One of the most attractive features of. the new distribution service which has been introduced by National Carriers Ltd is its...

SMMT answers architects' criticisms of 44-tonners • An objective cost/benefit analysis— financed by goods vehicle...

• The Road Haulage Association national executive council at a meeting on Wednesday March 25 accepted a proposal from...

• A claim for a substantial increase in clerical and supervisory grade salaries within British Road Services is to be discussed...

from new Scots firm • A new name is added to the list of British goods vehicle manufacturers with the formation of Argyle...

• A working party to examine the movement of vehicles in town and city centres has been set up by the Freight Transport...

• The Minister of Transport is circulating draft proposals which will amend Construction and Use Regulations so as to require...

• The three companies in the Roy Bowles group were acquired last week by the Lex Service Group. The companies involved are Roy...

• Members of the RHA are being advised to bring to the notice of their accountants a report which shows how their costs have...

• Prices of Ford medium and heavy commercial vehicles were raised on April 1. Actual increases vary from £26 on...

• The National Freight Corporation has acquired the minority interests of Coast Lines Ltd and Solsgirth Investment Trust...

Hint on port labour; lorry parking plans

Institute of Traffic Administration at the House of Commons on March 20 wondered whether MoT Joint Parliamentary Secretary Mr...

• A specialist recuitment agency for transport executives has been set up by Howard Packham and Associates (Consultants) Ltd,...

• Mini-vans—Austin A35s, Morris 1000s and 6ewt Bedfords—were held in the High Court on March 18 by Mr Justice Megarry to...

• Once again the Road Transport Industry Training Board has recognized the Lorry Driver of the Year competition as a...

• The address of Business and Industrial Training Ltd, the company which organizes CM'S seminars, and to which all booking...

II Certain exemptions on drivers' hours in elation to the movement of perishable food t peak holiday periods have been made by...

but pulls out of Merseyside container project • The future is full of promise for the large, well-run, adequately financed...

It has been brought to our notice that some copies of the recently published reprint "CM's Guide to Drivers' Hours and...

by Derek Moses • The Lorry Driver of the Year competition. sponsored by CM, got off to a good start at Weymouth on March 14,...

• Asked in the Commons if he would introduce legislation to make anti-jack-knifing devices compulsory on artics, Mr MuIley said...

• Due to be held on March 27, the newly introduced Bedford round of the LDoY competition had to be postponed. Mr R. J. Barter,...

Short-period 0 licences • When Mr Peter Mills (Tory, Torrington), suggested in the Commons that applicants for an operator's...

• Two new NCL freight services have been announced by Mr Harry Kinsey, managing director of National Carriers Ltd. A...

• Public transport in the new city of Milton Keynes, to be built halfway between London and Birmingham, will be based on...

• Almost all Scottish buses were back on the road by Easter after a month's strike. However, at Paisley and Johnstone Western...

• The Ministry of Transport is about to circulate to the local authorities' and bus operators' associations, for their...

• A radio telephone service for coach operating members of the new London Vehicle Pool is to be launched by R. and S. Travel Co...

• Local authority expenditure on concessionary fares for old-age pensioners using municipal bus services should be classified...

• A design for a driver's interior door, developed for o-m-o buses, is being registered by Merseyside Passenger Transport...

• A fine new bus terminal which was opened at High Wycombe on March 20 by the Minister of Transport, Mr Fred Mulley,. will give...

ind Crosville will buy Seddons An order for 100 Ford 1(192 buses, vorth more than iirn, has been placed by he Birmingham and...

• The new liveries for buses being operated by Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive were announced on March 24....

Merger on pay? • Representatives of the 70 transport undertakings in the Federation of Municipal Passenger Transport Employers...

• Three Daimler Fleetline single-deckers with Marshall 45-seat dual-purpose bodies ordered by the NBC subsidiary Mexborough and...

• London Transport's 27,000 busmen are demanding a sweeping increase in pay, together with a shorter working week, and extra...

• Frustration at the limitations on freedom of action imposed on the State transport business through the Ministries may be...

Jack Brooksbank has been appointed director of finance and administration for the Merseyside PTE as from April 1. He has been...

• In a written decision the Transport Tribunal has dismissed the "bloodstock—is it livestock?" appeal by W. G. Cook and Sons...

• An application by Port Talbot Plant Ltd for a low-loader, on B-licence, to carry plant machinery was refused by the South...

• Speaking in respect of the Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil bus service recently, Mr R. R. Jackson, chairman of the South Wales...

• Claiming that the objections were based :nore on a matter of principle rather than xissible abstraction of traffic, Miss E....

I The first operators' licence applications be considered at public inquiry in Dotland took place before Mr A. B. Birnie,...

• The method by which a new London coach operator advertised a proposed tour to Greece was much criticized at the Metropolitan...

• The West Midland PTE was granted a fare increase of Id, on all low fares, with larger increases on the higher fares, by the...

• To allow operation with a wider variety of trailers, as well as to afford better accessibility to chassis components,...

• With the use of a new standard aluminium-alloy body, the lightweight version of the York Big Chief tipping semi-trailer can...

• On Wednesday the second stage of the vehicle-noise regulations came into effect. Regulation 23 of the Motor Vehicles...

• A new range of semi-trailer vans has been jointly developed by B. Dixon-Bate Ltd and Arlington Bodybuilders Ltd. The new...

of brake wear • An electronic system will shortly be available for application to SAB automatic slack adjusters that will...

• A Scammell Routeman DD 24/26 tons plated, 14ft 4in. wheelbase eight-wheeler weighing 6 tons 19cwt recently came into the...

• Meniworth semi-trailers now have a modified rear-end in which the tail lamps are mounted on their own full-width member to...

• Systemshare Ltd, the Edinburgh-based time-sharing organization, has announced the release of its new vehicle scheduling •...

Philip Turner • Leaving State transport after only a year (see page 31). Mr P. H. R. Turner is returning to a company with...

May I be allowed to make a few comments on Tony Wilding's article on the Ogle Design Ltd "ideal ambulance"? Over the last 15...

We have read with interest Mr Wilding's comments in your issue of March 6 on the report which was prepared for us on Emergency...

As a heavy goods driver, I should like to know what steps are going to be taken to safeguard the lorry drivers against these...

With the introduction of the Perkins Mark I 6.354 engine, it becomes more essential thar ever to ensure that the correct gasket...

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (10) MANY ITEMS such as trailer leg inner shafts, threaded winding spindles, etc, are...

Goods vehicle bodywork gets extensive treatment in next week's issue of COMMERCIAL MOTOR. This is a special Goods Bodywork and...

AN OPERATIONAL-TRIAL fuel consumption 1 mpg better than any other 32-ton-gross artic previously tested and at a better average...

Buy now pay later • The total cost of operating a commercial vehicle can be divided into two groups— standing costs and...

It's fitness that counts by David Spain. THE skeleton that is Part V of the Transport Act 1968 is already beginning to take...

• We apologize to readers and advertisers for the break in publication of COMMERCIAL MOTOR. The March 20 and 27 issues could...

by the Hawk I Silver gratitude The Institute of Traffic Administration is having a very distinguished silver jubilee. Its 25th...

by Janus S TATUTORY WAGES and conditions are not an asset of which an industry can be proud. A wages council is the reverse of...

matters by John Darker, Amami The implications of block grants THE recent publication of the RTITB's grant proposals for 1970...

by Les Oldridge A1RTE. AMIM1 Plating and testing (2) THE CONDITIONS under which goods vehicles and trailers are accepted for...

The articles by Mr R. P. C. Block, under the title Costing for maximum profit, which attracted so much attention when they were...

I sell my haulage business the person who takes it over will be treated as a new applicant and will have to apply for a new 0...

May of our railway passenger service between Peterborough and Skegness. The bus service will hardly be adequate to satisfy...

to and from wholesale markets. We operate a 26-ton g.t.w. tractive unit and 33ft, tandem-axle trailer. Could you inform us: 1)...

MOST professional institutes and educational organizations arrange their main transport examinations in May/June. In January, I...