Operating Problems Overshadow Mechanization

• Mr. T. Atkin, director, general haulage, Tayforth Ltd., criticized the customer when he addressed members of the Institute of Mechanical Handling in Glasgow on Wednesday. Mr.......

Plating Offenders

• The first prosecutions in the West Midland Traffic Area in connection with the new plating and testing regulations have been heard, the first being in Rugby when W. H. Webster......

Alcan Service

• On Tuesday, at the Skyway Hotel, London Airport, Alcan Industries Ltd., of Banbury, announced, before an invited audience of bodybuilders and fleet owners, details of a new......

Mini Postal Buses

• The Post Office is prepared to have another look at the possibility of providing a mini postal bus service in Norfolk. Mr. Joseph Slater. the Assistant Postmaster-General,......

Hazard Warnings

• Flashing direction indicators or warning triangles . . . Mr. Richard Marsh, the Minister of .Transport, is now trying to decide which is the better way of telling drivers......

Nfc Not Saying

• Mr. Neil Carmichael, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, last week refused to say how much it had cost the National Freight Corporation to acquire Leeds Car......

Lorry Parks

• It is highly desirable that, in the interests of local amenity and safety, more lorry parks should be provided, Mr. Marsh told MPs this week. It was a matter for local......

Smoke Blitz .

• There may be another country-wide blitz against smoking lorries. The idea was mooted last week—and met with an interested Government response. Lord Nugent recalled an earlier......