RHA council to consider bid to improve professionalism A COMPANY to provide services for Road Haulage Association members on a...

by CM reporter THE Department of the Environment is not doing enough to help British operators who are engaged on Middle East...

GENTRANSCO, the London shipping and forwarding agent, has been advised by its office in Tehran that the Turkish authorities are...

of cut and thrust' Parcels and Pickfords International hit hardest by economic downturn IN 1974—described in its annual...

OVERALL winner in the CM Lorry Driver of the Year competition in Birmingham on Sunday was J. Williams, of Midlands BRS, who...

John Wells' report for the RHA could—if adopted— spearhead efforts to put more professionalism into the road haulage industry....

by CM reporter DRIVEN "almost to despair" by the Department of Employ ment's latest consultative document on dockwork, the Road...

Minister warns drivers of hazard DRIVERS of articulated vehicles are to receive a government warning about the danger of...

THE three gas-fuelled buses being evaluated in Paris by Saviem are powered by liquid natural gas and not LPG as quoted in our...

study A MAJOR research study into the effect of the heavy goods vehicle on people—including drivers—is being launched in...

Co-op conference reported by John Darker ALTHOUGH delegates at the Golden Jubilee Seminar of the National Association of...

EIGHT POTENTIAL exhibitors of commercial vehicles at the Scottish Motor Show, due to be held at the Kelvin Hall from November 7...

NO ACTION is to be taken by the Transport Tribunal in a case where a vehicle operator had failed to attend a public inquiry....

Public spending £1,700 m ; private £6,000 m from our Parliamentary correspondent A COMPLAINT that the Transport Minister could...

These two Leylands have been supplied to AMC Luton Ltd by Marshall (Cambridge) Ltd, Leyland Redline and Guy distributors, for...

THE RHA has fired the first shot in its campaign to keep Britain in the EEC. It has sent a leaflet to each of its 18,000...

BRITISH LEYLAND has announced that it is renaming its medium van range, introduced last year as the CV306. The new name is...

Historic Commercial Vehicle Club rally to Brighton IN GLORIOUS weather last Sunday, crowds lined the route to Brighton for the...

A CLAIM that National Travel was attempting to ride roughshod over the rights of independents as objectors, under the Road...

CLOSER links with the travelling public are planned by Maidstone and District Motor Services, and East Kent Road Car Company....

WITH only two weeks to go until Dundee Corporation bus services are taken over by the new Tayside Regional Council, a row has...

SOUTHEND Corporation's rule of giving no change on its oneman bus fleet is alleged to be unlawful by the National Association...

by CM reporter A MAJOR BID for a slice of the export market is now being launched by Plaxtons (Scarborough) Ltd. Versions of...

IN VIEW of the limited time available to county councils it was not expected that the first reports under the new system of...

BUS-ONLY Lanes need stricter enforcement, according to an NBC report. The report contains what is claimed to be the first...

THE new edition of the Little Red Book for 1975 has just become available. Apart from a virtually complete list of British bus...

TWO 21-seater Leyland Asco Clubman buses have been suplied by Eurobus of Dublin to Cleveland Transit. The buses can be...

HERTFORDSHIRE County Council has asked London Transport to survey the routes it operates in the county with a view to reducing...

BUS OPERATORS can help county councils to compile in formation for Transport Supplementary Grant (TSG) submissions this year,...

A NEW design of single-deck bus is being purchased by the Belfast Ulsterhus concern in its 1975/76 bus replacement programme. A...

Cyril Bleasdale, 40, divisional manager of BR's Doncaster division, is to become managing director of Freightliners Ltd in...

AN American Mack tractor has been delivered to a British . operator and is now in service and on its way to Tehran. The vehicle...

ABEL SYSTEMS Ltd has developed a demountable body system—Uni-Swop 327—designed specifically for the Ford Transit and Bedford CF...

A REPORT suggesting a gcw of 36 tonnes (35.6 tons) for artics has been approved by the truck and trailer technical committee of...

CHANGES in the EEC regulations on driving hours could result from a study which the Commission has sponsored. The Commission...

THREE distributors have been appointed for Saviem by UK concessionaire, Nickerson Commercial Vehicles Ltd. They are: Clark...

IN the E. W. Taylor (Service) advertisement which appeared on page 4 of the March 28 issue of CM reference was made to Models...

CHRYSLER UK has increased the prices of its commercial vehicle range by an average of 8.6 per cent. The increases will cover...

THE Eaton Corporation of America, which includes the Fuller Roadranger gearbox series in its list of products, has developed a...

DURING the discussions on changes in the terms of British membership of the EEC, nobody bothered about the future of transport....

a low profile by Tim Hoare HEAVY vehicles, of all the modes of transport using air-inflated tyres, have lagged behind in terms...

St John Ambulance Brigade will be the beneficiary this year of the three-day transport extravaganza being held by The Transport...

Roger Williams of Willhire Ltd tells us he's mounting a trip to Tehran to "investigate some of the more unsavoury aspects" of...

Our man in the North pursues his hobby of picking up psv books, particularly historical ones, and recently came across First...

When you have a big new truck to put over to the national press as well as to transport journalists you have to deploy some...

Will Freightliners' small container modules catch on in a big way, I wonder? Each small " box" (8ft x 6ft 7in) is compact...

IRTE national conference hears about men, money and methods Report by Graham Montgomerie MECHANICS spend only 47 per cent of...

my mechanic, who was out on pre-MOT test on a vehicle and was stopped by the police, is now being prosecuted for no MOT...

am now able to acquire another unit and employ a driver. What do you think would be a reasonable average speed to use to assess...

loaded or does a brokendown vehicle have to be offloaded before recovery? A It depends on the type of vehicle being used to...

drawbar trailer, but I am not sure that our existing rigid units would be suitable in relation to permitted weights. Could you...

maintenance under which I have to make weekly deductions from his wages. fle has now given me a fortnight's notice. Do I have...

'Safety design' is easy to repair by Martin Watkins REBUILDING a crashed Leyland National was far easier than repairing any...

A problem since 1847 by Les Oldridge, TEng(CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE TO DRIVE a motor vehicle while under the influence of drink has...

by Tim Hoare Photographs by Harry Roberts SIXTEEN GEARS may seem a bit ambitious for a petrolengined Land-Rover. But this, at...

a sober long-term assessment AS PROMISED in CM's exclusive wind drag trial carried out in collaboration with Golden Wonder Ltd...

Driving to the Middle East means more than having an hgv licence by bin Sherriff THE MEN who drive to the Middle East come...

A market survey of maximum-capacity tractive units by Graham Montgomerie IN recent years the British • heavy truck had begun...

The Lockheed modular range of 215 foundation brakes, developed by Automotive Products for 10-ton to 14a-ton-gvw trucks, is off...

about EEC legislation by John Darker, AMB1M A RECENT Transport and Distribution supplement to management, a journal of the...