Rail freight is an unconscionable time a'dying. Left to itself, both here and on the Continent, it would have long since faded...

• Association presses DoE to seek amendments, especially on spreadover and mileage limits • The Freight Transport Association...

• In a further round in the continuing saga of Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority's plans to provide free travel for...

• The chairman of the Transport Association, Mr A. C. Noakes, and the guest speaker, Conservative MP Mr Robert Taylor, both had...

• Far from being a threat to the quality of life, road transport was the means by which the vast mass of people had been able...

• Construction and operation regulations planned by the Government to lessen the hazards of carrying dangerous substances by...

EEC control books become usable in UK; mixed work will escape duty and spreadover limits • Regulations laid on Friday by the...

• Lord Sandford, Parliamentary UnderSecretary, DoE, claimed in an Upper House debate last week that a 50 per cent increase in...

• A letter, outlining the general principles on which it was felt policies governing any designated routes for heavy goods...

• The first glimmer of hope that pressure from the Freight Transport Association against the lorry control Bill of Mr Hugh...

• Moves to reduce the number of heavy lorries on London's roads gathered strength this week when GLC Labour leader, Sir...

• Primarily to safeguard officers of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition against claims, the LDoY is likely to become an...

• Tor Line has ordered two new passenger /cargo vessels for use between the UK, Sweden and Holland. At the same time it has...

• Commercial fleet operators are to be offered a computer programme to maximize the utilization of drivers and vehicles. It is...

• A survey of Britain's motorway system and goods vehicle operation is to be carried out by the PTA. Aspects likely to be...

• An attack over the lack of progress being made on the 50 safe lorry parks proposed by the DoE came on Friday at Carlisle from...

• As most readers will have noticed, the dimensioned photographs of the British Leyland Minivan and Reliant Rebel 750 van were...

• New and regular transport services will link East Anglia with all parts of Britain starting this month following the...

• A West Country operator has turned down a local government subsidy for a rural stage carriage service because "we don't wish...

• The number of o-m-o Merseyside PTE buses almost doubled last week in the Wirral area when 58 more buses went into operation....

• Regulations and application forms for the 19th British coach rally, to be held at Brighton on April 14 and 15, are now...

• Details of the annual coach operator's conference which precedes the Brighton coach rally next month have now been issued....

• Speculation about the future of London Transport's unique rear-engined Routemaster vehicle, the FRM, seems to have been...

• The address of the Deansgate Sales Division of Williams Motor Co (Manchester) Ltd, which makes a wide range of small public...

rail dispute by Martin Hayes • Rich pickings are coming the way of coach operators — particularly those in the South-east —...

• Beeline Roadways Ltd, of Middlesbrough and West Hartlepool, at Edinburgh on Tuesday sought authorization from the Scottish...

• A Worcestershire tar-paving contracting company, which had received a total of nine convictions for overloading since April...

• Heavy goods vehicle operators convicted of overloading by magistrates in the Yorkshire traffic area will in future be called...

• Two Liverpool men were jailed at Carlisle Crown Court last week for a "carefully calculated fraud". They were George Gerard...

• After changing his plea to guilty on 12 of 24 charges of dishonesty and admitting a further two offences, a former director...

• Remarking that he did not want to "blot the operator's copy book" the new LA for the Western traffic area, Maj-Gen Sir John...

• Justices sitting at North Aylesford were wrong to issue a heavy goods vehicle driving licence to Mr Horace Ernest Albert...

• Improved trailer stability, strength of the towing connection, and quicker on-and-off loading are the principal advantages of...

• Earby Light Engineers of Colne, Lancs, a member of the Turner Manufacturing Group, have been licensed by Dana Corp, USA to...

• Kleber Tyres, France's second largest tyre manufacturer which has been selling its car tyres in the UK for about a year, has...

• A new training school has been established within the diesel engine works of Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd at Shrewsbury in...

• Commercial vehicles in the Eighties will be one of the subjects at this year's national conference of the Institute of Road...

view by the ii t awk • Yakkity yak Dan Pettit has declared 1973 the Year of the Yak, and has launched Transport 2001 as a...

newt yload pick-up by Trevor Longcroft TOYOTA of Japan introduced its Hi-Ace range to Britain in August 1972 and although...

Sleeping in a coach While I would not wish to accuse Martin Hayes of unfairness in his recent report of a trip from Edinburgh...

The European Parliament THE TREATIES of the Community require the Commission to be genuinely independent and to this end the...

The Scarascia Mugnozza tile AMATEUR SLEUTHS may find an interest in the mysterious case of Signor Mugnozza's postbag. With the...

but hauliers are having a little trouble in getting the crown to fit Part one of a report by the Editor on a visit to South...

Co-operation between operator and bodybuilder has produced a sliding-door delivery vehicle which merits consideration by...

RECORDING DAILY COSTS AND REVENUE Reg P. Block "COSTING" of itself is a repetitive, time-wasting arithmetical chore unless it...

workshop by Handyman Details to save down-time (13) Gun handling is the key to successful spraying without correction check...

Angus Munro • As the new director of planning for the SELNEC PTE, Mr Angus Munro is a man presented with — and capable of...

As I see it, a tachograph is a fairly expensive instrument requiring specialized fitting facilities. The tachographs today do...

graphs soon, facilities will be unable to cope with the massive retrospective fitting demand. Although current tachographs do...

carry children to and from school. During the school holidays, the vehicles are used to transport school furniture between...

demonstrate at vintage commercial vehicle rallies; it was built in 1944. I also intend to use it to pull a trailer carrying a...

but all are in regular employment. Am 1 obliged to provide insurance cover for these persons under the Employers' Liability...

matters by John Darker, AM RIM The price and pay code implications for road transport IN a discussion document — a Green...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE Drivers' and conductors' licences THE law concerning public service vehicles seems...

learning by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London_ Examination techniques through...

range of two clamp-on wing *Tors for private cars and ommercial vehicles, known as Overtaker, is being marketed the UK by...

by Trevor Lon gcroft Many transport engineers confronted at this time of the year with their share of cracked blocks, cylinder...