So now we know. The Freightliners, whose transfer from BR to the National Freight Corporation has been opposed on the grounds...

NFC CHAIRMAN SUPPORTS TRANSPORT ACT, BUT FORESEES TRICKY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR NEW STATE TRANSPORT BODIES • "Transport and...

• The Minister of Transport, Mr. Richard Marsh, announced during Question Time in the House of Commons on Monday that Sir...

• Tomorrow (Saturday) will be a notable day in the development of long distance motorway express services, with the...

from our political correspondent • Two more pay settlements for provincial busmen, agreed between the Wigan and Great...

, ▪ The Minister of Transport told the ▪ Commons on 'Monday that a ports I nationalization Bill will not be introduced I...

• Last week's Prices and Incomes Board report on local productivity deals in toad haulage has come under immediate heavy fire...

R • isi ng • • rates • •• •• • A warning has been given that • rises in haulage rates in the West •...

• Union leaders representing 2,600 vehicle maintenance men in British Road Services angrily challenged the Prices and Incomes...

• Early this week a demonstration and seminar on container stuffing was held in Birmingham by Clark Stacatruc Ltd. The...

new laws? • The Minister of Transport warned on Wednesday that if present improvements in accident figures were not...

• The RTITB is issuing a second edition of its Employers' Guide booklet explaining how training grants may be claimed....

• A successful education convention on transport management held at Southport's Clifton Hotel last weekend, was expected to...

• As part of the rationalization of its activities, the Steel Barrel Scammells Group has transferred its Southern Region...

Sea, fruit is being delivered by road from the Continent to Ireland. Latest consignment was 75 tons of Spanish oranges, which...

0 Should there be standardization in cab design? This was a question considered by the Association of Industrial Road Safety...

Highway and headlight codes • A peer, who had just driven more than 100 miles in mist or fog, last week expressed surprise...

• Why was the revenue from commercial vehicles not included in a report from the Committee of Public Accounts—the Commons...

• The Government is to carry out a review of the types of vehicles which can use motorways—and will be prepared to see...

• A warning that owners would be liable for prosecution if their commercial vehicles were not tested and plated in time was...

by John Darker • A brains trust arranged by the London and Home Counties branch of the Institute of Furniture Warehousing...

by Roger Howell H.W.P. Twisdock for US THE H.W.P. retractable container-twistlock is to be made in America under licence....

• In contrast to the occasion when the Freightliner c and d fleet at Dudley was started when 72 hauliers objected (CM...

• In order that the Road Haulage Association and the North Wales division of Tarmac Roadstone Holdings Ltd. should continue...

• As a first step in implementing its declared objections. the National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors, whose...

• There was concern about the nature of the business the applicant had been doing and. in the fact that he sought to base the...

• Because the Redditch magistrates had not reached the case on the appointed day and therefore there had been no outcome...

exceeding 30 cwt. unladen weight must now comply with the limits on drivers' hours laid down in Section 73 of the Road Traffic...

• The Transport Tribunal has issued two written decisions this week; in both cases judgment is in favour of THC (BRS Ltd.) In...

• The North Western Licensing Authority, Mr. C. R. Hodgson once again adjourned the Sections 174 and 178 inquiry regarding...

• Mr. Wm. Taylor, works manager of Barnes and Bill Ltd., iron and steel merchants of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, appeared before...

• Considerable improvements to rural facilities east of Worcester will result from a suc cessful application to the West...

by DEREK MOSES • An exhibition of Moseley Continental coachwork built by Salvador Caetano of Portugal is being held by Alf...

• The applicant had customer witnesses who would say that they had five vehicles' worth of work to be done and only three...

• Measures required in the light of developments within the Common Market, with regard to working conditions and rest periods...

AsriO,ibre fur bus and ferry serveres 32--1.1) Subject to the provisions of this section, thn Minister may. with the approval...

Bus grants some time • With the coming into operation on November 25 of the New Bus Grants (Commencement of Grant Period)...

• Ten buses fitted with the new fully automatic transmission are among 50 Leyland Atlanteans to be delivered to Manchester...

• Edinburgh Corporation Transport's report for the year ended May 28 1 . 968 states that th the year had been "possibly e...

• North Staffordshire coach operators decided at an emergency meeting following the latest freeze by the Government to seek...

by Derek Moses • The Bristol VRT rear-transverse-engined double-decker, long awaited successor to the front-engined FLF...

from our industrial Correspondent • Garage delegates representing 33,000 London busmen decided on Tuesday to stage a token...

• Now that London Transport has received a licence tp introduce its Blue Arrow - door-todoor" bus service between the Chells...

J ack Jones, assistant executive secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, has been elected to succeed general...

• The following are additions and corrections to the Commercial Motor Guide to 24-Hour and Emergency Service. They provide...

• No way of overcoming some of the problems raised by the new regulations on the conveyance of inflammable substances could...

• Believed to be the first wholesale sales depot to operate on supermarket principles, a - test-bed for this type of...

for BRS by Tony Wilding • The first semi-trailer to be built by R. A. Dyson and Co. Ltd. with a wide-spread tandem bogie...

• In co-operation with the Chemical Industries Association, the Heavy Organic Chemi cals Division of ICI is pioneering in the...

From January 1 1969 new regulations come into effect extending the use of trailers with over-run brakes from the present up to...

• A 3.5-acre site carrying a tanker repair workshop, owned by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd. and operated and staffed by the Kenning...

• To build the lightest chassis on the market and offer "premium" options that will further reduce the weight of the...

by Handyman Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (22) • While it may appear in these articles that I am asking a great deal of...

*Go East The England-Australia marathon rally may boost road transport links between Europe and Asia, it seems. A letter in...

No comfort to hauliers When both sides in a dispute abuse the verdict of the arbitrator he is often justified in feeling that...

by A. J. P. Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE (turbocharged)/Scammell IF I needed proof of the advantages oj a high-power turbocharged...

IN road transport timing is often the crucial factor in success. New types of transport services or new designs of vehicles can...

AMBIM Management matters Management training an urgent task for RTITB Management training in the fragmentary road haulage...

with another larger firm we are now often required to phone in for instructions outside normal working hours. There is some...

by George Wilmot 'University of London. ;Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, Transport economics 'national income'...

,M6 AIRTE, AMIMI by Les Oldridge NEW COMPANIES Blue and amber flashing lamps THE BLUE flashing beacon to be seen on the roof...

business of meat transporters, etc. Dirs.: P. J. Heaney, 26 Waterbank Road. Slit'. E. 1). Heaney, 16 Gipsy Road, Welling Kent,...

A cleaner/detergent which has countless applications has been developed by Applied Chemicals, It is suitable for efficiently...

Ron Cater Twin tyre equipment is today eccepted almost universally as an eminently suitable method of providing the necessary...