'Sensitive' dockers cause problems for hauliers by CM reporter A TOUGH line being adopted by dockers at Southampton has...

MINISTER for Transport, Fred Mulley is to learn at first hand from Mr Ken Jackson, commercial services secretary, TGWU, of the...

AN eight-acre site at Beckton, in East London's dockland, has been chosen for the capital's first strategic lorry park. The...

DRIVERS of Road Haulage Association members are being asked to co-operate with the Department of the Environment in assessing...

A PLEA for better signing of the services available on trunk roads has been lodged by the Road Haulage Association. rt says...

Turkey • TURKISH TRANSIT problems experienced by hauliers on their Middle East traffic, are being overcome in part by a new...

JOHN VICTOR SKINNER, 50, of Plymouth Drive, Sevenoaks, Kent, was given a nine-month suspended sentence at the Old Bailey on...

CALL to all members of the oad Haulage Association to rgently review their rates is ade this week by RHA chairian Mr K. A....

XEMPTION from the examinaons of the Chartered Institute of ransport leading to full memberlip after three yeans transport...

VEHICLE operators who use the services of commercial garages face increases in charges of between 12i and 15 per cent. This...

PLANS are being considered by the Greater London Council to ban traffic from Leicester Square during the weekend. If...

by CM reporter A STRONGLY WORDED memorandum this week from the Road Haulage Association to the Minister for Transport completes...

by CM reporter BECAUSE its first sponsored study is admitted to have been limited in scope, the US Bureau of Motor Carrier...

As local authorities are now discovering, ratepayers can be no less interested than company shareholders in the efficient use...

AN ALLEGATION that locally based soldiers are driving lorries at night for companies in the Medway Towns has prompted a...

THE specialist transportation and distribution section of the Institute of Purchasing and Supply has arranged a seminar at the...

'frighten' FTA FRIGHTENING is the word the Freight Transport Association uses to describe Michael Foot's plans for...

A 5,000km (3,100) transSiberian motor highway is being built by the Russians. It will link the Urals with Beikal in the east of...

THE importance of proper lega: representation before the Lic. ensing Authority is stresseC by the Transport Tribunal ir a...

THE diagrams showing maximur speeds in the gears in th Mercedes-Benz and Commer roa test reports in CM May 30 wer unfortunately...

by John Darker FASHIONFLOW, a new divi3ion of National Carriers Ltd, which will concentrate on serrice to the textile and...

his is believed to be the first .kip loader system ever to be nounted on a Leyland Super 3uffalo chassis. Owned by BritanPia...

A CHARGE of using a sixwheeled tipper lorry on M6 with a tyre having a portion of cord structure exposed, failed before...

schemes considered to need priority in the road-building programme has been submitted to the Minister for Transport by the Road...

BY winning three classes Of the Tyne and Wear eliminating round of the Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year competition on...

kT is expected to be the 12mm all-steel Plaxton . eme luxury coach body to r service with a British ator will be at the...

)ERS for two Metro-Scania ;eater double-decker buses for one Ailsa/Alexander ;eater have been placed by na Motor Bus of Hong...

TING to the decline in the „ii private coach market, EuroLtd of Dublin has been put the hands of a receiver. )roduction of...

TTING DOWN, parking, and k-up points for coaches at 36 London's principal tourist ractions are described in a )ach operation"...

THE town services in Hemel Hempstead, operated by London Country Bus Services, went over last week to farebox operation at a...

FARES for West Midlands PTE journey in Staffordshire rose by up to 66 per cent on Sunday— because the county council is...

GLASGOW bus and Underground fares go up by more than 30 per cent on Sunday. The application for the increase was by the Traffic...

THE NEW Tameside garage of Greater Manchester Transport will be heated by old sump oil from buses, The savings are estimated at...

THE QUESTION of what standards and qualifications are necessary for entry into the field of road passenger operations is to be...

A PROGRAMME to evaluate the use of the Stirling closed cycle piston engine in a Dutch city bus is about to start. The Dutch...

A NEW DEPOT costing £500,000 is to be built to house Eastbourne's 62 municipal buses probably next year. The council's...

AUTHORITY to operate an express coach service between Tamworth and Newquay, originally granted to Monty Moreton Ltd, Nuneaton,...

PRE-TAX PROFITS from Plaxton's slumped from £248,000 for the six months to February 28, 1974, down to £140,000 for the...

increased again A TWO-STAGE increase will soon put London Transport fares up by about 45 per cent. The GLC Labour majority has...

A SCHEME designed to help members of the Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport locate spare parts is about to be...

z special correspondent ,NS for large-scale trials of tric delivery vans are now advanced with three fps of manufacturers inred...

LMO, a blended, synthetic :attic motor oil developed in United States by the Ore* Corporation and marketalso in Canada, Japan,...

FOLLOWING extensive field trials of the new DAF eightwheeler model, a raised air intake of special design is being fitted to...

Motor Trader, IPC Transport Press's weekly newspaper for the motor trade, has purchased its long standing but friendly rival...

SOLE UK distributor for the Dutch-built Kooi-Aap piggyback lorry loader is Transport Marketing of 1513 Lincoln Road,...

'bed Allen, chairman and gm Yenoway Motor Services, of chdale, has been elected chairin of the Coach and Bus Inpendent Sector...

Good vehicle in a tight corner VOLVO has had several eightwheeler prototypes around for quite a time now, but the production...

TROUBLE-SHOOTING proarmne designed to identify, ana;e and solve product problems curring with Volvo trucks or v has been...

tAILERS manufactured by the itch company Broshuis and the inadian company Ravens Instries are now being marketed the UK by...

IN Commercial Motor for April 11 we reported that a new company called Wreckers International Ltd was being formed by...

THE natural desire of railwaymen to be paid the same as comparable workers in other industries cannot alter the probability...

TAKING Ford into the heavy category for the first time, the Transcontinental was introduced earlier this year. Spanning the 34...

IN A YEAR which has seen massive cuts in local government spending power and equally impressive increases in local rates, many...

Sometimes we leave this at the roadside, often attached to a vehicle, but sometimes alone. It bears no li g ht or reflectors...

workers to their employment? am able to obtain work for my coach during the summer in this way. The farmer wili pay me but will...

29-seater coach. When I get my psv licence will it cover me to drive maximumlength vehicles? A To g et a licence to drive...

Photographs by Dick Ross : Dr Kaye, there are many 'allels between the transport ration in the USA and Europe. a thing in...

WHEN the jargon of the economists and the platitudes of the politicians concerning Britain's economic ills are analysed, the...

!though it's over 100 years rIce the American Civil War as settled, the individual states ill preserve a wide range authority...

heavy right foot is no commendation for a busman, 1 it obviously pays on the ccer field. Gateshead-based )rthern General are...

Bob Kaye--interviewed by the editor elsewhere in this issue —is one of those tireless evangelists that America seems to throw...

It looks like being something of a vintage year for showing off the oldies, if the weather is kind. On to my desk in recent...

The oldies may be loved, but even the economic crisis hasn't completely damped dawn the onslaught on the " newies." Even...

• Merc 16265 TO the price of £13,650 (including fifth-wheel) given in last week's road test of a Mercedes-Benz 1626S/30...

Basildon District Council has organised its vehicle fleet so that its transport using departments bear a proper cost of fleet...

by Martin Hayes Photographs by Harry Roberts OUR VEHICLES are at their mo::t efficient when they are standing still in the...

by Martin Watkins HOW WILL the energy crisis affect public transport? Will buses in the future be made more spartan in order...

Rebates for employers by Les Oldridge, TEng(CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE So far I have considered men dismissed because of lack of...

MASSIVE area of legislation, ne relatively new and much it going back for decades, is dually to be phased out and rerseded by...

Two new electric winches have been introduced by Ryders Autoservice. Both the standard 8074 and the de luxe 8274 winches...

Wickham Industrial Equipment has introduced a new range of heavy-duty high-pressure cold water washers. The machines, the...

A lift-table with a swing lip— the Van Loader—has been developed by G. Hunter (London) Ltd. A pallet truck is moved on to...

system, available from Petromatic Securi-Key. The Econolock series has been designed specially for the fleet operator using up...