BLEAK New Year is forest for fish hauliers — and my may "go to the wall." Operators at North East rts have been hardest hit d...

GOVERNMENT action is being taken about vehicles carrying dangerous loads. Many loads will be transferred from road to rail. And...

THOUSANDS of trucks faced a wait of up to four days at the Mont Blanc tunnel last week when snow clearers went on strike. The...

AGRICULTURAL hauliers face a grim year with reduced fleets, older vehicles and low rates — all on the eve of the Smithfield...

LONDON TRANSPORT's search for "the bus of the future" comes a step nearer with the completion of an hydraulically driven...

the Common Marl European Commission tr sport experts have drawn t working paper on pract solutions to the problem....

- HE Government's forced eduction in local authority pending on transport next rear is a "calculated bluff" timed at the IMF,...

A SPECIAL one-day teach-in on transport law will take place at the Coventry Esso Hotel, Hinckley Road, Coventry, on Saturday,...

TWO well-known names have joined forces to provide a total heavy plant movement service to companies in offshore development....

FOUR national conferences and an exhibition come under the "Safety 77" banner at Harrogate next May. It will drive home the...

E government sponsored .ional Consumer Council oes that Parliament will . oduce legislation during current session to make...

PLANS to set up a nationwide network of lorry routes are almost certain to be scrapped. But while the Government is making its...

THE Government has no current plans to re-introduce the Seat Belts Bill. "I believe that Parliament will eventually endorse...

Mud law? THE Transport Department is looking into the possibilities for more effective fittings for heavy vehicles to catch...

AN OBJECTION to an application for an operator's licence was based on the claim that the premises were residential. But, in...

rHINLY disguised extra tax that's how the Freight insport Association labelled Government's plans for overing the costs of...

Quick work THE Higher CarbIake extension of the A30 trunk road in Cornwall opened this week — only five months after Peter...

r APPEAL to hauliers to p in relief operations folving the Turkish earthike disaster comes from the ernational Road Transport...

A NEW Moving Guide and Kits now available from Pickfords Removals, claim to provide the most comprehensive assistance ever...

FOLLOWING the success of "sleeping policemen" speed control humps in Oxford, the humps are to be introduced in London's...

transport operations. He is Duncan Shann, 55-year-old PO vehicle design, provision and maintenance chief. Mr Shann takes over...

FORD-South Midland has plied to increase fares by 13 r cent from the end of wary. It has also asked the Traffic immissioners...

COMPETITION between National Travel and Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd, in the field of extended tours, is calming down. Hearings...

AN OFFER of regular engineering inspection of buses and coaches — with full reports of defects found — has come from the...

ASSUMPTIONS by Lond Transport that the number buses in use in the peak hot. can fall by five per cent befc Autumn, 1978, have...

IL THE effort is taken out of riving by the automatic ption now available on Ford series buses — but it still Ives a very nippy...

ABOLISHING the 3 tons unladen weight category in favour of 7.5 tonnes (7.38 tons) gvw for non-hgv drivers opens the door for...

BY THE year 2025 the UK, common with many industr1 lised countries, will need substitute for petrol. This is the opinion...

SE of vehicles of under eight ns gross weight is on the crease, says Mr A. W. awthorne, head of the mnsport and Road Research...

A special purpose drawbar ailer has been built by York's ruck Equipment Division to wry a small mechanical shod. The customer...

A TRANSPORT and Road Research Laboratory study of driver behaviour in fog has shown that when visability was more than 100...

BRITISH exports of agricultural engineering products this year should easily exceed last year's record figures, says Mr John...

BY DR MAGNUS PYKE. "Ford are bringing out an improved turbo-charged diesel engine and they think that I can explain what's new...

Shake off the `charabanc outing image,' says D.Lloyo THE TYPICAL British touring coach is still basically what it has always...

kCED with increasing rerheads and cash-flow oblems, operators may be mpted to look to their aurance as a fairly painless ay to...

This vehicle building business is becoming so complicated. It's bad enough for those of us who speak the language, but can you...

When the editor went to Tehran a couple of years ago, he found himself in the Hotel Palma foyer feeling grubby, lost and broke,...

I HEAR that NCL's branded packages Fashionflow and Chinaflow are likely soon to have a new stablemate, whosi name I cannot...

AT CM we have carried out full operational trials on both the 0M55 and 75 vehicles from Fiat-the former in integral van form...

ALL THE integral van and chassis-cab models in the Fiat OM range are fitted with body mountings riveted to the chassis frame....

twice: the best tips A further point requiring the attention of the grease gun is the handbrake cable pulley. This is exposed...

ON McGRATH, managing director of VH Self Drive :d, Waterloo Road, Burslem, is a FIAT enthusiast for vo reasons: one, quality;...

RIVER acceptability is art of the criteria applied Courier Express when :.quiring vehicles. This 3mpany's vehicles are mted...

THE commercial vehicle industry in the UK is possibly less adventurous in bodywork design than is the case in Italy. The Turin...

NO MATTER how good a vehicle is, for the whole of its life it needs parts—even in the early days, although these should ideally...

OW DOES a rental cornmy decide what vehicles to urchase? Petrol or diesel ngines in the light vans? our, five or six-speed...

Mr F. E. Wilkin, London Transport's chief PRO, queries (CM November 19) our calculations on the total subsidy paid to London...

With reference to the CM article about stopping the travelling public from fiddling bus and train fares. When the public...

I have read with interest Johnny Johnson's article on Newhaven Harbour (CM November 12). As far as East Sussex County Council...

In commending the proposal to control entry to membership of the overseas group of BAR "The Hawk" suggests (CM November 26)...

The possible installation of CB-type radios in the cabs of commercial vehicles is a topic which arouses animosity fror the...

THE current uncertain conditions in the transport industry have led to a record year for Ralph Bacci's company, Salford Van...

by Les Oldridge, T Eng(CEI) MIMI, AMIRTE CONTINUING from last week our examination of definitions in the Motor Vehicles...

INADEQUATELY secured loads cause many accidents, an can easily make minor accidents into major ones. The fact that a truck...