FT HE rate equalization proposals revealed by Mr. A. J. Butterwick, OCL's marketing manager, at the BAOFR conference (see page...

, T ASK the support of this con ference in seeing that everyone in the country realizes the consequences of this Bill. I urge...

ISSUED on Tuesday was RH(85), the notice of the Road Haulage Wages Council's intention to recommend a reduction in working week...

THE introduction of smoke-emission checks into the Ministry of Transport's commercial vehicle tests starting next year was...

BRITISH RAILWAYS this week moved its 200,000th Freightliner container, after two years of operation. The traffic was Guinness...

T HE Road Haulage Association this week opened a campaign to secure traders' continued freedom to choose how best to send or...

By lain Sherriff YET ANOTHER force has joined the ranks of those who are opposing the Minister of Transport's proposals for a...

FRUSTRATED by the Wages Council's refusal of the £1 a week increase, and the delayed implementation of the subsistence and...

A STRONG ELEMENT of cost consciousness was apparent in the discussion which followed a paper presented by Mr. Alan Dawson, Ford...

N EW DRIVERS recruited to the oil tanker fleet of the Pointer Group for the busy winter season are undergoing, for the first...

THE ABOLITION of lengthy overtime and the "somewhat haphazard nature which was the basis of the transport operation to date"....

TO provide for the haulage of long trailers (such as the 40ft container-carrying types being used by some Continental operators...

R OAD HAULIERS often pressed ICI loading points to provide night staff to increase transport productivity but the extra cost...

has been started by Effluent Services Ltd. of Stockport, in co-operation with its associated company, Sea Disposals Ltd. of...

U NLESS Mendip hauliers and quarry owners can agree on acceptably economical transport rates, the Western Licensing Authority...

DOCUMENT SUSPECT SIMILARITY of terminology in supporting letters by potential customers has cast doubt on the value of a...

AN APPEAL by the Transport Holding Company has been upheld by the Transport Tribunal (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, October 6). The appeal...

L Surrender _1 by sale T HE Transport Tribunal in London on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by Mr. J. A. Spellman, of Letchworth,...

ROAD transport activities of the corn trade should be excluded altogether from the quantity licensing proposals. This plea to...

TS through-transport cheaper and more reliable than a shuttle service? This was the principal point at issue when the...

By Eric Willoughby W IDESPREAD disruption of municipal bus services can be expected following last week's withdrawal of the...

A LENGTHY memorandum detailing the main arguments submitted by the joint bus trade unions to the Prices and Incomes Board...

REPRESENTATIVES of over 100 large and small operators of buses and coaches meeting in Cardiff have set up a committee to...

By ERIC WILLOUGHBY THE resignation of Mr. Norman Morton, transport manager of Sunderland Corporation, was accepted at a...

At the installation court of the Worshipful Company of Carmen in London this evening, G. W. Quick Smith, chief executive of the...

R. N. Carr: Mintex Ltd. assistant chief engineer responsible for commercial vehicle brake applications in the technical...

NEW 'FORMULA' MODELS UP TO 45 TONS GROSS By R. D. Cater O NE of the trailer industry's best-kept secrets was let out of the...

repair. The 10-acre site is adjacent to the London Transport bus repair centre at Aldenham which lies alongside M1 between A5...

By H. D. Cater A MAXIMUM gross train weight of 70 tons and a capacity of 12,000 gal—those are mouthwatering figures for any...

D ESPITE their low milea g e compared with the trunk and tramp vehicles, the "locals" build up quite a collection of assorted...

and publications Easy turn electric truck A 24-VOLT, driveror pedestrian-controlled electric truck capable of carrying...

D ETAILS of the "equalization rates" to be applied in inland haulage operations were given by Mr A. J. Butterwick, marketing...

IMH conference discusses technical and operational realities !THE two-day lecture course "Develop-1ments in containers and...

R. H. I nsoll, E R D, BA, F C I S, AM I nstTA, explains the correct procedure IN the past two or three years there has been...

WHEN a passenger boards your bus together with a hippopotamus-type dog, do you: (a) Give the dog one of your sandwiches; (b)...

THE AVERAGE bus driver, according to Professor John Cohen of Manchester University, can drink nine whiskies or nine pints of...

MRS. CASTLE is not the only one in the family who has transport questions on her mind. Husband Ted asked at the GLC council...

IS IT a friendly determination not to be outdone or is it a sign of the times that successful drivers in the LDOY contest are...

HOW unfortunate can you be? This could well be the question that Don Janes, managing director of Whitefriars Coaches is asking...

View BY THE HAWK Grouping the oldies BEING devoted by nature and persuasion to anything that saves me effort, I'm happy to...

"IN THE longer term, we believe there is a need for a higher degree of professional ism in the industry. . . an industry in...

"WHAT A basis for a transport policy!" That was the revealing comment with which Mr. H. R. Featherstone, national secretary,...

"NOW THAT standards have been laid down it is quite certain that lip service only to the [Road Safety] Act will no longer be...

ADOPTION OF the TRTA's inspection scheme had made reduced workshop visits by vehicles to an extent which, by the end of 1967,...

Minister's latest proposals and I agree with her that there should not be any private objectors. When I applied for my first...

A page (CM, October 6) highlights one of the special features of the UBD van bodybuilding system, described in COMMERCIAL MOTOR...

SURELY ANYONE who has practical experience of one-manoperated buses—either as a driver or a customer—will have doubts about the...

I WOULD LIKE to draw your attention to the article on Dorman engines for trucks (CM, Sept. 29). It refers several times to the...

referring to the standard D750 were based on information given by Dorman. There was no reason to doubt this as the 360 cu.in....

N OT ONLY is a lubricating oil conmated with use, it also "wears out" through suffering from additive depletion, which is...

work of a dilettante. The purposes of the German plans are said to be comprehensive and to make up a coherent policy. Among...

A The information is obtainable from the Safety. Health and Welfare Division, Ministry of Labour, Baynards House, 1 Chepstow...

being held at South Dorset Technical College in connection with transport? A The address is: A. J. Briscoe, Lecturer in...

many eight-wheeled vehicles with eight-wheeled trailers the driver had no mate. Could you explain the UK position with regard...

spread of at least 38ft in an overall length of 42ft 7.75in. to permit running 32 tons g.t.w. an four axles. Could you comment...

A The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1967 No. 1270 increased the maximum permitted overall...

and would now like to undertake Continental operation. Could you recommend a suitable employer? A You could obtain the names...

like to know where I can apply to take a correspondence course in transport management. A Correspondence courses preparing...

serious accidents involving commercial vehicles—notably pressure tankers—on the Continent, has there been any action on a...

A Although this actual model has not been road-tested the 2MM U Reliance with 470 cu.in. engine and five-speed gearbox has...

recently seen in CM the announcement of the formation of a tipper group somewhere in South East England? 1 am not referring to...

motorways coach operated by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd, including its maximum speed, type and output of...

Do you begrudge the time spent on keeping those important cost records? Then one solution may be a part-time secretarial...

TRYING TO PICK a way through the mass of statistics on the size of the road passenger industry in Great Britain is a difficult...

Associated Cargo Agents Ltd. Cap.: £100. Objects: To provide terminal services in connection with rail and road cargo, to...

NORGREN C. A. Norgren Ltd. has appointed four more sales and service centres in Britain. They are: Scotland: Automation...

Shot - ton Bros. Ltd. malleable ironfounders of Halesowen (Worcs.). which has almost completed its firs expansion programme....

Ray Powell Ltd. opened its new service and diagnostic centre at Harlow, Essex, yesterday. The diagnostic centre is the first of...

10-18), Millburn Motors Ltd., will be staging a motor show of its own. In its new premises at Hawthorn Street. Glasgow. It will...

BET Omnibus Services Ltd. —On 51 per cent Redeemable Cumulative Second Preference Stock: at the rate of 54• per cent per annum,...