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10th December 1971
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Framework for the future

With Britain's acceptance of a compromise solution on driving hours limits, the prospect of an early decision on axle weights...

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Will Brum drivers' pay rates spread to Wales?

Alan Law warns Welshmen on risk of 'second class' status by John Darker • More than 200 hgv drivers, at a dinner arranged by...

3-month ban on 60 Midland Reds

Commissioners' decision pointless, say MPs • Midland Red, with a fleet of 1301 passenger vehicles in the West Midland area, is...

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NFC forms Pickfords International

• The National Freight Corporation is reorganizing and merging the services and functions at present being provided by...

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Block permits system next year: more for France

• From the beginning of 1972 road haulage permits for France will be allocated on a block basis, for the year, and the German...

Three jailed for cigarette hijacks

• Rival East End gangs competed for hijack lorry loads and if one gang did not get the load, they would blackmail the other...

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Eight-hour driving day in the UK from 1976

and it looks like 11 tonnes for axles • From January 1 1976 the maximum daily driving hours for goods and passenger vehicle...

FTA launches wages service

• Detailed information about the remuneration actually being paid to goods vehicle drivers by a cross-section of companies is...

Seddon director resigns

• The board of Seddon Diesel Vehicles Ltd announced on Wednesday that it had accepted the resignation of Mr P. M. Yates from...

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60 p.c. foreign lorries exceed our weight limit

from our Parliamentary correspondent • Offences, shortcomings and abuses by foreign lorries coming to Britain were serious and...

BL turbo tanker for Shell BP

• The prototype British Leyland gas turbine-powered tractive unit which ShellMex and BP Ltd is to operate on service trials...

Bonn tax waiver on UK vehicles

• An agreement has been signed in Bonn under which, in recognition of the waiver of vehicle excise duty on German commercial...

US fleet costs scheme for UK

• A system of transport management information, called Fleet Facts, is to be offered in the UK next year. Based on a method of...

Blue Peter: new date

• The planned showing of an LDoY feature in BBC TV's Blue Peter Children's programme on December 2 has been postponed. CM will...

TUC guide for negotiators

• The TUC this week issued Good Industrial Relations, a book for negotiators which stresses the need for collective bargaining....

Hargreaves' Lim in half-year

• Hargreaves Group Ltd interim report records that pretax profits have passed the I I m mark in a half-year for the first time....

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Round the clock cold store at new dock

• Liverpool's new £40m dock at Seaforth, virtually a self-contained port in itself, became operational on Monday December 6...

HTS to establish two more

• In its first year as a public company, Ralph Hilton Transport Services made a profit of £625,894 before tax, on a turnover of...

TES Foden agreement

• Transport Engineering Services, operating division of Tate and Lyle Transport Ltd, have signed a sales and service agreement...

Completion of M4

• The final section of the London — South Wales Motorway (M4), will be opened on Wednesday, December 22. This is the 50-mile...

Transport research council

• The Inland Transport Research and Development Council is to be replaced by a new Planning and Transport Research and Advisory...

Finnish to and fro ro-ro

• The first ro-ro freight ferry from Finland berths at Navyard Wharf, Harwich on January 10 1972, after leaving the Finnish...

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Merseyside PTA expects £1.5m surplus

Agreement reached with NBC for integrated services; bus/rail feeder experiments planned • Members of Merseyside Passenger...

Ex-conductor's redundancy claim refused

• A former clerk with Cumberland Motor Services of Whitehaven, Mr Wilfred Lindsay, 45, of Kirkstone Road, Mirehouse,...

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You keep it looking like new. We keep it going like new.

Service keeps a truck going. And excellent service keeps it going longer. Which is one reason why so many old Fodens are still...

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Some manufacturers are keeping their customers hanging about waiting for delivery. We call that 'Independent suspension:

Super Reiver 20 ton GVW tipper. Here's a 6 wheeler to give you confidence and make profits into the bargain. There's a reserve...

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Mascot Coaches acquire Fakenham operator

• Mascot Coaches of Norwich — one of the companies owned by Votier Holdings Ltd — has bought the goodwill of Carley Motors Ltd,...

No buses unless council pays up

• The Department of the Environment has rejected an appeal by Durham county council, supported by several district councils,...

Fastest o-m-o in Hull

• A report just issued by a DoE working group on one-man operated buses has revealed that the service in Hull is the speediest...

Xmas specials

• The Bristol Omnibus Company has introduced shoppers special buses between Portishead and Bristol, The specials will enable...

Belfast loses £446,000

• Belfast's city bus services lost more than £446,000 for the year ended March 31 1971, and carried 18 million fewer passengers...

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No witnesses so LA acts on examiners' evidence

• With Section 69 cases tci be heard against two operators and no representative present from either one of the companies, the...

36-vehicle grant after objection is withdrawn

• Clawford Haulage Ltd, of Leighton Buzzard, operating from Bathgate, was granted its full application for 36 vehicles and 42...

42 charges on hours and records dismissed

• Forty-two summonses concerning hours and record offences brought by the East Midland LA against a Barrowupon-Humber haulier;...

Europe's way with licensing

Now that Britain hovers on the brink of Europe, the Corrununity's ways of doing things have great relevance — many of them, or...

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Strong Alexander objection to proposed Glenrothes minibuses

• The Scottish Traffic Commissioners have reserved their decision on the application of Raymond Abercrombie to operate an...

'Trivial defect' plea not accepted

• A Yorkshire coach operator, Ward Bros (Lepton) Ltd, was fined a total of £10 and ordered to pay £24.47 costs by Huddersfield,...

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DoE piling up offences says defence

• A suggestion that the DoE appeared to be indulging in a policy of allowing offences to "pile up — before taking action was...

PEOPLE

Peter W. Birch, 37, has been appointed managing director, fleet sales, of the British Car Auction Group. Mr Birch, who joined...

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Custombuilt low-loader

• Hawley Plant Hire Co Ltd, Dartford, Kent, and York Trailer Co Ltd have jointly designed a new lightweight low-loader which...

New lift-truck hire service

• A new company, Lancer Boss Rentals, has been formed within the Lancer Boss Group to offer a fork-lift truck hire service to...

Frugal Cat

• In our description of the new Caterpillar 1150 diesel on page 36 of the November 5 issue. the oil consumption increase on...

Penman price drop

• A. C. Penman Ltd, Dumfries, has dropped to under £400 the price of its power hydraulic system whereby, it is claimed, a...

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USG's fwd low loader on the road

by Trevor Longcroft • United Services Garages Ltd, of Portsmouth, has announced an improved version of its front-wheel-drive...

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Signs of a training lapse

I was interested in your editorial (CM November 261 and particularly your reference to the falling-off in attendances at...

Rejuvenated TMLC

The leader column and the report of the ITA's conference (CM, November 261 draws attention to the apparent lack of enthusiasm...

Popular solution

As members of a local amenity society, associated with the Civic Trust's concern about heavy lorries, the committee of the...

Lorries and the Environment

The Council of my Society has good reason for becoming increasingly concerned about "Lorries and the Environment". In your...

Driver comfort

During recent weeks, in reading Commerical Motor one can detect a certain amount of anti-foreign propaganda concerning imported...

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The champion in Sweden

by lain Sherriff, MITA, AIRTE AFTER spending four days in Sweden with Norman Singer, who won our Lorry Driver of the Year...

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Leyland Redline TR650 Terrier 6.5-ton-ginv four-wheeler

by Gibb Grace, DAuE, CEng, MIMechE A FULL operational trial report on a Terrier TR850 was published in CM on April 30 this...

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The TML and the future

by Alan Kevan, FCIS, DMA, DPA, AMBIM, AMIPM, FITO, FTA training adviser I HAVE BEEN invited . by Commercial Motor to explain...

costing column

It's timing that counts • Delivery times provide indisputable yardsticks, as all concerned with operating transport know only...

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DEMOUNTABLE

DISTRIBUTION - 4 by Alan Bunting, MIMechE This week, the Rol!along gantry loading system from Rollalong Ltd, Southampton...

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Hounded off the roads

• The lorry is disliked everywhere and all other road users almost gang together to chase it away as some sort of pariah, Lorry...

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it pays to understand

ypur tax by R. H. Grimsley BCorn, FIAC 8. Directors' expense accounts DAMAGE has been done to the working relationship...

road and workshop

by Handyman Benchwise: coo/it (37) AN INTERNAL LEAK may exist for quite some time before it is discovered or causes trouble....

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topic

Foggy thinking BOTH of the recent spectacular multiple crashes on motorways occurred fairly early on a Monday. This may be...

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bird's eye

view by the Hawk • On the mend Friends of that great extrovert Geoff Hallam, managing director of Humber McVeigh Transport, of...

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ALL ONE FOR ALL FOR ONE AND

by Paul Brockington, MIMechE kibbutz and routeing early and late is arranged accordingly if passenger density warrants it....

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meet

Jack Stanworth • When Jack Stanworth left school at 15 in 1935 Lancashire was suffering from an industrial depression and like...

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Q Would you clarify the position regard ing "depreciation" with

particular reference to 3-ton rigid diesel vehicles in the CM Tables of Operating Costs table 2? What estimated life mileage...

Cl In the story referring to "guinea-pig"

tours of London (CM November 26) mention is made of foreign travel agents being introduced to tours free of licensing...

Q We understand that recovery vehicles have to be submitted for annual plating and testing in 1972.

What is the reference for the Regulation introducing this policy? A We are not aware of any regulations which will require...

Q How do drivers' hours and hgv driving

licences apply in respect of the following vehicles being moved on trade plates? a) A new unregistered chassis cab; b) a new...

Q Could you tell me if an operator's

licence is required for a dump truck which is on remission of duty, for shortdistance work (in no week does it travel more than...

Q I hold a current driving licence which

runs from August 13 1969 to August 12 1972 and during the period February 1969 to February 1970, I drove a six-wheel rigid...

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management

matters By John Darker, AMBIIVI The Industrial Relations Act —7, The new statutory agencies IT is difficult to. discuss the...

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know the law

by Les Oldi - idge AMIRTE, MIMI Public service vehicles (3) THE Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness) Regulations,...

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profit from learning

by George Wilmot, Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London Educational organizations in transport IBCAM...

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Service group

A packaged equipment service is now available to garages and vehicle repair specialists from Transervice-TI, an equipment...

Cylinder pressure tester

A differential cylinder pressure tester which will help to reduce the likelihood of sudden failure on all engines and plant,...

Anti-freeze

An inhibited ethylene glycol liquid anti-freeze with anti-foam and anti-corrosion additives to BS 3152 type C is distributed by...

Torque multiplier

Incorporating planetary gea mechanism for high torqu, output, the X 4 torqu , multiplier marketed by Alexande Marcar can be...

Absorbent granules

Granules which will absorb up 70 per cent of their own weiç of oil, water and acids, etc ha been introduced by Flo Absorbent...

Pipe-bending jig

A pipe-bending jig suitable fuel injection and brake pipinc_ to 8mm in diameter has b produced by Darwen Diei (Hazelvant), The...

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:lest identification

rem Invicta Plastics comes a (stem which enables easier lentification and location of a )ecific vehicle within a fleet. This...

keeping them running

by Trevor Longcroft iutine brake servicing is limited some cases merely to a visual eck for brake actuation. It is cessary to...

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Hydraulic bleeding unit

A hydraulic brake servicing unit which transforms the job of bleeding hydraulic brake and clutch systems into a one-man...

Seddon-Atkinson service

A pocket booklet listing 63 distributors of spares for Seddon and Atkinson commercial vehicles has been brought out from...

Truck-mounted crane

Two cranes suitable for mounting on a truck or pick-up type vehicle are marketed in the UK by Global Dynamics Ltd. Both cranes...

Audible warning

An audible warning device — based on the British Post Office telephones receiver — that does not operate by means of contacts...