TRANSPORT managers' licensing will form an integral part of operators' licensing by 1978 and apply to own-account operation as...

by CM reporter THE Freight Transport Association has given up hope of persuading the DoE to confine transport managers'...

A DEMAND that the Department of the Environment clear up confusion over the new tyre mixing regulations has been made by the...

A ROAD transport agreement with Finland will come into force next Thursday, Dr John Gilbert, the Minister for Transport, has...

Honours for 13 in transport THE Birthday Honours list published on Saturday contained awards for all sectors of the road...

TEN HOURS driving a day looks like staying the legal maximum in Britain until the end of 1977 at least. For Dr John Gilbert,...

AS THE subsistence form row dragged into its sixth week any hope of a settlement was fading with a refusal from the Transport...

ROAD FREIGHT transport and buses have been all but ignoted in Greater London Council's initial reply to the Government's Green...

PAPERWORK is preventing the release of many of the trucks and trailers found • by former CID-man Mr Fred Top. ham abandoned in...

ARTICULATION has probably been the most misused or under used transport facility. First conceived to make tractive units more...

In any Leyland truck or bus, each part relies on the others to keep its performance in step. So when a part needs replacing...

BUT WE'LL COME A CLOSE SECOND. In insurance it's a pre-condition to know the business you're insuringits methods of operation,...

demountable body concept, enabling us to open 12 depots in six years 91 "Efficiency of transport is the key to our success",...

PLANS for a threefold increase in the hgv driving test fee are attacked by the Road Haulage Association this week. In a letter...

DRIVERS of Volvo trucks and coaches travelling in Western Europe, Turkey and Iran are to get a new "Volvo passport" to speed up...

A STALEMATE on the building of lorry parks in Aberdeen has developed between the transport industry and Grampian Regional...

FOUR mobile trailer clinics built by Carryfast have been supplied to the Arabian Gulf state of Qatar. Ibis Medical Equipment...

before too long by CM reporter NO LONGER will foreign vehicles get into Britain overweight when Weighwrite dynamic weighing...

THE PROPOSED ban by the GLC on vehicles over 40ft between 7.00pm and 7.00am is viewed with disquiet by the Metropolitan Police,...

Edinburgh EDINBURGH heat of the CMLDoY competition produced a mixed bag of results with no one employer dominating the...

A YORKSHIRE lorry driver who had been disqualified from driving for 12 months following a drink-driving offence was fined a...

NORFOLK County Council's plan to ban vehicles over 3 tons from the centre of King's Lynn would cost £2.5m a year in extra...

THE CM Tables of Operating Costs, published this week, show increases in total operating costs of between 15 and 20 per cent...

CONSERVATIVE environment spokesman Mr Peter Walker is to be the guest speaker at the Road Haulage Association's agricultural...

"TRANSPORT into the Eighties" will be the theme of the 1976 National Guild of Transport Managers conference at Mattock Bath on...

TRANSPORT policy proposals in the Government's Green Paper will add heavily to business costs if they are implemented, it was...

Cyril Eyles, chief engineer of. the Bristol Commercial Vehicles company, has retired after 49 years in motor engineering. Mr...

FODEN now has a prototype running of its first double-deck bus for 20 years (technical specs CM May 28), When 1 visited the...

NEW BUS designs may soon emerge from Metro-Cammell Weymann—both with RollsRoyce engines. Mock-ups have been built of an updated...

EASTERN NATIONAL is to cut a large number of bus services because of the refusal of Essex County Council to provide the level...

THE TOTAL COST of concessionary fares for the elderly, blind and disabled in Wales is estimated at nearly £3 million in 1975-76...

LARGE passenger vehicles not used as psv may in future have to be tested at Department of the Environment hgv testing stations...

FERODO is breaking into the vehicle retarder market with a device which is, in essence, an oil-cooled multi-plate brake. The...

PLANS are advancing in Britain to produce a vehicle with a stored energy transmission using an auxiliary flywheel Philips...

A FLEET of 30 of the new Tidd Strongbox 80 chassis-less trailer vans is being built for Hotpoint Ltd. Most of them will be...

York's trailer range has been reviewed and revised to cater for likely legislation changes. In all the categories—vans,...

A RUBBER-SPRUNG bogie for driven tandems has been developed by Rydewell Suspensions Ltd of Brighouse, West Yorkshire, as a...

by CM reporter FUEL SAVINGS of up to 8 per cent are claimed for boxvans and semi-trailer vans fitted with a WD Mk9 wind foil...

There's a lot to be said for buying a trailer. Ask any salesman. But there's a lot more to be said for renting from TIP,...

Seems obvious, doesn't it? And yet in a recent independent survey of British lorrydrivers, many of the drivers interviewed...

A for effort ; C for attainment by John Darker WHEN Dr Norman Lee, a Manchester University lecturer in economics, reviewed...

Bob South, ex Royal Marine NCO and now the transport manager at Aerosol Products in Fitzherbeet Spur, Portsmouth, is a...

Big • 's not beaut i f ul Aren't these big board men becoming extra brave? There was a time when you didn't hear a word from...

Bill Dcrdds 46 a builder and not only a builder but also an inventor. Recently 'he had an order for six factory-built...

IT'S A LONG WAY from He Kariba Dam in Zambia, but n employees of Robert Wynn a Newport. When Wynn won a contract to transport...

before Before starting production, Rolls-Royce quanti IN BRITAIN we tend to place environmental considerations above cost...

Graham Montgomerie weighs up the odds IF BRITAIN ever decides to opt for a higher gross weight limit, what will be the effect...

and trailer designs if we will affect truck move up the gvw scale was the obvious answer to became an integrated system...

THE majority of operators using articulated vehicles nowadays do so in order to obtain a greater platform area on which to load...

£22.50 a week over the sixmonth period. For a refrigerated trailer, the charge would be £50 a week plus a nominal charge for...

PATHFINDER is a computer programme. Like the one used for Ernie, the premium bond machine, you feed in a set of figures and get...

continued from page 93 The scheme Three tractors and refrigerated trailers are based in the Midlands and one tractor and...

Latest Cibie lamps give improved performance in fog, while a new headlamp beam cuts dazzle By John Hartley GLARE is a major...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI, AM1RTE Although the definition of "road" is a wide one there are many instances where...

Boiling out a fuel tank IN workshops where there is no steam cleaning equipment, the tank can be boiled out. On no account...

and when it was weighed it was found to be 8cwt overweight on the second axle. However, the driver was returning to his base...

Girling Skidchek. The anti-skid, anti-jack-knife system from Britain's leading brake systems manufacturer: one of the most...

WHEN the change in UK Construction and Use Regulations raised the vehicle gross weights to a maximum of 32 tons, the...

t o Pirelli claim that the SN55 tubeless tyre was mh.designed for high speed trunking operation. We've found them to have...

Diminishing loads can mean diminishing returns if you've got the wrong truck for the job. The right truck is the Boxer1200....

According to Mr Laurie Cohen of Cohen (Transport Designs) Ltd of Gillingham, Kent, the industry is ready for a new pacemaker...

One of the less attractive aspects of being an ownerdriver and running one's own business, Chris realises, is the necessity to...

AMPLE REASON can be found in the economic situation if nowhere else for the poor showing by the National Freight Corporation in...