W HILE it has been clear that the opposition to private hauliers' use of Freightliner terminals was by no means a unanimous...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE agreement by the National Union of Railwaymen to remove their three-year-old ban on the...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT DOST OFFICE dissatisfaction over the punctuality of services provided by the railways for the...

REFRIGERATED operators have turned down proposals for a British branch of Transfrigoroute-Europe. It is felt that most...

AMONG controversial motions down for dis cussion at the biennial conference of the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union...

By JOHN DARKER respo nsibilities are much wider—is Mr. Alan Law, regional trade group secretary of the Transport and General...

A DRASTIC cut in the proportion of freight was forecast by Mrs. Barbara Castle on progress on the £20m. extension project. The...

A FREIGHTLINER exhibition train attracted many transport managers from the heavily industrialized South Yorkshire area at...

F EARS that growing apathy among members of the RHA's car transporter group might lead to its disbandment were dispelled this...

A TRANSPORT BILL in the autumn would define the constitution of the National Freight Organization, said Mr. Stephen Swingler,...

THE RHA executive committee has rejected a resolution from the Metropolitan and South Eastern area urging positive action to...

INDIVIDUAL members of the RHA longdistance group will have to make up their own minds on how the year's increase in costs has...

M INISTER of Transport Mrs. Barbara Castle told the Commons on Wednesday that she has given the go-ahead to container port...

THE Post Office hopes to start a minibus service in Devon or Cornwall soon, similar to that now operating in Montgomeryshire,...

THE British Road Federation this week called for a 7d. cut in motor fuel tax—from 3s. 7d. to 3s. a gallon—in a memorandum to...

the chairmanship of the John Thompson Group after the annual general meeting on June 14. Sir Edward has been chairman since...

GOVERNMENT backing—with qualifications—was given last week to a Private Member's Bill which will allow the extension of travel...

A CALL for a single bus system for Northern Ireland was made by Mr. Phelim O'Neill in the Ulster Commons. "In a small area...

TN a hotly contested application, Berresford's Motors Ltd., of Cheddleton, on Wednesday received a limited grant for packaged...

A N application by Merchandise Transport Ltd., of Tottenham, to switch 84 vehicles and seven trailers from C to B licences was...

AN application by a hire firm to change its condition of licence for goods vehicles was opposed at Oxford this week by 13...

EIGHT articulated outfits totalling 78 tons unladen and based at Cardiff railway station are being applied for by the Western...

DECISIONS of the Metropolitan LA, Mr. D. I. Muir, on applications by Forwarding Transport Services (London) Ltd., and J. T....

N O longer do Northern Irish and foreig hauliers wishing to make occasional trips t■ this country have to go through the full...

is to keep things moving O Nthree occasions in five years the Transport Tribunal has been unable to proceed with an appeal...

FRANK BURRAVOE DETECTS MINISTERIAL LAPSE into any S. CASTLE is a determined woman ; once she g ets her teeth thin g , they g...

S. BARBARA CASTLE, Minister of Transport, has completed the setting up of the new regional organizations to improve public...

TONDON Transport this week out lined its proposals for the first of the suburban "satellite" schemes under its big plan for...

ALTHOUGH Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation transport department does not operate a closed shop, the transport committee has...

P ROFITABILITY was no longer an accept able norm for measuring efficiency of a public transport organization, Mr. Conor Clune,...

Unfortunately, those admirable precepts now look like being endangered. Consider the sort of situation which is likely to...

A DRIVE to persuade motorists to use public transport is to be made by the Northern region Passenger Transport Co-ordination...

From Ford/Hands comes 9.1-ton g.t.w. off-the-peg outfit RD today announces the intro duction of a new "baby" artican addition...

A BRITISH Standard specification for diesel engines is nearly completed, said Government spokesman Lord Shepherd in the Upper...

Fruehauf semi-trailer which formed part of the artic outfit test in COMMERCIAL MOTOR on January 27 was, we are now informed, a...

A MANUFACTURING and marketing agreement has been made between Metropolitan-Canunell-Weymann Ltd. and the Superior Coach...

- pq MC announces that all its commercial vehicles now in production will meet the braking regulations applying to vehicles...

GUY Motors Ltd. has prepared bulletins for Guy operators, detailing modifications required to bring their vehicles in line with...

C HANGES have been made by Ford to the braking system of all D Series goods models so that these meet in full the regulations...

WOLVERHAMPTON Corporation's last trolleybus route (Wolverhampton Dudley) ceased to operate on March 6 and was replaced by...

IN a previous article, I wrote of the young fitter and his first solo towing Job that did not quite go according to plan; here...

Fr YRE inflation can be simplified using the OPW tyre inflator now marketed by J. S. Webber Ltd. With this unit, the required...

Monopoly mind? WE KEEP hearing about the bad time bus operators are having, but I wonder how much is due to the "monopoly...

"H ELPING the police with their inquiries" took on a rather less sinister note than usual when a g roup of senior officers...

T HE Grosvenor House, Park Lane, was all a- g o- g o and swin g in g and insville on Saturday ni g ht (if this old s q uare has...

T HEAR that a horticulturist near Sahash, Cornwall, is dis g usted 1 with British Railways for losses and delays in transit. If...

THAT 17s. 11d , is still with us! The account just published of I loans to nationalized transport undertakin g s shows the...

T HE once shinin g ima g e of the heavy vehicle driver had become somewhat tarnished, observed H. E. Robson, the Yorkshire LA,...

M ANAGING director Barry Wild said his organization conceived the idea lon g before the Industrial Trainin g Act was on the...

TT had to happen. Announce the imminent formation of a new body and everyone starts puttin g up his idea of who is likely to be...

PROBLEMS...that's the challenge facing new NCB transport chief E. V. IVIOLYNEUX N EW times—new methods. The National Coal...

TOY must be a rare emotion for Ministers of Transport. In welcoming the decision of the National Union of Railwaymen to allow...

Here's how you gain with York's plated trailing axle Soon you won't be able to operate a vehicle designed for 12 tons gross...

Fr HE Industrial Training Act, 1964, has three main objects: to ensure an adequate supply of properly trained men and women at...

produce pneumatically operated jacks „that can be inserted in the corners of a container to enable it to be elevated to allow...

operated by my father, From the beginning of licensing, a condition on our licence reads - agriculture produce". It has been...

delivery service with a 15 cwt petrolengined van, averaging around 100 miles a week. Could you give any basis for calculation...

of an old-established haulage contractor, I am concerned at the goods which my company has carried and still is carrying. The...

A There do not appear to be any proprietary makes of such equipment available in this country at present. The four vehicle...

A The term - wide tyre" is now included in the latest consolidated Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1966 No....

for either rigid six-wheel vehicles or tractive units for use with semi-trailers? A Twin-steer rigid six-wheelers are offered...

A Yes. Details of interim regulations for the award of a full technological certificate in vehicle body engineering have...

affect existing goods vehicles, can a multi-pull brake be used as an emergency brake by a number of driver applications as long...

A LARGE number of examination questions on road passenger law are concerned with the many licences obtaining and the problem of...

Leyland expansion: Light is still green F ROM out of the prevailing gloom and despondency overhanging stock markets has come a...

good condition, that's the thing." G. W. Scholes, Transport Manager, Sidney Flavel Ltd. Flavel Products are finished in...