Haulage, An Industry Of Small Men—official

D OAD goods transport carried a total of 1,248 million tons of traffic during 1962. Of this total, 509.5 million tons were moved by Aand B-licensed vehicles. No less than 861-1......

Assurance On Tolls

ERE were no other trnnk road projects on which the Government was thinking of charging tolls, assured Mr. Stephen Swingler, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport,......

Minister's No To Costs Question

THE Minister of Transport this week refused to say how much it cost British Road Services to belong to the Road Haulage Association. He was asked this question in the Commons by......

Operator's Conviction Quashed

A N appeal by a firm that had been convicted by Essex. County Justices at Chelmsford of " using " a hired lorry at the time it was stopped as allegedly defective, was allowed by......

Efficiency Schemes For Tank Hauliers

A FTER an exploratory meeting between seven members of the Road Haulage Association bulk liquid transport group and the Centre for Interfirm Comparison Ltd. on Tuesday, the......

Minister Considering Children's Safety

A SUGGESTION that he should make regulations prohibiting the parking of vehicles-partrcularly ice-cream vans near schools was turned down by the Minister of Transport this week.......