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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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