Commissioners are imposing "experience" test for applicants by CM reporter • Holders of public service vehicle driving...

leasing companies? Not us, says York Trailer • The York Trailer Company has told the Government that it will not be paying VAT...

• C °millers Transport Ltd, of New Cross, London SEI4, won a novel case before an Industrial Tribunal sitting in London last...

• The National Bus Company's nationwide express coach network comes into being next month, bringing together services operated...

latest figures • The independent research group Incomes Data Service reports this week that the road haulage industry will...

• At a reception on Wednesday to mark the launching of its London-Paris-London express freight service next Monday, October 1,...

• The National Dock Labour Board has granted a permit to Always Transport, the haulage and warehousing subsidiary of J. Always...

• A two-year £2m development programme for its 75-acre site at Irvine, announced by the Ailsa Trucks Group, is the first phase...

More than 90 per cent offreight traffic can't go by rail • Over 90 per cent of freight journeys are less than 50 miles and...

• The first municipal driving centre opened by the London Borough of Harrow on Monday could be used for instructing drivers of...

by CM reporter • While the principle of out-of-town freight terminals was sound and the best answer to the problem of heavy...

• A versatile 3f-ton-gross vehicle with a payload of 2 tons and a series of interchangeable bodies, was exhibited for the first...

• The cost of implementing the Labour Party's programme for reorganizing transport services would be £420m — or £360m taking...

• A 3 miles to the inch road atlas of Great Britain just published by the AA will be of particular interest to traffic offices...

• The Young Liberals have been told by counsel that immobilizing vehicles which are overweight, overlength, emitting black...

• Orders totalling £70,000 have been placed with UMO Plant Ltd for the purchase of eight on-road models of 13elaz 25611...

• Speeding offences by goods vehicle drivers totalled 15,667 last year according to Home Office statistics published last...

so licence is curtailed vehicles suspended • Mr J. G. Ashmore, a Worcester wholesale fruit merchant and general haulier, had...

• Although a Worcestershire haulage company had stringent rules aimed at minimizing the risk of overloading, the firm knew that...

• At a public inquiry held in Plymouth last week the Western LA, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, pointed out that it was a sheer waste...

• Two men were killed in Sheffield last Sunday night when a footbridge over the partly completed Parkway dual carriageway...

• At a public sitting in Leeds on Tuesday, Mr R. S Thornton, the chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners. announced...

Geoffrey Steel, 38, marketing manager of the holiday and travel division of Wallace Arnold Tours, has been elected national...

• An appeal by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd has been allowed against the decision of the North Western Traffic Commissioners to...

• Mr Geoffrey Steel. installed on Monday as the national chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association, told the...

• Tynemouth Town Council has complained to the Northern General Transport Co Ltd about local bus services which have recently...

• United Automobile Services Ltd has apologized to Ryton (Durham) Urban Council for inadequate bus services in the area,...

• The annual report of Mr W. K. Haigh, general manager of Hull Corporation Transport, shows the undertaking has made a profit...

steadily , worse ' • Vandalism and hooliganism on Great Yarmouth buses was bad and getting steadily worse Mr D. Arnold,...

condemned • Mr Phil Jenkins, Glasgow official of the Transport and General Workers' Union, last week condemned "the stupid...

• The number of football fans using Merseyside park 'n' ride soccer bus services to Anfield and Goodison Park has more than...

• A commitment to a Rapid Transit system, for which Government grant approval has already been given, is the backbone of...

• London Transport is to introduce the bulk sale of tickets, linked to a "no change" policy, for 15 suburban flat-fare bus...

• Discussions are taking place between the Northern General Transport Co Ltd, Gateshead, and the.Transport and General Workers'...

• Some 130 of SELNEC PTE's Atlantean and Fleetline buses are now standing idle awaiting spare parts — many of them with gearbox...

• Tyneside PTE is making further efforts to obtain Government permission to pay a 10 per cent shift allowance to bus workers at...

• The forecast made in Merseyside Passenger , Transport Authority's annual report for 1971 that that year was an exceptionally...

• Plans for a city-circle bus service in Manchester to link the rail terrninii and some of the main shopping and business areas...

• Forty-eight competitors will be taking part on Sunday in the national finals of the UK Bus Driver of the Year competition....

D Rapid change-over facilities and secure 'astening are features of a new Tamplin )0TP demountable pick-a-back container,...

• The annual report of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, which will be presented to the members on October 19, shows...

• Cummins Engine Company Inc is to buy Holset Engineering, of Huddersfield, from Hanson Trust for film cash. Holset,...

• A working document standardizing leafspring dimensions, to be used to simplify both production and maintenance, has been...

• The Irish Livestock and Meat Board has compiled a register of hauliers with refrigerated transport who normally engage in the...

by John Darker • An automated car g o handlin g system known as Hydrauto, which has been under g oin g development trials in...

• A 32-ton-gcw tractive unit. the t), 16.232, will be the first German MAT , vehicle to be marketed in the UK throu g l the...

• A power-operated version of the 0331 /S manually actuated load simulator has been developed by the maker, CryptonTrian g le...

With over 450 firm bookings already received, the reservation list for seats at CM's 1973 Fleet Management Conference will...

by Ralph Cropper THE designation of special routes for lorries in towns has become a cardinal point of policy, both by central...

The Eastbourne conference of the Freight Transport Association last week was for the most part highly stimulating, and most of...

"IT WOULD be too much to hope that the recent grouping of government departments and the creation of transportation authorities...

and operational trial SINCE the maximum permitted gross weight of eight-wheelers was raised to 30 tons the demand for this...

RATP — is just going over to a new type of standard, interchangeable bus and Metro tickets with a magnetic insert for...

Tuning for economy Both diesel and petrol engines can benefit from special treatment EXCEPT in times of fuel shortage, tuning...

Martin Hayes drives the new Fiats destined for the UK, on Italian mountain, motorway and city routes AS a quantity producer,...

Road damage from tandem axles The note in CM September 7 and the reference to the AASHO tests took me back to the controversy...

MOST of the old-established amenity organizations, it may have been noticed, have cosy, insular names, like Civic Trust and...

Glyn Palmer Tramped LuL Cap: £2000. Dirt: G. F. W. Palmer. I Derby Rd, Hinckley, Leics. R. M. Barnes, 78 The Common. Barwell....

matters by John Darker AMB M Channel Tunnel what's in it for road hauliers? AS has been reasonably predictable for some time,...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE Drivers and roads (2) NEARLY ALL traffic offences concern the driving of a motor...

Q Would you clarify a point which has arisen in connection with the use of one of our vehicles for carrying thither baulks...

and are obtaining a 21-seater coach. This coach will be used for sightseeing outings and guests of the home will be charged Xp...

force. I am 69 and drive an eight-wheel International tipper. I drive this truck in Australia on a class III licence, which...

when the site contractors or quarry owners have not reinforced lipping and manoeuvring areas. In many overseas countries, where...

11 engine analyser announced by eslie Hartridge is claimed to implify operation. It is the HSA – Hartridge scopeless analyser...

:AV has announced an autoliative-type alternator with a uilt-in regulator which is known s the AC5R. It is designed for...

A Dana six-bolt power take-off is being marketed in the UK by Earby Light Engineers, Power Equipment Division, which is...

A rear-view mirror which can be rotated about its bracket to allow articulated vehicle drivers to see the trailer rear-end when...

Winni dock levellers distributed by Abbey Plant can be fitted to existing docks for - single position" operation, or be rail...

Fast and continuous solderless bare wire-strapping is claimed possible by Gardner-Denver with its 14TA1 pneumatically operated...

Self-storing air hose considered suitable for use with air tools and overhead installations, distributed by Affiliated...

From Tex Abrasives comes the Super Kelen range of pneumatic power descalers. The S-1000 S-500 and 5-250 models diffei in weight...

A tough "safety" torch from Chloride Bardic is made from reinforced high -density polythene, with polycarbonate lens and...