A criticism commonly levelled at managers of bus undertakings is that they seldom or never sample their own services. For...

by David Lowe • A coroner's jury on Wednesday recommended the introduction of stronger safety controls in container transport....

• Aviation fuels for Australia's Alice Springs airport, and a large range of petroleum products for service stations and...

• A request has been made this week to the Ministry of Transport to drop the age limit for heavy goods vehicle driving licences...

• The Transport and General Workers' Union national bus committee decided on Tuesday to withdraw from the National Joint...

• A strong call to the Government to amend the goods vehicle drivers' hours regulations was made in Leeds on Wednesday by Mr J....

• At the inquest at Lutterworth, Leics, on three people in a car and a van who were killed in a collision after a lorry tyre...

• This week Road Haulage Wages Council Order RH(94) was published. It takes effect from October 12 and sets out the new minimum...

• Morris and David Jones Co, the Liverpool wholesale fruit supply company, has taken over Aber Carriers, of Welshpool,...

• When Mr Hugh Featherstone. director-general of the Freight Transport Association, addressed the London division of the...

• A show of Scania vehicles is to be held at the premises of Dorada Commercial Vehicles Ltd, Trading Estate, Farnham, Surrey,...

• Anton Industries, of Chesterfield, have added another model, a 50/70-ton lowloader, to their range of 74-ton gross train...

• Four knowledgeable executives in the world of transport engineering have agreed to take part in two seminars sponored by...

• Traffic congestion is still spreading more rapidly in Britain than in any other major country in the world, according to...

• When the express carriers group of the Road Haulage Association has its preconference meeting in the Palace Hotel, Torquay,...

• Charterhouse Finance Corporation, which co-ordinates all the financial services of the Charterhouse Group, has provided...

"Selling freight is not a black art", says Maurice Rounding in the next instalment in his Transport Market Place series, to be...

Transport formed • A new company, P & 0 Transport Holdings Ltd, has been formed by the P & 0 Steam Navigation Company to...

• A University of Glasgow course of 20 weekly lectures on "A History of Scottish Transport" will be held on Wednesdays from...

• After two haulage contractors had been contracted to carry a load of steel and a 1-ton machine from a Bristol engineering...

• A group training scheme has been set up in mid-Kent to include operators in an area from Gravesend in the west to Faversham...

• Transport comes well up in the list of subjects of special interest to MPs in the new Parliament. This is shown by a survey...

• In a bid to reduce the number of multiple pile-ups on motorways in fog, RoSPA has devised a simple code for drivers to follow...

and freight handling by David Lowe, m I nstTA Handling Conference • A two-day conference With the theme "Pallets--what is the...

• Although Stockport Corporation had handed over its buses to the SELNEC PTA last year, perhaps the final chapter had not yet...

• A plan for introducing concessionary bus fares for old people and the blind has been drawn up by Carlisle's city treasurer. A...

Geoffrey Steel, 35, has been elected chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association national executive and finance...

When British Leyland designers and engineers began work on the Leyland National bus, their starting point was to question...

• Bus fares based on one new penny for each fare stage travelled would cost London Transport £15m a year in lost revenue, says...

• Pilot studies of the transport problems in two of the more remote rural areas—one in Devon, the other in West Suffolk—are to...

• A circular bus route for shoppers is likely to be introduced in Glasgow's city centre for a trial period just before...

• The National Freight Corporation on Wednesday appealed to the Transport Tribunal against the decision of the North Western...

• A petition presented to Mr Justice Megarry at the Law Courts on Monday, for the compulsory winding up of Charles Poulter Ltd,...

• From 1971 onwards Licensing Authorities will be looking more intently at the arrangements which operators have made to comply...

• The Northern LA Mr J. A. T. Hanlon, has rejected an application by Mr A. Beck, of South Hctton, Co Durham, to operate an...

• An application by Kenneth Ennion, a Barnton, Cheshire, based coach operator, to add seven new picking up points to an...

• An application for an operator's licence by Williams and Long, of Tredegar, was granted by the LA in Cardiff on Thursday of...

• Within a matter of minutes the LA at Glasgow on Monday dealt with a handful of applications and requested in each case that...

• The first large scale public inquiry relating to offences under Section 69 of the 1968 Transport Act was held last week in...

• Built for the purpose of testing flow meters to new HM Customs regulations at petroleum refineries and installations, and to...

• What is believed to be the largest tipper on British roads has lately gone into service with L. G. Bradshaw and Sons Ltd, of...

• UK sales of Norde rubber-sprung suspensions for conversions to chassis vehicles in future will be handled by the Kenning...

• A 16-page booklet entitled "Decimal Training Made Easy" is to be published by Motor Trader on October 14—the opening day of...

• Voith Engineering Ltd moved its headquarters from Glasgow to Surrey last weekend (October 3/4) and is now operating from...

• The Sovet Union's biggest motor works is now being built in the town of Naberezhnye Chelny on the banks of the River Kama in...

• Bonneted Super Constructor heavyduty six-wheeler Scammells ordered by the Crown Agents for oilfields work in the Middle East...

• Anticipating the 1968 Transport Act requirements concerning the presentation of clean vehicles for MoT tests, Keith Tarry and...

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (34) ALTHOUGH external thread-cutting has been my concern so far in this series, the fact...

what the drivers thin by lain Sherriff, MITA TRADE UNION officials spend too much time talking and not enough time...

by the Hawk meet Geoff Hallam • With the just announced addition of McVeigh Transport's fleet to his existing...

a high note • by Tony Wilding, MIMECHE, MIRTE AS FORECAST in CM's first look at the Paris Show last week, the major interest...

continued ment being possible. The Type 343 coaches from Heuliez, Menarani and Orlandi have similar luggage capacity and...

MInstTA ALL BANKS will be closed on February 11 and February 12, 1971, the two bank days preceding Decimalization-day. During...

operation Hewson Brothers by David Lowe, m I nstTA TO MANY PEOPLE the thought of a base near Goole would be a daunting...

Riding out the calm by Janus F OR longer than one cares to remember road transport operators have pleaded that their industry...

and I want to develop more into the distribution field. Could you advise me on warehouse charges and distribution rates? Could...

and I find the performance is disappointing. Is there any way in which I Can improve its acceleration, particularly for...

we may use trade plates. Could we. for instance, transport a trailer or tank from London to one of our depots in the North with...

the question of using recovery vehicles for tow , ng, and the legal permissible driving hours? When towing an articulated unit...

low-loader trailer for transporting machinery. Although my sons have been driving the vehicle for five years they have not done...

A The new statutory minimum wage rate for drivers in the 10-ton to 15-ton carrying capacity class is 352s for drivers whose...

for 14 years. But unfortunately about two years ago I had an operation and now must not drive heavy goods vehicles. Will this...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Giro way to pay-day savings WITH inflation boosting the size of wage packets, though not the...

by Les Oldridge, AIRTE, AMIM 1 Registration of driving instructors (2) THE EYESIGHT TEST laid down by Regulation 7 (2) of the...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Association for transport teachers? THE NEWS...

• Versatility has been a vital factor in the growth of the road transport industry. Both the traffic and engineering...