In his paper to the joint Commercial Motor-PVOA conference in London this week, Devon's transport co-ordinating officer, Mr...

• A joint body is to be established by the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority to run bus services inside the PT Area...

• British Express Carriers Ltd has announced that it has moved its hq premises from Argosy House, Great Portland Street, to 259...

and new name • The next president of the Institute of Transport will be Mr D. E. A. Pettit, chairman of the National Freight...

• The London borough of Haringey's Bill which would enable the council to recruit a team of inspectors to track down all-night...

• A six-to-one majority in favour of merging with the Transport and General Workers Union was registered by members of the...

• Important developments have been announced by Highway Trailers (Great Britain) Ltd. The information was given by Mr R. J....

• The National Guild of Transport Managers has responded vigorously to Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, who...

• Tighter control over builders' skips are now in force following the passing into law this month of the Government's Highways...

• All members of the express carriers group of the RHA are being advised to examine their costs and make necessary charge...

• Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. has extended its coverage of the goods vehicle market by taking over Imperial Coachbuilders...

on the right ' • Driving on the right will be the law of the land if the EEC motor industry has its way. In resolutions sent...

by John Darker • The contentious background to road transport pay negotiating procedures in Scotland is revealed in the report...

• The conviction of Dial Contracts Ltd, of Kensington Square, London, hirers-out of commercial vehicles, on 24 summonses...

plan from RTITB • A five-year strategic plan drawn up by the Road Transport Industry Training Board is designed to ensure that...

but no increase for drawbar outfits from our Parliamentary correspondent • The 60 mph motorway speed limit on goods vehicles...

• Seminars specially designed for local government officers who are involved in road transport will be held in London on May 13...

• The Minister for Transport Industries is arranging a research study into the distribution of goods in towns by vehicles "of a...

• A South London motor mechanic, Mr S. W. Mence, who has recently had a Class 2 hgv driving licence granted to him following an...

• The Freight Transport Association has repeated its strong request to the Department of the Environment to reduce the minimum...

• Operators should check both the ordinary driving licence and the hgv driving licence of drivers applying for jobs, Mr H....

• From April 3 the new Anglo-Belgian haulage agreement will take effect, enabling UK operators to carry for hire to Belgium...

• Mr John Peyton and the French Minister of Transport, M. Jean Chamant, met in London on Monday for Channel Tunnel talks and...

• Right-hand drive Bussing chassis or complete coaches can now be ordered from Brian Watt Commercial Vehicles, Wetmoor Lane,...

• Scottish burghs were last week urged to join in schemes of support for rural bus services. Mr George Younger, UnderSecretary...

• Teesside Corporation Transport has placed a contract with Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd for the supply of 19 Fleetline bus...

by Derek Moses • A feature of the £2m 1971 rolling stock programme now finalized by the Scottish Bus Group is a reduction in...

• An alarming rise in Midland . Red operating costs that will amount to £3,639,000 by 1972 has resulted from the company's...

• In an effort to persuade more motorists to leave their cars at home and use buses instead, higher bus frequencies and reduced...

• Plans for 6 /10-seat "buses" running on trackways at first-floor level in redeveloped areas of the West End and central...

• In its first 14 months of operation, SELNEC PTE lost a total of £179,000 on an annual turnover of some £.24m, according to...

• In many parts of Greater London ordinary homes were being damaged by the parking and passing of heavy vehicular traffic in...

• Twelve West Lothian bus and minibus operators appeared before Sheriff W. T. Hook at Linlithgow last week charged with...

• Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, the Yorkshire LA, adjourned a hearing under Section 69 of the Transport Act 1968 in Leeds last week,...

• Taking into consideration the fact that Northern Haulage Ltd, of Drightlington, did not intend to take up more than six of...

• Boots Pure Drug Co Ltd appeared at Glasgow last week seeking a transitional O licence for 28 vehicles, its operating fleet in...

Martin Downer, 41, has joined the Freight Transport Association as transport cost adviser. He will introduce a service to...

• The first nine months' output of the Leyland National integral bus are already covered by firm orders, it is revealed in the...

• An order for Eagle 220 mkII engines worth over £280,003 has been placed with the Oil Engine Division of Rolls-Royce at...

• On sales of £10.1m—about £3m up on 1969—York Trailer Co Ltd made a profit of £856,444 in 1970. This is almost double the...

trailers: • 35 pc tyre wear saving claimed • Two articulated outfits with tandembogie semi-trailers, equipped with an...

• Quinton Hazel' (Holdings) Ltd, the i12m international motor component manufacturers, is entering the heavy commercial vehicle...

Commercial Motor will shortly have a vacancy for a Technical Editor. This is a fascinating and varied job, demanding automobile...

• A French Sovam Versatile frontwheel-drive exhibition van is being demonstrated in Britain by the sole agents for Sovam...

• After making a clean sweep of Blackpool tramlines in a demonstration which brought praise from Cult. I. R. H. Battersby,...

• Skeletal models, plated for a gross weight of no less than 50 tons, are included in the latest batch of semi-trailers...

• First examples of a new Hoynor dual-purpose semi-trailer design have recently been put into service by G. Stiller Transport...

• In situ landing legs can now be specified for the Dumptrailer—the heavy-duty 24ton gem/ artic tipper produced by Neville...

• A close-coupled four-wheel low-loading trailer with a standard length of 14ft and a loading height of only 2ft 3M. has been...

in operation a few months but already are running a profitable operation with a monthly turnover in the region of £10,000 and...

by David Lowe MInstTA sions he will not put "all his eggs in one basket - . Ian Sayer showed me lists of customers for whom...

ROAD TEST Williams 6/71 by TaInNil:IrnaRTE Dean sgate 12-seater psv SOME of the advantages of using vehicles with...

The railways are evidently not going to be slow to latch on to the environment campaign for their own ends. At the Institute of...

To be fair, Sir Henry was good for some laughs when he turned off the railway propaganda, and he is such a likeable personality...

It takes little imagination to conjure up pictures of 16th-century seafaring men plotting and .planning 'neath the oak beams of...

There'll be great delight in road transport and distribution circles at the news that Dan Pettit has been elected president of...

There'll be many old friends to say cheerio to Freddie Welch of CAV, who retires this month after 40 years in advertising and...

"Did you see the horseless phaeton?" "What, without horses? Who is driving it?" "Probably the devil...." That, I'm told, is...

Operators from many parts of Britain came together in London yesterday for the first national conference for PVOA members and...

by T. J. Hunt, D Phil, PhD, Medical Research Council, Applied Psychology Unit LEGISLATION was introduced in the 1968 Transport...

by H. Tranter, FCA, FTII How many public service vehicle operators during the Seventies can confidently expect to get an...

Killing the goose by Janus O VER the years the road transport interests must have run out of arguments hopefully designed to...

Geoffrey Fernyhough • With more than 40 years in the bus industry Geoffrey Femyhough TO, general manager of London Country Bus...

workshop by Handyman Benchwise: tool tricks (1) DIY grinding wheels IN general vehicle repair there is a fairly constant need...

by E. W. A. Butcher, MBIM, GIMechE, director and general manager, Bristol Omnibus Co. Ltd. THE AUTHOR opened by looking at...

by John C Vann Disturbing collapse • The recent collapse of the Vehicle and General came as a bitter shock to thousands of...

from scratch in two years by a special correspondent AGED 23, Ron Rowe must be one of the youngest fleet operators in the...

examined and have its brakes tested to as-new perfection so that they can stop the vehicle and the load, yet as soon as the...

for a 62-year-old driver who has only one eye? This driver has had 40 years' experience on heavy goods vehicles and held the...

and Measures Act. Could you tell me what these amendments are and when they came into effect? A Amendments have been made to...

Law" series article which appeared in Commercial Motor, March 12, would you please confirm to us whether we as lime hauliers...

and .1 believe they are in fact one and the same thing. What is this fuel and when can it be used? A The terms gas oil and red...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM 7 :Saving money by manpower planning IN the past decade persistent shortages of skilled and...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI Motorways (2) NO VEHICLE is permitted to stop or remain at rest on the motorway carriageway...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Transport examination:facing the actual question...