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14th October 1977
14th October 1977
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:OURT CRISIS 'ACES BRITAIN

MN will be taken before uropean Court of Justice nuary 1, 1978, for failing plement EEC Regulation 9, unless agreement is ed...

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SUBSIDIES 'MUST GO BEAGLEY

BEST way of maintaining a healthy transport system in Britain is by destroying Government subsidies for transport industries....

Glasgow bus crisis

GLASGOW Passenger Transport Executive's 1000 buses could cease to operate today, Friday, unless a settlement is reached with...

Lights rules to be changed

TWO regulations, one to amend sections 68 and 72 of the Road Traffic Act, 1972, and the other to amend the Road Vehicles...

insurano for youn drivers

AGE HAS nothing to do insurance cover for hgi vers, several major B insurance companies tol■ this week. This assurance should...

WM FEIN 1K GETS I PERMITS

DOUBTS surrounding allocation of internal haulage permitsshoul , cleared up by a Departra Transport report out week. The...

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Road works ahead

EASTHAM BYPASS, designed to divert heavy tankers from Eastham village, could be ready for traffic by next April — 10 weeks...

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Irakes onus )ut on md

7 ECTIVE vehicles belongto J. W. Fisher (Meats) Ltd Norwich, were the sole ionsibility of the company, its managing director,...

Look at your costs Male

ROAD Haulage Association national chairman Jack Male has issued a plea to operators to look at the costs of replacing their...

LORRY OFF ROAD, SAYS DLA

PERTH haulier Grampian Freight has been ordered to take a lorry off the road during October by the deputy Licensing Authority,...

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Fraud casel for retrial

THE TRIAL of Kuehne and Nagel Ltd, freight forward( Borough High Street, Southwark, London, and its Loi overseas manager,...

CONFERENCE GRANT APPROVED

REGISTERED delegates at the RHA annual conference in Torquay from October 24-26 who come within scope of the Road Transport...

UK drivers' title bi

A NINE-STRONG team of British professional lorry and ci drivers including June Butler, Britain's top woman lorry dr leaves the...

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Cutting costs in operating

VITH VEHICLE replacement costs escalating — and operators unable to do anything about it — perational economies are vitally...

SHORT HAULS

Going it alone SOUTHERN BRS branch Kingston Road, Staines, pr viously part of the Bedfo branch, will in future act as separate...

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Myers sour at dadium chiefs

ACH DRIVERS' complaints about the way they are treated at Wembley Stadium and the pire Pool are increasing. 'he drivers are...

Focus on

the future PASSENGER transport was discussed at the first-ever municipal transport operators' conference, this week. The...

Green Line luxury

LONDON Country Bus Services has announced a further step in its revitalization of the Green Line Coach network by introducing a...

IN A MAJOR policy document on transport, Conservative spokesman Norman

Fowler has followed the same passenger transport theme as the White Paper. But the Tories are far more oriented to experiments...

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LT 'NEEDS MEW LOOK'

EPAID BUS tickets and more one-man buses should be part of a shake-up for London nsport, according to a publication just out....

How to qualify

REQUIREMENTS for public service vehicle operators and their transport managers to prove their professional competence under the...

Villowbrook midi

1LLOWBROOK has anunced a new modular con midibus on Leyland FG, rrier or Boxer chassis. Designed with export in nd, Willowbrook...

BUS STOPS

On course CONTINENTAL Operating for Road Passenger Transport in the UK is the title of a one-day course for coach operators to...

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AS;B Complete units from Renova

ONLY COMPLETE engine units will be supplied by National Carriers' reconditioned engines enterprise. Short engines will not be...

BP set for sales upturin

BP SALES of automotive fuels are increasing and the company is prepared for any new upturn in demand for oil products...

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SMALL ORQUE

)ad increase P Transport, the leading ight forwarder, has recently rodueed the ANCRA Deck 2nd decking system to its rgo...

Crane answers 64-wheel poser

THERE ARE 64 wheels on a Crane Fruehauf Cometto modular trailer which has just gone into service with Leicester Heavy Haulage...

Scott starts kit works

GERALD Scott, for man3 years director in charge 0: Clarke Equipment's trailei division, has formed his owt company — B. D. Al...

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The Right Track as the Tories see it...

CONSERVATIVE , transport policy, as _ _ - laid out in a new pamphlet published this week is another attempt to please all of...

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GAS GLOWS ON

Victory for a 'very professional' entry . . . HIGHLY RESPECTED desigr formed into a committee chai by President of the Royal...

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I I CM testers a

liver the goods r HIS YEAR Commercial Motor has tested nine light vans and pick-ups. The UK manufacturers are )roducing a wide...

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Facelift looks g rid on PK...

?eport by Steve Gray...pictures by Harry Roberts FTER nearly 20 years' . oduction, during which lov changes have been made it,...

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Bless 'ern all

It was thank you night at the headquarters of RSME at Chattenden Barracks, Kent, last week. There was the Kent LDoY Committee...

Bonnie Dundee

We live in a strange world, don' you think? Here we are as part o the EEC bound by, but no obeying, the Community law...

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Devon's box of delights

)LKSWAGEN'S IT range vans, with their pleasing ix shape, are an obvious sis for a passenger vehicle. Sidmouth motor caravan...

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Accounting for the

by Roger Lees, TASC, Training Manager, South Yorkshire area Choosing your prioritie THE FIRST FIVE articles in t[ series...

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1PL1E MECHANICI

Internal combustion engine 4 MULTI-CYLINDER engines produce a more uniform torque and better balance than a single-cylinder...

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ALL PART OF Till

SERVICE... E MD of a well-known .age group relates that he ce drove onto the foreart of one of his petrol tions and waited for...

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Post 1 11 st. MOST OPERATORS of light vans think they've got

trouble maintaining a fleet of 20 or 30 vehicles operating from one depot. Imagine the problems then, in keeping several...

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.LIONS of people take it granted that their daily rspaper

will drop quietly ugh the letterbox in time breakfast reading. But spare a thought for the ribution and transport vork that...