TMAGE-BUILDING and name-dropping are highly rated arts in these days. Highly rated too are the High Streets up and down the...

BY H. BRIAN COTTEE ST weighing started on Monday at the first of four special sites which the Ministry of Transport has set up...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Ministry of Transport in London has been approached by the Northern Ireland government to...

T HE four - month dispute between J. and A, Smith, of Maddiston, Ltd., haulage contractors and the Scottish Commercial...

BETTER SIGNPOST1NG in towns has beei strongly recommended by the RHA highway and vehicles committee in a memorandum to MI...

P. H. R. TURNER CHARTS COURSE FOR HAULIERS AND PROPOSES JUNIOR ASSOCIATION TH the Bill to give effect to the Government's...

A CALL to members of the Road Haulage Association to make a serious attempt to sink sectional and local interests so that...

B IRMINGHAM Public Works Committee has been accused of "procrastination" about banning all-night and week-end parking of...

THE Scottish regulations governing the opera' tion of food vehicles will become operative on July 1. This six months' grace...

By John Darker A THOUGH many transport men regretted that the staffs of Clicensed operators were excluded from the purview of...

R OUTINE maintenance of about 95 per cent of larger road haulage vehicles is carried out by their owners and only about 5 per...

A FLEET owner who made false statements in his application for a B licence is to have the licence suspended for three months,...

RECAUSE advantage is not taken of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board information centre, lorry drivers with goods for export...

WITH the publication of a further 20 miles of motorway in Berkshire, the route of the 140-mile-long M4 between London and South...

C OACH operator D. and M. Perrie. of Beaworthy, Devon, has lodged an appeal against the Western Traffic Commissioners'...

the same mistakes as I did." Mr. Carlisle asked Mr. Jenkins what rates he received for the work on which he was engaged. Mr....

MR R . C. R. Hodgson, the North Western LA, has told haulage contractors engaged on the Llandulas-Abergele by-pass that he will...

GREY MOTORS of Bethesda, North Wales, appeared before the North-Western LA, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, at Wrexham on Tuesday in...

on But/in s TWELVE months after the original hearing, the North-Western Traffic Commissioners have issued their written...

THE first measures liberating international road passenger transport in the EEC member States came into force on January 1....

rUMBERLAND haulier William Armstrong (Longtown) Ltd. appeared this week before Northern Licensing Authority Mr. J. A. T....

HAULAGE contractor Mr. C. Reuben, of York Road, Bristol 6, was granted additions to his B licence conditions in Bristol this...

A MAJOR topic at the RI-IA area secretaries' conference was the applications for licences for Freightliner traffic by British...

A TRANSPORT company dealing almost exclusively with • an express service to the Continent had to have vehicles under its...

n QUENTLY Licensing Casebook is oted to hauliers who, by devious means, involve the nation in what is considered unnecessary...

ANNUAL REPORTS STRESS SHORTAGES: 1,910 P.S.V. LICENCES SUSPENDED A SERIOUS shortage of vehicle maintenance staff, cuts in...

BECAUSE some Sunderland Corporation Transport conductresses believe that women can drive modern buses, four of the town's 65...

THE first batch of Daimler Roadliners to be fitted with Metalastik toggle-link rubber suspension are now entering service with...

transport authority NOW IT'S By Derek Moses DAY Mrs. Barbara Castle visits Tyneside for discussions on the formation of a...

THE Minister of Transport proposes to amend the p.s.v. conditions of fitness regulations. Interested organizations are being...

ANOTHER BET company, City of Oxford Motoi Services Ltd„ has ordered Daimler Fleetlint double-deckers for the first time-10 30...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT EADERS of six unions involved were 1-1 meeting today to consider making any recommendation to...

MORE than 20 mini-coaches and mini-buses are on show at an exhibition being held by the Williams Motor Co. Ltd., Wilmslow Road,...

S ERVICES from three central London bu depots were seriously disrupted by ur official strikes during the past week. The depot...

Andrew B. Hogg, manager of the Scottish CWS funeral and coach hiring dept., is to succeed Hector M. Dick as manager of the...

Network of Sales and Service centres E formation of a new trailer division, the establishment of 17 sales, service and spares...

ALONGSIDE Dyson Aeroride NewLoader semi-trailers which Schweppes bought ii 1964 at 26 ft. length and are now being extended to...

A NEW bus model is to be featured by Brossel Freres SA, an associate of Leyland Motors Ltd., at the Brussels Show which opens...

I N response to an £18,000 order placed by the Ministry of Technology, six prototype hydrostatically driven dump trucks are...

MANAGEMENT FROM RANKS OF HIGHLY EDUCATED A degree or professional qualification gives a wonderful start in life but it has...

AT some time in its life, almost every commercial vehicle has suffered front brake snatch, and as a rule the cause is not too...

AEON PRODUCTS is now marketing rathe Dwell range of test instruments lade in the USA. Model 155 is a Dwell angle meter and...

quieter Routemasters an one-man double-deckers W HAT is a noisy vehicle? This is a very good question because so much depends...

View BY THE HAWK Elusive Veterans LOST: 500 steam-wagons aged between 51 and 37. Last seen by Atkinson and Co. in Frenchwood,...

T AM concerned with the direction and 1 management of two associated companies operating altogether 21 . vehicles. Eight of...

ASHLEY TAYLOR AM IRTE, Assoc Inst T Optimum Size DIFFICULTIES experienced by some smaller authorities in justifying the use...

BY JOHN DARKER, AMBIN1 MR . FRANK COUSINS, no longer an MP, has about three more years to serve the TGWU. Freed from...

W HEN in 1930 the Republic of Ireland introduced its brand of carrier's licence, the general rule of "what you have, you hold"...

A CCORDING to the Ministry of Transport there are between 40,000 and 50,000 separate road haulage businesses and about half of...

is a professional's job N OW that the Road Transport Industry Training Board is "in business" at its permanent headquarters at...

maintenance instructions regarding spring assemblies could you advise us on the frequency of such maintenance, the nature of...

in the exhaust gas can be eliminated by various means before it reaches the outlet. What are the measures that can be applied...

A Additional research is needed on this subject. A survey by America's Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory showed that in 46 per...

the new vehicle braking standards. Part of our fleet comprises six BMC FJ K160 trucks with a manufacturer's gross capacity...

distance heavy goods driver I am hoping in due course to make an entry into haulage. What is the cost of operating an...

Society of Arts as I wish to take a course on road transport management and also where do I enrol for the "Institute of...

Transport has now granted an increase in gross weight from 22 to 24 tons for three-axle artics with outer axle spacing of at...

T RYING to appraise the work of courses in road transport management appears at first sight like finding routeways in in...

A s .. was pointed out in this column recently, the prevailing market climate is hardly ideal for successfully launching a new...

Birdlin (Rugby) Ltd. Cap. £2,000. Objects: To carry on the business of agricultural and transport contractors, etc. Dirs.: P....