E type of person who could be labelled "typical transport manager" is changing steadily, and at a growing pace. He is becoming...

container concept matched her aim as Minister of Transport to create an integrated transport system, Mrs. Castle told Contran...

FOR CONTAINER EQUIPMENT first International Container Services and Equipment Exhibition is to be held in the Grand Hall,...

BY JOHN N. FRIEDMAN been wagging this week—with joy. For the Group 1966—"one of the most difficult for many years", topping...

SCAMMELL sales director Mr. B. L Braithwaite this week opened the Ford and Slater Ltd. Scammell trailer centre at Leicester....

ALLISON S Freightlines (South-Eastern) Ltd. has taken over Landfreights Ltd.— and its subsidiaries, G. H. Young and Co....

COMMERCIAL MOTOR turns the spotlight on the "lightweights" next week with another special LIGHT VEHICLES AND FLEET CARS...

R OAD haulage has been the first important industry to put its case to the South East Region Economic Planning Council, its...

TRIAL runs of the heavy vehicle I testing scheme are now to start at the Hendon pilot station, using vehicles supplied by...

T HE Tartan Arrow liner train service between its new terminals at Kentish Town, London, and Bridgeton, Glasgow, started on...

BY S. BUCKLEY A NNUAL vehicle excise duty, insurance -s • premium and possibly other financial commitments all falling due at...

Over the pit the vehicle will get a thorough mechanical examination (stations will have the right to refuse vehicles too dirty...

B RITISH Railways is to be allowed to carry parcels and sundries traffic throughout by road instead of by rail where it is...

PRE-BUDGET hopes of some reduction in road fuel duty were dashed on Tuesday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. James...

Fr now paid a manufacturer to set up his own distribution network, declared an MP who last week complained about the effects of...

1 Transport Tribunal hearing of an appeal by 18 Road Haulage Association objectors following the grant 'THE deputy North...

W T was described as a "unique application"—for an excursions and tours licence solely to convey old age pensioners on trips in...

EN Hunters of Hull Ltd., was called before the Yorkshire LA at Leeds at a A l /teflon 178 inquiry, Mr. R. E. Paterson, for the...

C ONURBATION Transport Authorities will encourage improved designs of buses for supply in bulk, said the Minister of Transport...

T HE formation of a Conurbation Transport Authority to acquire and operate all the buses in North Staffs. would have...

M ONDAY was "R" for Reorganization Day for London's red buses, when the new management structure of the Central Bus operating...

A WARNING that loss of traffic, loss of revenue and rising costs must not be permitted to overtake the South Wales Transport...

S TEPS are to be taken by Sunderland Corporation to remove fares anomalies following its takeover of the former Sunderland...

"N E Scottish Bus Group and orthern Ireland's recently formed Ulsterbus Ltd. will form one company soon—if merger talks are...

T HE Rover Co. Ltd., this week announced that the Land-Rover 109 in. wheelbase normal-control model is now optionally available...

A IUNSON Vehicles have held their first open day at their recently acquired test track. Prominent haulage executives attended...

D ESIGNED for axle loads up to 13 tons, a tester was demonstrated in the Midlands on Monday by the Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd., 165...

. . . CAV expert tells of organized search for product failure V EHICLE equipment CAN be designed to meet a detailed...

WELL KNOWN as manufacturers of earthmoving equipment, heavy duty dump trucks and agricultural and industrial trailers, Whitlock...

THE National Economic Development Council has set up a working party to ,examine possible sources of increased productivity in...

TOMORROW, Saturday, Mr. Fred Hope is to demonstrate the anti-jack-knife device made by his company—Self Energising Disc Brakes...

THE Road Transport Industry Training Board says in its second news bulletin that with the appointment of its director-general...

y ET us consider that the last few para graphs in Part 4 of this series have aroused the interest of the operator, and he is...

THE WHOLE of the share capital of Massey Brothers (Pemberton) Ltd. has been bought by the Northern Counties Motor and...

PRESENTATIONS on all aspects of braking will form the main feature of the IRTE national conference from May 19-21 at the Grand...

TWO Bedford-based municipal vehicles, an ambulance and an 800-gal. gully and cesspit emptier will be shown by Vauxhall Motors...

and publications Frbring the benefits of softened water by automation to the small industrial user, the Permutit Company Ltd.,...

BY JOHN DARKER, Ameim S UBSTANTIAL economies have resulted from Shell-Mex and BP's productivity agreement. Drivers appreciate...

All set to provide visitors to the Longlest estate of the Marquis of Bath with a mobile grandstand seat of jungle life in...

Unlike the latter Society, however, the CVRTC interests itself in goods as well as passenger vehicles. Anyone interested in...

A r last the importance of good maintenance is being brought home to commercial vehicle operators—far too long has mere lip...

Silver Roadways did. E urope means Mercedes-Benz... E urope's largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles. For the...

EN Britain, with few exceptions, a passenger vehicle is a passenger L vehicle and a goods vehicle is a goods vehicle, but there...

ON AND OFF THE ROAD The heavy duty Tippers used by Dick Hampton (Earth Moving) Ltd. on motorways and re-construction sites...

O NCE the main structure of the Government's proposed transport legislation has been published, the enterprising and sometimes...

W HY bother to have any conditions of carriage, especially as they are so often written in legal jargon, unintelligible to a...

platform lorry for an experimental contract job but the results were not as good as we hoped for. With a yearly mileage of...

haulage business operating on a B licence. It is my intention to continue running this concern in exactly the same way as the...

A A range of maintenance and other trans"--* port record forms is obtainable from the Charnwood Publishing Company, Coalville,...

A In the subject of investment appraisal DCF stands for "Discounted Cash Flow". Briefly, this is the application of a suitable...

present tempo are congested terminals inevitable, resulting in slow clearance of containers despite high-speed running between...

that I can drive motor vehicles in groups 2, 3 and 12, with some qualifications. But! understand that no person under 21 may...

affect my 1960 Commer 7-ton horse box with vacuum servo hydraulic brakes and my 1960 Dodge tractive unit and low loader...

A The statutory minimum remuneration for the driver of a goods vehicle with a carry ing.capacity exceeding 5 tons and not...

E concept of a University of the Air, with instruction based on television viewing supplemented by radio programmes, was part...

IN addition to its shipping interests Lovell's Shipping and Trans port Co. has a substantial stake in the businesses of...