VALUE is a simple word. Housewives know its meaning when V shrewdly, if intuitively, buying the goods and services which keep...

WAGES MEETING THE Road Haulage Wages Council will I meet on January 29 to consider the claim for a substantial pay increase...

rLOSER liaison between goods vehicle operators and regional Licensing Authorities could play an important part in improving...

A N award of £222 damages was made by the Court of Appeal on Monday to Crows Transport Ltd., of Newcastle, for breach of...

the new freehold premises of the Road Haulage Association West Midland area, Roadway House, 50 Sedgley Road West, Tipton,...

THREE important omissions from the I Severn Bridge Tolls Bill (which will give the power to charge differential tolls on...

VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS T HE Automoklub of Prague has announced that, as a result of its representations to the Czechoslovakian...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT nR. BEECHING is ready to make new concessions to the National Union of Railwaymen in a...

WESTERN MOTOR HOLDINGS VY LTD. announces that its subsidiary, Drake Carriers Ltd. (in which the John Brown Group has a 49 per...

C APAMIES up to 1,500 cu. ft. and lengths up to 33 ft. 6 in. are offered in a range of fast-discharge hopper pressure tankers...

A N order for 25 Daimler Roadliner rear-engine, single-deck buses has been placed with Transport Vehicles (Daimler) Ltd. by the...

L ONDON TRANSPORT has 1--1 announced that two further suburban single-deck bus routes in the Central (red) bus area will be...

" WHEN I consider the traffic situation VI' as it is today, with delays and frustrations occurring with predictable regularity,...

From Our Industrial Correspondent TN the controversy over cuts in I schedules, which nearly led to another ban on overtime by...

Webster, proprietor of Webster's Coaches of Patishall, Towcester, Northants, to make it clear that he purchased the coach...

of the late night bus service between Pontypridd and Beddau, Glamorgan, was approved by the South Wales Traffic Commissioners...

the Tilling Association Ltd. to replace Mr. M. A. Holmes, who, as already announced, is to become chairman of London Transport....

missioners have granted, with some limitation on the monthly allowance of vehicle journeys requested, the application made by...

A LLEGATIONS that Bakers Transport (Southampton) Ltd. had at no time carried special-type traffic legally—made by counsel for...

A FTER the West Midland Licensing Authority Mr. J. Else had ordered Granary Haulage Ltd., of Burton upon Trent, to produce...

by the motorways, first started by express carriage operators, was begun on Thursday of last week, when 52 applications by 22...

by Mr. S. W. G. Ostle, of Kirkby Stephen, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern Licensing Authority, gave a warning about...

P EOPLE were the most valuable asset in any business and the technique of getting them to want to make their maximum...

COLLOWING a decision by the I Michelin Tyre Co. Ltd. to rate 10.00-20 "X" tyres at 60 cwt. when used as singles, it is reported...

Q N Wednesday, Mr. G. A. Kozloff, director of engineering at the Kew factory of Chrysler Motors Ltd. and Dodge Bros. (Britain)...

A PART from some oil-seal failure calling for additional topping-up amounts, the oil in a vast number of goods vehicle diffs...

and Publications Hand-operated Vehicle Crane A MANUALLY operated, two-speed hydraulic crane designed for use on vehicles is...

By The Hawk VIEW It was 10.25 on a bitter evening in January, 1963, and the operation of offloading a tanker lying almost...

'IPECIALISTS. but T HE motor trade is a permanent target for criticism from motoring correspondents, and vehicle recovery...

A . T the request of many readers The Commercial Motor . . has compiled, from information supplied by manufacturers. the list...

franchise 'for certain makes of vehicle or trailer and feel obliged to provide some emergency arrangement. For these, a night...

T HE Road Haulage Association has asked the Dartford Tunnel' authorities to amend their regulations to cover the transit of the...

S CARCELY a more opportune moment than the present could be chosen by road operators to put forward a national scheme for...

HE necessity of keeping a balance between the standard of service provided and its actual cost was discussed in this series...

Avon Rubber Compar )ks Abroad A T the moment about one fifth of output is exported by the AVON RUBBER CO. LTD., and this does...

A reader is under the impression that there has been a change in the regulations prescribing the permitted overhang for public...

Another Red Herring? I NATURALLY appreciated the recent article under the above heading, and must congratulate Mr. Tilsley on...