The sensible slackening of some of the new rules on driving hours will be welcomed by the industry, not least because the...

for scii - ne z MILK DISTRIBUTION COSTS • This week the Minister of Transport issued draft proposals for the exemption of...

• Two important changes in the organization of the Ministry of Transport were announced this week by the Minister, Mr. Richard...

There is some speculation (writes John Darker) of the precise meaning of this reshuffle. The switch of Mr. John Jukes from the...

• Princess Anne will officially open the • first Motec on September 10. This is • the multi-occupational training and • •...

drivers by lain Sherriff • Drivers who fail the medical test for the heavy goods vehicle driving licence and consequently...

• Bilateral road haulage arrangements have now been concluded by the Ministry of Transport with the Ministry of Trade, Commerce...

• It is understood that Dennis Brothers Ltd., Guildford, will cease production of the Maxim 30-ton g.v.w. trtctive unit on...

• At the motor race meeting at Crystal Palace, London, on September 13, British Road Services Ltd. is sponsoring an event for...

• The joint consultation set-up within British Road Services and associated companies is to be radically re-jigged in...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board has stirred up considerable trouble for itself by including with the recent levy...

• Representatives of the Road Haulage Association met Ministry of Transport officials on Tuesday to discuss weighbridges. One...

• Workers on holiday from Gloster Saro, a subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley Ltd., Hucclecote, rushed back to the factory on...

• "Lock up your lorries !" will be a major theme of a special display of the most up-to-date anti-theft devices and security...

• Dick Jones, h.g.v. driving school instructor of S. Jones (Garages} Ltd., Aldridge, is believed to have been the first man to...

• Rail pay talks now in progress at BR's staff training college at New Lodge, Windsor, are likely to have a considerable impact...

• The Hull area Yorkshire Electricity Board have recently introduced a new delivery system for household electrical goods...

• Among the latest grants in research to the University of Strathclyde. Glasgow, is included the establishment of an...

• An increase in turnover, elimination of the trading loss from which the group has suffered in recent years, and an order book...

• A new "No Through Road" sign is pro-. posed by the MoT for use on approaches to environmental areas and areas where traffic...

certificates OFFENDERS RISK £100 FINES • That nearly one in five of lorries first registered before 1961 (pre-1958 in...

• Despite all the information and advice available through the trade Press, and in such publications as the "Goods Vehicle...

• Three Brighton members of the TSSA have written to the union's journal (August number) to comment on a laudatory article on...

• Talks are to be held shortly between representatives of Hull Corporation Transport and East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd....

• Yorkshire's first service to be operated completely by specially designed one-man double-deckers was introduced by Leeds City...

• The Minister of Transport now has to approve fare alterations by London Transport Board, This control was taken from the...

• Plagued by absenteeism and late arrivals, a shipyard is laying on special coaches to make sure its workers clock in on time....

• The first seagoing drive-through vehicle ferry to sail in Scottish coastal waters the Sound of Jura, operated by Western...

• Keeping up with developments in the road passenger transport industry is very difficult for publishers of standard reference...

Ray W. Plenderieith, 52, has been appointed distribution director of Cadbury Schweppes Ltd. Following the recent merger, he...

• London Transport announced on Monday that the Minister of Transport has approved the proposed increases in London Central and...

• Mr. Richard Marsh, the Minister of Transport. on Wednesday made the West Midlands Passenger Transport Area (Transfer of...

• Deciding that the time to expel the appellants from the haulage industry has not yet come", the Transport Tribunal allowed an...

• A new deal between Renault and Pressed Steel Fisher overcame a final obstacle in Bristol on Tuesday when the Western LA, Mr....

• Kenneth Dovestone, 35, of Kingstanding, Birmingham, the lorry driver whose redundancy at D. E. Hines (Transport), Streetly,...

give Bri ▪ stol haulier new work • Teuchers Transport Ltd., of Bristol, had its application to vary an A licence by the...

• The Northern Area Traffic Commissioners, after travelling over the route by bus, last week decided to restore the United...

delegates representing 110,000 company busmen accepted a new wage agreement which will give increases in basic pay of from lOs...

• Applications by Halifax Corporation and Amalgamated Passenger Transport, for two new express services to the Palladium Bingo...

Solly Davis and his son, Mr. Ronny Davis, (last week's CM), both of Amos Grove. London, N4, for receiving and dishonestly...

North Western LA, Mr. C. R. Hodgson. has granted the application by Freightliners Ltd. for 25 artics on a new A licence. At the...

• The application by T. A. Jones and Co. Ltd. for a new B licence for four vehicles with containers, to carry for five named...

• Two artics were granted on a new A licence to J. R. and G. T. Cadwallader, of Oswestry, • in Shrewsbury on Monday. The...

• "The Handling and Storage of Some Highly Flammable Liquids is the title of a booklet issued by Imperial Chemical Industries...

• A list of major sources of transport research information, including the scope of coverage, the availability of research...

• An order for 3,200 automotive diesel engines worth more than Cl 3m has been placed with the Darlington plant of the Cummins...

• Metalair Ltd., a subsidiary of English and Overseas Investments Ltd., has entered into a joint venture in South Africa with...

• Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation is to spend nearly £10,000 on the purchase of five ambulances. The Minories Garages Ltd.,...

Loads and forces (13) by Handyman • A tendency has always been present for an operator to accept a load before seeing it,...

* The Routes 6-speed, overdrive, synchromesh gearbox is now available on three vehicles in the Dodge 500 Series range....

• The Diecasting Society and the Transport Trust have joined the Institution of Mechanical Engineers scheme, initiated last...

• Evening courses in road transport. leading if required to the loT diploma, are being offered at the Central College of...

I BELIEVE that labour relations in road transport in the 1970s.present the prospect of a retrograde situation that could...

When Trevor Welfare, Managing Director of Chapman Transport says this he means it both ways I Plying between Hastings and...

by David Lowe BSN's new terminal THE first container gantry crane in the Port of Bristol became operational at Avonmouth this...

Transport, introduced the White Paper - Public Transport and Traffic" (CM December 8, 1967), prior to the publication of the...

by the Hawk * Don't laugh American supporters of steam power are among the backers of a Californian legal move which has...

• Although a specification of a new Skoda-Liaz diesel engine, the M634, reveals that it is of conventional design operating at...

by David Lowe, mInst TA JUST 127 years ago this month two ships of the now famous P and 0 Line were the first to enter the...

(See page 46) In studying this problem let us first look at hours of work and intervals of rest for the first day. As Joe...

IT is now only just over four weeks to CM's 1969 Fleet Management Conference, which is being held this year on September IS at...

Provision is made in the 1967 Road Safety Act for records to be kept of inspections and maintenance and for the retention of...

Anything known? WHEN a Midlands haulier countered strike pressure by deciding to close down his business, Mr. Alan Law is...

MANY transport managers in Britain, in whatever field they operate, consider that international comparisons are of little...

My problem is that I am not clear regarding the regulations for transferring these vehicles between sites. They carry normal...

has now replaced the limited and general trade licences formerly used? I am particularly interested because I wish to know the...

10, 20, 30 and 40ft containers from trailers on to parking aprons and vice versa. In some of our depots the lifting capacity...

Commercial Motor, January 31 1969 relating to the work of Professor S. G. Timoney on an experimental variablecompression-ratio...

to London Transport were returned to the coachbuilders for modifications to the roof. Is this true, and if so, what were the...

ONE of the interesting features of transport examinations in the past two or three years has been the slight but perceptible...

The Road Traffic Act 1962, Section 20 provides that it shall be a good defence for the holder of a carrier's licence charged...