The news from around Britain this week suggests that confusion about the new drivers' hours and record-keeping regulations is...

Traffic areas are interpreting on and off duty in different ways by a CM staff reporter • There is nationwide confusion over...

• The activities of Mr Alan Law, leader of 30,000 Midlands road haulage workers, did not justify criminal proceedings, Sir...

• The Transport Tribunal was asked to decide on Wednesday whether the carriage of livestock included that of bloodstock. W. G....

accepted • Company busmen delegates on Wednesday accepted by 61 votes to 34 the NC01 offer of a rise of just over 12 per cent...

• The Franco-British road haulage quota for the 12 months from February 1 has been increased from '7,000 to 15,000 journeys....

• In 1969 the Transport Development Group Ltd made a profit before tax and depreciation of £10,199,000—the first time that the...

• A leaflet (PSV 145) fully setting out the provisions for psv drivers is available from the traffic area offices and the MoT...

• The scope of the Road Haulage Wages Council is to be widened to include all privately owned road transport undertakings...

There is no immediate intention of bringing into force the part of the Transport Act dealing with tachographs in lorries . . ....

• A new rate schedule affording an increase of 11.4 per cent results from negotiations between the Western Quarry Tipper...

• Warrington Road Haulage Association is forming a special committee with a view to starting a group training scheme. So far...

link service • A new radio-telephone service for companies using vehicles all over the North of England and Southern Scotland...

• The £1.5m Eastern Docks development of the Dover Harbour Board is to be opened officially by the Minister of Transport on May...

• Sir Reay Geddes, chairman, Dunlop Co Ltd, is to be the speaker at the informal luncheon of the Institute of Transport on...

• "In these days of growing environmental awareness distribution finds itself very much one of the major custodians of a...

• A combination of record books, register, and binders designed to accept record sheets and register sheets is offered either...

• A meeting was recently held . in London attended by municipal transport officers at which the Association of Municipal...

• Legislation and operation in the next few years might well be dominated by two "E" factors—Environment and Europe, Mr G....

• Last week's CM included a reference to the difficulties of delivery drivers in London who found that traffic wardens tended...

see the opening of CM's new programme of one-day seminars, with fleet efficiency and manpower efficiency being covered on March...

• The Port of London Authority is to renumber all the sheds and berths within its India and Millwall Group of Docks on the Isle...

• The constant stream of new legislation was making it hard for hauliers to keep rates steady, Mr E. W. Voller, area chairman,...

• Loss of take-home pay resulting from the cuts in permitted working hours which took effect from March I have led to...

• Priority must be given to an intensive drive to improve the quality and increase the quantity of the vehicle maintenance...

Dudley Dennington, 42, has been appointed Greater London Council's f9,430-a-year traffic commissioner, with a brief covering...

LT plans few changes for central routes • Although the financial reins of London Transport had now been handed over to the...

• Reports from East Anglia indicate that coach operators are experiencing difficulty in making plans for excursions to London,...

• The Ministry of Transport is to hold an inquiry at Newcastle upon Tyne on March 26 into an appeal by 29 North-East local...

Scottish crews reject NCOI offer • The strike of bus crews throughout Central and Southern Scotland spread dramatically this...

• Tyneside local authorities are divided in their attitude to the scheme drawn up by the Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive...

• Champagne flowed over the bows of the leading vehicle on Wednesday when SELNEC PTE launched the Executive's first eight...

• A £7m underground rail loop beneath Liverpool city centre is being planned by the Merseyside PTA. Working drawings are to be...

• Mr Bob Brown, Parliamentary Secretary to the MoT said in the Commons that to his knowledge 17 local authorities in England...

from our Parliamentary correspondent • A driver on a double-manned bus can take his statutory rest periods during the day while...

• J. Hemphill Ltd, of Glasgow, was granted an operator's licence for two vehicles and three trailers with a margin of 18...

• The Minister of Transport has agreed to allow an application by Mr R. E. Worth, of Worth's Motor Services Ltd, Enstone,...

• Operators' licence applications which have been lodged with the Northern traffic area by nine different applicants with a...

• Mr W. M. Levitt, deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners, has given his written decision to the Safari Park...

• Seven operators objected to an application, heard this week„ by Cliff's Saloon Coaches Ltd, to offer four Of its two-day...

As announced in CM on March 6, the RTITB has proposed a new grants system for the period beginning in August this year. It is...

carried in coach with missing window • A coach operator who admitted carrying mentally retarded children in a coach with a...

• "You should be warned if 'indeed your subsequent performance as a haulier indicates that you have not taken advantage of this...

• 0. R. James and Sons Ltd, of Llanfaethlu, had its application to operate six tours from Anglesey refused by the North Western...

• Leedham Garages were granted two new stage carriage services—Ellesmere Port to Birkenhead and Saltney—in Chester last week....

• The charge against Charles Labdon alleging contravention of Section 235 (1)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1960 was withdrawn by...

• • Keith Gardiner, a student on the 1968/69 course for Auto Electricians at Motec 1 has been awarded the silver medal for...

• The University of London Atlas Computing Service will give a free seminar to all those concerned with transport management on...

• An ingenious method of utilizing its entire fleet of skeletal trailers for both bulk liquids and container operations has...

Developed by the Lantrac Group of Companies, Hemel Hempstead, Hens, a new multi-purpose three-wheeler is now in full...

• Tilt cabs are expected to become standard on all Australian-made Atkinson forward-control models. Unless any unforeseen snags...

• Application of a lead-acid battery of the type developed by the Shin-Kobe company of Japan would enable the operating range...

Tommy Walker • Mr. T. A. Walker. who was elected chairman of the National Tyre Distributors Association in London on...

I read that the Scottish CMU are to ask Barbara Castle for a special meeting as they are worried by the high rate of failures...

I would like to be able to put forward a small operator's thoughts stemming from the theme of your February 20 supplement for...

by Handyman , Benchwise: lathe sense (9) EARLIER in this series, writing of the need to reclaim long spindles; trailer leg...

Two tests in one issue—that's the formula for the March 20 issue of CM. And both are reports of full operational trials by...

by the Hawk • Motorway age We've heard of Nightpak and the dockside express groupage business which British Road Services Ltd...

IN TRANSPORT TRAINING PROVIDES AN ENCOURAGING EXAMPLE TO OTHERS by Brian Cottee ELABORATE and expensive facilities are not...

Worthwhile comparisons • There are two major objectives in setting up a costing system in road transport. First, it should...

produce an acceptably accurate and reasonably priced weighing device to be carried on a vehicle for the purpose of checking its...

commentary by Norman M. Douglas at Hull A monthly intelligence report on container topics H ull-Liverpool/Manchester...

by David Lowe Mlnst A Staffordshire Farmers Ltd THE PROSPECT of annual net profits of only one per cent of turnover would...

by John Vann, FCII The passenger risk • It's easy to be complacent. "I've got comprehensive cover, so I'm all right," one...

Mrs Castle's fifth column by janus y EARS after a government and its ministers have packed their despatch boxes and departed...

matters by John Darker, AM B M The road transport industry and planning (3) TWO previous articles have outlined some of the...

continued from page 57 receive full details at every stage of plan-making. Skeffington did not go so far: publicity should be...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE. AMIMI Plating and testing (1) THE Road Safety Act, 1967, gave the Ministry of Transport power to make...

I have to apply for a carrier's licence for my tractive units or whether the application has to be made for the trailers only....

driving licence is endorsed, does his hgv driving licence suffer an endorsement, or any form of curtailment? A If a man...

September 6 1968 I read the description of a new AEC passenger chassis called the Sabre. The chassis, which was fitted with the...

30cwt but it has a manufacturer's plate showing a gross weight of 3.6 tons. Do I need an operator's licence for this vehicle?...

the difference between a single sleeve valve and double sleeve valve unit and who were the makers of sleeve-valve engines? And...

In an answer to a 0 & A (CM Feb 27) referring to the use of an bracket when making a suspended tow we stated that we could not...

Own-account operators and the RTITB by George Wilmot I MENTIONED last week how many of the attacks on the Road Transport...