Is the spare parts shortage one of the biggest sources of cost increases in recent years? This is certainly the view of an...

More concessions, but many will end in October 1971 • Bus and coach drivers receive rather more hours concessions under new...

• Despite very strong protests by the operator associations, the Minister of Transport has decided that the fee for an...

can now overhaul your engine • A newly formed British Railways company, BR Engineering Ltd., has taken over control of railway...

• Although the 1968 Transport Act provides for a Passenger Transport Authority to consider applications from its own Executive...

• The Anglo /Austrian Road Haulage Arrangement, signed last year, will come into operation on February 4. The Arrangement...

• Tachographs are now available as an approved accessory for Bedford TK and KM models, through the Bedford dealer organization...

• The Port of London Authority is to extend its export lorry appointments schemes to cover cargoes on Royal Mail Lines' vessels...

• Short courses at postgraduate level which Loughborough University's Department of Transport Technology has arranged for...

Regular readers of Commercial Motor will see changes in this week's issue compared with the former pattern. All have been made...

collusion • At next Monday's meeting of the vehicle security committee of the Road Haulage Association special consideration...

• On Thursday January 15 in London the chief engineer and manager of product planning, truck division. of Volvo. Mr. Tage...

Michelin's truck delivery fleet in the UK will be augmented by 22 mixed Bedford and Ford 5-ton vans fisted with a new York...

by Bob Holliday • Next Wednesday sea breezes blow through Earls Court—for then the 1970 Motor Boat Show opens to its...

• Plans are going ahead for expanding Merseyside's first road transport training group, which comprises most of the hauliers...

• A course aimed to provide a specific training module within the framework of industrial training for managers in the road...

• EEC transport trade unions at a recent Brussels meeting criticized the slow pace of progress in the evolution of a common...

transport by David and freight handling Lowe The crime A BIG assault by organized criminals on British and international...

COMMISSIONERS GRANT APPLICATION • An application by Midland Red to increase fares, with a steeper increase for those for rural...

• Preparation of the code of guidance about the payment of rural bus service grants by local authorities is well advanced,...

• A single fare is to be considered by Glasgow Corporation Transport in an attempt to simplify fare collection and remove the...

stop these decreasing circles • Yesterday was a significant day in the life of London Transport, for although outwardly there...

K. B. Spencer, 39, transport manager. Rhodes Transport Ltd.. Chesterfield. is to become Road Haulage Association group...

• Following an amendment to meet three objectors, Canton Transport Ltd., of Holywell, was granted a new B licence for 12 artics...

• An increase of 2d per single journey across the Forth Road Bridge has been granted to W. Alexander and Sons (Fife) Ltd., a...

• A Fife coach company, convicted in July for operating workmen's coaches between Glasgow and Longannet, Fife, without a road...

• A small Norfolk haulage company, D. Walker and Son Ltd., of Framingham Pigot, had two of its nine vehicles suspended for a...

• An appeal by Pude Waste Disposals (North West) Ltd. against a grant of a B licence to Waste Services (Preston) Ltd. for four...

The first public inquiry for operators' licence applications in the Northern Traffic Area will be heard in Newcastle upon Tyne...

• A new design of axle lift, which can 'be fitted to the rear bogie of practically any multi-wheeled commercial vehicle has...

• The Board of the Appleyard Group of Companies Ltd. announces a merger between its subsidiary, Appleyard Coachbuilders Ltd....

• A major investigation into the availability of goods vehicle spare parts is being undertaken by the FTA. In the next few days...

by Ron Cater • Whether or not a fleet operator can justify running his own breakdown vehicle can be decided only by the amount...

• The Retread Manufacturers Association announces the creation of associate membership within its constitution. This enables...

• Only two years after starting business at Hillington, Glasgow, the Scottish division of the Export Packing Service Group...

• Newly-appointed main distributor for Highway Trailers (GB) Ltd. is Weston-super-Mare Motors Ltd., manufacturer of...

Hedley Jeune • At 44, Hedley Arthur Jeune is chairman an managing director of the latest road transport company to go...

I agree with the letter from Mr. S. Mustell (CM December 12, "No reason for exclusion - ) who argues that men with one eye....

I read with interest the editorial comment in Commercial Motor of November 21. My husband lost his right eye when he was a...

In view of the foregoing, should he automatically be refused a heavy goods vehicle licence, taking into account, too, his...

by Handyman Benchwise: safe and easy EVEN with the most sophisticated lifting tackle in the transit shed, quite a large...

Do staff incentives work? The answer lies in the type of incentive and the type of operation, and next week in CM John Darker...

ARROW BULK CARRIERS 'ONE of the major factors in the current increase in haulage costs is the loss of vehicle use caused by...

Is costing worth while? • The question implies a doubt. It may well be justified. Costing is not the be-all and endall of a...

by Maurice Rounding; nstM, AMInstT OPERATORS' LICENSING WILL GIVE NEW FREEDOM TO HAULIERS AND OWN-ACCOUNT OPERATORS. HOW DO...

House out of touch? by lain Sherriff MITA "THE haulage industry is on the verge of a revolution, and large hauliers are...

by John Vann, FCII When frost strikes • Frost damage claims have always been a thorny problem to insurance claims men....

by the Hawk • N ew centre? Jack Wellings, the ebullient managing director of the 600 Group, dropped two newsworthy hints at...

by Janus D URING the 1970s or at any rate for the coming year it would be a relief to have a moratorium on the use of the word...

matters by John Darker AMBIM Clear vision in road transport REFLECTING on the value of vehicles and loads today it is...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI The new trade licence THE LAW concerning trade licences has been drastically altered by the Road...

Costs we should like to know why you include interest at 10 per cent in the initial cost of the vehicle, because interest on...

Hamburg Container Show, and in particular the references to flexible container linings; would you check whether the address...

took a course of lessons on a double-deck bus at a local school of motoring and passed the p.s.v. test in September 1968. Since...

( not the close-coupled type) which has overrun brakes fitted only to the two front wheels. I believe this is now illegal....

centre improves the roll stability of a vehicle and if so is this because it reduces the distance between the roll centre and...

and plated by the end of March 1969; at the time did not consider it to he a worthwhile proposition. However, it has now been...

• THE NEW YEAR begins with news about the Transport Manager's Licence legislation still awaited. The Minister was forwarded the...