A year from now road transport in Britain will be settling into new patterns which in many cases will be very different from...

by Tony Wilding • It now seems clear that SMMT Proposals to the Ministry of Transport on the subject of increases in legal...

• The Transport Tribunal in a written decision has allowed an appeal by Barnet and Graham Ltd. (CM June 131 against the refusal...

from our political correspondent A Commons motion and a crop of Parliamentary questions have followed further disclosures about...

from our industrial correspondent • The walk-out of 10,500 Liverpool dockers on Tuesday gave added point to the discussions...

• A major debate about the organization and leadership of the Institute of Transport is likely to be inspired by the nomination...

• Drivers of goods vehicles who voluntarily forgo their 10-hour rest period in any day to do other work for their employers,...

• A Ministry area mechanical engineer told a FTA gathering at Hanley on Tuesday of a coach operator who undertook virtually no...

• Vehicles formerly among the fleet of the Davis Bros. group of haulage companies are being put up for sale, on the instruction...

• That it is extremely important that proposed amendments to the C and U Regulations giving the force of law to manufacturers'...

• The FTA recently told the MoT that goods vehicle operators should be given greater flexibility in sending applications for...

• On Monday the Vehicle and Driving Licences Act (Commencement No. 1) Order 1969 came into force. The main effect of the Order...

Schweppes by Paul Brockington • There was good entertainment as well as good driving at Northampton on Sunday. Too late for...

at Grimsby by David Lowe • With a field of 85 entrants, 14 up on last year, this year's North Lincolnshire LDoY round held on...

• The final link-up of 24 major cities to provide a guaranteed next-day parcels delivery service throughout the country was...

• In a highly practical lecture, "The role of the road haulier in containerization", Mr. E. M. Haim stressed that road hauliers...

• Freightliners Ltd. brought a new major terminal into operation at Nottingham on Monday. It is the first in the East Midlands...

• Mr. H. R. Featherstone, director, FTA, on Monday said that failure to tackle overnight lorry parking was another sign of the...

• Mr. Umberto Agnelli, member of Fiat's administrative council, had a meeting with Mr. Vladimir Novikov, vice-chairman of the...

• Cadbury's Cake Division at Blackpole, Worcester, is beginning a transport reequipment programme involving the conversion of...

• Since the Hargreaves Group Ltd. divided its main transport company (Hargreaves Transport Ltd.) in the course of the year,...

p.s.v. drivers • Recommendations for the training of public service vehicle drivers, prepared as a result of joint...

• An order for bus bodies worth nearly Ei-rn which, it is said, took two years to negotiate and involved thousands of miles of...

• Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd. is currently building and dispatching 80 double-deck bus chassis which are going to Hong Kong...

• SELNEC (Greater Manchester) PTA has appointed Mr. G. G. Harding as member of the Executive responsible for engineering and...

• The driver of a Northern General coach died and two of his passengers were seriously injured in a fire at the Belmont Hotel,...

• There was considerable surprise in transport circles on Tuesday when, following a lengthy meeting, of the Merseyside PTA for...

• A new heating and ventilation system which, it is claimed, will greatly add to the comfort of bus passengers, has been...

• A notice of motion asking Manchester City Council to call for the resignation of Ald. Harry Sharp from his appointment as...

H. R. Aylmer has been appointed deputy chairman of the Traffic Commissioners for the Scottish traffic area, and deputy Scottish...

The tipper illustrated above is certainly hard working. Less obvious is that its body of self-hardening aluminium alloy is...

• - You have had a pretty chequered Career in this traffic court, one way and another, said Mr, R. R. Jackson, South Wales LA,...

• The Transport Tribunal in a written decision last week dismissed the appeal by G. Stiller (CM June 6) against the decision of...

• An application for a continuation of an A licence was heard in two parts in Liverpool last week, although it was refused...

• At a Section 178 inquiry at Chelmsford last week, Mr. G. Kidner. South-Eastern deputy LA, suspended two vehicles belonging to...

▪ The Yorkshire/Torbay Pool was granted a new daily winter service between Bradford and Cheltenham with 12 intermediate stops...

• Crow Carrying Co. Ltd., London, El 6, pleaded guilty to 12 summonses for failing to cause drivers' records to be kept and was...

• Coachwork Conversions Ltd. has modified the structure of the company's Mark I aluminium Luton van to provide a capacity of...

• A quick-drying paint, developed by the Midlands Electricity Board in collaboration with a manufacturer, is now used by the...

Realistic operational costing is at the heart of successful transport operation; with the new • disciplines on road transport...

Loads and forces (7) by Handyman • Although it may seem at first sight anomalous to bring up the matter in midsummer, the...

• Three models are offered in the new Dyson three-axle low-loader range of semi-trailers of 25, 30 and 35 tons and among the...

• The Blox Group of companies has produced a new booklet entitled "Complete Transport Service", describing in detail the...

• In announcing BMC Mastiff six-wheeler conversions (CM June 13), Primrose Group Sales, Blackburn, omitted to mention that the...

by R. D. Cater, AMInstBE. INDIVISIBLE LOADS are not, as is most often thought, necessarily the heaviest loads seen on the...

When CM invited Werner Heubeck to present a paper on productivity to this year's Fleet Management Conference—in Manchester on...

"Observer", that very readable columnist in the Financial Times, had a salutary piece for all parcels carriers to take to...

Drivers who were enjoying tuition last month in the very pleasant surroundings of the Northern Ireland RTITB centre on the...

When is a bus not a bus? When it's carrying goods by sea. No, I haven't gone completely crazy: the explanation of that riddle...

Have you seen the new livery adopted for its vehicles by Freightliners Ltd.? Obviously keen to establish its new "corporate...

The fact that the powers-that-be take a poor view of loose loads that deposit chunks of stone and similar items on the highway...

The recent paragraph on this page regarding professional drivers who are not perhaps as good as they could be gave rise to...

It appears that in the W. T. Noble/British Vita article in CM on June 20 we inadvertently "halved" the Noble turnover, which...

by H. R. Featherstone FCIS,AssocInsif director, Freight Transport Association PRODUCTIVITY is hardly a new word for the...

:railer vans by P.A.C. Brockington, M I MechE While the many options offered by makers of semi-trailer vans blur the...

Pl anning and Revision by lain Sherriff, MITA TO MOVE 100,000 packages through a store every week while ensuring that the...

IN THEORY containerization should favour rail, since a train load of containers, drawn by a single locomotive with a two-man...

within the Freightliner company over the opening of the Tilbury terminal which, originally, was not goirig to be opened until...

ONE large user of the Seafreightliner Harwich /Zeebrugge service, however has his own views on the reason for the congestion at...

IN the container world certain names predominate. One of these is MAT Transport Ltd. which recently had to extend its...

SEPTEMBER 6 is the starting day of a fortnight's distribution study tour of the USA and Canada, taking in the New York...

an estimated £23m. Some 420,000 vehicles of all types were involved, approximately 65,000 of them goods vehicles. These are...

by lain Sherriff HOW well are own-account operators prepared for the full implementation of the Transport Act 1968? Are they...

The seminar organized by the Institute of Materials Handling in London on April 29, gave us these ideas as to how a pallet pool...

I have two Scammell trailers which have been failed due to a "bent" axle and, according to the Examiners, they have failed...

trailers have cambered axles. There are exceptions, but as a general rule automatic-coupling models from this maker have a...

IN a recent letter to the editor of a daily newspaper the writer complained about the "appalling condition of the load-securing...

Janus comments "ELSIE at the bar would make a good transport manageress," said Maggie's brother Cromwell. "She takes so long...

**111W 53-seat coach 1T was just about 10 years ago that the Ford Motor Co. Ltd. introduced its first by R. D. Cater,...

THE road transport function in any diversified manufacturing organization is obviously important: in an international group as...

recently about the speed limits and MoT testing of Land-Rovers. Could you please explain all the necessary information about...

May 9 1969 pointed out that a looseleaf book called Encyclopedia of Road Traffic, published by Sweet and Maxwell, is very...

year electric vehicles require to be fitted with two headlamps and from what date this requirement becomes, or has become,...

A The following are some of the manufacturers making the equipment in which you are interested: Unicraft Ltd.. Thorp Arch...

because of my age am not allowed to drive heavy vehicles. Could you tell me if I would be allowed to steer a broken-down heavy...

van) solely for the delivery of our own products. The dropside truck is used only occasionally for a special delivery. The same...

THE sheer welter of road transport statistics produced in surveys, traffic counts and Ministry figures, can all too easily...

THE Transport Act 1968 contains new provisions regarding driving time and working hours for public service and goods vehicle...