E XPANDING exports demand expanding transport 1-:d services. In 1955 exports from the UK to Western Europe were 28 per cent of...

RHA invites industry and unions to discuss opposition through joint campaign BY JOHN FRIEDMAN T HE ROAD HAULAGE ASSOCIATION...

By our Industrial Correspondent Special loading deck construction for safer transport of excavators is a feature of this...

BUT NOT THE DATE T HE Traders Road Transport Association has agreed to the MoT's proposed noise regulations following...

BOUT 150 vehicles will link up with the Vehicle Observer Corps in London as a result of an agreement with Security Express...

Kaye switches long-distance traffic to rail A LONDON road haulier—the first to make extensive use of BR's Freightliner...

'CORD has won over £100,000 worth of orders from five British haulage companies as a result of an executive sales demonstration...

THE 50-VEHICLE Ellis (Transport) Ltd., Longbenton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, has diverted a quarter of its long-distance business to...

A LEGATIONS that unaccompanied trailers were delayed at ports of entry were made by Continental witnesses last week when Mr. D....

A FOUR-VEHICLE Contract A to A licence switch granted to Transport Services (Newbury) Ltd. by the South Eastern deputy...

- El ASTERN LA Mr. W. P. S. Ormond has suspended two vehicles belonging to Southern Shavings Supply Co. Ltd. for six weeks...

rWO Highland bus operators—Mr Norman Sutherland, of Highland Omni'uses Ltd., Inverness, and Mr Joseph Fraser, if J. M. Fraser,...

A WOMEN'S outing has been cancelled II by Carlisle bus owner Mr. Andrew Hogg—because Ribble Motor Services Ltd. wanted to he...

Customer wins B licence for tipper firm A N APPLICATION by J. A. Hayhurst Ltd., sand and gravel merchants of Ribchester,...

A CLAMP-DOWN on loading and unloading goods during peak hours is planned in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 21 streets loading and...

report of Section 178 hearings at Kirkcaldy stated that the deputy Scottish LA, Mr. L. A. Wells, had said he was "setting...

D EWSBURY haulage contractors Johr Wilkinson, 57, of Cemetery Road, anc his son John Wilkinson, 29, of Fairtiek Crescent,...

DO not think that public transport today is an appropriate medium for profitmaking." So said the Minister of Transport during...

A NEWS AGENCY REPORT that one of these 11 Comex 2 Commonwealth Expedition to India Duple coaches overturned before the convoy...

By our Industrial Correspondent D ELEGATES representing London's 33,000 busmen met TGWU chiefs on Thursday to hear reports on a...

T HE Liverpool fleet's annual mileage was cut by more than 750,000 to 35,903,581, states the annual report of the city...

4,000 buses in giant changeover M OST COSTLY item in Sweden's £41m September 3 changeover to right-hand traffic (see page 49)...

THREE 36ft.-long Ford buses, -Ieach accommodating 79 schoolchildren are being put into service in Northern Ireland by Fermanagh...

Five new directors have been appointed to the board of hydraulic tipping-gear manufacturers, Edbro Ltd., Bolton, Lancs. All are...

assistant traffic managers with the Bristol Omnibus Co. and associated companies from September 1. Mr. Hodges is traffic...

NEW BODEN SKELETALS E QUIPPED with a special twistlock container locking device, a new range of skeletal trailers, the Mark 3,...

D ESIGNED for the 20ft ISO container, this new all-steel short skeletal by M and G Trailers, High Street, Lye, Worcs., has a...

S EVERAL firms have asked the Road Transport Industry Training Board for advice on the type or records of training they should...

And here's how Swedes will cope From a special correspondent. S EPTEMBER 3 is H-day in Sweden. H stands for "H5ger", the...

By our Industrial Correspondent THERE are strong arguments for really thorough training and for a management system for testing...

UERSATILITY is the characteristic of the Freightloader handling system and, although directed specially at municipal needs, it...

L HAVE outlined some of the main features 11of unscheduled repair arising from the mechanical side. Now we must be prepared to...

rr WO new recovery vehicles capable of towing 56-ton loads have been constructed from AEC CKD kits in the Basildon workshops of...

View BY THE HAWK Stores Treble TT SOUNDED like a leg-pull. The man at the other end of the line 1said: "I'm speaking from the...

throughout BY S BUCKLEY How successful entry into Continental operation is based on personal control from collection to...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT I N THESE DAYS of four-letter words there is an eight-letter word which is little understood by...

contract for the exclusive supply of fuels to Olympic Airways at Athens airport they had one big problem: It did not have...

and publications Drivers' aid B ECAUSE the normal fixing for a sack loader is at the rear of a vehicle everything has to be...

CONTINUES TO EXPAND BY R. H. INSOL ERD FCIS AM inst. TA Head of Internatio nal Services RHA D URING the past year or so the...

F OR - the Road Haulage Association to seek the verdict of the Prices and Incomes Board on operating costs and rates seems very...

A The CMUA was one of the several organi zations concerned with road transport which were amalgamated immediately after the...

supply available in this country and would a plastics tank offer any advantage apart from a weight saving? A As far as is...

refrigeration could be used to increase the power output of a diesel engine? Of allied interest, why is the inlet manifold of a...

fitted with diesel engine when averaging either 400 or 600 miles a week in 1961? A A The total operating cost per mile at 400...

increasingly difficult in the southern haff of the country. Is it not possible to export scrap tyres? Many transport...

operating in Great Britain and are there any figures showing the breakdown relative to carrying capacity? A Although there has...

A As regards trailers towed by a private car, while a carriers' licence is not required when the goods conveyed are in...

and would like to know whether, without taking another test, I would be able to renew my p.s.v. driver's licence which expired...

The National Joint Council on Materials Handling Report on Containerization meets the need for a simple outline of freight...

E XAMPLE of British hauliers doing increasingly good business in Europe via roll-on-roll-off ferries, is Walker and Son Ltd.,...

TN BRITAIN people usually stay in the same type of job all their working life. Society is so geared that a change of job to...