Power is the talking point at the Frankfurt Show which opened yesterday, power for a new generation of trucks to meet...

ASSOCIATION SUGGESTS STANDARD FORMS AND SHORTER APPLICATION PERIODS • The Freight Transport Association has this week...

• Elimination of exhaust smoking, even at low revs, is claimed by ScaniaNabis for a new 14.2-titre V8 turbocharged diesel which...

• Concurrently with demonstrations of new Mercedes-Benz models to be introduced at next week's Frankfurt Show (CM September 5),...

• In the interest of public safety the Road Haulage Association is opposing the exemption of agricultural tractors and trailers...

"We are now hopeful that the MoT will allow a 10 per cent tolerance on axle weights where the gross weight limit is not...

• A forecast was made last week by Mr. J. M. Beckett, managing director of Tarmac Roadstone Holdings Ltd., that the replacement...

• More than 1,800 Tilbury dockers are threatening to strike if any attempt is made to break the seven-month deadlock over the...

• A meeting of the South Gloucestershire Tipper Operators Group was held last Friday to consider the proposal which had been...

• A new 16-ton-g.c.w. lightweight semitrailer has been added to the Crane Fruehauf/ B aden group range of platform types....

• A police inquiry is under way into the acti vities of Mr. Alan Law. the Transport and General Workers Union official, who has...

• Another Midlands haulier, facing demands from the Transport and General Workers Union to pay its "Birmingham differential" of...

Shows, exhibitions and conferences will feature strongly in the September 19 issue of CM. This enlarged number of the journal...

• British Road Services are shortly to take delivery of 25 Guy Big J 32-ton-g.t.w. tractive units powered by Rolls-Royce Eagle...

• When Lord Stokes visited the 22-acre site at Distington, Cumberland, last week at which Leyland National plan to produce...

• Profits of the Transport Development Group for the half-year ended June 30 1969 were 11 per cent up on the equivalent results...

• Following an unofficial strike of employees of the haulage firm of Brown and Wright Ltd., operating from Tilney St. Lawrence,...

• British Leyland's hopes of selling further fleets of its Super Reiver 20 trucks and Mammoth series of tractive units as an...

Safety Officers has elected the following officials: chairman, Mr. R. Gahan (Watney Mann Ltd.): secretary, Mr. A. E. Tear...

are co-operating in the preparation of the new type of drivers' record book which will be required from March 1 next year, when...

now spreading to the southern Atlantic ports. Many of these have hesitated in the past to invest the large capital required to...

• A request by the Home Grown Cereals Authority for a 10 per cent tolerance on the plated weights of vehicles carrying cereals...

• To help the formation of co-operative units in the haulage industry and to co-ordinate the activities of such groups, the...

• Open days, to demonstrate what is • involved in taking the h.g.v. driving test, are being arranged at Harmonds • worth,...

• In the report of the Mendips tipper operators group meeting {CM September 5) a figure was shown of £4,000 per month earnings...

CONTAINERIZED cargo shipped through the Port of New York is expected to more than triple its current volume by the mid-1970s,...

by David Lowe Identification codes INTERNATIONALLY uniform container number codes are on the agenda for next month's meeting...

• The first rear-engined double-deck bus for service in Cape Town, South Africa, has been loaded on board the Clan Line vessel...

• The Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Hull last week granted an application by Hull Corporation to increase fares. The...

• Trimdon Motor Services Ltd., of Trimdon Grange, Co. Durham, has applied to the Northern Traffic Commissioners to withdraw a...

• A bus station that may well rank as the largest in Europe is due to be officially opened by Lord Stokes on October 22 at...

• A threat that London Transport bus conductors would boycott new fares and issue tickets at the old rate fizzled out as the...

• The Scottish Bus Group is seeking increased fares and its application will come before the Scottish Traffic Commissioners...

F. S. Brimelow has been appointed director of operation for Merseyside PTE. His previous position was as general manager of...

• At a Section 127 inquiry in Birmingham last week the West Midland Traffic Commissioners restricted the operational coach...

• The North Western Traffic Commissioners have given their written decision to the applications by Peter Hicks, Dixon's World...

• The South Wales LA granted in chambers at Cardiff on Thursday an application by the Newport Forwarding and Warehouse Co.,...

• Ferrymasters Ltd. will have to wait for the decision on its A licence application for eight arts, completed in Preston last...

• A director of a Shropshire caravan haulage firm said on Monday that the economic situation had caused a substantial fall-off...

• A short-term B licence for five artics was granted to Ferrymasters Ltd. in Preston last week. The North Western deputy LA,...

• An application by Hodges Transport, Swindon, was refused by the Western LA, Mr J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, at Devizes this week....

• Purle Waste Disposal (Scotland) Ltd. of Giffnock, with operating centre at Glasgow, failed to appear at a public inquiry in...

from Tony Wilding, Frankfurt, Wednesday • Outwardly, the exhibits at the Frankfurt how which opens tomorrow are little chang...

• Brief information was available for last week's issue of new models to be introduced by Daimler-Benz at the Frankfurt Show....

i n Europe by Tony Wilding • As already reported briefly in CM, Ford has timed the first showing of its gas turbine truck in...

Loads and forces (17) • The ability to maintain a continuous high speed over many miles is breeding its own particular range...

• Since early this year, Gypsum Industries Ltd., Ireland, has been employing large capacity tipping artics in place of...

THE FOURTH in the series of bi-annual exhibitions sponsored by the Institute of Export is being held this week at Olympia....

by John Darker • The Export Training Conference held in conjunction with the 4th Export Services Exhibition at Olympia, closing...

CHRIS O'REILLY TAKES LDOY TITLE FROM STAN CHAPMAN AFTER RUN OFF RE-CHECK: NEWCOMERS SECOND AND THIRD FLAMMABLE was the spirit...

Readers who have been following this series of articles should recognize that each step in the system is being explained in...

I don't think anyone would disagree that this year's LDoY Final at Bramcote on Sunday was the biggest and brightest there has...

BRS had its finalists dressed in smart new lightweight zipper jackets, bright red with black trimmings, and with the new...

It was just as well that CM's Art Editor, James Millen, didn't set up as a bookmaker at the LDoY Final to support his forecasts...

Vehicles at the National Finals are traditionally a gleaming advertisement for the road transport industry, but this year the...

Activity on another driving-skill front is reported by Advance Linen Services, whose drivers have in recent weeks been...

A long-familiar figure shortly to disappear from the traffic court merry-go-round, I hear, is James Booth, who has just been...

Janus comments WITH the rapid increase in the number of bilateral agreements international hauliers are running into a...

by R. D. Cater, AMInstBE What constitutes a low-loader, and why do certain manufacturers wrap their expertise on the type in...

While the majority of semi-trailer users want a running gear/suspension system t a is simple, cheap and proof against continued...

SURAT A BUYER'S GUIDE TO TRAILERS AND SEMI-TRAILERS ADAMSON AND HATCHETT Adamson and Hatchett, Dukinfield, Cheshire. Three...

Let Pneuride cut your costs — and keep your passengers happy! A rough road, a lightly laden bus — and you've got troubles!...

From time to time in the feature written by your esteemed contributor George Wilmot there are references to transport...

In CM August 15, George Wilmot highlighted some of the problems that face the older candidates in an examination, The I RTE is...

A RECENT Civil Service arbitration tribunal award dealing with the pay of technical assistants employed in the motor transport...

The next seven days from September ?2— September 18 FRIDAY FTA Liverpool area hot-pot supper. The Mansion Hotel, Reynolds Park,...

our low-loader. If we purchase from a trader is there any onus on him to have the vehicle tested and plated before offering it...

comes into operation on February 2, 1970, I will be self-employed as a haulage contractor. At the moment I am employed by a...

job as a driver's mate on transcontinental work? I will be 18 next January and this is a job that appeals to me a lot. I have...

speed up vehicle turn-round but what about the old question of delays at docks? My vehicles sperri literally hours travelling...

have always been issued by the local authorities but I believe this is to be changed soon. When will the change take place and...

unladen weight in excess of 3 tons after January 1, 1970, when 18-year-olds receive the vote? I am 20 years old and have been...

THE examination results of the Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removing Industry (IFWRI) and the Institute of...

REGULATION 15 of the Motor Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 1964 lays down what must be done by the former...