The long-awaited regulations for operators' licensing, now revealed, contain few surprises in themselves. But the ramifications...

PROCEDURE: OBJECTIONS: EXEMPTIONS: PUBLIC HEARINGS • Apart from the police and local authorities, only two trade associations...

1. Any such vehicle (including a trailer drawn thereby) as is mentioned in paragraph 2(1 (of Part I of Schedule 3 to the...

Foreign goods vehicles entering Great Britain will be required to be covered by an operator's licence and, so far as can be...

.1. Goods or the effects of passengers to or from an airport in a case where an air service has been diverted; or 2. Postal...

a Works of art; b The occasional carriage of articles and equipment exclusively for publicity or educational purposes: c The...

of a German goods vehicle brought temporarily into Great Britain which is used for or in connection with any trade or business...

from our industrial corresPondent • The peace deal which ended last week's four-day unofficial strike by 9.500 Liverpool and...

• Although the statistics for hi-jacking of commercial goods vehicles show no improvement in the first quarter of 1969, the...

• "Regulating traffic and parking is, in fact, regulating people, and when we make traffic orders, we control people's...

• As the result of a commencement order made this week by the Minister of Transport the driver of a stationary goods vehicle or...

from our industrial correspondent • The Transport and General Workers Union re-opened talks on its claim for £2 a week rise...

• A two 6- 2 L-hour shift system is a feature of a new agreement signed this week between Fred Olsen Ltd. and the TGWU for 240...

• "I am the only woman transporter driver in the country," said Mrs. Pamela Porter, 40, on Saturday. She had just collected a...

• Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister for Employment and Productivity, announced on Monday that she had approved proposals submitted...

• Inspector W. M. J. Jeffers, of the Crime Prevention Division, Metropolitan Police, was guest speaker at a Transport...

The 29 eliminating rounds are over, the finalists are known and the preparations are well in hand for the biggest ever Lorry...

by lain Sherriff • At Portsmouth it was excitement all the way. Following a 12-mile road route through the city in heavy...

by Derek Moses • A record entry for the final eliminating contest at Pressed Steel Fisher's Cowley plant in Oxford provided...

Class A: up to 16ft and over 1 ton unladen weight: 1. Burks IPO Telephones) Morris. 63: 2, A. J. Kemp (GPO) Morris. 75: 3, D.L....

Class A: up to 16ft and over 1 ton unladen weight: 1, M. J. Freeman (EILMC, Austin/Morris div., Cowley) Morris, 80 penalty...

• Atlas Express Ltd. opened its third training centre last week. The new school at Coalville, Leicestershire, like its...

• Coast Lines have agreed to sell their 50 per cent shareholding in David MacBrayne Ltd. to the Scottish Transport Group—a...

• A new Central Engineering Department has been formed by British Leyland's truck and bus division. It will be responsible for...

• Companies purchasing the new Austin Maxi should note that it is officially classified as a dual-purpose vehicle, the FTA has...

C. P. Windsor-Smith, chief engineer of Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd., has been appointed executive engineer (engines) in...

election of 10 ordinary members to the council of the Institute of Transport to fill the vacancies arising at September 30 this...

is sensible says G. M. Newberry • "Co-operation as envisaged in the new Transport Act is certainly not a new concept to bus...

• A useful booklet recently published by Travel and Transport Ltd., (which publishes Coaching Journal and Bus Review), is a...

• On Monday the first of 50 Leyland Atlanteens with Alexander dual entrance doubledeck bodies designed for one-man operation...

• Strachans (Coach Builders) Ltd., which recently signed an agreement with the Superior Coach Corporation of Lima. Ohio, (CM...

• A pay offer of 3+ per cent rises for 110,000 company busmen was turned down on Tuesday by the Transport and General Workers...

• The application by Barton Transport Ltd. to increase certain fares on the stage carriage service between Nottingham and...

APPLICATIONS July 7 1969 R. L. and 0. B. ClernInson end T. Tallamyre, Manchester. New B lic.. 1 T (61t). Excavated mats., and...

APPLICATIONS July 2 1969 Weber, Cook and Garnham Ltd., Bradford. New B lic., 1 veh. 150. Bales of wool, textile goods within...

APPUCATIONS July 31969 J. A. Wood, Pelsall. A var., add. 1 art (711). Roofing tiles, slates and bricks, agric. pipes, concrete...

APPLICATIONS July 2 1969 H. W. Coates (Cosby) Ltd., Cosby. A var., add. 2 arts 11Elit). G.g., mainly to and from the warehouse...

APPLICATIONS July 2 1969 Stephens and Wearmoudt Newport. New A lic., 6 arts. (480. Containerized traffic for Bellferry Ltd....

Total fleet destruction too massive a penalty, pleads counsel • The appeal by Larrow Transport (Northern) Ltd., against the...

• At a Section 178 inquiry at Acton on Wednesday the Metropolitan LA, Mr. D. I. JR. Muir, granted an adjournment to a date to...

IP The Annual Report of the Licensing Authorities for the period October 1, 1967 to September 30, 1968 has recently been...

Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern LA, in a written decision this week, refused in its entirety the application by G. Stiller...

• "It is essential to get agreement on economic rates of running if our industry is to survive," a Kendal haulage contractor...

• The Northern Area Traffic Commissioners refused an application by E. Stephenson (Teesside) Ltd., at Middlesbrough on Friday,...

• The Transport Tribunal will give a decision in writing to the appeal by Knowles Transport Ltd., and others, against the...

Advances in auxiliary power equipment • High-pressure air-braking systems, the role of the load-sensing valve, the development...

Loads and forces (8) • Among the instances of vehicles overturning at roundabouts which I recall is the case of a...

to make a profitable new business out of 'unwanted' small lots by lain Sherriff IVIITA I WAS 15 minutes late in arriving at...

by David Lowe Minister's firsthand view AT the official opening of the Clydeport Container Terminal, at 'Greenock (CM June...

WORKING WEEKS REDUCED 10 45 A YEAR The first in a new series of special CM features on costs for road transport operators...

Counti ng the cost" continues in the July 18 issue of Commercial Motor with an examination of how the Tables can be adapted to...

Guides to breakdown services and to the legal weight and size limits for commercial vehicles used in the UK are published in...

There was some enterprising selling of freight service at the Royal Highland Show recently, I'm told. BRS had a stand at the...

An authority on such questions says that the enforcement of the braking and plating regulations appears to be lagging well...

When I visited him, Pat Parkes had just returned from a lightning business trip—two days in the States, a weekend in Canada and...

A transport driver was enjoying his fried ham, bread and tea in a "caff" when three leather-jacketed, space-helmeted toughs...

Why on earth do we have to suffer such vague and complicated road layouts at some of the motorway service areas? I used to...

Crime unlimited ONLY the Americans perhaps would be bold enough to proclaim a national transportation week. It fell this year...

by Derek Moses ALTHOUGH no less than 921 per cent of all bus and coach operations in Britain are now under public control,...

Bunching of unit-load movements is bringing bottlenecks in document handling which demand urgent solution PREDICTION in...

SHEEPBRI DGE Sheepbridge Engineering Ltd. has acquired, through its subsidiary, Advance Motor Supplies Ltd., the whale of the...

24 tons gross with a four-infine trailer. It has recently been tested and plated and the gross trailer weight given is 20.25...

Transport Act a grant is available a a person or persons intent upon improving public passenger services? With reference to...

of vehicles being towed—sometimes the words have been chalked on or written in the dirt. Could you tell me what the legal...

Will the special authorization apply where a vehicle is plated at 16 tons g.v.w. but exceeds 5 tons unladen? Am I right in...

A Goods vehicles exceeding 2 tons unladen • –• weight must never park at night without lights. Goods vehicles not exceeding 2...

would be necessary to enable a regularwheelbase diesel Mk Ill Land-Rover to be licensed as an agricultural tractor able to be...

driving a heavy lorry in the outside lane of a motorway. I had swerved into the outer lane to avoid an accident but I was seen...

WERAGES, which we analysed last week, hould not be regarded as a panacea for olving all problems of summarizing inforaation. In...

E BY LES OLDRIDGE, A.LR.T.E., A.11.01.LM.1. I-lours of work 3EFORE looking at the new provisions of the fransport Act, 1968,...

Lathams' Coventry Ltd. Cap.: £100. Object: To carry on the business of vehicle delivery contractors, etc. Dirs.: M.J . Latham,...

be loaded and unloaded from lorries by one man with the aid of a mechanical skid available from Tyne Truck and Trolley Co. rhe...

Not every workshop can be equipped with a pit, nor can every company afford an expensive vehicle lift. The alternative is a...