T HE Government. seem to have developed the dangerous habit of acting first and thinking afterwards. " If it continues, the...

W HAT are the fuel prospects for next summer? Premature though this question may seem, it is of vital importance to operators...

Petty Obstructionists H OW does a haulier justify to a customer the Road Haulage Association's recommendation of a...

A lot of gas about substitutes for petrol and oil fuel. That some operators may remember that the use of Calor gas for motor...

New Bill for Emergency Increases : General Rise in Haulage Rates A BILL to permit emergency increases in road passenger...

I - 1 A TRANSPORT group has been established in York with headquarters at the offices of Flowers Trans port, Ltd., Fetter...

1 - 1. A DISAGREEMENT on rationing seems to have arisen between the Metropolitan Regional Transport Commissioner and the...

IF the effects of the Suez crisis were I as serious as expected, the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., were bound...

A N increase of 10 per cent, in the prices of all tyres was made by the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., last week. It was because of...

MR. THOMAS STEWART has been appointed mana g er of the Scotland, Northumberland, Durham and North Ridin g area of E. R. Howard,...

WHAT was stated to be the first VI action under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956, came before Mr. Justice Upjohn in...

A FTER evidence had been g iven to the South Wales Deputy Licensin g Authority at a previous hearin g (The Commercial Motor,...

1 T is thought likely that a majority of the bigger bus companies will not seek extra fare increases to meet an expected "...

B EFORE the fuel crisis the executive Li committee of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers advised...

S UPPLEMENTARY fuel rations will not be issued for retail deliveries in the Metropolitan Police District, except for milk and...

A DDITION of is. to the fuel tax was . another weapon added to subsidies and fuel rationing to transfer tfaffic from road to...

A PPLICATLONS by two North F1 Wales coach operators for permission to run express services from the Royal Air Force Camp at...

V EHICLE restriction in Liverpool. so far as Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., were concerned, was nonsense. Their figures showed...

A N anomaly in fares and conditions turned a coastal bus route into a taxi service, which was uneconomic, Mr. J. Evans, for...

A REMOVER, Mr. G. E. White. I -1 Coventry Road. Smallheath, Birmingham, who claimed that people in the Birmingham area were...

Perkins Raise .£1,069: F. Perkins, Ltd., have raised £1,069 for Hungarian relief, Highway Code 6d: The price of the Highway...

private-party operation, involving Mothers Motors, Ltd., Wallasey, and Wallasey Transport Department, led to the adjournment of...

"WE do not want to extend our vr business. .We want to c a rry on with the same traffic that we have always been handlin g as...

" w E particularly bear in mind the fact that there are previous convictions which seem to have had absolutely no effect on...

DORESENT-DAY installation costs for trolleybus operation were between £6,000 and £10,000 per mile, according to the nature...

O N the applicant's own showing, he had made it clear that he was running his contract-carriage business without regard to the...

T WO Batley hauliers, Fred Chappell, Ltd., Station Road, and Messrs. F. Richardson, Soothill, were fined a total of £53, with...

EFERR1NG to a fare agreement in the Liverpool — Southport area between Ribble Minor Services, Ltd., and British Railways, Mr....

H AULIERS should realize that they 'could not buy an A licence. Mr. R. Cleworth, Q.C., Stipendiary Magistrate, said at Leeds...

C ONTRARY to the implied suggestions in the White Paper published by the Northern Ireland Government (The Commercial Motor,...

Platform Doors, Worked by Power or by Hand, Give Safety on Town Services and Comfort on the Longer Runs M ANY operators who...

Palletless Mechanical Handling A NEW method of palletless fork truck, handling, known as the Accopak system, was recently...

Tory M.P.s Press for Assurance that Extra Shilling Will be Taken Off After Six Months or Sooner FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY...

FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT \V HEN Mr. H. Brooke, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, last week moved the Customs...

THE interim report of the committee set up by the Minister of Transport in March this year to survey parking in the inner area...

Part 1 - overnents Needed in the Suspension of Goods 'cies to Avoid Damage to Bodywork When ling Light, say Bodybuilders and...

By a Special Correspondent Rationing Introduces Complicated Problems of Administration : Operators Disillusioned : Government...

Mountains of Words, Molehills of Action, in British Road Development Since the War I N a highly industrialized and densely...

Political Commentary By JANUS F OR a change it would be refreshing to read somewhere an attack upon the railways for carrying a...

Railways Cannot Handle the Traffic VOU have recently touched upon the problem of fuel rationing, and mentioned the...

Advances in the Cost of Fuel Are Major Items Which Hauliers Must Recoup in Order to Keep Their Businesses Going: Effects...

F UEL rationing may-cause next year's Lorry Driver of the Year Competition to be cancelled. Nevertheless, arrangements for the...

INFFERENCES in the ideas of the 1 -0' Anglo-American school of headlamp meeting-beam design and the European school, have been...

DASED on a B.T.C. trailer, a 1,185-eu.-ft. bulk transporter for animal foodstuffs has been built by H. Woodward and Sons, Ltd.,...

Dewandre Co., Ltd., Titanic Works. Lincoln) shows a power-assisted steering system. The basis of the patent is a novel means...