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28th February 1969
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etting good value

Right from the start the Road Transport Industry Training Board has emphasized that it is not in business to administer a levy...

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Heavy goods vehicle driving licences this August

by lain Sherriff • The re-introduction of heavy goods vehicle driving licences will take place on a voluntary basis on August 4...

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Disturbing features of new licensing system

seen by a barrister requirement under the Transport Act ■ ficants for operators' licences must the Licensing Authority with a...

Users' meet-the-makers' teams to check on vehicles and spares

• Direct contact between vehicle manufacturers and users has been established by the Freight Transport Association. It has set...

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FTA's light vehicle insurance scheme

• A special goods vehicle insurance scheme is now available to Freight Transport Association members who wish to take advantage...

First Scottish FTA conference

• A one-day conference on the Transport Act is to be held by the Scottish Division of the Freight Transport Association in...

Haulier jailed for blown tyre disaster

• Although 200 miles away in his office near Glasgow when one of his lorries last June collided with a car, killing its...

New Highway Code

• A new edition of the Highway Code went on sale on Tuesday. The new publication is more comprehensive than its predecessor,...

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CL switches Rotterdam

multi-million pound container ship on planned by Overseas Containers rid Associated Container Transport start from the Port of...

ation test

Freight Transport and Road Haulage Mons have told the Chancellor of .1 . hequer that immediate consideration be given to the...

nsea ninal ns

new £450,000 Freightliners Ltd. ler terminal to serve South-West became operational at Swansea on y with a service to...

Small man's fears misguided says Noel Wynn

• Productivity for the haulier was all too often completely outside his control, said Mr. Noel R. Wynn, RHA chairman, in a...

Another eight BRS trainees

• The second British Road Services management development course began in Birmingham on Monday. The course will last for six...

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Transport is for the customer

A professional approach solves the State/independent relationship, says Mr. P. H. R. Turner, interviewed exclusively for CM by...

A Servicing Special

Transport servicing and equipment will be the theme of next week's big special number of Cornmercrid Mow/. As maintenance...

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ontainer Containers the ransport customers' contribution

Darker : successful Freightliner train service Dy British Railways is over a distance es from London to Parkeston Quay, it was...

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NBC companies will retain identity

'Loyalty cannot be bought', says area chairman • The National Bus Company must not be regarded as one large nationalized...

Dundee proposals go to DEP

• Dundee Corporation transport committee decided at the week-end to send the joint management/TGWU plan for retaining the...

Southend's o-m-o switch

• A big switch to one-man-operation employing rear-engined 33ft double-deckers is planned by Southend-on-Sea Corporation...

New bus lane for LT

• A peak hour "buses-only" lane for Brixton Road has been approved by the South Area Board of the GLC's planning and...

Executive bus

• Manchester transport committee is planning to introduce an "Executive Special" bus to run between the residential area of...

Reshaping of LTB country fleet

• Although there has been a lull in the large-scale reshaping of London Transport central (red) bus services since the Ealing...

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lercedes

leansgate 3-passenger oach A new conversion of a Mercedes-Benz itre diesel chassis by Williams Motor of Manchester, has...

asgow mourns Tom Bourne

bout 250 Glasgow Corporation drivers onductors stopped work on Monday to the funeral of 18-year-old Tom Bourne, ductor who died...

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In Westmin.ster from our Parliamentary correspondent Earnings

• Between October 1967 and October 1968 average weekly earnings of adult men in the road haulage industry in the East Midlands...

More for machines

• Because of the rapid growth of its customer's business, G. Plant (Haulage Contractor) Ltd., Macclesfield, was granted five...

Party-work hours convictions

• J. Abbott and Sons (Blackpool) and two of its drivers pleaded guilty to hours offences at Blackpool magistrates' court on...

Builders get B licence for tipper

• A. and G. W. Murray, builders, of Hawick, were granted an application for a B licence at Edinburgh on Monday with a radius of...

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North-Western

APPLICATIONS February 21 1969 R. L. Williams, Llanrwst. New B lie., 1 veh. 156 G.g. and timber North and South Wales and...

West Midland

APPLICATIONS February 20 1969 Stannard Transport Ltd., Birmingham. A var.. add. 4 veh. (271t). General, mainly electrical...

Eastern

APPLICATIONS February 24 1969 C. S. Monks, Stansted, New B lie.. 1 T 14itl. Muck and building mats. within 30 miles. J. S....

Western

APPLICATIONS February 18 1969 Tone Vale Transport Ltd., Wiveliscombe. A var., add. 1 art (91 10c). Mainly farm produce,...

Metropolitan

APPLICATIONS February 20 1969 P. O'Keffe., Willesden. NW10 New B lie.. 1 T (4t 15c). Muck and builders' rubble, within 20...

South-Eastern

APPLICATIONS February 20 1969 S and B Contractors, Aldershot New B lic . 1 T (4t). Sand and ballast within 30 miles. D. R....

Three operators vie for bingo traffic

• Three undertakings applied to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners in Leeds last week to provide Halifax and surrounding...

Fares rises for Lancs corporations

• In Manchester on Tuesday Bolton and Widnes corporations were both granted fares increases for 12 months by the North Western...

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New post for R. G. Hooker

Ronald G. Hooker, 47, has been appointed managing director of Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd., taking the position held previously...

Countering corrosion

• Mr. D. A. Cox. operating engineer, Birmingham City Transport, gave details of the corrosion-resistant finishes specified for...

Amoco's safety service plan

• A fleet safety service plan and a new range of engine oils were announced on Tuesday by Amoco (UK), the British subsidiary of...

Fleet efficiency seminar

"The efficient use of a road transport fleet" will be the theme of a one-day seminar which is being arranged by the Central...

MAN and Bussing link

• The lengthy negotiations between MAN and Salzgitter AG of Germany which have been aimed at MAN taking an interest in...

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lemountable ody loading y powered 31Iers

'aul Brockington A hydraulically operated lifting cradle hydraulically driven loading rollers are tres of a demountable body...

VIFI International begins UK manufacture

Oanufacture is beginning immediately in in of the German-designed MAFI i-Lift for transporting and stacking conrs. MAFI...

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New Seddon Seddon 6x4 chassis

• Six-wheelers for gross weights of 20 and 22 tons have been introduced by Seddon Motors Ltd. There arc two basic models, each...

Road and workshop

Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (33) by Handyman • It's one thing to draw up a maintenance system, quite another matter to...

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Bird's eye view

* Balkan invitation It has been Hungarian festival time in London—and no doubt elsewhere—in recent days, and one function. was...

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SE ON ENTERS HEAVY DUTY PSV MARKET

AN IMPORTANT STEP forward is taken today by Seddon Motors Ltd. with its entry into the heavy-duty single-deck bus market on the...

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asignating and establishing e first PTAs

by Derek Moses nder powers granted in section 9 (1) Transport Act 1968 and following the ary consultations described under of...

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TH MOTEC

The first comprehensive training course for road transport Motec 1 is an eye-opener—in the best sense. Although the Road...

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Janus comments

You have been warned ADY a few adept operators will have ick to their Licensing Authority the en application form devised by...

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The planned start of OCLJACT's Australasian container service prompts a

close look at the road haulier place in the whole international container pattern. The author NORMAN H. TILSLEY, AI nstTA, is...

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attempt to get you to read

he Motec lever 1, recently High Ercall, an obscure I Shropshire aerodrome was known tively few people in road transport; 11...

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Is a demountable platform body included in a vehicle's unladen weight for ion purposes?

The law on this subject is found in the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1962 and the ice Act 1966. a Vehicles (Excise) Act 1962, 6th...

Q Mindful of the spate of accidents on MI lah

a few weeks ago, could you please give some indication of variations in wet-surface coefficients of friction of typical...

Q Are there regulations covering the repair of TI!? containers? If

a container is damaged while it is under Customs seal, is there a special procedure to be taken by the road vehicle operator?...

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More universities teach transport

JUST over four years ago, I commented that transport education in the universities was, with small exceptions, virtually...

ERITN nt'ff

BY LES OLDRIDGE, A.I.R.T.E, AM/MI. Headlamps (2) CONTINUING from last week the discussion on headlamps it is now necessary to...