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17th December 1987
17th December 1987
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• The failure of the Freight Transport Association's attempt to

engineer a merger between itself and the Road Haulage Association should come as neither a surprise nor a disappointment. It...

• Readers who regularly haul loads abroad will find nothing

unusual or shocking in the reports which we carry in our international feature this week. Indeed, many will know tales of...

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Ferry hauliers' insurance blow

• Hauliers who lost lorries on the Herald of Free Enterprise could face crippling increases in motor insurance premiums next...

RHA spurns offer of FTA marriage

• The Road Haulage Association has flatly rejected a merger proposal from the Freight Transport Association. Within four days...

M25 clockwise danger lanes alert

• Almost 50% more accidents happen on the clockwise carriageway of the M25 London orbital motorway than on the anti-clockwise...

• The EEC Council of Transport Ministers was due to

meet yesterday (Wednesday 16 December) to try once again to reach agreement on permit numbers. The last meeting ran over time...

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• Volvo Trucks is to pull out of next year's

NEC International Motor Show in Birmingham, claiming that the cost is out of all proportion to the benefits to be derived. In...

MPs named

• The new House of Commons all-party Transport Select Conunittee includes a transport consultant, a road safety expert, an...

Bottomley blasts truck maintenance skimpers

• Operators who skimp on effective maintenance of their vehicle fleets are "not only endangering the life of the vehicle driver...

• Mercedes-Benz (UK) notched up its 100,000th cornmercal vehicle registration

this week, selling a 1635S Powerliner 38-tonne tractor unit to Norman Bolton of Wigan. It is now 14 years since DaimlerBenz AG...

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Border disorder in Italy

• Chaos reigned in Italy last week and at the beginning of this week customs officers staged a work-to-rule. When the dispute...

Dip to spend more cash on London's roads

• London's local highway authorities will get more than £41 million next year (1988/89) to spend on improving key routes. The...

• TNT (UK) has won its legal wrangle with the

nowdefunct Dow Freight Services, which followed the decision by VAG to switch its Volkswagen spare parts distribution contract...

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Buyout fails at Tasker

• A management buy-out at Craven Tasker, the up-for-sale semi-trailer manufacturer, has been thwarted, according to industry...

• TNT Contract Services has won a two-year distribution contract

with stores group House of Fraser, worth between £500,000 and £1 million. The agreement, which covers 11 House of Fraser...

• Ferroplast panels are imported into this country from West

Germany by Edmunds Supplies of Sudbury in Suffolk, as the UK sole distributor, and not by Carrymaster as stated in our issue...

330 jobs to go in Bunzl parcels shake-up

• Parcels carriers Sovereign Distribution and Atlas Express are merging with United Carriers in an internal shake-up of Bum!...

British tissues mop up Morgan

• Hygiene products manufacturer British Tissues has taken over the Morgan Group, a contract hire and haulage company of Craven...

• Road tanker haulier Tankfreight is launching a health and

safety division called Tanksafe. Its four staff will police Tankfreight depots and vehicles and offer an advice service to...

• High Wycombe-based TIR haulier Cave Wood has just put

its first Mercedes tractive unit into service. The two-axle 1635 Powerliner will be used on Cave Wood's new Euro Sprint 24-hour...

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Citroen gets heavy on C25

• Citroen UK has added six new models to its front-wheeldrive C25 light CV range, including a 3.5-tonne GVW van and chassis...

Carrymaster grows up

• Carrymaster, the Doncaster-based semitrailer manufacturer and bodybuilder, plans to spend up to £6 million on a new insulated...

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Cummins poised with big Super E powerplay

• Cummins could be spurred into producing a 350kW (470hp) version of its 14-litre Super E Series truck diesel engine following...

• Four orders worth over £5 million have been won by Seddon Atkinson from major fleet operators.

Courage Breweries has ordered 60 16-tonne 2-11 trucks with lowered brewery suspension for multidrop distribution. All have...

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Three fined in test case row

• Birmingham City Magistrates got tough on three hauliers and two drivers last week, fining them more than E7,000 on a...

Victory for Harris

• Harris Distribution has had its 69 vehicleand 34 trailerWest Midlands licence renewed without restrictions despite opposition...

• NFT Distribution has been licensed to operate 23 vehicles

and 27 trailers from Rotherham for only six months, because of complaints about noise from its refrigeration units. North...

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Mega-deckers for Stagecoach

• The biggest double-deck buses ever to run on British roads have been ordered by Scottish-based Stagecoach Holdings, one of...

1111 London's bus users want a return to conductors, instead

of the "unreliable" one-person-operated system, according to a pressure group's report this week. The London Regional...

• Aberdeen-based operator Mairs Coaches is merging with Grampian Regional

Transport. The new company will retain the Mair name and will operate as an independent subsidiary of GRT. The family firm is...

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Neoplan's single-deck attack

• Neoplan importer Carlton PSV is organising an intensive demonstration programme for the first right-hand-drive UK...

Gardner on the buses

• Gardner is planning to increase its business in the bus and coach sector during 1988 with the launch of a new range of...

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BUSINESS MOVES CHAPMAN STEVENS HEADS NORTH

• PSV insurance specialist Chapman Stevens has opened a new northern area office at 2 Deans Court, Crown Square, Manchester....

DIA IN THE WEST

• The Road Haulage Association has moved its western district offices from Redfield to new premises at Bristol. The full...

PUBLIC ACCESS AT COLNIROOK

• Operators of skip-loaders and other waste collection vehicles in the West London area can now use a new disposal site at...

MORE MULTILATERALS

III The Commission of the European Communities has decided to increase the UK quota of European Community Multilateral permits...

ACCIDENT HELP FROM FLEETDRIVE

• Fleetdrive, the Bristolbased contract hire company, is now offering accident management as part of all its basic contracts,...

TRIMOCO LEASING'S WINTER KIT

• Trimoco Vehicle Leasing is including a winter care kit in all its car-derived vans and light commercials supplied to contract...

CLEVEPOL HAZCHEM • The 1988 Clevepol International Hazchem Symposium will

be held at the Wynyard Hall Conference Centre, Stocktonon-Tees, Cleveland, on 1/2 June. Enquiries to Inspector Dave Hunter,...

TANKCON AT MORLEY

• The Road Haulage Association will be holding its 1989 TankCon show at the Park Hall Hotel leisure and conference centre, near...

CV BUYERS GUIDE II

• Keeping track of all the different commercial vehicles currently available can be a daunting task for fleet engineers and...

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WEIGHT CHANGES ON BUS AND COACH • The Department of

Transport is changing the rules for calculating the weights of buses and coaches next year. The changes will affect vehicles...

SEALINK XMAS SCHEDULES • Sealink will be making a number

of minor revisions to its ferry sailings over the Christmas period. On its Harwich/Hook of Holland route, the Koningen Beatrix...

N OW IMPORTERS HAVE A TURN • The Freight Transport

Association has reminded its importing member companies that, with effect from 1 January 1988, it is necessary for every...

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PEANUTS FOR MONKEYS • I have just read your article

The Head Hunters (CM, Nov 26-2 Dec). Another sector of British industry whining that there are too few good managers asking for...

GETTING NOWHERE FAST • Your cover comment of CM 26

Nov-2 Dec 'recruitment, where have all the managers gone?' made me see red. I, like many other people in various professions,...

RENAULT'S TOP SERVICE • Congratulations on CM 1218 Nov issue for its interest value and special contents.

I was especially attracted to your survey on the systems of assistance as practised by manufacturers, and I notice with great...

ALL OUR YESTERDAYS • What a splendid letter from Mr

Moore — (CM Nov 5-11.) I fully endorse his plea for reprints of your early special and show numbers. There does seem to be a...

MEMORIES OF THE FORREST • Could I ask if any

reader remembers the Forrest light van or better still if they can recall driving one? It was a curious little "friction disc"...

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ELECTRONICS TAKE CONTROL

Mercedes-Benz is working hard to overcome the scepticism of operators towards electronic systems in commercial vehicles. We...

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

BY THE HAWK • Brother Stephen Geddes who gave up a haulage business, a luxury home and a Jaguar XIS for a life of chastity and...

• Here it is. the winner of the Hawk's 1988 Tacky Calendar is. • . (fanfare) Interface Technologies' Rhodorseal calendar.

When I broke the good news to Interface the reaction was one of puzzlement. "It's not that tacky, is it?", asked the...

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SOJOURN FOR AN OLD SCANIA

The folklore of international haulage has provided enough material for a television series and at least Iwo books, with its...

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ITALIAN BLUES

Italy has the worst reputation in the EEC for border and customs delays, compounded by corrupt officials on the look out for a...

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• Leyland Daf's 95 Series was an almost totally-new vehicle

when it was announced earlier this year. True, the engines were based on the two-yearold ATi units, but even they had new...

CAB COMFORT

Even among the current crop of new and updated cabs, the jointly-developed Daf/ Enasa Cabtec cab is outstanding. At the moment...

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HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME

is one of the tallest around, and although it has nicely radiussed edges and a clean outline, it is still vaguely reminiscent...

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• AVRIL HARDY AWARD DENT/DAVIES This year's Avril Hardy award,

for Newcastle Polytechnic's top student in transport and distribution management, has been won jointly by Helen Dent of Bishop...

• YORKSHIRE RIDER POOLE Ray Poole has become an engineering

executive with Yorkshire Rider, and will be responsible for engineering standards on the company's 100strong fleet of buses,...

• ERIC C BAUM KIRK John Kirk has become senior

associate at the UK branch of American productivity engineers Eric C Baum. The company offers productivity improvement schemes...

• PHH COLE, KNIGHT, SKINNER Fleet management company PHH has

made a number of changes within its main board. Chris Cole becomes business development director. He has been with the company...

• SKIPPER REED Renault dealer Skipper Truck Centre, of Morley,

Leeds, has promoted Bob Reed from sales manager to the post of general manager.

• CARLTON HOBSON Gardner & Sons' PSV sales manager Peter

Hobson has switched to Carlton PSV where he is the new fleet sales manager. Hobson will be responsible for promoting sales of...

• CLAYTON • EWANDRE GRINDROD Clayton Dewandre has appointed Jack

Grindrod as group manufacturing director. He will have responsibility for die production of the company's air braking systems...

• JAMES NEILL HOLDINGS COX Malcolm Cox is the new

sales and marketing director of workshop tools specialist James Neill Holdings. Promoted from the role of sales and marketing...

• WC PROBERT Brien Probert is the new transport administration

manager at UYC, the food industry service company. Prober( joins UYC from Unichem, where he was fleet administration manager....

• COACHWORK CONVERSIONS BARRATT/MUMFORD Commercial vehicle bodybuilder Coachwork Conversions of

Colne, Lancashire, has appointed David Barratt fleet sales manager. Barratt is a chartered engineer. Lional Mumford becomes...

• SILCOCK EXPRESS POUND Dudley Pound has been appointed managing

director of vehicle delivery company Silcock Express. Pound has been with the company for 10 years and was previously director...

• TIP TRAILER RENTAL JEPSON Chris Jepson has joined TIP

Trailer Rental as development director. He will be responsible for seeking new applications for the company's trailer rental...

• DON-BUR STAN WAY Phil Stanway is the new quality

control manager with Don-Bur (Bodies and Trailers). He has been with the company for over two years, firstly as stores and...

• VAUXHALL JOHNSON Peter Johnson has become director of reliability

and supplier development with Vauxhall Motors. He joined the company as a student in 1946, and has held several senior...

• VOLVO TRUCKS ELLWOOD Volvo Trucks has made Douglas Ellwood

its area sales manager for central England. He will be based at the company's headquarters in Warwick. Before joining Volvo,...