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Keep an eye on the ball

The principal purpose behind the Ministry of Transport's scheme for standard bus grants is to encourage operators to replace...

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Work study basis for new BRS productivity drive

by John Darker • Productivity payments ranging from 45s to 80s per 40 hour week to be included in basic rate calculations for...

Scope of Wages Council to be probed

• A Commission of Inquiry meeting today (Friday) will publish details of two objections made to Government proposals for...

Transport Ministers will meet

• The Council of Ministers of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECFVIT) will meet on June 11. in Stockholm....

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Tecalemit/Dennis merger off

• The boards of Tecalemit Ltd. and Dennis Brothers Ltd., in consultation with their respective advisers, have decided not to...

Town clerk becomes PTE director-general

• The first two director-generals for the executive boards of the new Passenger Transport Authorities were appointed at the...

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'Good personal contacts' needed in BR/NFC relationship says Board's report

from our political correspondent • A somewhat critical note is sounded in the British Railways Board report, published last...

Eire gets tipper from Japan

• A Wicklow operator, Mr. N. Gargan, is due to take delivery any day now of what is believed to be the first Japanese tipper to...

BRS guilty of overloading

• At Barking magistrates' court on Tuesday BRS Ltd. was found guilty of using a motor vehicle on the road when the load...

£494,777 damn .

gainst SoIly Davis • A claim for £494,777 was made in the High Court on Wednesday by Anglo-Israeli Bank Ltd, of Bow Bells...

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Understanding the Transport Act

• The value of realistic exercises in helping to understand the effects of the Transport Act 1968 was well illustrated in the...

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Tach charts as efficiency and safety aids

• Striking confirmation of the way in which tachographs can be used to analyse and improve operating efficiency and driving...

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You know it makes sense, as they say. And so

it does. A vehicle working in its peak condition is a vehicle working profitably. But the law demands, under the Road Safety...

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Low scores at Aberdeen

by lain Sherriff • It was a low scoring day in Aberdeen last Sunday; the average of the 10 class winners was 89.2 penalties. G....

All-round success

at Maidstone by David Spain • Although a recent afternoon spent at MOTEC learning to reverse a 32-ton Atkinson didn't make me...

Rising production

• Commercial vehicle production, at 9,597 units a week during April, was more than one-fifth higher than a year earlier,...

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Scotland's first company-operated training school

• The first-ever company-operated heavy goods vehicle driver training school in Scotland was opened in Dundee on Monday at the...

New driving licence rules now in force

• The Ministry of Transport reminds drivers of new Regulations about driving licences and driving tests which came into force...

London-Malta weekly service launched

• Mr. J. F. Axisa, the High Commissioner for Malta, last week launched the first London/ Malta door-to-door weekly surface...

Blitz on 74--tonner seat belts

• Light goods vehicles, as well as cars, will in future he refused an annual MoT test certificate if they are not fitted with...

• Are you the type • • to type for us? •

• Commercial Motor wants two sec • retaries with real enthusiasm for • road transport, for interesting and • varied editorial...

• Bradford training • • group opens • •

• The first Road Hauliers' Group Training As • sociation to be set up in the Yorkshire and • Humberside region will be...

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Ministry spot-check weighing to continue

• Has the MoT the proper equipment and sufficiently well-trained staff accurately to weigh artic vehicles at roadside checks?...

BBC 2 features waste collection

• BBC 2's Money Programme on Thursday June 12 will . deal with the problems and opportunities of refuse disposal. It will...

Safety prize

• Tomorrow Mr. D. H. Foulds, managing director of United Transport, will present a silver cup to the haulage company within the...

Islington seeks allnight parking ban

• Long-distance lorry drivers may face a new ban on all-night parking in the London Borough of Islington. The...

B. A. Ridley is NFC rates officer

B. A. Ridley. 56. has been appointed National Freight Federation rates officer. Mr. Ridley has been a transport man for over 30...

Latest registrations

• The latest figures of new registrations of new commercial vehicles in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man for...

Roadworks on M1 Motorway

• Work is to start on Monday on retexturing sections of the southbound carriageway of M1 Motorway between Pepperstock and...

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Ministry standards too rigid

• A criticism of the rigidity with which the Ministry of Transport was seeking to apply the grants scheme for new buses,...

New pay deal for municipal busmen

from our industrial correspondent • A 5 per cent pay deal giving a '14s a week rise in basic rates for 77,000 municipal busmen...

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Marsh meets Merseyside PTA

• As a result of the work of the local Steering Committee over the past seven years, they had a broad acceptance of what it was...

Leicester coach merger

• Allen's Motor Services of Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, has been acquired by the Nom firm of G. Howlett and Son Ltd. for a...

Scots council invites Border Counties want private operators better bus service

• East Kilbride New Town is seeking authority from the Secretary of State for Scotland for additional bus services within the...

Tribunal member without jurisdiction

• Mr. J. B. Wood, who completed a twoyear term as a member of the Transport Tribunal on May 3, sat with the Tribunal without...

Nine council lorries with 113 defects

• When 113 defects were discovered on nine Bedwelly council lorries in March the vehicles had been continuously engaged for a...

Bristol crews demand £5 rise

• Nearly 500 Bristol busmen have threatened to strike from June 15 unless they get rises of up to £5 per week. They have...

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No Manchester pick-up for Yorkshire/Ireland tours

• Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd., Leeds, was refused permission by the North Western Traffic Commissioners in Manchester on Monday...

Next week: special issue on municipal transport

Transport for public utilities and local authorities will be featured in next week's big special issue of Commercial Motor....

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Transport Tribunal gives decision in writing

• The Transport Tribunal in London on Wednesday heard an appeal against the decision by the Northern LA, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon,...

West Yorks doubles winter half-days

• An application to double the number of half-day excursions authorized for winter operation from Bradford was made by West...

'A sorry tale'

• A short-term A licence was granted to Mr. John Evans. managing director of Newport Forwarding and Warehousing Ltd., by the...

'Crabbing' lorry suspended

• A vehicle examiner who noticed a lorry "crabbing"—travelling out of alignment—reported the matter with the result that...

Continuation licence refused

• An application by Kirkbright and Clark Ltd., Burnley, for the continuation of its excursion and tours licence without...

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New Compressload on show

• A new refuse collection vehicle, one of the largest available in Great Britain, will be displayed at the 71st annual...

Leyland Bear lightweight tipper

• A lightweight three-axle chassis for tipper /truck mixer use at 20 tons gross vehicle weight has been introduced by Leyland....

Improved Checkweight

• Hawker Siddeley has introduced a new version of the Checkweight portable weighing deVice for road transport and other...

'Worn tyres cost lives'

• A nation-wide road safety campaign is to be mounted this summer by the tyre makers of the UK. Supported by road safety...

IFWRI meetings

• The a.g.m. of the Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removing Industry will be held tomorrow at the Randolf Hotel,...

Enots two-day exhibition

• On June 17 and 18 at the Queen's Hotel, London, SEIB, Enots Ltd. will stage an exhibition of pneumatic and lubrication...

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Road and workshop

Loads and forces (3) • Quite a number of odd features can have a bearing on why vehicles turn over. I discovered this when...

Lightweight artic tipper

• A monocoque type of aluminium tipping body has recently been supplied by E. M. Wilcox Ltd., Acland Street, Peterborough, to...

Atlantean gearbox re-test by Ron Cater

• When testing the Leyland Atlantean fully automatic transmission double-decker bus (CM May 1611 reported a tendency for the...

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The planning and future of public transport

the next 25 years SMALLER BUSES providing a more frequent and comfortable service were suggested by Mr. C. R. Warman, city...

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3 Harry Steward

An exclusive interview with Ashley Taylor COMPLEX problems without parallel in °ter Passenger Transport Authorities face the...

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THC)11 5HALT NOT

AN ABC OF CARRIERS' LICENCE PENALTIES AS REVOCATIONS and suspensions of carriers' licences sharply increase for vehicle...

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*On the Beach

As today is the 25th anniversary of the Normandy landings which marked the beginning of the end of the 1939-45 War this has...

*Open door

Although they had been in action previously, roll-on,/off ferries, with their bow doors, first came to the notice of many...

*Come-back?

It's strange to refer to "Mr. D. M. Readman" after writing "Corporal D. M. Readman" so many times in reports of his successes...

*Obliging

"I'm glad 1 made your job easy for you", was A. Willetts' parting comment to Paul Brockington after the prizegiving at Coventry...

*On an egg

In Durban recently a former chairman of the local Road Transportation Board was charged with receiving cash, crockery, radios,...

*Liquid .pressure

Are we heading for a change to full-pressure hydraulic braking on heavy commercials? Several coats have been trailed on the...

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KING PIN

Exactly where you put the king-pin on a tractor matters a great deal. Get it wrong, you've got an artic in which the tail wags...

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Janus comments

Sand Castles NOBODY seems in the least surprised that an organization known as the Sand and Ballast Hauliers and Allied Trades...

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...and all for the sakeof

One impending change in the British way of life which will have deep repercussions on the bus operating industry is the...

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container commentary

OCL/ACT—the farce continues FOR what it was worth, the refusal of Tilbury dockers to allow OCL and ACT to work their container...

Interested hauliers at CF's new depot opening

THERE was quite a gathering of the clans (haulage container) when Crane Fruehauf opened its new service and regional parts...

MAT's landbridge to Japan

THE advantage that rail has over road where long distances are involved has been graphically demonstrated by international road...

Geest's secrets of success

AS local hauliers will know, to their advantage. Ipswich is quite an up-and-coming port nowadays and, not to be outshone by its...

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From Japan via 'The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. .

SINCE the closure of the Suez Canal the "landbridge concept" has certainly come into its own with both the Canadians and the...

Hauliers should watch WEFT

HAULIERS in the West of England and South Wales with container-carrying equipment would do well to keep their eyes on the...

More air container traffic?

THE recent decision of IATA—the body which regulates air travel and air cargo carrying on most of the major airlines of the...

'Those loads' at Felixstowe "IF you see a group of

stevedores gathered around the doors of an open container at Felixstowe, you'll know that another of 'those loads' has...

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Vehicle costing: the intangible factors

AT a recent seminar arranged by the Davies and Robson consultancy organization, Mr. P. W. Reed presented a valuable paper on...

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Q I operate a 1967 16-ton long wheel base Dodge

K1100 with a 25ft platform body. Could you tell me what length drawbar trailer I could use with this vehicle and at what gross...

Q / am a tanker driver and as a hobby I

own and drive a vintage steam traction engine with a kerb-side weight of 14 tons. Can you tell me if when the heavy goods...

Q Would it be more economical to operate

a diesel-powered 3i-ton van or a similar model equipped with a petrol engine in Jersey where diesel fuel costs 3s 6d per...

Q Would you clarify for us whether it is legal

to tow a loaded articulated vehicle with a heavy breakdown vehicle? We have always understood this to be illegal, on the other...

• We are starting a company and depot based in

Holland, the main business being that of crane hire; we wish to operate our own transport purely as a supporting service to the...

I am building up a collection of

American truck illustrations and would appreciate it if you could send me the names and addresses of any publications in the...

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Even tougher in evening classes

THE road transport student tackling examinations through evening class studies has always had my greatest sympathy. It is not...

Seat belts

CERTAIN of the lighter goods vehicles must be fitted with seat belts and this week I propose to examine Regulation 53 of the...