If the Queen's Bench judgment recorded on page 36 stands unchallenged we may expect to see increases in goods-intransit...

from a special correspondent • A haulier's ability to claim from a third party (eg a forwarding agent) for any amount in...

from our political correspondent • Further Passenger Transport Authorities are to be set up under the Local Government Bill,...

• As a preliminary to the ban on overnight parking of over 2+-ton unladen weight lorries in the streets of the London Borough...

with a £40,000 company • Mr James Allison, formerly managing director of Allison Freightliners Ltd, who sold out to Spinks...

• At Windsor this week British removers' associations, NA FVVR and BAOFR, agreed to merge to form a single body. It will be...

• The maximum gross weight for goods vehicles in the Common Market should be 45 metric tons rather than the 42 proposed in...

by John Darker • The Road Haulage -Wages Council — considered by some to be approaching the end of its life — has...

• A massive back-log of driver training needs is building up, warned RTITB director-general Mr Eric Tindall this week. He...

• The ETA expresses strong opposition to the proposed ban on all stopping within 20 yd of any road junction in a built-up...

• As in previous years, arrangements have been made for a control room to operate at County Hall, Wakefield, when...

• The House of Lords has been chosen as the chamber for the introduction of the Government's Bill to enable weight and size...

opening ERF centre • The heavy lorry is an enormous benefactor; if it were to disappear from the UK scene it would mean...

• There is no proposal to integrate the operations of BRS Parcels Ltd and National Carriers Ltd; and reports of large-scale...

• Purle Brothers, waste disposal specialists, are to be taken over by the Redland Group for a value of £15.25m. Mr Tony...

• Ryders Truck Rentals Ltd, 98 New Bond Street, London W 1, recently formed subsidiary of the widely-established American...

• On Monday Scotts of Nottingham Ltd, a member of the National Carbonising Group., acquired W. J. Boyes and Son Ltd, ERF...

• In his reference to prohibition notices (page 96) Mr W. M. McCoubrey points out that his staff have certainly issued...

• Millburn Motors Ltd, 75 Hawthorn Street, Glasgow, Scammell distributor in Scotland, is holding its own exhibition of...

• Pre-profits of Seddon Diesel Vehicles for the year ended June 30 were £1,147,692 from £816,834 after loan stock interest...

• For the second time in three years a demand for the banning of heavy lorries through Warwick town centre has been refused....

• The long-awaited merger of the home and overseas sections of the British removal industry was completed at Windsor this...

• The firm which offered its drivers a day off work with full pay on the occasion of their birthdays (CM July 23) — Tina...

• Mr Peter Walker, Secretary of State for the Environment, has announced changes in the allocation of responsibilities among...

• When Value Added Tax is introduced, hydrocarbon oil duty should be reduced by the amount of VAT levied, the FTA has told...

• A bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands on the international carriage of passengers by road...

• Public transport must be given priority over private motorists in urban areas, said Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board's justification of its broad policies is used to give the small operator the...

The GLC policy and resources committee are recommending the Council on November 16 to accept the proposals of the London...

Where the jitneys' run, the service disappears by Thomas Lenthall, a US transport consultant • The British Government's...

• One of the largest recent orders for Scan-Coin automated coin sorting and counting systems from Automaticket Ltd has been...

to cover PTA losses in West Midlands • Plans for a lp increase on adult bus fares above the 3p minimum on West Midland PTE...

• Berwick County Council is carrying out a survey to discover how far private bus operators in the county could take over...

• A company which hired out a vehicle to be used in the course of the company's own business, to a contracted operator,...

• A Wolverhampton transport firm which failed to keep maintenance records after receiving warning and instruction in the...

• The RHA has lodged an objection to the application of Spinks Interfreight Ltd, Whessoe Road, Darlington. The application,...

• The hearing of the application by Clawford Haulage Ltd, of Leighton Buzzard, for an 0 licence in Scotland, with a base at...

• Four joiners who converted an Austin van into a minicoach, because they found it difficult to commute between York and...

• It was foolish that an operator holding a number of licences should be compelled to run more than one coach to the same...

• Two new men in haulage, but with business links in Edinburgh, were granted an 0 Licence for five vehicles and six trailers...

• Local authorities in about threequarters of the English counties are proposing to provide financial support for their rural...

• Frameless all-aluminium tipping bodies to suit any make of semi-trailer chassis, are now being offered by Neville Truck...

• A new range of refrigerated semi-trailer vans has just been introduced, as a joint venture, by Hoy Trailers and Robert B....

• An advertisement for Arlington which appeared in the new Scammell Crusader feature, in November 5, gave the incorrect...

• A completely new model has just been announced by Craven Industries Sales Ltd of Andover which is to be added to the firm's...

• The latest addition to the all-Edbro tipper fleet of Kingscliffe Super Refractories Ltd, of Sheffield, will accomplish in...

• Towing Equipment Ltd, 4 Carver Street, Sheffield 1, has taken over Tollbridge Trailers, Lymington, Hants. Production of all...

• The first crew cab on a Dodge to receive approval from Chrysler's Special Engineering Orders department has been developed...

• Multi-Cargo Systems Ltd, announces the completion of the first British order incorporating the Multiloader body interchange...

• For 1972 Volkswagen commercial vehicles may be optionally fitted with the twin-carburetter 1700 cc engine as used in the...

Jim Lees, bus sales manager, British Leyland Truck and Bus Division, and his deputy, Bob Crouch, continue in their positions in...

• An exceptionally versatile, high-volume TIR semi-trailer is announced by the Primrose Third Axle Co Ltd, Blackburn, Lancs....

Scotland's current driving hero, 32-year-old tanker driver Norman Singer, 1971 national champion in the CM-sponsored Lorry...

How long does a tipper last? Just discovered in the Shetlands a 29-year-old Edbro gear is still tipping away, more often than...

Surely novelist Compton Mackenzie must have followers in places of authority. It seems that the antics of the islanders and the...

It was a slightly embarrassed Len Evans who sat at the top table for the annual luncheon of the PTA's Central London area last...

This will be Britain's first winter with the old Shap Fell road by-passed and a lot of new motorway mileage in difficult...

REPORT BY DEREK MOSES AND DAVID LOWE PICTURES BY DICK ROSS IF British operators wished to influence developments in Europe —...

Last week COMMERCIAL MOTOR visited Scottish meetings of the Chartered Institute of Transport, the Industrial Transport...

SHOULD a lorry driver be penalized for not being a member of the right union and indeed should he have his own union or belong...

IF THERE were a concrete demand for rollon/roll-off facilities, the Clyde Port Authority would include them in its plans for...

SHOULD Scotland have — or rather does it need — a transport policy separate from the remainder of the UK? This was the...

In your report on Mr Furness' address to the RHA Conference (CM October 29) he is reported as saying that spring brakes may not...

Readers of Trevor Longcroft's road test of the new Ford DT2417 6x4 tipper in the November 5 issue of CM could be forgiven if...

I refer to an article in Commercial Motor of October 15, regarding which I have been requested by my directors to make one or...

We really must tell you about the fantastic pulling power of Commercial Motor. Some months ago you ran an article on the...

H. E. Gibbon • Today (Friday) is one of the most important dates in the 1971 calendar for the president of the Scottish...

,T Kelvin Hall this year there is a eneral feeling of the calm before the torm. No entirely new models have een announced...

THE 48th Scottish Motor Exhibition at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, will be opened today, November 12, at 11.30 am by the Duke of Kent....

by lain Skewis, director of Industrial Development. Marketing Division, Highlands and Islands Development Board CONCERN but...

ERE will always be room and indeed a uirement for the small independent road Isport operator. This is an opinion held I indeed...

IT WAS on November 12 1969 that I met another of the Russell boys on a trailer stand at the Scottish Show. At that time W. L....

YOU'RE BETTER THAN YOU WERE by lain Sherriff, MITA, AIRTE THE Scottish Area Maintenance Advisory Committee is not the most...

European entry maybring back quafitycontrols • Whether there could be some restoration of licensing controls, somewhat akin...

HAMILTON'S OF WOMAN BY WHAT definition may a transport operator be judged a specialist? If by the value of the loads carried...

Compulsory employers' liability by John C. Vann • Third party personal injury motor insurance has been compulsory for more...

PROBLEMS EZ 110naffl y Gordon Crabtree 'ERATORS who carry timber and a ie variety of excavated materials as well solid fuel...

by Paul Brockington, MIMechE MAKING it simple and comfortable for the driver and giving him ample power that can be used to...

workshop by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (27) A SPECIFIED DIAGNOSIS procedure must be followed in order to ensure that...

Major haulage problem ALTHOUGH they may expect the heavy lorry at any moment now to be portrayed in the Chamber of Horrors at...

y our tax by R. H. Grimsley BCom, FIAC 14. Different tax rules for sole traders and partnerships THE ADJUSTMENT of business...

expert staff will gladly answer your queries. Letters should be addressed to: 'Q' and 'A Bureau, Commercial Motor, Dorset...

matters By John Darker, AMBIM The Industrial Relations Act the rights of workers NEW RIGHTS are conferred on workers by the...

by Les Oldridge AMIRTE, MIMI Prohibition notices (1) ALMOST every week CM carries reports of fleet operators being called...

by George Wilmot Senior lecturer in transport studies. University of London New look for CIT final examinations The new final...

Mazifreigbt Ltd Cap: £1000. Objects: To take over the business of haulage contractors, carried on by George C. Molyneaux. 120...

For the next seven days commencing Friday. November 12 to Thursday. November 18. FRIDAY: IRTE (Border) meeting. "Engineers as...

Die H. F. Ace Mark III, a tool vhich removes and refits tyres xi light vans and handles losed-centre wheels as well as :hose...

rile specialist trailers division of ourtburn Positioners, a member A the Bedfordia group, has innounced that the range of...

Following a merger of Slaven Transport Products with the Dayton Steel Foundry of America, Dayton cast-steel fifth-wheels are...

A revised edition of an HMSO booklet - Health and Safety at Work", gives details of the dangers arising and the methods of...

The Wipac Tailbeam group can be used as a reversing light or a rear fog lamp depending on the lens fitted and is designed for...

Multi-core tubing which consists of a transparent outer sheath with red (din. od) and blue ((in. od) heavy-duty nylon inner...

Castrol is marketing used-parts bags made of polythene with reseal tops and large enough to take a set of plugs, points and...

The BD.125 Motorscope Major is the name of a petrol-engined analyser, produced by CryptonTriangle that features an 84,-in....

Safir protective masks made by Chapman and Smith have been redesigned and the range of filter pads produced has been extended...

An electric flash butt welding process developed by Reynolds Tube, a steel-tube division of Tube Investments, has enabled...

Three qualities of tack cloth Superwhite, Super and Stan in three sizes are n available from Starchen. edges are sealed to prey...

non-melt grease containing particles of copper and lead, duced by Beck Chemicals, is imed to prevent the seizure of nut, screw...

warns, or shuts down, in e event of abnormal current inditions in electrically opered ac machinery. It detects arges of ac...

systems up to 150 psi and flow rates up to 5.83 gpm can be incorporated in a fixed piping system to provide quick on-off...

Two versatile Wipac lamps—the Snap-lite 75 and Snap-lite 105—are available as side, reversing, direction indicator, rear or...

by Trevor Longcroft From Shell-Mex and BP's Mr F. K. Farquharson I learn of a time-saving approach to the task of chassis...

Applied to car batteries in March of this year, the Levelite signal light has been developed by NSA for commercial vehicle...

Certain frozen goods normally transported in refrigerated vehicles may now be transported in insulated roll pallets which are...

The range of filters and lubricators produced by C. A. Norgren has been superseded by the F04 Series compressed air filter and...

The Sketchley Overall Service is offering its towel service throughout an area stretching from Lancashire and Yorkshire to the...

From Thorn Lighting Ltd comes the Thorn Markerlight system which is in two distinct forms one for vehicle sides, the other for...

Two spring brakes for use heavy commercial vehicles trailers are now available f Intertruck Ltd. Operating on the sE principle...

The Electrical and Mecha counters short form catali has been published, an available from English Nun ing Machines, Queens‘...

An alarm kit has been devel by AEP to enable an au alarm to be obtained from a the existing vehicle wa lights (dynamo, oil...