If, as now seems likely, the remnants of carriers' licensing are to be swept away, it will have taken five years—and five...

Operators agree: remove carriers' licensing • • Associations representing road transport operators and users have given their...

• Leicester City Transport this week announced a trading surplus of £145,524 for the year ended March 31. During the past four...

• As the dock strike approaches its third week, it is clear that many hauliers besides those dealing exclusively in ports...

• Wm Cory and Son Ltd has acquired Archbold Storage Ltd, of Leeds, for around Archbold Storage, a private company, distributes...

• Eight new Fodens were exhibited, along with one old steamer, by Rowlands of Sittingbourne at the Kent Show, held on July 15...

• On Wednesday the inauguration of the Cardiff Road Haulage Group Training Association was officially marked at a ceremony at...

• In the first quarter of 1970 five lorries were hijacked in London as compared with 12 in the correspondng period for 1969,...

• The relaxation of driving hours rules for those engaged in the carriage of animals (CM last week) is expected to come into...

• Rentco Nationwide Ltd, 655 London Road, Isleworth, Middx, has introduced a nationwide semi-trailer rental service. Backed by...

• The report for the year ended March 31 1970 of the Glasgow-based Scotcros Group, whose subsidiaries include A. C. Penman Ltd,...

• A claim for £20 to £22 lOs basic rates of pay from URTU and TGWU for drivers in the Sheffield and South Yorkshire area, if...

• Modifications to half-barrier level crossings are now being introduced; they include new road signs and additional warning...

• Mr Michael Hese}tine, MoT Parliamentary Secretary, last week welcomed the experimental scheme the Greater London Council is...

• The National Guild of Transport Managers has announced that it has established the grade of Associate to enable the younger...

• On July 17 at Northfleet, Kent, Sir Henry Johnson, chairman of British Railways, and Sir John Reiss, chairman of The...

Lord Montagu at the wheel of an electric delivery van after it was recently presented to him by the directors of Harrods...

• Aluminium tipper bodies for the carriage of materials in bulk were featured on many stands at the three-day East of England...

• The Freight Transport Association's working party, set up earlier this year to consider all aspects of the problems...

• A further two-mile section of the southern extension of M6, between Ray Hall in Staffordshire and Great Barr in Birmingham,...

transport by David and freight handling Lowe Unit load techniques • A lengthy and expensive treatise on materials handling,...