Tr seemed for some time that the Road Haulage Association had got itself into a cul-de-sac over the question of haulage rates...

S INCE the freeze road transport has been too cheap. The industry can no longer absorb increasing costs and 16., businesses...

THE TIR committee of IRU recommends all national associations to adopt the written instructions prepared by the Dutch road...

The Road Haulage Association was beginning to be consulted more and more about projected legislation which was going to affect...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT SINCE the end of the Freightliner terminals tussle, the Railways Board has lost no time in...

ptARTON TRANSPORT LTD. and 14 of its ' 2 " . drivers were fined at Nottingham last week for a total of 32 offences connected...

Wilson lauds Mrs. Castle M PS are not tame poodles and should refuse to jump through Mr. Wilson's hoops, threats or no...

S TRONG objections are being made by the Traders Road Transport Association to the loading restrictions proposed by Birmingham...

MR. W. N. CHERRY has been appointed managing director of the new unit-load Roadferry partnership formed by British Road Ferry...

Operators must right image or risk unbearable pains N O industry could afford in the long run to operate under stigma in the...

Road Haulage Association functional groups officers for 1967-68 are:—Tipping vehicles: Chairman, A. E. Winchcomb;...

rr rr HE Government has removed the I danger of lorry owners or drivers being disqualified under the "totting-up procedure"...

DESPITE last week's union pleas, Mr. Michael Stewart, Economics Minister, has gone ahead with an order under the Prices and...

A HAULAGE operator who made no serious attempt to maintain his vehicles in a safe condition had shown "a totally irresponsible...

IN GRANTING Ribble Motor Services permission to take over licences previously held by Messrs. J. and T. Prescott, trading as...

THE Preston Corporation Transport Depart' ment was granted permission to increase its fares from July 1 by the North Western...

THE Traders Road Transport Association is holding a one-day conference on June 29 at the London Hilton Hotel on braking and...

THE GLC plans to make the South Circular Road—A205—an urban clearway for the whole of its 16 miles from Kew Bridge to...

ROME licence applications which get into a Licensing Authority's surgery lend 1..' themselves to clear-cut decisions. Others...

BY DEREK MOSES T HE first clear indication of how the new regional Passenger Transport Co-ordinating Committees will work was...

MORE than 100,000 provincial company businen will have to wait until July 1 for their wage increase, employers decided this...

CONTINENTAL buses with passenger-carrying trailers which could be detached in offpeak periods are to be considered by...

THE PROPOSAL to lease Glasgow's municipal transport undertaking to the Scottish Bus Group is unlikely to be taken any further...

R E Belgian bus manufacturer an Hoot and Sons has signed an agreement with Vauxhall Motors Ltd. for the exclusive construction...

A NEW limited-stop express service was introduced by Coventry City Transport last week, as part of the city's plans for a...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE 50,000 p.s.v. licence-holders who take on a part-time job for extra money are a real...

TORQUAY and Paignton are making a strong bid to capture a bigger share of the holiday market by offering packaged holidays...

yr was costing Oldham Corporation Transpo Department £1,500 a year to keep its 60,011 sq. ft. bus garage floor even moderately...

DECENT applications of the jacking legs produced by A. C. Penman Ltd., Dumfries, Scotland, to demountable-bodied vehicles...

AN ORDER for 36 Daimler Roaclliner rearengined single-deck buses ,has been placed by the Municipal Tramways Trust of Adelaide,...

BUILT of standard Vickers-Detroit hydraulic units, a cargo-pump drive, particularly suitable for articulated tankers, is being...

DROBLEMS arising from the use of vehicles for handling materials in bulk. in place of sacks or containers were assessed at a...

DELIVERIES begin in April of the largestever Bedford-Hawson "Easy Access" van. It is based on the Bedford 33L (161 in....

THE Trades Union Congress is backing a search for the perfect driving cab. In a plan to improve the lot of the man behind the...

B Y spending £280,000 on a crash programme, GLC highways and traffic committee proposes to have a further 200 miles of urban...

THE EEC Commission is examining, in the light of its anti-cartel regulations, an agreement on joint research to develop a new...

A MAINTENANCE engineer taking over a fleet of goods vehicles, whether it is 20 or 200, will realize very quickly that the prime...

TN the preface to "Vehicle Body Building and Drawing", author Mr. J. B. Braithwaite, MIBCAM, points out that, although the...

K NOWN as the TO series, a new range of positive-displacement blowers has been announced by W. C. Holmes and Co. Ltd. It...

A iLE to diagnose faults in the electrical system of a vehicle is an automotive instrument tester SRD 380, from Smiths...

A WHEEL nut wrench claimed to make child's play of tightening or loosening heavy vehicle wheel nuts has been introduced by E....

A LEAFLET of the new diaphragm unloader valve introduced by Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd. is now available from the manufacturers....

m[ S-T of the questions received by OMMERCIAL MOTOR asking for information on makers or suppliers of equipment and components...

AN automatic drum clamp for stacking rldrums vertically is being manufactured by Powell & Co., South Wales. The new clamp is...

DECORDS are the most important part of any planned -11-x maintenance system for without them, any system, regardless of fleet...

'THE present method of collecting bus I fares may be doomed if a recent report from the United States is to be believed. No...

Exception—not rule I HAVE to reply to Jim Best's article in your December 30 issue as I consider this a slight on the whole...

View BY THE HAWK T HAVE news of the first overseas entrant in the London to I Brighton Historic Commercial Vehicle Run which...

" TOO many carriers are prepared to live with trouble instead of solving their problems. Stack excuses for delays in delivery...

INTS of order were more numerous than points of substance in the House of Commons during the confused discussion which...

Applied extensively to industrial engines. LPG could be employed beneficially for many applications if the tax levied was...

operating the engine of a road vehicle on liquefied petroleum gas, a spokesman of HM Customs and Excise told COMMERCIAL MOTOR...

Fro study the operating history of a .1. vehicle purchased nearly 10 years ago may seem a nostalgic but somewhat useless...

TN a changing world there is a persistent tendency—rationally or irrationally—to debunk past records, and costing is not...

A The following provisional number of units were expected in 1966 to the six leading countries: South Africa 17,131 units,...

wheeled rigids to articulated outfits because the present gross weight of 22 tons named by several manufacturers will shortly...

A This is done by using the formula v 2 u 2 + fS, where v equals the final velocity, u equals the initial velocity, f equals...

A The diesel owes its name to Dr. Rudolf Diesel, a German, who was born in Paris in 1858 and took out his first patent for a...

carry.'" ing furniture to and from auction sales within a 30-mile radius of my local town. I have applied for a variation to...

supply details of wages, licences and diesel oil prices around 1956/7? A, In 1956 the basic minimum remuneration for a...

A These are manufactured by Consolidated Pnuematic Tool Co. Ltd., 232 Dawes Road. London, S.W.6.

an additional C-licence disc required and must it be carried on the vehicle or the trailer? And what are the corresponding...

Road passenger transport law: Road service licences II R OAD service licence applications, which were examined last week, are...