H AVE PATIENCE, said the man from the Ministry at the TRTA conference last week. He was referring to the delay in issuing...

views on fuel surcharge BY John Darker and Carolyn Hyams With fuel rationing a distinct prospect, some experts would have...

containerization report By JOHN DARKER S O much dynamite is in the report Containerization: the key to low - cost transport,...

HU LL'S 1,200 long-distance lorry drivers want no part of Government proposals regarding working hours and conditions in the...

AND WHAT THEY REVEAL TALKING is the veteran driver Aof an immaculate 10-year-old eight-wheeler: "You can judge a vehicle and...

S TEETLEY Transport Ltd. is more fortunate than many other Clicensees. It has a two-way demand for transport; incoming, for raw...

It all began with a converted wartime 1ST . . A NEW office from which the greater part of road freight traffic between Great...

O PERATORS in the Tees-side, Cleveland and Hartlepool area have launched a campaign to get a h.g.v. testing station for...

T FIE TRTA this week said that it welcomes the Minister of Transport's proposals to increase the permitted length of...

C EM1-TRAILERS that will transfer their own containers to and from other road and rail vehicles, or stillages, or docks, are a...

T HE 10 class winners at this year's LDOY final on September 10 will be subjected to a more severe run-off than ever before....

THERE are to be no Government grants for inland container depots, Mrs. Barbara Castle said in the Commons this week, because...

G RANTING short-term licences to Bletchley Self Drive Cars Ltd. and C. A. Baldry last week, Mr. C. M. Sheridan, chairman of the...

THREE HAULIERS reduced a farmer's operating radius from 50 to 20 miles in Leeds on Friday. Mr. P. M. France of Sheriff Hutton,...

N O FRESH evidence was submitted to the Scottish Licensing Authority at Glasgow on Monday when the hearing of the A-licence...

N Road Research 1965-1966, which has just been published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, reports by the Road Research Board...

TN HIS WRITTEN decision issued this week on a renewal application by David Bros. (Haulage) Ltd. and associated companies, Mr....

A COVENTRY car transporter firm, fined £3 by magistrates for permitting a driver to work without proper rest hours, was on...

T HE MINISTRY of Transport generously gives notice of fleet inspections, said West Midland LA Mr. J. Else on Monday. "What...

.2 6 i N APPLICATION lodged by W. J. 0, Jennings Ltd., Bude, to introduce seven extra stops on the Okehampton to Bude rail...

N ORTH Western Licensing Authority Mr. C. R. Hodgson has delivered the following written decisions:— J. A. Irving and Co....

A CONFIDENTIAL letter from Mrs. Barbara Castle, giving plans for a takeover of all forms of public transport by Passenger...

THE FIRST of three Daimler Roadliners with Plaxton Panorama I luxury coach bodies is now en route to MacNab Bus Sales,...

a working party being set up by the National Council for Quality and Reliability. NCQR is interested in the QR aspects of both...

THE GOVERNMENT has rejected a request that Dundee Corporation's proposed fareincreases to meet an annual loss of £90,000 should...

W HAT IT described as "a massive nationwide campaign" against the Minister of Transport's Passenger Transport Authority plans...

A COMPLETELY restyled version of the popular Duple Commander coach body for 1967/8 production has been announced by Duple Group...

A "REMARKABLE cloak and dagger approach to undeclared policy and legislation" was how Southdown Motor Services chairman Mr. R....

A NEW bus and coach inquiry office has just been opened in Portmadoc, North Wales by Crosville Motor Services Ltd. Rail...

Dr. R. A. Taylor, freight manager, British Railways, London Midland region, has been appointed to the executive staff of the...

S EDDON-DEUTZ LTD. is the title of a company now in the process of formation, the object of which will be to produce a range of...

DESISTANCE to shock loading, combined with light weight and a low floor height are IX provided by the all-welded aluminium...

RILY developed by the Drum P RI Etneering Co. Ltd., of Bradford, for road tankers, two hydraulically controlled high-speed...

WE HAVE SPOKEN of the vehicle in its final year, staggering around barely able to earn its living, with all the features needed...

Hydraulic power for the two systems is obtained by mechanically coupling a Vickers-Detroit intra-vane pump to the power...

rrO HELP interpret the regulations regard1 ing parkin g restrictions, the West Riding Constabulary is issuin g a leaflet...

A STANDARD car g o pallet-lift designed to fit in with almost any type of airfrei g ht pallet system is now offered to frei g...

A NEW ran g e of supplementary instruments consistin g of an ammeter, oil pressure gauge and performance and tuning gauge has...

rr HE India Autovan tyre, specially desi g ned for li g ht vans and commercial vehicles in the 13 to 20 cwt. class has been...

E SSLINGEN fork-lift trucks, works trucks, and shuntin g tu g s, have been added to the range of Universal Power Drives Ltd.,...

C AUTIONARY TALE: a representative of one of the commercial vehicle manufacturers was sittin g happily at the Hilton last week...

T AST WEEK in CM the retirement of Eric Adlin g ton from 1—i Temple Press after 41 years' service was recorded. Many people in...

M E NTION "smo g " in Cape Town, South Africa, and the locals will not have the haziest idea what you're talking about. But a...

DRITIST-.1 Railways and British Road Services objected to a -1-3 comma in a haulier's application in Manchester last week and...

A BUBBLE chamber sounds kid's stuff. It isn't. It's 35 tons of - 1-1 e q uipment, 18 ft. wide and 47 ft. lon g , used to photo...

r'r HE appointment of Col. W. H: Slack, as Honorary Colonel of the 156 (Lancashire and Cheshire) Regiment Royal Corps of...

AUTOMOTIVE historian B. H. Vanderveen, of Redhill, Surrey, rx has this to say of my June 23 picture of an old lorry, captioned...

cr AM well aware of the need for a vigorous road transport 1. industry in this country and this (LDOY) competition is surely an...

DAF Van Downs's AutomobieHabriek NV., Eindhoven, , Holland. On UK: DAF Concessionaires Ltd., PO Albemarle St.. London, W.7.)...

Wherever Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles go. Mercedes service goes too. World-wide, there are 3548 servicing points. Most of...

IAIN SHERRIFF, MITA, gets some of the answers from UK operators r AT makes a British operator buy ehicles built on the...

N OT for the first time, Morris Motors drivers defeated the visitors almost literally on their own ground in the Oxford LDOY...

D URING the past two years the Manchester LDOY round has given up producing an overall winner; instead the class winners are...

A MATCHBOX has far greater torsional rigidity than a thin strip of steel weighing many times as much. If torsional rigidity...

E XQUISITE or malicious according to one's viewpoint—but more probably accidental—was the timing of the publication by the...

TRTA one-day conference delegates hear advice on conversions; testing procedures; notification of 'mods': weight distribution;...

The important difference between York's Third Axle and other trailing axles is this : the York is not just another variation on...

the inspection of mobile cranes and lifting tackle. Are there similar regulations for the hydraulic lifting gear of tipping...

Railways for launching a "Turn that lorry round" campaign (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, last week). But exactly how do they suggest that...

A During the first quarter of 1967 it amounted to 21,459,418 tons (exclusive of bunker fuel for ships in the foreign trade),...

fractures when used in cold stores. Do you know if this is confirmed? A A technical paper dealing with this sub ject was...

the front wheels of a lorry to eliminate wobble and that wobble can create a dangerous steering condition. A friend has...

TN AN opening general appraisal of the current situation the Ministry states in its evidence that the evolution of the...

INVESTORS who bought ERF shares on hopes of a lifting of the A distribution have been disappointed. Because for the year that...

AN SOON as there is an education move towards aligning studies much more directly with actual occupations, a reactionary...