• On Friday the Prime Minister inaugurated the construction of the new Leyland National bus manufacturing plant at Lillyhall,...

• An ambulance of about 2 litres engine capacity, with low floor, front-wheel drive and possibly all-independent suspension...

• West End of London traffic conditions would have to deteriorate far beyond their present level before there was enough...

14-day respite • Drivers of passenger vehicles, including p.s.v., have been granted a brief respite from the new drivers'...

• The Italian authorities have agreed to increase the 1970 quota of road haulage journeys permitted under the Anglo-Italian...

• A 60 mph motorway speed limit for goods vehicles over 3 tons unladen, a 50 mph limit on all roads for cars and light...

• Mr Fred Mulley, Minister of Transport, yesterday laid before Parliament the Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) (No. 2)...

• An appeal by F. G. F. (Aston) Ltd, of Princip Street, Aston, Birmingham, against its conviction by Sutton Coldfield...

• Hopes have revived of an end to the dockers' ban on working the new container terminal at Tilbury. London's 12,500...

• By Wednesday 13 Conservative MPs had signed the motion sponsored by Mr. 'Michael Heseltine, Shadow Minister of Transport,...

• Alarm at the high rate of failures among Men taking the drivers' licence test is expressed by the Scottish Commercial...

• Mr Fred Mulley, Minister of Transport, issued a statement on Thursday on operators' licensing, which begins for public...

• A complaint about a shortage of spares for heavy lorries is to be made in the Commons on Monday. Mr Wedgwood Benn, Minister...

from a special correspondent • It is concern with the legal procedure of operators' licensing rather than with the techniques...

• A simple guide to the new regulations affecting the driving and working hours of goods vehicle drivers, and the requirement...

• One-day seminars on fleet efficiency, linked in each case with one-day seminars on manpower efficiency, will be held in six...

• The Port of London Authority's Customs Entry Section is to be closed at the end of March as a further step in the...

• Hilton Transport Services Ltd. is to have a new warehouse/workshop complex costing £550,000 on a site in Lombard Wall,...

transport by David and freight handling Lowe Automated washing • Automated washing and disinfecting equipment for...

• Glagow Corporation municipal transport committee will oppose the Government proposals for the establishment of a Passenger...

Eleven plead guilty to 48 short rest charges • Travel House (Luton) Ltd (trading as Bunty Coaches) was fined £120, plus 25...

• Last week company busmen put in a pay rise claim for £2 5s 3d a week on the basic rate of £14 9s 2d for drivers and £14...

Tory transport MP blasts 'nightmare of phraseology' • The Government motion on the Drivers' Hours (Passenger Vehicles)...

• Fears that passengers who have changed to bus services after rail closures, may after two years find themselves without any...

• Two experimental projects, designed to demonstrate measures which could improve the operation of bus services have been...

• The Tyneside PTA has decided to seek permission from the Licensing Authority to raise bus fares in Newcastle upon Tyne and...

• The application by City Coach Lines Ltd, of Upminster, Essex, for a licence to operate a sightseeing tour in London with...

• In a report in CM on February 13, page 34, it was stated that Mr. A. C. J. Grieves, representing objectors to an...

• The Goods Vehicles (Operators' Licences) (Temporary Use in Great Britain) Regulations 1970 were yesterday laid before...

• Opening the first hearing under the Transport Act 1968 in the North Western traffic area, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, the LA, said...

1111 An operator's licence was granted to A. S. Jones and Co Ltd, of Liverpool, but M. Swift Ltd,. of Skelmersdale, and The Red...

Traffic Commissioners • A flat rate increase of 3d, on all fares within the Liverpool Corporation section of the area now...

George A. Bartup, 50. managing director of Trevor Williams (Removers) Ltd, Hereford, is to be installed as president of the...

We record with regret the deaths of Roger Gresham Cooke and George Burgess. Mr. Gresham Cooke, 63, Conservative MP for...

Citroen Cars Ltd, Slough, is introducing :o the UK the van version of the Ami 8— lesignated the Service—which has a payload...

DAt the annual prize-giving ceremony 'or Leyland Motors' apprentices last week, Ard Stokes said he was concerned that other...

• It is reported by Seddon-Deutz Ltd.— the company formed by Seddon and Klock ner-Hum boldt-Deutz of Germany in 1967—that...

• The Dennis Pax V has been uprated in weight and renamed the DB 15.5. It is fitted with a 5.5-ton capacity front axle which...

New box bodies on Ford D series chassis • A new range of ultra lightweight box vans, based on the Ford D Series tilt-cab...

• Regulations have been laid before Parliament which make the fitting of stop lamps and direction indicators obligatory on...

• Three seminars with linked subjec matter which highlight transport manage ment control techniques have been arrange by...

,t Handyman 3enchwise: lathe sense (7) IE four-jaw independent chuck is a very ong and versatile tool Which can stand up...

Harry Urwin • Top trade union chiefs are not easily pinned down for an interview and none can be busier than Mr. C. H....

Have you ever felt an urge to appear on the box? It's easy really—all you have to do is win the Lorry Driver of the Year...

'ROM March 1 1970 new legal limits on Torking and driving hours apply to drivers I goods vehicles, and from March 15 to rivers...

EXCEPT in special circumstances, whici will be dealt with later, owners and driver: of goods vehicles are required from Marcl 1...

THE VEHICLES AFFECTED THE LIMITATIONS on driving hours and duty time specified in Section 96 of Part VI of the Transport Act...

COACHES CONSTRUCTED WHERE THE PORT COMES FROM by Derek Moses. !sIDOUBTEDLY the most famous oduct of Porto (Anglicized name...

• The precise cost of operating commercial vehicle today can seldom, if eve be obtained. To attempt to achieve a standal of...

WHAT A PITY Bill Lear's steam engine project has had to be abandoned! Or so it must seem to the many who had thought the...

• Insurance cover for vehicles is a necessity and it isn't cheap. But many operators pay more than they need. Perhaps they...

Echo from the past by janus V ETERANS in road haulage scent the battle from afar with the mere suggestion of a limit to a...

matters by John Darker. AMBIM The road transport industry and planning (2) THE Town and Country Planning Act 1968, applying...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI The new h.g.v. driving licence(6) WHEN an h.g.v. driver's licence has been suspended or revoked...

Bedford with a 5-ton load, without first having passed a heavy goods vehicle test? The unladen weight of the vehicle is 2 tons...

driver of a Foden articulated low-loader I am often called upon to transport wide loads. These loads are between 9ft. 3in. and...

and displaying an MoT plate still has to show the unladen weight on the chassis? A Section 66 of the Motor Vehicles...

I WELCOMED last week the recommendations of the Haze!grave Report (The Training of Technician Engineers) in producing a greatly...