While successive Governments fiddle with their own pet projects for transport, Rome burns merrily. At present Mrs. Castle is on...

• Details of the fees proposed for annual tests of heavy goods vehicles were revealed this week by the Ministry of Transport....

• Changes in regulations to permit an increase in the maximum permitted overall length of articulated vehicles from 13m (42ft...

HIGHLY CRITICAL REPORT EXPLAINS WHY THE RAILWAYS CAN'T TAKE IT • "Britain's inadequate and out-dated transport system is...

• Operators who have been voluntarily submitting goods vehicles for test in advance of the compulsory scheme (starting July 1)...

mumbo jumbo • The road track costs report (CM last week) is theoretical mumbo-jumbo without any practical basis. That is the...

• "I am appalled at the ease with which ISO containers are issued to road hauliers at terminals," said Mr. J. Fielding,...

from our industrial correspondent • A fresh formula to end the deadlock on the Road Haulage Wages Council will be proposed by...

by John Darker • From a number of sources I hear reports that the carriage of 40ft containers in this country is to be...

• Many of the sections of the Transport Bill concerned with commercial road vehicles could easily be postponed without in any...

by Ashley Taylor • Demonstrations are now taking place of a rapidly operated device that provides a clear indication of exact...

• A meeting representing governments, international agencies and other interested organizations, to draw up a container...

• Wilson and Walker Breweries Ltd, of Manchester (members of the Watney Mann group) recently concluded a road transport...

• The Bradford and District Haulage Federation has agreed to suspend until March 31 the implementation of the special surcharge...

FROM PERMUTATIONS TO PUPPETS 'ram a special correspondent I, The new Ministry of Transport report Dn Road Track Costs is an...

John Collins, an Australian haulier, will be giving the Institute of Transport's first Overseas Lecture in London on Monday....

City Transport Service and will take up his duties towards the end of April. At present the deputy general manager of...

• Mrs. Castle is to make a careful study of the Transport Bill to see whether—as the Tories claim—it will allow Passenger...

• The Transport Bill Committee, which meets one more day a week than is usual, now looks like starting on a series of marathon...

• The road haulage and abnormal loads charges will add about £33m to transport costs, forecast Mrs. Castle. These were the only...

• It was clearer than ever, after reading the road track costs report that the wear and tear tax was an arbitrary Government...

• There were surprised cries in the Commons when Mr. John Morris denied that the NFC would be able to stop quantity licences in...

• A mixed reaction came from the TRTA this week after the MoT's testing and plating fee announcement (see page 18). While the...

• Regulations dealing with the conveyance by road of over 200 inflammable liquids will be made within a few weeks. Announcing...

• No hot dispute arose over rates when the Mendips tipper applications were resumed before Western LA, Mr. J. R. C....

• The European COmtnission has pulled no punches in telling the German Government that it should go back on its pro-railway...

• New direct express coach services between Nottingham and Bournemouth and Portsmouth were approved last week by the East...

• The Queen's Bench Divisional Court held last week that a 30-ton Euclid scraper used for earthmoving at off-road sites, but...

• It was not the duty of the Transport Tribunal to rescue an operator who was suffering the consequences of his action, said...

• Before the opening of the Transport Tribunal on Tuesday, Mr. G. D. Squibb, QC, president, announced that Mr. Alfred T. Casey,...

Addressing road hauliers at their annual dinner at Piercebridge, near Darlington, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern LA, urged...

out work for Mendip and Cheddar Valley Quarries on Tuesday (see page 27), eight adjourned B licence applications to carry out...

• The Northern Area LA, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, has refused to grant a licence to Mr. Robert Bulman, of Hinderwell, Whitby (Yorks)...

• Aberdeen was established as a Lorry • Driver of the Year Centre this week. The • • national executive committee on Tuesday •...

• The first of the long-awaited doubledeckers for Manchester City Transport which are specially designed for one-man operation...

by Derek Moses • The publication of Brigadier T. I. Lloyd's study of the Manchester Rapid Transit proposals (pages 40-44) in...

• Mr. S. W. Adams, design and development engineer of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd., outlined his concept...

• The Minister of Transport has agreed to receive a deputation from Newcastle on Tyne Corporation on Tuesday to discuss the...

• At last the "Standard Lists"showing the weights for which goods vehicles will be plated have made their appearance. The first...

Following an increase in the £12m, offer by Joseph Lucas for Simms Motor and Electronics Corporation, the bid has been accepted...

• Only 28 months after the introduction of the Ford Transit range, the 100,000th model in this series came off the production...

There are nearly 200,000 Transits working today. Practically no two of them are exactly alike. The reason is simple. Like you,...

To do your job, a van's got to be reliable. Right? And tough. And powerful. All the more reason for choosing Transit. The...

When we launched the Transit in 1965, we knew it was exactly what van operators were looking for. The Transit was new: bolder,...

The Transit gives you lots of lovely loadspace. From 178 Cu. ft. in the short wheelbase van up to 390 cu. ft. in the long...

And what about the driver? The Transit looks after him very well. The cab has all the comfort of a saloon car, keeping the...

For the last word in effortless driving, the Transit is available with fullyautomatic transmission. For stopstart work, tight...

New super-lightweight semi-trailers have been added to the range offered by Highway Trailers (Great Britain) Ltd., Southampton....

• A higher-capacity Karrier Masketeer refuse collector is now available. Developed in conjunction with Glover, Webb &...

• The Traders Road Transport Association has asked the MoT to revise the "correct inflation provisions" in the tyre maintenance...

• An £18,000 Simon Snorkel firefighting and rescue unit with a maximum elevation of 65f1 was handed over to the Dudley Fire and...

• A service check list, driver's report sheet and maintenance/repair record sheet for each vehicle which an operator runs are...

• At a conference in Dunmurry, Belfast, on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, hauliers and managers were invited to put their...

By T. I. Lloyd MANCHESTER is not conspicuously short of railways: from within its central area of radius two miles there fan...

I can't recall the number of times I have watched fitters struggling with poor equipment. This is particularly the case when a...

by Handyman Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics • The silliest position for a vehicle recovery operator to find...

Where Geddes feared to tread OVER SEVERAL YEARS, expectation has been built up that the experts in the Ministry of Transport...

supplying a changing market. The further the need to plan ahead the more accurate must be the assessing of future demand. The...

by A. J. P. Wilding, AM1MechE, MIRTE FEW light commercial vehicles have had a career of 17 years without noticeable changes in...

Traffic engineers are, it seems, as incomprehensible as politicians at times. One morning last week a bollard at one point on...

They tell me that one of the reasons why a lot of Asian folk are coming to Britain from Kenya is that there are growing...

For the second time in four years, I see, an apprentice from W. Alexander and Co. (Coachbuilders) Ltd., Falkirk, has won the...

Another old bus is off for an interesting second life. It is a 14-year-old Bristol doubledecker which has been sold to a...

Trade gossip tells me that something new in safety belts for van drivers is in the development stage: a design that does away...

Was it the sheer pulling power of CM; or a sudden glut of service engineers; or that engineering staffs are grossly underpaid...

For those among you who like to be encyclopaedic, I draw the following from my bncket of useless but interesting facts for...

THE COST of operating a commercial vehicle can usefully be divided into 10 items to make detailed analysis easier. Five of...

report on road haulage charges. In one section it seems to suggest that an increase of 5 per cent is justified—but in another...

since the announcement that a National Freight Corporation is to be set up as to how this organization will work in relation to...

A, B and C licences in the Transport Bill now before Parliament, can you tell me if any figures are available showing the...

artic unit and then building a semi-trailer with caravan body to match up to the unit. What would be the permitted overall...

the Road Safety Act 1967 to keep maintenance records, where can suitable forms be obtained? A One firm specializing in...

apply to 5cwt vans used by servicing engineers who normally carry in their vehicles hand tools and, on occasions, spare parts?...

of functions within the Transport Holding Company, can you tell me how the passenger activities compare with the haulage side...

BUSINESS GAMES are a new feature of management training in the UK and were only introduced in the modern form at the Harvard...