This is the time of year when sectional interests tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer what they would like to see in his...

TOUGH BARGAINING AHEAD ON DRIVERS' HOURS from our industrial correspondent • Mrs. Barbara Castle hopes to launch a new...

from our political correspondent • The Government faced up to its dilemma over the Transport Bill this week. With its...

• A 93 bhp high-compression version of' the Ford 2-litre V4 petrol engine is now available as a no-cost option for Transit...

• Farm produce faces increased haulage charges of up to 40 per cent because of extra labour costs arising from the proposals...

• Unless the Transport Bill is amended in respect of drivers' hours and licensing provisions, the direct and indirect effects...

• The start of the white fish season led to a dispute last week between fish buyers and British Railways in Mallaig over the...

• Non-union lorry drivers reporting to London docks from now on may be turned away by dockers. The reason for this lies in...

from our special correspondent • A claim that quantity licensing would in fact reduce user costs—by promoting transfer to...

The need for operators' licences—"quality licensing"—will probably start in the first half of next year. The Minister of...

• The manoeuvring section tests for the heavy goods vehicle driving licence will be similar to those used in the Lorry Driver...

Featherbedding the minor carrier • The new taxes and severe restrictions imposed on the road haulage industry by the...

• The proposals for road haulage legislation contained in the Transport Bill fail to answer the needs of the industry or the...

• The only result of the abnormal load: charges proposed in the Transport Bill woulc be to put companies out of business and...

HIGHLY COMPETITIVE EUR SERVICES TO ROTTERDAM AND DUNKIRK by John Darker II After only a month of operation, European Unit...

• The Government and the Opposition clashed last week over who should arbitrate in disputes between Passenger Transport...

• - Are we really going to prejudice industry, exports, the Development Areas, the lot, simply to satisfy an economist's pipe...

• Goods vehicles operators will pay between £4m and £4.25m in testing fees if the recent Ministry proposals go through, the...

J. Harris will on April 1 succeed J. W. Morley as secretary of Lancashire United Transport Ltd. Mr. Morley retires as director...

A lorry driver had to run up the line waving a ch to stop a train after his lorry stalled on a ntinental-type railway crossing,...

• "Sensible" operation of the quantity licensing proposals when they became law under the Transport Act was promised this...

• A witness from Sir Alfred McAlpine and Sons Ltd. attended a public inquiry in Manchester last week and was instrumental in...

• Lack of public witnesses brought an unsuccessful conclusion to the application of A. J. Charlwood for a licence to operate...

• In Hanley on Friday, the West Midlat LA, Mr. J. Else, delayed the granting of B-variation application to Holciitch Tran...

• "Lenient" action was taken by the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. L. A. Wells, in Aberdeen last week, when he...

• The Minister of Transport has dismissed the appeal of Birmingham Corporation against a decision of the West Midland Traffic...

• A firm whose articulated timber lorry toppled over when making a wide, left-hand turn near the Houses of Parliament,...

• When Mr. A. T. Wheatley appealed to the Transport Tribunal on Tuesday, Mr. G. D. Squibb, the Tribunal's president, advised...

The Mendips and Cheddar Valley tipper operators and quarry owners have reached agreement over their new rates schedules, but...

• The applicant was not seeking to roam around Yorkshire like a robber baron but would rely on old, faithful customers for 95...

The 1,000th vehicle to join the Bulwark Transport fleet was handed over recently to the managing director of Bulwark United...

• The Transport Tribunal has dismissed the appeal of D. M. Turner of Freckleton, near Preston, against a decision of the...

• Magistrates sitting at Old Fletton, Hunts, on 11 July 1967, erred in dismissing summonses alleging that Mr. Neville Buckle...

by Derek Moses • Although much has been written about the development of one-man double-deck buses by Manchester City...

• The Prices and Incomes Board has approved London Transport's proposals for fare increases averaging 14 percent, bringing in...

PTA defiance • The draft agreement prepared by the Scottish Bus Group for leasing Glasgow's municipal transport was not...

• The Conservatives were this week taking advantage of the passage of the Transport Bill to attempt to make some basic...

• The Prices and Incomes Board is to examine pay deals for busmen in Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool, where rises ranging from...

• Subject to the conclusion of successful negotiations with the unions, Doncaster Corporation Transport should be operating...

by R. D. Cater • A short report about a range of groundlevel loading trailer equipment to be manufactured by Becorit...

• It has been confirmed by the Ministry of Transport that efficiencies obtained on roadside brake tests of commercial...

• The standard range of Merriworth TIR semi-trailers has been added to this week with a 12-metre model. The first unit has...

The latest fully transistorized control system demonstrated in second CAV ' Press call' • Automatic gear changing that...

• A new vehicle to handle bigger bulk container demountable bodies, and a demountable compaction unit with a capacity of 130...

• The London Borough of Lambeth has ordered six Gibson compression-type refusecollection vehicles based on Bedford chassis...

• After a net loss of over £10m for the year ending July 31 1967, Rootes Motors Ltd. reports a profit of £927,000 for the...

• A special company has been formed to market the Wickham-Poole range of industrial transport systems. Known as Wickham-Poole...

• Practical possibilities of hydrostatic transmission were discussed by the members of the Institute of Road Transport...

The broken road-spring and the irate boss looking for every bit of extra payload—these are common problems faced by the...

• Long before our age of hydraulics, button pressing, reduction gears or the differential chain block set, a man was able to...

Steel swarf gives off a harmless, odourless vapour. It's .normally invisible but an Exeter haulier has just discovered—...

A Dennis apprentice has an unusual maintenance task facing him later this year. Twenty-year-old James Hughes has been selected...

Heaven forbid that I should criticize the longest possible discussion being given to the Transport Bill, but the present...

We've heard of the sins of the parents being visited on the children, but now it has worked in reverse. Eastern Scottish buses...

The theme of togetherness in transport education was very much to the fore at the annual dinner of the Institute of Traffic...

George's efforts to see it all come true are apparently not helped too much by the title of his section of London...

by A. J. P. Wilding, AMIMechE, MIRTE BMC was the first of the medium-weight truck producers to bring out tilt-cab models with...

''WHAT do you think of the Government': Transport Bill proposals?" I put this questior to Mr. R. A. Oaths, general manager of...

I feel that I must comment on K. W. Hutchingson's kick at the non-existent 24-hour commercial garage facilities (CM, February...

I am replying to Mr. Hutchingson's letter about 24-hour breakdown services (CM, Feb. 21. I have been employed in the motor...

Looking back through some past issues of COMMERCIAL MOTOR I came across an article by lain Sherriff on the road passenger...

I read with interest the article by "Handyman" on ground anchors for recovery (CM, Feb. 23). I thought the suggested anchor...

On your letters page on February 9 I noticed a mention of Glazebrook Transport's bicycle for obtaining small spares, etc. The...

A. Williamson of Vauxhall in - The next 10 years" feature raises some interesting questions on vehicle braking. There is no...

Parliamentary auction LEGISLATION must always have some justification, however far-fetched. For every provision in the...

ALREADY there are 21 industrial training boards covering the employment of 11 million workers. By the end of this year a...

repair and overhaul fuel injection equipment and we have already outgrown Dui' planned capacity. Do you consider that the...

A The Road Research Laboratory has recently developed a new design of reflecting kerb. The kerb-face is inclined at 45deg and...

which has a maker's recommended g.v.w. of 18 tons. We have been operating at 20 tons g.v.w. but now have been told by one of...

platform vehicles operating on C licence. I also have a spare vehicle for which I have applied for a 8 licence to carry solid...

agricultural shows by a tractive unit. Additionally, we have a low-loading articulated trailer for transporting a crane from...

ding demountable bodies carried on rigid vehicles? Must the weight of the detachable portion be included in the unladen weight...

A Taking the driv&s in the middle group of vehicles (over 10 tons and up to 15 tons), as set out in the Road Haulage Council...

is to undergo large-scale development in the next decade. Can you confirm this? A It has been reported that 25,000 acres of...

FROM early March to May/June seems a fairly long step in time; for examination preparation these weeks can flash past with...