Hauliers and own-account operators apprehensive that different approaches to 0 licensing by different Licensing Authorities...

'CY licensing? by David Spain MINISTRY PROPOSALS GET DIFFERENT TREATMENT IN DIFFERENT TRAFFIC AREAS • Five of the 11 MoT...

licence • At a meeting of over 150 drivers and employers last week Mr. John F. C. Morris, London and Home Counties divisional...

• • Some 150 hauliers, who are members of Aberdeen sub-area of the • : Road Haulage Association, are to put • ▪ up their...

• A Gardner eight-cylinder-in-line diesel developing 240 bhp at 1,850 rpm will be available to vehicle makers by mid-1970, it...

from our political correspondent • A Parliamentary row is belatedly blowing up over the Government's decision to drop the...

agreement by John Darker • Protracted discussions between BRS management and trade unions have led to the signing of a...

• About to go public is the Deptfordbased haulage company, J & H Transport Group Ltd. Burston and Texas Commerce Bank will...

• Justification for the recent statement on increased costs and the need to examine rates, by the express carriers' group {CM...

• Carrying a load on a "trade plate" vehicle, other than for test purposes or during vehicle recovery, will be barred under the...

• The Minister of Transport will shortly be making proposals for amending the regulation which lays down that a vehicle drawing...

• The Port of London Authority and the Australian Outward Freight Committee have instituted a new space reference scheme for...

• The West Riding County Council last week issued a very comprehensive snow clearing instruction to all officials who are...

• Hire-drive companies are concerned about the effect of the 1968 Transport Act on their business. These companies—there are...

• Under the new regulations governing fees for carriers' licences, no charge will be made for variations, short-term licences...

• Reconciliation of the needs of transport and amenity would be one of the great problems of the second half of the 20th...

• Greater safety in the carrying of dangerous loads, such as sodium cyanide, is to be sought by Liverpool Corporation whose...

A second printing of the 1969 edition of Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs has now been made. Copies are obtainable,...

of the Transport Association are Herbert Davis and Sons Ltd., 6, Station Road, Gloucester, and "Dor-to-Dor" Carriers IBrighton)...

• The Transport Act 1968 (Commencement No. 3 Order), 1969 which came into effect yesterday introduces those sections of Part V...

• Thirty-eight drivers whose ages range from 21 to 53 and whose occupations range from furniture porters to garage fitters have...

• The Prime Minister is said by the British Road Federation to have devalued transport by excluding the new Minister of...

from a legal correspondent • An aspect of land use which could be of importance to transport operators has been raised by a...

• The in-company management training courses which have been operated since 1957 by the Brent Group of Companies have been...

• Following the announcement in CM last week that Logan and Cranston (Plant) Ltd., had procured a controlling interest in...

Caxton Hall by Tony Wilding • A funny thing happened to me on the way home from the office the other night. 1 went to a...

Buses from our Parliamentary correspondent • The new company, London Country Bus Services Ltd., expected to show a cash...

• A voluntary control panel 'should be instituted to co-ordinate the numerous roadworks which were making a complete nonsense...

• The University of Newcastle upon Tyne is to hold a symposium on the theme Tomorrow's Bus World from April 15 to 17 inclusive,...

—and LT is interested! by Derek Moses • The first of the two prototype Metro-Scania single-deck city and urban buses (CM...

• The p.s.v. industry still had its fair share of problems and to the ever-present one of traffic congestion had been added the...

• A fleet of 26 Daimler Fleetline doubledecked buses with Northern Counties lowheight bodies due to be delivered to Southend...

• The TGWU last Friday submitted an informal claim for a substantial pay rise for Britain's 50,000 municipal busmen. It is to...

• The National Bus Company and Swain Group Ltd. are negotiating for the purchase of the share capital and control of the...

• As part of the rationalization of the business activities of the Carnmell Laird (Metro) Group of companies, Metro-Carnmell...

• The Ministry of Transport has turned down Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation's £33,000 plan for reconstructing the Haymarket bus...

• To meet the wishes of both applicant and objectors during the hearing of an application for a new B licence, the North...

• After hearing the evidence of Mr. V. G. Brown, managing director of Continuous Haulage Contractors Ltd., Bury, the North...

• Thomas Rae and Son, Coldstream, had one vehicle taken from its B licence at Edinburgh on Monday when the company appeared at...

• Emlin Plant, of Stirling, was granted a new B Licence for one artic low-loader conditioned to carry contractors' plant within...

• Alpha Transport Co. Ltd., of Kentish Town, London. was last week granted an additional 16ton low-loader to its A licence...

• M. Allan {Carriers) Ltd., of Airth, Stirlingshire, attended a public inquiry in Edinburgh on Monday seeking continuation of...

• Andys Transport Ltd., of Banbury, Oxon, was last week fined a total of £140 by Banbury magistrates after admitting seven...

• "The additional revenue sought is necessary and the proposed fares are not unreasonable," said Maj.-Gen. A. F. J. Elmslie,...

• Mr. John Hanlon, the Northern LA. decided not to grant a full-term B licence to R.A.H. Transporters Ltd., of Darlington, at...

• The second application within 12 months by Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd. for a fares revision was heard by the...

• Ignorance of the law and an administrative muddle were said to be the main reasons for the appearance of two brothers before...

• East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd. is claimed to have been shocked when its application for fares increases was refused by...

K. J. Loosley, on December 1, becomes head of a new technical research and development department set up by Tyburn Road Tank...

• At the start of his paper, "Current Problems for the Transport Engineer," Mr. R. H. Duncalfe, transport controller of RHM...

• Kits of parts needed to perform routine servicing jobs for all naturally aspirated engines in the Cummins NHK engine range...

• The biggest bulk-powder tanker, built by Metalair Ltd., Fishponds Road, Wokingham, Berks., was recently delivered to the...

• A rationalization of companies in the Bonallack Group is aimed to make life simpler for customers and reduce costs and...

• An infra-red lamp and photo-electric cell replace the conventional type of cam-operated contact-breaker mechanism in an...

by Handyman Loads and forces (27) • Bringing back the empties is quite an important part of haulage operations, and while the...

• Electron beam welding offers opportunities to improve vehicle design and make savings in cost and weight. For example a...

• A front-mounted power take-off for Ford D Series commercial vehicles has been introduced by the Ford Special Vehicle Order...

• Hanger Engineering is now offering a series of lightweight alloy van bodies for the Bedford, BLMC, Commer and Ford forward...

IN RECENT YEARS the very expensive custom-built fire engine chassis have given way to converted standard chassis for...

bus subsidies? by Derek Moses ONE of • the most urgent problems confronting country people in Britain is the provision of...

by the Hawk *Forty years on Tales of small beginnings were the vogue at Friday's anniversary dinner to celebrate 40 years of...

cause and effect DO NOT be surprised at the questions put to the cost analyst (CM November 7) after completing the first...

Shocking example UNFORTUNATELY for the Ministry of Transport its proposals for unprecedented increases in licensing fees have...

Liverpool and Birkenhead TO SOME people Liverpool may be better known these days as the home of the Beatles and Ken Dodd's...

FROM time to time senior officials of the Road Transport Industry Training Board find—or seek!—an opportunity to meet...

The next seven days from November 21November 27 FRIDAY: IRTE (South Wales) meeting: "Special Type vehicles by S. R. Anderson....

unit with a BTC Four-in-Line trailer, plated for 19 tons gross weight. We have put a van body on the trailer which with a full...

A Existing insurance policies do not normally cover the use of a vehicle outside the territorial limits of the U.K. Your...

A (CM October 3) for an explanation of the principle of the semi-diesel. I have heard that the flesselman principle comes into...

taxed at £5 a year and runs on gas oil. Is it illegal to drive it on the public highway unless diesel fuel is used? A Special...

for vehicles came into effect in July 1968 and that there were to be roadside noise checks. I have not seen any activity of...

using a flashing lamp on a Land-Rover when towing a broken-down vehicle. I thought the idea was that these lamps would warn...

A At the meeting of the International Road Transport Union at the end of October it was explained that the IRU had succeeded...

Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, by George Wilmot university of London. Engineers and traffic men ROAD transport has...

E AV BY LES OLD RIDGE, A.I.R.T.E., A.M.LM.I. Speed limits (2) THERE ARE two types of speed limits, one depending on the road...

Wert Lines Transport CO. Ltd. Cap.: L1,000. Objects: To carry on the business of haulage and cartage contractors, etc. Dirs.:...