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9th February 1968
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Safety in numbers

There is nothing intrinsically unusual about the decision by nine Hull hauliers to band together into a federation that will...

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Objectors impose conditions for BR work then withdraw

• Of loads passing onto the Freightliners at the Longsight, Manchester, depot, 41.67 per cent was the trunk-haul part of...

Labour MPs have doubts

From our Political correspondent • Two Scottish Labour MPs, reflecting anxiety north of the border, have tabled amendments to...

Hull hauliers unite to 'stop the rot`

• Concerned at falling—or disappearing— profits, nine leading Hull hauliers operating 177 vehicles announced this week that...

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Dennis plans front-wheel drive medium-weights

• Front-wheel-drive commercial vehicles are to be developed by Dennis Brothers Ltd. The company expects to introduce these new...

• Dangerous-loads code • • is in force • .

• The European Agreement on the • International Carriage of Goods by Road (ADR), to which the UK is a signatory. • came into...

Hartlepool settlement stopped by TGWU

by Derek Moses • As forecast in COMMERCIAL MOTOR last week, -Hartlepool Town Council has agreed to offer the local busmen a...

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Computer sharing offer by Packham

• If a group of 10 or 12 parcels carriers formed a consortium it would be feasible to purchase a computer to carry out many...

Public action

• Every Saturday from now until March 16, hauliers belonging to the North Staffs Action Group are running at least one of their...

Marker trials to beat rear collisions

• Starting this week, a new form of marking for commercial vehicles will be tried out on 16 Metropolitan Police vehicles, for...

The Bill: more regional lobbying

• Last week's meeting of the Northern division of TRTA with the Northern group of Labour MPs was a highly successful operation,...

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Towards angry deadlock on wages?

by our industrial correspondent • There may be angry strike demands from Britain's 200,000 lorry drivers if their claim for...

Hauliers will provide half of Freightliner loads

• Hopes that the success of the Freightliner system would be achieved not by political direction but by customers choosing of...

Test stations won't all be ready

• Determined to start the heavy goods vehicle testing scheme on July 1 as planned, but faced with the fact that some official...

French could beat Scots

• French potatoes could be sold in London at a lower price than the Scottish product if the Transport Bill is passed (writes...

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Nationalization? Nonsense, we're just shuffling the pack

NO ACES ARE BEING SLIPPED IN, MR. SWINGLER TELLS BRISTOL AUDIENCE • The National Freight Corporation is neither backdoor...

Boat ban by Bill

• "Never again will it be possible for a normal size boat built in the North East to be shown at the Boat Show. The cost of...

Yearbook to guide operators

• An indispensable reference book for own-account transport operators—that is the TRTA 1968 Yearbook. Members receive copies...

Security drive

• Vehicle security day in Luton is Monday, March 18. Mr. J. T. Brown, chairman, RHA vehicle security committee, and Mr. F....

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Seeking Labour MP's help

By lain Sherriff • If the feelings of East Anglian hauliers, their drivers and customers is a fair reflection of the feelings...

'Bill will bring chaos' says TGWU's Jack Wood

• Chaos and stupidity were two words used last week by a well-known and respected transport union official in referring to the...

OBITUARY We record with regret the deaths of Mr. Alexander Forrester, Mr. Maurice Arthur Branch and Mr.

F. S. Livingstone. Mr. Forrester. 84, who has died at his home in Cupar, moved from Glasgow to Lochgelly in 1912 and with his...

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Committee disputes basis of NFC's assets

from our Parliamentary correspondent • Opponents of the Transport Bill are up in arms over Ministerial statements about the...

Five Ministers get telegram plea on the Bill's effects

• A joint protest at the calamitous effects of the Transport Bill upon Scotland's economy was sent by telegram to five...

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'Wilful neglect' earns a suspension

• A history of prohibitions going back to 1964 relating to vehicles operated by a Darlington C-licensee reflected "wilful...

Double-shift transporter firm seeks more

• After lasting most of the day, an application by the Anglo-Continental Transport Agency Ltd. was adjourned sine die by the...

Trailers were heavier than anticipated

• In Darlington on Monday RAH Transporters Ltd. reiterated its undertaking not to expand the carriage of abnormal and...

Result of making good

• Robinson Demolition Ltd., Blackpool, on Tuesday was granted an application to add three vehicles and delete one from its C...

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Cautionary take-over tale

• What was described as a "cautionary tale to other inexperienced operators" was told at a Leeds public inquiry before...

Only one to carry boats

• The grant of a B licence to a Southsea, Hants, boatbuilder on terms agreed between him and a number of hauliers who opposed...

More evidence wanted

• The Scottish deputy LA, Mr. L. A. Wells, adjourned a hearing in Glasgow on Tuesday to give the applicant the opportunity to...

Standards for transport managers

• Believing that the industry should propose standards for transport managers' qualifications and not wait for them to be...

Not the driver's responsibility

• It was not the duty of a lorry driver employed by a firm to examine or maintain his vehicle, and he would not reasonably have...

B to A switch succeeds

• A new A-licence for seven vehicles was granted to E. and A. Clegg (Whitworth) Ltd., in Manchester last week, and two vehicles...

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More private services

for London by Derek Moses • On Thursday February 1 two new bus services were inaugurated by the enterprising firm of F. G....

'Let Traffic Commissioners keep their powers'

from our Political correspondent • The Tory Party in Parliament is insisting that the control of bus operations in the big...

Public Transport Association Conference, 1968

• The annual conference of the Public Transport Association will be held in Harrogate at the Hotel Majestic on May 21/23. On...

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Busmen's pay summonses will be adjourned

from our industrial correspondent • Union summonses against local authorities alleging non-payment of the "frozen" £1-a-week...

Another AEC user switches makes

• The latest bus operator to switch away from AEC double-deck buses due to the non-availability of a rear-engined model is the...

Big switch to o-m-o in Leeds

MORE BUSES ORDERED • Within the next two months, seven more Leeds City Transport bus services will become completely one-man...

B ristol city

express • A pilot express bus service to operate in Bristol is planned by the Bristol Omnibus Co. Ltd., subject to the...

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Eight new Scania models and smart tilt cab

• Important new designs are to be introduced by Scania-Vabis of Sweden at the Amsterdam Commercial Vehicle Show which opens...

Compact continuous-loader

• No hopper seals, no dust traps and barrier guides, and only four greasing points on the whole body—these features of Eagle...

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One jump ahead of the jumbo jets

PUSH-BUTTON POSITIONING OF AIRSIDE VEHICLES by Derek Moses • Two new Hi-Lift vehicles have been developed in readiness for the...

Couplers coupled

• The Ware-based fifth-wheel and landing gear manufacturing company of Davies Magnet Works Ltd., announced this week that it...

Flow-line for Atkinson

• Following the transfer of its service department to Bamber Bridge, Atkinson Vehicles Ltd. has been able to introduce flowline...

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'Fundamentally wrong'

In the article by Paul Brockington on ''The Next Ten Years" Mr. A, Williamson of Vauxhall expressed an opinion that the front...

These crossings are a menace

As a driver of a 24-ton G.V.W. rigid tanker may I be permitted to air my views on halfbarrier type level crossings? Having to...

Next time request a tow in!

I have read with great interest Mr. K. W. Hutchingson's letter referring to 24-hour breakdown service facilities. Of course...

Breakdown services

At the foot of the letter "24-hour breakdown services" from Mr. K. W. Hutchingson. you invited replies from the garage trader....

Reliable transport

Ken Hutchingson of Glazebrook Transport knows what he's talking about (CM, February 2) when he says that it only needs a...

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Shopping spree

IN accordance with the usual practice those items in the Transport Bill which provide for national or local Government taxation...

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New equipment and publications

Harold Wood, one of the respected elders of the British haulage scene, built his business on a foundation of simple but...

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Road and workshop

by Handyman Change to shutters Roller shutters made by Howard Brothers now incorporate newly designed end locks. They are of...

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Leyland -Verheul single-deck bus

by R. D. Cater, AMInstBE ONE of the most interesting passenger vehicles at the 55th Amsterdam Show which opens tomorrow...

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E. TINEMLOW

joint managing director (works and engineering) and J. B. MILLS chief engineer, Fodens Ltd. MR. TWEMLOW AND MR. MILLS take...

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'Hidden bonuses'

In driver training by A. E. TEER, Road Safety Officer, Schweppes (Home) Ltd. FOR many years formal driver training has been...

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ASSISTANCE FOR THE RURAL BUS /

How will Mrs. Castle's proposals apply to a North Devon independent? ONE of the more constructive parts of the Government's...

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* New Cliveden Set

Older readers of CM will recall Press stories in the 30s describing the real or imaginary doings of the politically powerful...

* The transport manager

The Transport Bill states that if an operator is without a qualified transport manager for more than a month he can lose his...

* Gamesmanship

Transport managers should not be too sceptical about the "transport game" being developed by Mr. J. F. Hooper, of Ealing...

* Kashmir( houseboat

Do you agree with me that we're far too hidebound and self-conscious in this country? For instance, would we get really way-out...

* Substantial shadow

People close to Westminster tell me that 35-year old Shadow Transport Minister Peter Walker is likely to be the Conservative...

* Another ambassador

The sort of international diplomacy we could do with a lot of:—German woman and baby fall into icy river at Hildesheim, West...

* Heavy humour?

Next Wednesday in Manchester the ITA has a speaker talking about heavy and indivisible load movements. The venue is a hotel...

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Integration how and why

WHEN AN eminent economist enters the transport integration controversy with the sort of trenchant remarks reported in last...

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Q I have a B.Sc. (Economics) degree and am expecting soon

to enter the passenger transport industry. What is the appropriate professional body for me to join? A We recommend the...

Q What are the capital liabilities of the Transport Holding Company?

A Under the provisions of the Transport Act 1 962 the THC assumed, on the transfer to it of certain property, rights and...

Q In the COMMERCIAL MOTOR Tables of

Operating Costs minimum remuneration for a basic working week is included in the standing costs regardless of the variation in...

In the article "What it costs to run" in the

Farm Transport Supplement issued with CM November 24, you show interest charged on the initial outlay of the vehicle. I suggest...

I have heard that the Dualmatic Pro .ducts Co. of

Longmont, Colorado, USA, manufacture a dual-drive hub that can be manually adjusted to step-up the drive ratio. Do any...

n As further discussion of road and rail track costs

seems likely, are there any official figures—as distinct from figures claimed by vested interests—as to the payments made by...

G Can you please tell me the reasons

for the growing popularity of the double-reduction spiral-bevel final drive over the worm and crown wheel type for heavy...

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The transport manager's licence (2)

THE NEED for "grades" of qualifications for the proposed transport manager's licence which are commensurate with responsibility...