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e transport industry cannot be insensitive to the dilemma of British yland. While the major issue today touches car — and van —...
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FOLLOWING the recent 'announcement that tachographs are on their way in this country, and must be fully operational in two...
IN 1973 diesel fuel was just 36; a gallon. By the end of 1974 it 56p a gallon, then 8613 in 197'1 and 120p by the middle of...
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TRANSPORT Minister Norman Fowler touched on the Freddie Laker aspect of his proposed new passenger licensing system when...
LONDON Transport has announced that it has ordered another 100 Metrobus double deckers from Metro-Cammell Weymann. This was...
SIR DAN Pettit is to retire as chairman of the Lorries and the Environment Committee at the end of the year. The committee was...
FORD'S Cummins-powered six-wheeled tipper fairly flew around our new tipper test route, achieving the best average speed so...
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rODENS is to trim its workforce by 406, it was announced last veek. The cuts, says Fodens, were precipitated by the national...
R THE first time since the r West Germany is slowing wn the growth of its Otobahn-building protamme and projects to build ti...
A NEW definition of legs picketing is being sought b the British Institute c Management. In a submission to Secretar of State...
CM publishes in November a book containing about 50 questions and answers on the use of tachographs. We are publishing a...
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A TYRE company at Alloa was fined at Falkirk Sheriff Court recently for having a bald tyre on one of its vehicles. The Central...
THE SCOTTISH region o National Carriers ha purchased another seven Sed don Atkinson 400 series trac tive units. In the past...
"MANAGEMENT of Tram port Fleet Maintenance" is tl subject of a one-week residet tial course at the University s Birmingham next...
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S PREDICTED, the boom in new commercial vehicle registraons is slowing down. The latest Society of Motor Manufacrrers and...
tANSFIGOROUTE Europe, international refrigerated Insport organisation, is to ;cuss possible amendments the ATP agreement on the...
MERCEDES Benz commercial vehicle production dropped to 239,702 in 1978 compared with 248,100 in the previous year according to...
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COMPANIES employing less than 200 people have been invited to apply for a special Export Award for Smaller Manufacturers which...
• SECRETARY of State for En ergy David Howell said tha energy and the efficient use o resources has a vital role t( play in the...
CAVE WOOD has introduced a new groupage service to Antwerp in conjunction with freight agent Kruthoffer and Doll NV. The new...
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HE GOVERNMENT's new roposals for the introduction f the tachograph into some 00,000 British commercial ehicles threatens to...
A FRESH OPPORTUNITY for the review of London's traffic systems was presented at a forum organised by the Greater London...
iE LAW on unfair dismissal and the handling of redundancies Ls been amended to change the period of service for the right to...
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OSY picture of deregulated bus and coach operation was ted last week by Association of District Councils passenger rt operators...
N TIONAL Bus Company su sidiary Ribble has opened a n 0.75m bus garage in Bi 'tie, Merseyside. e new garage is in Hawth rne...
FREE PASSES are being used on Edinburgh buses by people who have found a loophole in the system, it was claimed last week. The...
A MOVE to increase bus fares in Edinburgh by 20 per cent was heavily defeated in the Lothian Region transportation committee....
HESTAIR Dennis is no building Dominator buse s with four-speed Voith gearboxes. The trial fleet for Nationa Bus Company's...
On the other hand, Thames down District Council i. taking four Marshall-bodiei single-deckers which will bi capable of a 65mph...
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THE SCOTTISH Traffic Commissioners have been accused of "rubber stamping" fare increase applications in spite of strong...
.1‘1 OLD name in passenger unsport in the Swansea area as been revived by National ravel. The Swansea operations of lational...
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TECHNICAL CRAVEN TASKER Ltd will have on display at the Scottish Motor Show its new curtain sided semi-trailer, which is...
EDBRO LTD of Bolton has introduced a new main control pa for its "Hi-Lift" hydraulic equipment for airport vehicles. 1 new...
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IE PROPOSED cuts in the workforce at Fodens (see page 5) 11 probably mean the end of that company's gearbox and axle anufacture...
ERATORS will not need iinding that last year's ere winter caused many blems — not the least of ch was fuel waxing in the nse...
THE ZF TRANSMATIC gearbox is now being offered as an on-line option on Seddon-Atkinson 400 Series vehicles fitted with Cummins...
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Noel Villier interviews London Transport bus chief Davic Quarmby on its current prooLems and pr000sed fu -- ure strategies VERY...
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John Darker explores the Kent region and talks to some committee hauliers who are based in is diverse area F YOUR ORIGINS are...
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HAVE operated Leyland les for many, many years they have become so trou)me and the spares in such . t supply we could not...
I HEARTILY concur with CM's editorial of September 28. When Ian Cunningham stated at the recent Confederation of British Road...
I read your item "Running on Air" (CM, August 31, 1979). This article described a friend who has purchased a Talbot Horizon,...
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FINNISH road tanker specialit has developed a novel c assisless vehicle and now 26 ders for similar units have folwed ''off the...
AN ENGINE REVS limiter developed by VDO for MercedesBenz and supplied as an option on certain maximum weight models, is...
THE TURKISH government acting to halt the run-down ( the country's public transpo fleets in a move to stabilise it critical...
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David Wilcox travels to Kent to see how nat county most famous produce is handled and deliverec —and discovers that ere S more...
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Graham Montgomerie s - udies the trailer and body budders in the South East describes the evolution of h eir businesses and...
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Gregory, chairman of the on and Cornwall area of the d Haulage Association, is )ng those who agree that iness Improvement Group...
hough Britain has shown ierica the way with diesel enes for commercial vehicles, 3US has turned the tables by Aucing a car with...
A man who claimed to have been dismissed by a haulage company six years ago for workrig too hard started in business on his own...
Specially built Citroen sixwheeled vans said to be capable of more than 100mph are being used to distribute The Financial Times...
I doubt whether Ford workers know when they are well off. In addition to average weekly earnings last year of £103.25, the...
Lord Limerick, chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board, has launched a scheme for companies to send shop-floor staff...
- Due to big expansion and double pregnancies," Carousel Holidays, of London, have been advertising for a reservations...
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NM the weight problem John Durant is at ne scene as Kent officials wheel out ne weighbridge and check ne loads. Pictures by...
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Peacock red P STU R I NG by politicians o en seems like the courtship ri ual of the peacock. Its t mendous relevance to the p...
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lemns Pye has moved to beDme the chief executive of le distribution division of .iltspur Bullens Transport ervices. Mr Pye, who...