The news that completiQn of a further 10 miles of motorway will enable M5 and M6 to be linked by the early summer may be...

Statutory break can be 'on duty' says Ministry—but courts must decide: FTA seeks guidance on effect of Section 95 by lain...

winner with PTE • SELNEC PTE which inherited Manchester City Transport's plan to go over entirely to o-m-o in the Seventies,...

• The last seven miles of the northern extension of M5, which forms part of the Midland Links Motorways and joins M5 to M6,...

• Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. has reached an agreement for the acquisition of 51 per cent of the issued shares of Dennison...

• The removal of the restriction on p.s.v. drivers working on double-manned vehicles, the need for modifications to Section 96...

• Leslie Huckfield, MP for Nuneaton and a member of the Labour Party Transport Group, has condemned the recent statement issued...

• By the end of December only just over one-third of the A and B licence holders in the Yorkshire traffic area had returned...

• Time spent driving to and from a LDoY competition and time spent at the competition will not count as driving or on duty...

• A new and important move is being made within the general campaign to minimize hold-ups to exports resulting from delays and...

I. This Leyland Hippo "'Crane Fruehauf semi-dump trader has recently begun work transporting slag, ore and sinter at Appkby...

• Hazlemere Motor Co. (Waltham Abbey) Ltd. has introduced two hydraulic handling systems for use with its D-mount swopbody...

from a special correspondent • A restrictive interpretation of the need to specify hired vehicles on operators' licences is. it...

• Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister for Employment and Productivity, laid an order before Parliament on Monday under the Industrial...

• Following its policy of converting from rigid to articulated operation the SCWS Ltd this week placed an order for 34...

• About 3,000 engineering, maintenance and repair workers of British Road Services Ltd., are to get a £.1 a week pay rise—an...

• Operators are reminded that January 23 is the date on which Road Haulage Wages Order RH(90) comes into force. Under this, the...

• A £2.62m order for Ford products placed by Godfrey Davis Ltd., the self-drive hire organization, includes nearly 1,000 18 and...

• A new transport maintenance depot built by the West Midlands Gas Board at Nechells, Birmingham, was formally opened on...

• As each year brings more rules and regulations into the life of transport operators, so the value of the FTA Year Book...

• To discover what problems may be created for members and long-serving driving staffs by the BMA ruling that one-eyed drivers...

• A 10-year licensing agreement for the continuing manufacture of transport refrigeration units in the UK has been concluded by...

• To meet the rapidly increasing demand for public transport on Hong Kong island and in Kowloon, contracts have been placed for...

motorway protest • The Transport and General Workers Union is to join in the protest against the Greater London Council's...

• Scottish Omnibuses Ltd., the Edinburghbased member of the Scottish Bus Group, is having a £90,000 Series 200 computer system...

• The 100 guineas Award for a paper which makes a contribution of merit to the study of the science and art or road passenger...

• Divisional autonomy within the policy of the PTE, combined with divisional accountability, would be a feature of the SELNEC...

• The first o-m-o double-deckers with fare boxes are being introduced by London Transport on the Peckham-Nunhead route—and...

• Bus crews who curtail late night services because of attacks by passengers, have been criticized by north-east union...

• The TUC has stepped into the row about the future of London's public transport services with an announcement last Friday that...

• All but one of the 11 chairmen of the Traffic Commissioners in their annual reports to the Minister of Transport for 1968-69...

• An application by Ribble Motor Services Ltd. for a new express service from Chorley to the NCB colliery in Leigh was granted...

• The first of what will probably be many applications to operate excursions and tours to the Windsor Safari Park was heard by...

• Forty-one local authorities in Northumberland, Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire have accused the Northern Traffic...

travelling to Windsor Great Park. This reflected the general trend in excursions and tours, he said. In reply to Mr. P....

• H. Pemberton (Coaches) Ltd., of Upton, near Pontefract, was granted two extra picking-up and setting-down points on its...

• The last in a line of applications at which B. Thompson Ltd., buyer and seller of meat, has been the principal witness, was...

• F, Hill and Co. (Hauliers) Ltd. had two vehicles removed from its A licence following a Section 177 inquiry in Birmingham...

Norris puzzle Applicant taken by surprise • A new company's application for a new B licence for two tippers conditioned....

• A Newport operator told the South Wales Licensing Authority, Mr. R. R. Jackson, at a sitting in Cardiff on Tuesday that the...

• Confusion over the identity of the licence holder, which caused a previous adjournment, having been cleared up. the S. Wales...

The Rt. Hon. Julian Amery, MP for Brighton Pavilion has joined the board of Dennis Brothers Ltd. He is joined by J. A, Terry,...

• London bus employees are to have a new negotiating machinery. This was approved in London on Wednesday following talks...

• A new factory has recently been opened by Arlington Bodybuilders Ltd. at Bedwas, Newport, Mon., on the lately established...

• Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board has recently completed experimental trials with an entirely new type of...

• Six ERF type 66(G) chassis have recently been delivered to Gibsons Ready-mixed Concrete Ltd., at Gateshead, Co. Durham. The...

• A special feature of the infra-red ray-operated detector, produced by the Transelectric Co. Ltd. (London), 26 Eaton Mews...

• An extra ton of payload capacity per vehicle, within a legal gross weight of 30 tons, is claimed by a Somerset quarrying...

commentary by Norman Douglas WHILE on a visit to America recently came across one Bengt Tome11, chairman of Scanfreight, a...

Robert Hanson • Those who know 77-year-old Robert Hanson were not surprised that his award of the CBE in the New Year Honours...

One-eyed drivers Surely, the competence or otherwise of a one-eyed person to drive a vehicle is related to his ability to...

WHEREAS factories have sophisticated grinding machines with built-in safety features, it has long been the road transport...

"Shell-Mex and BP driver induction courses are the start of a career", writes Paul Brockington in a special article on tanker...

by the Hawk I Golden memory an it really be only as far back as 1919 that some main roads were laid in patterned ranite setts...

pattern for the seventies? by Derek Moses A RECURRING THEME in Commercial Motor in recent years has been the security of...

continued services—there is a steady flow of passengers and with the growth of population in the area, no falling off in...

by Inspector K. W. Norman, Crime Prevention Section, New Scotland Yard, • The complexity of road haulage operations must not...

1#6 1 4, Capitol House UNLESS the haulage industry is on the verge of a revolution, as promised in the article in last week's...

APPLIED MARKETING is not new. The term merely identifies a particular method cf conducting business activities. As I go onto...

Making costing work • Commercial vehicles, by definition, are normally acquired and operated to serve a commercial purpose....

RRL REPORT SHOWS HOW DELAYS TO OTHER TRAFFIC ARE REDUCED BY INCREASING THE POWER OUTPUT OF HEAVY ARTICS IN ASSESSING the...

AFTER a visit to Canada and the USA to study vehicle bodybuilding and repairing, as one of a party of VBRA members, I have...

Not all of one mind by janus C LEARLY the haulier and the transport operator who is also a user of transport find their...

matters John Darker, AMBIM Incentives in road transport ONE school of thought among road transport managers deprecates staff...

continued subject to the vehicle not undergoing maintenance at any particular time. Incidentally, any increases in either...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI Operators' licences IN the explanatory notes on the "Application for an Operator's Licence" form...

Tables of Operating Costs to include - - Articulated vehicles-2-ton capacity and passenger vehicles—buses-11seater capacity?"...

selling red reflective triangular warning signs which can be used if a vehicle breaks down. Is it legal to use these signs? A...

and specialize in recovery work. We also operate a low-loader on limited trade plates solely for the purpose of removing badly...

under Contract 'A licence" to a Farmers' Marketing Co-operative, carrying perishable home-grown produce all over the country....

JUST as influenza and other ailments tend to occur frequently in the post-Christmas period, students preparing for the May...

Olga's Transport Ltd. Cap.: £1.000. Dirs.: F. J. A. Cox, 20 Si. Peter's Close. Malley Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield. Warwicks,...

FRIDAY IRTE (South Wales) meeting: "Noise and vibration" by Dr. T. Priecle. University of Southampton. The Institute of...

Following the success of its No. 376 Armature Spring Compressor introduced two years ago. Sykes-Pickavant is now marketing an...

An illustrated leaflet published by Gray-Campling describes the new N.S.G. Foggy 100 paint spray gun, which replaces the N.S.G....

White Noltak interlocking road blocks which make a useful method for permanent demarcation of parking bays and so on can now be...

The latest technical brochure from Esna Products is No.469E which contains full details of the ESIok self-locking system for...

With the publication of its new metric price list, Alcan Aluminium (UK) has made a basic change in the method of pricing...

By standardizing all components and using stock items problems of high cost and extended delivery have been overcome in the...

will be of use on vehicle-refinishing. These are a heavy-duty sander coded the "G700W" and a polisher/buffer coded the "P500L"....

Adjustable tubular supports for the front ends of semi-trailers, tankers and bulk carriers of all kinds, have been designed and...

The range of battery-booster starter cables available from KL Automotive Products has been extended with the introduction of...

The latest product from Silicone Lubrications is Lubysil SC 100 D which is an additive for lubricating oils for diesels engines...

Two self-adhesive labelling methods that provide for extra information to be added to the basic printed details are now made by...

Sign boards in glass-reinforced plastics have now been developed for vehicles by Oldham Signs. One-piece mouldings, these have...

When there is a lubrication failure in a petrol or diesel engine it is most important that the engine is stopped as quickly as...

Many hundreds of engine hours are clocked up by vehicles using the main power plant for driving auxiliary equipment such as...

A new waste-oil burner has been introduced by E. F. Allchin, called model No. W5OG. This heater can be operated on paraffin,...

A new range of dry-filter spray painting booths has been introduced by Volspray. There are six booths in the range in lengths...