Undeterred by the threat of reconstitution hanging over them, the Lords have pitched in manfully to amend the Transport Bill....

and Freightliner plans from our Parliamentary correspondent • The Government's transport plans received severe setbacks in the...

• Because the demand for coach badywork has declined rather than expanding to fill the capacity available, Duple Motor Bodies...

• As forecast in CM several weeks ago, the headquarters offices of the Traders Road Transport Association are moving to...

• Two of the Davis brothers successfully bid for a large number of tanker trailers and Leyland tractive units at an auction of...

• Although regulations for roadside noise checks officially come into force next Monday a Ministry of Transport notice makes it...

from our political correspondent • Different classes of transport managers' licences are now envisaged by the Government under...

regs from our political correspondent • Two sets of Regulations bringing under control the conveyance by road of more than 200...

• Ford Motor Company quickly met transportation difficulties consequent on the railway work-to-rule by putting into operation...

• Improvements in the control of the transport of livestock by road during outbreaks of foot-and-mouth have been submitted by...

• By exporting a record total of 195,195 vehicles, including 15,056 commercial vehicles, during the first five months of 1968...

St. Austell by lain Sherriff • Ask a Cornishman who will be the 1968 Lorry Driver of the Year and ifs likely he will say Joe...

• A scheme to improve the flow of traffic and also residential amenities in the Earls Court area is to be introduced by the GLC...

awards by C. • • The Grimsby LDOY is well known for its good tanker drivers and this was emphatically emphasized by Shell-Mex...

• A new container service will be introduced from about mid-1970 to link the BR Freightliner service with Eire and Ulster. As a...

from a special correspondent • It is now possible to ensure against the cost of replacing defective parts in a vehicle after...

moving high loads has been addressed by the MoT to road-user organizations. This follows two accidents in Wales, in which high...

• To follow the successful International Container Services and Equipment Exhibition at Olympia last month, Mack-Brooks...

• A "Conference of transportation unions" has been established in the United States by about 40 unions concerned with all...

h aulage costing by Sam Buckley • Because of the impact of the Transport Bill and the activities of the Prices and Incomes...

• The present out-of-hours delivery scheme—operation Moondrop—run by the freight group of the Transport Co-ordinating Council...

• The Traders Road Transport Association has had confirmation by the Ministry of Transport that, for Transport Bill purposes,...

• Morton's, Coventry-based international haulier, has been awarded a two year, kim contract by the Tractor Operations of the...

• The Traders Road Transport Association has told the Ministry of Transport that it fears a serious loophole will be created in...

by Carolyn Hyams • Lancashire businessmen are known as shrewd and hard-headed and when a group of hauliers realized that the...

• Special equipment has been installed at a new depot in Manchester to facilitate the cleansing of 100 tankers which carry...

• Mr. Richard Marsh has agreed to the request of the chairmen of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle corporation...

• The whole of BET's bulk order for 142 single-deck bus bodies for 1968-9 has been secured by the omnibus division of Marshall...

by Ron Cater • Latest addition to the super luxury executive coach fleet of Evan Evans Ltd. London, is a Duple-bodied Daimler...

• Birmingham has ordered 100 33-ft long double-deck Daimler Fleetline chassis with Gardner 6LX engines and Daimatic...

• An experiment with one-man buses is to be proposed to Edinburgh municipal transport committee next month as part of an effort...

• Mr. J. H. Tresfon, chairman of Boulton and Paul Ltd., has addressed a letter to the holders of Boulton and Paul ordinary and...

• The 38th International Public Transport Congress, organized by the Union Internationale des Transports Publics, vill be held...

• Speaking in York on June 20, at a public meeting on the Transport Bill organized by the Transport and General Workers' Union,...

• In view of the Transport Bill proposals to eliminate from licensing vehicles not exceeding 30 cwt, there should be made...

Z5OJU from BM(! Here's the 250 JU—latest top-profit earner in the great BMC range of vans for all purposes. Up to 2.50 tons...

• Mr. G. H. P. Beames, well-known advocate in the North Western traffic area, last week called on the Transport Minister to...

• Having had a 24-ton tanker on contract for two years, ICI Mond Division requested a Macclesfield haulier to provide a large...

• No judgment was given when the Transport Tribunal heard the appeal of Sutton and Sons (St. Helens) Ltd. in London on Tuesday....

Sir George Harriman, at a meeting of the Council of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders last week, was re-elected...

BR Freightliner division road motor engineer. S. W. Price, marketing services manager, freight marketing department, has been...

• An applicant was warned in Preston on Wednesday that if he did not bring witnesses to support his B-licence application at...

to America where he is being taken on an American firm's payroll for a year—the result of Telehoist importing an idea for...

transport managers' licences by lain Sherriff • Although changes may yet be made before any formal submission to the Minister...

• Use of fibre-reinforced inserts for pistons may well play an important part in the development of high output diesel engines,...

• When the pre-MoT test department of G. and E. Neville, Mansfield-based Bedford main dealer, is opened next Monday, it will be...

• Operators at the South Wales maintenance advisory committee open forum last week were some of the first to see the forms...

• The Minister of Transport expects to receive the revised British Standard for re-tread tyres towards the end of this month,...

• Spain is to build British-designed ISO freight containers and semi-trailers as a result of an agreement between Highway...

• Described by the manufacturer as a major development in the battle to keep down transport costs, the latest vehicle from...

Hoists in offices Hoists and lifts in offices, shops and railway premises are to have the same safeguards as those provided...

ONE of the most continuing sources of trouble and an item needing constant replacement on a vehicle is the electric bulb. In a...

by Handyman Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics (22) • Head-on collisions between goods vehicles occur less...

Meet-the-managingdirector course run by Hargreaves Transport Ltd by Ashley Taylor AMIRTE Assoc lost T SUCH IS THE SPEED of...

B EAUTIFUL AND BODIES U SEFUL A step-by-step guide to specifying goods vehicle bodies will be featured in next week's issue of...

Felix Wentworth, of Schweppes Ltd., who has chaired the highly successful BIM forums on physical distribution, paid an...

Our man from behind the Curtain tells me that there was a most inappropriate little hitch at the opening of the IRU Congress in...

The social side of the IRU meeting enabled the Hungarian host association to excel itself. Not only with excursions and...

An AEC enthusiast, D. Kellett from Morecambe, who was a bus driver until crippled by polio, writes to voice his regret that the...

Here's a thought: why are export awards limited to manufacturing, well deserved though these may be? The point has just been...

Conversation piece allegedly overheard on a west London bus:— Passenger "I want to go to Uxbridge." Conductor "We don't go to...

DOUBLE DOUBLE LABELLING LABELLING nonsense by John Darker Amb,rn IT IS EASY to make blanket criticisms of British industry...

I read with great interest Mr. Buckley's article (CM June 7) giving Mr. Ralph Cropper's comments on various insurance...

With reference to the matter raised by Mr. Willmott (CM May 24) on automatic halfbarrier level crossings regarding the Ministry...

In your issue of June 14, you advise your readers that the haulage firm of F. Lewis and Sons of Aston (Birmingham) have made an...

Referring to "Question and answer" (CM April 12) relating to belt failure on vehicles equipped with alternators, we should like...

With reference to Mr. A. J. P. Wilding's report on the tests of the new V8-engined AEC Mandator, we were very perturbed to read...

Cleanliness and correct adjustment are the keys to high trouble-free mileages LAST WEEK I covered the overhaul of a Rubery Owen...

Opting out of the Bill ALTHOUGH the Transport Bill has aroused so many protests from so many quarters there are many parts of...

Exactly fifty years after A. S. Jones founded his road haulage business in Liverpool, the firm A. S. Jones and Co. Ltd.—has...

from a special correspondent Locking up an articulated vehicle so that it cannot articulate: that is one of the latest ideas...

Like Mr. H. A. Cypher (CM June 14-) I have been waiting for opinions on the new Road Haulage Association symbol. Speaking as...

the brakes was no doubt due to the particular layout of pipework. Changes made improved the situation somewhat but I agree that...

Here is my belated comment on the result of the RHA competition for a symbol for the road haulage industry :— (roll) The role...

ALTHOUGH the 63rd report of the Prices and Incomes Board which dealt with the pay of municipal busmen was summarized in our May...

and/or improvement of passing bays for traffic serving farm establishments. What is the maximum weight and axle loading...

vans which on average cover 40,000 miles a year. We are contemplating replacement of these vehicles with diesel-engined...

was originally a platform lorry operating with a drawbar trailer. But the lorry has been converted into an articulated tractive...

A A contract licence is entered into between two parties and they have normally to satisfy the Licensing Authority that it is...

A licence with a manufacturing company to carry its products to building sites throughout the country. The company supplies a...

a craneequipped tipper lorry to collect scrap cars and deliver pressed scrap to steelworks, and also to use a scrap lorry for...

Motor Show this year could you give me the appropriate dates? A This year the Commercial Motor Show will be open to the public...

THE Government's proposals for passenger traffic are revealed in Public Transport and Traffic (HMSO Cmnd. 3481). The basic...

IT IS OFTEN important to be able to decide whether or not a vehicle can be classified as dual-purpose--for example, this type...