School transport in many areas is in a mess, largely of local education authorities' own making. The results of exploiting the...

NATIONAL PLAN FOR CAREERS IN ROAD HAULAGE • A national recruiting and training campaign for road haulage managers has been...

• The _ powerful Union of European Community Industries (UNICE) this week declared As strong opposition to the continuation of...

Five-point reform plan for Mrs Thatcher by CM staff reporter • A swingeing attack on the present method of operating school...

• The Common Market may impose an inter-State height limit of 4 metres on goods vehicles and their loads from January 1 1974....

• A 35-hour week, with £1 per hour basic pay, is one of the principal agenda items for the first national conference of the...

• A new distribution centre was opened for Shell-Mex and BP Ltd in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, yesterday by the company's managing...

• Road transport will protect the quality of life rather than destroy it, and will help cities to survive. This was an argument...

• Thirty-six per cent of road vehicles checked by Cheshire County weights and measures inspectors were found to be overloaded,...

• Following representations by drivers of Heatons Transport, of St Helens, to Liverpool dockers, there were high hopes that the...

MR PEYTON: AVOID HYSTERIA OVER LORRIES • The Government's plans for transport include the provision of a national network of...

• Mr D. McKenna, member of the British Railways Board, who took office as president of the Chartered Institute of Transport on...

• The long-awaited report of the Commission on Industrial Relations entitled "Disclosure of Information", published last week,...

by the technical editor • Figures for sales in the first six months of 1972 indicate that the market for 32-ton tractive units...

• Two suggested methods of costing goods vehicle operation are contained in a booklet produced for its members by the Road...

• A "drivers' day", when a cavalcade of British Leyland commercial vehicles may be inspected and driven, is being held on...

• An encouraging number of universities, polytechnics and colleges are aligning their courses with the requirements of the...

• The recommendation by Road Haulage Association chairman John Wells to review rates immediately which was viewed "with very...

• The Transport and General Workers' Union is to call for a ban on all overtime until the unemployment situation is resolved....

• Gardner 6LX. 6LXB and 8LXB diesels have been certificated to BS AU 141a:1971, at the following respective gross powers and...

• A one-day seminar with the title "A front look at the back door — operating an efficient delivery service", will be held at...

• Increasing concern about the approximately 3000 reportable accidents a year from the use of transport on construction sites...

• Mercedes-Benz has recently commissioned a top German men's clothes designer, Heinz Oestergard, to produce a selection of...

• In addition to its function as an equipment operations centre, the latest Ferrymasters Ltd depot, just opened at Manchester,...

• Barely 24 hours before the Government's "12" pay policy was announced British Road Services agreed to implement a 9 per cent...

• To assist industrial transport managers in dealing with the complexities of Value Added Tax, the Freight Transport...

• William Nuttall Transport Ltd has announced that in June it acquired as from January 1 1972 the whole of the issued share...

• In a 1-2-3 grand slam victory last Sunday the men from St Helens Corporation trounced all opposition at the national finals...

I-10W much can coach operators learn from the airline business? This is a question which we are setting out to answer in the...

Wednesday November 1 Visit to London (Heathrow) Airport for BOAC session on the airline's approach to passenger comfort and...

at rural bus decline • "The Government is deeply concerned about the decline in rural bus services," said Mr Eldon Griffiths,...

• Glasgow Corporation and the TRRL have begun a new series of tests of the Transyt computer-cdntrol system for the 90 traffic...

• The National Bus Company plans to form a property company with the object of investigating and developing land and properties...

• A contract for 130 dual-purpose ambulances has been placed with Dormobile Ltd, by the GLC. The vehicle is based on the CFL...

• Two of London Transport's experimental minibus services — due to start operation within the 'next week — have had to be...

• Providing a coach company's application finds favour in the eyes of the Traffic Commissioners, the town of Winsford in...

• A DAF coach — probably with a Van Hool body and in the colours of a Dutch operator — is expected to compete in next year's...

• Atlas Express treated a man "fairly" after the company had moved from Liverpool to Warrington, Liverpool Industrial Tribunal...

• A suggestion by a one , -vehicle operator that it was a "waste of time and earnings" to take a vehicle off the road a few...

• An application for an 0 licence for two vehicles was adjourned last week by the Scottish LA after criticism by the...

• The right of a former employee to certify driving experience on form DGL IB — the application for an hgv driving licence —...

• The Transport Tribunal has increased the penalty imposed by the Western LA on A. R. Hiscox and Sons, of Frorne, Somerset, by...

• When a Worcester haulage company produced a file of invoices as evidence of records of maintenance work on its vehicles the...

• The Birmingham proprietor of a general haulage and also a commercial vehicle repair company appeared before the West Midland...

As Gibb Grace of Commercial Motor put it: The DAF FT 2600 is a very good vehicle by any standards ... it has better than...

• A driver /mechanic who on occasions went out to repair articulated vehicles and later road-tested them, was held not to be in...

Dr Norman Jones is taking over control of the bulk liquid tankers of A. S. Jones and Co Ltd, Bromborough, from his father, Ron...

• A new range of vehicle security systems and devices to provide protection against hijacking and the theft from vehicles of...

• Having relaunched the EA as a Redline model, British Leyland is to transfer production of its EA vans from Adderley Park,...

• A Committee for Industrial Technologies has been set up by the Department of Trade and Industry to advise on measures to...

• A test track for fork-lift trucks has been installed by Lancer Boss Ltd at its Leighton Buzzard premises. It is to be used to...

• Seddon Diesel Vehicles Ltd is to reorganize the distribution of both Seddon and Atkinson vehicles in London and the South...

• Crompton Electricars Ltd has acquired from L and P Engineering Co, of Exeter, the sole manufacturing rights of Manulectric...

• Garrett AiResearch, which opened a new factory at Skelmersdale, Lancashire, last year to produce diesel engine turbochargers,...

• The Avon Rubber Co Ltd has developed a safety wheel — initially for cars and carderived vans — which will, in the event of a...

• Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd has introduced two new tandem-axle coil carriers featuring a standardized chassis designed to...

This week: the Abelmatic equipment produced by Abel Systems Ltd, of 184 Station Road, Harrow, Middx, used in the Markyate,...

view by the Hawk • Crash! Did anyone, I wonder, manage to avoid "crashing" on the simulator which the DoE had at Earls Court?...

IT is three years since local authorities were given statutory powers to aid unremunerative bus and ferry services in rural...

Gilbert Hunt • Professionalism is a word that fits Gilbert Hunt like a glove. Perhaps coming from a long line of engineers...

GIVE the Lorry Driver of the Year the chance to probe around among the ,new trucks, and what is his main reaction? That every...

A warning to other operators I should like to inform your readers of the treatment I have just received from a major dealer,...

THE first important aspect of safe loading is to be sure that the vehicle is satisfactory for the job. For general goods the...

by Handyman Tyre bills bringing home the covers • Store all new tyres in a cool, dry place • Insist that drivers bring home...

• The arguments in favour of establishing a uniform set of Conditions of Carriage are appealingly strong, but I am afraid the...

Good news for the anti-lorry faction OPPONENTS of the heavy lorry stay silent on the rare occasions when their support might...

by Insp R. Sprosen New Scotland Yard Deny the thief the use of your tools • The introduction of power tools ranging from a...

being complied with if a swop-body vehicle is weighed for taxation purposes as a chassis/cab and then used under the following...

July 28 for gross weight of vehicles from November 1973, I have been in contact with two local testing station managers on this...

time to time to cover hohdays, sickness and so on. 1 understand that the Department of the Environment is not satisfied that...

A Anhydrous ammonia is not one of the more dangerous chemicals from a transport standpoint, though of course it requires...

The docks the inside story ROAD transport managers would be very happy to forget about the docks and the incredibly persistent...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Defences to offences WHEN studying traffic law I have occasionally come across stated cases or...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Road transport economics Investment and National...

R. W. D. Transport Ltd. Cap: £100. Objects: To carry on the business of haulage and transport contractors, etc. Dirs: D. K....