The principal purpose behind the Ministry of Transport's scheme for standard bus grants is to encourage operators to replace...

by John Darker • Productivity payments ranging from 45s to 80s per 40 hour week to be included in basic rate calculations for...

• A Commission of Inquiry meeting today (Friday) will publish details of two objections made to Government proposals for...

• The Council of Ministers of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECFVIT) will meet on June 11. in Stockholm....

• The boards of Tecalemit Ltd. and Dennis Brothers Ltd., in consultation with their respective advisers, have decided not to...

• The first two director-generals for the executive boards of the new Passenger Transport Authorities were appointed at the...

from our political correspondent • A somewhat critical note is sounded in the British Railways Board report, published last...

• A Wicklow operator, Mr. N. Gargan, is due to take delivery any day now of what is believed to be the first Japanese tipper to...

• At Barking magistrates' court on Tuesday BRS Ltd. was found guilty of using a motor vehicle on the road when the load...

gainst SoIly Davis • A claim for £494,777 was made in the High Court on Wednesday by Anglo-Israeli Bank Ltd, of Bow Bells...

• The value of realistic exercises in helping to understand the effects of the Transport Act 1968 was well illustrated in the...

• Striking confirmation of the way in which tachographs can be used to analyse and improve operating efficiency and driving...

it does. A vehicle working in its peak condition is a vehicle working profitably. But the law demands, under the Road Safety...

by lain Sherriff • It was a low scoring day in Aberdeen last Sunday; the average of the 10 class winners was 89.2 penalties. G....

at Maidstone by David Spain • Although a recent afternoon spent at MOTEC learning to reverse a 32-ton Atkinson didn't make me...

• Commercial vehicle production, at 9,597 units a week during April, was more than one-fifth higher than a year earlier,...

• The first-ever company-operated heavy goods vehicle driver training school in Scotland was opened in Dundee on Monday at the...

• The Ministry of Transport reminds drivers of new Regulations about driving licences and driving tests which came into force...

• Mr. J. F. Axisa, the High Commissioner for Malta, last week launched the first London/ Malta door-to-door weekly surface...

• Light goods vehicles, as well as cars, will in future he refused an annual MoT test certificate if they are not fitted with...

• Commercial Motor wants two sec • retaries with real enthusiasm for • road transport, for interesting and • varied editorial...

• The first Road Hauliers' Group Training As • sociation to be set up in the Yorkshire and • Humberside region will be...

• Has the MoT the proper equipment and sufficiently well-trained staff accurately to weigh artic vehicles at roadside checks?...

• BBC 2's Money Programme on Thursday June 12 will . deal with the problems and opportunities of refuse disposal. It will...

• Tomorrow Mr. D. H. Foulds, managing director of United Transport, will present a silver cup to the haulage company within the...

• Long-distance lorry drivers may face a new ban on all-night parking in the London Borough of Islington. The...

B. A. Ridley. 56. has been appointed National Freight Federation rates officer. Mr. Ridley has been a transport man for over 30...

• The latest figures of new registrations of new commercial vehicles in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man for...

• Work is to start on Monday on retexturing sections of the southbound carriageway of M1 Motorway between Pepperstock and...

• A criticism of the rigidity with which the Ministry of Transport was seeking to apply the grants scheme for new buses,...

from our industrial correspondent • A 5 per cent pay deal giving a '14s a week rise in basic rates for 77,000 municipal busmen...

• As a result of the work of the local Steering Committee over the past seven years, they had a broad acceptance of what it was...

• Allen's Motor Services of Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, has been acquired by the Nom firm of G. Howlett and Son Ltd. for a...

• East Kilbride New Town is seeking authority from the Secretary of State for Scotland for additional bus services within the...

• Mr. J. B. Wood, who completed a twoyear term as a member of the Transport Tribunal on May 3, sat with the Tribunal without...

• When 113 defects were discovered on nine Bedwelly council lorries in March the vehicles had been continuously engaged for a...

• Nearly 500 Bristol busmen have threatened to strike from June 15 unless they get rises of up to £5 per week. They have...

• Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd., Leeds, was refused permission by the North Western Traffic Commissioners in Manchester on Monday...

Transport for public utilities and local authorities will be featured in next week's big special issue of Commercial Motor....

• The Transport Tribunal in London on Wednesday heard an appeal against the decision by the Northern LA, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon,...

• An application to double the number of half-day excursions authorized for winter operation from Bradford was made by West...

• A short-term A licence was granted to Mr. John Evans. managing director of Newport Forwarding and Warehousing Ltd., by the...

• A vehicle examiner who noticed a lorry "crabbing"—travelling out of alignment—reported the matter with the result that...

• An application by Kirkbright and Clark Ltd., Burnley, for the continuation of its excursion and tours licence without...

• A new refuse collection vehicle, one of the largest available in Great Britain, will be displayed at the 71st annual...

• A lightweight three-axle chassis for tipper /truck mixer use at 20 tons gross vehicle weight has been introduced by Leyland....

• Hawker Siddeley has introduced a new version of the Checkweight portable weighing deVice for road transport and other...

• A nation-wide road safety campaign is to be mounted this summer by the tyre makers of the UK. Supported by road safety...

• The a.g.m. of the Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removing Industry will be held tomorrow at the Randolf Hotel,...

• On June 17 and 18 at the Queen's Hotel, London, SEIB, Enots Ltd. will stage an exhibition of pneumatic and lubrication...

Loads and forces (3) • Quite a number of odd features can have a bearing on why vehicles turn over. I discovered this when...

• A monocoque type of aluminium tipping body has recently been supplied by E. M. Wilcox Ltd., Acland Street, Peterborough, to...

• When testing the Leyland Atlantean fully automatic transmission double-decker bus (CM May 1611 reported a tendency for the...

the next 25 years SMALLER BUSES providing a more frequent and comfortable service were suggested by Mr. C. R. Warman, city...

An exclusive interview with Ashley Taylor COMPLEX problems without parallel in °ter Passenger Transport Authorities face the...

AN ABC OF CARRIERS' LICENCE PENALTIES AS REVOCATIONS and suspensions of carriers' licences sharply increase for vehicle...

As today is the 25th anniversary of the Normandy landings which marked the beginning of the end of the 1939-45 War this has...

Although they had been in action previously, roll-on,/off ferries, with their bow doors, first came to the notice of many...

It's strange to refer to "Mr. D. M. Readman" after writing "Corporal D. M. Readman" so many times in reports of his successes...

"I'm glad 1 made your job easy for you", was A. Willetts' parting comment to Paul Brockington after the prizegiving at Coventry...

In Durban recently a former chairman of the local Road Transportation Board was charged with receiving cash, crockery, radios,...

Are we heading for a change to full-pressure hydraulic braking on heavy commercials? Several coats have been trailed on the...

Exactly where you put the king-pin on a tractor matters a great deal. Get it wrong, you've got an artic in which the tail wags...

Sand Castles NOBODY seems in the least surprised that an organization known as the Sand and Ballast Hauliers and Allied Trades...

One impending change in the British way of life which will have deep repercussions on the bus operating industry is the...

OCL/ACT—the farce continues FOR what it was worth, the refusal of Tilbury dockers to allow OCL and ACT to work their container...

THERE was quite a gathering of the clans (haulage container) when Crane Fruehauf opened its new service and regional parts...

THE advantage that rail has over road where long distances are involved has been graphically demonstrated by international road...

AS local hauliers will know, to their advantage. Ipswich is quite an up-and-coming port nowadays and, not to be outshone by its...

SINCE the closure of the Suez Canal the "landbridge concept" has certainly come into its own with both the Canadians and the...

HAULIERS in the West of England and South Wales with container-carrying equipment would do well to keep their eyes on the...

THE recent decision of IATA—the body which regulates air travel and air cargo carrying on most of the major airlines of the...

stevedores gathered around the doors of an open container at Felixstowe, you'll know that another of 'those loads' has...

AT a recent seminar arranged by the Davies and Robson consultancy organization, Mr. P. W. Reed presented a valuable paper on...

K1100 with a 25ft platform body. Could you tell me what length drawbar trailer I could use with this vehicle and at what gross...

own and drive a vintage steam traction engine with a kerb-side weight of 14 tons. Can you tell me if when the heavy goods...

a diesel-powered 3i-ton van or a similar model equipped with a petrol engine in Jersey where diesel fuel costs 3s 6d per...

to tow a loaded articulated vehicle with a heavy breakdown vehicle? We have always understood this to be illegal, on the other...

Holland, the main business being that of crane hire; we wish to operate our own transport purely as a supporting service to the...

American truck illustrations and would appreciate it if you could send me the names and addresses of any publications in the...

THE road transport student tackling examinations through evening class studies has always had my greatest sympathy. It is not...

CERTAIN of the lighter goods vehicles must be fitted with seat belts and this week I propose to examine Regulation 53 of the...