The traffic in forged French transit permits revealed this week, and the possibility that this is only the tip of a sizeable...

Prosecutions soon against owners and drivers • As a result of a special eight-day check on the documents of goods vehicles...

Transport Inns to build six motels by 19 74 • A national network of motels for lorry drivers is planned by a new company,...

• Transport Development Group Ltd has acquired the entire issued share capital of Reliance Motors (Sale) Ltd of Elm Grove,...

• About 100,000 to 150.000 pre-1968 goods vehicles are likely to be affected by the requirements for higher braking standards...

• The Secretary of State for the Environment, on Monday circulated for comment draft Regulations for the imposition shortly of...

• On the eve of the vote for the Common Market Mr John Peyton, the Minister for Transport Industries, faced MPs anxious about...

• "Our advice to our members in the BRS sections is that they should insist through their local joint committees that there...

dustcart testing • At a meeting of the Association of Municipal Transport Officers last Friday, Col H. V. N. Smith. of the...

• A three-year contract for the distribution of domestic vehicles throughout Great Britain has been awarded by Chrysler United...

• "From where we are now sitting, it is 298 miles to Carlisle and only 262 miles to Paris — 531 miles to Inverness and only 520...

• A New Zealand truck dealer, Ray Vincent Ltd, of Penrose, Auckland, is offering twin-steer Seddons based on the Pennine 4...

• The availability of fully equipped commercial-vehicle workshops at the new premises of Bristol Street Motors (Derby) Ltd,...

M. W. Kendall, a member of the executive board of Joseph Lucas Ltd, has been appointed as vice-chairman — commercial. He will...

• "Elastic weighing machines" owned by traders in large conurbations were blamed for loss of revenue on Monday when Mr Derek...

• Tait (Tipper Sales) Ltd has opened this week a new depot at Darlington providing Volvo truck sales, service and spares...

• Plans for roads costing between f5DOm and £600m will be given the go-ahead early next year, Mr Graham Page, Minister of Local...

• Fares on the R8 service of Crosville Motor Services Ltd (Pwllheli-Nefyn–Ltangwnnadl) are to be reduced by 33.3 per cent...

• After concentrating on the production of single-deck MBand SM-type bodies on AEC chassis for London Transport — and not...

• Following the publication of "Age concern on transport" (CM July 23) and subsequent discussions, the governing body of the...

• Two Scottish new towns are agitating for improved public transport — Glenrothes in Fife and Cumbernauld New Town. The former...

• Glasgow Corporation is to give a subsidy of £800,000 in the coming year against £350,000 in the current year—described by the...

• Complaints that buses operating between Hexham and Corbridge, subsidized by local rates, were sometimes full and could not...

• The 45-seat school bus illustrated on page 22 of CM last week was inadvertently stated to have been built to Superior...

• The general purposes sub-committee of Cumberland county council considers that the use of minibuses and postal buses is not a...

• An application for a new minibus stage carriage service between the Newcastle and Pitteuchar areas of Glenrothes new town was...

• Immediately after an application for a psv licence to cover several vehicles had been refused by the West Midland Traffic...

• A Rochdale lorry driver was fined £40. with £19.90 costs, after pleading guilty to a charge of making a false statement in...

• Two small, independent coach operators who took over services which were axed by the North Western Road Car Co Ltd because of...

• Charges of overloading against five Co Durham hauliers, which had been adjourned since September 13 by Bishop Auckland...

• The 0-licence renewal application by W. A. Glendinning Ltd, of Consett, was granted in the Northern area on Tuesday when Mr...

Haulage in Common Market : . Industrial Relations : Environment : Marketing topical issues paramount at Brighton PICTURES BY...

view by the Hawk • Survival Transport education is great, especially when it doesn't try to teach grandmother to suck eggs,...

• The last place one would expect to find a petite blonde is in the man's world of road haulage. But since 1958 May Tofts has...

by Gibb Grace, DAuE, CEng, MIMechE WHEN we announced the intention of Ryder Truck Rental, of Miami, Florida, to enter the van...

by John Darker, AMBIM ANOTHER REPORT FROM BRUSSELS MOST of the well-known trade union leaders in Britain are against entry to...

bigger fleets DOES the large firm have an economic advantage over the small firm in road haulage? In some industries, there...

workshop by Handyman Benchwise: cool it (25) IT IS worth while looking a little further into the business of anti-freezing...

All home-market copies of this week's issue of Commercial Motor contain a free copy of the new edition of our 24-Hour and...

The November 5 issue of Commercial Motor will be a big one, combining a full-size normal issue with a special Ford Operators'...

Citil's November 12 issue will be the big Scottish Show Number, with features on road transport north of the border and a...

EVEN for the operator of a relatively small fleet of commercial vehicles it is more than likely that he can provide alternative...

DURING the great Common Market debate not much has been heard about the Channel Tunnel. The subject is relevant, even if...

your tax by R. H. Grimsley BCom, FIAC 12. What is an in building? THE director or manager with responsibility for a fleet of...

have failed to resolve several questions and would be grateful for the answers, 1. Is it possible to take out an hgv driving...

remoulded tyres on the front axle of an artic. habitually used on motorways? The tyres would be of correct size, ie 900 x 20...

on contract to an Electricity Board, and! work a 10-hour day, Monday to Friday, plus six hours on Saturday. Occasionally I am...

matters By John Darker AM B M Industrial Relations Act the transport background THE Industrial Relations Act which received...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI 'Moonlighting' MANY WORKMEN take on a spare-time job to supplement their earnings from their...

by David Lowe, MInsTA, AMBIM Training for specialist functions furniture removing TRAINING for operatives and management in...

For the next seven days commencing October 29 to November 4. MONDAY TMC (E. Lanes) meeting. Ye Horns Inn, Goosnargh, nr...

Adler Freight Services Ltd. Cap: £100. Dirs: J. R. Bridger, 129 West Ella Road, Kirk Ella, Yorks; P. Boyes, 35 All Hallows...

A weather-resisting product — centigard chassis X — has been developed by Walkers (Century Oils) Ltd which, it is claimed,...

by Gibb Grace Any type of servicing tool enabling an unskilled fitter to give a quick, accurate fault diagnosis must reduce...

A pencil-type tyre pressure gauge -the S-type — from Schrader has a straight push-on foot for easy alignment with the tyre...