Several sections of transport education are on a slippery slope and need assistance, especially from employers. It is never...

New Highways Bill section would give Govt and town councils powers to s( up sites for goods handling, storage, night parking...

I The Government may make changes a the law to revise the whole concept of a [rivers' statutory working day as envisaged tinder...

• Following initial suggestions from Commercial Motor (CM April 23) that the resources and facilities of the RTITB could be...

This new mobile restaurant, named "The Upper Crust", was launched by J. Lyons and Co Ltd, on Wednesday. Designed for company...

• Road vehicles can have a civilizing influence on the community—given proper roads and correct traffic flow—and this was a...

• Coming into effect on June 1 are The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1971: SI 694, which bring together in a single...

• An experiment was started last Monda at 25 junctions within the Greater Londo; area to keep them clear of stationar vehicles....

y John Darker A pay offer to clerical and supervisory affs by British Road Services last week has een rejected by the trade...

A four-point official objection to proposed [creased tolls for the Mersey Tunnel has :en made by the FTA to the DoE. The...

The DoE, as reported last week, is sug:sting certain conditions which might be traduced in order to reduce the hgv :ence age....

• The bilateral road transport agreement between the UK and Czechoslovakia, signed last November, will come into force on June...

• To air the pros and cons of proposals for a Channel tunnel and its rival the channel bridge, an open forum is being held by...

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, is to introduce "as soon as possible" legislation to ensure that foreign...

West of Scotland: BOC monopoly at Glasgow by David Lowe • British Oxygen Co Ltd. which is not without some experience of...

by John Durant • How would "top people" fare behir the driving wheel of a commercial vehic1( This was a question posed at...

A special coach centre is to be developed Bicester, Oxfordshire, writes Derek Moses, the enterprising local independent...

• To meet the electrical power requirements of a super VIP coach shortly to be introduced by London operator Best and Sons,...

by Gordon Crabtree • An inspiration which came through pencil sketches made during a formal dinner in January may well lead to...

loors by Derek Moses A remarkable exercise in public ations was undertaken by the Yorkshire oollen District Transport Co Ltd in...

Eric Tindall, director-general of the RTITB, presented a commemorative plaque on Tuesday to G. Cartwright, 10,000th trainee to...

• Recommendations for improving the famous no. 11 bus route in London, which takes in the swinging King's Road, Chelsea, and on...

• Stanley (Durham) urban council has approved layout plans by its surveyor, Mr R. H. Snowball, for a new bus station....

• The West Midland PTE (Northern division), appearing before the West Midl land Traffic Commissioners in Birmingham on Monday,...

• The Northern area Traffic Commissioners, sitting in Durham, were told on Tuesday that a haulage vehicle failed its test...

• A Durham court on Monday sympathized with 20 haulage contractors charged with overloading their lorries. The bench at...

k When Mr. G. F. Harding, a market ardener of White Well Road, Frome, omerset, first applied for an operator's cence in March...

• A marked improvement in the mechanical condition of heavy goods vehicles is commented on in the Annual Reports of the...

• The Eastern Counties Omnibus Co Ltd has had little success so far in its attempt to persuade schools (CM, April 30) to...

• During an application by Cliff's Saloon Coaches Ltd for revised and additional excursion and tours licences on Tuesday and...

• Mr Robert Frederick Callaway, of Defoe Road, Ipswich, must take a new driving test if he wants to drive heavy goods vehicles,...

• The Western LA, Mr J. R. Samuel Gibbon, at Bristol granted the wives of two Bristol firemen an operator's licence for one...

• Mr H. R. Featherstone, director of the FTA, said this week that before any decision was taken to extend the good vehicle...

All an operator wants from an aluminium body is that it should work hard and profitably. This is how Star Aluminium takes care...

• What is claimed to be the first complete range of flat platform semi-trailers to be built to metric dimensions has been...

• The first engine to pass the British Standards Institution's revised truck diesel Type Test is claimed to be a Rolls-Royce...

ID Roll tests on an S-bend of a fully-laden 32-ton artic and noise measurements of - Leavy commercial vehicles were highlights...

filters by GKN • Air filters of the dry paper-element type equipped with a moisture-and-heavy dirt eliminator or a...

• A potential defect has been discovered in the original steering sector shaft of some of the 5-6 ton models produced by BMC...

• Ferry masters Ltd has been supplied with tipping semi-trailers on which are mounted plastics-lined pneumatic discharge ISO...

They are operating at above 92 dBA maximum, says Mr Denniss, who also blames manufacturers for too little practical testing by...

By David Lowe, MInstTA A NUMBER of interesting items at the fourth International Materials Handling Equipment Exhibition at...

by Handyman Bench wise: coo/it (2) • Frederick Potts, the Freight Transport Association's new vice-chairman, has a wide...

WHEN delegates at Commercial Motor's 1970 Fleet Management Conference were asked their preferences for future conference...

Will future truck power requirements best be met by a small, highly turbocharged diesel, or a larger unblown one, or a gas...

control The philosophy of profit—increasing business and reducing costs—will be the opening subject of Mr Robert Drimsley's...

Having a worldwide ICI responsibility for advising on materials handling, containerization and warehouse design and operation,...

A staff director, a leading trade union official and an academic specialist will present individual viewpoints on such matters...

Another presentation by the IoTA president was of the annual trophy which carries his own name, awarded to the centre showing...

Thick and fast come the notifications of vintage and historic vehicle events. Latest to reach me is news of a historic...

Jack Bangay (and vivacious wife Kay) must have felt it odd to be among the guests at the IoTA conference banquet and ball at...

Rumours that Andrew Newdick, a founder director of Seadyke, was in a state of ill health are, I am assured, ill-founded. He has...

If you are feeling chilly it may be because you left a dark navy blue three-quarterlength driving coat bearing a Shannon label...

What is the ideal age to start a new business? Could be over sixty. While in Preston recently our Man in the North came across...

I should imagine that the number of accountants and managers who do not understand the economics of vehicle leasing decisions...

As a member of the Manchester Transport Training Group's finance and general purposes committee. I was rather surprised to read...

What a racket the hgv licence medical is becoming! It seems that there is no set fee for doctors to charge for this...

9171 and operational trial Combinationb„onyw„ding, MiMechE HAVING had experience of the Volvo F89 after the 382-mile long run...

by janus W HERE road safety is concerned, there is almost bound to be a certain amount of double talk. Measures vhich are...

of a motoring offence in a private car what affect does this have on the hgv licence? Also can the hgv driving licence be...

driver training in a very short period. Could you explain how one goes about forming an association in an area which is not...

altered Do they include higher speeds for lorries pulling drawbar trailers? A No. The question of a higher speed limil for...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Transport and distribution consultants No. 5, Stevenson, Jordan and Harrison Ltd The right...

Commercial motor publishes books, booklets and reprints on road transport subjects. They include:— Tables of Operating Costs...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AM IMI ONE of the most complex subjects in the multitude of laws governing road traffic are those...

For the next seven days commencing May21 to 27. SUNDAY LDoY rounds—Carlisle : DoE Test Station, Carlisle, Cumberland;...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London.. THE GROWING NUMBER of students taking transport...

Glancy Transport Ltd. Cap: £100. Objects: To carry - on the business of haulage contractors, etc. Subs: M. J. Hope, B....

TAK CHEMICALS In order to rationalize and increase administrative efficiency, Takdu st Products Ltd and Tak Clans Auto...

Mastering and retaining sldlls; the special needs of the elder driver; possible health hazards from noise and vibration; the...

cab eolufort? by Tony Wilding, MtMechE HOW MUCH attention should be devoted to cab interiors when trucks are being specified?...

(ouch with the outside by lain Sheriff, MITA, AIRTE ALMOST every cab accessory which is today recognized as basic original _...

local delivery or long-distance lorry drivers. A BBC programme producer told me recently that, ideally, individual items,...

a report . from the INSTRUMENT LAYOUTS in heavy commercial vehicles should become as standard as possible and the instruments...