Ltd of Enstone, Oxon, to vary the conditions of its road...

NEARLY 5,000 bus drivers and conductors in central Scotland have drawn up a new charter for pay and conditions in opposition to...

AN EXERCISE is belt - 4 carried out in Liverpool t( discover whether a Dial-a Ride bus service would b. viable in the City. At...

MERRIWORTH announces this week a new range of rubber suspension units for trailers. Single and tandem-axle versions are to be...

COMMERCIAL vehicle production in July was — except for July 1973 — the highest for over three years. At 40,700 units, output...

THE Minister for Transport has confirmed the route of the four-mile by-pass between Wincanton and Halton on A303. Work is...

WORK on the Pontardulais by-pass on M4, which began on August 16, will cover 81/2 miles at a cost of almost £15½m,

A NEW trailer repair and servicing depot has been opened by George Neville Truck Equipment Ltd, manufacturers of Samson...

TWO developments of the rubber suspension produced in tandem form by Rydewell Engineering Ltd are to be exhibited for the first...

TANDEM-axle rubber suspension running gear designed to 19,3 tonnes (19 tons) gross weight capacity has been announced by Dyson...

AIR SUSPENSION UNITS which offer optimum ride characteristics regardless of load and are suitable for live or dead axle...

AT EARLS Court Telehoist will be exhibiting the CH801, the latest model from its range of hydraulically powered lever-arm...

THREE diesel engines, suitable for automotive application, will be exhibited by Dorman Diesels Ltd, at Earls Court. Two of the...

UNIROYAL Ltd has sold its chain of over 60 retail tyre stores to Associated Tyre Specialists Ltd for about £1.5 million cash....

FROM September the Freight Bonallack Coldsaver semitrailers are to be sold in Ireland. The first Irish distributor to be...

Five million miles of experience lies behind a switch to auto control by Martin Hayes AFTER THREE years and five million...

One of the most "non-European" aspects of the United States trucking scene is the widespread publication of annual operating...

Latest version has exhaust-pressure regulator for better light-load running by Trevor Longcroft FROM September all right...

birthday on September 8 Nearly 300 drivers wilt compete for the championship at Bramcote in nine days' time THE CLASS WINNERS...

WHEN the conduct of human affairs is so inept and sometimes corrupt, it is almost a consolation to learn of a bizarre web of...

Although he was only 16 when he joined his family's coaching business, at shop floor level, John Abbott soon realized his...

running diesels by Graham Montgomerie New device is also claimed to cut fuel costs A DEVICE which is claimed to reduce the...

by Les Oldridge T ENG (CEI) MIMI, AMIRTE HOW MANY fleet operators are fully aware of the advantages of trade licences? The...

Commercial Motor has a vacancy for a news assistant on the editorial team — preferably someone with transport experience....

to maintain these vehicles a workshop able to accommodate one vehicle at a time is provided. There is no pit. The maintenance...

the new provisions of what was then the Road Traffic Bill which referred to parking partially on the pavement did not apply to...

and 1 have now added a recovery vehicle to that business, which I propose to operate on trade plates. Could you outline the...

coach I have been offered work taking volunteer harvest workers from a town centre to alarm. The passengers will be asked to...

by John Darker maim INFLATIONARY pressures on the business life of the community may be expected to have a quite drastic...

The Mark 2 Acklift 8000 hydraulic lifting platform is designed as a mobile access to heights of up to eight metres from the...

An improved version of the Weighwrite ADS Dynamic Axle Weighing System is now available from Smiths Industries. The weighing...

The Air-O-Matic Power Steer Division of R.F.F. Engineering (International) Co Ltd has opened a national installation centre for...

Mitraply is a sheet of plywood faced one or both sides with 1mm thickness of polyester/ glassfibre. This is claimed to give a...

apparatus are claimed to make it possible to check complete wheel-alignment measurements on a vehicle in a sixth of the normal...

kingpin to prevent unlawful coupling and removal has been designed by Ellis (Colchester). It can be easily fitted with one...

Hylomar sealing compound is now available in tubes or aerosol cans. It remains plastic and so does not crack through joint...

THE HANDY Blast compressed air shotblasting machine from Shotblast Developments is designed to clean-off metal and allied...

brake system, is now offering operators free advice and technical assistance with the selection, maintenance and fitting of its...