British Leyland's Marathon trucks announced today are the most significant for many years: these are the vehicles with which...

We're going ahead with anti-lorry action, Peter Hain tells CM • The Young Liberals have recruited the services of a retired...

by CM's legal correspondent If the militant Young Liberals were to go ahead with their recent threat to let down tyres of...

British Leyland's Marathon range, for gross combination weights from 32 to 44 tonnes, makes its debut today; a 6x4 tractive...

• In a surprise move, the Renwick Group. of Paignton, Devon, has acquired for £1 fm the 550-vehicle, 1000-trailer Wm Nuttall...

• York Trailer Co reported on Wednesday that campaign material ordered for Operation Snowball totalled (with last week's totals...

• A new refuse collection vehicle, the RouteKing, is being introduced for chassis up to 16 tons gvw by Powell Duffryn...

• New services from Aberdeen to four main English centres — to be introduced from September 10 — are aimed at attracting more...

• Drivers should know the weight of their lorry and its contents. This was the recommendation of the jury when they returned a...

• Richardsons of Oldbury has been appointed main distributor by British Leyland, to handle from October 1 sales of AEC and...

ADVOCATES NEW NETWORK OF EXCLUSIVE LORRY MOTORWAYS • At Southampton docks last week there was a public demonstration of the...

by Jahn Darker • Differences between Mr Jackson Moore, general secretary of United Road Transport Workers, and Mr John...

• A symposium is being sponsored by the Association of Optical Practitioners to discuss road safety. Besides discussing natural...

• The RAC has this week started a campaign to prevent the Greater London Council permanently closing the Albert Bridge, used by...

• ICS Trailer Ltd, a trailer rental company, will be operational from next month and will trade from Norway Yard, Redriff Road,...

• W. H. Malcolm Ltd and associated companies have been given planning permission to build a depot and maintenance centre for...

• To help meet transport training needs following the reorganization of local government, the Freight Transport Association has...

• An inquiry is to be carried out by West Riding County Council's bridge engineer, Mr J. Milburn, to see how a 5-ton capacity...

• Three new road transport books published by Ian Allan Ltd, Terminal House, Shepperton, Middlesex, lean heavily on nostalgia...

• The Secretary of State for Wales, Mr Peter Thomas, has made a 75 per cent grant to Carmarthenshire County Council towards the...

• The 1973 annual report of Howard Tenens Services Ltd which will be presented by the chairman, Mr E. C. Morris, at the...

• This week sees the introduction of a weekly Travelcard by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive. It allows...

to be included in the first areas to be studied in preparation for London's limited-stop Speedbus routes was made last week....

• Increases in some Dundee municipal bus fares were approved by the Traffic Commissioners last week, From Sept. 1, the existing...

• Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union at Alloa bus depot have been given four months' grace to clear up...

by Martin Hayes • Leyland Nationals account for almost a third of the National Bus Company's new vehicle orders for 1974....

• What appears to be an upsurge in the number of violent attacks against busmen is causing concern this week within the...

• The current start-of-season spate of football hooliganism, which is costing British Rail so dear, seems to be having little...

• Thousands of drivers and conductors have been left out of a 10 per cent rise in shift allowance because of delays in signing...

• A plea to bus operators and manufacturers to help handicapped and disabled travellers is contained in a circular issued this...

• An against-the-flow bus lane costing £33,000 in Station Road, Harrow, has been approved by the Greater London Council's west...

• An alleged lack of maintenance of its trailers was the chief cause of complaint against Hudsons Transport Ltd, Great...

• At a public inquiry in Birmingham last week, a Warwickshire haulage company had its licence curtailed by one vehicle for...

by 81 vehicles, and had 20 tractive units suspended for three months, when the company appeared before the South Wales...

• Formation of the Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport appears to be making slow progress. Mr W. Hewings, acting...

Scarcity of labour and soaring costs are hampering fleet engineers and workshop supervisors in their efforts to meet the...

• A 25-year-old Midlands tipper driver who deliberately caused damage amounting to £22,500 to vehicles and plant machinery at a...

• Royton, Lancs, magistrates were told that because a local Liberal councillor wanted to keep heavy goods vehicles out of the...

Duple Coachbuilders Ltd. Mr Schofield will be responsible for fleet sales to the National Bus Company, the Passenger Transport...

• First exhibited at the National Truck and Tanker Convention in Washington in May this year, a new range of Drum...

• The Hydrocarbon Solvents Association is the name of a new trade association which has been formed by suppliers and producers;...

• British Leyland's Austin Morris division has restructured its engineering operations into four clearly defined engineering...

• Pirelli Ltd is to open a foreman/fitter training centre at its Carlisle factory in September. It will be the only training...

To say of Sir Harry Ricardo that he is the most famous research engineer of all time would be disputed by few technicians in...

British Leyland's new heavy with good power and payload by Gibb Grace A LEADING ENGINEER from a big Continental truck...

for clean power by Paul Brockington THE standard engine for Marathon — the TL 12 has been developed by AEC and will be built...

by Gibb Grace AN impressive range of trucks — that's my verdict on Leyland's new heavies after driving several of them on the...

The big build-up begins for next week's 20th Lorry Driver of the Year finals EVERY DAY next week vehicles will be making their...

by George Wilmot SEPTEMBER brings with it loads of details about the next session of courses in a variety of subjects in a...

by Johnny Johnson A group training association in Essex has shown the way to solve the problem of the driver who leaves the...

in a classic attic operation dropping the trailers at consignees' premises for unloading and calling back for the empty...

of domestic fiiel oil and on Saturday mornings we sign on at 7.30 am, make about 10 c.o.d. deliveries and get back to the yard...

A Overall lengths of vehicles are governed by the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1973, Section 9(1) states...

1 assume that as I anticipate earning over £5000, that I must register. But do I have to charge 10 per cent on top of the...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Evaluating transport policies Since local councils must review traffic problems for submission...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE Trailers (6) SIDE MARKER LAMPS and front corner marker lamps that are required to...

Jean Haslam • There was nothing very unusual about Mrs Jean Haslam's entry into road transport. Like so many she started with...

La Donna è mobile BY TRADITION August is the time-off month, the silly season when news is scarce and readers have to make do...

A die grinder, a 51n. portable angle grinder and a range of hose reel balancers for use with air tools have been announced by...

k striking wallchart which ex!lains and instructs on: the beaviour of inflammable liquids, he type of ventilation they squire,...

le Marcroft vehicle lift-ramp specifically designed for outor installation. It has a load capacity of 10 tons and its...

Imperial-Eastman has introduced a powered version of the Spirastrip hydraulic hose-skiving machine. The Powerstrip uses an...

The Welsh Office Atlas contains a general reference map, with details of populations, communications and boundaries; a map of...

Borg-Warner has introduced a fleet service for UK operators running vehicles fitted with B-W transmissions. A technical...

by Trevor Longcroft Whatever other repairs tempt you to take short cuts, though I advise you never to be tempted, never rush...