Remembering the noisy protest from some quarters when the implications of the RTITB grant and levy scheme dawned on operators,...

• The Department of Employment and Productivity has approved proposals made by the Road Transport Industry Training Board for...

S eddon? PLANS FOR GARDNER ENGINED MODELS • A straight-framed rear-engined bus weighing probably less than 6 tons complete...

• An agreement between Scammell Lorries Ltd. and Commercial Coachbuilders (Hull) Ltd. for the joint marketing of containers and...

A five-day management course is being sponsored by the Road Haulage Association at Ashridge Management College, Berkhamsted,...

• The Government is expected to issue a fresh "freeze" Order adding a further three months to the delay period on the rises for...

• Dutch-German relations have become increasingly strained since April 1, the day when the new restricted reciprocal licensing...

• A report in COMMERCIAL M OTOR Of the case in which James Holden Junior (CrumpsaW Ltd., hauliers, sued Lloyds underwriters for...

• A warning to lorry drivers to be particularly careful when carrying out repairs or attention to vehicles on motorways has...

• Shell and BP tanker drivers will get rises of £2-L3 a week under a new pay and productivity deal agreed this week. About...

• Approval of plans for the extension of British Railways' Freightliner services at a cost of was announced last week. The...

• That a 40ft semi-trailer with wide-spaced bogie is now offered by Merriworth (Engineering) Ltd., Dartford, Kent, is disclosed...

• Six more Standard Lists giving maximum gross and axle weights at which goods vehicles will be plated at Ministry Test...

• Papers to be presented at the annual Institute of Traffic Administration conference, May 17 to 19, at the Regent Hotel,...

by John Darker • A rate-cutting war on the North Sea ferry services may seem like good news for users— some cargo rates have...

• That heavily laden commercial vehicles continue to find difficulty in maintaining the minimum of 10 mph within the Dartford...

standard by lain Sherriff • The Met man at Turnhouse told me that 23+mm of water had fallen in the area last Sunday between 8...

by Carol Hyams • Slickness—in driving, organization and turnout—was the keynote at Speke on Sunday when the Liverpool LDOY...

• The new Secretary of State for Wales, Mr. George Thomas, will officially open the Abergele By-pass on May 31.

• Whether driving hours include waiting time would seem to depend entirely on whether a lorry's engine is running or not. The...

goods will be included in the Regulations dealing with quantity licensing will depend on the outcome of consultations with the...

• "This is a perfect example of how fatuous are some of the proposals in the Transport Bill", said Mr. Ellis Bebbingtort,...

THIS week I am departing from my practice of looking at a specific clause in the Transport Bill in order to examine the...

• Eight operators were fined a total of £920 with £246 15s costs in Liverpool last week for overloading and breaches of...

• New North Western Traffic Commissioner, Mr. J. W. Kane-, joined Mr. C. R. Hodgson in hearing an application in Manchester on...

• At Cockermouth last week Mr. I. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern LA, granted A. Piekthall, Cleator Moor, the addition of two car...

• The Kith MU Congress (International Road Transport Union) will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from June 10 to 13, with Mr....

• A variation application by Sutton anc Sons (St. Helens) Ltd., was adjourned ir Liverpool last week so that witnesses for thf...

• The Minister of Transport launchec RoSPA's National Road Safety Campaigt for Children and Young People in Londot last week....

• A further order for 44 long-wheelbase Daimler Fleetline double-deck bus chassis has been placed by Manchester City Transport....

• Views expressed by Mr. Stephen Swingler, Minister of State for Transport, were challenged at the weekend by Mr. Thomas...

• The Ministry of Transport has now released a full list of local authorities which have been approached informally for their...

• A bid to end the nine-week strike of 3,400 Liverpool busmen was made last weekend. But the peace formula was not approved by...

on PIB lines? from our industrial correspondent • A new pay and productivity deal for 110,000 company busmen will be placed...

Ford Motor Company in succession to Sir Patrick Hennessy. Mr. Crosland, who has been a Ford director for six years, was...

Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund at a council meeting which followed the 63rd annual general meeting of BEN on April 26....

Ltd as sales manager responsible to the whole of sales operation: throughout England and Wales serving on the company's manage...

• The 1,400 busmen employed by Newcastle Upon Tyne Corporation decided on Friday to continue their unofficial strike over the...

of articulation Report by Paul Brockington A hint that higher train weights may be m the way; the possibility of steering...

• The Dunlop Co. Ltd., engineering products division, Coventry, announced a Pneuride anti-roll type of semi-trailer air...

• A 26-ton-capacity steerable tandem-axle dolly has been introduced by he Primrose Third Axle Co. Ltd., for Special T fpes...

• One of three mobile infor nation and recruiting centres built for the Ni tonal Coal Board by L. F. Dove and Co. L :d. of...

The importance of adequate, clear and concise service literature can never be so great as when the user of a company's products...

NOW that standards are being laid down for braking efficiencies on commercial vehicles an examination of the definition of this...

Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics (15) by Handyman • Usually when a recovery unit is called out, the vehicle in...

By S. Buckley Assoc I nst T DESPITE the difficulties stemming from the Transport Bill when it becomes law, delegates to the...

ALTHOUGH I have driven a 15-metrelong artic before, one has never been road tested by CM. The simple reason is that until April...

Features of major interest to goods and passenger vehicle operators and drivers appear in the May 17 issue of COMMERCIAL M...

RECORD ENTRY FOR HCVC RUN THIS YEAR IT IS quite amazing how year after year the Historic Commercial Vehicle Run to Brighton...

mechanical handlinc . exhibition A preview by John Darker, AMBIM THE 1968 International Mechanical Handling Exhibition at...

The third man LITTLE ATTENTION has so far been paid to the role of the National Freight Corporation in quantity licensing....

THE number and variety of fork-lift trucks used in British industry has mushroomed in recent years. Some of the largest...

So the Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association is to have an LT1sterman as its president for the coming year. And not an...

The new president-elect proposed the toast to the guests at the SRPTA dinner at the annual conference—held this year for the...

An attraction that we didn't appreciate in advance was the SRPTA's guest speaker, Lord Birsay, who stood kilted and foursquare...

It was Atkinson's day at Redcar Races on Saturday. For the first time, the manufacturer sponsored a one-mile six-furlong race,...

"Make friends with the dealer" was the happy theme which the president of IOMTR urged upon the motor trade's customers this...

A colleague better educated (or better read than myself tells me that I was wrong to attr bute the recent quotation about "thos...

1HE Road Transport Industry Training 3oard has done well. It was only established n September 1966 and up till then training...

ing operating commercial vehicles wider contract-hire arrangements including he advantages of this method compared vith...

car when driving a laden 5turner down a slope. When I applied the rakes the rear wheels locked and left skid 'larks on the dry...

A Where vehicles have been operated under the provisions relating to abnormal indivisible loads one person in addition to the...

A According to the Ministry of Transport census in the third quarter of 1967 there were 14,102,000 motor vehicles licensed for...

an 18-ton payload on contract work involving about 800 miles weekly. I intend to apply for a B licence for the purpose. What is...

trailer to can'/ two cars and to be hauled by a long-wheelbase Land-Rover. What regulations would apply as regards licensing?...

Further thoughts on the transport manager's licence I ATTEMPTED last week to dispel some of the gloom and cynicism about the...