Road transport has flourished by working on the assumption that, if the customer is not always right, at least he pays to call...

• What is claimed will be the most powerful freight transport association in Britain is to be created under a merger plan which...

• "The tail must not be allowed to wag the dog—and that seems to be the case here." This was the comment by Mr. Arthur Lainson,...

• A coach designed specifically for night operation between Scotland and London will be exhibited by Walter Alexander and Co....

• The Prices and Incomes Board is to investigate a sample of recent productivity deals in road haulage—but there is no...

• With the object of avoiding troubles that can arise as a result of the "spreading" of the frame of a skeletal semi-trailer a...

the Bill again • No punches are pulled by the Confederation of British Industry in a new and highly critical statement on the...

• Commercial Vehicle Testing (Maidstone) Ltd. is the name of a recently formed concern of which the five directors all...

• If the revised grants proposed by the Road Transport Industry Training Board last week (CM August 9) are approved, amounts of...

• In preparation for the goods vehicle plating and testing scheme which starts in October 1968, the Minister of Transport has...

• A new production unit, especially designed for volume output of aluminium freight containers, became fully operational at the...

• Transport costs in industry could be reduced by more than £200m a year by 1980 if the Government carries out an extended...

• Mr. Peter Walker, Shadow Minister of Transport, pledged that he would see the quantity licensing clause of the Transport Bill...

• A quick increase in the 2s 6d flat rate toll for using the Forth road bridge–probably involving sharp differentials for...

• The group profit, before tax, of the United Transport Co. Ltd. in 1967 was £3,711,000, compared with £4,032,000 in 1966,...

• The Minister of Transport has accepted the £2,159,006 tender of Cementation Construction Ltd. for the building of the...

• Some haulage and brewery firms are believed to be interested in replacing part of their lorry fleets with horse drawn drays...

• Selby toll bridge was rammed out of action on the night of August 7 by a fully laden 450 ton motor barge. The bridge was...

• British Rail is to step up its International Container Services on Monday, when a second sailing will start on the Harwich...

• Problems which operators of tipping vehicles are having to face were discussed with Ministry of Transport officials by a...

• Only a month after the programme was announced all the places in the Furniture Removers Senior Management Course, to be held...

• Quay Trailers Ltd. of Wimborne, Dorset has introduced a steel-bodied tipper specially designed for the removal of coal-tip...

• Calibration of noise meters within tolerances narrower than those previously specified are proposed in an amendment to...

• R. Murfitt Ltd. manufacturers of bulk vehicle bodies and mechanical handling engineers of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, states...

• It will be obligatory to fit stop lamps to most vehicles under draft regulations which the Minister of Transport has...

qualify for grants by Derek Moses • Projects of interest to bus operators which 'may receive Government grants under the...

• A major reorganization of services in North East London will be introduced by London Transport on September 7. The scheme,...

• An Alexander-bodied Leyland Atlantean double-decker of Newcastle City Transport has been rebuilt in the undertaking's...

• Since Birmingham City Transport introduced o-m-o double-deckers on route 95 five weeks ago, fare dodging on the 24miles...

• Commencing last Sunday. seven depots of Crosville Motors Services Ltd. situated on, or near, the North Wales coast, have been...

from our industrial correspondent • An I 1 th-hour decision to call of the threatened strike of 70,000 municipal Nismen was...

• On the two C-licensed vehicles operated by Stranton Waste and Salvage Co. Ltd., Hartlepool. five prohibitions had been served...

• An application by T. Fletcher and Son, Loftus, Yorkshire, to run an express service between Loftus and a factory at...

by lain Sherriff • When he first met the members of the RHA and TRTA at mass meetings in London earlier this year Mr. Richard...

• The purchase of a 32-ton-gross lowloader was described as "a commercial gamble, nothing short of folly" at a public inquiry...

Yorks commissioners ask • The reason for an application not having been submitted for the purchase of the business and...

• A carrier who had been doing furniture removals under a now expired B-licence with conditions "furniture within 10 miles" was...

PTEs from our political correspondent • Mr. Richard Marsh, Minister of Transport, has tabled some amendments to the Transport...

Robert Brook, FCIS, has been appointed to succeed Willian Leese as general manager of the North Western Road Car Co. Ltd. when...

• TUC concern that the House of Lords may defeat the Transport Bill's main intentions is expressed in a letter which the...

• Ford Motor Co.'s announcement that the latest version of the US Ford 707 automotive gas turbine will be exhibited next month...

The AEC V8 Mandator, which was ntroduced in May, will be shown at the :7ommercial Motor Show in both home and :xport versions....

• Over 300 items from more than 50 Czechoslovak manufacturing plants are in cluded in this year's display by Motokov of Prague...

Folly to be wise NO end seems to be in sight to the flood of amendments large and small which the Government and the...

Clamp for pipes A new pipe-clamping system known as the Multi-Clamp has been announced by UCC Filters (Hydraulics) Ltd. which...

with Ron Cater Even although we're at the height of the summer holiday season, now is the time to take stock of our heating...

and the MoT (5) • The working tempo on the operating side of general haulage has had to be stepped up quite appreciably to...

by V. G. J. Haden, BSc, CEng, MIProdE Few operators are in a position to lay down a specification for engine oil, but there...

director of engineering, Dennis Bros Ltd. 'All operators considerations are stnctly related to the profit a vehicle can make,...

*No-man operated Drivers as a class are not to be trusted. That is the view of RHA West Riding area chairman W. Bridge, head...

Major implications for road transport described by John Darker AMBIM WHEN an Anglo /French working group of officials...

included in a housing development scheme. As I have acquired a yard which is only one street away, will it be necessary for me...

and experts appear to disagree on its potential merits. Although the description appears to be self-explanatory, it is used in...

standard bus specification for any 12m etre model, although this length of chassis is now legal. On the Continent there are...

without the usual cover plates on the rear wheels. Is this yet another step in the decline of standards noticeable among many...

systems (CM August 9), reference is made on page 83 to the Multi-Lift system, a Finnish design manufactured in this country by...

in road-testing vehicles be required to hold a heavy goods vehicle driver's licence? If so, will he be required to pass a...

THE AMOUNT of research performed on the problems of road transport operation is necessarily meagre. The few who are engaged...

ON July 1 1968 a new requirement respecting notification to the police of the movement of projecting loads came into force and...