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14th March 1969
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ommercial otor

The ordinary wooden pallet is such a simple, useful, time-saving tool of transport and storage that its major drawback—the...

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Go-ahead for pallet pool?

• A national pallet pool is practicable and would be of major benefit to users and to the country as a whole, states a report...

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Exempt these services from new lours limits' PVOA

Essential services for factories, and services r isolated areas, for recreational, touring and , rtain long-distance duties...

7rane Fruehauf toes all-RO or axles

The signing of a £6.5m contract between ibery Owen-Rockwell Ltd. and Crane Frueuf Trailers Ltd. for the supply of semi-trailer...

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Hauliers need a trade union, says Jack Wood

• Transport managers were not equipped to cope with the changes that were taking place in transport today, many having neither...

M-way limits 'lot of rubbish'

• When the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers met in London on Wednesday the proposed new limits announced by the...

BMC Mastiff prices

• Basic list prices of the new BMC Mastiff range described on pages 55 to 58 are: MS 1600, 16-ton-gross four-wheeler. 12ft lin....

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No room for amateur

dabblers by John Darker • A one-day seminar on the theme "The efficient use of a road transport fleet" was organized last week...

Study tour to Australia and Japan

• A study tour of Australia and the Far East is being organized by Independent Trade Missions, in association with our...

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Publication of EEC road haulage rates

• The Commission of the European Communities has recently adopted a regulation determining the conditions and procedures for...

New licensing system will sort

men from boys says RHA's Eric Voller • That the new licensing system will bring profound changes to the whole of the road...

New throughservice to Portugal

• A road-rail-sea through-transport freight service has been started between Britain and Portugal by a new company called...

International pallet sizes

• One of the subjects for close investigation by the British Standards Institution's packaging of horticultural produce...

H.g.v. test fees and exemptions

• The fee for a full heavy goods vehicle driving licence will be £1 a provisional licence will cost 10s. These amounts are laid...

Ford tops c.v. league

• Production of commercial vehicles (including buses and coaches) in the UK during 1968 totalled 409,186, announces the Society...

'Automatics only' licence group

• The Minister of Transport has laid before Parliament new regulations about driving licences and driving tests, which will...

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■ enior nanagement course

Students who attended the first RHAionsored senior management course at shridge last November would like to see a ore advanced...

'rotecting our loads

As part of the security training programme hich it offers. Letchworth College of Tech)logy is arranging a half-day conference,...

)istribution I the '70s

"Distribution in the 1970s" is one of six inferences for senior and executive manageant personnel announced by the Manageent...

Container Transport

AN ARPAX resin-bonded finish is applied to the ISO plywood-panelled containers produced by the Able Bodywork Co. Ltd., Firwood...

Leasing in Belgium

CONTRANS, the Continental container operator, has appointed Grisar and Velge SA, of Antwerp, as general agents, making...

US/Antwerp service

ON APRIL 18 the first of four container ships will leave New York to inaugurate a service with Benelux ports; the first vessel...

Another cellular ship

THE Manchester Challenge, the first of Manchester Liners' deep water cellular vessels (CM November 8) has now been joined by...

York launches open-top containers

A HALF-HEIGHT 14ft high) open-top container, designed to carry high-density cargoes like machinery, engines, steel stock, etc.,...

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Brains trust spotlights enforcement fears

• Doubts as to the ability of the authorities to enforce the safety aspects of Transport Act legislation were voiced by a...

These things distort transport progress

• Development of road transport in Britain had been distorted by the retention of an outdated, protectionist carriers'...

• The Ministry of Transport should not rush the introduction

of the operators' licensing regulations, said Mr. G. Turvey, secretary of the FTA, in Newcastle upon Tyne on Tuesday. It was...

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'etitioners disallowed right

:o be heard from our political correspondent None of the seven petitioners who object parts of the Transport (London) Bill is...

'TA nominations I erseysi de The ten members approved at

a recent Reting of Liverpool City Council to represent oerpool on Merseyside PTA are: Cllr. Stanley lulfield, deputy chairman...

SELN EC

• Manchester has appointed its six nominees to serve on the SELNEC PTA. They are Aldermen D. J. Edwards, R A. Fieldhouse, A....

PVOA dinner-dance

• The PVOA dinner and dance will be held on Tuesday, April 15, at the Connaught Rooms, London. This function should have taken...

Hungary next

• With sales to East Germany, Poland and Romania already established, the Truck and Bus Division of British Leyland Motor...

Super Coaches company acquired

• The entire share captal of Super Coaches (Upminster) Ltd. was acquired on February 25 by its parent company. P.V.S....

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Gosport buses with new Seddon body

by Derek Moses • Six buses currently being delivered to Gosport and Fareham Omnibus Co. Ltd. (Provincial) by the bus and coach...

Union agrees SOS radios for LT buses

• At a meeting with London Transport on Monday union leaders agreed to drop their demand for extra pay for operating two-way...

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urst tyre coach crash trial

A High Court trial, in which a man and his 9 are seeking damages for injuries suffered an a British coach ran off the road near...

Exempt these services' PVOA

rtinued from page 25 ortant to the steel industry and, the °dation claims, the only practical way to rate it is by sharing the...

CM quoted in multi-journey ticket application

• The second leader in Commercial Motor of February 14 was quoted to the South Wales Traffic Commissioners at Cardiff when...

Whippet's golden jubilee

• Whippet Coaches Ltd., of Hilton, Hunts, has celebrated its golden jubilee and to mark the occasion has bought six more...

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Hanson adjourned till April

• The application by R. Hanson and Son Ltd., Wakefield, to put all its 268 vehicles on A licence and the re-hearing of the...

125 miles is too much

• If his 'firm was not granted a licence variation as requested it might be forced into bankruptcy, a haulierfrom Tamworth,...

Maintenance 'let go' licences revoked

• "We must say we do not feel particularly confident about the future of this company," commented Mr. R. R. Jackson, chairman...

How safe are your loads?

Timber, steel, sacks, cartons, pipes, scrap, fruit crates—these and many other commodities are vulnerable to bad loading, and...

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cwts effect on licence

An application for a B licence variation by h Delivery Service was refused by the :fish LA, Mr. A. B. Birnie, in Perth last k....

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I n Westminster from our Parliamentary correspondent

PTAs and politics • Legislation to regulate the political complexion of Passenger Transport Authorities did not find...

SBG's new general managers

J. W. Tweedie has been appointed general manager of Scottish Omnibuses Ltd.: G. D. Ramsay becomes g.m. of Western SMT Co. Ltd.:...

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eville monstrates 8 tons pping trailer

u I B rocking ton . new 28-ton gross frameless tipping of the retractable wheelbase type, is known as the Ratesaver, was...

.pert witnesses disagree in re case

• What are body cords in radial tyres? In the absence of any accepted technical meaning Sheriff Paterson of Jedburgh has...

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Quick full-loading by moving-floor belt

• A vehicle-floor conveyor system known as the Hydro-Auto has been evolved by Container Conveyors (Scotland) Ltd.. Overtown,...

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toad and workshop

Vlanpower, maintenance lnd the MoT (35) by Handyman This week I am still dealing with 'tidy roping. For instance I often...

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Bird's eye view by the Hawk

* Hospitality The usual murmur of surprise at association and institute dinners when members rise to toast the guests, and...

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Functions and

. epresentation of PTAs ■ Announcing the publication of the lesignation Orders to set up the first four assenger Transport...

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Ashton goes for fare boxes

PRIOR to the introduction of one-man buses in Ashton-under-Lyne a study was made of the various systems of fare collection that...

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Judgment to come

Special authorizations However, because each of the five vehicles had a plated weight in excess of 16 tons Mr. Bloggs was...

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Management education views from the seaside

ALTHOUGH the main spotlight in road transport training inevitably plays on the Road Transport Industry Training Board, some...

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I Do your Tables of Operating Costs take into consideration the

discounts r bulk purchase, for such items as fuel and res, which are available to operators? We a investigating a claim for...

CI There was a reference in CM some little

time ago to a sales book for secondhand vehicles. I cannot now find the reference; could you let me know what the publication...

Q We are Continental-based operators with 33ft-long semi-trailers which are 8ft

2in. wide, have axles with a 7ft spread and are equipped with two-line air braking. On the Continent they are allowed to run at...

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It's vital to concentrate on technique

ABOUT TWO MONTHS remain before the majority of transport examinations take place. Some candidates live in a fool's paradise...

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