TT looks as if the haulage and C-licensed operating industry will have Ito face up to a more concerted attack on enforcement of...

C ARUSLE City Council last week amended a recommendation of its highways and streets committee that operators of abnormal...

A SENIOR officer with the full-time job of co-ordinating and developing on a national scale the enforcing of statutory limits...

I AM not qualified to assess Mr. Taylor's standard of scholastic !earning, but according to the books of reference he is a...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE chances of Dr. Beeching's liner train project (see page 20) getting off the ground at...

A NEW motel to replace the existing transport cafe at Fenstanton on the A604 between Cambridge and Huntingdon is planned to be...

A DECISION to pull out of the distri bution side of meat haulage front Smithfield market may be taken shortly by B.R.S. (Meat...

D iFFICULTY in obtaining stampings and other components for vehicles was one of several major problems which could cost us...

HE affiliation of British Road Services to the Road Haulage Association is deplored by the executive council of the Scottish...

1-LINER TRAIN TERMINAL HANDLING TRIALS A LTHOUGH the proposals to run an initial service of liner trains on 15 routes still...

THE individualism and initiative of the pioneers of the industry were fine qualities. but we now had to harness these...

MEGOTIATIONS are now at an 1 1 advanced stage in the development of a regular road/rail tanker trailer service between France...

Dutch Compromise on Quotas NMAJOR compromises on its views on Pa transport are being made by the Netherlands Government in a...

D OAD goods transport carried a total of 1,248 million tons of traffic during 1962. Of this total, 509.5 million tons were...

ERE were no other trnnk road projects on which the Government was thinking of charging tolls, assured Mr. Stephen Swingler,...

THE Minister of Transport this week refused to say how much it cost British Road Services to belong to the Road Haulage...

A N appeal by a firm that had been convicted by Essex. County Justices at Chelmsford of " using " a hired lorry at the time it...

A FTER an exploratory meeting between seven members of the Road Haulage Association bulk liquid transport group and the Centre...

A SUGGESTION that he should make regulations prohibiting the parking of vehicles-partrcularly ice-cream vans near schools was...

A SLEEPER bus, claimed to be rAEurope's first, is now in production in Western Germany. It is manufactured by M.A.N., Munich,...

T HE one-man double-decker is likely to be the city bus of the future, according to Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpayne, general manager of...

has received an order from the Ulster Transport Authority on behalf of the Northern Ireland Hoteliers' Association for the...

Withdrawal of Experimental Service: London Transport has stated that the experimental bus route 389 between Potter Street and...

From our Industrial Correspondent T HEMinister of Transport promised a deputation of London's busmen who called to see him...

THE number of passengers carried by East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd. in the year ended September 30 last was the highest...

T HE Government hopes to be able to make concessions "at some later date " for rural transport as a whole, said Lord Lindgren,...

cases to be thinking more flexibly and generously about the provision of school transport in rural areas, said Mr. R. E....

Company Pay Claims: When the N.C.0.1. met in London on Monday to consider company busmen's claims for higher pay. holiday and...

hoard of BET. Omnibus Services Ltd. to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. John M. Howard. Mr. M. J. Baker,...

LORD ROOTES WE regret to record the death on VII December 12, at the age of 70, of William Edward Rootes, first Baron Rootes...

WE regret to record the death, on IT December 11, of Mr. Burley Francis Caunt, managing director of Atkinson Vehicles Ltd. and...

T HE Transport Tribunal, in a written reserved judgment, has dismissed an appeal by W. Harrison and Sons (Carriers Preston)...

WHEN a Tees-side firm of carriers YV appealed to the Transport Tribunal in London on Monday against a decision of the Northern...

operators against the grant of three 11I-ton, articulated/ independent, low-loader trailers to Bakers Transport (Southampton)...

A CRITICISM by counsel made on behalf of an appellant about the way the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. C. F....

T HE risks involved in relying on drivers to report or repair vehicle faults was stressed by Mr. J. R. C. Samuel Gibbon,...

A LTHOUGH it did not agree with the I - A North Western deputy Licensing Authority's reasoning, it thought he had arrived at...

NORTHERN APPLICATIONS (December 9, 1964) Onsebarn Transport Co. Ltd., Newcastle, A var.. add 3 art. (2210. Foodstuff, (e.g....

These C-licensed Operators CASEBOOK Can be Paid Lord Chief Justice AN IMPORTANT AND CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE W HETHER or not the...

THERE is likely to be a battle royal in the Northern traffic area 'text month when two applications by A. Stevens (Haula g e)...

A LARGE number of students interested in developing a career in road transport engineering took part in an open fcrrum on...

A N experiment currently being conducted by the Ministry of Transport in London might well go a long way towards solving many...

BY ERNEST ALLEN T HE coming winter with its attendant road hazards will be in the minds of many transport operators at the...

LARGE A.E.C. ORDER FROM CANADA: A.E.C. Ltd, has received orders for 250 single-deck bus chassis to be supplied to Canada. where...

Fuel Failure and Delay in Winter IT is accepted that each winter will proI duce its usual crop of roadside fuel stoppages....

and Publications Square Drive Metric Sockets r - k A NEW set of 12 4 - in, square drive metric sockets is now available from...

By The Hawk VIEW I notice that British Railways announced earlier this week that four railway lines in North and mid Wales...

I F you are a Londoner then London Transport, so vast and allembracing is accepted as a part of life. One wonders just how many...

A LL the fine arrangements made for servicing and repairing vehicles have little effect on the serviceability of a fleet if...

j 99 THE 21-seat bus produced by Duple/Willowbrook and described in " The Commercial Motor ", October 9, was recently made...

S OMETIMES the footnotes to major events are just as significant as the events themselves. Mr. George Brown, Secretary of State...

T ERIVIINAL delays are increasing in frequency and duration. Both at docks and elsewhere this is the alarming trend with which...

Dyson's Lower Profit Margins f N an interim statement the directors of trailer makers 1 R. A. DYSON report that the present...

Shop Floor Wages nN November 27 "The Hawk" posed the question: "What is the man on the shop floor getting?" I can tell him....