OAD hauliers grasped a nettle with apparent IX firmness in 1965 when they drew up a scale of demurrage charges to deter...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT C OINCIDING with the improved financial position of the nation, transport trade unions are...

AUT this week from the Road Transport Industry Training Board went 25,000 questionnaires on remuneration and numbers of...

THE APPEAL by hauliers against the Freightliner vehicles grant to Bri tish Railways in Manchester will come up for hearing by...

CRITICISM continues to be voiced in RHA areas about the growing influence over the Association exerted by the big groups....

THE US Senate has approved the Customs convention on freight containers which provides for duty-free temporary entry of...

TRANSPORT Development Group Ltd. has acquired the issued share capital of 1. M. Burgess Ltd., of East Percy Street, North...

CHIPS carrying bauxite for the British Aluminium Co. in Burntisland rarely dock at Grangemouth. But when 1.7 one did last year...

WHAT is believed to be the first use of Freightliner services by a private haulage firm occurred last weekend when Charles...

WIDESPREAD changes in maintenance procedures and transport • • organization have been proposed by the GPO. If adopted, they...

THE international group of the RHA has emphasized that Association membership does not, of itself, qualify a haulier for...

EXT WEEK COMMERCIAL MOTOR II features a road test of an interesting AEC bus with body by Marshall of Cambridge. It is the...

GEORGE WILMOT* REVIEWS THE NEW EXAMINATION SCHEME OF THE INSTITUTE OF TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION S INCE its foundation in 1944,...

U P-TO-DATE equipment for the provision of a day and night maintenance service for road transport vehicles and space for 2m,...

From our Political Correspondent ONDON'S streets are being used as free garage space by all comers. It has got to stop." This...

T HE story of a company which began to make a loss from the time it was taken over and ran up an expenditure of between £8,000...

A SECOND attempt by Cheltenham coach operator Mr. R. S. Marchant to operate an express service from Gloucester and Cheltenham...

T HERE are fashions and phases in haulage no less than in clothes, although bodywork on vehicles is less exaggerated than...

T HE chief officer of Weymouth and District Co-operative Society was warned by Western LA Mr. J. R. Samuel-Gibbon at Bristol on...

By DEREK MOSES T HE "high-faluting schemes" already proposed for the radical improvement of transport services within central...

F ivE Bristol RESL single-deckers with A. Eastern Coach Works dual entrance bodies are to be introduced in September by...

TRANSPORT manager Mr. J. Rostron has told the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Joint Trans port Committee that the undertaking faces a...

A NEW coach specially designed for use by businessmen or for functions which require refreshments on the move was handed over...

with a semi-automatic gearbox 32 tons maximum capacity GVW. Ready for the road at only 5,1tons; just 10 ft from front to rear;...

ATEST aid in the MasseyFerguson equipment-user-training programme is a mobile articulated training unit which will leave soon...

B ASED on the Unimog 406 all-purpose vehicle, a Unimog Road-Railer was demonstrated for the first time last week by the makers,...

C ONSIDERABLE cuts in loading time at the warehouses of BTR Industries Ltd. have been achieved by the introduction of a new...

O NE of the more difficult tasks in transport is to sell a maintenance scheme where the cost is known in advance, together with...

and publications Charger/h eater A NEW constant-rate charger /heater, giving a constant current charge of 4 amps and...

50,000 MILES A MONTH WITH THE LONG, THE SHORT AND THE TALL (w. W. J. Watts, Manager Heavy Haulage Division) HaIlet and...

can take it—with safety 1,500,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH SOLID FUEL (Mr. L. A. Ashelforri, General Manager) With a fleet of over...

D ESPITE near gale force winds, and some sleet during Saturday's tests, the standard of driving in the National Coach Rally at...

PICTURES BY HARRY ROBERTS F REQUENTLY nowadays the considerable difference that exists between the current design of heavy...

By JOHN DARKER, AMBIM A BUYERS' GUIDE TO LORRY-MOUNTED MECHANICAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT TAILBOARD LOADERS W ITH a lifting...

M UCH ingenuity has been devoted to the problem of pallet loading in vehicles. Duramin Engineering Co. Ltd., Stonefield Way,...

Aerola and Palletaire vary greatly according to the application envisaged; quotations on request. The Joloda pallet handling...

v t RITISH agents for the German Weyhau sen lorry cranes are Atlas Hydraulic Loaders Ltd., Blackwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland,...

A LORRY-MOUNTED fork-lift device costing around £750 sounds too good to be true, yet the Wilson Foldfork made by F. G. Wilson &...

The Aerola system aids Brooke Bond tea deliveries UROM the distribution warehouse attached to the Brooke Bond tea factory at...

I T is one thing to invent a mechanical handling device and quite another to persuade hard-headed transport men to imagine its...

M R. R. G. HALL, transport manager of BICC Construction Co. Ltd., Erith, operates more than N vehicles equipped with...

good condition, that's the thing." G. W. Scholes, Transport Manager, Sidney Flavel Ltd. Flavel Products are finished in...

M R. J. J. COX, director of Dyggor Gaylord Ltd., of Ilkeston, told me his firm operated about 30 B-licensed and a number of C...

lUEHICLE tail-lifts provide obvious time saving opportunities and their use has increased markedly of late. The usefulness in...

Advanced materials handling techniques enable the vast production of the Metal Box Company at Wisbech to be distributed...

If you have motorway breakdowns, it may not be the fault of the motorway. In fact, continuous long-distance hauling doesn't...

BY JOHN DARKER AMBIFIA T N the field of transport organization the word integration is much used. Within a group of companies,...

V iew BY THE HAWK The Personal Touch W ITH the surprisin g ly favourable statistics about the public ima g e of the lorry...

THE HAULAGE INDUSTRY, in common with most others, has its giants, but 85 per cent of all hauliers have five vehicles or less....

Research—Money Well Spent R EFERRING to the article "Overloading the Bus with Research?" by Mr. Frank Burravoe, up to a point I...

load transfer equipment in your March 10 issue, we would like to point out that this company is able to supply third axle...

F OR the dramatist and the film writer the cafe on the trunk road provides an ideal setting with colourful characters and an...

B ECAUSE transport is a service industry it is basically different from a trade or manufacturing industry in most aspects of...

Transport Commission, as the TUC requires? The picture seems somewhat confused. A The Minister of Transport said in the...

licence application are posted at the same time so that the clerk to the Licensing Authority concerned receives his within the...

A if you propose using a 12-seater bus as a stage or express vehicle or on contract service you will need to obtain a licence...

public and private sectors of transport in bringing people to work in London? A The London Traffic Survey showed that the...

in the road transport industry, and what is the range of fees charged? A Yes, there is certainly scope. Large transport...

envisaged many road transport operators doubted whether they would be economic for journeys of less than 200 miles. Is this...

of paper qualifications in transport subjects? How many who obtain recognized qualifications only five years or so ago are...

wheelers meet the regulations which permit vehicles already plated to gross 20 tons and will twin-steer vehicles be reduced to...

Close-circuit television II: Time for action E exciting possibilities of close-circuit television for those F studying...

Well done Seddon ! TEMMING from a 17f per cent increased turnover, the pre-tax profits of Seddon Diesel Vehicles for the first...

G. A. Bradshaw Ltd. Cap.: £100. Objects: To carry on the business of haulage contractors, etc. Din.: G. A. Bradshaw and Mrs. V....