If the road goods transport industry does not soon take steps to draw up a code of practice for the safe loading of vehicles,...

orders for 1970 by Derek Moses SWING TO SINGLE-DECKERS ACCELERATES • An acceleration of the swing to singledecker buses; the...

by John Darker • What do operators think about the efficiency of the test application system administered by the Swansea Goods...

• Massive rate increases imposed by National Carriers Ltd on freight traffic to Clyde Coast resorts have sparked off a lively...

• The Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removals Industry council have accepted the recommended changes put forward by...

• Of more than 600 depots belonging to Road Haulage Association members in London, no fewer than 237 were last year under...

by an industrial correspondent • Accusations, recriminations and blows flew on Monday when Mr. Ronald Hines, managing...

• A statement issued by the proprietors of Hay's Wharf Ltd., published in the July 31 issue of The Port, carries a warning that...

• A survey of places where cross-winds pose special hazards to drivers is being carried out by the Freight Transport...

• The director of industrial affairs, Confederation of British Industry, Mr. K. J. Johnson, will speak on industrial relations...

• Creditors of Hoynor Ltd., the Danburybased trailer makers and bodybuilders, will be paid in full, Mr. Gordon Hoy. managing...

• Continental railways and many large commercial customers are to press the International Standardization Organization to...

• "The Transport Act 1968", by Vincent Powell-Smith, LLM, Dip. Corn., FRSA, will shortly find a place on the bookshelves of...

• New steps in handling of parcel mail are to be taken by the Post Office in preparation for the concentrated mechanized parcel...

• The National Research Development Corporation and the Freight Transport Association are inviting suggestions or designs for a...

• Transport Development Group Ltd. has acquired the issued share capital of Cousins Transport Ltd. and its associated company...

• Day-old chicks-32,000 of them—are to be the payload of each of three special controlled-temperature vans which have just been...

The accompanying table of registrations of new vehicles in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man, recently...

BRITISH RAIL (Scotland) and Rootes Motors Ltd. settled a £2,250,000 deal in Glasgow this week. Over the next five years...

DETAILS of the conference, "The Container and the User", to be held at Earls Court on September 23 and 24 in conjunction with...

Maudslay Fellow Commonership • The trustees of the Maudslay Foundation have established the Fellow Commonership at Pembroke...

• A decision on whether or not to establish a Passenger Transport Authority for Clydeside will be taken by the end of the year...

• Even the 1,000 additional buses the Ceylon Transport Board needs to provide a satisfactory service to its commuters will not...

• Increases in bus fares of up to 3d per fare were approved by Hull City Council last week despite opposition from the Labour...

• Hexham (Northumberland) rural council has offered an increased subsidy of E130 to Rochester and Marshall Ltd., bus owners,...

• Ten Bristol VRT long-wheelbase rearengined double-deckers have been ordered by Reading Corporation Transport, which, in...

• An application by Freightliners Ltd. for a new A licence for 25 vehicles was heard by Mr. C. R. Hodgson, the North Western...

• If two haulage operators planning a joint business did not toe the line and avoid mistakes of the past they could expect to...

• Mercers (Longridge) Ltd., coach operators from Longridge, were fined £25 for using a motor coach without a p.s.v. licence, at...

• The former head of a Harlow coach company, which took local children to and from school, was ordered to pay over £200 at...

• The Red House Garage Co. Ltd. did not challenge a traffic examiner's report last week when appearing at a S.177 inquiry, but...

• G. Stiller (Transport) Ltd. of Middleton St. George, Darlington, Co. Durham, was last week refused permission to carry out...

• At Stamford, Lincs., magistrates' court, Harold Edward Musgrove, Gervais Harold Robert Musgrove and Ralph Gordon Victor...

D Damages of £730 awarded to Birningham Corporation in the High Court )11 Thursday of last week for damage to )ne of their...

• Eight BRS drivers who were fined a total of £138 with £36 costs by Bristol magistrates on Monday for failing to keep current...

• If a young haulage contractor lost his driving licence it would be a frightening penalty and kill his one-man business, Mr....

• Any wear of any part of a power unit or transmission produces traces of metals and these traces are found in the lubricating...

all-purpose tipper • Versatility is a feature of a new tri-axle tipping skeletal trailer announced by H.W.P. Engineering Co....

Anton Industries of Chesterfield has .cently completed the conversion of a twin3cillating axle low-loader into a tandem...

• Following last week's announcement of two Transit-based tippers, Ford has now announced, as additions to its range, pick-up...

• The prototype of a semi-trailer equipped with a tandem-axle running gear with independent coil-spring suspension has been...

• Ignorance may be bliss, but there is nothing more disturbing for someone in the know than to be overtaken on a clearway at...

• SAAB-Scania of Sweden announces an extensive investment programme in its car and commercial vehicle activities during the...

• Facilities at the recently opened Research and Development Centre of Renold Ltd, at Wythenshavve, Manchester, cover all...

by R. D. Cater, AMInstBE IN last week's Commercial Motor my colleague Tony Wilding gazed into his crystal ball in an attempt...

*The Tasker trail Anyone who has read L.T.C. Rolt's absorbing stories of the great engineers, especially Telford and Brunel,...

KEEPING in mind that costing is simply a means to an end, we now need to look at the preliminary work necessary to measure...

cartoon showing two men standing alongside a computer. One was looking dejected, the other half-smiling and holding an oil can...

Janus comments FREEDOM of choice in transport was the aim of road operators in their campaign against the Transport Bill last...

In the Commercial Motor of July 25 Janus commented on the different goods vehicle totals published in Basic Road Statistics,...

Using the computer for practical scheduling tasks; choosing the best buses for modern conditions; looking at staff recruitment...

matters continued converts these passenger counts into bus schedules showing optimum vehicle numbers and headway required....

on possible legal charges covering the case of a road user who is killed by an unidentified vehicle? I am referring to the case...

THERE will be an increase of those preparing for transport professional examinations by correspondence when the new session...

-IAVING examined, over the past few weeks. :he permitted hours of work for drivers under :he old and new legislation, it now...

To overcome the problem of access for fork-lift trucks and other vehicles into containers the Copperloy Corporation of...

Shortage of spare parts still remains a serious problem to operators. No matter how good the intentions of the fleet owner...