The Transport and General Workers' Union has lost little time in carrying out its stated intention of pressing on with claims...

. . AND HUNDREDS TURN IN THEIR HGV LICENCES AS PROTEST AT £2.50 BONUS CLAIM REJECTION by John Darker • Hundreds of British...

• Another British success in the distribution of key EEC Commission posts is the appointment — announced in Brussels on Friday...

I A 10-acre warehousing and distribution entre is to be built at a cost of Lim on land .cquired by J. Canning Transport Ltd at...

The problem, the advice, the cure • MPs are increasing the pressure on the Government to take further measures to improve the...

• The three-year transitional period for the hgv driver licensing scheme ended yesterday, February 1. From now on anyone...

• A strong protest is being made by a former Transport Minister, Mr Fred Mulley, Labour MP for Sheffield, Park, against what he...

• Dutch participation in French road transport will result from the acquisition by Pakhoed Holding NV, through its subsidiary...

• A one-day seminar on Flexible Working Hours has been arranged by the Management Studies Centre at the Cafe Royal, Regent...

• The British Transport Docks Board's sixth ferry terminal at Hull came into operation on January 23 when the motor vessel...

• The Freight Transport Association issued this week an appraisal on its condemnation of the Heavy Commercial Vehicle (Control...

from a South African correspondent • Iran's biggest motor vehicle assembly company, Iran National, plans to establish an...

• Heavier penalties for the overloading of goods vehicles are being sought by Mr Maxwell-Hyslop, Tory MP for Tiverton. In a...

• It was learned this week that the Anglo-French bilateral haulage quota has been increased by 2300. Both the industry and the...

• In many cases reflectors carried by foreign lorries, in accordance with their own national regulations, were derisory in size...

• The first 18 companies have registered under the scheme sponsored by the Road Haulage Association for the training of school...

• Guidance on existing and proposed EEC transport legislation is a new feature in the latest edition of the Freight Transport...

11 It was disappointing that Mr Harold Vilson should apparently be trying to bring he transport industry once again into the...

Mr Graham Tope, the Liberal victor Sutton and Cheam, has been appointed irty spokesman on transport and the vironment in the...

Three of the FTA's divisional offices ve moved to new addresses. These are: st Midland: 1 Pelham Avenue, ittingham, NG5 IAN...

• The myth that rail transport could take the place of road as the prime distributor of freight in the UK should be killed once...

• Bullens Group, the Giltspur Investments subsidiary, has acquired American Overseas Shipping, a company which specializes in...

• The Institute of Road Transport Engineers reports that during the past 12 months its membership has increased from 6758 to...

• Members of the caravan hauliers' group of the Road Haulage Association have reported a growing demand for delivery of...

• A freightliner terminal is to be built at the site of the former West Station, Dundee, at a cost of £250,000. It will be for...

I Proof that an express bus service is nore efficient than an urban railway system s provided by an article in the current ssue...

• A careers officer has blamed high bus 'ares for the number of school leavers on be dole. Mr F. Rogers, area careers officer...

• National Travel (NBC) Ltd has announced that it is making major improvements to London's Victoria coach station. The project...

• An important £2.4m order for British Leyland vehicles has been placed by Great Universal Stores Ltd through its subsidiary...

• A licence has been granted on appeal to Slatter's Coaches, Long Hanborough, Oxfordshire, to operate an express service...

• Two companies were called before the South Eastern deputy LA, Mr G. Mercer, in Southampton last week under Section 69,...

• After residents living in the Bolton Woods area of Bradford complained that tipper lorries operating out of a nearby quarry...

• The application of Alex Wales and Sons of East Kilbride for a new express service licence between Hamilton and East Kilbride...

• Driving along Vicar Lane, Bradford, in October. 1972, Mr Brian Hartford, a DoE traffic examiner, saw a bale of wool fall from...

• The licence for one coach belonging to Mr A. C. Hepburn has been revoked by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners and an...

• From January 1 to 12 a total of 39 foreign vehicles were found to be overloaded and were forced to off-load, said Mr Peyton...

• A haulage firm director pleaded guilty to 112 offences involving records and unauthorized use offences at Croydon...

• Prosecutions arising out of the carriage of football fans to the Leeds United football ground at Elland Rd, led to Wallace...

• Two Birmingham hauliers, both licensed to operate one vehicle each, had their licences completely revoked in Birmingham on...

Richard Turner, 28, has been appointed highways and traffic adviser to the Freight Transport Association, and will...

II A frameless, gravity-discharge bulk :emi-trailer has been produced by Charrold _td, Huntingdon, and has been supplied to...

• Scania-Vabis (Great Britain) Ltd has changed its name to Scania (Great Britain) Ltd. This follows the completion of the legal...

• The white and yellow reflex — reflecting registration number plates which have been compulsory on almost all motor vehicles...

"itandards • Mr John Peyton is considering ways of strengthening the law on emission of excessive smoke and the introduction...

• A limited company had been formed by an independent consortium of more than 50 privately owned firms in the radiator repair...

• A 24-hour service for the dispatch of bearings and pistons by means of a semiautomated mechanical handling warehouse system...

• A power-pack with front-wheel-drive and independent suspension all round is a feature of a prototype ambulance that was...

• Argyle Motor Manufacturing Co, Glasgow, the independent Scottish truck builder, has stopped the production of the 16-ton gvw...

• From July 1 the fitting and use of non-metallic fuel tanks will be permitted for vehicles other than motorcycles. Announcing...

• Two new warehouses, at Liverpool and Bristol, have been added to the chain ol depots operated by Davies Turner and Cc Ltd,...

• To serve the heavily industrialized area east of London, Rentco Nationwide Ltd hau opened a depot at Globe Works, Rectory...

• With the prospect that UK drivers will require an hgv licence, probably after November of this year, if the gvw of a vehicle...

• Under an agreement signed recently Redman Fisher Engineering (one of the Redman Heenan International group of companies)...

• A new range of heavy-duty off-highway planetary gears is being built by Centrax Gears Ltd, of Newton Abbot, Devon, and is...

• Hertz truck rental division has brought its purchases of Volkswagens up to £1,644,972 since January 1970 with an order for 25...

• To be used as•'a general control centre for Securicor Ltd's cash and carry vehicles, security delivery vehicles and patrol...

• An order worth over £140,000 has been won by Dennis Brothers Ltd, of Guildford, to supply Birmingham Corporation with a...

3y G. Cannon, chief engineer, tank division, Crane Fruehauf — AA.5454 which combines high nechanical properties with good...

by John Darker WHEN a single element is predominant in a manufacturing or distribution activity it makes good sense to...

WHY IS "Community" transport policy different, as was suggested in last week's article, from either "international" transport...

Bulk wine transporters find traffic is increasing as we consume more of the produce of Europe by lain Sherriff BISHOP'S...

by Paul Brockington IS A RELATIVELY high loading height the most common practical disadvantage of the pressuredischarge animal...

Three choices WHAT Mr Harold Wilson had to say about transport the other weekend has to be considered in the context of his...

y Paul Brockington he grinding paste , uality of flyash is ist one of George Vebb's major roblems in operating 5 rigid...

4200ga1 tanker by Gibb Grace NOT SO long ago a 4000-gallon tanker was regarded as a big vehicle. A tank of this size would...

A survey of suspensions for bulk vehicles by Trevor Longcroft AN IMPORTANT part of any bulk vehicle is its suspension. An...

iveryone's jumping on to the anti-porn lean-up-Britain band wagon, but my articular vote for an urgent clean up just ow would...

by Gordon Crabtree THP HOME OFFICE has long recognized the need for advice to be readily available to emergency services...

workshop by Handyman Details that save down-time (7) Watch out for silencer trouble caused by idling in winter queues: hard...

The other side of the repairs story We ofttimes read in your columns letters from :ransport operators complaining about poor...

Ted Deakin • When I asked a Yorkshireman in Bradford the way to the City Transport offices, he not only insisted on taking me...

A NEW APPLICANT for an operator's licence who has submitted his application and been subjected to a subsequent inspection might...

it comes to the new law that states the minimum bhp per ton that's required. As I am thinking of buying a new truck with a...

1972 and am one of two drivers taking fortnightly turns of nights and days. The work is no different on either of the turns....

service vehicle which is not carrying passengers, ie when it is being driven between depots? Does the driver require a psv or...

Act allegini that he had 104 milligrammes of akoho in 100 millilitres of blood. He had bee followed by a police officer in a...

matters by John Darker, AM BIM Staff incentive schemes NEARLY ALL transport employers are concerned from time to time with...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Drivers' hours of work (4) LAST WEEK I discussed the relaxation of the law concerning drivers'...

learning by Johnny Johnson The cost and content of Pitman courses CONDEMNED to plough a lonely furrow by the lack of...

in industrial heater — the Hot ox — for warming large, wkward areas, introduced by tladdin, is oil-fired and runs on omestic...

by Trevor Lon gcroft One of this company's products, Permacel P12 aluminium tape, which is adhesive, can be used to patch up...

"Six acres — that's just big enough to forms the truck park for the service departgive you complete truck care" — That was ment...

Guests were shown the new 16,000 square feet truck workshops (believed to be the largest covered workshop at any Ford Truck...