In any difficult situation there are always a hundred and one reasons for doing nothing. Keeping one's head down is a...

Draft ECE document may be the basis for bus and coach standards • Future British buses and coaches are likely to be built to...

• An agreement has now been signed between Volvo, Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz, Mack Trucks Inc and the Garrett Corporation for the...

Free slogan stickers and ads material • Believing that the road transport industry is being sold short, and is suffering from...

by CM reporter • Rumours suggesting petrol rationing was imminent in Britain were emphatically denied last week by the Minister...

• The Teamsters Union has announced that its members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new national contract that...

• Requirements for rigid urethane foam in slab form for transport containers, refrigerator cabinets and cold stores are...

• Although the manoeuvring tests and main activities of the National Finals of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition will be...

Commercial Motor will shortly have a vacancy for the interesting and challenging job of Technical Editor. We are looking for an...

• Dundee, Perth and London Securities Ltd has increased its profits for the year ended March 31 1973 from £180,329 to £729,355....

• H. Potter Transport Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitchell Cotts Transport, has acquired the total share capital of...

• New qualifications for membership to the Road Haulage Association's heavy haulage and machinery carriers' group have been...

• As forecast (CM August 3), the entire share capital of Norfolk Lijn NV has been purchased by Unilever. The company was wholly...

• Avis Truck Rental has made Move-aCar Ltd, the Watford-based vehicle recovery and repair service, responsible for the recovery...

14 accidents are analysed in 'explosives' report by John Darker • Intense public concern exists in many countries over the...

• Two television programmes about road haulage have been given the Bent Microphone Award which Aims of Industry presents each...

the annual general meeting of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition in November. A draft of the constitution was on Tuesday...

bid from Unilever. The bid values the company at £.6.3m. On Monday it was revealed that Unilever had bought British Leyland's...

• The Transport Tribunal has remitted to the South Eastern deputy Licensing Authority for further consideration a refusal of a...

• City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd has been granted a short-period licence to operate a Dial-a-Ride service at Carterton,...

Co Ltd, is to succeed John Hargreaves as general manager of the Northern Group of companies with effect from October 1. Mr...

• A decision on a pay deal giving £2.32 a week increases, back-dated to April 1, to more than 3100 skilled maintenance men...

• The Ribble Bus Company has apologized for the complete lack of bus services in two areas of Carlisle on a recent Sunday...

• Commuters in Clerkenwell, London, are to get more buses from next month. Short-journey buses which run between Poplar and Old...

• Peak-hour buses on route 248a from Corbets Tey to Upminster station will run from 1 to 3 minutes earlier from September 3, to...

• Church representatives of eight denominations have approached the Glasgow PTA with a demand for free and improved public...

• Adventure International Ltd. which started inexpensive camping holiday tours abroad three years ago, is meeting the demand...

from our political correspondent • The Government has now circulated local authorities in England and Wales with its proposals...

• Nottingham City Transport is having 16 buses fated with a vehicle identification system supplied by Philips Industries. The...

• London Transport announced this week that new o-m-o double-decker, 68-seater buses will be introduced on route 169, Barking...

• Tyneside PTE revealed this week that it is drawing up plans for a comprehensive fares restructure to cover the whole of its...

• A bus service — proposed as an alternative to the Kyle railway which is under a threat of closure — will go on trial on...

• St Helens Co-operative Society has sold its interest in Helena Coaches to Mr Brian Clark of Wigan who will operate his fleet...

• Mascot Coaches (Norwich) Ltd has pegged the surcharge holiday-makers are having to pay as a result of the floating pound....

• The controlling Labour group on Hartlepool Council has quashed a recommendation from the transport committee that all bus...

• A major plan to solve traffic jams and bus delay problems in Edinburgh city centre — which would include the introduction of...

• Following negotiations, Northumberland County Council has decided to withdraw its subsidy to United Automobile Services Ltd...

The Transport and General Worker's Union has warned it will resist any severe cuts in National Bus Company services in...

• Stage one of applications for operators' licences in two traffic areas which would give the operator a fleet of 76 vehicles...

by ' remote control ' • At the resumed public inquiry into Crow Carrying Co Ltd, of Ipswich, on Wednesday, an application to...

• While attending a union meeting a 28year-old Manchester lorry driver drank a pint of stout. But unbeknown to the driver, one...

• Sympathy and curtailment came from the Eastern Area LA, Mr H. E. Robson, last week when a Cambridge operator appeared before...

• More than 60 British firms, more than ever before, are taking part in the Frankfurt Motor Show from September 13-23; some 40...

• A full or part time MSc course in Engineering Acoustics, Noise and Vibration Research is being initiated by the Department of...

• Motorway Tyres and Accessories Ltd has opened a new branch at Hull. This is at Springfield Way, Anlaby, Hull, Yorkshire.

• Every operator who is now taking ielivery of a new Volvo truck now receives certificate testifying to the power output and...

• Abel Systems Ltd claims that by introducing demountable drawbar outfits Norman Gledhill and Co Ltd, part of the Delta Metal...

Now I know it must be the Silly Season again. My newspaper tells me that a London Transport Metro-Scania went for an uninvited...

appearing on page 10 of Commercial Motor August 10 headed "Lack of drivers is crippling coach men", with the sub-heading "Some...

June 29) has to be questioned. If the "standard time" of any incentive scheme is "set" correctly, no operative (driver) will be...

Sounds unusual ADVERTISERS claiming to purify the environment or the individual are in danger of overshooting their target...

Adrian Chambers • "An excellent exercise in management" is how Adrian Chambers, managing director of SCA Freight Ltd,...

REFORM by Martin Hayes THE PROVISIONS of the Local Government Act of 1972 portend some of the greatest changes to local life...

gears to CIT examinations by George Wilmot A REFRESHING development begins in September when the School of Transportation at...

of the new green driving licences — his normal licence, not hgv. Yet when I renewed my ordinary driving licence recently, I got...

unladen weight of approximately 5 tons. Should he driver of this possess an hgv licence? This point was brought up by one If...

driving licence by the local truffle Area office. The reminder tells me to make my renewal application on form DLG IR but I...

educational courses In transport once membership of the Chartered Institute of Transport has been achieved? It seems to me that...

weight would the brakes be called upon to deal with in order to bring it to a stop? A The brakes will have to exert half the...

The control that makes TDG's take-overs really tick by James Millen TAKING over haulage companies is now a fine art with TDG....

by Les Oldridge, TEng ICE!), MIMI, AMIRTE Trailers (4) THE previous three "Trailer" articles have dealt with the dimensions,...

Lucas has introduced a stick-on strip enabling drivers to modify headlamps for Continental driving. The adhesive strip can be...

he Destaco Ram-Lock screw amp features a release/engage Dilar for quicker clamping and releasing of the workpiece. The collar...

From Siaco comes the Black Diamond range of airtools; three zip guns, a mini sander, die grinder, high-speed reversible sander...

The Churchill 1211 dynamic commercial vehicle wheel balancer incorporates three units: cabinet, pick-up. and wheel spinner. The...

Bonded single-line instrumentation tube, Dekabon 1300, marketed by Industrial Hydraulics, is suitable for pneumatic or...

An anti-corrosive epoxy polyamide primer in which previously used organic solvents have been replaced by water has been...

A 12-page brochure issued by Poclain Hydraulics describes the current range of hydraulic motors, wheels, winches, and track...

by Trevor Longcroft Shortcuts on brake repairs may not only be bad practice from a safety point of view; the result is usually...

Two cold-water washers capable of operating at pressures up to 1000 psi and fitted with either 3lectric, petrol or diesel...

From Skil comes Drive-R-Drills which can be used to drive or remove screws and nuts and cut threads as well as holes. The...

A vertical perforated panel used in conjunction with a range of suspension accessories forms the basis of the Lockpanel system...

Dunnage blocks designed to fill spaces between loads in containers and thus prevent damage from moving have been produced by...

used with any two-hook lifting gear to lift and tow vehicles with large overhangs without the risk of damaging bumpers or...

Groundmaster Engineering has launched an improved version of its street-cleaning vacuum cleaner. Propelled by a 4 bhp petrol...

The type 1404B Precision Sound Level Meter from Dawes covers the range from 34 to 130dBA and fully complies with BS410: 1967...