A tractor needs care and regular attention but a trailer can get by on minimum attention—just as long as it's a 5th wheel...

I N any one week COMMERCIAL MOTOR receives hundreds of letters dealing with as many different subjects. Most of them are from...

W ITHIN a month or two a pilot study into the feasibility of a national pallet pool will have started, sponsored by the...

FOLLOWING the decision of the Kent County Council road safety officer not to continue organizing a Maidstone eliminating centre...

R OAD hauliers will be well represented on the -" body controlling the tolls for the Channel Tunnel, Mr. J. M. B. Gotch told...

The Highway, organ of the Scottish Commercial Motor Men's Union, forecasts an early pay claim on behalf of road haulage...

DAILY Freightliner services will run from Hull to London when the Hull terminal opens in October, says British Railways. Hull...

A WILTSHIRE transport operator was fined £50 and ordered to pay 25 guineas advocate's fees last week after pleading guilty to...

B RITISH Customs last year reduced the pro portion of containers which must be opened before shipment for export. The...

A .THOUGH Scania-Vabis did not exhibit any recently changed or recently introduced models at the Brussels Show last week the...

If it is any of the following, you'll find the answers in next week's issues of COMMERCIAL MOTOR, because it is our special...

A 16-TON hydro-couple low-loader has been added to the D. H. Morgan, Bordon, Hants, range of trailers. Apart from a 4-ton...

O NE of Britain's few privately owned commercial vehicle brake-testing centres is to be installed by the Pointer Group at its...

THE formidable maintenance problem presented by heavy tractors used to haul or push indivisible-load outfits was stressed by...

I NCREASING the capacity of diesel engines rather than improving combustion is the only immediate answer to the problems of...

T TNCERTAINTY and unrest in the road `"''' haulage industry and the railways since the transport White Paper was issued had...

Paul Rose, MP, has been appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport. He replaces Reginald Freeson,...

A DEBATE in the Commons on the Trans port White Paper was clearly one which should have priority, and it had been unduly...

PARTICULAR attention was being paid u improved methods of enforcing observance o the statutory limits on working hours of torn...

THE COST of abolishing the tax on fuel for public road transport would be about £32m. year in addition to repayments to bus...

S CHEDULED for a five-day hearing before the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Leeds, two further applications to provide...

THE Regent Oil Co. Ltd. was called before the Metropolitan Licensing Authority this week under Section 178 of the Act. This...

DOCUMENTS presented by Caudle Ltd. in support of an application for two vehicles on A licence were riddled with errors. This...

A WEST Country cleansing firm had a B licence with an extraordinary multiplicity of different conditions which made it...

rTHE purpose of an application by a Worcester plant hire firm was "to obtain a B licence disc of some description so that the...

IlE 'Minister of Transport has turned down appeals by the East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. against decisions of the Metropolitan...

REFORE Yorkshire deputy LA Mr. Maxwell Gosnay at Sheffield last week. E. W. Ambrose and Co. (E. W. Ambrose), Chesterfield,...

SOUTH WALES LA Mr. Ronald Jackson said in Cardiff this week that he would take stronger action in future against hauliers...

SOUTH SHIELDS Corporation Transport has applied to the Northern Traffic Commissioners for permission to increase by Id. its...

O N the day when Harold Wilson and George Brown were in Italy sounding out EEC attitudes to Great Britain's entry, two French...

This is the plate. You'll find it on the six new refrigerated CF Vanguards ordered by Union Cartage. And on the Vanguard you...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT r ET local councils pay travel 1-4 concession subsidies to the private operators as well . . ....

A REPORT by the general manager of A Liverpool City Transport with regard to the proposed specification for 70 new singledecker...

THE threatened series of one-day strikes by company busmen is off—for the moment. Persistent union pressure on the employers...

III:local authority Midlands w have a Conurbation Transport Authority, though its structure, exact area and the degree control...

T HE first bus bodies to be built by Eastern Coach Works Ltd. for a non-THC undertaking since the Leyland/THC shares exchange...

Ltd., the man responsible for the design of some of the largest load-carrying vehicles in the world, has retired from his...

N articulated vehicle comprising a three-axle tractive unit no higher than a small van and a tandem-axle semi-trailer van with...

A SLIDING fifth-wheel coupling Which can be r - k adapted for most popular makes of prime movers has been announced by Taskers....

D ENNIS Brothers Ltd. shareholders were asked this week by chairman Mr. A. R. Stewart not to sign proxies to Colonel D. S. E....

Here's how you gain with York's plated trailing axlc Soon you won't be able to operate a vehicle designed for 12 tons grdss...

is a winner By Derek Moses and John Cullen Trying a Ford-Plaxton-Cummins-Allison-Dodge EN Mr. D. F. Janes, the enterpris ing...

T HE standard manually operated slack adjuster used in conjunction with diaphragm-type brake chambers and S-cam brakes has been...

....1 BY HANDYMAN Know-how II— 'A soft centre' NY road accident is a most serious and unpleasant matter, both for the people...

THE Ministry's proposed goods testing arrange' ments for Cumberland, Westmorland and the Furness area of Lancashire are causing...

D ELIBERATELY conventional construction, using normal commercially available cladding so that accident damage repairs can be...

uROM the Japanese Honda Co. comes details of a petrol-engined generator and two engine-driven water pumps soon to be marketed...

and publications Handy crane C APABLE of lifting loads in a confined space is a lightweight hand-operated portable crane,...

22-TON-GROSS ARTIC BY A. J. P. WILDING, ANUMechE, M1RTE A tTICULATED vehicles certainly came off best in the changes to the C...

A S . reported in last week's issue, the Brussels Show this year continues to have the greatest international flavour of any in...

view BY THE HAWK At her Press conference in Birmingham on Friday, Mrs. Castle announced confirmation of the scheme for the...

Springs sense ONE of your correspondents (January 6, 1967) queried maintenance, reconditioning and testing as applied to...

FOR REASONS best understood by themselves the spokesmen for road users persist in throwing away vital points to their rivals in...

ELECTRIC DRIVE MIGHT PROVIDE THE NEAR— IDEAL TRANSMISSION OPERATIONALLY AND THE USE OF LIGHTWEIGHT AC MOTORS COULD REDUCE ITS...

" NTUITION is something we should not ignore," said Maggie's brother Cromwell. "My corn has been playing me up ever since I...

T O the layman, higher productivity for the transport operator means more passengers . or goods moved. But that would he an...

large-scale operation of one-man, standee single-decker buses is reputed to be in line with Continental policy. In fact, is it...

might be developed to give the petrol engine the economy of a diesel. What is stratification and how would it improve fuel...

A it is an arbitrary exercise to obtain alter' native operating costs for both new and used vehicles and then compare those...

A The recently published "Manual of Visual Presentation in Education and Training" by Dr. E. A. Taylor (Pergamon Press, 10...

you and would it be possible to fit an automatic gearbox to this vehicle? A This road test was published in our issue of...

the Road Traffic Act governing the minimum wages payable to people employed in connection with public service vehicles? A Yes....

O UTSIDE the companies comprising British Road Services, public or A-licence haulage is largely the business of very small...

by Martin Younger S HAREHOLDERS of Rootes Group will look back on the past week as the time they became faced with grim...

Brent Bridge Coach Works Lid. Cap. E100. Objects: To acquire the business of vehicle body repairers carried on at Hanwell as...