DOBSON'S Bulk Hauliers Ltd noticed that something was missing from their Mersey View Garage at Weston Point, Runcorn, when they...

by CM reporter NEW TOUGH traffic and tax regulations, leading to vast Increases in the cost of Middle East operation came into...

OPERATORS of one-man road haulage businesses in South Wales are uniting in a bid to stop the rate-cutting battle which, they...

THERE has been considerable surprise in road haulage circles at the announcement that Sir Daniel Pettit is not to continue as...

drivers A PAY increase of 3 per cent just awarded to London Transport busmen should push average earnings for the drivers of...

HAULAGE, contract hire and car rental activities have been started by the Plessey Co Ltd, an own-account operator which runs...

The proposals include the formation of local tipping groups based on a natural boundary basis with administration provided by...

IN HIS FIRST annual report, Mr Robert Gale, Cumbria's consumer protection officer, says his department examined 6,058 vehicles...

Sitting astride the main overland route to the Middle East, Turkey has been casting understandably covetous eyes on the flood...

OPERATORS faced with making redundancy payments need not necessarily do so in cash. It is possible with the employee's...

THE recently formed Essex and North Kent centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration is holding a high level open forum...

ABOUT 30 drivers, mechanics and office staff employed by Southern Car Delivery, Warrington, are staging a sit-in in protest...

URGENT action to stop the poaching of trained lorry drivers by own-account operators is being demanded by the Road Haulage...

A GROUP of East Anglian hauliers have combined to set up a new company, Cambridge Transport Training Ltd. The company is...

drivers to 'fight Docks Bill MEMBERS of the RHA are being urged to mobilise drivers in a campaign against the controversial...

A NEW weekly trailer groupage service to Finland has been launched by international freight forwarders Thomas Meadows Ltd. The...

DAVID WHITE, formerly managing director of Eastern BRS has been appointed coordinator of the BRS group. This is one of a...

A GLASGOW Industrial Tribunal has stated that It would be contrary to the spirit of the Code of Practice to encourage...

A ROAD transport agreement allowing a UK haulier to carry goods through Portugal, or to enter Portugal with an empty vehicle to...

Foden braking IN our recent road test of a 32-ton Foden artic, a printing error transposed the figures for the secondary brake...

AN "ease the freeze" bonus deal is being offered by BRS Truck Rental during the next three months. And BRS is giving itself a...

CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE had been taken by Burt Boulton (Timber) Ltd, Rotherham, to rectay defects in its maintenance system, said...

DETAILS of three FTA transport management courses for 1976 have now been released. Aimed primarily at newly appointed transport...

Redundancies will be resisted says TGWU A BIG CAMPAIGN to stop the threatened cuts in Britain's bus services is to be mounted...

THE Social Services Department of the London Borough of Greenwich has taken delivery of two Bedford YRQs fitted with Duple...

"PASSENGER Transport and the Environment" is the subject of a major conference at York organised by the Chartered Institute of...

NEGOTIATIONS have been concluded between Volvo AB, of Gothenburg, and Carosserie Hess AG, of Solothurn, Switzerland, which give...

DoE warning for 1977 THE DOE has warned local authorities that they must steadily decrease the amount of money they spend on...

TWO Ford trucks went in for a service recently and the repair bills came to a miserly £50. And that's not bad when you consider...

A SLIDING BASE that will give fifth-wheel heights as low as 1.2m (50in) on many tractive units has been released by Jost (GB)...

From British Rail and British Gas to Servowarm and Unigate, and many more. All riding around in Bedford CF vans. What makes...

And give fan clutches the seal of approval By John Hartley FAN clutches will get a real boost from the US truck noise regu...

Overseas owner-drivers get together "to beat the freight forwarders" IT'S all at the Cop-op now, says the advert—and a group...

This year's customers' dinner organised by Midlands BRS at Magdalen College, Oxford, was a notably cheerful affair in the midst...

Peter Thompson, newly catapulted from BRS into the top operating executive job at NFC, reckoned you could tell whether or not...

The Oxford dinner was almost end-of-contract time for Reg Cole, that doyen of contracts managers. In three weeks he retires,...

There was news, too, of another ex-BRS/NFC senior executive—Len Payne, now with Sainsburys. He's been very ill in St Thomas's...

In all the public hoo-ha about Chrysler the truck side has, mercifully, figured very little. Now I have it on good authority...

Music and psv have been getting together in another area, too—and earning quite a press. The Scottish Bus Group's decision to...

the EEC way by Johnny Johnson Many operators who had ordered EEC-type logbooks before the sixmonth deferment became known will...

DURING the first phase of the preventive maintenance operation, Grade 2 and 3 vehicles will have been largely ignored —or they...

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LAST week this column was devoted to an account of the case in which a driver employed by Swindell (Haulage) Ltd, of...

HAULIERS who value their independence but who can also see the benefits of cooperation will be Interested in the experience of...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE IN 1960 a fixed penalty system was introduced for minor traffic offences so that...

OLD-FASHIONED operators still believe that the fuel tax and licence duties they pay are intended to meet their share of the...

by Patrick Prekopp NEW YEAR prospects for the haulage 'industry are no less gloomy than those for the rest of the country. '...

this year. Could you tell me if this means that my drivers will not have to adjust their timings in either direction when...

are over one ton unladen, are fitted with a hand-brake and a telescopic automatic brake —both are fitted with sewage plant...

and I want to obtain some sort of list of questions and answers appertaining to the test. I will be required to drive only a...

a low bridge and caused it to come into contact with the masonry has been told by the police that he will be . reported and...

and shows, and several of its vehicles will require replacing this year. I am told that new vehicles will have to conform • to...

Mr Parnell accepts that as a result of Mr Law's efforts, employees have received better wages and conditions. But he fears that...

by John Darker, AMBIM THE main provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act and the full farce of the Equal Pay Act came into...

Twin filament, dipping TungstenHalogen headlamp bulbs, said to be the first to fit most European trucks, are now available from...

Designed for use where space is restricted, the new Gordon ratchet lever has a smaller head conta:ning 60 teeth which are said...

With standard platform sizes ranging from 3m x 2m (9.8 x 6.5ft) to 7m x 7m (23 x 231t), new Double Tandem poweroperated lift...

Suitable for use on wheels of between 254mm and 458mm diameZer (10in and 18in), the air-operated Tyre Chief Major tyre changer...