y New legislation: -A. you have been warned The ruinous cost of being a vehicle short needs little underlining. Goods on your...

In this journal's, first full road test and long-distance trial of an articulated outfit running at 42 tons gross weight a...

20 p.c. wages deal from our industrial correspondent Unprecedented move to 'buy out` overtime: performance targets set • Mrs....

• Mr. P. H. R. Turner, assistant managing director of Coast Lines Ltd., and immediate past national chairman of the RHA, is to...

a Wednesday, London Transport aced that proposals for large-scale ares increases had been referred to the and Incomes Board by...

Stephen Swingler, Minister of the Department of Health and Social y, died in Charing Cross Hospital on sday afternoon, aged 53....

5,500 mile delivery service for Middle East order from lain Sherriff, Amman • At midnight on Monday of last week I watched a...

investment grants IN BoT v. BOC ACTION • The Board of Trade in the Court of Appeal last Friday won an appeal in which it...

• The road transport industry has been slow to take advantage of a Board of Trade pilot scheme—closing on February 28— offering...

our industrial correspondent wo container companies—Overseas liners Ltd. and Associated Container ;portation—are considering an...

our political correspondent closer working relationship between car ry firms and manufacturers was urged by ational Board for...

• Gerald Knowles, of Knowles Transport, the Wisbech haulage company which has been crippled by a strike since the end of...

ist published is the 1969 edition of e Freight Transport Association's 3arbook. It covers all aspects of the w which company...

• The arguments for and against a system of heavy goods vehicle excise licences based upon the gross or plated weight instead...

• A new "route strategy" to speed traffic flow between towns throughout Britain, is to be put forward by Mr. Richard Marsh,...

• Road haulage could face serious loss of business when the new licensing system under the Transport Act comes into force in...

'he duty on petrol and heavy oil used id vehicles would need to be increased least Is 8d a gallon to produce extra tie equal to...

here was a growing practice of con old lorries into paraffin oil delivery es, claimed Mr. Arthur Lewis (LaWest Ham North) in...

r. Richard Marsh last week refused to direction to the National Bus Corn o publish a full breakdown of operatsts and other...

by Roger Howell Containers at risk PROBLEMS involved in the packing of containers were studied in detail during a symposium...

by Derek Moses • Despite a blizzard on Wednesday of last week a crowd of people gathered in the centre of Scunthorpe, Lines, to...

• The Scottish Bus Group denied on February 8 that it had been involved in "clandestine" meetings with officials of Dundee...

services from several London Transgarages have been disrupted by lg industrial action in protest at new tivity schedules....

umber of Daimler Fleetline chassis, all id to take 30ft double-deck bodies. en ordered from Daimler Transport s Ltd. during the...

in leaders representing 110,000 y busmen decided last week to press ductivity deal to eliminate the difference • company and...

1.400 busmen employed by Newpon-Tyne Corporation are seeking a , 40-hour week in place of the present , 11-day fortnight....

• The accompanying drawing shows how the frontage of the new Seddon Motors Ltd. bus factory at Royton, Oldham, will look when...

• Private bus operators are to be asked to consider the possibility of taking over from the STG local routes in Lanarkshire...

• A B-licence application by James Anderson and King Ltd., Glasgow, for authorization to operate six dump trucks was adjourned...

• Because of management difficulties with Angus Bros. (Sales) Ltd.. Chapel-en-le-Frith, a new company, Angus (Haulage) Ltd.,...

• An amended application by Nichol Galloway and Co.. of Melrose, for a B licence for two vehicles to operate within a radius of...

mproved Edinburgh to London exach service, allowing the company lditional coaches to and from Lonrig the day, was granted to...

1 months after its application was iilbraith Tankers Ltd. of Accrington week granted six additional vehicles langed normal user...

• In Liverpool on Tuesday the North Western deputy LA, Mr. G. K. Newman, resumed the section 177 inquiry which he adjourned...

• The Minister of Transport has dismissed the appeals by the Joint Traffic Committee of Essex Local Authorities against the...

H. J. F. Strange has been appointed road transport manager for Arthur Guinness Son and Co. (Park Royal) Ltd. to succeed D.J....

port just published by the Road Labor atory—LR191—states that )1( anti-locking brake system made motive Products Ltd....

iutomatic slack adjuster introduced n Dewandre last autumn has been y redesigned and the revised model production. The adjuster...

• In a typical example of a 60-seater bus running 600 or more miles a week, lubrication costs are only 1 . .78 per cent of the...

• Within recent weeks three British trailer manufacturers have received orders from National Carriers Ltd., the former BR...

• In view of Scottish Aviation's cornmitments in long-term aircraft component production, an increasingly large percentage of...

• The yearly statement by the chairman of Turner Manufacturing Co. Ltd. remarks that, of a considerable sum of money spent on...

Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (32) by Handyman • So great is the shortage of skilled men that instead of just going ahead...

• The 43-year-old coach operating company of A. E. Marsh, which runs the Black and White fleet from Harvington in...

• The range of Dynosaur equipment available from Powell Duffryn Engineering has been widened by the introduction of a new...

• A data sheet giving tipping-gear and body recommendations for Ministry of Transport plated Guy Big J four-, sixand...

necessity of certain of the PTA wls, but once the Tyneside Authority is shed we shall do our best to ensure its is for the...

I was perturbed on reading John DicksonSimpson's article on stability of high loaded vehicles, especially the artics on...

The Custom Torque diesel is one of the more recent developments by Cummins and represents an interesting solution to the...

Vehicle ators' Association (see pages 50-51) ids me that as well as being a successful Ind coach operator, he is also a steam...

BRITISH politicians simply do not realize the important economic benefits that this country derives from the business of coach...

Right of way The introduction makes clear the opinion of the League that the process has not gone nearly far enough. While...

ckling maintenance problems in the bus industry bus industry has qualified for more its fair share of attention from the s and...

✓ exempt from carriers' licensing ns we hear a great deal about a I 34-ton-gross figure, Can you 're position? e Transport Act...

a firm in the Home Counties manufacturing roofing tiles. Up to now I have always had maximum capacity loads for my...

A The equipment to which you refer is manufactured by Hella Equipment Ltd., Hanworth Lane, Chertsey, Surrey (price £8). The...

Road Transport Industry Training is putting management training as its riority and is making some real proin this direction....

kW concerning the fitting and use of rips is contained in the Road Transport Act 1957, the Road Traffic Act 1962, id Vehicle...

IL G. Searle (Haulage and Dismantlers) Ltd. Cap.: fl(a). Dires: R. G. Searle and Patricia I. Searle, 699 Rochester Way, SE9....

Coburn Ltd., demonits range of Trader secverhead doors recently. I panelled, wood flush. aluminium applications s incorporate...

From Dick's Asbestos and insulating Co. comes the Danclad range of pre-insulated pipe cladding units. Lightweight, quick to...