Agricultural aid undercuts haulage operators, says RHA • Accusations, with photographic evidence to support them, that farmers...

by Jahn Darker • There is growing speculation in industrial relations circles that the docks and general haulage sections of...

• Advisory signposted routes for heav vehicles, reinforced by mandatory bans o some roads if necessary, are among measurt being...

UNTIL the docks' dispute is settled little action, says the DoE, is likely to be taken against foreign goods and passenger...

0 It would not be worth while to try to stablish why the prosecution rates for such ffences as overloading lorries differed in...

urges EEC to follow suit • The lead content of petrol is to be reduced by almost a half in the UK during the next three years...

— with or without TGWU • More than 200 lorry drivers attended a meeting held at the Walton Street lorry park in Hull on Sunday...

• A new drawbar trailer manufactured by the Cannock branch of York Trailer's truck equipment division is designed for operation...

• Ten independent motor accessory factoring firms, all owned by Smiths Industries Ltd, have been merged to form a new single...

certificates • There are 500 plating certificates ar 500 DoE test certificates somewhere circulation, following a theft at the...

• A draft directive about the extent s training necessary to enable drivers undi 21 to drive heavy goods vehicles is undi...

• Though the number of heavy good vehicles involved in accidents which resulte in injury was lower last year than at an time...

The order stopping dockers picketing a East London cold store of Midland Cold orage from threatening a national "black"...

II The Home Office is consulting the hemical Industries Association about , ossible ways of widening Imperial . hemical...

• New light goods vehicles will have to be fitted with reflective number plates. Announcing this in the Commons, Mr John...

• A new edition of the twice-yearly ABC Goods Transport Guide has been published by 1PC Transport Press Ltd. The Guide...

by Trevor Longcroft • Austin-Morris vans derived from the Marina saloon car range have replaced the Morris Minor 6 /8cwt and...

• Ten Birmingham lorry drivers dismissed last year after obeying a union call for a one-day token strike over a pay claim, were...

• At York on Sunday NCL drivers made excellent performances in what would normally have been the last of this year's...

• The Department of the Environment proposals to increase to 50 mph the speed limit for light vans and dual-purpose vehicles...

published • The plating and testing Standard Lb covering goods vehicles and trailers man factured in 1970/71 were published...

• A lorry driver did not know he wa carrying an unexploded mine with a load o top soil from Birmingham to Walsall, Staffs The...

• The Fodens Ltd annual report for the year ended April 1 1972, shows a tax paid profit of £431,156 (1971: £790,180). Turnover...

Reliability, convenience, frequency, ety, shelters, cheap fares, comfort and ted — that is the order in which ssengers place...

A concessionary bus fares scheme for a ,ral area in Warwickshire is expected to ; approved this week and could be in )eration...

• An order to ban parking and stopping fqr loading and unloading at 76 bus stops a 39 roads in Coventry is being sought from...

• By the end of March 1973, 50 per cent of the mileage covered by Coventry Corporation buses will be by oneman-operated...

• Special moves to counter accidents to youngsters using school buses are being examined by the Government. Ideas put forward...

• Buses completely covered by painted advertisements — such as those in London — are all right with the Government. Mr Keith...

• An appeal by Keith Garages and Mr J. A. Dickson against decisions of the East Midland Traffic Commissioners to allow a grant...

• A High Court judge last week refus an application by SELNEC Passeng Transport Executive for a temporary ord banning a...

In a written decision last week the stern LA, Mr H. E. Robson, curtailed by vehicles the licence of Purle Bros. oldings) Ltd...

A suggestion that one of its vehicles d been sabotaged was made by National 'niers Ltd, when it appeared before the puty South...

1 The case before the court was a good icample of the worst sort of offence ommitted by lorry drivers, with records eliberately...

• A West Midland paving stone firm which ignored a warning that its operator's licence was in jeopardy after three of its...

• A company which applied for a new excursions and tours licence but did not produce witnesses or evidence in support of the...

• When a DoE vehicle examiner paid a routine visit to the depot shared by two Lancashire demolition firms it proved to be a...

• David West and Son Ltd, of Dunfermline, a TDG company, had its 19vehicle margin removed and three more vehicles of the 25 in...

• "Not so much a big brother as a new' breed," is how members of the Carmichael family describe the company's new Commando 6 x...

• Dump trucks have been operating for some time fitted with turbocharged versions of the Dorman 8J V8 diesel engine, the 8JT....

dew by the Hawk 3mog reaction ging by some of the replies which the iday Times "smog-man" gets from rators whose vehicles he...

THE DOOR to Europe is opening wider and our transport repair depots are becoming familiar with visiting vehicles from Common...

John Darker AMBIM ■ 1Y road transport company wishing to )loit the opportunities for expansion on Continent must seriously...

Transfer terminals are becoming the order of things throughout Europe, one of the latest and fastest growing being at Muttenz...

/a welcome letters for publication n transport topics. Address them Commercial Motor, Dorset ouse, Stamford Street, London El...

June Gil//son • June Gilliam has every reason to smile. She has just achieved a lifelong ambition. June is the transport...

By Trevor Longcroft FROM small beginnings in 1966, to an intended fleet of 700 tilt-covered semi-trailers by the end of 1973....

Continental (lain Sherriff ACIT, MITA, AIRTE HEN John MacAteer leaves his home at . earley in Staffordshire on a Sunday arning...

Tim Hoare he existing TIR system will be kised out for British operators 'on and replaced by a system hich appears to be more...

;ervices in Europe by Gordon Crabtree F'ERATORS using British trucks in urope should soon experience little fficulty in...

by Eric Gibbins TRANSMED, the get-you-home medical insurance scheme for international transport drivers announced earlier this...

✓ instruction and test in order to obtain psv licence without being an employee transport undertaking? There is no reason why...

Migraine for chastity "MISS VIRGO, our environment teacher, has told us to write a holiday composition on 'The Menance of the...

Lock them away loaded or empty by lnsp Roger Sprosen Crime Prevention Section New Scotland Yard • I make no apology for again...

vehicles for reliability and — longevity is just as important as the initial capital cost. Because Chrysler is an inter...

is vast. From Commer light vans and trucks to Karrier local authority vehicles and Dodge 28 tons GTW tractors there's a range...

matters by John Darker AMB M Help for the small business (2) THE publication of Small Firms and their Problems by Aims of...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Traffic wardens TRAFFIC WARDENS have now become a familiar part of the traffic scene and they...

learning by David Lowe, Mlnst TA AMBIM Human relationships; important aspect of managers' course IN MAY I wrote about the...

Fleetline Transport (Southampton) Ltd. Cap: £100. Dir M. Holloway. Sheila D. Holloway, 42 Corinthian Chandlers Ford; I. A....