much was read into reports of Fred MuIley's pathy with trade associations and unions y 1 1976 is still the date for the...

''reight Transport ion and the Road Association are pposing a provision Greater London (General P owers) th they fear will...

ALL BUS service in the London area came to a halt for 24 hours on Wednesday this week as crews went on strike in protest at the...

hits Scotland by CM reporter EDINBURGH Council is being urged to sell its bus fleet — the largest municipally operated one in...

AN IDENTIFICATION system for lorry drivers entering Liverpool docks — possibly similar to the controversial system in force in...

The Road Transport Industry Training Board is to be asked to sanction emergency grants to driver training centres to avoid...

The emergency vehicle-offthe-road system instituted a year ago for Volvo Commercial Vehicles by the UK concessionaires Ailsa...

EK-OLD "parity" by own-account in Liverpool was NI to be resolved this .hrough management , er negotiations. ut 30 drivers —...

SIX-WHEEL Bedford equipped with Telecissor lift gear are to 3lied to the European of British Airways. iicles will be used for...

COMMISSIONING THE CASH The whole concept of preserving rural bus services — long an article of faith for successive...

THE USE of forged international road haulage permits had reached the level of an international scandal, MPs were told last week...

DIFFICULTY is being experienced in securing vehicles and loads when transported by Sealink roll/on-roll/off services. The...

THE FIRST roll/on-roll/off vehicle ferry from the mainland of Scotland to Orkney beqan on Wednesday. A new vessel, the St Ola,...

THE Industrialite Division of British Uralie is being reformed as a limited liability company and will be known as...

The pros and cons of transhipment depots are to be discussed at a conference arranged by Guardian Business Services Ltd at the...

THE Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 which becomes law on April 1, among other things requires employers to provide safety...

Midlands terminal opened by MAT Ltd at Hednesford,. ere direct groupage !ci Austria, Belgium, Italy, Germany, nd Switzerland...

transport company tco-Pickfords Inter3.A has been formed ords International ) France, SA, and by transport sector of the French...

THE FIRST of three freightonly roll/on-roll/off ferries has been launched by Townsend Thoresen. Called the European Express....

SEALINK is to convert its passenger ship Avalon to . a drive-on / drive-off vehicle ferry at a cost of over £1 million. The...

TVVO special vehicle companies in the Hestair Group have received big orders from the Middle East. Eagle Engineering of Warwick...

A NEW SYSTEM on annual hgv tests is being phased in over the next three months, the DoE hopes to have it fully operational by...

LOCAL AUTHORITY staffs involved with planning applications have been reminded of practical problems in giving approval for...

GENERAL and E information on land, air transport — ir details of lorry pre schemes at major UK is contained in th monthly...

3TRIKE by around rivers in Glasgow g parity with haulage iv rates (CM January s entered its third ind on Monday 162 drivers...

VEHICLES carrying dangerous goods to overseas destinations can carry orange reflector plates from February 12 when the Motor...

1.00MY picture for Leyland in 1975 is in the Corpora annual report for just published. Profits taxation were £2.3m iared with...

EEC member countries need no longer make frontier checks on third-party insurance liability (the green card) for vehicles...

OVERALL profits of Hay's Wharf Ltd, for the quarter ended December 31, 1974, were 32 per cent above those of the same period in...

THE Braid Group Ltd tax-paid profit for the year ended September 30, 1974 fell to 080,049 from £298,874 in the previous year....

THE West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and the National Bus Company are negotiating to jointly form a management...

THE FIRST examination under the Royal Society of Arts new Certificate in Road Passenger Transport will be held in May this...

FROM this Sunday the fourmonth ban on operating latenight local bus services in the Llandudno Junction area will be lifted by...

AT ANY TI ME over the past six months the National Bus Company has had between 250 and 300 vehicles out of service which had...

Bournemouth BOURNEMOUTH has been chosen as the venue for the 1975 annual conference of the Association of Public Passenger...

CENTRAL Government was spending over f 8 m on subsidies to public transport in Wales in the current financial year, and this...

for Venezuel THE largest export orc for Leyland National: signed last week wit Federal District of Cara Venezuela. Worth mon...

NDEE firm, Coaches, was last ited a licence by the 7.ommissioners to xpress services be- broath, Carnousfonifieth to Timex in...

is said to be the first case of its kind, the Northern 7ommissioners, acting under Regulation 46 of the ;ervice Vehicles...

of a "substantial in costs' London us Services Ltd is o the Traffic Corn; to increase bus average of 30 per A spokesman said:...

Ala hearing before the North Western Traffic Commissioners in Manchester on Friday the Greater Manchester PTE was granted an...

THE Northern Traffic Commissioners, whose proposal to establish a stop for northbound buses, either on the new A19 road in...

FARES increases worth £136,000 in a full year have been granted to Barton Transport Ltd by the East Midland Traffic...

Company, has been reappointed a full-time member of the board of the Scottish Transport Group. Reappointed part-time members...

E,RATOR who got ;erheads" with a :xaminer and dis; report following a ince investigation, six months to put right by the I...

THE OBLIGATION of a lorry driver to keep records for a journey in excess of 25 miles did not commence until he was outside the...

MONDAY Feb 3. CIT (Sheffield) "Current transport problems in the EEC" by N. S. Despicht. Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield,...

- E has re-examined ibution methods, and :ided that 11m (36ft) iiler units with four doors on each side e the most economic ;...

LACING the single of a Foden rigidwith -sprung bogie South haulier, Beavis t, of Dany-Craig sca, Mon, has been ncrease payload...

NEW REGISTRATION of goods vehicles fell to 15,176 during December in the United Kingdom in 1974 (December 1973: 17,093); and...

Time is of the essence for new overn consolidation and distribution opera by Martin Hayes An assortment of containers and...

You have more Freightmasters to choose from now that the GRP series supplements the aluminium Freightmaster range. There are...

m Hoare res by Harry Roberts • WE first tested an example he range of Fold Transits in ber 1965, one month after its ction, we...

by Trevor Longcroft Pictures by Dick Ross THE COMMER COMMANDO range was introduced almost a year ago, and after initial...

by Graham Montgomerie AS ANNOUNCED in CM last week, a new Ford Escort van is now available with several differences in...

Nothing gimmicky about sound deadened steel SDS could well be suitable for making engine cylinder blo( SDS is short for...

FURTHER EVIDENCE of the extent to which hauliers have infiltrated the anti-juggernaut lobby was given in Commercial Motor two...

Strange to say, it is important in road transport terms which way water swirls down the plug holes in Australia. Because, so...

The winner of the CM prize in-the latest Royal Society of Arts road transport exams, Malcolm Dodd, of Shipdam, Norfolk, has had...

It's an ill wind . . A couple of days after the cancellation of the Channel tunnel project was announced by the British...

A man with a name you're not likely to forget is David Brown, general manager of Harold Wood and Sons, of Heckmondwike, for the...

by Norman Riley Among the thousands of commercial vehicle drivers in this country there are between 40 and 50 specialists...

WHILE we hauliers have been experiencing a frustrating two years regarding the availability of newvehicles and the supply of...

We read so much today of our motor industry's troubles and the virtues of foreign vehicles so it is not surprising that London...

Janus has peculiar ideas about the environment. In his comments on my letter (CM January 17) he seems to say that street...

Once again I see the envirc ists having a go at the poor with Mr Cantell of the C writing about the "pervasive public disquiet...

Surely in announcing the ment of the Channel Tunne retary of State for the Enviroi only presented one half of tion. Now he must...

large "J" followed by a number. Could .vou say for what these are ntended? These are experimental markings and denote the...

the North of England and it to my depot in Kent. The destined for France, and a triver will take it there after 1 another...

wage which can he paid to a heavy goods vehicle driver and what is the minimum subsistence for nights out? A Road Haulage...

unladen and which is used mainly on site work. From time to time it has to use the public roads, hut because its mileage is...

IN shop stewards? A labour relations director in the bus industry and a senior adviser give their views by John Darker AMBI A...

by Les Oldridge TEng (CEI) MIMI, AMIRTE GOODS VEHICLES must be able to load and unload unhindered, and, ideally, every business...