day TRAINING BOARD WARNS GOVT ON LACK OF MANPOWER PLANNING • The professional road haulage industry will require a futiher...

• Powell Duffryn Engineering Ltd buying family-owned Sheppard Equipmei Ltd, waste disposal equipment maker, Thetford, Norfolk....

phone numbers From May I Commercial Motor has new telephone numbers. These are listed on page 11 of this issue. When phoning...

• The proposals for banning vehicles waiting at road junctions have been revised by the Transport Minister and the Scottish and...

• New regulations coming into force on May 10 extend further the list of drivers' hours exemptions applying to the carriage of...

• A warning came from Mr Robert Heaton, Snr, director of one of the three haulage firms involved in the "blacking" dispute at...

The TUC finance and general purposes committee on Wednesday recommended the TGWU to pay the £55,000 fine imposed by the...

• The Freight Transport Association is against quotas, permits, licences, controlled rates, any European measure which will...

from the normal daily duty periods of 11 hours and the 121-hour spreadover. In both cases an extension to 14 hours has been...

• The first meeting was held on April 13 of the regional committee set up in the Midlands as part of a pilot scheme by the RHA...

III Tighter control over van and car hire werators is being sought by Mr Robert VIcCrindle, Tory MP for Billericay. His plea...

II Cuts in the annual licence fees for ommercial vehicles, to be recovered in tigher petrol tax, have been suggested to the...

• Four of this year's 90 recipients of the Queen's Award to Industry are companies involved in the commerical vehicle field....

• An international one-day conference entitled "Forum for the Future" is to be held in conjunction with the 1972 International...

• An order that would restrict all vehicles of 3 tons and over on any Birmingham City Centre roads is recommended to the city's...

Woolworth link • Starting with a pilot scheme in the Lanes-Cheshire area, Cory Distribution Services are to handle food...

• The annual RHA Tipping Convention is fast developing into an "Earls Court Show" for tipper operators. From humble beginnings...

• New regulations to strengthen safety measures for the carriage of dangerous chemicals by road are being prepared by the...

• Some 300 road transport industr, delegates representing 82 associations an groups of undertakings from 35 Europea and...

• The Association of Clerical, Technic and Supervisory Staff has presented th NEC with a claim for a substantial cost c living...

• A Leyland Mastiff-based double-drive six-wheeler plated at 24 tons gvw — the proposed new maximum weight on three-axled rigid...

• After the SELNEC (Bolton) PTA refused a request by a Lancashire parents' association to operate a stage-carriage service...

• What amounts to a showdown with local authorities in its area has been created by Scottish Omnibuses Ltd. The company has...

• In an attempt "to minimize the misuse of concessionary tickets", Edinburgh Corporation Transport is this year to` introduce...

• In the years 1960-1970 passenger journeys by public road transport decreased by a third, according to a report published by...

• Passenger service vehicles phased out by bus passenger transport and city authorities are big business in Barnsley,...

• Mr Archibald Fletcher, of Barrhead, applied unsuccessfully at Glasgow this week for authority to operate an express service...

• Details of bus-only lanes in Westminster. Croydon and Islington were announced recently by the Greater London Council. Eleven...

• Dundee Corporation Transport's financial crisis — with operating losses of £1000 a day—remained unsolved on April 20 after...

• A South Wales coach operator had reduced the return Llanelli-London return fare by 75p. Mr A. Jenkins, proprietor of Jenkins...

• A Yorkshire lorry driver was cleared of charges of altering his driver's records with intent to deceive by Thirsk magistrates...

• The Yorkshire LA, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, curtailed the 0 licences held by two Yorkshire own-account operators at hearings...

• A 29-year-old lorry driver whose marriage had failed since an accident paralysed him from the waist down, was awarded about...

• A Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, haulier G.E. Clayton Ltd, is considering whether he should appeal after conviction by Gateshead...

• Haulier Dazzart Lenue Brown, of Fern Street, St Agnes, Bristol, adjudged bankrupt in April of last year, surrendered his...

• False declarations made in order to obtain an hgv driving licence led to a lorry driver being fined £25 with £6.40 costs in...

• The South Eastern LA, Mr G. Mercer, reduced the licences of two companies operated by Mr F. S. Rogers when the companies...

Leonard Arthur Castleton, 61, who has been elected president of the FTA, joined the Great Western Railway at Poplar Dock as a...

• What amounts to a completely revised tractive unit for maximum weight articulated work is announced today by Seddon Motors...

Crane Fruehauf has introduced its ipping bodies, previously fitted only to s emi-trailers, for rigid vehicle application. here...

• A new range of fork-lift trucks, powered by diesel, LPG and petrol engines, with load capacities up to 6000lb, is being...

I An all-aluminium dropsider for chassis n the Ford Transit, Bedford CF category las been added to the range of tipping )odies...

• Following the announcement (CM April 14) that Rolls-Royce engines are to be fitted by Fodens Ltd, the Sandbach-based company...

• Crane Fruehauf's recent move to its new factory at Toftwood, Dereharn, has meant that the company is now able to offer from...

by Gibb Grace • Most of the CM road test vehicles fitted with Fuller Roadranger 610 gearboxes have been criticized by the...

• Highway Trailers Ltd has introduced a single-axle version of its D. H. Morgan Hydro-Couple low-loader, which in common with...

An eddy current brake that uses a slab aluminium as a magnetic load, heat sink, adiator and support structure has been wented,...

Hauliers must use 'Queensberry' rules • Road transport is in the forefront once again on a public issue and has set the first...

We welcome letters for publication on transport topics. Address them to Commercial Motor, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London...

It was second time lucky for Best's AEC Van Hool coach at the British Coach Rally held at Brighton last weekend. It carried off...

ONE PERSON at least thinks he knows who is going to win the Concours d'elegance prize at Brighton next year (April 14 and 15)....

iew by the Hawk U Missing men Fifteen hungry men walked the corridors of the House of Commons on Monday evening and if they...

Bob Heaton • The name of Bob Heaton senior will go down in the annals of legal history as the first man to invoke the power of...

by Martin Hayes DESPITE the fact that there will be further contraction and rationalization of public transport the future is...

Your money or your way of life IN any descent a point must be reached from which the only direction is upwards. A new...

M m guZ gement COUNT (7) by David Lowe, MInstTA, AMBIM HAULAGE CONTRACTORS, whatever Ise their motives, are in business to...

THE POINT has often been made by Department of the Environment area mechanical engineers and examiners that it's best if...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (17) BEFORE I deal with the ignition and auxiliary sides to auto-electrics, I...

large fleet of articulated and fourwheeled flat vehicles. Gross vehicle weights are approximately 22 and 14 tons respectively....

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Continental operations ESTABLISHED British operators of Continental services are naturally...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (16) French domiciled company from being lawhAed. With...

The last stages of examination preparation MOST professional institutes and education organizations arrange their main...

For the next seven days QUNDAY APRIL 30th LDOY round St Austell, Fowey Central Car Park, Fowey. Cornwall. NI ON DAY MAY 1st....

Scrutinize your doors by Inspector K. W. Norman, Crime Prevention Section, New Scotland Yard. • When the general security of...

Monolith Electronics are producing a range of solid-state constant-current automatic battery chargers, combined with auxiliary...

Self-adhesive "labels", capable of indicating temperatures in the range 37 to 599deg C with an accuracy of + 1 percent—they...

Semi-automatic welding machines designed for spraytransfer and drop-transfer welding of stainless steels, structural steels,...

A series of stainless steel worm drive hose clips marketed by Circlex Marketing offers an ex-stock choice of 11 standard sizes...

A grease gun that can accept standard grease cartridges and can also be filled from bulk supplies of oil or grease in the...

high-volume high-pressure adial centrifugal fan designed ith an open non-clogging mpeller which can create air lows up to...

This is a heavy-duty highpressure gun suitable for fleet or factory servicing and can be used wherever there is a compressed...

A protective surface coating that can be applied by unskilled labour using only basic tools has been introduced by Maintain....

Equipment for repairing pvccoated lorry tarpaulins is available in the UK from Welwyn Tool. The tool is called the LKS III and...

An airless spray gun for high-pressure "airless" spraying systems has been introduced by Delavan-Watson. The gun has a...

A fluid possessing anticondensation and anti-corrosion properties and named 447 has been introduced by Nutfield Chemicals. It...

A robustly constructed tyre cage which offers the added safety features of flanged top and bottom plates and a built-in...

Lucas has introduced a ne range of flat and cony commercial vehicle mirror hea suitable for fitting to mo commercial vehicles...

levergun which can cope with he dispensation of grease up to rade 3 or oil from SAE 20 pwards, has been designed by ecalemit....

The Prim 6-600 hot water pressure washer developed by Prim Engineering (Stokeon-Trent) has an output of 6gal of water per...

The Lancer 3 /66D sideloader has now been fitted with a four-cylinder diesel engine instead of the original threecylinder and...

A body filler called Boxer Plast that may be machined, tapped, drilled, filed, ground and sawed once it has hardened has been...

A Mini Nailer, a 5Ib 4oz pneumatic nailing tool used for high-speed nailing of caravans, portable displays, pallets and...