Will transport be better off or worse off as a result of the latest Ministerial reshuffle? Only time will tell, but operators...

Parcels chief warns of traffic shift: Lorry thieves are moving to other fields • The Road Haulage Association is to press the...

• A bigger throughput of work, and the payment of bonuses of up to £5 a week for the 300 men involved, have resulted from the...

councils' advice 0 The Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive has written to 18 local authorities in its area inviting them...

• It is technically feasible for manufacturers to meet a noise level limit of 86 dB(A) for the majority of trucks, given an...

• For the first time in its 45-year history, the .Birmingham based haulage concern Chambers and Cook Ltd found itself...

He becomes Minister for Transport Industries in PM's Government shake-up from our political correspondent • There are...

• Mr G. Turvey, secretary of the FTA, commented on the Central Government Reorganisation White Paper (see page 20) to members...

by BRSL marketing chief • Increased pressure from cost trends will lead to a greater emphasis on cost analysis in the next 10...

• A new factory of Metalair Ltd, Fishponds Road, Wokingham, Berks, has been opened at Sutton Bridge, Lines, which has a...

• Port and transport interests in London met last week to discuss problems arising from the operation of Devlin Phase II and...

distribution • "Operational research techniques for distribution executives" is the title of a one-day seminar sponsored by...

• No longer will the long haul over 1400ft Shap Fell be a winter's nightmare for lorry drivers. Today the Transport Minister...

• On Friday a new freight and car ferry, the 11,500-ton Eagle, owned by the General Steam Navigation Co, was launched. It will...

• The exemption of haulage companies of LJNE GORGE Tebesy more than five people from the activities of the RTITB would be a...

• Addressing members of the IRTE in Liverpool on Tuesday evening, Mr P. A. Phillips, a member of the British Leyland...

• In Lady Sharp's report "Transport Planning: the men for the job" published earlier this year she advocated the establishment...

• A paragraph under this heading in last week's CM stated that the manager of Wallasey test station had suggested that...

• When British industry gets started firmly along the road to metrication, road transport operators will be faced with loads...

• A new training centre run by Transport Training Services Ltd at Smearthorpe. near Honiton, Devon, has now commenced...

• Seadyke Freight Systems Ltd has opened a new factory at March, Cambs, for trailer production. The trailer division is in...

from top down Kysor Industrial (Great Britain) Ltd has chosen a Ford 8cwt Escort van for its first sales engineer, whose...

• The first completely new service station built by National Carriers Ltd was opened at Shrubb Hill. Worcester, last week, by...

• A low-price indicator has been developed in America to show when a package has been turned upside-down in transit. Called the...

• Ford vehicle distributors for certain regions of West Africa, Compagnie Franeaise de l'Afrique Occidentale, was earlier this...

• "An early and massive advance in unit load traffic between the UK and Western Europe" is being developed by the NFC...

• A renewed move is being made to try to persuade the SMMT to close the Commercial Motor Show at 7 pm in future years, instead...

When British Leyland designers and engineers began work on the Leyland National bus, their starting point was to question...

• At an extraordinary general meeting of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers in London last week the members passed a...

• Mr T. J. E. Price, the first road haulage chairman in the Institute of Transport, South Wales and Monmouthshire section,...

transport by David and freight handling Lowe Container Transport I nte rf reig ht-7 • Almost a year before the opening day of...

NEGOTIATIONS TO SAVE RURAL BUSES by Derek Moses • Subsidiaries of the National Bus Company are wasting no time in putting...

• Bee-Line Roadways Ltd, coach proprietors, of York Road, Hartlepool, operating from Linthorpe Road, Middles brough, were given...

• The Northern Area Traffic Commissioners have informed Teesside Municipal Transport that they had broken the law by not...

• The timetable for a new bus service is causing problems for a hospital in the remote town of Alston, Cumberland. The service...

• A full review of routes, requested by the Northern Traffic Commissioners at a fares application earlier this year, has been...

• Teesside police mounted a search last week for two men who stole a bus from a municipal parking place in Middlesbrough and...

• Owners of private buses and minibuses in West Lothian have formed an association to resist attempts to stop them transporting...

• Tyneside PTE have started a campaign to get the general public to give their views on transport matters. The Executive has...

Mr Walter G. Hunniball receives his badge of office as chairman of the North Western section of the Institute of Transport from...

• The Transport Tribunal has this week allowed the appeal (CM October 9) by the National Freight Corporation at the decision of...

An attempt by Mr F. Dickenson, of 2astleford, to vary the conditions of his :xisting B licence was successful when the...

• The East Midland LA, Mr C. M. Sheridan, granted last week at Kettering an 0 licence to a haulier for a probationary period of...

• A device, developed over the past four years in the USA and designed primarily to counteract the effects of a front tyre...

• By August 1971 Fuller Roadranger RT.900 Series gearboxes will be in production at the Eaton Yale and Towne Transmission...

• Details of a new "shaftless" safety steering column, suitable for most vans as well as cars, have been. announced by Accles...

0 In addition to all the Chrysler UK todels exhibited at the Commercial Motor how, there were a number of new tunicipal and...

The garage equipment company of the lurmah-Castro! organization, Dynaflex RI, has announced a new financing plan )r the leasing...

• Worldwide commercial rights to Lockheed's amphibious TerraStar vehicle have been acquired by Robert A. Spain and Associates,...

L. S. Payne IN The managing director of British Road Services Ltd, Mr L. S. Payne, is so involved in managing his company that...

I can readily appreciate the reaction of Mr Elvin and the Guild of Transport Managers (CM October 161 to my criticism of the...

In the recent very useful articles by Les Oldridge on the registration of driving instructors, the cogent point was made that...

I am attempting to restore a derelict 1928 Morris Commercial 2-ton truck but am hampered by the lack of information as all the...

I notice in CM September 25, that on page 130 Derek Moses makes the point that the 9.5metre single-door SELNEC bus is lcwt...

w Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (36) WHEN a centre lathe is in frequent iperation, apart from its use for normal urning...

by the Hawk • No bid My remarks in last week's issue about the activities of Frank Ford, in planning a bid for Duple in 1966,...

Substantial rate increases coming in 1971? by lain Sherriff and David Lowe IN his opening address at the Road Haulage...

IN ADDITION to the difficulties of converting some existing hourly wage rates for payment in decimal amounts (part 3 CM October...

TO JUDGE from the number of letters we receive on the subject, many drivers who, for one reason or another, do not qualify for...

TO SUGGEST that planning the future of public transpo in London is a problem of great magnitude is stating the obvious....

New taste for old palates by janus W HITE Papers are one of the first official signs that something new is happening. The...

recently I have been refused employment because a class 1 licence was required. Could you therefore tell of any organizations...

which was involved in an accident in which the other party was entirely at fault. As the lorry will be off the road for some...

our business as farmers, agricultural contractors and land reclamation operators, The low-load semi-trailer is a Tasker and...

pull a trailer over 28ft in length with my Bedford KM attic which has a gross vehicle weight of 22 tons. I think I can legally...

A It may be argued that a multi-leaf spring has the advantage over a single-leaf type that inter-leaf friction tends to damp...

matters by John Darker AMB M British Steel Corporation a transport colossus ANY organization spending around £35m a year on...

by Les Oldridge, AIRTE, AMIM' The process of the law THE WAY in which an offender is brought before a court by way of...

• Next week in London there will be held the first of a pair of two-day seminars sponsored by CM and devoted to the maintenance...

A JUBILEE is not only a time for celebrating past achievements, it is also a moment for serious stock-taking about the future,...