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19th April 1980
19th April 1980
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Haulier told: better messy maintenance

A LIVERPOOL haulier has been given six months in which to put his "messy" business in order. The North Western Deputy Licensing...

Relief at hand?

PLANS for the £55m Rochester Way relief road are being studied by a public inquiry which started on April 8. The Rochester Way...

PEOPLE

TANKFREIGHT LTD, National Freight Corporatic company, has named Jam Webb as general manager 4 its Stockton branch, Mr Wet was...

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S-A launches five more in 300-Series

SEDDON ATKINSON has launched five new vehicles in the 300-Series to join the six-wheeler introduced in late 1978, writes GRAHAM...

Daimler's Swiss role

THERE HAVE been further changes in the structure of the Swiss commercial vehicle industry with the acquisition by Daimler-Benz...

Checker checked

SMITHS INDUSTRIES' motor accessories division have standardised on the Portescap Vibrograf B200 watch and clock movement timing...

Eaton up

EATON is to build a new lorry transmission plant at Walkden near Manchester on the site of the factory destroyed by fire in...

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First for Cummins

THE FIRST Cummins 250 turbopowered Foden eight wheel 30-ton gross rigid chassis is now being prepared for service with...

Curtain-up quickly!

TWENTY seconds is all i takes to raise Lawrencl David's new powered-lift cur tam n option — a great asset to ; driver who may...

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The favourites romp home at Coach Roll

F THE BOOKIES had been at Blackpool last weekend for the ;Oth National Coach Rally they might have lost a lot of money, tecause...

La:a Battle of Trafalgar

TRAVEL AND TOUR operator Trafalgar Leisure has taken over the South Buckinghamshire, West Hertfordshire, and West London Kirby...

Bus buys

GREATER Manchester Transport is countering new vehicle shortages by buying ten former London Transport Daimler Fleetlines. The...

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Fowler gives green light to private bus

WEST MIDLANDS PTE's appeal against a decision by the West Midlands Traffic Commissioners to grant a road service licence to a...

What's in a name?

EAST MIDLANDS Coach and Independent Bus Sector member Peter Rogers of Rainworth Travel is proposing a motion to .change the...

Transport made eas

PROCEDURES have bee simplified for County Counci in preparing transport policii and programmes for submi sion to the Department...

Swedes gi by bus

RISING FUEL costs are e couraging Swedes to mal greater use of public transpo Last year the number of c commuters in Stockhol...

Keep it in the family

WEST MIDLANDS PTE has been given council approval for i Om plans to buy 160 Metro-Cammell Weymann Metrobt double-deckers. This...

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Let's put the hgv message across...

Spot the difference - we challenged 1e public, part of a CM/Mercedes-Benz campaign for heavier vehicles 4 HEAVIER lorry is not...

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The road ahead for transport

THE MAJESTIC countryside around Gleneagles was the backdrop for debates 'on "Transport and Society' last Friday. One hundred...

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The trouble with rail freight

OLLOVVING Dr Prideaux's preentation, Dennis Baker of lainsbury's said that the lritish taxpayer would even velcome a subsidy...

Operators must communicate

But CM's lain Sherriff was ceptical about the idea. He hought that a company was iest run on a more personal iasis and based...

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Who should pay a noise tax?

ALTHOUGH the transport lions had just eaten, Nigel Haigh provoked quite a few lively growls when he entered their den in the...

UK spends too little on roads

BRITAIN'S road-building programme is trailing sadly behind that of the rest of Europe, at least as far as motorways and A-roads...

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Political forum points the way forward

THE final session in a full programme at Gleneagles was a political forum made up of Sydney Chapman Parliamentary Private...

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TOP I C

Giving thieves the HOOF 'There is a case for suggesting a section on security in the Highway Code, so that question can be put...

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These tests set the tipper norm

Bill Brock ono Tim Blakemore take five vehicles over our rough road/on-highway route, use their results to compare with tests...

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DEAR

Teach yourself to pass the CPC MRS BEAL is in my view quite correct in her assessment of the CPC exam (Commercial Motor, March...

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Seddon's new 300s till that gap

WilF) five new vehicles coming be - ween the 16-ton 200-Series and the 400 range, as Graham Montgomerie reports SEDDON...

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Costing out those vital tipper rates

David Wilcox investigates how groups present their charges to customers A TOPIC that is absolutely certain to crop up in the...