If it has been an upside-down life in the business world in the past few days, with the collapse of blue-chip Rolls-Royce and...

• increase Strike threat for selected operators • Hauliers in South Wales have been advised by the Transport and General...

• Parcels carriers were in a flurry of ''Speculation this week following reports that the Post Office may pull out of the •...

• The president of the Freight Transport Association, Mr J. R. Elliott, has expressed disappointment at the refusal of the...

• As part of a progressive plan for the efficient running of its fleet of 2500 buses, SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive has...

• The RHA commercial committee has, it is understood, rejected the suggestion of the Freight Transport Association working...

• If the 20,000 members of the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union support the long-mooted merger with the Transport and...

• "There's nothing to say about the oil engine division of Rolls-Royce and no one to say it," a spokesman for Rolls - Royce...

• The notification of leakages of all kinds is being considered as part of the controls to be introduced in due course over the...

• Seddon Diesel Vehicles Ltd and Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG have reached an amicable agreement whereby Seddon will relinquish...

• A luncheon to mark the opening of the IoTA's national hq in Southampton was held there on Saturday. The move by the...

• Transport Development Group Ltd has acquired the entire issued share capital of Parkers Transport Ltd, of Raikes Lane,...

On February 22, members of the London and Home Counties Division of the Freight Transport Association have a chance to see the...

• An injunction granted recently in the High Court to Ready Mixed Concrete Ltd restraining Mr B. I. Cox, a district official of...

from a special correspondent • As part of their development since, becoming members of the John Brown Engineering Group,...

• The insurance dangers of lorry drivers picking up passengers was emphasized during a Commons debate on passenger insurance...

• The radio doctor emergency service as practised in East Yorkshire (CM January 8) has spread across the Border to the Scottish...

• The plant and crane hire combine, Richards and Wallington (Plant Hire) Ltd, has announced the acquisition of the assets and...

• Bullens Transport Group Ltd has moved its headquarters from 3 'Hammersmith Road, W14, to The Old Post House, London End,...

• Regulations which would subject lorries over 3 tons unladen weight to a motorway speed limit of 60 mph and which would raise...

• To make the transport industry generally aware of the implications of transport manager registration, the general secretary...

• The Port of London Authority has agreed with the Road Haulage Association, the Freight Transport Association and the...

• The British Government should not sign the European agreement on the work of crews of vehicles engaged in international road...

• When the Licensing Authorities met the Transport Managers' Licence Committee, the LAs proved to have divided views about...

• What is probably the first heavy-duty box van of under 3 tons unladen weight to be based on a six-cylinder Ford D300 chassis...

• There is unrest in the haulage industry, particularly in the furniture removal sector, concerning the increase in light vani...

and freight handling by David Lowe Rates increased • A 10 per cent minimum increase on all zone charges for inland transport...

to-face training for managers • Simulated negotiations between employers and employees' representatives on a haulage company's...

• A new range of personnel carriers is now being built by B. Walker and Son Ltd, Gammons Lane, Watford, Herts, based on the...

• The Isle of Wight County Council has decided to withdraw the clause from its Bill seeking power to levy a 10p charge on each...

• Midland Red and the Transport and General Workers' Union recently linked up to organize a series of two-day industrial...

• A strong challenge, both in Parliament and by the unions, is expected to be made to the Government's proposals for relaxing...

• Mr Peter Thomas, the Secretary for Wales, has given the go-ahead for the integration of bus services in south-east Wales....

• The effects of higher fares introduced in November, plus the fact that there has been an increase in the number of bus...

• A three-man team has been set up to survey the bus routes in Norwich and Norfolk by Eastern Counties Omnibus Co, which serves...

• In a written decision on Monday, Mr John Else, chairman of the West Midland Traffic Commissioners, granted the application...

• The majority of Welsh county councils have decided in principle to grant-aid rural bus services for a limited period pending...

• In an attempt to stamp out vandalism, Wigan Corporation transport department is to form a "special watch brigade". A corps...

• By the end of last year £11.11m had been paid in new bus grants, said Mr John Peyton, the Minister for Transport Industries,...

• Three more bus companies have successfully applied to raise their fares. Granting an application last week by the North...

• The chairman of the Scottish Traffic Commissioners, Mr A. B. Birnie, warned at a recent public sitting in Glasgow that bus...

• Fifteen of the 32 men charged with offences concerning thefts from lorries between August 1969 and October 1970 were on...

• Fines and costs totalling £460 were imposed on British Road Services Ltd and nine drivers at Cardiff magistrates' court last...

• Mr J. R. Bell, a heavy goods vehicle dealer, of Ashington, Northumberland, was unsuccessful when he appealed to the Northern...

• The Eastern Counties Omnibus Co Ltd is to make its third application in 13 months for bus fare rises. The Traffic...

• After two drivers short-weighted on coke deliveries in Kent. a solid fuel merchant end two sub-contracting hauliers appeared...

• The Eastern Licensing Authority was given leave in the High Court last Friday to challenge an order of magistrates sitting at...

• A new regulation concerning interim licences came into effect on Monday. It provides for fees to be charged for such licences...

• Trade association officials have been discussing with the DoE the new three-level system of GV9s which is expected to come...

by Tony Wilding • Some of the reasons for Volvo trucks being designed the way they are, were provided on a test run made in...

• As semi-trailer tippers get longer, the risk of instability on rough site work is increased. With sticking loads where a...

• Single-drive and double-drive sixwheelers based on the Leyland Redline Mastiff 16-ton-gross two-axle model are now offered by...

• Williams Bros, the Queensferry-based haulage company, has entered into a contract with Anglesey Aluminium to carry about...

• A simple type of hydrostatic shunt transmission system might be combined with a range-change gear unit having a ratio of 3:1...

J. A. (Dai) Davies has been appointed assistant general service manager of ERF Ltd. Mr Davies was previously technical service...

We record with regret the death of David Ritchie Lamb. Mr Lamb was a former chairman of Modern Transport Publishing Co Ltd,...

re welcome letters for publication on transport topics. Address them to )mmercial Motor, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London...

• Empty your pockets I hope the Institute of Road Transport Engineers is making special efforts to bring to the notice of...

John r2hallis John Challis, a partner in Crocker Haulage small but successful tipper business in Kent auld be described as "Mr...

workshop by Handyman Bench wise.' repair risks (7) INSTANCES where a repair job has been put up wrong in some way and...

IN the past 11 years vehicles introduced originally as the Austin and Morris FG range of 1.5 to 4 ton load-capacity chassis...

by Tony Wilding, MIMechE,MIRTE NOW that higher gross weights are not an immediate prospect, will manufacturers be readier to...

GENERALITIES about the rural transport situation are flying thick and fast, but the only way to assess the hard practicalities...

Taking the offensive by janus O RGANIZATIONS representing road transport operators have apparently passed over what seemed an...

drive a 24-ton-gross low-loader for a firm that trades as an agricultural contractor; we move ail kinds kinds of plant...

are required to drive all the vehicles in the fleet including 32-ton units with trailers. As these vehicles are never loaded,...

December 11 1970 I agree that the road transport industry is shortsighted with its recruitment of future potential managers. As...

details on the organization of an hgv commercial driving school? If the vehicles used were one double-deck psv and one artic...

increase in freight costs which were likely to put up haulage rates by about 3 per cent. Could you let me know the make-up of...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM London Transport: the GLC's cuckoo in the nest IN its last months of life the Prices and...

by Les Oldridge, AIRTE, AMIM' Dangerous and careless driving (2) THE OFFENCE of "driving dangerously" includes driving...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Implications of GCE results STIFFER ENTRANCE...

The next seven days from February 12 to 18. MONDAY ITA (North) meeting: "TIE operation" by P. 0. Copland. Containerway and...

by Inspector K. W. Norman, Crime Prevention Section, New Scotland Yard. • An examination of the statistics concerning the...

John Plumb (Contractors) Ltd. Cap: £100. Objects: To carry on the business of haulage cartage contractors, etc. Dies: J. H....