A yawning gap is opening at the feet of British hauliers and if they do not act swiftly they may find themselves falling into...

Big London hauliers go for 15 and 20 p.c. on rates TGWU campaign for £20 basic is now nationwide •• At least two sizeable...

• BRS Ltd managing director, Mr L. S. Payne, called last week for a transport rate structure that fully reflected the true...

D . H. F. Joyce A. A. Goode • D. H. F. Joyce, chairman of the Transport Managers' Licence Committee and formerly transport...

• An agreement on international road haulage between the United Kingdom and Norway has been signed in Oslo. It will come into...

• At an EEC Council session on transport on June 4 Dutch and French spokesmen both emphasized that implementation of the...

• Following reports this week that operators were experiencing difficulty in obtaining French permits from the Ministry of...

• Further to its involvement in the Ministry of Transport lorry parking project in the North-West, the FTA is arranging a...

• A special chassis package designed to facilitate the mounting of HIAB cranes on Ford ID series vehicles was announced last...

• There was at the present time a need to create a career structure in transport and to improve the training programme in the...

• The Norfolk firm of L. G. Perfect (Haulage) Ltd has taken over a former ship engineering works at Great Yarmouth as a...

An opportunity arises for a journalist with knowledge of the road transport industry to represent "Commercial Motor" and...

• The Industrial Transport Association is to hold a one-day members' conference on November 17 in the Botanical Gardens,...

• Highlights of the seven LDoY competitions last weekend was the fast-moving, wellorganized competition at Carlisle. This was...

• Transport International Pool Ltd has opened its first UK depot at London Road, West Thurrock, Essex. On the three-acre site...

• Speakers at a one-day conference on Commercial Vehicle Legislation, to be held on July 10 at the Mount Royal Hotel, London,...

and freight handling• • Two major exhibitions will merge in London in 1971 to produce the largest display of its kind for the...

411 NCK-Rapier Ltd launched a new range of hydraulic mobile cranes at the Mechanical Handling Exhibition. Available in three...

'No gain for NBC in unfair rural bargaining' • Mr David Glassborow, chief planning grid development officer of the National...

• Red and White Services Ltd is to close its depot and inquiry office at Hereford in November because of the recession in...

• More than 20 NBC companies have formed a consortium to launch a budget conscious series of Continental holidays. Using...

by Derek Moses • A process of rationalizing State-owned bus services in the South West peninsula is now well under way,...

• The strike by about 800 inspectors and clerical workers employed by the Scottish Bus Group ended last week. It started on May...

• In order that work on Motorway 62 should not be delayed, the North Western LA, Mr C. R. Hodgson, granted an interim...

• The manner in which the Metropolitan traffic area serves its summonses for the contravention of the Road Traffic Act and...

• W. B. Pettigrew (Haulage) Ltd, of Edinburgh, had eight vehicles removed from its licence under Section 69(1) (b) and (c) of...

• "I am taking a chance on this application. There was enough evidence to give me a case for refusing this application...

• An application by Massey Carriers Ltd, of Salford, to add two trailers to a current B licence was granted by the North...

• At the resumed hearing of the Northern area and Yorkshire area Traffic Commissioners in Durham last Friday, Mr Wilfred Steer,...

• Details Of coach services throughout Great Britain are given in a new National Express Coach guide published at 5s by the...

open-span 4 , design • Free load-access through the sides, as well as from the back and the top, is a standard exclusive...

• A lighter and improved model of Norde rubber-sprung tandem-axle running gear with higher roll stiffness is introduced this...

• Prizes totalling £800 are offered by leading companies in the motor industry in a road safety design competition announced by...

• Since it has become an associate company of Logan and Cranston Ltd. Glasgow plant hirers, the Northern Trailer Co Ltd,...

change kingpin unit • An easy-change kingpin for fifth-wheel couplings has been added to the range of trailer equipment made...

Frank H. Tarlton, a staff engineer, has been appointed by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders to co-ordinate the...

• Eddie Weaver's succession to Jack Hollis as industrial relations officer of the Pointer Group companies prompts the ''poacher...

Wages Order or Disorder? Once again Janus has provided an extremely thoughtful article under the above heading (CM. May 11 and...

Benchwise: lathe sense (18) ONCE the reclaimed gear shaft fits snugly inside a new companion flange, a slightly more difficult...

by the Hawk • Bullion bash George Tullett, Fred Abdee and Bill Strath are all transport men in East London who occupy adjacent...

0 , 0 combination Two vehicles were tested, these being an FE 88 six-wheeler towing a drawbar trailer and running at a gross...

AT the same time as the operational trial on the two SR 61-equipped Volvos one of the company's demonstration vehicles fitted...

Warehousing and depots OVERHEAD costs can become a miscellaneous collection of Items unless positive action is taken to ensure...

Seen but not • heard by janus RGANIZATIONS that have been zealous in their opposition to proposals for bigger or heavier...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Science in transport (7) Working with computers SINCE it became possible to work out trip and...

not have assumed the ludicrously absurd 24 mph average speed for all journeys. Of course, computer programs today are more...

but sometimes we transport small deliveries for other people. The Transit has a petrol engine and a gross weight of 2.33 tans....

Bedford KMS 158in. wheelbase tipper to a customer, the vehicle, of course, being manufacturer plated at 16 tons gvw, front axle...

Could you please say whether I must keep log sheets and adhere to drivers' hours regulations when on work of this nature? On...

to drive a breakdown recovery vehicle in excess of three tons? As a breakdown recovery vehicle is exempt from plating...

carriage of spare parts, etc, for our fleet of vehicles. It is taxed goods and has an ordinary motorcar type MoT certificate...

THIS past six months I have been doing a great deal of travelling in Great Britain, attending conferences, courses, visiting...

IF there is a perfect vehicle from the driver's point of view I have not yet found it. Design gets better all the time but...

IMAGE-BUILDING—to use a hackneyed phrase from the jargon of marketing men— is increasingly significant in the road transport...

How much does it cost and how long does it take to send a parcel 400 miles? To find out, CM sent six identical parcels...

tyres • Tyres are expendable—and they're expensive. The National Tyre Distributors' Association reports that investigations...