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Counting the cost

No operator needs to be told that costs have risen steeply in the past year; as Sam Buckley remarks in introducing the new CM...

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The Lords throw out quantity

licensing from our Pa rliamentary correspondent • Quantity licensing will not start before the end of 1971. The Lords pushed...

Leber has not abandoned

plan by lain Sherriff • Reports last week that Herr Georg Leber, the German Minister of Transport, had abandoned his plan to...

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lew Cost Tables

ldom since CM'S Tables of Operating Costs re first published in 1911 have there been so iny changes affecting costs as during...

3RS pay talks break down — .erious situation may follow from our industrial correspondent

Crucial talks on a new pay and producity deal for 22,500 British Road Services arkers broke down after a seven-hour xting on...

More Standard Lists

• Four further Ministry of Transport plating and testing "Standard Lists" (one including two parts) are published this week....

Frozen till 1969

• On Wednesday evening, Mrs Castle gave notice that the freeze on municipal busmen's pay is to be extended until the end of...

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BOG launches phase two of productivity deal

by John Darker • The second phase of British Oxygen Company's productivity deal will be implemented later this year and details...

Agency card restrictions

• From the beginning of this month, it has been impossible to use any other than a Shell agency card at a Shell garage, and the...

Minister's 'No' to Portbury

• Mr Richard Marsh announced in th House of Commons last Friday the Government decision riot to authorize the Port of Bristol...

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:reightliner forecast too

ugh, says BR planner I The estimated growth of Freightliner - affic from approximately 2m tons to 32m ms a year by 1974 was not...

No-penalty noise checks

• To help drivers doubtful whether their vehicles comply with the new noise regulations which came into force on July 1 the...

nglo-French bilateral

ears completion by lain Sherriff The long-awaited Anglo-French bilateral reements are expected to be signed tonight iday)....

Could you write about t ransport?

Have you souno cowl I re of read lttuus tiansport ancl an in is r for yon rnZiy be rust the person Cum me/rid/ Motor needs to...

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Experience tells with the regulars

by Ashley Taylor • Plenty of regular customers were among the 152 entrants of the Manchester round on Sunday and when it came...

BMC again sweeps its own pitch

by Bob Holiday • Once again drivers from the BMC Morris division gained a major share of the prizes on their home ground at...

'Small man at mercy of union'

by Paul Brockington • Both employees and employers must organize efficiently, said Mr. F. J. Bayliss, senior industrial...

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Six-wheel dump trucks from Germany

by Tony Wild i ng • Righthand drive six-wheel dump trucks made by Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz of West Germany have been introduced...

Esso automatic Dodges

by Ron Cater • Late in 1967 Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. placed an order with Rootes Motors Ltd. for 145 Dodge chassis which were to...

IRU trailer standards

• One of the more important decisions to come out of the IRU Congress in Budapest concerns weights and dimensions of goods...

Dennis display

Dennis equipment will be on show ne Wednesday and Thursday at an exhibitio of the Guildford company's products put o by its...

Cam Gears power steering • Cam Gears Ltd., Hitchin, is

introducing compact and fully integral power-assiste steering gear which can be fitted witho modification to existing vehicle...

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Bank should have kept business alive

• The North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. G. K. Newman, warned the receiver of a Liverpool haulage company that he...

No parcels or smalls

• On the receipt of an undertaking that the applicant would not enter the parcels and smalls field of haulage, three companies...

Grant to reduce sub-contracting

• The prime object of its variation application was to benefit its main customer, Castrol Ltd., said Mr J. Priestley, managing...

The Quiet Revolution

Road haulage is quietly phasing out old depots and replacing them with new designs more suited to the changing patterns of...

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Half-day tours character change alleged

• Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd. was seeking to alter the entire character of the half-day excursion and it should put the case...

Boycott threat over fares rise

• An application by the Midland GenerE Group of bus companies to increase fare by between id and 3d from July 14 wa granted on...

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Govt. 'Yes' to a £1 -a-week deal for London busmen

from our Industrial correspondent • The Government has approved a productivity deal which will give £1-a-week rises to London...

xtra 1 for artlepool crews

Hartlepool Corporation has informed its us employees that subject to Government pproval, a wage increase of £1 a week will e...

Newcastle o-m-o talks

• Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation transport committee has opened talks with the employees' union on a new productivity deal for...

Psv driving scheme proves popular

• A scheme introduced by Strowgers Ltd., of Moss Side, Manchester, to instruct drivers who wish to enter for its p.s.v. licence...

Councils unite to fight rising fares

• Local authorities in Derbyshire are planning to unite to fight future fare-increase applications by bus operators. The...

Radio-control for Silverline

• Two-way radio control of operations will be a feature of the five new Plaxton Panorama Is, mounted on Leyland Leopard...

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Minister lists PTA areas in full

• Transport Minister Mr. Richard Marsh this week asked for the co-operation of local councils in setting up the first four...

Forestalling a PTA

by Carolyn H yams • Voluntary co-ordination of passenger transport facilities is well on the way in North East Lancashire. Now,...

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Operators to share shelter cost

• Bus operators in North East Derbyshire are to be asked to make a contribution to the cost of providing bus shelters....

Bingo buses break the law

• At Loughborough ILeics) magistrates' court, fines totalling £80 were imposed on Trent Motor Traction Co. Ltd., Derby, with...

'Insufficient rest' fines

• The Midland General Omnibus Co. Ltd., was accused at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, of 88 offences of allowing drivers to continue...

New I oT appointment

J. E. G.' Smith, 37, has been appointed by the Institute of Transport to its newly-created post of director of education and...

Bernard Griffiths has been appointed a director and elected chairman

of the South Wales Transport Co. Ltd., Thomas Brothers (Port Talbot) Ltd. and Neath and Cardiff Luxury Coaches Ltd. He has also...

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Engineers analyse vehicles, roads

and tyres as safety factors by Paul Brockington • "Vehicle and road design for safety" was the subject of a symposium jointly...

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Two

Bedford Tasker urban artics • Production begins in August of two new Bedford artics. Plated at 9.7 tons (payload allowance...

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New equipment an publications

leciprocating saws o portable reciprocating-saw unitsodels 700H and 701H—featuring double sulation and radio suppression and...

KEEPING / THEM \ RUNNING \ with Ron Cater

What manner of man makes the best sort of vehicle inspector? Should he be a highly trained engineer who will see faults for...

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Road and workshop

by Handyman Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics (24) • As a final item to this series on vehicle recovery, it is...

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* Curious

In these days of amalgamations, of joint ventures and PTAs, it is interesting to note that Ramsbottom Urban District Council...

*New angle

Here's a new angle on staff outings. This year a number of firms are taking their staff to the LDOY final at Braincote on...

*Sleep 'n ride?

Linking of hotels and transport in this country has not really gone very far, even though ; State-owned facilities have been...

*Musical ride

Liverpool, home of pop music and new ideas, is trying a novel way of reducing the huge deficit now plaguing the Corporation's...

*MBE for RSO

Talking of Liverpool, I see that the city's road safety officer, Ben Kinley, was awarded the MBE in the Birthday Honours—one...

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Janus comments

Variations on a political theme UDGING from the freedom with which Icy impugn the political purity of the Road Iaulage...

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This way to the test

A plain man's c uide to goods vehicle testing and plating BY THE EDITOR ALTHOUGH there has been plenty of publicity about the...

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but will

o they fail? STORIES about the high failure rate of vehicles submitted to MoT testing stations for voluntary testing are...

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coach t ravel on trial

By S. Buckley, Assoc.Inst.T. IMPRESSIONS GAINED AS TO CURRENT STANDARDS OF COMFORT ON CROSVILLE EXPRESS COACH SERVICES BETWEEN...

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O n Will the Plating and Testing Regula

tions allow me to tow a trailer with a 1964 Bedford 8-tonner fitted with airassisted brakes? If so, would the trailer have to...

Q Who manufactures the Cambist automatic change giver mentioned in CM. March 8, page 46?

A This change-giving machine is of Swedish design and is the type used by Coventry Corporation Transport on its one-man...

understand official comparisons were recently given as between the uality

and costs of services by either rail, oach, car or air. What were the details? We presume you are referring to the in...

What are the current and proposed regulations governing our drivers' hours and how do these compare with European limits?

A These are as follows:—

Q What regulation prohibits a vehicle being left on the road with its engine running? Are there any exemptions?

A Regulation 95 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1966 No. 1288 lays down that no person shall cause or...

Q How do the operating costs of a 16

ton-payload artic compare with one of 22-ton payload for the mileage ranges of 800, 1,000 and 1,200 miles a week? And how do...

Q How does the turn-over of platform staff compare with garage staff on municipal bus undertakings?

A For the year ending January 31 1968 turn-over of all platform staff was as follows: drivers 26.1 per cent and conductors...

0 . In view of the pending introduction of heavy goods

vehicle driving tests, wish to gain some experience In this field. I would be pleased if you could advise me whether there are...

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New operating cost tables now available

THE 1968 edition of the Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs is now available through any bookseller at 6s or from the...

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A great step forward in co-operation

THE Institute of Transport has called together representatives of the educational institutes concerned with road transport, the...

ERIam = NT, by Les Oldridge Al RTE, AM I

Stationary motor vehicles (2) LAST WEEK I was talking about "No Waiting" signs and gave some examples. This week I continue to...