1. The A licence was issued to public carriers who offered their services to others for reward; the B licence permitted operators to carry their own goods as well as on behalf of others, and was usually restricted either geographically or in terms of the types of goods carried; the C licence was granted to ‘own-account’ operators for private haulage purposes only.
2. Under the TIR Convention, relating to the international transport of goods, specifications are issued for the sealing of containers and semi-trailers so that they can move freely across frontiers. The authorisation is approved by the granting of TIR Carnets, which, in the UK., are issued by the Ministry of Transport.
3. ‘Vehicle Routing Cheapens Transport Costs’, Freight Management (July 1967) pp. 53–7.
4. See James L. Heskett, ‘A Missing Link in Physical Distribution System Design’, Journal of Marketing, vol. 30 (Oct. 1966) pp. 37–41.
5. See, for example, D. Kirby, ‘Is Your Fleet the Right Size?’, Operational Research Quarterly, vol. 10 (1959)