When operators' licensing was introduced one of the obvious, if understandable, weaknesses was that LicensingAuthorities`...

FTA seeks 'due diligence defence' protection for operators • Firms which hire out goods vehicles without drivers should be...

• After testing 32 cars on short-term hire, finding 12 with serious defects and only four in good condition. Motoring Which?...

• SMMT president and Lucas chairman Kenneth Corley becomes a Knight Bachelor in the New Years Honours list, and other KBs...

• As from January 1 1972 all employers have to be insured against their liability for personal injury or disease sustained by...

• At a Portsmouth factory of J. H. Sparshatt and Sons Ltd, where coachbuilt furniture pantechnicons have been produced for more...

• The Government is to be asked by the RAC to exempt petrol sales from value added tax as part of a new approach to road and...

• Medminster Ltd, furniture hire, air charter and distribution group, has acquired the Liverpool-based transport and forwarding...

• Having been consulted as a candidate Common Market country, the UK has told the European Commission that it regards as...

• With a new Ultralite all-welded aluminium tipping body Neville Industries, Mansfield, Notts, has done away completely with...

• British Leyland truck and bus division has announced a replacement part plan which will embrace the truck marques Leyland,...

• No annual publication which aims to cover road transport legislation and operation can hope to remain 100 per cent up to date...

Published annually by Commercial Motor are Tables of Operating Costs, providing detailed standing and running costs for classes...

• A further substantial increase in the number of international journeys by road haulage vehicles during 1971 is reported by...

• Following a recent move to Bedfont Road, Feltham, Middlesex, Doyle Brothers (Hounslow), Ltd now has a five-acre site close to...

• A small "run about town" insulated body has been designed with the home freezer boom in mind by commercial vehicle...

• Following the implementation of lorry appointment schemes for export services operating from the Royal Docks, the Port of...

• A 15 per cent fall in net profits for the second half of the financial year is reported by ERF (Holding) Ltd. In the 28 weeks...

• The FTA has lodged a strong objection to the DoE's proposal to restrict all goods vehicles over 30cwt unladen to the inner...

• After a poor start to the year, which included the longest strike in the company's history, Ford of Britain production in the...

Londoners face shock rises by Derek Moses • An amazing contrast between London and Rome occurred at the weekend — while...

• Plaxtons (Scarborough) Ltd reports that increasing orders for 55-seater Panorama Elite II luxury coach bodies, suitable for...

• The standard price of a Duple Vicero■ Express body, mounted on a Bedford YR( or Ford 1014 chassis, and which features wide...

• To increase operating efficiency and service to the passengers by improving communications between management and drivers,...

• The annual Christmas Park 'n' Ride scheme operated by Leicester City Transport was a "fantastic success", Mr Leslie Smith,...

• A non-stop motorway express service is to be introduced by Bristol Greyhound on Sunday (January 9) which is scheduled to do...

• A Government spokesman has welcomed the initiative by Aberdeen county council to work out a mutually satisfactory arrangement...

• No increase in bus fares will be considered by the Scottish Transport Group until August 1972, despite the seven per cent...

• A surplus of some £200,000 on its 1971 bus operations is anticipated by the Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive, the...

• The total sum so far paid by his Department to local authorities as subsidies for rural bus services in the Principality was...

• Today (January 7) a special sub-committee will give initial consideration to the 36 applications recieved for the post of...

• Long-distance bus operators in the United States are to take their case for wider buses to the Senate, a Washington...

P. 0. (Phil) Ives, former truck marketing manager of the truck and bus division of British Leyland has been appointed general...

But LAs worried about maintenance records, overloading, garage standards, light vans and hgv licensing problems • The...

• A plea that J. Wyatt Jr (Haulage) Ltd and two of its drivers could not be said to be "using" overloaded vehicles because they...

• Charles Rankin of Edinburgh has been awarded damages of £.360 against Miller and Co of Edinburgh following an accident...

• A haulage driver, fined £35 for seven offences under the Transport Act, alleged at Leigh magistrates' court last week that he...

• Changes in the goods vehicle plating and testing scheme which wilt enable vehicles to be submitted for test before their due...

• New regulations stemming from ECE recommendations, and concerning the "mixing" of tyre types on certain classes of vehicles,...

diesel for the Transit , G bb Grace cE g DAuE. MIMechE WHEN the Transit was first introduced in October 1965 it was offered...

Anthony Shutes • It is said of red-headed people that they are better tempered day-to-day than their fellows. If the...

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

view by the Hawk • Not on trust Rome's decision to give free bus travel a whirl is, I think, the writing on the wall; despite...

Path fields Transport Ltd by David Lowe MinstTA AMBIM DAVID OAKEY, the proprietor of this eight-vehicle haulage business at...

The Mica wber approach EVER on the alert for what he can get of the taxpayers' money, Mr Richard Marsh, chairman of British...

1340N-GROSS TIPPER by Trevor Longcroft PICTURES BY DICK ROSS SOME TIPPING JOBS call for a vehicle which can maintain good...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (3) IN ORDER to know exactly what is happening within the electrical system,...

Inflation a national malaise • Britain's most serious internal economic problem is inflation. It affects us all and is the...

studies into container loading methods and have heard of a system by which assembled cars are specially loaded into containers...

Q & A column of CM (Dec 3) you state that a person may not be prosecuted unless served with written notice of prosecution...

stand your tax (11 )—Industrial building allowances" (CM October 22). What do you think of the following position? am engaged...

an hgv driving licence. I do relief driving for seven different haulage contractors and would be grateful if you could advise...

interior mirrors to be framed, brought' in? We have a batch of new buses in service and the interior mirrors are of the old...

matters By John Darker, MOW The Industrial Relations Act 11, the admin side of registration THE previous two articles dealing...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (2) LAST WEEK I discussed Regulation 3 of the C and U...

by George Wilmot, Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London Now is the time for examination practice AT the...

For the next seven days M ONDAY, JANUARY 10TH. IRTE (Cheltenham and G los) "Allison automatic transmissions" by B. J. S....

Cleveland Haulage (Teesside) Ltd. Cap: £2000. Objects: To carry on the business of haulage contractors, lightermen. etc. Subs:...

by Trevor Longcroft Rust stabilizer k quick-drying rust stabilizei mown as Corroless S has been ntroduced by Lawrence...