The complete re-appraisal of the EEC common transp policy, which the new Commissioner for Transport t promised, suggests that...

moke: but too few !xaminers, report LAs 7114 reporter Too much weight, too much smoke, too few examiners and in many fines...

)r Magirus-Deutz from our European correspondent A question mark is hanging over the re of Magirus-Deutz, the German truck bus...

• Mr Ralph Hilton, former chairman of Ralph Hilton Transport Services Ltd, has made application to the board of the company for...

• Two fresh engine options for its 34:Four tractive unit for maximum-gcw artic operation were announced this week by Seddon...

• A • Government Minister has told road haulage employers they must train more lorry driver recruits. Employers cannot complain...

• The Chancellor's announcement of a £100m cut-back in the road-building programme for one year has come under bitter attack...

• Once again the Lorry Driver of the Year has proved that he is the best — and not only among lorry drivers. Last Tuesday on...

• In the past year two cases involving drivers' hours offences committed by agency-supplied drivers were successfully...

iy John Darker III Drivers who are paid in direct relation o vehicle earnings will be favourably placed o profit considerably...

• Several branches of the Transport and General Workers' Union on Tyneside are refusing to handle lorries owned by Lemington...

• Three, mobile weighbridges have been purchased by the Environment Department, said Mr John Peyton in the Commons last week....

• There was growing resentment in some Welsh valley communities that heavy coal loads were being carried by the National Coal...

• United Carriers are to open a new replacement depot at Braintree, Essex, in the autumn with a capacity five times that of the...

by Philip Robinson • Lorry drivers are beginning to feel the pinch when it comes to parking overnight in London. And the...

• The British transport and haulage industry now offers a faster and more efficient service than any other operated in Western...

The clearing house in south-east gland, SEC H, has been acquired by the nt shipping firm of George Hammond Lipping) Ltd....

Robert Brook, 44, since September 1972 general manager of Midland Fled and chief general manager of the Midlands division of...

Rigids Class A: up to 20ft; over 1 ton and up to 30 Cwt unladen: 1, T. Cunningham (South Scotland Electricity Board) Ford, 227...

Rigids Class A: up to 20ft; over 1 ton and up to 30 cwt unladen: 1, B. W. Edwards (Post Office) Morris, 171 penalty points; 2,...

Class C: over 24ft; up to 28ftt 1, G. Smith (Hoover Ltd) Ford, 178; 2, R. K. Mogg (Proctor & Gamble) Bedford, 189; 3, D. Dack...

RIGIDS Class A: up to 20ft; over 1 ton and up to 30cwt unladen: 1, D. Godfrey (HM Naval Base, Devonport), Bedford, 502 penalty...

RIGIDS Class A: up to 20ft; over 1 ton and up to 30cwt unladen: 1. F. R. Beech (Telephone Area Office, PO), Commer, 315 penalty...

RIGIDS Class A: up to 20ft; over 1 ton and up to 30cwt unladen: 1, C. Mahoney (Post Office Telephones. Ealing), Commer, 125...

RIGIDS Class A: up to 20ft; over 1 ton and up ti 30cvvt unladen: 1, G. Freestone (Vic Hellen Ltd), Ford, 300 penalty points; 2,...

The justification of spending nearly 10,000 a year as a subscription to FIDI — re international association of removers — as...

• Mr R. C. Richards, whose psv licence for one vehicle was granted and revoked within three weeks by the Metropolitan Traffic...

• The Scottish Traffic Commissioners last week granted permission to Harper Hiring (U.K.) Express Ltd, to start a minibus...

• The Department of the Environment has announced that it is prepared to make grants of up to 50 per cent available to bus...

• Dunfermline Town Council has approved location of a new bus station at James Street/Inglis Street. The Council will proceed...

• A decision by the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners .to allow J. B. Fisher, trading as Percival's Motors (Oxford) Ltd, to...

• An order worth nearly £8000 has been placed by Smiths Tours (Wigan) Ltd for the supply and fitment of Telma retarders. Eighty...

overseas tours • SELNEC PTE this week launched itself into the Continental tours market by taking delivery of three specially...

• Buses in the highlands and islands of Scotland are a complete integrated transport service playing an important part in...

• Crosville has joined the Lasco scheme for linking northern towns with air and sea ports by coach. The scheme already includes...

• New regulations which will give full effect to the European rules governing the operation of international journeys by coach...

• It would be wholly inappropriate for the Labour-controlled GLC to push forward with its absurd idea for free or artificially...

• Scotland's first dial-a-bus application by Ben Thompson Cabs Ltd, of East Kilbride, was resumed at East Kilbride last week, a...

• A Chertsey motor dealer, Grove Commercials, has been fined a total of £125 and ordered to pay £60 towards the witnesses'...

• A South Wales bus operator, Mr Douglas E. James, of Aberdare, was told that he tried to expand his business too fast, when he...

• Mr Harvey Bernard, managing director of the Bernard Master Group of Glasgow, told the Scottish LA in Glasgow last week that...

• Two new systems using ICI's Drikold solid carbon dioxide refrigeration blocks have been developed by the Industrial Products...

• The range of HAP lorry loaders, manufactured in West Germany by Kuhlmann Rust OHG, is to be distributed in the UK by BSP...

• A Liverpool transport firm whose past maintenance record was said to be "deplorable" received a partial licence suspension...

Mr W. A. Dobson (Wm Dobson (Edinburgh) Ltd) expects to achieve a payload of 20.35 tons at 30.5 tons gcw using a lightweight...

• The truck equipment division of York Trailer has introduced a new range of aluminium platform bodies for rigid trucks. There...

• Vehicle inspection pits in garages can be little more than death traps. Accumulations of petrol vapour, exploded by sparks...

• "No-loss" cooling systems and radialply steel-cord tyres are now being featured as standard equipment on all Ford D series...

• The International Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court will next be held from September 20 to 28, 1974. This year there is...

by Tony O'Toole The first exhibition of its type to be held in the North, Transpo '73, which was officially opened last Friday...

• I recognize it! Will Richard Thomas please stand up and prepare to be voted BBC producer of the year by the road haulage...

In reply to the letter "Hgv v psv driving" (CM May 11) I have been an hgv driving instructor in the army, arid an hgv driver...

I fully realize that it must get a bit much, receiving letters as often as you do on the subject of hgv driver training....

I read with interest your reports (CM last week and May 11) on the UITP Congress in The Hague. Much emphasis was placed there...

Len Evans • Quiet and unassuming but with a definite policy for his year of office as national chairman of the Institute of...

Numbers unobtainable For the study of The Road Haulage Industry since 1968 carried out by Dr Brian Bayliss on behalf of the...

Internationale du Car by Gibb Grace and Martin Hayes Pictures by Dick Ross Europe's newest buses and coaches meet at Nice...

The rally which is an integral part of the Semaine du Car consists of five separate events, any number of which are open to any...

The Nice event included a class 'for city buses and these entries, plus several other non-participating exhibits, represented...

competitive makes together provided clear evidence of the divergence of European design concepts from those in the UK. Only a...

ewe ol po licy ONE of the most . pressing problems confronting the EEC's policy-makers is to devise an effective regional...

by Bill Godwin 0 Romania scorns the diesel WHILE LICENSING agreements with Western European manufacturers have enabled some...

Water injection revived WATER INJECTION was being played around with the best part of half-century before the pollution scare....

reply to a reader who proposed to take his 5cwt van on a Continental holiday. 1, too, propose to follow the same holiday plan...

my own boss, after driving lorries for 17 years. My problem, however, is costing. A firm has already offered me work but has...

an axle-weighing device which can be used while the vehicle is being loaded? I have to deal with conditioned dust (dust mixed...

matters by John Darker AM B I Computer aids in transport administration PUBLICITY highlighting the contribution of computer...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE Unfair dismissal WHEN an employee has to leave your firm through no fault of his...

he installation of infra-red drying lamps an save a lot of time and money in allowing aint spraying to be started much more...

Hand-operated welding guns with built-in transformers have been produced by Portable Welders. The S16 gun which is suitable for...

The elimination of swirl marks is one advantage claimed by Tex Abrasives for their 05-6 orbital sander. The unit, which rotates...

The ED 1000 12/24V dc Generator from Honda supplements its current range of units, weighs 104Ib and is capable of producing...

A flame-retardant acrylicadhesive binder for backcoating automotive upholstery is marketed by Rohm and Haas. Known as Emulsion...

From Patay comes a reciprocating air-motor to operate its SD45 and 8E45 range of diaphragm pumps. The unit, it is claimed, can...

HT leads guaranteed to last for five years have been introduced by Link-Ha mpson. The conductor is made from a flexible pvc...

From Albert Jagger comes a 301b a pair two-piece plastic wing for tandem-axles which does not corrode and is not affected by...

Spirax-Sarco has increased the maximum temperature limit for its three-port TW control valves and has added a 4in. (100mm) size...

From the Light Equipment Division of Rubery Owen (Wrexham) comes the TR series independent suspension chassis. Developed for...

Flat and right-angle nutsetters and spring balancers have been added to BroomWade's range of pneumatic assembly tools. The...

Temperature-sensing probes for use with portable electronic thermometers have been introduced by Polkinghorne Industries, The...

Adjustable plain and gear trolleys with safe working lot of up to 5 tons have been add to the range of Elephant ch. blocks from...

by Trevor Longcroft oday, many engineers accept at engine coolant should be correctly balanced mixture of rater, anti-freeze...

Savings in fuel consumption and reduction in engine noise are claimed for a new throttle control for the JLO-engined Mighty...

Known as the Treysit Sirometer, a device evolved by Industrial Power Units Ltd is claimed to enable engine speeds to be read...

A pocket-size booklet from Ceag, has been designed to simplify bulb identification and application. The final 12 pages of the...

An oil, formulated to overcome the problem of carbon build-up and reduce the risk of explosions and fires in reciprocating air...

Stenor has just published an updated version of its garage equipment and motor accessories catalogue. Sections of the...

A lounge-size paint-spray booth has been introduced by Berridge Engineering. The booth can accommodate light commercial...

The first of a range of products Dunlop is to introduce for the motor repair trade is Dunlop Panelguard -a spray-on protective...

From ESAB come two generalpurpose manual arc-welding electrodes for mild steel using dc or ac with low open-circuit voltage and...

The Chain Testers' Associatior of Great Britain in co-operatioi with the Engineering lndustr Training Board has issued series...

Quite rightly, truck manufactrers like Foden are demanding igher and higher standards in iesel design, particularly at the eavy...

The joint managing director of Fodens Ltd, David Foden, reveals how a policy change will enable truck production to be...

operational trial by G ibb G twe FODENS are now standardizing on their new S80 grp cab and, having already tested a rigid...

by John Darker A NEW IBM computer recently introduced by Fodens will transform the company's production and marketing...

v Johnny Johnson Tipper operators are being forced into longer hauls and a demand for vehicles with larger payloads is being...

by Gibb Grace BETWEEN 1961 and 1971 the proportion of ready-mixed concrete of the total cement market increased from 13.3 to...

scheme by..,..yes IN the past few years there has been a quiet revolution in Fodens' service arrangements. Gradually the...