C HANGES in vehicle or power unit design result from a variety of pressure - s. Most important and most relentless is the...

No, says TGWU . . Yes, says URTU By John Friedman A L but three of the Big 16 invited by the RHA to attend a September 7...

OPERATORS are determined to make themselves heard on the Noise Regulations issue. As the TRTA has told the Ministry, they have...

TI E national council of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses is unanimously in favour of using all legal...

rIROM today HM Customs and Excise will accept TIR 11: carnets for the through-running from ports of importation to approved...

DOPLICE interrogate a driver. A number L and symbol painted on the roof are clearly visible from the air and a "stolen" vehicle...

DAPERS and discussions on the future of the road haulage industry will IL constitute the main proceedings at the business...

CONTAINER DEPOTS are in danger of being overmanned through a possible demand by dockers' unions for the depots to be manned by...

MR. T. W. WALKER, managing director of Walker Trailers, Stockton is offering £100 reward for information leading to the...

and a back-bench engineer From our Political correspondent N ON-DRIVER Mrs. Barbara Castle has had her licence to run the...

MR. E. MOFFAT, finance director of BRS Parcels Ltd., tells COMMERCIAL MOTOR that there were "some mis-statements" in Mr. J. T....

A FEW OPERATORS had felt it unnecessary to spend money on maintenance—but the law would catch up with them in a few months if...

TATEST Metropolitan Police figures show a total of 2,127 thefts of and from goods vehicles in London during the first half of...

DRIVER OF THE YEAR. .. . . . and this is the array of trophies for LDOY-Day By 1A1N SHERR1FF N EXT weekend all roads—and some...

A BID by a Turkish company to develop Anglo-Turkish trade links succeeded last week when a new B licence for a pilot vehicle...

"THESE are among the lowest earnings you've ever seen for furniture removals," said Mr. A. W. Balne in London last week. He was...

AN APPLICATION for a lapsed 17vehicle B licence in the name of M. Heaslip, of Silvertown, last week prompted some searching...

WE ST MIDLAND deputy LA Mr. R. Hall was told last week that the transport contracts in connection with the M6 extension held by...

THE APPEAL on behalf of Mr. Derek Ward, trading as Wardline Tours, against the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners' refusal to...

AN APPLICANT for an A licence this week told Scottish LA Mr. A. B. Birnie that he had been using two vehicles on contract work...

King Canute and Reg. No. 252 EVERY SCHOOLBOY knows the story of King Canute who tried to turn the tide, and every schoolboy...

B EDFORDS two best-selling bus and coach chassis—the frontentry VAM model and the twinsteer VAL—now have more powerful engines...

LABOUR MP for Nuneaton, Mr. Leslie Huckfield, has turned down a Midland Red invitation to visit the undertaking with other...

AWARDS announced by the IoT for the 1966/67 sessions for papers submitted and for examination successes include: Herbert Crow...

T. Hancock, chief engineer of West Yorkshire Road Car Co. Ltd. has been appointed chief engineer to Western National Omnibus...

Mr. Selley, of Sutton, Surrey, retired on June 30, 1960, from Shell-Mex and BP Ltd., where he was motor department manager. In...

ALL OTHER OPERATORS . . • WE DISPUTE-PVCIA IN a hard-hitting memorandum to the Minister of Transport, the Passenger Vehicle...

'THE PVOA memorandum to the -IMinister says:— HAD the original concept of PTAs been proceeded with—advisory Authorities having...

keen interest in the weather forecast—for if it rains they will be without a bus service. Northern General Transport Ltd. has...

light alloy tanks By PAUL BROCKINGTON, AMIMechE A 6,000-gallon welded light-alloy eight-compartment tank of the chassisless...

SIX BEDFORD chassis variants, all based on the KGT 120in-wheelbase model with the 300 cu. in. six-cylinder Bedford diesel...

A NOVEL use for load-sensing valves, normally fitted to adjust brake effort according to the load being carried by an axle, has...

By Paul Brackington, AMIMechE A NEW method of quoting engine outputs appears in a Leyland Corporation publication—Leyland gross...

A Leyland technical spokesman told me that specifying the gross rating of a unit is greatly preferable to giving the net...

TAST week I wrote about accidents brought J/ about or influenced by winter road conditions and inexperienced drivers. I pointed...

T E introduction of a new trailer axle is announced by Kirkstall Forge Engineering Ltd., Leeds 5. This new axle has a full...

TNESIGNED for commercial vehicle and industrial truck users, a range of three new petrol and diesel-fuel dispensing units has...

IMPROVED wet-road grip and longer life Iare claimed for the new Avon Routemaster truck tyre which has a sipecl tread pattern...

T WO new safety blankets are now available in the UK. Both are made from a new super-insulation metallind plastic material,...

A FURTHER stage in the use of the cold . 1-1 . matched-tool pressing process has been introduced by ERF Engineering Ltd. to...

S OME red faces at the Ministry, I hear. It has just been discovered that if the vehicle noise regulations are enforced from...

A MERICAN consultants visiting Britain to give advice on increasing efficiency sometimes complain at the variety of our...

T IMAGINE Mrs. Castle will be delighted to hear that the Nottingham branch of TGWU wants BRS to channel all road movements from...

DROSPECTS of a new era in the certification of passenger vehicles are opened up by a provision in the new Road Traffic Bill...

T HE amusing BBC-TV series Misleading Cases started off in fine style with an income tax debt for £68 being discharged by a...

H OW'S this for a tricky short-distance movement (at Esso's Mode Wheel Terminal, Manchester)? With the aid of a segmented...

1..3 OME would have us believe that road transport is a secondclass service industry with a poor image. But the fact is that...

m Y brief: Ask operators why they choose a particular type of equipment; what their experience teaches them about it; and what...

OMEHOW, the smartly dressed driver delivering cartons of cream to the village grocer from the Land-Rover did not seem to be...

. . . and keeping it that way M AINTAINING a relatively high body temperature is necessary in the case of a wide variety of...

O NE consequence of Mrs. Castle's proposals for road haulage which has been almost completely ignored by the general public is...

THE HAULAGE INDUSTRY, in common with most others, has its giants, but 85 per cent of all hauliers have five vehicles or less....

AND WELL OILED A CCURATE temperature control of engine coolant and a matching lubrication system are essential to stop-start...

it seems that the problem started with the pinch bolt retaining the front shackle pin on the front spring becoming loose. When...

have been suggestions that more double-shift working should be introduced into road transport operation. Bearing in mind the...

A The short answer is very little. On May 13, 1965 the EEC Council adopted a decision on the gradual harmonization of tax,...

A The general rule is to give way. With the entry to a roundabout marked by a single broken white line, vehicles entering a...

A No. Differentials of this type are pro duced, for example, by the ENV Engineering Co. Ltd., Hythe Road, Willesden, London,...

driving and for the past five years I have been concerned with maintenance. How do l stand now regarding obtaining an h.g.v....

AT are the implications of the TIR traffic announcement HM Customs and Excise? This is the question• operators on both sides...

RELAXATION of TIR restrictions in the UK will give a welcome boost to British international hauliers—but they have not waited...

THE ADVENT of the levy for the Road Transport Industry Training Board which took effect from August 1 and the quality-licensing...