44 tons for artics and 56 tons for road trains, events are shaping up for major operational and technical changes in road...

• If holders of A, B, and Contract A licences have not applied for their operator's licence by next Monday they may be denied...

leasing • British . Road Services Ltd. has set up a research unit at Sheffield University. Headed by W. A. L. Swift, a lecturer...

• At approximately four-weekly intervals, the Road Transport Industry Training Board will be holding costing and accounts...

• At the 1970 Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association conference which is being held at Aviemore from April 21-24, Mr. G....

• Leaders of the TGWU, who met the Minister of Transport on Friday to discuss the "serious crisis" in London's transport, are...

• The 1970 Congress of the Institute of Transport will be held at the Waldorf Hotel, London, from May 19 to 22. On the 19th...

• Demand for places on the Freight Transport Association's one-day Transport Act training courses has been so great that a...

• "Shamrock Express" is the name given to a new fast freight service between the UK and Northern Ireland, to be introduced...

• "Drivers who are given a different vehicle every day cannot be expected to carry out exhaustive tests on the tyres each...

• On Monday the Minister of Transport laid before Parliament the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 41...

• Dumfriesshire and Galloway tipper operators within the 1 , 11-1A have announced an increase of 15 per cent in rates as from...

• There was swift reaction to the statement by the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union (CM December 19) that the majority of...

• A time trial to Italy and back with a Volvo F.88 tractive unit and 5,300-gal pressure tanktrailer has been completed by...

Administration, Elements of Transport, by R. W. Faulks is essential reading. When the student of goods vehicle operation comes...

systems is entitled Industrial Logistics, by J. E. Sussams. The reader who is not deterred by simple statistics and...

• A pressurized bulk flour transporter, type STF1 28 CS, has been manufactured by Interconsult (London) Ltd. of Slough, for...

• "Corporate planning for the 1970s" is the title of a high-level course for senior transport management, which is to be held...

• As a result of discussions between representatives of Teesside fire brigade. Teesside police, the borough engineer and...

• An order for 172 tandem-axle semi-trailers has been placed with Dennison Trailers Ltd., of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, by...

• Radio messages may be used to ask artic drivers to avoid certain areas, or pull off the road, when passing through the West...

• The National Guild of Transport Managers has issued its first newsletter this month. Contents include details of the aims of...

• Purle Brothers Holdings Ltd. has acquired the entire issued share capital of G. W. Green (Contractors) Ltd. J. Nicholls...

• The latest development in the field of oven-fresh bread delivery is the adoption of continuous hot-air heating of the vehicle...

by John Darker • An outline of the new management structure of British Railways, called for by the 1968 Transport Act, has...

Bulk grain economically THE George Bell Group is now moving bulk grain commercially—as opposed to experimentally—in standard...

AN ORDER for insulated containers worth £100,000 has been received by ConCargo Ltd. Placed by the Dutch VNS Company and the...

A NEW three-weekly container service between the West Coast of North America and Australia is to be jointly operated by...

THE roll-on/roll-off tractor-trailer system patented by MAFI is now in production at the company's Mansfield factory. The...

• An application for a low-loader by J. Wilkinson Plant Hire Ltd., of Birkenhead, was refused in Liverpool last week. The...

• An application by M. Monkton Motors Ltd., of Uxbridge, for a new B licence for four artics was granted in chambers last week...

• An application by Mr M. 0. Maher, of Chorley for a new B licence for an 84--ton tipper was refused in Preston last week....

• At Barton-on-Humber (Lines) magistrates' court, Wilbur John Phillips, haulage contractor, of the Elms, Abbey Road, Ulceby,...

FURTHER APPEAL LIKELY • Recourse to the Court of Appeal is being considered by G. Stiller (Transport) Ltd. after its five-day...

• - It appears that war is about to begin; there seems to be nothing we can do - , said Mr. M. G, Seviour speaking on behalf of...

H. L. Ellis has been appointed a dIrector and B. T. Hancock, chief engineer of the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co. Ltd.,...

• The South Western (Provincial) Joint Industrial Council of passenger service vehicle operators, under the chairmanship of Mr....

• Belfast is to be the second municipal bus operator in Great Britain to Introduce a token system, following a decision by the...

• Faced with unacceptable expansion costs for its GO (Government of Ontario) rail transit system, the Ontario Government has...

• Four Seddon Pennine IV chassis with Plaxton Panorama Elite 11-metre bodies have been placed in service by Hanworth Acorn...

• Bristol Omnibus Company has introduced a fare card for passengers paying an adult single fare of 1s 2d and above which is...

• The Metrication Board's Steering Committee for the Transport and Communication Industries held its first meeting last month,...

• When the Hy-Spill tipping semi-trailer —claimed to be Britain's biggest with a 65 cu.yd. capacity—was recently introduced by...

• Atkey's of Nottingham are launching a warranty repair scheme which, even though the company is an Austin distributor, applies...

Loads and forces (31) • In this final article of the "Loads and forces" series I want to take a close look at the aspect of...

• Addition of a Primrose Rear-a-Steer thirdaxle assembly just ahead of the driving axle on the BMC Boxer two-axle truck raises...

• Quay Trailers Ltd., has changed its name to Doughty Trailers Ltd. and to mark the move the company has introduced a...

• The southern-area distributor of Primrose trailers and third-axle conversions, Truck Services at Feltham, Middx. has been...

BY LES OLDRIDGE, A,I,R,T.E., A.M.I,M,1 SECTION 62 of the Transport Act 1968 and the Goods Vehicle (Operator's Licences)...

that an l.A can refuse a licence if he thinks this is the case. Finally, where the applicant is a company the names of the...

New regular items make their appearance in CM next week, in a journal which, for 1970, has been given clearer, brighter...

* Hop on a bus! There's a moral about the travelling public's view of bus design in the happenings which accompanied Ron...

WHEN the AEC S-type double-decker was the cream of London buses, a driver was paid £4 a week, his conductor £3 15s and the full...

TIM LITTLE looked round the traffic office and thought how sparsely furnished it was. Most of the furniture, he recollected,...

Psychology and the driver by Anthony Curtis FOR YEARS psychologists have been preying on motorcars and motorists—as well as...

A SPECIAL SERIES BY R. P. C. BLOCK 19. The daily report on utilization, costs and revenue WITH so much information available...

What are the acceptable limits of the now fashionable trend towards workers' participation? Some guide-lines for managers are...

person I work with has to test commercial vehicles after repairs have been carried out. He took a heavy goads vehicle driving...

the technical press that the petrol engine will make a comeback for long-haul work. I have followed with special interest the...

maintenance of preserved commercial vehicles and buses which are taxed privately. Could you explain how their drivers will be...

two-wheeled car was run experimentally fitted with a gyroscope to provide stability when it was travelling slowly. A friend has...

I HAVE OFTEN referred to the loneliness of students in road transport tackling examinations for institute awards by private...

A. S. Gibson (Transport) Ltd. Cap.: £100. Object: To carry on the business of haulage and transport contractors, etc. Subs.: A....

with Ron Cater / While car-hire has forged ahead in recent years as has growth in such fields as TV rental, with their obvious...