The launching on Monday of SELNEC's executive express commuter service, designed to attract businessmen back on to public road...

'Uncontrolled flow' of heavy vehicles and coaches needs urgent action, says Executive's 1969 report • Strong new measures to...

• A bold bid to tempt Manchester businessmen to forsake their chauffeurdriven limousines in favour of bus transport between the...

• There are this year 104 recipients of the Queen's Award to Industry, announced on Tuesday, Her Majesty's actual birthday....

by John Darker • The leakage of a confidential report to the Minister of Transport caused much fluttering in the dovecotes of...

• At the request of Mrs Barbara Castle, Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, a committee of the Central Training...

• The series of Commercial Motor one-day seminars on Manpower Efficiency and Fleet Efficiency reaches the North in the coming...

• Following discussions between the Institute of Transport and the Industrial Transport Association, it is likely that both...

• The success of pay and productivity guidelines issued in the Western area last year by the RHA, after agreement with the...

• On Tuesday union representatives of 22,000 BRS workers lodged a claim for a basic £30 a week wage for drivers. A meeting of...

• New speed limits for some vehicles, including light vans and caravans towed by cars, were proposed this week by the Minister...

• The Minister of Transport on Monday laid before Parliament the Goods Vehicles (Production of Test Certificates) Regulations...

• The Transport Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 1970, made on March 11 for operation from March 28 have now been published as...

• A' change which amends the Road Haulage Wages Council's provisions relating to employees' guaranteed minimum remuneration...

• Following consideration on April 9 of a resolution from the Road Haulage Association directed against quotas and other...

.....• British vehicles entering Italy now have to pay less tax. They are no longer subject to the fixed duty of 1500 lire a...

• The Transport Managers Licence Committee is meeting today (Friday), in London, to discuss recommendations of its education...

• The Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment changed its name on April I to the Military Vehicles and...

• To mark the 25th anniversary of its foundation, the Institute of Road Transport Engineers is to hold a silver jubilee...

published this week, claims that the industry "has been caught in a vortex created by the complete reorganization, at a stroke,...

• At a national meeting of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers in London last week Colonel T. J. A. Hughes of REME...

• Warnings of rate increases, a caution to the Tory party and an attack on the RTITB were the main ingredients of a speech made...

t ransport by David and freight handling ow Bell Group exhibition • The George Bell Group, which operates door-to-door...

by Derek Moses • "1 don't expect to . get any award with this coach", said Mr Ron Bushnell, almost apologetically, in Brighton...

• The East Midland Traffic Commissioners have granted licences to allow the Lincolnshire Road Car Co Ltd to run additional and...

• Scottish bus fares are likely to go up by as much as 3d, as a result of the recent £4 a week rise given to drivers and...

• Edinburgh City transport department has ordered a further 50 Pye Westminster UHF radiotelephones. The radio-controlled system...

Ashley Taylor reports on Newcastle University symposium • How modern scientific equipment can aid the bus to overcome...

• To assist the operation of buses in cities by means of priority schemes, Mr Fred Mulley, Minister of Transport, is sponsoring...

• Next year's SRPTA Conference will be held at Gleneagles from April 27-29. This was decided at the agm on Wednesday at which...

• Lancashire United Transport Ltd had continued its vehicle replacement policy, ensuring that the fleet—some 400 vehicles—had...

• The Minister of Transport has "put a fast one" over those who were to be covered by the provisions for concessionary fares,...

BHA national council members for the next two years have been elected: they will meet for the first time on May 13. The...

• Witnesses called in support of an application by Vanguard Coaches, for a new stage carriage service from Bulkington, near...

• At Acton magistrates' court on Wednesday Mr David Bush, a former Metropolitan traffic area court clerk who was arrested and...

• interim operators' licences were granted to two waste disposal companies by Mr C. R. Hodgson, North Western LA, in Manchester...

• W. Alexander and Sons (Midlands) Ltd was• granted authority to . reduce its Stirling /Trossachs Pier service by one of the...

• Having heard four 0-licence applications, a new B-licence application and a B-licence variation application, Mr J. R. C....

Rotary pump from CAV • A torque control device is one of the special features of the new CAV rotary injector pump mentioned at...

• Shown for the first time at the Hevac exhibition (Olympia, London, April 20 to 25) is a new method of controlling the...

with fold-up lining • Two plastic bags, known as Dynaframs, are used for lining the Dynabulk bulk road tanks produced by R....

• Two new types of contract-hire, specified as Contract Hire Excluding Maintenance, and Full Contract Hire with Maintenance,...

CHANGES in the legal framework within which British road transport must operate mean that operators must plan how to meet the...

important part of this joint paper, which will give guidance on some of the long-term problems facing fleet engineers. One...

Jack Brown • J. T. Brown is more readily recognized as the moving spirit behind the Vehicle Observer Corps and the vehicles...

I wonder whether I am the youngest man to hold a class I hgv licence; my date of birth is March 16 1949 and I passed the test...

Has your Transport Market Place series by Maurice Rounding finished? I had been following it with some interest, but it does...

With reference to the Cm March 6 article "Do you have a spares problem?"—as one who serves the operator from behind the counter...

As a heavy-vehicle driver for 20 years, I am disgusted to find that my application for an hgv driving licence has been refused...

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (13) THE use of the single-point boring tool as a means of dealing with straight-bush work...

by the Hawk • Eating money Ernie Smith, publicity officer of Staffordshire Farmers, is the man who drew the cartoon reproduced...

by Tony Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE YUGOSLAVIA has one of the fastest growing commercial vehicle industries in Europe. Figures...

Sink to swim • Few setting-up in business as road transport operators do so deliberately on the basis of a short-term...

THE PROBABILITY that the Manchester Rapid Transit scheme will prove worth implementing; the possibility that Diala-Bus could be...

continued central control with boarding points by telephone, helped to rectify disruption of frequencies and to keep intending...

by John Vann, FCII Rules when claiming • "Keep your claims down and your premium will be kept at a reasonable level'' So a...

a capacity of 6cwt, or 7.25cwt including the . driver --was announced only six weeks ago as available in the UK. Already put...

The wider shores of training by Janus I F hauliers revealed on the psychiatrist's couch an inferiority complex or a...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM ,Science in Transport (3) Optimizing the routeing pattern great amount of publicity directed...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI Plating and Testing (5) REGULATION 4 of the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations...

would like to know whether I must automatically take a medical examination in order to retain my psv licence. understand from a...

brigade whose big tenders are in the "heavy" class, and we understand that their drivers will require hgv drivers' licences...

test report on the Ford DT1400, and on January 76 7970 in a report on the road test of a 01000 Ford the following figures were...

Between February 1969 and February 1970 I drove an hgv at least once per week on 26 separate weeks throughout the year....

out" diesel engines when they overheat. Can you supply any helpful information whereby we could fit up our vehicles against...

An answer given to a question on the carriage of wide loads (CM February 27) was incorrect. It was stated that an attendant is...

HOPES of a real breakthrough this last session in lessening the number of evening transport courses in favour of more...