A SPIRITED contest between urban and rural-orientated Metropolitan Counties on bus subsidies was approaching its climax this...

BOTH goods and passenger vehicle drivers will be affected by the Road Traffic (Drivers' Ages and Hours of Work) Bill which is...

SPECULATION (CM last week) that BRS Parcels Ltd planned to change its name has now been confirmed. A company spokesman said on...

million may seem of small account, but the formula for deciding bus subsidies is likely to generate much political heat in many...

THE prototype battery-powered Leyland National has at last been given permission to operate. The Secretary of State for the...

A NEW UK/Irish ownerdrivers' co-operative goes into operation on Monday. It has been set up in Dunlaoire, Co. Dublin, to supply...

by John Darker THE TENDENCY in road haulage for Joint Industrial Councils to replace a moribund Road Haulage Wages Council will...

A FORMULA for a return to work at the Birmingham depot 0 Containerhases Ltd was agreed last week between the aompany and the...

Two aspects of the Queen's Speech should be actively engaging if not acutely troubling the minds of road transport operators...

CUSTOMERS of British Road Services will have to pay rate increases of about 171 per cent, it was predicted this week. And BRS...

A ONE-ACRE vehicle compound has been set up on the outskirts of Tehran by a British company — welcome news for drivers who have...

they must learn to stand up and claim their proper rights. Operators, particularly the small businessmen, should not sell...

LATEST ENTRANT into the international groupage business is SPD Ltd with its Unispeed Ltd company. At present operating from...

Research Laboratory, Mr A. Silverleaf, will give the Henry Spurrier Memorial Lecture to the Chartered Institute of Transport...

Shadow Minister A LIMIT must be set to the practice of putting environmental considerations above cost and the needs of trade...

AN IMPROVED transport system is needed in the South West to stop it becoming a backwater. This is the view of Mr Robert...

OVER 70 vehicles will be displayed at the South and West Truck Show near Launceston, Cornwall, on December 3 to 5. The show...

LEIGH, Lancs, magistrates dismissed a summons against a Liverpool owner-driver, Mr John Seddon of Durley Road, Aintree, last...

BRITISH factories produced 368,899 commercial goods vehicles and 33,667 buses and coaches in 1974; the total of 402,566...

A SERIES of evening seminars on new EEC transport law has been announced by Fleet Planning Ltd at eight Midland centres. The...

M-way opens A seven-mile section of M5, which has just been opened between Huntsvvorth, near Bridgwater, and Blackbrook, near...

AT A HEARING at Maidstone yesterday Gillingham Borough Council were expected to oppose the renewal of an 0-licence by Maylen...

LOADING pallets of a size not normally encountered led to an overloading fine for a Co Durham operator in Gateshead magistrates...

ROAD haulage is the cheapest, simplest and most natural way of carrying things around. And that's one of the reasons why Sir...

THREE Fife men operated a public bus service without the necessary licences, it was stated at Kirkcaldy district court on...

AMERICAN road passenger transport operators were complimented for their achievement in reducing accidents and casualties...

THE USE of a recirculatory system for side window demisting—thus avoiding cold air being blown over the windows to the...

More LT miles AN increase of 1 per cent in bus mileage next year is being sought by London Transport. Amounting to a total of...

PLANS to provide a coach transfer facility to air and sea ports, for people travelling on overseas package holidays from...

MAINSPRING behind the introduction of Volvo trucks to the UK in 1967, J. M. (" Jim ") McKelvie is giving up his post as...

A NEW national clerk of the course for the CM Lorry Driver of the Year competition has been elected. He is Mr A. G. (Gordon)...

Nice furore is boiling away in Yorkshire, I see, over two observation platforms which the DoE is having built overlooking the...

Talking of "observers," it seems that while operators are in a will-it-won't-it state over tachographs, the truck makers have...

If you should catch a glimpse of a Crane Fruehauf tandemaxle trailer with the serial number T/7479/I0 weld-written on the...

Thanks, Lancs I do get some strange messages. Someone told me that the chairman of Runcorn Development Corporation was...

The Bristol regional contest in the CM Lorry Driver of the Year competition is looking for a new committee chairman. Ron Irons,...

WORK and production are the creators of wealth, and such efforts are rewarded by money payments. When payments are made without...

Road transport in the firing line by Brian Cottee AT LEAST the grouse season has an end as well as a beginning. Road...

MOBILITY on an over-crowded island has not brought the benefits that might have been expected. The more that people are able to...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CE!). MIMI, AMIRTE SECTION 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Etc Act 1974 sets out the general duties...

By Graham Montgomerie photographs by Dick Ross IT'S KNOWN by the Foden computer as 04A 032 C25 OS— it has a 3.12m (10ft 3in)...

idea to management ONCE the engineer has accep ted the need for planned maintenance, he must sell the idea to his traffic...

How to check your lights and lighting circuits and diagnose faults speedily THE PUBLIC DEBATE about making the use of...

Single copies of the Lucas electrical check cards, on which the routines dealt with in this article are based, may be obtained...

given to drivers with dispensation—that is those having driven a vehicle up to 10 metric tons gross vehicle weight during the...

the " manufactured " chart would maintain credibility under detailed analysis. The trace pattern obtained during day-time...

agreement with East and West Germany to permit British vehicles to cross into the Eastern bloc. You referred to this as...

that in contrast to an hgv driving licence, the psv licence can be endorsed by a court for certain offences peculiar to the...

The second of a planned Dutch chain of public washing installations for heavy commercial vehicles was recently opened in Joure....

In an experiment to test passenger reaction, a bus with an open rear platform has for the past few months given surface...

A novel method of displaying route numbers and destinations on public service vehicles and rapid transit rolling stock has been...

With typical Austrian equanimity the public transport undertaking of Innsbruck (population: 118,000) is facing the forthcoming...

AMONG the topical subjects discussed by the British Association of Removers at last week's Autumn Conference in London were...

IN recent years there has been a growing awareness that company profits, declared in the accounts, may have been illusory....

The remodelled version of the Patsy BE45D barrel emptying pump, the BE45E, is suitable for either standard 45 gallon steel, or...

Two lubricants, Heat Lube and Plus Lube, are being marketed by Terochem Industrial Chemicals. Heat Lube !is said to be capable...

Designed to reduce turn-round time, the Docklift Scissor lift is sunk into the ground to form a flush platform, in the lowered...

service A same-day radiator replacement or repair scheme has been introduced by Inrad Services for service exchange radiators...

Imported from Germany, Amiga tyre pressure monitors are now available to suit the higher pressures of commercial vehicle and...