Unless road transport uses new ways of making its views known and its influence felt it faces a frustrating time. Gone are the...

As the railways go for control by computers three 1VFC top managers leave for the USA to study their use in road transport by...

• Ford and Bedford vehicles, besides conventional Land-Rover and trailer outfits, are to be used in the Automobile...

• Plans by Young Liberals to im sbilize Continental "juggernaut" lorries we described by Transport and General W rkers' Union...

• Such has been the response to the York Trailer campaign Operation Snowball (CM August 17) that York had to engage temporary...

• LT News surprised London Transport's own press information department this week by revealing a £15.8m order for 938 buses, to...

By CM reporter • The anomalous rules for the working hours of British drivers of vehicles destined for the Continent have...

Next week CM will be announcing an important new range of heavy vehicles — rigids and tractive units to interest every operator...

• The next one-week course sponsored by the Road Haulage Association for directors and senior managers of road haulage...

• A bias in favour of the nationalized sector of the road industry was shown in ITV's World in Action programme in which the...

• The Metropolitan Police is to conduct its third vehicle lighting campaign from October 29 to November 11. On the previous...

• Specially designed for fuel deliveries along country lanes and narrow driveways is a new road tanker constructed and designed...

• The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company has completed a record year for cargo handling which is up 16 per cent and has topped...

• Redcar haulage firms are concerned at the lack of parking lot facilities in the town for their heavy lorries and have taken...

• The Scottish Transport Group has announced that discounts will be allowed on new West Coast ferry charges to drivers of...

• A new ro-ro ferry service to be run by a company called D. D. Ferries will begin operating in October between Felixstowe and...

• A new van service described as the fastest route between Newcastle and North America started this week. It is operated by...

• A 24 hr repair and maintenance repair service is being operated within the ferry terminal at Poole by Poole Transport...

• The following awards have been announced by the Chartered Institute of Transport for papers submitted during the 1972-73...

handling facilities of its parcels division to a new depot at Markfield, Leicestershire, within one mile of the Leicester-Ashby...

• A new award scheme, aimed at pro moting internationally the public recognition of the design achievements of the British...

John C. Brownhill, 36, has been appointed service manager of Scania (Great Britain) Ltd. He succeeds G.L.G. Clarke who has been...

• D. R. Munson Ltd, the Hadleigh, Suffolk, company with 113 convictions against itself and drivers has had its licence...

• The question of whether a lorry driver would be fit to restart driving after an absence of one year was considered at a...

• Only five months after receiving an 0-licence curtailment, a Shropshire haulage company successfully applied to the West...

• Lorry driver Mr James Davies, of Wingsfield Road, Stretford, Manchester, was fined £20 and received a licence endorsement...

• A former transport manager of Mainland Market Deliveries Ltd, who aided and abetted drivers to commit hours and records...

• As reported briefly last week the case of Charles Scamp, in which the operator's one vehicle was curtailed by the South...

• The Western LA removed one vehicle for six weeks from the licence for seven vehicles of F. Taylor (Transport) Ltd of Yeovil...

• London Transport's nine-point package to attract a larger slice of London's scarce labour market was officially unveiled at...

• An experimental bus lane in Camberwell New Road came into operation on Monday. The lane is for eastbound buses operating...

• Distribution of books of bus tickets valued at £3 commenced last week at the transport offices in Victoria Street, Grimsby,...

• A county councillor appealed last week for improvements in public transport to and from a fellside town so that sick people...

Street from next month, to provide a quicker journey to London's Sunday markets.

• East Kent Road Car Co Ltd, is replacing its 12-vehicle fleet of Continental holiday tour coaches. It took delivery of the...

• Hartlepool transport committee is to reconsider its proposals to increase fares over 2p by a penny to meet an expected...

• A modified version of the Sparshatts Midibus — specially adapted for carrying wheelchair patients — has been delivered to...

• Last year, London Transport buses used 21,751.276 gallons of fuel and their staff used 4,300,000 ticket rolls. These and...

• Darlington transport committee is to seek permission to introduce multi-journey bus tickets for a trial period.

• Tyneside PTE is equipping buses in the Sunderland and South Shields area with two-way radios in an attempt to curb attacks on...

• The GLC's plan for free travel for pensioners in London has run into trouble. Following objections from London Country Buses...

• Glamorgan County Council has agreed for the first time to subsidize a number of unremunerative services operated by three...

• Seattle, Washington, is to provide for one year a free transit and bus service on routes that pass through the city's...

• Many Teessiders will have to pay a penny more to travel by bus from Monday. Teesside Corporation Transport has been given...

• London Transport is to sell 4p flat-fare single tickets in bulk on 15 suburban routes — saving travellers 2p on the cost of...

• Drivers and conductors employed by East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd held a meeting last week aimed at formulating plans to...

• The new Cleveland County Council, Yorkshire, is to consider cheap or free bus fares for elderly people. It is planned to...

• Nine Hustler curtain-sided pallet trailers — the latest addition to the commercial body range of Southfields Coachworks Ltd,...

• A new general-purpose low-loading trailer of 5.6 tons gross weight has been introduced by B. Dixon-Bate Ltd of Chester....

• A three-day course on the analysis, design and manufacture of heat-pipes is to be held on October 30 to November 1 at the...

• The stability of a Volvo/Crane Fruehauf 38-tonne-gtw fully laden double-bottom outfit in braking and manoeuvring was...

• Seddon Motors Ltd, Atkinson Vehicles Ltd and Atherton Bros Ltd are to be amalgamated into one company to be called Seddon...

• Two-tiered roller tracking inside the trailers of Gateway Foodmarkets Ltd of Bishopsworth, Bristol, considerably ease the...

spring production increase • As part of an £850,000 expansion scheme at its Tinsley Park Works, Sheffield, the British Steel...

• Contracts have been placed by Chrysler (UK) Ltd and British Leyland for the supply by Rockwell-Thompson Ltd of heavy-duty...

• A branch depot has been opened in Glasgow by the trailer rental company, Transport International Pool Ltd. The address of thc...

• At the Frankfurt Show next month Magirus-Deutz exhibits will include a 6 x 4 tractive unit with 340bhp (DIN) V12 aircooled...

'ff — Record production levels are now being achieved for ERF vehicles, the company's chairman, Mr Peter Foden, told...

opened on Monday, In addition to the normal service area facilities a breakdown service is also being provided.

All employees must make approved employee-pension plans — or enter the State reserve scheme by John Darker DESPITE the...

by John C. Vann UNDER the new Social Security Act all employees will have two pensions at age 65 (retirement is not a...

• Not so wizard The news that London Transport is getting rid of all 555 of its 36ft single-deck MBseries buses comes as no...

Exhaust gas recirculation anomalies HOW can it be that increasing the amount Of exhaust gas in the combustion chamber at top...

tachograph chart with Stanley Vingoe while traffic examiner Ted Home is delighted to look at the impeccably kept record book....

by John Darker AMBIM THE BULK HAULAGE of chemicals and fuels by road in the next decade is likely to expand faster than any...

More than a little learning EACH REVOLUTION of the EEC carousel reveals another stage in the progress of the various draft...

Jonathan Lawton • When the 1968 Transport Act first hit the haulage industry, more than one operator was heard to remark...

The text-book operation of John Player's transport protects a daily investment of more than £1 million and the regular supply...

X have answered a query from a reader about having a minibus to take a club party to the Continent and the driving licence...

vehicles over a number of years by the straight-line method this will give a misleading indication of the actual annual...

who sleeps in the cab of his vehicle during his overnight rest period? I understand that this is allowed, if the vehicle has a...

in Continental journeys since a proportion of my business is connected with taking trailers to a port for unaccompanied onward...

matters by John Darker AM B M Stage III prospects: Getting pay and prices into a better relationship ROAD transport...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE Trailers (5) TWO rear lamps must be provided on trailers, one on each side of the...