The decision of the TML committee to plump for a voluntary system of education and registration of transport managers, and to...

by David Lowe • If the Transport Managers' Licence Committee has its way, the proposals for a statutory scheme of managers'...

• Humber Warehousing Group Ltd has bought the 230-vehicle McVeigh Transport Ltd and Ross Garages Ltd for about El m. The...

• One of the surprises of the Commercial Motor Show was the receipt of an order from bus and coach dealer Yeates of...

• Twenty-three operators were due to appear yesterday before the West Midland LA for consideration of whether their 0 licences...

• Orders for a total of 2300 psv chassis were received by British Leyland during the Commercial Motor Show. Largest single...

• The Dockside Express scheme, which has been operated successfully at Liverpool and Hull, was extended to London some six...

• The third amendment list for the 1951-67 Goods Vehicle Plating and Testing Standard Lists has now been published. It includes...

Trade Union officials talk too much and listen too little; management is much too preoccupied with bonus schemes; manufacturers...

• A minor amendment to the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1968, covering the date of the first examination of...

• Postmen will shortly be delivering and collecting mail in three-wheeled vans for the first time in the history of the Post...

• The RAC began a winter weather reporting service for East Anglia yesterday. Operating from the RAC's Eastern. Counties fin at...

• Winner last Sunday of the third annual lorry driver competition organized by Conoco Ltd for its tankermen was Mr Royce Mason...

• Problems which arise when vehicles are booked to collect a load in London docks after 4 p.m. were discussed at a meeting on...

• The major activity of the Miles Druce Group in the transport and distribution field from November 2 comes under a new trading...

• A bigger and better road programme would preserve the countryside and not destroy it, asserted Lord Chesham, RAC executive...

• A 1970-71 programme of RTITBrecognized one-day seminars organized principally for transport and distribution managers and...

• A new BRS Parcels branch to serve the North Hampshire area was opened last week at Basingstoke by Maj-Gen A. F. J. Elmslie....

• One of the major fleet operators in Ireland ordered 100 vehicles from Chrysler UK Ltd at the Show. The order, worth £108,000,...

• New Scottish transport depots have been planned for GUS Transport Ltd at Newbridge. for Peek Winch and Todd Ltd at Newbridge...

• The St Helens College of Technology, St Helens, Lancs, has been selected by the RT1TB as an area centre for its approved...

• BRS Parcels Ltd has opened a large new transport depot on the Industrial Estate in Hadleigh Road, Ipswich, to serve a wide...

and freight handling by David Lowe, MInstTA Wm Cory expands • Wm Cory and Son Ltd, which already has extensive interests in...

• Efficient staff relations prove to be much more of an art than a science. This is the conclusion reached by Mr Ralph Cropper,...

• "The management of company training" is the subject of a two-day seminar for senior management to be held at the Grand Hotel,...

• One of the most unusual exhibits at the Commercial Motor Show was a prototype demountable works bus body, mounted on an...

• An application by Nottingham City Transport for a 25 per cent increase in fares has been granted by the East Midland Traffic...

• The directors of Lancashire United Transport Ltd in an interim statement, reveal that the profits after charging depreciation...

• About a dozen static exhibits and 15 demonstrators are featured in the coach show which Yeates of Loughborough opened...

• A range of 15 /17-seat coaches known as the Axcough Clubman and based on the Austin-Morris EA 8ft 6in. wheelbase chassis is...

• Orders worth £1.48m were received by Duple Motor Bodies Ltd at the Commercial Motor Show—a record figure, beating that for...

• Suggestions in the Press that London Transport bus drivers were indulging in "Brands Hatch type" races in order to swell...

• Only three months after the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners granted Maidstone Corporation permission to increase its...

• Following market-day minibus service operated by Pickering rural council on three routes to outlying country villages, the...

• Ulsterbus Ltd reports that profits before tax for the year ended March 31 1970 were £366,537, compared with £400,319 for the...

• Tyneside PTA is to hold a special meeting to discuss bus services in the Newcastle upon Tyne area, which are seriously...

rules LA • D. M. Hogg (Earlston) Ltd, of Earlston, was reprimanded by the Scottish LA in Edinburgh on Monday for failure to...

• As a result of an appeal to the Minister of Transport by Kent Coaches Ltd of Basingstoke, the decision of the South Eastern...

• The appointment of a new fleet manager to E. F. Phillips and Sons Ltd, of Parkstone, Dorset. resulted in the company being...

• An application by CWS Ltd, Manchester, for a new B licence to cover 10 articulated vehicles was adjourned by the North...

• A company marketing domestic deep freezers and bulk frozen food was, last week, granted an 0 licence for one year for three...

• J. B. Cramond and Co Ltd, tarmacadam contractor of Edinburgh, was granted at Edinburgh on Monday an 0 licence for seven...

• An application for 0 and B licences for one vehicle was adjourned last week by Mr W. M. Levitt, Metropolitan deputy LA,...

• Agreement has been reached between the RHA and the Inland Revenue which entitles the holder of a heavy goods vehicle driving...

• Sloan Haulage Co Ltd, a new haulage concern, applied at Edinburgh on Monday for an 0 licence for four vehicles, three to be...

H. A. Russett (Premier Transport Ltd, Bristol) and H. Clarney (Mason Brothers (Haulage and Storage) Ltd, Rotherham) have been...

• Too many existing operators were being called to a public inquiry into their transitional operator's licence application, Mr...

• Difficulties in obtaining heavy goods vehicle licences for drivers who have reached the age of 21 in the past year or 18...

• "While diesel engines could be modified to reduce the emission of oxides of nitrogen (NO„) to conform to the value that will,...

• Tyre tread depth generally has only a small effect on braking force coefficient in wet weather if the road surface texture...

• A national network of vehicle body builders has been set up by Telehoist Ltd, of Cheltenham, to fit high-tensile steel...

Show in Paris from Tony Wilding. Paris, Wednesday • Most of the news in the commercial vehicle section of the Pans Show seems...

by the Hawk • Down the river? There will be some fury among managers, I guess, at the way in which the TML committee has...

Phil Symonds • The 1970 Lorry Driver of the 1Year, 31-year-old Philip Symonds, of Swansea, is the kind of person of whom the...

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (33) ALL the normal rules and procedures apply when dealing with square form or acme...

FOR its new YRQ coach chassis Vauxhall Motors Ltd has chosen an engine position which avoids the access problems sometimes...

FITNESS is a matter of paramount importance when an application is made for an operator's licence. Two aspects of fitness which...

THE United Kingdom changes over to decimal currency on February 15 1971-1)day. On this day—only 44 months away and approaching...

BAD NEWS travels fast. If a carrier has a reputation for poor service the word quickly gets around but, the world being a...

by Colin Proctor • In previous articles in this series we have been looking at the driver. This time I will deal with the...

by janus N OSTALGIA, a feeling for the whimsical, irritation that months after the general election so little is happening on...

manaement matteris by John Darker, AMBIM Paying cash as its advantage FROM a long experience of road transport I can recall...

by Les Oldridge, AIRTE, AMIMI Registration of driving instructors (1) From October 1 1970 it is an offence for anyone to give...

average hours per week for five days being 55. This leaves me with five hours per week when I could earn a little extra doing...

where a driver has 55 hours between Monday and Friday with regard to working on a Saturday—(a) in the depot (b) as a driver's...

vehicles' hours and records. Sections 27 and 28 deal with penalties for offences, the latter stating:— "a person will not be...

to allow 18-year-olds to drive hgv? What can I, as an individual, do about it? A So far as we are aware no changes in...

be pleased if you could clear up one or two points with regard to the new drivers' hours. My work consists in hauling...

rigid hgv but my firm plans to send me on a conversion course to articulated vehicles. Unfortunately. I have two endorsements...

ONE of the criticisms Often levelled by the consumer against transport management courses, both in the road haulage and...

accessories, components and service equipment exhibited in the galleries at the Commercial Motor Show by sending four staff...