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18th April 1969
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An uphill battle

At first sight a comparison of London-area lorry thefts in 1958 and 1968 (3,700 and £430,000, and 3,569 and £811,820...

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Hours cuts without tachos

from our political .correspondent • A reduction in lorry drivers' hours under the Transport Act is due to be announced by the...

loT CONGRESS

Flexibility essential to survival: regional chairmen 'key people' • The road passenger industry was nationwide in its...

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dget ups operating costs

?. road haulage industry faces a further sharp rise in operating costs arising out of y's Budget proposals for dearer motor...

Blitz on plating and testing offenders

• On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week MoT traffic examiners carried out a nation-wide campaign to familiarize drivers...

Company busmen's agreement

• Agreement was reached in London on Tuesday to consolidate into the basic wage the lOs weekly bonus paid to company oneman bus...

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Ten-point security programme

• At a meeting on Monday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Road Haulage Association's vehicle...

Residents back haulier's appeal

• Local residents had signed' a petition supporting a road haulier in his appeal against an enforcement notice served by...

New-style conference for RHA

• Radical changes in the pattern of the Road Haulage Association annual conference will be apparent in the 1969 event, which...

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he professional

river • ANEW APPROACH • TO TRAINING an Cater Drivers' reactions ranged from alblank incredulity through the suspi"what's in...

New northern tipping group

• A new tipping group has been formed recently in the North to assist those hauliers working out of the quarries in the...

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To catch the test dodgers

• The Ministry of Transport this week revealed its plans for ensuring that the issue of a goods vehicle excise licence is...

A radical RHA re-shaping?

• Mr. Noel R. Wynn, chairman of the Road Haulage Association, at an Association sub-area dinner in Carmarthen last Friday,...

Handling Exhibition

• Mechanical handling and pre-packaging equipment, new to the coal trade, will be demonstrated for the first time at the fourth...

More discharged from conspiracy case

• Five of 27 men accused of conspiring to break Road Traffic Act regulations were discharged from the case at the outset of...

Starr buys Hammond

• The whole of the share capital of R. Hammond (Transport) Ltd., Wisbech, Cambs, has been bought by Starr Roadways Ltd., head...

loTA conference papers

• Two papers will be presented at the national conference of the Institute of Traffic Administration in London on May 9-10. The...

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Road pricing warning

• If the Ministry of Transport received no objections over its road pricing proposals it would assume that they were...

Fuel tax angers operators

• Both the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association reacted angrily to the Budget proposal to increase...

Tory slams co-existence

• "It is one of the great delusions of politics that State and private industry can continue to live harmoniously together",...

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pedal o-m-o )uble-deckers 1r Ashton

rek Moses iree double-deckers placed in service iton-under-Lyne Passenger Transport ek have been designed specifically for In...

A member jects

member of the new SELNEC PTA ed on behalf of the corporations he ents against an application by LancaUnited Transport Ltd. to...

New Fineline coach

• Another version of the striking Fineline coach built by B. Walker and Son Ltd., Watford, is a 12-seater based on the 30cwt...

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Controversy at

Coach Rally by Carolyn Hyams • Critics of the National Coach Rally at Blackpool have complained for years that provided an...

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ant for Glasgow-Dublin press coach service

new express carriage service linking w and Dublin was granted to Doigs Greenock) Ltd. in Glasgow on Monday, the Scottish LA,...

ursion licence for Itract work

cause of a technicality recently brought attention an operator who had carried United supporters under contract hire en years...

Week-end ski tours sought

• In order that Lancashire enthusiasts might ski at week-ends in Aviemore, the Accrington coach proprietor Peter Hicks applied...

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No case for low-loader switch

• Mr. F. Cumeta, a director of C and A Plant Services Ltd., Chadderton, was told by the North Western deputy LA, Mr. G. Newman,...

West Riding's application reduced

• The Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners have ruled that West Riding Automobile Co. Ltd. may have a fares increase which will...

Exceeding radius

• J. W. Blakeledge and D. Blakeledge, of Farnworth, trading as H. Lomas, pleaded guilty to 38 charges of operating outside the...

Grant not excessive

• In a written judgment the Transport Tribunal has dismissed an appeal by the Scottish Central Carting Co. Ltd. against a...

Service to hovercraft

• An excursion and tours licence to run between Morecambe and Heysham North Quay was granted to Norwest Hovercraft Ltd. to...

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Iwcastle bus chief retires

S. Taylor. general manager of Newcastle uopn Tyne Corporation Transport for the past 22 years, itire, on medical advice, as...

A chance to I join CM

Commercial Motor has a vacancy for a keen young man as an editorial assistant on the London staff of the journal. Applicants,...

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Jumbo refueller for jumbo jets

by Tony Wilding • An exhibit which Officine Viberti Torino, SpA. would no doubt have liked to feature at this year's Turin Show...

£1 00,000 boost for Cummins service

• A total of over £100,000 is to be spent this year by Cummins Diesel Sales and Service Ltd., on expanding and improving...

German 6 x 4s for British fleet

• Magirus-Deutz normal-control 6 x 4 chassis now being delivered in the UK by Seddon-Deutz Ltd. have the 230 bhp net (DIN) V8...

I RTE Conference 1969

• "Practical methods of making decisions for fleet repair maintenance and replacement", a paper to have been presented by Mr,...

Swansea computer

• The Government has placed a contract with international Computers for the supply of computers for the MoT vehicle licensing...

Russian Leyland?

• British Leyland and four other leading motor industry firms have signed a co-operation agreement which could lead to the...

Pirellis on British lorries

• Pirelli tyres are to become standard equipment on some commercial vehicles produced by BLMC, Ford and Bedford. The increase...

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,oad and workshop by Handyman

ombustibles and spontaneous heating afe and unsafe storage (2) The tendency to generate heat is ist marked where a material...

;port studies rference to my earlier letter (CM De20 1968)

and Mr. Doran's reply in the f March 14 I would like to make the ig points: , it is a pity that Mr. Doran does not it he has...

TIR containers

My attention has been drawn to the answer given to the question relating to TIR containers in 0 and A (CM February 28). I am...

Road deaths

To learn of a 16 per cent increase in the number of deaths and accidents on the roads is to realize the striking evidence of...

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At the Ports and Terminals Exhibition it's . . .

Round the world ii I minutes by Ashley Taylor, AMInstT, Assoc Inst T. EQUIPMENT designed to meet the greatly extended needs...

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r )RT: AJP WILDING MIMechE, MIRTE IPLETELY NEW luxury-coach body by and a modern and attractive cab for Fiat goods chassis...

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the cab allows a partial reduction of the air pressure in the third-axle springs so transferring weight on to the driving axle...

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CM investigates

Roll over Risks THE Transport industry must never underestimate the unheralded skill with which a majority of drivers go about...

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* Pink tape

British operators frequently feel that they are enmeshed in red tape, but one only has to travel abroad a little to discover...

* Big deal

While I was in Italy, Fiat showed me round their vast commercial vehicle factory on the outskirts of Turin. And when I say vast...

* New club

I see that enthusiasts in the South are forming a new commercial vehicle club. Operators will be pleased to know that, as well...

* Up, up and away

It's up in the air! But two years ago these two long pieces of Concorde 2 were brought from Sud Aviation, Toulouse, to BAC...

* Over here

Until this week I hadn't realized that in Sweden they have a transport school— dealing with all modes, apparently, but weighted...

* Tally ho!

Cyril Pickering, managing director of Saltburn Motor Services, and his son, Edgar, a director, are to become joint masters of...

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short while ago I was involved in accident with my

car. The other was a double-deck bus and I have rying to determine at what speed going. It travelled 36ft with the locked, the...

lm considering starting a power tiling service for commercial vehicle

rs and agricultural machinery users. ou give me some idea of the prices charge and my costings on the g? to charge for...

/ am a lecturer in a technical college and read

with interest a recent Q and A dealing with engine run-on. The practice was mentioned of stopping an engine which tended to...

a , have a 1963 Diesel Land-Rover which,

although it runs well and is reliable, emits quite a lot of blue smoke at low speeds. The vehicle has only been used for light...

/ should be grateful if you could give me some

indication (expressed as a percentage) by which the running costs of vehicles have increased since the publication of your...

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Janus comments

Paying the piper GOVERNMENTS conduct their financial affairs in what for the ordinary person would be a dream world. They take...

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Darker AMBIA4 on Management Matters

Cornish road haulier's roductivity challenge PART 2 LT in a recent Management Matters h 4) with the introduction of a...

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e TML in perspective: this problem of grades

by George Wilmot University of London. I the concept of the transport 3r's licence was first reviewed in the Paper The...

NEW COMPANIES

J. McArdle (Haulage) Ltd. Cap.: £100. Subs.: A. F. Philibert and Joan I. Philibert, 40 Pleydell Av. SE19. Sec.: A. F....

Getting your licence back

BY LES OLDR1DGE, A.I.R.T.E., A.M.!. M. L a professional driver is disqualified iving by a court it is only natural that loyal...

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IPMENT COMPONENTS PROCESSES ACCESSORIES PUBLICATIONS

waters n 15 and 35 per cent iutput has been obtained nits introduced into the rcial vehicle heater range Automotive Products...

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KEEPING THEM RUNNING ' ca.*

's long-distance transport ions often result in a vehnning non-stop for almost miles. It is obvious that these periods there...