As the working of operators' licensing settles into a recognizable pattern we begin to see a number of warning flags which...

• The "unnecessarily complex and confusing" rules controlling working and driving hours for goods vehicle drivers have led the...

• Reports in the national Press last week of an accident on Al near Hatfield. Hots, involving three cars and an articulated...

• A reminder that infringements of the law with light commercial vehicles can affect an operator's licence, even though the...

• Lady Tweeds muir, Minister of State, Scottish office, voiced the Government's future plans, this week, concerning the...

• The Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority at its meeting on Monday approved general terms for the "basis of agreement"...

• The pattern and degree of prosperity in the road transport industry in the next decade for operators of both large and small...

• Production of commercial vehicles in the European Economic Community in 1970 increased by 2.6 per cent to 761,000 units, a 99...

• Mr Peyton on Wednesday laid before Parliament the Goods Vehicle (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1971, which consolidate the...

• The National Guild of Transport Managers is expanding with the addition of new branches in the East and South East. One was...

• Mr K. P. H. Fielding, head of marketing for British Road Services Ltd, denied last week that the company was phasing out its...

• That nothing less than 15 per cent return on capital invested can possibly be acceptable for the operation of a commercial...

• An Edinburgh landlady has petitioned the council for better parking facilities for lorry drivers on overnight stops in the...

• All 1900 members of the RHA North Western (Eastern) area are being advised to increase their haulage rates by 12 per cent—the...

• A full investigation is being made into an incident at the Stockport, Cheshire, depot of a Yorkshire road haulage company at...

• Associated British Maltsters Ltd and Charles Roberts and Co Ltd of Wakefield have announced jointly that agreement, in...

• More town plans than previously are included in the 1971 edition of AA Guide to Hotels and Restaurants in Great Britain,...

• The Road. Research Laboratory had carried out extensive examination of roadpricing devices, but at present the difficulties...

• A new film has been added to the Vauxhall/Bedford Film Library and had its premiere in London on March 5. In colour, it...

• Plans for the Institute of Transport's 1,971 study tour of Eastern Canada, May 24 to June 6, are advancing well, 100 places...

• E. W. Taylor and Co (Forwarding) Ltd, whose head office is in 7 to 17 Jewry Street, London, has opened a branch office in...

• The VITA has been successful in obtaining the withdrawal of a clause in a Private Member's Bill (CM February 5) before...

• The Transport Development Group's turnover for 1970 approached £66m—more than £10m up on the 1969 figure. Other record...

• New secretary for the Bristol round of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition is Mr D. L. Damsell of the BRS Driver...

• The caption which should have accompanied the picture at the top of page 23 last week reads as follows: Fast handling of...

• The excellent relationship between the police and operators of road haulage vehicles and their drivers in Cornwall was...

• FTA members will have received, in the last week, their copies of the 1971 Yearbook, which has had a delayed start this year...

• Mr George Quick Smith, well known to the transport industry as chief executive of the National Freight Corporation, is also a...

Free buses urged • It was a remarkable feature of modem life in Britain that it was almost impossible for a non-motorist to...

• SELNEC Passenger Transport Authority revealed this week that it had placed orders on the Continent for 12 single-deck buses...

• An official inquiry into the workings of the Scottish Bus Group and of the Traffic Commissioners is to be sought by Paisley...

• The oldest independent psv undertaking in Cumberland—that of Ernie Hartness of Penrith—has been sold by the trustees of the...

• Four 46-seat Pacesaver Mark III school buses have just been supplied to East Suffolk County Council by Strachans...

• Following a report to the council's trading undertakings committee by Mr A. V. Rigby, general manager of Chesterfield...

• From tomorrow (Saturday), interairport Green Line express coach route no. 727 is to be extended to serve Luton Airport. This...

• One of the oldest independent bus and coach services in the country, operated by C. J. Smith and Sons Ltd, Station Road,...

*A psv firm with a household name in Lancashire and Cheshire is going in for package holidays in Britain and on the Continent....

• Fares on Green Line coaches will be increased from tomorrow (Saturday), London Country Bus Services Ltd has announced. The...

• Oxfordshire county council recently approved a recommendation from the general purposes committee that a transport officer be...

• The Economic Bus Co, Whitburn, Co Durham is seeking approval for higher fares on its South Shields-Sunderland service. Some...

• The Institution of Mechanical Engineers' symposium on "Rapid transit vehicles for city services" is now to be held at...

• The first of a fleet of 20 Willowbrook-bodied Leyland Atlantean double-deckers for Brighton Corporation ^Transport was...

That's short for Psv Operation in the Seventies, a working conference in London next Thursday (March 25) for PIMA members and...

• Believing that there is a big future in Middle East and African countries for a passenger vehicle that is bigger than a...

• The members of the West Lothian Coach Hirers' Association are to contest in Linlithgow Sheriff Court today (Friday) charges...

• The chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, granted a fares increase application as applied...

• G. and W. Kelman, trading as Kelman of Turriff and Islay Transport Services, appealed unsuccessfully to the Transport...

• An application, which was opposed by the RHA, was partially successful when Donnelly Haulage, of Ballymena, Northern Ireland,...

£217 fine imposed • A Dewsbury firm, C. Bartle (Transport) Ltd, of Empire House, admitted 27 offences relating mainly to...

• The prospective pattern of closures of uneconomic bus services in Scotland by Scottish Omnibuses Ltd was outlined in Hawick...

• The Northern Licensing Authority has rejected an application by Bee-Line Coaches of Middlesbrough to operate feeder services...

11 1 John Minchinton has been appointed tachograph sales engineer by Lucas Kienzle Instruments, and will be responsible for...

We record with regret the deaths of Harold Edward Musgrove, and Philip W. Swindells. Mr Musgrove was for many years a haulier...

• The Pelican system of transport refrigeration shown by British Oxygen at Earls Court last September is to be launched...

• Samuel Williams and Sons Ltd has been appointed distributor and service agent for the complete range of Target trailers in...

• Under an agreement by which all the assets of Foster (Tachographs) Ltd have been taken over, Pitney-Bowes Ltd, 51/53 Hatton...

• All the main load-carrying sections in a new range of welded semi-trailer tippers introduced by Barham Bodies Ltd are...

• With the needs of the small fleet operator in mind, Telehoist Ltd, Cheltenham, has designed a new maximum payload lightweight...

• Increased payload capacity for steel-bodied, bulk-feed vehicles has been achieved by N. Tamplin and Co Ltd, Chichester, with...

• A range of all-welded fixed-side aluminium tipper bodies for rigid chassis has been developed by Neville Industries...

• A new ultra-light tipping semi-trailer has been developed by Seadyke Freight Systems Ltd, of Wisbech St Mary, and one has...

by Tony Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE ALL the signs are that road transport will continue to live in an atmosphere plagued with...

by H. Shillabeer • Accidents are caused by people-not by inanimate objects like lamp standards, stationary vehicles or for...

SMALL BORES FOR LOW NOISE While noise insulation can be effective, it is preferable to design noise out of the engine. The...

workshop by Handyman Bench wise: you can solder aluminium MANY MOTOR FITTERS and mechanics are reluctant to tackle a sizeable...

• User report "It is in the interests of all drivers to have this instrument. It records their working time and prevents...

Victory Tours is to shed rural stage routes as schools traffic builds up. By Derek Moses ONE operator with no delusions about...

J. P. Toohey • John Toohey, 1971 chairman of the Transport Managers' Club, London area, is a transport man through and...

The PVOA holds its first national conference in London next Thursday, organized jointly with CM. In next week's issue we shall...

In your feature "Management Matters" by John Darker the author appears to be suggesting that the professional status of the...

I was intrigued with your recent article entitled, "The day we went to Calais" (CM, March 5th) in that you feel there is scope...

by Ron Cater AM I nst BE WHEN we tested the Bedford HA van in August 1964 we found it an efficient and comfortable little...

Cargo cult by Janus N OW that for the tune being some of the heat has been taken out of the controversy about the heavy...

to return to the UK for a period during the summer During this visit I would like to bring myself up to data on vehicle...

drivers' hours regulations for psv drivers, it was stated that the maximum working day would be extended from 11 hours to 16...

while delivering a large crane after repairs it was involved in an accident when a car ran under the rear of the crane while it...

man's handle" in its application to a hand control valve? And could you advise me firstly whether there is any advantage in...

How good is your salary structure? IN road transport the pay and productivity of drivers features prominently in all...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, MAIM! Motorways (1) THE Motorways Traffic Regulations 1959, as amended by the Motorways Traffic...

'WHAT you do not know now, you will never know in time for the examinations." This was the chilly advice I was often given both...

For the first time in the UK, a new concept in external rear vision mirrors adjustable electric- , ally from the inside of a...

Ross Auto Engineering Ltd has introduced a new electric platform-truck, the Ross Beaver. It is a four-wheel industrial truck...

The Type 5800 electric density meter from H. Tinsley and Co Ltd will electrically record the specific gravity of liquids. The...

A 40001b capacity heavy-duty walkie-stacker has been added to the Crown Controls range. The new truck is similar in appearance...

Flexible plastics strips to safeguard vehicle doors from damage when they are opened in confined spaces are being offered by an...

The Shorfast cargo control division of B. Dixon-Bate Ltd has brought out a heavy-duty version of the spring-loaded shoring bar...

A flameproof version of the well-proven Dixi Mk 4 batteryoperated fork-lift truck has been added to the range of flameproof...

by Tony Wilding Ways of improving engine cooling characteristics are often in the news these days. It has always seemed...