W HAT a precept to present to a vital sector of the nation's economy—the transport industry— within a fortnight of devaluation....

MRS. CASTLE'S NEW TAX on haulage vehicles will operate mainly at rates between £70 and £210 per lorry per year, it was revealed...

"My proposal, as set out in the White Paper on the Transport of Freight, is to require all road hauliers carrying goods for...

"HOWEVER carefully it may be disguised, the provision for quantity licensing must amount to the direction of traffic from road...

STAGE TWO in the planning and operation of out-of-hours deliveries in the Greater London area is to start on January 8. About...

"TOO MANY managers regard themselves as owners and administrators rather than essential parts of industrial organization," said...

FINES totalling £125 were imposed on five drivers who pleaded guilty to charges of falsifying drivers' records, at London...

BR-BRS competition unlikely Butt C OMPETITION between road and rail for sundries traffic was now on service rather than price,...

THE EXTENT to which the Freightliner system expands depends upon a "shot-gun marriage" with C licence and professional road...

THREE DRIVERS delivering ready-mixed concrete in their own vehicles were held by a high court judge last week to be independent...

MR. J. B. WILD, managing director of Harold Wood and Sons Ltd., told the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers last...

A LORRY DRIVER who stopped his lorry on a lay-by beside A6 and reported the condition of his brakes and steering to the police,...

PRICES and Incomes Board report on road haulage charges, costs and wages includes proposals for increasing the pay of lower...

THE INTEGRATION OF Lloyd's Transport road haulage services with those of P. and M. Kaye Ltd., of London and Warrington, was...

A DEMAND that the BET group should sever all its connections with organizations campaigning against passenger transport...

ON THE BASIS that the annual charges on heavy goods vehicles owned by the National Coal Board averaged £100, the annual cost of...

By Derek Moses PUBLICATION of the Transport Bill seems to have been received with a feeling of complacency by some sections of...

AS an extension of the Essex Coast express service and by making use of their licences a new service is planned to provide a...

(plus the usual slow-motion in the city) with complete engine protection by Shell Rotella Toil Midland Red have been running...

OFFICIALS of the Transport and General Workers Union met Mr. Ray Gunter, Minister of Labour, on Monday, for further talks on...

THE first Strachans-bodied Bristols to be built for many years, and the first Bristols for Reading Corporation Transport are...

IN AN EFFORT to counter the effect of Corporation bus strikes at Stockton - on - Tees every Saturday, Wilsons Department...

POWER to precept, although controversial, was highly significant as it enabled local people, if they so desired, to shift some...

THE LONG-AWAITED announcement of a successor to Sir Stanley Raymond, as chairman of British Railways Board, came last Friday...

the Potteries Motor Traction Co. Ltd. He will succeed G. M. Newberry, who is to take up an appointment on the executive staff...

Ronald Ian Howard, 40, has been appointed chief executive of A. Packham & Company Ltd., the south of England firm of carriers...

THE GRANT of an additional tractor/semi low-loader outfit on B licence to an Emsworth, Hampshire, boat haulier was the subject...

AFTER one day's running a free bus service introduced by the Batley and District Chamber of Trade has been prohibited by the...

IN a written decision, the North Western Traffic Commissioners this week decided not to grant applications as applied for by...

AFTER cancelling a Falkirk's haulage contractor's Contract A licence for demolition work, Stirling County Council found that it...

BACKING was granted in London on Tuesday by Mr. D. I. R. Muir, the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner, after agreement with the...

IN a Contract A to A licence switch, Heatons Transport (St. Helens) Ltd. has been granted two additional vehicles on their...

A COMPANY whose five tippers had been suspended earlier in the year successfully applied to the Metropolitan Licensing...

MERSEY Tunnel contractors and established hauliers in the area have agreed to an experimental period of a month during which...

ONE vehicle operated by a Croydon, Surrey, company was suspended for 14 days by the Metropolitan LA, Mr. D. I. R. Muir,...

REFUSING an application for an extended tours licence, at the end of a two-day hearing in Manchester last week, Mr. C. R....

TWO immediate and five delayed prohibitions were placed on the seven-vehicle fleet of Perora Transport Ltd., Sheffield, between...

ANGLIAN SALES (BULB Y) LTD., Lincolnshire scrap contractors, were granted a short-term haulage licence last week to enable them...

WHEN British Rail applied to operate more heavy vehicles from their Freightliner depots in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Scottish...

By A. J. P. Wilding F ROM THE NUMBER of letters still being received which ask for details of "the new regulations on brakes"...

A RANGE of hydrostatic pumps and motors has been developed by the Langdale Engineering Co. Ltd., Eagle Works, Grove Road,...

A VALVE in the hydraulic system that can be adjusted automatically. to limit the load carried to the legal payload is a special...

A NEW TYPE of Marrel Roll-On unit incorporating underfloor tipping gear was unveiled at Amersham last week. The new equipment...

A RANGE of frameless-van semi-trailers has been introduced by Boden Trailers Ltd. They are designated the Mark 3 FV and...

FORTY South Yorkshire and North Nottinghamshire local authority representatives attended a recent demonstration of the Shelvoke...

and publications Masking tapes TWO SELLOTAPE masking tapes with improved characteristics are now being marketed. Sellotape...

T AM A FIRM believer in automatic lubri1 cation with metered amounts of lubricant fed steadily to all outside working parts. It...

RECOMMENDATIONS are given in a handbook First Year Training for Engineering Craftsmen and Technicians (Vehicle Building) that...

WHAT CAUSES SO much of the objection to the extension of one-man-operation and other efficiency measures? Is it due to the...

THINK many people will agree with Mr. Jackson Moore's opinion that Mrs. Castle's White Paper is "absolutely diabolical" and I...

IT IS NOW very clear that the Labour Government intends to kill off private enterprise road transport. Recent and proposed...

By R. D. Cater AMInstBE S TANDARDIZATION of chassis by operators is a sensible and natural course to take, but it's seldom...

by Derek Moses THE BODY of the Bury Fleetline bus has been laid-out quite well for its function as a 41-seat plus 19 standing...

By P. A. C. Brockington, AM I MechE A MEANS should be provided for varying the braking pressure rx on each wheel according to...

THE REQUEST for copies of the guide to weights and dimensions of goods vehicles published in COMMERCIAL MOTOR has been such...

View BY THE HAWK 'I incite. . HIGHLIGHT of the after dinner speeches of the RHA West Midland area dinner, Philip Turner's "I...

W ITH the first onset of winter the transport situation plummets into chaos. Snow begins to fall a little before dawn and by...

on a Ford chassis with a power take-off unit between the clutch and gear box. Who makes this? A The pto you refer to was...

tons gross? If not, is there a minimum unladen weight, say 3 tons, which governs the 14 tons gross figure? A There has never...

A The address of F. E. Weatherill Ltd. is Tewin Road, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, but Drott is an American company and has no...

0308 tractive unit and is this vehicle up to the MoT specifications regarding brakes? A The 0308 was designed to operate at a...

operators an evening maintenance service on their own premises. This would comprise both a lubrication and mechanical service,...

A Jumbo jets will be able to carry standard containers but many experts believe that special air/road containers will be...

and simultaneously dispose of six which will all have to be delettered and resprayed. With a view to reducing expense when...

I N THIS SERIES (CM, January 7 1966) I reported the case before Uckfield magistrates' court when a specialist in the transport...

ALTHOUGH transport now forms but a small part of the work of the International Correspondence Schools (ICS), it has been...