AT THE HEART OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY.

Call our Sales Team on 0208 912 2120

20th December 1968
20th December 1968
Page 1
Page 1, 20th December 1968
Close

Page 13

Togetherness pays

One of the most encouraging results of the establishment of the much-maligned Road Transport Industry Training Board has been...

Page 14

Artics not accident-prone,

reveals R R L report by the Technical Editor • The bogey of "dangerous artics" is effectively laid in a report published this...

Take corners • slowly, tanker men warned

from a special correspondent • Comments about the risks of instability being encountered with some long articulated tankers...

Page 15

▪ German tax tit-for-tat

but quota raised By way of retaliation for the high rate of taxation on foreign vehicles entering Britain the West German...

Yarmouth bonus frozen

from our industrial correspondent • Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister of Employ ment and Productivity, announced on Friday that...

• ▪ Maintenance : meeting sought

• • Employers and unions have asked for a • meeting with Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister of • • Employment and Productivity, and...

Page 16

Let's keep records,

pleads operator • The reminder by the Ministry of Transport to LAs last week that drivers of vehicles not exceeding 30cwt...

Owner-driver strike collapses

from our industrial correspondent • About 150 Ready-Mix drivers decided at a mass meeting in Northfleet, Kent, on Friday to...

Page 17

Use headlamps when moving

• Under the Road Vehicles (Headlamps) Regulations 1968 laid before Parliament on December 12, headlamps as well as side lamps...

Advance warning for danger loads?

• The Standing Advisory Committee on Dangerous Substances is to be asked to consider whether the routeing of dangerous...

Weighbridge list on the way

• It was more important for operators to know the laden axle weights of their vehicles than the gross weights, said Mr. E. W....

Unlicensed aliens

• A cab for reports from chief constables on the action taken by the police against unlicensed and uninsured foreign lorries...

Distribution conference

• Developing Policies for Physical Distribution is the title of a conference to be held at the Cairn Hotel, Harrogate, on...

Lighter Dodges for 20 tons g.v.w.

• The two six-wheel rigid models in the Dodge 500 Series are now available with the Perkins 6.354 diesel as an optional power...

Page 18

New basis for Wages Council

from our industrial correspondent • The field of operation covered by the Road Haulage Wages Council is to be redefined. The...

Bank recalls Allisons loan

• The chairman and managing director of Allisons Freightlines Ltd., Dundee, Mr. James Allison this week put forward proposals...

Less overloading

• Although fines totalling £1.295 were imposed following 149 summonses issued for overloading in Cumberland last year, there...

First noise offender fined £10

• Haulage Contractor Arthur George Simmons, of 320 Sutton Common Rd., Sutton, Surrey, was one of the first to be prosecuted...

Ministers study road pricing

• A report on a specific system of road pricing for urban roads was considered by the council of the European Conference of...

Threat to haulier

• An Order which would limit the use of certain Welsh roads by goods vehicles weighing more than 6 tons laden and more than 7ft...

Page 23

by Roger Howell

Low damage rate EXPERIENCE with his company's containers during the past year or two had been very satisfactory Mr. R. B....

Coal on call by radio

• Nothing in the coal-bin? No problem now for Nottingham householders, Who have only to pick up the phone to get a same-day...

Page 24

The big municipal pay-out

from our industrial correspondent • Lump-sum payments of between £80 and £100 are to be made to Britain's 77,000 municipal...

Electronic lubrication for buses

• Electronically-controlled automatic chassis lubrication is to be fitted to 150 Leyland Atlantean double-deckers ordered by...

Dundee to sell out?

• Dundee is to begin discussions with the Scottish Bus Group (shortly to be incorporated in the Scottish Transport Group)...

Page 25

All change -under cover

• Opened last week was the first coach station in the North West where extended tour passengers will change coaches under the...

LTB viability through fares

from a special correspondent • When the White Paper on London Transport was published earlier this year, GLC leader Mr....

'Merseyside PTA area inadequate'

• Liverpool City transport committee is recommending the city council to make representations to the Minister of Transport on...

Leicester's new buses

• Although production of double-deck, bodies on Bristol VRT rear-engined chassis for Tilling and Scottish Bus Group operators...

Standardization?

on Daimler on Leyland • A tender from Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd. for six 36ft Fleetline single-deck bus chassis has been...

Page 26

Finance company has called back 40 vehicles, Sammy Davis tells LA

• The public inquiry into the application by Larrow Transport (Northern) Ltd. to acquire A licences previously operated by the...

Tribunal rejects 'harsh' plea

• A Walsall haulage firm lost an appeal against what it claimed was a "harsh decision" by the West Midland LA at the Transport...

Page 27

'Ghost' drivers fined

• Eighteen drivers employed by Jos. Walsh (Darwen) Ltd. were fined on charges of forging logsheets with intent to defraud at...

Haulier loses overloading test case

• When a firm of haulage contractors discovered that 69 of its lorries were over loaded with gypsum they decided to drive them...

Walsh take-over

• The takeover of two A licences and a 8 licence operated by Joseph Walsh (Darwen) Ltd. by a new company, Walsh Transport...

90-ton low-loader switch

• On an undertaking being given that the pattern of work would remain unchanged and only one low-loading trailer, capable of...

• FTA on the Act

; Two one-day conferences to explain the • provisions of the Transport Act and their • implications are to be held next spring...

Page 28

Scottish Omnibuses 'inherits' tours

• Convoys Ltd„ a company which arranges air/rail/coach tours for American tourists in England, hopes to extend its operation to...

Motorway service at Christmas

• All motorway service areas will remain open over the Christmas holiday except those at Watford Gap (Blue Boar) on M1 and...

Page 29

Three-plus-one truck transporter

• The problem of carrying four heavy commercial vehicle chassis cabs on an articulated tandem-axle transporter I has been...

AP monopoly not undesirable but some profits high

• The Monopolies Commistion has called for a Government watch on the price policy and profits of the country's biggest supplier...

Trailer Stopmasters

• In addition to its range of Stopmaster twin-wedge brakes for trucks, Centrax Gears Ltd., Newton Abbot. Devon, has now...

Joint servicing

III To provide service and repair facilities at one centre for tankers, trailers and other commercial vehicles, Allied...

Page 30

Weight-saving Sas

• York Trailer reports increasing popularity for its Super Load Teamster range of platforms fitted with the company's own...

News in brief

• Mrs. Ethel Goodman, governing director of Goodman's Transport Ltd., Oundle Road, Orton Longueville, Peterborough, is starting...

Road and workshop

by Handyman Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (23) • The subject of tyre failures and their causes could almost become an...

Page 34

'Joe' Vigor to retire

S. R. Vigor, commercial officer, ORS Parcels Ltd., is to retire on December 28. Behind this formal announcement lies a...

Frank Cousins' successor by John Darker

• No change in the political slant of the Transport and General Workers' Union is likely to occur when Mr. J. L. (Jack) Jones...

Page 35

Time recorders

The points raised by your industrial correspondent regarding "speed-loss" tachographs (CM Nov 22) are of interest. It is, of...

Transport studies

It is to be regretted that no publicity of the Leeds three-year part-time Certificate in Transport Studies has been apparent in...

Vehicle cleaning costs

Mr. J. A. Lock, director of Garnham's Garage Ltd., Woodbridge, Suffolk, apparently considers my statement (CM November 1) that...

Pedestrian crossings

In Know the law (CM December 61 Mr. Oldridge was discussing pedestrian crossings. He says that it seems clear that if a person...

Big artics With reference to the Nov. 29 issue of

Commercial Motor and particularly the article - Big artics can be dangerous, say oilmen", our company as tanker manufacturers...

Page 36

Commercial Motor Christmas Road Test

ENTINEL 4T TEAMER by R. D. Cater, AMInstBE THROUGHOUT the first two decades of mechanized road haulage, the steam lorry...

Page 43

*TMC international

Twenty-two years ago the London division of the Transport Managers' Club held its first Christmas luncheon at the Charing Cross...

* "With respect. . . 1 1

Speakers at the London TMC meetings can always be assured of lively participation by members; we know, we've been there!...

*Relaxed

Richard Marsh certainly plays it cool, to match his reputation for relaxed Ministerial methods. At the Press conference last...

*Figures that count

Rapid turnover of staff in the manual grades is a consistent source of complaint by local authority officials. All the same,...

* Horse laugh

Due to retire early next year, after a long and varied career in road transport is Arthur Wood, now chief automobile engineer...

* It pays to advertise

At the opening of the new Jacksons/ Shearings/Pleasureways coach station in Altrincham last week I was told by J. P. Beaumont,...

Page 44

Timber dock switches from rail to road

by Ashley Taylor, AM I RTE, Assoc I nst T OVER a long period receivers of cargoes at Newcastle's Tyne Dock enjoyed good...

Page 46

What fare shall we charge, sonny?

ARE THERE GOOD BUSINESS GROUNDS FOR CARRYING CHILDREN ON BUSES AT CONCESSIONARY RATES? FRANK BURRAVOE EXAMINES A VEXED...

Page 47

Janus comments

The word for the deed ALMOST before the legislative concrete has hardened the Transport Act is beginning to show some flaws...

Page 51

John Darker AMBIM on Management Matters

On with group training! Group training associations sponsored by the Road Transport Industry Training Board are a welcome...

Page 53

Q We are quoting for the local movement of a 15ft-wide

machine frame. Would you please advise on the notification procedure to be followed? There is some confusion in our traffic...

Q have taken out a provisional patent for

a steering indicator which comprises a dial on the front of the vehicle that could, if necessary, be linked to a dial at the...

Q suspect that the cooling system of one of my older

diesel-engined lorries is partially blocked by deposits of rust. The engine tends to overheat and occasionally runs erratically...

Cl Our present fleet of 3,000lb capacity fork-lift trucks is

life expired. In view of our increased export trade we intend to purchase equipment which will work satisfactorily inside...

Q I am not clear on certain aspects of quantity licensing, particularly the definition of a controlled journey.

Will an operator be able to run a maximum-capacity changeover service, with each leg not exceeding 100 miles, outside special...

Page 54

Road transport economics problems in investment

by George Wilmot University of London. WHEN an economist speaks of investment, he means the bringing of physical capital...

Conduct of bus crews

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI. ORIGINALLY made under Sections 84 and 85 of the Road Traffic Act 1930, now replaced by Sections...