T HIS week "The Commercial Motor" publishes, with modest pride, a comprehensive summary and explanation of the Transport Act,...

TH E critical stage that has now been reached in Britain's battle for economic survival provides no occasion for political...

Responsibilities of IS a driver entitled to assume Drivers Questioned in that pedestrians will obey Court of Appeal . . traffic...

Hears— That a mild winter would prove a "save face" for the Coal Board. That we cannot have our cake and eat it—but where is...

L ITTLE surprise has been caused in J--4 road transport circles by at least three of the appointments to full-time membership...

H EAR1NG of cases against three organizers of the Blackburn antinationalization procession on July 26 has been postponed until...

O N August 6, the Transport Bill received the Royal Assent. After an all-night sitting on Bank Holiday, during which the House...

E XPORTS of new commercial vehicles, industrial trucks, general haulage tractors and trailers in the six months ended June last...

1 .- IN Tuesday, the Ministry of Trans%---f port announced the appointment of Mr. C. Montgomery White, K.C., as president of...

president of the road transport advisory committee of the National Savings Committee for 1947-8. MR. E. S. SHRAPNELL-SMITH,...

I ORD TEYNHAM, D.S.O., D.S.C, Lahas been appointed president of the Industrial Transport Association. Vicepresidents are...

A DVERTIS1NG of hire-car facilities for travel to the seaside led to a prosecution described as "something in the nature of a...

Fast Trunk Haulage p ROVING ability to operate at a high average speed, the Proctor Mark I 5-6-ton oil-engined chassis, loaded...

Provider / , N these days it is almost impossible to visualize a world without petroleum and its products, yet it is ; only 87...

L'OR the average road transport operator, an immobilized vehicle means a serious loss in earning power, and speed in repairs...

A S a regular reader of your journal fqr many years, 'Ti I would like your advice on a subject that is puzzling me. I hold a...

U NDER the Act, the following bodies or persons will be concerned in the organization of transport:— (I) THE MINISTER The...

T HECommission is under a statutory duty to give a notice of acquisition in respect to any undertaking, the activities of which...

THERE are four principal heads in respect of which compensation is payable. VEHICLES (Sec. 47 (I)) Compensation payable in...

A FTER the appointed day, it will be a condition of every A and B licence (whether granted before or after the Act) that goods...

T HE Commission is under an obligation to review, as soon as may be, the passenger road transport services operating in Great...

CHARGES SCHEMES T HE. Commission is obliged, within two years from the passing of the Act or such longer period as the...

C ONTRACTS for the rendering of personal services (other than services as a director, except a managing director, or a director...

By Our Legal Adviser A ROYAL COMMISSION, in the manner prescribed by centuries of tradition, in the presence of the noble Lords...

HAULAGE RATES S OME time ago I gave information to an operator regarding rates per mile for the carriage of bricks, and, in...

Multiple Driving H OW to distribute both the load and the power equally between twin driving axles is shown in patent No....