7ransport. Instead, a two-tier operaors' licensing scheme is being rut forward: a standard icence which would allow rolders to...

since before January 1, 1975. People who joined the industry after December 31, 1974, but before January 1, 1978, will be...

UNITED Road Transport Union general secretary Jackson Moore has condemned unofficial strike action by 1,500 bread delivery...

RECRUITMENT of schoolleavers to become motor vehicle apprentices has reached its highest level since 1970, according to figures...

A FIRST step towards upping maximum truck weight to 40 tonnes was taken by European Transport Ministers in Brussels last week....

THE 1977 British Coach Rail will be held at Brighton durin, the weekend of April 23 am 24. The road section of some 61 miles,...

EMPLOYERS sitting on the Road Haulage Wages Council have proposed increases in wages and subsistence allowances for drivers....

transport costs TRANSPORT costs could rise by up to Ell per ton if heavy goods vehicles are banned from town centres. These...

RANSPORT MINISTER Wilam Rodgers told cheering hop stewards on Sunday that e has no plans to force the se of tachographs in...

EXISTING national stocks of tyres for use on commercial vehicles are at a very low level, Peter Taylor, market research manager...

THE use of EEC logbooks, compulsory since October 31, will be strictly enforced from the end of this month. DTp enforcement...

RITAIN'S motorway pro.amme was pushed nearer standstill with the anouncement of further cuts of Inn in the Chancellor's mini...

Giltspur Bullen has won a =ontract to lift seven trade 3hows to be held at the new National Exhibition Centre at Birmingham...

AN adequate network of roads is needed between the Midlands and east coast ports, RI-IA chairman Jack Male said on Saturday. ,...

IMPORTED vepicles grabbed 14 per cent of all commercial vehicle registrations last month according to figures issued this week....

RAILWAYS, the National Freight Corporation and the ports would all suffer cuts under a Conservative Minister of Transport,...

improve the sh section of the A34 trunk rc between Cemetery Hill a Tidmington House, south Shipston-on-Stour, Warwi( shire. Mr...

A CALL for larger hazard labels on vehicles carrying dangerot loads met with a sympathetic Government response. "It is...

RENTING is the cure to the current cash crisis, claims Jeremy Farnworth, managing director of Keyzar Farnworth Ltd, of...

his 0 cence revoked after the orthern LA heard that he had o maintenance arrangetents or facilities was told to ut his house in...

HIGHWAY authorities have received a circular from the Department of Transport giving advice on how to deal with hazardous...

VIORE than 200 Oxfordshire road schemes, ranging from najor by-passes to footpath improvements, will be scrapped if a ....

TWO Yorkshire coach operators succeeded at their second attempt to obtain licences for the operation of continental tours, when...

UNSPENT CASH allocated by the Department of Transport for Bus Grant payments this year are likely to be made available to...

AN agency agreement between Blackburn Borough Transport, Ribble Motor Services and Lancashire County Council to reduce fares on...

CONSOLIDATION of service! between Bee-Line Roadway: and National Travel ha brought about the take °ye' of the "Empire's Best"...

cut EFLECTORISED edgelines )uld cut the accident rate by ver 20 per cent, claims the oad Marketing Research Inastry Group....

ROCKWELL'S new tandem drive axle, the SQHP, employs a lubrication system which is new to the axle field. Filtered lubricating...

Cummins 12.2 litre (744 cu in) engines more than one year old can now be fitted retrospectively with the latest PTD type of...

INDUSTRY requires a lot from transport — and there is a lot that is not perfect. But in the main Britain has a pretty good...

And what about Bob Chadwick, sales director at ERF? Throughout Christmas Bob is planning a trip to New Zealand -via America and...

Along the road the Fodens, David and Edwin had just returned from some of the farthest flung posts of the Empire when our man...

a flag flyer we know of none better. Bob must be one of the industry's youngest sales directors, but it is refreshing to find...

Now for a little Christmas quiz. If you were to choose the md of a British manufacturer to head up an operation in America who...

Up at British Leyland there was a bit of the nudge-nudge, wink-wink, keep-it-under wraps attitude about their plans for next...

Over at Oldham at the Seddon Atkinson factory the Redmond family were as confident as all of the others, I am told. They...

IT WAS only a short while ago that 33-year-old Colin Baker found himself unemployed. He .visited the local Job Centre and was...

fegtaid .Ciegem: Plain au by Dirk ROM It was about time that we tried a psv for our Christmas road test so for 1 976 we...

• • • i n two intensive weeks Peter Cordwell talks to Martin Huckeit on his return to the office... IF YOU must fail, fail...

LONELY PLACE... lain Sherriff who has trave, %sands of miles in CV cabs argues the case for cab ra( ibettes and cartridge...

John Durant pays tribute to Prat former Press Officer for the RflA With his other duties: guiding members, looking at...

Check your auto lube SINCE they can extend the life of chassis components by three or four times, automatic lubrication...

When you write (CM November 26) that the NEDO report on the nationalised industries has identified confusion and lack of trust...

In a recent questions and answer column, you featured a question from an owner-driver starting in road haulage and I am...

I was interested to see one of our vans represented in the article on "Design livery" (CM, iNovember 12). Your comment that on...

I really must comment on the article entitled "'Profile — Off the buses" (CM, November 19) with reference to the NBC and...

Jingle bells, decibels. Continental runs; All we want from Santa Claus is 40 metric tons "That must be the group known as the...

by Les Oldridge, T.Eng(CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE REGULATION 18 of the Motor Vehicle (Construction anc Use) Regulations 1973 requires...