eight-hour d ay AN EIGHT-MONTH stay of execution on the dreaded eighthour driving day has been granted by the EEC Commission....

Due to an error in last week's issue, the fee for the 1976 Fleet Management Conferenc was shown as £21. This should have read...

ROADLINE UK Ltd has new managing director. He i Mr Arthur Smith, who is c rently the md of Midlan British Road Services Ltd....

le said at the RHA agriculid and livestock conference he weekend : "It's not good ugh to Stand back 'complatly without trying...

ARLY 10 per cent of the [Ids vehicles checked by the partMent of the Environment they landed in Britain at t Kent and Sussex...

danger man. CONFLICTING claims that heavy lorries are the safest and also the most dangerous form of road transport have been...

executives of the unions volved — Transport and •Ge ral Workers Union and United Road Transport Un. —meet late ne31t month....

ART-TIME coach drivers will I the future have to furnish ill details of their periods of tnployment and obtain the gnature of...

A dilemma facing most manufacturing industries is whether or not to own and operate their own transport fleet. There are many...

SOME farmers are breaking the law, it was said at the weekend. They are using goods vehicles for purposes other than carrying...

PLANS to increase overnight lorry parking charges to a maximum of £10 a night have been announced by the Lothian Regional...

A NEW subsidiary company has been formed by British Leyland to market its range of commercial vehicles in the Republic of...

BRISTOL CITY soccer stars Paul Cheesley and Trevor Tainton helped kick off the new BRS Truck Rental depot at Avonmouth, near...

YORK TRAILER has won its battle with Edbro for control of the Co Durham based tipping gear and body company Anthony Carrimore...

York has acceptances totalling 52.78 per cent of Carrimore's, where Hugh Fraser MP is chairman. The formal offer document...

PROBLEMS over the maintenance of vehicles operated by Armstrong Removals Ltd, Pinxton, Nottinghamshire, would be solved in the...

BRITAIN'S road freight industry is unlikely to be badly hit by new Common Market Legislation. That was the conclusion of Frank...

KELLOGGS, have recently linked a third British Road Services warehouse to their centralised stock control and distribution...

Norwich THERE were joint winners a the CMLDoY heat held in Nor. wich. The two drivers, Shaur. Beeching and Harry Cursor both...

A BRADFORD owner driver who was recently fined £400 for offences relating to his using his father's operators licence was...

NEW DRINK-DRIVE rules proposed by the Blennerhassett Report should be made more lenient for truck drivers who stand to lose...

SAFER trucks and more efficient operation were the two main benefits claimed for users of the Freight Transport Association's...

Waste report A REPORT published by the National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors has criticised the Government for...

A JOINT application by United Automobile Services Ltd, Darlington, and two independents, O.K. Motor Services Ltd, and F. Lockey...

THE LACK of any requirement for psv drivers to keep records of their hours worked has been criticised by Mr R. S. Thornton, the...

HENRY TAYLOR is the new manager of the Pickfords depot at Bexhill-on-Sea. 37-year-old Mr Taylor has been with Pickfords since...

On the passenger front, Peter Shipp is the Northern General's new assistant traffic manager. He is moving from Sputhdown Motor...

NEW LEYLAND National Buses produced at Workington are not now being individually examined by the Department of the Environment...

NEW multi-axle coach to entually replace the Leyland opard is being planned. But a British Leyland okesman said that their...

TIRTUALLY no action to enOrce psv regulations was ,aken last year by the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners. n particular...

A PROTOTYPE for a new coach chassis, the first by Chrysler aimed at the British psv market, is at present being evaluated. It...

A STRICT annual cash ceiling is expected to be announced soon for future payments of the new bus grant by the Department of the...

CONCERN has been expressed by the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners that details of a driver's past convictions may not be...

EATON'S SNAPPER gearbox will be introduced in Europe on August 1, and according to an Eaton spokesman last week all but one of...

AN IMPRESSIVE display of trucks and trailers which included the first public appearance of the new PB 80 from Crane Fruehauf...

MACK TRUCKS has developed a 6 x 4 heavy-duty tractor unit with set-back front axle to suit European requirements. The axle is...

comparative testing by Stephen Gray, photographs by Dick Ross FLURRY of activity by manucturers keen to produce a 5-tonne...

On the motorway sections of le test, the Fiat's five-speed ?,arbox came into its own. .ere the van returned 16.75 tre/100km...

Using a drawbar outfit with swop bodies, a Leeds manufacturer of putty and sealants has eliminated the need to establish a...

THE non-event of Juneindeed it might even qualify for supreme champion of 1976 must surely be the DoE's reciprocity deal with...

WHILE the DoE boys were freezing up in Finland in the interests of ungrateful operators, the operators themselves were sweating...

HE'S back, yes the editor returned from bicentennial crazy USA on Monday apparently unaffected by jet-lag—or was that because...

ONE American who has certainly disappeared from the scene is Jim Haifa, ex boss of the Teamsters' union who disappeared...

BUT now to another type of union. What about the news last week that the European railway services will be merged by 1980 and...

MY list (June 25) of former CM men now doing press and PR work in the industry omitted at least one from an earlier era: Andrew...

ROLLS-Royce Motors have taken a stake in L. Gardner, the diesel engine manufacturer. Now, I'm told that Gardner hates...

ONLY the British could keep their savoir faire the way the BRS did last weekend. A buffet dance at Pinewood studios fell...

by John Darke IN RECENT years many road haulage companies have established useful side-lines in warehousing. A warehousing...

Graham Montgomerie DENNIS ONE six-wheeler chassis is marketed by Dennis Motors Ltd, a 6x4 known as the Delta HI on a 3.81m...

By thoughtful use of its grocery distribution fleet, the South Suburban Co-operative Society Ltd is ensuring that the maximum...

use of tachographs in EEC countries. I am told that even if my drivers use the instrument on the Continent they might be...

1973 deals with audible warning instruments. In this Regulation break-down vehicles are not among those which may be fitted...

to carry the appropriate permit even while travelling between depot and port in the UK? We have a tramping permit which our...

and sirens. Under what conditions can I legally use these on my heavy recovery vehicle. A The fitting of distinctive lamps on...

• t • • t • m wn mg by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE IN recent years there has been a spate of legislation...

MUCH effort has gone into calculating the growth in road transport over the next five or 10 years or even longer. The reasons...

Dateline SATURDAY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS by bin Sherriff TRUCK Week '76 here in McCormick Place is different, It is not as large as...

THE French are noted for getting round the Law, but they are also clever at keeping up with the new ones. And they proved the...

OVER the past few years, the complexity of cooling systems has increased, as has the amount of heat to be dissipated —...

'HIS year's agricultural and livestock hauliers' conference at froitwich was a shirtsleeves affair with fewer vehicles in the...

LIVESTOCK transport from the point of view of the quality of meat was the subject of the conference paper given by Mr Archie...

Rate-cutting on an almost unprecedented scale has been affecting haulage over the past year with very low rates and more...

by Johnny Johnson The removals industry has more than its share of family firms but that is not to say that the business...

by Bill Godwin Variable wheelbase for floor-loading 7.5 tonner he German Ruthmann groundwel loading 7.5 ton load carrier,...

TRAINING has long been part of the services offered by the Freight Transport Association but the establishment of a new...

show civil promise by Bill Godwin EXHIBITS by commercial vehicle, trailer and bodybuilders at last week's Army Equipment show...

ENGINEERING methods already used in some units make the new Stonefield 4 x 4 (CM June 25) unique from other cross country...

A 4540kg (10,0001b) ratchet tensioner has been added to the Ancr,a range of loadrestraint equipment. The new tensioner has been...

freeze check An indicator for checking the strength of either methanol or ethylene glycol based anti-freezes is announced by...

Two models have been added to the range of Vestin power washers from Modern Devices. The CWE 2000 is a cold water unit and in...

A tyre paste applicator for applying the paste used for lubricating tyres before fitting is available from Stenor. A short...