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14th July 1967
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Pay and practices

J UST over a year ago road haulage workers received a wage rise and other benefits worth about 5 per cent in total, and costing...

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RHA tells Mr. Gunter: We want differential training levies

E FLAT RATE training levy of 1.6 per cent proposed by the Road Transport Industry Training Board should be replaced by...

Employers reject pay claim for extra el

By John Darkenl T HE EMPLOYERS' side of the National Negotiating Committee last week rejected trade union claims for higher...

CHARD TAKEN OVER

BLATCHFORDS Packers and Removers Ltd., a member of the Devon Trading and Harveys Group, has acquired the share capital of Chard...

. .. NOW ALL THEIR FISH COMES BY ROAD

AS A RESULT of the two-week NUR stoppages in London, all fish from Hull, Grimsby and Fleetwood to Billingsgate fish market,...

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HOURS PLAN MEANS COST LEAP OF 20 PER CENT

N O PRODUCTIVITY scheme can be devised to enable 'every haulier to meet the extra cost—up to 20 per cent in some cases—of the...

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TINIBER BRS lands its biggest-ever single contract

B RS HAS won its largest single contract ever—from MacMillan Bloedel Meyer Ltd., timber importers—for the distribution of...

GLASS EXPORTED IN CONTAINERS

LKINGTON Brothers Ltd., is to experi ment with containerization for shipping large quantities of flat glass to overseas...

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TV SPEEDS DOCK TURNROUND

CLOSED-CIRCUIT television scanning the full length of a new 540 ft. transit shed will speed turnround at South Six Dock,...

MoT ROUTES FOR HIGH ABNORMAL LOADS A GRID of UK

routes for the movement of high abnormal loads has been drawn up by the MoT. Headroom exceeds 20 ft., except in two cases where...

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Tories plan massive protest against nationalization threat

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE LONG-AWAITED Transport Bill, which will be heralded by a spate of White Papers in the...

TGWU fights RIB bus pay probe plan

T HE GOVERNMENT wants the Prices and Incomes Board to investigate pay and productivity throughout the bus industry, with a...

MRS. CASTLE

M RS. BARBARA CASTLE said in the Commons this week that she expected to be able to enforce the proposed new limits on drivers'...

EXPLAINS . .

offered to discuss with them, if they so wished, any issues they might have to raise. Mr. Peter Walker asked why Mrs. Castle...

THIRD-LANE BAN STAYS

THE BAN on slow-moving vehicles in the offside lane of three-lane motorways is to continue indefinitely. Mrs. Barbara Castle...

FUEL TAX REMISSION THE TOTAL annual cost of complete remission

of fuel tax on all stage carriage services was estimated to be £25.5m. for England, £4.5m. Scotland and £1.8m. for...

SECTION 178 QUERY

BETWEEN October 1 1966 and July 5 1967 owners of fleets of vehicles in Birmingham were involved in six Section 178 inquiries,...

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WALLACE ARNOLD BATTLES ON

W ALLACE ARNOLD TOURS LTD.'s application to carry inclusive Continental tours passengers (CM, April 21 and 28) came under heavy...

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FARRAGO OF DEFAMATORY MATTER

It might have been worth thousands says the Tribunal T HE Transport Tribunal has dismissed an appeal by Heaps' Haulage...

ONE-MAN HAULIER LOSES HIS LICENCE

A MONKSEATON, Northumberland, oneman haulier, Mr. Henry Potts, 46, last week had his vehicle's B licence revoked by Northern LA...

PACT ON CUSTOMERS LEADS TO GRANT FOR STONEMOOR

rOLLOWING discussions, all objections to an application by Stonemoor Transport Ltd., of Leeds, for eight new B licences had...

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ARE THE RAILWAYS COMMON CARRIERS?

aders know, that the railways are no longer common carriers. The repeal of the Act may be considered by many to have been...

EEC: AGAIN IT'S STALEMATE 1 S TRONG criticism of the Council

of Ministers' attitude on transport has been made by Mr. Lambert Schaus, who is responsible for the transport sector of the EEC...

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TAMING! That's what this Routemaster needs BY DEREK MOSES A T

LONG LAST London Transport's experimental front-entrance, rear-engined Routemaster has entered passenger service for...

SEAT-SLASHERS] COST RIBBLE £5,000 A YEAR

ITANDALISM to bus seats alone now V costs Ribble Motor Services /5,000 a year, says general manager Mr. George Brook. In spite...

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SAWDUST SABOTAGE JOLT

Luton one-man service has rough start E FIRST one-man operated single-deckers to be introduced by Luton Corporation Transport,...

RIBBLE BUILD NEW DEPOT WORK IS to begin soon on

building a new 72vehicle depot for Ribble Motor Services Ltd. in Carlisle on the Willow Holme trading estate. It will replace...

UP . . . UP . . . UP . . THAT'S THE FARES PICTURE

THE SCOTTISH BUS GROUP, faced with increased costs of about Lim. a year, will very likely apply to increase fares before the...

COACH FIRMS FAIL TO SEE THE

, LIGHT O UT OF TOWN coach operators who fail to contribute towards the Blackpool lights appeal fund came under fire from the...

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Safety and hours: PIMA hits out again

M R. DENIS QUIN, secretary of the PV0A, said this week that the bus and coach industry was pleased that the Government White...

Toni Fraser, 56, Labour MP for Hamilton, and a former

Minister of Transport, has been appointed chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. He will also become a member...

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FOR LESS THAN £50 ANTI—LOCK

BRAKING ')----bers FROM Air e,haust LOCKHEED By Paul Brockington E QUIPMENT has been developed by the Lockheed Hydraulic...

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NOW YORK UNVEILS ITS SUPER LOAD TEAMSTERS

A RANGE of eight platform semi-trailers and chassis known as Super Load Teamsters (SLT) has been introduced by York Trailer Co....

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NEW LIFE FOR INJECTORS

A NATIONAL rebuilt-as-new injector ex change service has been instituted by Globe and Simpson Ltd. under the name of Red Plus...

BIRMINGHAM RETHINK ON CLEARWAYS

Fr HE PLAN to declare 50 miles of radial roads in Birmingham as "clearways" is to be modified. The basic principle of a total...

ROAD ACCESS THREAT TO UK AIRPORTS

ROADS SERVING Britain's major airports are not keeping pace with the rapid development of air freight and passenger services,...

CONTAINER HANDLING

ORIGINAL papers on developments in containers and container handling by experts in the field will be presented during a lecture...

GPO HIGHWAY TRAILERS HIGHWAY Trailers (Great Britain) Ltd., Southampton, Hants.,

has secured a contract worth more than £13,000 for 22 single-axle, semitrailer chassis of 12-ton capacity for the GPO supplies...

CALL FOR METRIC SYSTEM

THE BRITISH Shippers' Council has recommended the Board of Trade to give urgent consideration to introducing metric weights and...

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Know-how 33 Preventive maintenance Taking up the slack

WAVE A LOOK at one of your full inspection reports on a rough, finalyear vehicle, place it alongside a well-filled GV9—you are...

HUMBER LINKS PROPOSAL

A UNIFIED Humberside, linked by 140 miles of new and reconstructed roads, is proposed in a report issued today by the Humber...

High grip

natural rubber tread A N INCREASE in skid resistance on rm. packed ice of as much as 30 per cent compared with synthetic...

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New transceiver

QMALL ENOUGH to fit into the normal L.3 radio "cut-out" in a vehicle dashboard, a new all-transistor A.M. mobile transceiver...

A '3 D' trolley

A BATTERY trolley known as the Stereo ra. because of its "3 D" ability—it cairies the largest type of vehicle battery, a carboy...

NEW EQUIPMENT

and publications TNTRODUCED by Smith's Delivery Vehi cles Ltd., at a recent maintenance course, a new Inverter, type 36-0-1,...

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International view of storage and warehousing

FT , HE SECOND International Storage and Warehousing Development Exhibition was opened at Olympia, London, on Monday by Lord...

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latest for W. H. Smith

NEW £3im. W. H. Smith distribu tion warehouse on the Greenbridge Industrial Estate at Stratton St. Margaret, near Swindon, was...

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Bird's Eye

\f lew BY THE HAWK their gratitude for your ready co-operation and assistance at all times, both to the players and officials,...

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Only one hitch

D ESPITE 90 minutes' wait for the presentations, it was generally agreed that Newcastle-under-Lyme Home and Road Safety...

Repeat Success R. Guest, a class winner last year, won

Class H again. A fine performance was put up by J. Warren, third, driving one of the largest vehicles. After winning class E2...

PORTSMOUTH LDOY COMPETITION 1 by lain Sherriff

Next time tell the Marines! T HE LAST eliminating rounds have taken place in this year's LDOY competition and all is now set...

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CATALOGUE OF WOES

I F FUEL RATIONING comes it will handicap every one to a greater or lesser degree. The haulier may be justified in claiming to...

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IN THE WET

"Pr HE cross-fertilization of ideas derived from studies of racing car, private car and commercial vehicle tyre performance has...

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Lipsticks, livestock and paving stones.

I T FIRST met Mr. J. Fagg on a golf course 1 in Kent, very early on a Sunday morning in November 1966. Almost apologetically,...

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Q Complaints have been made that the

proposed 1.6 per cent payroll levy on all operators is clumsy and unfair because of the variation in training requirements of...

n We operate four-, sixand eightwheelers on C licence. What

is the correct rate of pay for drivers of these vehicles? A The statutory minimum remuneration laid down by the Road Haulage...

Our drivers report that they are con fused by junction

signs on motorways. These often name destinations but also give numbers which appear to have no relation to those destinations....

in What are the advantages of petrol injection and why

should the system be favoured as a means of reducing air pollution? A Petrol injection gives improved mixture distribution to...

n How do I apply for a B licence to carry roadmaking material and agricultural requisites within a limited radius?

A Before you actually apply for a B licence you will presumably obtain firm offers of profitable traffic to justify your...

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Vehicle acquisition and replacement

R EADERS ASKING for advice on setting up in road transport often mention that they mean to keep their initial cost down by only...

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Nothing vague about this research into road transport

LO NDON UNIVERSITY last autumn added a fourth year— leading to the award of a Diploma in Transport Studies —following the...

MONEY MATTERS by Martin Younger

Atkinson Lorries maintain 15% dividend rHERE IS little doubt that margins presented the board of I Atkinson Lorries (Holdings)...