It will be a year or two before operators can accurately assess the effects of the new heavy goods vehicle driving licence. As...

OPERATORS LICENSING STARTS ON SAME DATE • Statutory maximum driving hours for goods vehicle and p.s.v. drivers are to be...

by Derek Moses • At least two municipal transport undertakings may be sold to the National Bus Company if talks at present...

• The newly elected president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mr. Douglas Richards, has consented to perform...

• On Wednesday Metro-Cammell Weymann Ltd. announced that it is negotiating with Scania-Vabis, the Swedish truck and bus...

• Recommendations for the training of goods vehicle drivers, prepared as a result of joint consultation with the road haulage...

• Calling for a proper programme co-ordinating lorry parks, overnight driver accommodation and catering facilities, the August...

• Powell Duffryn Engineering Ltd, Cambrian House, Maindy, Cardiff, has recently delivered the first of five Di nopacke r...

• Mr. Robert Brown, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, opened the Syston Western by-pass in...

• Implementation of new working con ditions for road transport workers in the Common Market, due to commence in October, may...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board has now revealed the training grants which it is prepared to make in respect of...

• Last week representatives of the FTA met the Freight Integration Council when the subject for discussion was "parcels and...

• Drivers from six depots of the Yorkshirebased bulk liquid haulage firm of Harold Wood and Sons Ltd. launched the company's...

• The telephone number of the head office and the London and Home Counties divisional office of the Freight Transport...

• Mr. Marsh has given the go ahead for designing principal road construction and improvement schemes for the West Midland...

• As recorded briefly in CM last week, the Minister has circulated for comment draft regulations which will exempt goods...

• A specially designed and livened articulated vehicle has been introduced for the demonstration division of Rolatruc Ltd.,...

• Leading figures in the transport world will be taking part in the first national conference of the Freight Transport...

• From October 1 this year, older goods vehicles subject to plating and testing regulations will not be licensed unless valid...

• In advance of a guide to operators" licensing, which the Ministry of Transport is now preparing, the Ministry this week...

from our political correspondent • The Director of Public Prosecutions has now become involved in the case involving Mr. Alan...

• A week-long ban on overtime and restday working by 32,000 London Transport bus drivers and conductors was called off on...

• Two more appointments to the Executive of the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority were made last week. Mr. J. B. Hurst,...

• At a time when many municipal bus undertakings are in the red, Leicester City Transport made a surplus of £236,273 during the...

• United Automobile Services Ltd., Darlington, has applied to the Northern LA to cut fares which will be affected when...

• Belfast Corporation Transport is to introduce 80 one-man buses later this year and early next year, all based on Daimler...

• One of the last acts of the Commons before rising for the summer recess was to remove the restrictions on bus services and...

• The 75 single-deck buses ordered by London Transport from Marshall of Cambridge (Engineering) Ltd. (CM July 18) form part of...

Following closely on the announcement of orders for Leyland single-deck buses and coaches (CM last week) the company has...

C. R. Buckley, director and general manager of Crosville Motor Services Ltd.. has been appointed a member of the executive...

• Jos. Walsh (Darwen) Ltd., its managing director, Mr. J. C. Walsh, of Darwen, and its transport manager, Mr. H. S. Hunt, of...

• An application by Mr. G. C. W. Smith, of Bolton, for an 8 1 ,-ton attic on B licence to carry containers and flats within 250...

• The application by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd. of Leeds, for three tour licences to the Isle of Wight, Falmouth and St. Ives,...

• Suspending two vehicles belonging ti Clackmannan county council for six months the Scottish LA, Mr. A. B. Birnie, in Glasgov...

• Fines totalling £230 with 30 ons. cost were imposed by Birmingham magistrate last week on Joseph Ash and Son Ltd. for 5...

• Mr. Solly Davis and his son, Mr. Ronald Davis, of Amos Grove, London, N.4. both .ompany directors of Charles Poulter Ltd., )f...

I An application by Mr. J. L. Veitch, of larlington, to add a 10-ton artic. to his Aicence was granted after British Railways,...

I The Scottish Co-operative Wholesale lociety Ltd., of Glasgow, was granted an ;nopposed application for a B-licence, with very...

• Larrow Transport (Northern) Ltd. was fined £50 with £10 costs, at Grays Thurrock magistrates court last Friday, for exceeding...

• Mr. R. Bentley, of Ossett, was fined £14 for breaking plating and testing regulations when he appeared at Batley magistrates'...

• The Scottish LA, Mr. A. B. Birnie, hearing an application for a B-licence by Mr. R. Lumsden in Edinburgh on Monday. heard a...

• Protection of workers' eyes is the subject of new Regulations under the Factories Act 1961, which Mrs. Barbara Castle,...

• Mr. N. Richards, QC, the Official Referee, awarded damages and costs to J. Sorrell Ltd., wholesale meat importer and...

• Preparations are being made for all motor licence discs issued in Wales and Monmouthshire to be printed in Welsh and English....

A 24 per cent increase in roll stiffness nd a weight saving of about lfewt are rovided by overslung rear springs and an laton...

i Two models of lightweight multi-axle arni-trailers with single tyres on offset 'heels, interchangeable with those on tracve...

Loads and forces (11) • A new range of hazards faces us today and many of the older methods of stowing, packing, and lashing...

• Tipper versions of two models in the Transit range have been introduced by the Ford Motor Co. These have been designed for...

group profit of £481,200 as at March 31, 1969, as compared with £663,145 earned last year, W. P. Butterfield Ltd. chairman Mr....

• Ingersoll Locks Ltd., Regent House, 89 Kingsway, London, WC2, has appointed the AFA Group, 25 Wellington Street, London, WC2,...

Liverpool red herring NHATEVER the merits, no matter which side s right or wrong, whenever an industrial dis)ute turns into a...

A FIERY discussion on this very problem is expected to develop between speakers and delegates to the conference being held in...

* Brave action Well-deserved tributes to the courage of a Solihull haulier were voiced last week by a coroner's jury in...

You know it makes sense, as they say. And so it does. A vehicle working in its peak condition is a vehicle working profitably....

Legacy of the past DSTALGIA is certainly not an ingredient the sixth and last annual report of the ansport Holding Company....

THE little black book, 31in. by 44in., of which a replica appears above, is about to become the certificate of professional...

Northam Traffic Ares: McMullen Road. Dadington. Co. Durham; Sandy Lane. Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE3 5HEI: Tweedside...

A. J. P. Wilding, MIMechE MIRTE (D) BRAKING "HOW DIFFICULT is the test going to be?" This is a question which many in the...

How many Fs to your vehicle ton? How much is maintenance costing you per vehicle-mile? Your transport manager and accountant...

profit THIS IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF ARTICLES EXPLAINING THI STEP-BY-STEP ACTION TO TAKE IN SETTING UP COMPREHENSIVE...

Motor Transport, 30 August 1968 i was very pleased to read the article "Uisterbus plans for £2.5 million expansion" (CM June...

ROAD HAULIERS cannot be indifferent to labour relations in the ports of this country. On all sides manufacturing industry is...

which operates mini-buses, these being 11and 13-seaters built to standard regulations and not p.s.v. specifications; most of...

Essential statistics of road passenger services TRYING to pick out a few relevint statistics relating to the scale of the road...

ANOTHER new term, "the working day", appears in the Transport Act 1968. This relates to the total period during which the...

L. LIPTON L. Lipton Ltd.. the fork truck firm, has opened a 5.000 sq, ft. depot at Marvel Street, Hull, Yorkshire lphone Hull...