One of the most encouraging results of the establishment of the much-maligned Road Transport Industry Training Board has been...

reveals R R L report by the Technical Editor • The bogey of "dangerous artics" is effectively laid in a report published this...

from a special correspondent • Comments about the risks of instability being encountered with some long articulated tankers...

but quota raised By way of retaliation for the high rate of taxation on foreign vehicles entering Britain the West German...

from our industrial correspondent • Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister of Employ ment and Productivity, announced on Friday that...

• • Employers and unions have asked for a • meeting with Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister of • • Employment and Productivity, and...

pleads operator • The reminder by the Ministry of Transport to LAs last week that drivers of vehicles not exceeding 30cwt...

from our industrial correspondent • About 150 Ready-Mix drivers decided at a mass meeting in Northfleet, Kent, on Friday to...

• Under the Road Vehicles (Headlamps) Regulations 1968 laid before Parliament on December 12, headlamps as well as side lamps...

• The Standing Advisory Committee on Dangerous Substances is to be asked to consider whether the routeing of dangerous...

• It was more important for operators to know the laden axle weights of their vehicles than the gross weights, said Mr. E. W....

• A cab for reports from chief constables on the action taken by the police against unlicensed and uninsured foreign lorries...

• Developing Policies for Physical Distribution is the title of a conference to be held at the Cairn Hotel, Harrogate, on...

• The two six-wheel rigid models in the Dodge 500 Series are now available with the Perkins 6.354 diesel as an optional power...

from our industrial correspondent • The field of operation covered by the Road Haulage Wages Council is to be redefined. The...

• The chairman and managing director of Allisons Freightlines Ltd., Dundee, Mr. James Allison this week put forward proposals...

• Although fines totalling £1.295 were imposed following 149 summonses issued for overloading in Cumberland last year, there...

• Haulage Contractor Arthur George Simmons, of 320 Sutton Common Rd., Sutton, Surrey, was one of the first to be prosecuted...

• A report on a specific system of road pricing for urban roads was considered by the council of the European Conference of...

• An Order which would limit the use of certain Welsh roads by goods vehicles weighing more than 6 tons laden and more than 7ft...

Low damage rate EXPERIENCE with his company's containers during the past year or two had been very satisfactory Mr. R. B....

• Nothing in the coal-bin? No problem now for Nottingham householders, Who have only to pick up the phone to get a same-day...

from our industrial correspondent • Lump-sum payments of between £80 and £100 are to be made to Britain's 77,000 municipal...

• Electronically-controlled automatic chassis lubrication is to be fitted to 150 Leyland Atlantean double-deckers ordered by...

• Dundee is to begin discussions with the Scottish Bus Group (shortly to be incorporated in the Scottish Transport Group)...

• Opened last week was the first coach station in the North West where extended tour passengers will change coaches under the...

from a special correspondent • When the White Paper on London Transport was published earlier this year, GLC leader Mr....

• Liverpool City transport committee is recommending the city council to make representations to the Minister of Transport on...

• Although production of double-deck, bodies on Bristol VRT rear-engined chassis for Tilling and Scottish Bus Group operators...

on Daimler on Leyland • A tender from Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd. for six 36ft Fleetline single-deck bus chassis has been...

• The public inquiry into the application by Larrow Transport (Northern) Ltd. to acquire A licences previously operated by the...

• A Walsall haulage firm lost an appeal against what it claimed was a "harsh decision" by the West Midland LA at the Transport...

• Eighteen drivers employed by Jos. Walsh (Darwen) Ltd. were fined on charges of forging logsheets with intent to defraud at...

• When a firm of haulage contractors discovered that 69 of its lorries were over loaded with gypsum they decided to drive them...

• The takeover of two A licences and a 8 licence operated by Joseph Walsh (Darwen) Ltd. by a new company, Walsh Transport...

• On an undertaking being given that the pattern of work would remain unchanged and only one low-loading trailer, capable of...

; Two one-day conferences to explain the • provisions of the Transport Act and their • implications are to be held next spring...

• Convoys Ltd„ a company which arranges air/rail/coach tours for American tourists in England, hopes to extend its operation to...

• All motorway service areas will remain open over the Christmas holiday except those at Watford Gap (Blue Boar) on M1 and...

• The problem of carrying four heavy commercial vehicle chassis cabs on an articulated tandem-axle transporter I has been...

• The Monopolies Commistion has called for a Government watch on the price policy and profits of the country's biggest supplier...

• In addition to its range of Stopmaster twin-wedge brakes for trucks, Centrax Gears Ltd., Newton Abbot. Devon, has now...

III To provide service and repair facilities at one centre for tankers, trailers and other commercial vehicles, Allied...

• York Trailer reports increasing popularity for its Super Load Teamster range of platforms fitted with the company's own...

• Mrs. Ethel Goodman, governing director of Goodman's Transport Ltd., Oundle Road, Orton Longueville, Peterborough, is starting...

by Handyman Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (23) • The subject of tyre failures and their causes could almost become an...

S. R. Vigor, commercial officer, ORS Parcels Ltd., is to retire on December 28. Behind this formal announcement lies a...

• No change in the political slant of the Transport and General Workers' Union is likely to occur when Mr. J. L. (Jack) Jones...

The points raised by your industrial correspondent regarding "speed-loss" tachographs (CM Nov 22) are of interest. It is, of...

It is to be regretted that no publicity of the Leeds three-year part-time Certificate in Transport Studies has been apparent in...

Mr. J. A. Lock, director of Garnham's Garage Ltd., Woodbridge, Suffolk, apparently considers my statement (CM November 1) that...

In Know the law (CM December 61 Mr. Oldridge was discussing pedestrian crossings. He says that it seems clear that if a person...

Commercial Motor and particularly the article - Big artics can be dangerous, say oilmen", our company as tanker manufacturers...

ENTINEL 4T TEAMER by R. D. Cater, AMInstBE THROUGHOUT the first two decades of mechanized road haulage, the steam lorry...

Twenty-two years ago the London division of the Transport Managers' Club held its first Christmas luncheon at the Charing Cross...

Speakers at the London TMC meetings can always be assured of lively participation by members; we know, we've been there!...

Richard Marsh certainly plays it cool, to match his reputation for relaxed Ministerial methods. At the Press conference last...

Rapid turnover of staff in the manual grades is a consistent source of complaint by local authority officials. All the same,...

Due to retire early next year, after a long and varied career in road transport is Arthur Wood, now chief automobile engineer...

At the opening of the new Jacksons/ Shearings/Pleasureways coach station in Altrincham last week I was told by J. P. Beaumont,...

by Ashley Taylor, AM I RTE, Assoc I nst T OVER a long period receivers of cargoes at Newcastle's Tyne Dock enjoyed good...

ARE THERE GOOD BUSINESS GROUNDS FOR CARRYING CHILDREN ON BUSES AT CONCESSIONARY RATES? FRANK BURRAVOE EXAMINES A VEXED...

The word for the deed ALMOST before the legislative concrete has hardened the Transport Act is beginning to show some flaws...

On with group training! Group training associations sponsored by the Road Transport Industry Training Board are a welcome...

machine frame. Would you please advise on the notification procedure to be followed? There is some confusion in our traffic...

a steering indicator which comprises a dial on the front of the vehicle that could, if necessary, be linked to a dial at the...

diesel-engined lorries is partially blocked by deposits of rust. The engine tends to overheat and occasionally runs erratically...

life expired. In view of our increased export trade we intend to purchase equipment which will work satisfactorily inside...

Will an operator be able to run a maximum-capacity changeover service, with each leg not exceeding 100 miles, outside special...

by George Wilmot University of London. WHEN an economist speaks of investment, he means the bringing of physical capital...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI. ORIGINALLY made under Sections 84 and 85 of the Road Traffic Act 1930, now replaced by Sections...