Crossing the threshold into the last year of the Sixties demands from the road transport industry something more constructive...

in new-style BRS L S. Payne • A more flexible working structure, a new emphasis on offering complete distribution facilities...

• From Columbus, Indiana, it is announced that the Cummins Engine Company and the Garrett Corporation, one of the Signal...

cr il ) Association takes over • The Freight Transport Association was formed on January 1 with the merging of the National...

• Cost is by no means the determining factor in the choice of mode of transport by manufacturing industry, says a survey report...

From our industrial correspondent • A threatened strike by 1,000 Peterborough area lorry drivers was called off at a mass...

• To reduce danger on the roads in bad weather and avoid expensive delays to vehicles, the Road Haulage Association has urged...

• With the New Year the RAC is launching a national campaign to press for drastic reductions of motoring taxes. Window stickers...

• The experimental pay and productivity scheme introduced by the Pointer Group in the latter part of 1968 as an experiment...

• Shareholders of Hodgkinson Bennis Ltd., at an extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday passed a special resolution changing...

• Queenstown Road, Wandsworth, will be closed between Southolm Street and Ingate Place during some weekends in the next three...

• The impact of quality licensing on transport management will be examined in a one-day seminar to be held by Davies and Robson...

• The Scottish Justiciary Appeal Court has ruled that vehicle hirers are responsible in law for the condition of tyres at the...

• Seven lorry drivers, formerly employed by Goodman's Transport Ltd., of Oundte Road, Peterborough, have all failed in their...

• A new Dyson semi-trailer, with a basic length of 37ft, hag an extensible rear portion which can be drawn out to increase the...

Mr. Marsh has issued proposals to consolidate the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1966, as amended, and the...

• The newly formed truck and bus division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation will make its international debut at the...

• Liaison between the Traders Road Transport Association's inspectors and Ministry testing stations has brought out some points...

• We learned this week that GKN Sankey Ltd. has decided not to lay down a production line for ISO containers. This decision was...

• The TRTA has issued a warning about the possible consequences of using the official Ministry of Transport goods vehicle test...

• Negotiations have been completed to enable Brown and Wright (Haulage) Ltd., of Tilney St. Lawrence, near King's Lynn,...

New P and 0 Group company to specialize container movements A NEW COMPANY has been formed by the General Steam Navigation...

A NEW RANGE of skeletal and platformskeletal trailers, has been announced by York Trailer Co. Ltd. Savings on existing models...

The NFC is the new publicly owned freight corporation, whose board members are appointed by and are responsible to the Minister...

• On Wednesday of this week three new State-owned transport organizations were officially vested with their assests and...

The second of the three new State-owned transport organizations which were vested on Wednesday is the NBC, which acquired the...

The remaining State-owned transport organikation vested on Wednesday is the Scottish Transport Group, which comes under the...

• A V8-engined Guy bus/coach chassis for export markets will be shown for the first time at the Brussels show, which opens on...

• On New Year's day, Yorkshire started its first new-type local express service, using M1 on a local section between Wakefield...

• Bus staffs in Scotland took Boxing Day off in such numbers that services in Edinburgh.. Glasgow and other main towns were...

• The 10-day strike by 120 Colchester busmen which began on December 20 was called off following a meeting between the...

• A plan for only four fares-6d to 2s, in 6d stages—was put to Birmingham transport committee this week. Not, said the...

• Glasgow Corporation is extending oneman operation as from January 19 on certain routes, in agreement with the TGWU. Two...

• To overcome space limitations on buses and coaches, due to the increasing amount of ancillary equipment carried, a new...

• While the Scottish Bus Group awaits a decision on its application for fares increases, several smaller bus companies have...

• Fuel rebate for bus operators on stage carriage work was increased on January 1 from 1s 6.7d to 2s 3.7d. This follows the...

• The Bristol Omnibus Company has ensured that there will be a common understanding among all its staff on the revised drivers'...

• Dundee Corporation has agreed by 18 votes to 17 to open negotiations with the Scottish Bus Group for the sale of the city's...

real is the challenge Of the gas tu rbi in the UK truck and bus world? On what basis can diesel and turbine design features and...

E. Osborn has been appointed comptroller of the National Freight Corporation with effect from December 11 1963. He continues as...

• An Aberdeen haulage firm which earlier last year gained a footing in the Moray Firth area for the carriage of coal...

• Because a haulier had been convicted of illegal operation and hours offences he was refused a variation application in Hanley...

• The West Midland LA Mr. J. Else, wished good luck to an applicant in Hanley on December 20 since, after 15 years as a driver...

• A firm which used an unlicensed lorry on the road, lost its appeal before the Inner London Sessions Appeals Committee, on...

• The spirit of Christmas was obviously present, observed Mr. C. R. Hodgson, the North Western Licensing Authority in...

• An application by Michael Raymond Henry Smith of the Plough House, Old Monmouth Road, Abergavenny, for two A licences was...

At Thames magistrates' court on November 14 P. and M. Kaye Ltd., hauliers, of Hemming Street, London, El, and one of the...

• New ultra-lightweight box and Luton vans based on the Ford Transit chassis,' cab /scuttle range have been introduced by...

• With coachbuilding connections going back to 1773, Martin Walter Ltd., Folkestone, has formed two new companies. Dormobile...

• Following negotiations in Prague. Strojimport, Foreign Trade Corporation for import and export in Czechoslovakia has signed...

• Tayforth Ltd, one of Scotland's largest transport organizations, and part of the THC, has sold its minority shareholding in...

• The largest single order received so far for its new Super Lightweight semi-trailers has been placed with Highway Trailers...

• Two large orders totalling 330 Darlingtonbuilt Cummins VS engines are announced from major US truck transport operators. The...

• An order for a 65 cu.yd. Dumpmaster bulker trailer, the largest refuse compaction transporter being made in Britain, has been...

• Experience gained through building large numbers of aluminium-alloy containers is being applied to the manufacture of a range...

• British Road Services, who in August opened a temporary warehouse on the Hardwick Industrial Estate at King's Lynn, is...

• Telehoist Ltd., member of the Wilmot Breedon Group, has formed its industrial hydraulics division into a separate subsidiary...

• The fourth edition of Diesel fault tracing, maintenance, and repair has been published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd.,...

• Work is due to start soon on re-building Fareham station bridge, Hants, which crosses A27 trunk road just west of Fareham...

Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (25) by Handyman • Earlier in this series I wrote that what I termed "unscheduled...

by J. P. B. Sherriff, MITA PICTURES BY DICK ROSS OPERATIONS confined to a 100-mile radius may appear to some to be a new...

The Ministry of Transport is at the present time considering regulations which may increase the present maximum weight of road...

I was most interested in the letter from "Solicitor" (CM December 6, page 331, concerning my article on pedestrian crossings. I...

When is somebody with guts and initiative going to do something healthy for road transport? I am prompted to ask this because...

Janus comments RENEWED AirTEMFT'S to help drivers who have to find parking, food and accommodation away from home provide at...

Since last May when Frank Ford parted from Plutons (Scarborough) Ltd., of which company he was sales director, there has been...

Rob Roy: does the name mean anything to you? Before our Scottish readers draw their skean-dhus and start swinging claymores,...

An MoT spokesman told CM last week that they were now talking in decimals pending D-day—a period of familiarization. Jolly good...

Increasing demand for road haulage in the USA over the next 12 years will necessitate the employment of a truck fleet of 25m...

Some figures just published by the US Truck Trailer Manufacturers' Association in Washington provide an interesting guide to...

Lorry and bus drivers are sometimes accused of using weight and size to force other traffic to give way, and! must admit that...

ALTHOUGH the recent Prices and Incomes Board report "Productivity Agreements in the Road Haulage Industry" dealt specifically...

industry. Can you give me a brief summary of the topic as far as it concerns road transport? A Investment grants are provided...

of terms used in "The Next 10 Years" articles? These comprise "exhaust gate", as applied to turbochargers, "constant...

in connection with shipping consignments. Can you please give me the respective definitions? A CIF stands for cost, insurance...

driving for a continuous period exceeding 54hours. The alleged offence occurred on a Saturday when he was running-in empty over...

METHODS of grappling with current difficulties in the educational programme of the Institute of Furniture Warehousing and...

LAST WEEK we dealt with some of the prohibitions affecting bus passengers under the 1936 Public 'Service Vehicle Regulations....