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Parcels carriage is already showing signs of becoming the first area of road transport to take on a new competitive pattern in...
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Overnight Express service by John Darker • On Monday, British Road Services launched a new overnight express service between...
from our political correspondent • There are important implications for the road haulage industry in the Government's plan for...
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by Derek Moses • Following the announcement last week that Mr. Richard Marsh has made orders establishing the first four...
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• A pilot scheme to prepare for the int roduction of quality licensing for goods vehicles later in the year was announced by...
• Amalgamated Rubber and Industrial Products, which saved Allisons Freightlines from possible liquidation, has paid £200,000 to...
• A two-acre £410,000 underground vehicle park is to be built on a "void area" that used to be a railway siding at Smithfield...
• Handling problems faced by the parcels carrier were discussed by Mr. N. J. Kevan, traffic manager, BRS Parcels Ltd., at a...
• Fines totalling £100 were imposed at Workington magistrates court last week on Edward Fye and Son Ltd., haulier, of...
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• An agreement between the UK and Yugoslavia was signed at the Foreign Office on Monday to facilitate road haulage between the...
• Last year an estimated 500m tonmiles of Freightliner traffic was transferred from road . . . nevertheless road transport ton...
• Mr. Gerald Knowles, of Knowles, Transport, the strike-torn Wisbech haulagd company, told CM on Tuesday that he had...
• A new, simplified insurance policy covering "all risks" for traders' goods in transit has been announced by the National...
• The Road Haulage Association is to urge that excise duty on goods vehicles should be based on the gross laden (or plated)...
• Caravan Hauliers' Functional Group has been set up by the Road Haulage Association to look after the special interests of...
• Following the announcement of possible future rates increases by British Road Services Ltd. in Commercial Motor (January 17),...
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by Roger Howell More complaints from US truckers PREVIOUS mention has been made in this column of the difficulties experienced...
from our industrial correspondent • Seven hundred haulage firms in an area including Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster,...
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from our Parliamentary Correspondent Reduced hours: no date yet • The Ministry of Transport hopes, within a few weeks, to...
• Mr, Carmichael denied In the Commons that there had been any change of policy as far as the joint parcels organization was...
• We are considering proposals to make the rear of larger commercial vehicles more conspicuous—Commons answer from Mr. Bob...
T. G. Gibb, who was general manager of the Freightliner division when it was part of British Railways, has been appointed...
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• The appeal by Barnett and Graham Ltd. against a decision of the Northern LA was dismissed by the Transport Tribunal in London...
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• A total of 33 vehicles were put on A licence by the South Wales LA in Cardiff on Tuesday. Abernant Transport (Rhigos) Ltd.,...
• Jamieson Plant Hire Ltd., Brestwick, made an unsuccessful B licence application in Ayr on Tuesday. The application was made...
• An application by Sandown Tours (Burnley) Ltd. for an excursions and tours licence was heard in Leeds on Wednesday by the...
• New facilities were made available for passengers living in the zone between Liverpool and Southport when Ribble Motor...
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and introduce o-m-o double-deckers • At the same time as Glasgow Corporation Transport introduces its first regular o-m-o bus...
Duple Motor Bodies will, says the company, be substantially increased during 1969 when all manufacturing activities at the...
• The City of London Corporation has lodged a petition against the Bill which is before Parliament to transfer London Transport...
from our industrial correspondent • Britain's 77,000 municipal busmen are expected to get new pay rises of 10s a week later...
• Early action has been taken by St. Helens (Lanes) Corporation with a view to extending the operational scope of a passenger...
The South Wales Transport Co. Ltd. and United Welsh Services Ltd., both based at Swansea, have jointly applied to take over the...
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• The passenger unions representing Dundee municipal busmen have worked out proposals for future operation of the local...
• Teeside County Borough Council has bought five trolleybuses from Reading Corporation for use on the Eston-South Bank, and...
• Northumberland County Council has appointed a committee of six members to consider applications for grants towards the cost...
• The Ministry of Transport is ready-'in so far as resources permit"—to help bus undertakings carry out research into such...
continued from page 35 Mayor of Newcastle would convene a meeting of representatives from the councils involved in the new...
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by Ron Cater • When Becorit (Engineering) Ltd. of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, first decided to introduce ground-level loading...
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and aerodynamics by Paul Brockington • The application of a hydrostatic infinitely variable transmission to a vehicle could...
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• A modified form of conveyor-type bulk container body has been evolved for 32ton-gross semi-trailer outfits by the Nessfield...
• The Albany Engineering Co. Ltd. announces the introduction of a new range of cargo pumps for tankers. The units are...
• The animal-feed tipping type pneumatic-discharge bulk vehicle shown by Carmichael and Sons (Worcester) Ltd., Gregory's Mill...
• A new type of 2-to-1 step-up gearbox has been developed by Wellworthy Ltd., Lymington, Hants, for the company's...
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A letter from Sir Reginald Wilson I have read with interest the article by Mr. John Darker, AMBIM, on the role of the shop...
Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (30) • Experience at testing stations has shown that a good level of vehicle cleanliness is...
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VEHICLE stability has become a major talking point in the past few months. This has been reflected in material published in...
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by P. A. C. Brockington, MIMechE OVER the past 10 to 15 years, the expansion of bulk-vehicle traffic has been a major factor...
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THE DANGERS incurred when chemical tankers are involved in accidents have at last prompted the Home Office to call for the...
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THE OPINION a user forms of a tanker outfit is more often based on the manner in which a cargo is discharged on his premises...
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the interest of the staff in their job was vocational. We specialized in specials and variety conditioned our lives. We...
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Innovation and application have made the Purle Group leaders in their field by E. James Millen THE WORLD has a waste disposal...
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TEESSIDE lorrymen are renowned as a militant team and indeed the area was hard hit by the tachograph strike last October when...
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site dump truckliii!ites special correspondent Fred Heathfield "The time was early morning. I • broke through the clinging vine...
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* Dick the driver "If I can drive it, anyone can," said Minister of Transport Richard Marsh modestly on Friday, after driving...
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Student unrest Happy the man, whose wish and care A ,few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his OWI2...
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SOARING road haulage Costs in recent years have given a marked impetus to the study of bulk transport economics....
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continued ment is classified as manual, mechanized or "latent movement" (when lifting, loading and conveyance are associated...
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annual vehicle test for cars and light vans. I understand that the fee for this test has recently been increased, and that the...
24, relating to the marking of overhanging loads. However. I am sure that when carrying a load exceeding 6ft but not exceeding...
contract to a local quarry firm. Can you advise whether Contract A licence holders will be treated in the same way as ordinary...
service in HM Forces I am now seeking employment as a foreman fitter. When being interviewed for various positions I find...
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THE legal profession has recently taken up the cudgels about the appallingly low state of knowledge among the public about the...
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TWO correspondents have recently raised the question as to whether paragraph 10 of the 13th Schedule to the Road Traffic Act...
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It has taken five years to develop—that is since Dexion supplied over 1,000 cantilevered, slotted angle racks to the British...