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19th March 1983
19th March 1983
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mwer excise duty avours 6 x 2 units

IEE-AXLE 38-tonne tractive units were made more attracthis week when Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey ve announced a...

Reaction

THE MAJOR trade associations expressed initial disappointment at the increases in tax on transport. The Freight Transport...

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FTA hits back in 38 tonne costs row

THE 38-TONNE weights row between the Road Haulage Association and Freight Transport Association took another twist last week...

URTU views on the law

SEVENTY-SEVEN per cent of United Road Transport Union members believe the numbers of legal maximum driving hours per day should...

USA boosts ID 6's profits

INCREASED efficiency and contributions from an American subsidiary helped lift the Transport Development Group's road haulage...

Weighty tome

A FREE BOOKLET explaining 1 implications and meaning of new 38-tonne regulations I been published by Daf Trucks. Entitled 38...

Book tips Renault for top

RENAULT is a name to watch for future commercial vehicle c velopment, while Dad's influence will diminish, a recently publish...

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3LC waits for Wood

E GREATER London Council's £90,000 anti-lorry campaign and its ■ posed ban on 38-tonners have been put on ice. It now plans to...

M25 grows three miles

THE GO-AHEAD has been given for another section of the M25 London orbital route. The £25.3m section will take over two years to...

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Industry dislikes GLC tax idea

. TRANSPORT industry would fight any Greater London Council is to introduce a supplementary licensing scheme, even if lorries e...

\M/PM gets IRS box vans

HELP cater for the extra ight from the International rdware Fair at Cologne, West rmany this month, AM and I Transportation of...

F-licence still In the balance

CONFUSION surrounds the future of the farmers' goods vehicle concession this week. While the Department of Transport indicated...

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Irish delay38tonnes

THE IRISH Government is resisting pressure to raise the maximum permitted gross vehicle weight from 32.5 tonnes following the...

NINETY PER CENT — that is the pass rate among

those enrolling for the CM RTCC Special Offer CPC courses, That compares with 52 per cent nationally. A Certificate of...

CPDM to mee at Stratford

MANAGING PHYSICAL distril tion for profit growth is i subject of the Institute of Phi cal Distribution Managemi and the Centre...

Drivers' hours guide is out

THE 1983 revised edition of th Road Haulage Association' Guide to Drivers' Hours, Record and Tachographs has been put lished...

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Cave Wood

CAVE WOOD European Transport has appointed Bianchi and C.SRL of Milan as its Northern Italy agent. This agreement is a result...

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Diesel move near on higher coolants

DIESEL ENGINES operating with higher coolant temperatures are likely in the near future according to the Paramins division of...

Lead/acid leads

THE LEAD/ACID battery is Ii to remain as the power so for the electric vehicle accon to Don Gribble of the Els Vehicle...

Curtain sider

FOR A NEW production centre opened by Everards Brewery at Leicester, deliveries of a more mixed range of products are being'...

Multi-use lift

ADCLIFFE Engineers has produced a ground access demountable system for multi-purpose use including mobile workshops, on site...

Plymouth debut for M&M's electric-power van

A NEW electric-powered van from M&M Electric Vehicles of Ath stone made its debut last week at the exhibition organised by I...

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Lex Wilkinson moves Burtenshaw to the Hub

WILKINSON has made id Burtenshaw general manr of the Hub, the company's tral sorting centre at Nunea e served a general...

Butterworth for NWBRS

)RTH-WESTERN British Road rvices has made Don Butworth a director of its subliary distribution company, dges Transport. His...

Rouse!l is deputy md

CAR TRANSPORT specialist Abbey Hill Vehicle Services has made works director Brian Rousell its deputy managing director. He...

Dyer to gm at Avis Rental

KEITH DYER has been promoted to general manager of UK and Channel Islands operations of Avis, the lorry and car rental...

Cawthorne and Bibby dead

WE RECORD with regret the deaths of Harry Cawthorne, chairman of Majestic Motors of Darton, near Barnsley, and Fred Bibby,...

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County optimistic

THE RECEIVERSHIP management at County Conmercial Cars, appointed last month (CM February 12) is confident that the business...

Cartwright lands TNT

ALTRINCHAM, Manchest based bodybuilder S. Cartwris and Sons is building 50 1; (40ft) grp tandem axle set trailers for the TNT...

Anti-spray rain flap uses plastic mesh

NETLON, a plastic components manufacturer of Blackburn, has developed a plastic mesh anti-spray device for commercial...

Wimpey takes Welfords

WIMPEY TRANSPORT has purchased 27 monocoque fully-insulated aluminium alloy tipper bodied from Wefford Truck Bodies of Warley,...

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Don-Bur's Courage

N-BUR Bodies and Trailers has letmaster curtainsided semi-t :icipation of the higher weights he 12.2 metre-long trailers te an...

Moving repair tower

BLACKHAWK AUTOMOTIVE of Ashford, Kent has introduced its new HD10 mobile pulling tower which can extend the capacity of its...

Low-cost cv

MULTIDEVELOPMENTS (Yorkshire) Ltd is producing a lightweight multipurpose commercial vehicle known as the MDV, as a low-cost...

Spicer recalls gearboxes

iE SPICER Transmission Divion of Dana has recalled several ;11 8010 gearboxes for a modcation to a location washer hich has...

Lambourn's MB horsebox

A new hardened rubber compound forms a 0.91m (3ft) high kickboard and there are chewproof dividing boards between horses. Each...

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Amos hearings en Shephard slams LT

AFTER a public hearing when almost all the witnesses Objected to the proposed operation of minibuses in London by Associated...

SYPTE orders 88 deckers

SOUTH YORKSHIRE PTE is buying 88 Rolls-Royce Eagle III-engined double-deckers this year. Dennis will supply 68 Dominators at...

Commuters' go-ahead

BEXLEYHEATH TRANSPORT has been granted a London bus agreement for 11 commuter services linking North Kent communities with...

MMC gives LT the works

LONDON TRANSPORT's b maintenance activities are to put under the microscope of t Monopolies and Mergers Co mission, and a...

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Merthyr resists cuts

Also thrown out were plans to im down the 33-member transDrt committee of the Welsh )uncil. The recommendations — )me of 41...

is under threat, the municipal bus managers have been warned.

They needed a strong identifiable, independent professional voice to defend it, Gordon McCartney, Association of District...

Hughes 'good for all'

PACKAGES of rural services provided by independent operators could lead to an expansion of services, leading transport...

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Invisible "paper boys" scare drivers

WHO IS THIS lain Sherriff of Sutton who writes to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme? Could he be the revered editor of this...

Neolithic man knew about roads

WHILE Britain's motorways crumble, some 500yd of track built across Somerset swamp about 6,000 years ago is to be preserved. It...

Light right foot worth £250

STANLEY ROWLEY, who drives a refrigerated artic on night deliveries for BOC, has no time for sophisticated gadgets to monitor...

Peat-burning traction engines?

THIS TRACTION engine, photographed by a CM reader in Bulawayo, was made in Paisley by Bow and Mclachlan nearly 90 years ago,...

Keep controversy off the buses

AN OFFER by Radio Forth to instal equipment to receive live radio programmes on the upper decks of Edinburgh buses has not been...

Charming never so wisely . . .

TO DIE as the result of being ri down by a car was an ignominious end for perhaps t most charismatic of all Ministc of...

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Restoring confidence in trade unions

Abuse of trade union power has prompted the Government to introduce a Green Paper that sets out to rectify matters and balance...

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Operating costs of 38-tanners

DR BRICKNELL'S letter (March 5) presents on the whole a realistic view of the benefits and costs of heavier lorries, and the...

Dim-dip headlights

AN ITEM in your issue of February 26 entitled "Dim-dip reprieve" could mislead your readers. Compulsory use of dipped beam...

Leyland's Windfoiled Terrier

I WAS MOST interested to read your comprehensive road test of the Leyland Windfoil Terrier, but I should like to clear up one...

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Do you know what is stopping you?

Bendix is very worried by the number of badly reconditioned brake units that are being returned to it for overhaul. Tim...

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The right man for the job?

THE MERGING of the Ministry of Transport into the newly-formed gigantic Department of the Environment would never have been...

defender of agricultural interests.

Moreover, he has managed to put across to a wider audience the message that, in defending farmers, he is also looking after the...

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A "best" time to replace a fleet?

ALL VEHICLES have a limited life, and operating costs increase as vehicles get older. Replacement policies were set against...

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Temp drivers bumbling fools or trusty allies?

Some firms swear by them, other firms swear at them. They're not cheap but if they're used properly they can see you through...

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Go one up with our CPC offer

STUDENTS can enrol now for the CM Special Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage...

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From the

by Graham Montgomerie [IC' 0 dfiroi/ Tasker and RO-R work together to ease a potential manoeuvrability problem when running a...

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No excuse to be dirty again

AN AUTOMATIC self-propelled vehicle washer which allows trucks and buses to be cleaned by slowly driving alongside the parked...

The Copenhagen Bus goes on and on

TEN YEARS have now elapsed since the formation of the Greater Copenhagen Transport Authority HT and the experience, gained in...

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If spring is in the air ou're sitting pretty

Seating is at the bottom of many drivers' problems so David Wilcox has been talking about the business to lsringhausen, a...

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Fighting fit light heavyweight

and raring to take on all corners, that's Seddon Atkinson's 301, the first to be road tested from the Cummins "Blue" corner....