If the SELNEC Passenger Transport Authority is able to stick to its guns, a headlong rush into subsidies and local rate...

• At Bilston magistrates' court last week Mr Henry James of 31 Haraby Road, Bilston, Staffs, was fined £20 and ordered to pay...

• Plating and testing, and the new standards demanded by operators' licensing, have swept thousands of the poorer used trucks...

• An £82,000 fines and costs bill imposed on the father and son, directors of a haulage company, for working their drivers long...

11/ Six Bedford-Hawson vans insulated with Ii-in. of polystyrene and fitted with Frigiking refrigeration equipment are...

• A period of calm to help the bus industry establish a new equilibrium was a plea made on Tuesday by Mr C. T. Dabell, chairman...

• This week Shell-Mex and BP Ltd shipped three vehicles to Northern Ireland. On Monday they begin direct delivery from the...

• Copies of a Guide to Goods Vehicle Drivers' Hours and Records (G12) published by the MoT are now available for distribution...

• The haulage business of R. E. Edmundson, Heath Road, Norton, Bury St. Edmunds, has been bought by Humber Warehousing Co....

• Freight Transport Association members renewing their membership after September l face large increases in fees. There are...

• Within hours of his appointment as Minister of Transport, Mr John Peyton was invited to see for himself the problem of road...

The National Secretary of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition (sponsored by CM) has written to the Minister of Transport...

• Following last week's revelation by the Ministry of Transport that about one-third of applicants have been failing the heavy...

• HGV Training Bristol is a new vehicleequipped company offering heavy goods vehicle driver training up to Class 1 test...

• A new scheme to catch drivers whose vehicles exceed the legal noise limit has been suggested by the Noise Abatement Society...

• Use of the PLA standard shipping note became obligatory on July 1, since when an additional charge of £1 per shipping note...

• In the same week that the Ministry of Transport revealed a one-in-three failure rate in heavy goods vehicle driving licence...

• Mr J. M. Y. Dickens has joined the National Freight Corporation as assistant director of manpower planning (manage men t...

• At a recent meeting of the Transport Association it was decided that current escalations in operating costs made an increase...

• Surely the easiest way in which most LDoY entrants could be sure of saving mariy penalty points would be to read the Highway...

by Alan Havard • Stan Chapman, the Shell-Mex and BP tanker driver who last year went away from Bramcote believing he was...

Brian Come • Such was the slickness of operation at Sunday's Essex eliminator that the 100 competitors had completed their...

• The Minister of Transport has been urged by the National Guild of Transport Managers to introduce the compulsory installation...

• The use of operational research and other modern management techniques is already showing encouraging results in several...

• Adapting the traffic to suit the mode of transport is the current trend with containerization. But one operator, carrying a...

• For long-distance bulk movements to distribution depots Bass Charrington is thinking in terms of either 38or 42 /44-ton...

• Transfleet Services Ltd, a Scottish company .specializing in commercial vehicle contract hire and leasing, has moved its head...

• On Wednesday Rootes Motors Ltd officially changed its name to Chrysler United Kingdom Ltd. The former Scottish and Irish...

• British Leyland has approved the Primrose 6 x 2 conversion of the BMC Mastiff MS1600 four-wheeler. The conversion permits...

• .Mr Peter Haxby, RTITB director of training, opened the Herefordshire Transport Training GTA on June 26 at a ceremony held in...

• Dennis Brothers of Guildford have received an order worth £125,000 from the Birmingham city council for 22 refuse collection...

Conurbation has not accepted its identity, says report • Long-term plans for improving the transport services in the Greater...

• A special bus lane, on part of the Albert Embankment, Lambeth, has been approved for consultation purposes by the south area...

from a special correspondent • A Silver Eagle coach fitted with the latest Ford 335 hp gas turbine engine went into regular...

• Drivers and conductors with the Northern General Transport Co Ltd, Gateshead, and several associated firms, held their second...

• A torrent of protest has broken out over the proposal to hoist bus fares in Belfast by 50 per cent. Amid the criticism there...

• West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive has placed an order with MetroCamrnell Weymann Ltd for 150 double-deck bus bodies...

A. E. Higginson. 63, has been installed as national chairman of the Industrial Transport Association, succeeding Hugh Douglas....

• Burnell s Motors (1947) Ltd, Clevedon, Somerset, which had applied for an express service between Weston-super-Mare and...

• A Cambridge-based , haulier was "placed on probation" by the Eastern LA, Mr H. E. Robson, on Tuesday. Mr G. W. D. L. Webb,...

The address from which books and leaflets published by, or in association with, Commercial Motor can be obtained will be...

• Deciding that the persons requiring the transport facilities would be able to get their_ goods moved whatever its decision,...

• An application by J and H Transport Group Ltd for an A licence for two rigids at 10-ton 6cwt and seven artics at 62-ton 6cwt...

• Although an application by Private Enterprise Petrol Ltd for a new B licence for one artic conditioned "petroleum products...

• A charge against a scrap metal dealer, Mr William Cooper, of Lindley Road, Godstone, Surrey, of common assault against a...

• The detachable front cranked member of a Crane Fruehauf C-32/CD2-18 tandem axle low-loader was removed from the deck of the...

• A specially shaped sub-frame for supporting the fifth-wheel couplings on tractive units, now being offered as an option by...

• There are 188 road transport companies named in a list of more than 900 UK companies which are State-owned, or in which the...

• A three-axle, step-frame semi-trailer with 8.25-15 tyres equipment and 401t overall length and a tandem-axle coil carrying...

• The 1000th Scania for the UK was delivered this week to the Erdington depot of Samuel Williams Transport Ltd. The vehicle, a...

• A suspension seat that can be adjusted for height and tilt angle has been introduced by UOP Bostrom (UK) Ltd, Weedon Road...

• A new tipping gear and body are being introduced to the British market by Thomas Thompson and Son Ltd, manufacturer of the...

• A demonstration of the Telma electric retarder took place in South Buckinghamshire last week when 54 passengers were taken on...

• Atkinson Vehicles have introduced a new-design silencer as a standard fitting on all their Gardner-engined vehicles. It is...

Hugh Featherstone • Hugh Featherstone, director of the Freight Transport Association, was loud in his praise last week for the...

Acknowledgment in your leading article of June 26 that a campaign has been built up against the introduction of TMLs, was...

We were most pleased to see that Courier Express featured so well in the independent survey of express parcels services...

(CM June 12) I note that I have been misquoted in my reply to Mr Bailey's paper. In the paragraph dealing with gearbox life on...

• The combined pressures of rising costs and more onerous legislation are leading many operators to remedy their lack of a...

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (20) I WAS DEALING last week mainly with the application of the end-milling tool in the...

in decimal and sterling A major development in the publication of the annual Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs is to...

Since the re-introduction of the hgv driving licence there have been criticisms of the test, the testers and the training. CM...

Professional and auxiliary services • Operating costs can be conveniently analysed in two groups of five items each, namely...

COMPARING SPECIFICATIONS AND PRICES AMONG THE FACTORY-PRODUCED LIGHT-WEIGHTS by Ron Cater, AMInstBE ALTHOUGH there are now...

by Ron Cater, AMInstBE FLEET engineering is not all spanners and dirty hands. Often, it is not only unnecessary but...

legal matters reflects a situation in which even the most conscientious transport executives can find themselves at a loss for...

Hgv licences The beginning of February also saw the introduction (or, strictly speaking, the revival) of heavy goods vehicle...

by John Darker, AMBIM FOOD DISTRIBUTION today is an international business encompassing all transport media. Transport...

byJohn Darker, AIVIBIM THE recent publication by the Ministry of Transport, Industrial Demand for Transport (HMSO price £2),...

 by Tony Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE A HIGH-POWERED commercial vehicle is not inherently poor on fuel consumption. This was...

by David Lowe Mir - 1st TA Merchandise Transport Ltd TEN YEARS AGO 112 vehicles operated on own-account by furniture...

by John Vann, FCII Animals in the way • The law is an ass—or so it is said. With regard to animals on the road, the law is...

by the Hawk D Small world Colleague Tony Wilding, on the trip to Northern Norway with Scanias which he reports on in this...

A THREE-HOUR public inquiry covering three applications on June 17 was sufficient for the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr...

Doing and undoing by janus W ITHIN the road transport industry as a whole it would be futile to disguise a sense of relief,...

matters D r. AMB1M Plessey:s advanced transport thinking AS SOON as the main outlines of the Transport Bill were known the...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI The carriage of food THE old adage "Cleanliness is next to godliness" may have been very much in...

the Q & A page of your April 10 issue. I find the first part of your answer rather surprising as it indicates that the -...

nationalized? And how is it that this company can buy Bristol and Leyland buses ? A United Automobile Services were...

with drivers' hours: "The proposed one day off-duty per week does not have to be taken as literally one day off in every...

then be able to drive an artic lorry? I have heard that you have to have six months' experience before you can put in for an...

tenance. Part of my work includes attending breakdowns and the recovery of company vehicles, both heavy and light commercials,...

In 1968 my eldest brother was the sole owner of the business, until legally taking myself and another brother as equal...

from our June 1967 Dodge K 800 York six-wheeler which is plated at 18 tons gvw both by the manufacturer and MoT? Also, could...

The IRTE faces its second 25 years LIKE the Institute of Transport {golden) and the Institute of Traffic Administration...