IF operators tend to adopt a mood of cynical resignation whenever • pay matters are discussed it is, to say nO more,...

T HE average cost of motorway con struction is £700,000 per mile. If constructed for li g ht vehicles only a savin g of l71...

D'S £20m. pulp mill at Corpach will g o into operation next year and plans are now bein g worked out to handle the vast new...

tankers I to be manufactured by Crane Fruehauf will be seen on the stands at the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court next...

and the installation of 25 electrically operated cranes, the clearance of timber car g oes by road transport has shown an...

BY N. H. TILSLEY R EGULAR trunk running to the Far IN. East with goods vehicles was brought a stage nearer when, a little more...

BY P. A. O. BROOKINGTON H OW many drivers who, knowing their lorries to possess dangerous defects, continue driving them...

latest " blitz" V1 centre for Ministry of Transport road-side checks. Of 834 vehicles stopped and examined last week, 49 per...

I -1 . A LORRY which overturned its load of coal at a traffic island was found to have mechanical defects, it was said at...

IN response to the Ministry of Trans 1 port's proposed regulations for advanced warning signs which may be placed at the rear...

T HE Traders Road Transport Association is investigating reports of inadequate warnings on roads of the "prohibitive" form of...

A BOUT 140 tipping vehicles are expected to he at the disposal of the newly formed West Cumberland Tipping Vehicle Operators'...

representations dr 16 the Minister of Transport is considering making amending regulations under section 72 of the Road Traffic...

ri A NEW £100,000 regional outside broadcast base was opened at Bristol this week by the B.B.C.., West Region. after a major...

COVENTRY bus drivers who were presented with safe-driving awards were told by the Lord Mayor of Coventry, Aid. Tom Whiteman,...

From our Industrial Correspondent T HE first £1,000-a-year busmen are to start work in London in the autumn. They are the...

C ay travellers expect the costs of their regular journeys to be reasonably low and, if revenue is insufficient to provide the...

D AMAGES of £3,125 must be paid by Scottish Omnibuses Ltd., of Edinburgh, to Mrs. Winifred Wingrove, of Broxburn, in an action...

.1 - 1 A NEW Europabus service has been introduced between Munich and Instanbul by Deutsche Tourin g Gesellschaft, Frankfurt,...

a Contract A to A switch was put forward on behalf of British Road Services and British Railways at Manchester on Tuesday, when...

nESPITE failing to provide customer evidence Mr. Patrick Cunningham, of Northfield, Birmingham, was granted three vehicles not...

H OW a major fire and explosion last year at the premises of A. F. Hampson Ltd., of Salford, resulted in that company taking up...

A N application by T. Simmonite (Transport) Ltd. to switch four vehicles, at present on Contract A licence, to ordinary A...

A FTER being strongly cross-examined by advocates for the objectors at Birmingham last week, G. E. Taylor, of Walsall Wood,...

PA A N application by Eastbourne Coachways for the renewal with modifications of an excursions and tours licence granted a year...

Tankers Licensing Regulations I N a written decision, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, has granted an...

R EQU1REMENTS for emergency braking of vehicles operating under the new Construction and Use Regulations have raised a problem...

T WO basic models of new semi-trailers from Patchett and Co. Ltd., Westland Road, Leeds, 11, have now completed severe...

A NEW type of dual-purpose van, the first of a batch to be operated by :he S.P.D. organization in the more sparsely populated...

R EPAIR on site of heavy . plant and machinery, such as hulldozr5. excavators, snowploughs ; road rollers and surfacers, is the...

n NE of the exhibits of BonaHack and Sons Ltd. at the Commercial Motor Show will be a refrigerated van semitrailer built for...

Battery Neglect and Failure I NADEQUATE battery maintenance centres around two extremes. These are (a) the vehicle covering a...

C. Babbage, of Llanithen, Cardiff. He says that on the B.M.C. 7-ton chassis the hydraulic fluid reservoir is fitted to the...

and Publications =antry-type washer k NEW. gantry-type, commercial vehicle washer, which incorporates a high-pressure,...

T HE normal follow-up to the introduction of small car models is for manufacturers to design light vans based on the same...

—by Vauxhall out of Viva - yl Y first encounter with the new Bedford van (described on pages 44-46) was on the Vauxhall test...

VIEW By The Hawk Here is Oldham Corporation bus 113 on location with Granada TV on a remote part of the moors near Oldham....

W HEN sums running into millions of pounds are stolen from mail trains and when convicted criminals are spirited away from...

By R. D. CATER T ODAY marks the opening of a new era in the British road haulage industry when the new Construction and Use...

WEIGHS• NO MORE, EITHER The Reiver is the obvious choice for loads too heavy for a 4-wheeler but too light for economy on a...

A CONVENTIONAL, infinitely variable, stepIess transmission based on a hydrostatic pump and motor has a relatively low...

cut price or cut throat? BY FRANK BURRAVOE T HESE appeals about licences for vehicles employed under contract never cease. For...

M AINTENANCE, or rather the lack of it, has been very much in the - news lately as a result of the spot checks organized by the...