This week's Government statement on training policy (overleaf) is no more than a holding action and leaves large grey areas...

from our Parliamentary correspondent • The Government 'has had second thoughts on the abolition of industrial training board...

No oil change for two years on Gas Board vans • North Eastern Gas Board chemists are co-operating with Negas transport...

driver shortage says PVOA • "Looking to the future, unless some change is made, we are convinced that there will be an...

• Talks are on for a possible take-over bid for the Lancashire-based Wilkinsons Transport Group. After a flurry of stock...

threatens Edinburgh Festival • More than 200 Edinburgh Corporation Transport dayshift workers voted "over whelmingly" at a...

• British Leyland has made an addition to its light and medium capacity Redline truck range. The new vehicle is a Redline...

• Wastepaper merchant J. and J. Maybank Ltd has recently constructed a new £100,000 two-acre transport site and garage at...

• Specifications for large welded containers, including road tankers, for the transport by road of compressed and liquefied...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board has been concerned about the evidence accumulating in recent months that the...

• When some years ago Atlas International Express Ltd, of Rotherhithe, London, decided to establish a nationwide network of...

• British Railways announced on Friday that they plan to withdraw the freight wagon services from Southampton Docks next...

• To make their first public appearance at the Commercial Motor Show in September are two newly developed products from...

• Early in October Drake and Coles Containers Ltd, will open a 2facre site adjacent to Southampton docks as a storage site...

• The RTITB has again approved he training grant for competitors in the Lorry Driver of the Year competition. The grant is...

• Liverpool Corporation has earmarked three sites, at Knowsley Industrial Estate, Liverpool Airport or the nearby stacking...

• The RHA would welcome a system of presenting accounts to firms in respect of usage of the Mersey Tunnels, Merseyside...

• A list of collectors of Customs and Excise is a characteristic new addition to the contents of the very detailed and...

Despite heavy rain at the start, at lelle Vue, Manchester, on Sunday, of the ourth annual Trans-Pennine run to Iarrogate, a...

• Cravens Industries Sales Ltd, the Scottish division of Taskers Trailers Ltd, has moved to a new factory at Cumbemauld....

• The EEC Commission in Brussels is proposing that new drivers in Common Market countries be limited to a speed of 70 km/hr...

• Before going on the roadway after leaving gravel pits or rubbish tips in Hertfordshire, vehicles will be required to have...

• Orders are now being taken for Plaxtons' new coach model for 1973, the Panorama Elite III. The new body — which has...

• A call for drastic action in the field of public road transport — including the denationali 7ation of the National Bus...

• Passengers using a bus between Runcorn, Helsby and Chester claimed that school bags and games kits were a source of...

• Municipal undertakings and company bus operators are now getting to grips with the latest "shopping list" of claims for...

• Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive earned an operating surplus of £1,173,567 in the year ended December 31, 1971...

• A new express coach service from Felixstowe to Yorkshire and the North East, terminating at Newcastle, has just begun. The...

• The first 40 buses of a 120-vehicle order left Britain this week for Singapore where they will be used on stage-carriage...

• Another new tickets system came into effect on Merseyside's buses on Monday. This is a "go-anywhere" weekly or monthly...

• Bus journeys between Tottenham and the City of London will be quicker following the opening last week of a bus lane in...

I A farmers' society and an agricultural pciety were among operators who ppeared under Section 69 before the eputy South Wales...

• An additional 650 Italian road haulage permits are to be made available for 1972, announced Mr John Peyton, Minister for...

• A Bury, Lancashire demolition company whose counsel said the company lad spent more than £20,000 on new vehicles and other...

• Bristol's rail passenger "dial-a-ride" pick-up service has been rejected by the Western Traffic Commissioners but the city...

W. Greer Johnston, 31, an accountant, is to take over the Sutherland Transport and Trading Co Ltd, Lairg, from September 1. He...

• A new design of bulk hopper road gritting machine intended for multi-lane highways or motorway snow clearance has recently...

• An aluminium tail-lift intended particularly for under-3-ton vehicles, and claimed to have a weight half that of a...

Clamp-down on small hauliers has hit the home market hard • TIte 40th International Trade Fair in Barcelona was the occasion...

• The Transmission Division of Turner Manufacturing Co Ltd, Stafford Road, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, is to manufacture...

• The organizers of the Turin Motor Show have announced that in future the car and commercial vehicle exhibitions will be...

notably Czechoslovakia and Poland, are examined in detail in the July 1972 edition of Motor Business, published by The...

• Through its German subsidiary, Deutsche Fruehauf GmbH and Co, KG, the American trailer maker, Fruehauf Corporation, has...

acting Stirling engine due in '76 • A double-acting type of Stirling external-combustion engine with a conventional...

view by the Hawk • Diamond occasion lie of the richnesses of road transport is he diversity of the personalities involved...

'one small step forward' by Martin Hayes THE USE of computers is growing in all spheres of industry. Probably the first large...

Harry Kinsey, NCL morale-booster, interviewed on his retirement as managing director by John Darker, AMBIM MR HARRY KINSEY...

Ve welcome letters for publication , n transport topics. Address them o Commercial Motor, Dorset iouse, Stamford Street, London...

CM July 28 that the Government has strengthened the "democratic" control of transport in the Local Government Bill, so as to...

Do tipper rates get a boost from clearing house operation? This suggestion is put forward in an article in next week's CM which...

Two views on 0-licence applicants • Mr John Peyton, Minister of Transport Industries, has displayed scant sympathy with the...

Could you assist us in arriving at the operating cost of these vehicles? We do not require drivers' costs to be included and...

regarding the new type of triangular rear reflectors for trailers it was stated that such reflectors must comply with a British...

disabled and housebound senior citizens. Could you put us on to a reliable dealer? We are willing to spend up to £3000...

weight of 2 tons 14 cwt. Would it be possible to use this for drawbar operation? If so, could you inform me of the legal gcw,...

my drivers need to complete log books if operating within a 25 miles radius? My company's vehicles are under 3 tonsunladen...

I was informed recently by the local taxation officer that as from the end of this year I would be entitled only to one set of...

favour demountables by Paul Brockington MIMechE ALTHOUGH delivery runs of the 14 vehicles operated by Dorothy Perkins Ltd,...

by Handyman Hydraulic tappet troubles (2) WHAT are the factors that can upset hydraulic, apart from the possibility of...

Noel Penny • Attempts to forecast the future of the road vehicle gas turbine have probably provoked more controversy among...

FOUR new airport buses introduced last month in Dusseldorf are believed to be the first articulated vehicles used for this type...

THE anomalous Norwegian system in which vehicle width is linked to different axle weight limits on the secondary road network...

THREE Jugoslav firms have concluded licensing agreements with ZF, of Friedrichshafen, Germany. The contract with FAP Famos, one...

REPORTS . from Austria indicate the possibility of British Leyland building a commercial vehiele assembly plant there. Local...

IN its report for 1971 Kombiverkehr AG, the German company responsible for piggyback traffic on special trains leased from the...

TWENTY luxury coaches based on the Eagle-type built at the Bus and Car plant in Bruges, Belgium, for use in the United States,...

, DEVELOPMENT of the HULO rackliner recently announced allows the /inch manufacturer's well-known design f a self-steering...

Pas de Quatre YOUNG PEOPLE between the ages of 17 and 21 waiting on the sidelines for an opportunity to become a lorry driver...

matters by John Darker AM B M Help for the small business (2) ROBERT McKINNON'S pamphlet "Small firms and their problems"...

- by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Theft and the taking of motor vehicles (7) IN MOST FIRMS, at some time or another, an...

learning by David Lowe, MInst TA AMBIM International operation in the classroom INTERNATIONAL road haulage operation is a new...