At first sight a comparison of London-area lorry thefts in 1958 and 1968 (3,700 and £430,000, and 3,569 and £811,820...

from our political .correspondent • A reduction in lorry drivers' hours under the Transport Act is due to be announced by the...

Flexibility essential to survival: regional chairmen 'key people' • The road passenger industry was nationwide in its...

?. road haulage industry faces a further sharp rise in operating costs arising out of y's Budget proposals for dearer motor...

• On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week MoT traffic examiners carried out a nation-wide campaign to familiarize drivers...

• Agreement was reached in London on Tuesday to consolidate into the basic wage the lOs weekly bonus paid to company oneman bus...

• At a meeting on Monday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Road Haulage Association's vehicle...

• Local residents had signed' a petition supporting a road haulier in his appeal against an enforcement notice served by...

• Radical changes in the pattern of the Road Haulage Association annual conference will be apparent in the 1969 event, which...

river • ANEW APPROACH • TO TRAINING an Cater Drivers' reactions ranged from alblank incredulity through the suspi"what's in...

• A new tipping group has been formed recently in the North to assist those hauliers working out of the quarries in the...

• The Ministry of Transport this week revealed its plans for ensuring that the issue of a goods vehicle excise licence is...

• Mr. Noel R. Wynn, chairman of the Road Haulage Association, at an Association sub-area dinner in Carmarthen last Friday,...

• Mechanical handling and pre-packaging equipment, new to the coal trade, will be demonstrated for the first time at the fourth...

• Five of 27 men accused of conspiring to break Road Traffic Act regulations were discharged from the case at the outset of...

• The whole of the share capital of R. Hammond (Transport) Ltd., Wisbech, Cambs, has been bought by Starr Roadways Ltd., head...

• Two papers will be presented at the national conference of the Institute of Traffic Administration in London on May 9-10. The...

• If the Ministry of Transport received no objections over its road pricing proposals it would assume that they were...

• Both the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association reacted angrily to the Budget proposal to increase...

• "It is one of the great delusions of politics that State and private industry can continue to live harmoniously together",...

rek Moses iree double-deckers placed in service iton-under-Lyne Passenger Transport ek have been designed specifically for In...

member of the new SELNEC PTA ed on behalf of the corporations he ents against an application by LancaUnited Transport Ltd. to...

• Another version of the striking Fineline coach built by B. Walker and Son Ltd., Watford, is a 12-seater based on the 30cwt...

Coach Rally by Carolyn Hyams • Critics of the National Coach Rally at Blackpool have complained for years that provided an...

new express carriage service linking w and Dublin was granted to Doigs Greenock) Ltd. in Glasgow on Monday, the Scottish LA,...

cause of a technicality recently brought attention an operator who had carried United supporters under contract hire en years...

• In order that Lancashire enthusiasts might ski at week-ends in Aviemore, the Accrington coach proprietor Peter Hicks applied...

• Mr. F. Cumeta, a director of C and A Plant Services Ltd., Chadderton, was told by the North Western deputy LA, Mr. G. Newman,...

• The Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners have ruled that West Riding Automobile Co. Ltd. may have a fares increase which will...

• J. W. Blakeledge and D. Blakeledge, of Farnworth, trading as H. Lomas, pleaded guilty to 38 charges of operating outside the...

• In a written judgment the Transport Tribunal has dismissed an appeal by the Scottish Central Carting Co. Ltd. against a...

• An excursion and tours licence to run between Morecambe and Heysham North Quay was granted to Norwest Hovercraft Ltd. to...

S. Taylor. general manager of Newcastle uopn Tyne Corporation Transport for the past 22 years, itire, on medical advice, as...

Commercial Motor has a vacancy for a keen young man as an editorial assistant on the London staff of the journal. Applicants,...

by Tony Wilding • An exhibit which Officine Viberti Torino, SpA. would no doubt have liked to feature at this year's Turin Show...

• A total of over £100,000 is to be spent this year by Cummins Diesel Sales and Service Ltd., on expanding and improving...

• Magirus-Deutz normal-control 6 x 4 chassis now being delivered in the UK by Seddon-Deutz Ltd. have the 230 bhp net (DIN) V8...

• "Practical methods of making decisions for fleet repair maintenance and replacement", a paper to have been presented by Mr,...

• The Government has placed a contract with international Computers for the supply of computers for the MoT vehicle licensing...

• British Leyland and four other leading motor industry firms have signed a co-operation agreement which could lead to the...

• Pirelli tyres are to become standard equipment on some commercial vehicles produced by BLMC, Ford and Bedford. The increase...

ombustibles and spontaneous heating afe and unsafe storage (2) The tendency to generate heat is ist marked where a material...

and Mr. Doran's reply in the f March 14 I would like to make the ig points: , it is a pity that Mr. Doran does not it he has...

My attention has been drawn to the answer given to the question relating to TIR containers in 0 and A (CM February 28). I am...

To learn of a 16 per cent increase in the number of deaths and accidents on the roads is to realize the striking evidence of...

Round the world ii I minutes by Ashley Taylor, AMInstT, Assoc Inst T. EQUIPMENT designed to meet the greatly extended needs...

r )RT: AJP WILDING MIMechE, MIRTE IPLETELY NEW luxury-coach body by and a modern and attractive cab for Fiat goods chassis...

the cab allows a partial reduction of the air pressure in the third-axle springs so transferring weight on to the driving axle...

Roll over Risks THE Transport industry must never underestimate the unheralded skill with which a majority of drivers go about...

British operators frequently feel that they are enmeshed in red tape, but one only has to travel abroad a little to discover...

While I was in Italy, Fiat showed me round their vast commercial vehicle factory on the outskirts of Turin. And when I say vast...

I see that enthusiasts in the South are forming a new commercial vehicle club. Operators will be pleased to know that, as well...

It's up in the air! But two years ago these two long pieces of Concorde 2 were brought from Sud Aviation, Toulouse, to BAC...

Until this week I hadn't realized that in Sweden they have a transport school— dealing with all modes, apparently, but weighted...

Cyril Pickering, managing director of Saltburn Motor Services, and his son, Edgar, a director, are to become joint masters of...

car. The other was a double-deck bus and I have rying to determine at what speed going. It travelled 36ft with the locked, the...

rs and agricultural machinery users. ou give me some idea of the prices charge and my costings on the g? to charge for...

with interest a recent Q and A dealing with engine run-on. The practice was mentioned of stopping an engine which tended to...

although it runs well and is reliable, emits quite a lot of blue smoke at low speeds. The vehicle has only been used for light...

indication (expressed as a percentage) by which the running costs of vehicles have increased since the publication of your...

Paying the piper GOVERNMENTS conduct their financial affairs in what for the ordinary person would be a dream world. They take...

Cornish road haulier's roductivity challenge PART 2 LT in a recent Management Matters h 4) with the introduction of a...

by George Wilmot University of London. I the concept of the transport 3r's licence was first reviewed in the Paper The...

J. McArdle (Haulage) Ltd. Cap.: £100. Subs.: A. F. Philibert and Joan I. Philibert, 40 Pleydell Av. SE19. Sec.: A. F....

BY LES OLDR1DGE, A.I.R.T.E., A.M.!. M. L a professional driver is disqualified iving by a court it is only natural that loyal...

waters n 15 and 35 per cent iutput has been obtained nits introduced into the rcial vehicle heater range Automotive Products...

's long-distance transport ions often result in a vehnning non-stop for almost miles. It is obvious that these periods there...