• A new range of singleand double-drive six-wheelers designed for operation at 22 tons—and 24 tons when regulations allow this...

by David Lowe • Mendips tipper operators have been offered a new rate structure by the Western Roadstone Centre which is...

d eal by Derek Moses • An agreement has been reached between Sheffield Corporation and the National Bus Company for the...

• Programme details of the Road Haulage Association's conference at Aviemore, Scotland, October 13 to 15, have now been...

• The PTA has told the Mo'f that it is strongly opposed to the Ministry's proposal that trailers and semi-trailers should be...

of proposals have been bandied about between the operators and the Western Roadstone Centre since November last, until, as one...

• Continued disagreement with the Transport and General Workers Union over rates of pay for drivers is still delaying the...

• The Ministry of Transport announces changes as from October 1 in its arrangements for issuing German road haulage permits to...

• A new range of semi-trailers is announced this week by Highway Trailers (Great Britain) Ltd, They will be known as the 75...

• From next October 1 it will not be possible to obtain an MoT test certificate for a vehicle required by law to be fitted with...

• Complete 14-ton and 16-ton-gross two - axle tippers, with lightweight bodies saving 10cwt in comparison with a steel body,...

• A survey is being made by the RHA of road bridges giving a head room clearance of less than 16f1 6in. and not carrying an...

by Paul Brockington IV Are spring brakes suitable for semitrailers, is the lock actuator to be preferred to the spring brake...

• More protection for lorry drivers at halfbarrier level crossings is demanded by the Road Haulage Assocation in observations...

• Details of future plans—mainly concerned with vehicle ferry services to the Isles—were announced by the Scottish Transport...

• Orders received for Commer and Dodge commercial vehicles during April. May and June exceeded E2m., says Rootes Motors Ltd....

• A series of 17 regional one-day training courses is to be run during the winter by the Freight Transport Association to help...

just a few moments connecting up by the driver will ensure a secure load. The devices are securing chains which are connected...

WHILE many operators who regularly carry ISO containers have gone to the trouble and expense of purchasing skeletal and...

MENTIONED previously in Container Commentary is the establishment of Land Bridges across America and Asia CM, June 6), but I...

THE Port of Antwerp has announced that a record number of loaded containers were handled in May 1969. The figure of 9,072...

ANOTHER large export order for ISO containers, from Denmark, has been won by York Trailer Co. Ltd. The largest container order...

THE NEW containership Axel Johnson made her maiden voyage recently from Sweden via Germany and the UK to the West Coasts of the...

THE first consignment in a new bulk liquid haulage service to and from the Continent has arrived in Britain. Tyburn Road Tank...

CAPACITY on Swedish Lloyd's Tilbury-Gothenburg container service is increased by the introduction of a further vessel, the...

A WEEKLY container service between Tilbury and Rotterdam is being operated on a pilot scheme basis by two Unilever companies,...

• An important development in the extension of one-roan bus operation throughout the entire London Transport fleet, which may...

• Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority will not take responsibility for deficits incurred in the current year by local...

• Faced with extra costs of £539,415 a year, Ribble Motor Services are to apply to the Traffic Commissioners for a fares...

• It is announced by Birch Bros. Ltd. and United Counties Omnibus Co. Ltd. that, subject to the approval of the Traffic...

• A new consolidated pay award for the driving and conducting staffs of the Bristol Group of Companies will take effect from...

V. G. Baker has resigned as from August 31. both as chairman and from the board of Stevinson, Hardy and Co. Ltd. Mr. Baker will...

• Mrs. A. Coulton, trading as J. Coulton, of Leyland, was fined £25 at Leyland magistrates court on Wednesday, for permitting...

• The FTA considers that due to the wording of the Transport Act straightforward transition from C licences to operators'...

They all add up to the best value for money in the maximum GVW range: Super-luxury, super-tilt Custom cab for excellent engine...

• In a written decision the North Western LA, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, has suspended, for three months, three vehicles and a trailer...

• The North Western deputy LA, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, asked in Chester last week if steel was a metal before granting an...

• Cawthorn and Sinclair Ltd., of Birtley, had its application approved by the Northern LA, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon. in Newcastle...

• One A-licensed vehicle and four B-licensed vehicles belonging to F. Wright, of Ramsey, were suspended for one month by the...

• Frank Davis (Chichester) Ltd., its director, Mr. F. Davis, and two drivers appeared at Chichester magistrates' court on...

in 7in. mud says MoT examiner • At an S.174 inquiry in Manchester on Tuesday, an MoT vehicle examiner told the North Western...

• Mr. D. Clemetson was given a stern warning that he must co-operate with Ministry of Transport officials when they needed to...

• The Northern LA. Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, gave a severe warning to a Sunderland haulage contractor last week after hearing how he...

• The Western Traffic Commissioners, on hearing the completed application by the Borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis to...

NEW 2.52 LITRE UNIT AIMED AT 22/25 CWT LIGHT VAN CLASS by Paul Brockington • It is significant that the new Perkins 4.154...

• Arrangements for educational courses during the 1969/70 season have been announced by the Institute of the Furniture...

• A mobile, self-contained cable - oil - treatment unit is being supplied by British Insulated Callender's Construction Co....

• With today's costs rising quite savagely, there is an ever-increasing tendency to accept any load that is offered without...

• A wealth of data relating to the ranges of gasoline grades obtainable in 149 countries, including the USSR. is provided by...

5. The Flow-line system has many applications, but who handles it and at what cost? AT this stage you were ready to record...

preparation of vehicle maintenance costs through to monthly and cumulative operating results via form R.B.6. could be finalized...

THE one certain way of a vehicle being plated for a lower gross and /or axle weight on its first annual test than the figures...

the first category is left open (the other two crossed bud Table 2B will be worked to for plating, if the second, it will be...

by S. G. Claydon, Express Dai ries (London) Ltd. AN ENGINEER'S VIEW OF HOW TO MAKE USE OF TYRE RECORDS WHEN SPECIFYING TREAD...

of the transport industry should enhance the prospects of success for the company's first rear-engined stage-carriage p.s.v....

The pave was tackled at 20 mph, the vehicle behaving very well. The offside of the front axle was located as the point that was...

Already the serious effects of the recent increase in SET are becoming apparent with many prices on the increase in addition to...

*Non-smoking I have never considered it good practice to smoke while driving: I well remember indulging in a bout of sneezing...

1 heard this week of two lorry drivers who between them have 57 years' driving experience and cover a total of 60,000 miles...

Jack Wood, the Manchester Transport Training Group officer, is a man of few words. His first job when taking over his present...

John Challis, that bouncy character from Dartford, was looking less buoyant than usual last week. The reason for his gloom?...

Road safety is everywhere the order of the day, and all countries face similar questions as to the advisability of plastering...

Old buses never die ... And one that shows little by way of even fading is a double-decker which returned to Britain this week...

The Prince of Wales started something when he addressed his liegemen in Welsh at his investiture. We reprint this piece from...

WHATEVER the number of Green Papers and White Papers published as precursors to a piece of legislation the Parliamentary Bill...

ROAD HAULIERS as a body are all too familiar with the criticism of outsiders about inadequate costing in the industry....

matters continued in cost per ton mile. 2. Assuming an average empty running figure of 25 per cent in agricultural haulage an...

The next seven days from August 29— September 4 SATURDAY Start of three-day Leeds and District Traction Engine Club. Annual...

and have been offered a job working n Mack vehicles. Could you please give 70 any addresses from whom I could obtain es - vice...

in the 'Transport Servicing and Equiplent" section on a belt-driven brake xhauster. I am fitting a 2.2 BMC diesel 'vine into a...

repair of a mixed teat of 13 artics. Would you advise me on 7y responsibilities regarding law? k You can be held responsible...

k An exhaust brake basically comprises a butterfly valve in the exhaust pipe that can closed to produce an additional...

of aces oration and braking performances of c,mparable vehicles with solid loads and liq4,id loads such as fuel. Have you any...

licences, particularly as they apply to timber haulage. Many timber hauliers use AEC Matadors and pole trailers—CM August 1,...

can obtain details of correspondence schools who offer lessons on road transport subjects? A Two such schools that to our...

THE IDEA that transport examiners are highly subjective in their ideas and attitudes when marking scripts is still fixed in the...

Insurance (2) THIS WEEK l am continuing the discussion from last week on insurance cover for motor vehicles: here the case of...