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21st April 1978
21st April 1978
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Indecisive Bill

The latest TV appearances by the Secretary of State for Transport when he "'discussed tachographs have added another layer of...

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ore say or public on buses

EW moves to allow the pubc a greater say in transport tatters were announced by le Government last week. Baroness Stedman told...

No limbos in Britain final

BRITAIN has now given an unequivocal thumbs down to any idea of compulsory installation of tachographs for domestic journeys....

Send it by rail

GOVERNMENT moves to meet the concern about the transport of dangerous chemicals and other substances by road were called for in...

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'Owner drivers threaten union'

NO MORE operators licences should be issued at least for the time being, the Transport and General Workers Union and the TUC...

Mystery fire hits garage

A MYSTERY fire caused E600,000 damage at a Hove bus garage last weekend, wrecking 14 double-deckers. Ten fire appliances from...

Customs teeth

TEETHING troubles with new reported by members of the Inst The IFF accepts that customs staff are not fully conversant with the...

Freight's future

AN INTERNATIONAL sert nar to discuss the future goods transport in Europe is be held in Paris in June. The seminar begins on...

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auliers ust look overall

AD haulage must take into !ount both national and al issues as well as the intsts of the haulier, said Road ulage Association...

Gas must flow on Merseyside

MERSEYSIDE Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called for the relaxation of restrictions on the passage of quantities of...

OPERATORS MUST SPEAK UP'

HE SCOTTISH area Road Haulage Association conference at Peebles last week was ld that if the image of the RHA was not what they...

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SICK: GETS SACK

PLOYERS are not obliged• create employment for an ployee who has become inable of carrying out his orLai job, ruled a...

subsidies feared

GOVERNMENT assurances that National Carriers will not be buying extra lorries just because it will be able to use some of its...

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ALB SHORT HAULS

Numerous inspections THE committee inquiring into motorway service facilities intends to make numerous inspections of the...

Better service beats the ban

continue in business pend A BASINGSTOKE operator who can read but not write may reconsideration of his case by the deputy...

Scammell shows profits for York

A RECORD pre-tax profit of £2.7 million was earned last year by York Trailer Holdings Ltd. Sales rose from 1976's £21.2...

Tachos: use and abuse lectures

TRAINING Developments (Transport) Ltd of Kelvedon, Essex is running a series of evening lectures for transport managers on...

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Rules to the left, rules to the right...

MANY transport operators cannot obey new laws on drivers' hours because they are expected to conform to two sets of unrelated...

Join our campaign

consortium to make a mewed approach to the Deartment of the Environment )1 assistance. A case for preantation to the government...

Test stations 'must act now'

TIME is running out for garages which have not geared themselves up for the new MoT test, warns the Garage Equipment...

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A baker's tale of woe

A HAMPSHIRE baker has had his Operator's Licence revoked in spite of an appeal to the Transport Tribunal in London last week....

PRODUCTION UP FOR '78

FIGURES issued by the Department of Industry and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show changes in the levels of...

Practical lessons

THE REALITY of freig transport is to be shown two, and possibly thri Members of Parliament soon Under the scheme of I dustry...

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Uprated DAF rigid

NEW 6x4 rigid from DAF rill be making its first ppearance at the Harrogate 'ipper Convention on April 27 3 30. Known as the...

Brum to see new

Maggies first MAGIRUS Deutz introduced a new range of rigid and articulated vehicles for the European market at Hockenheim,...

Love me tender

CHRYSLER has introduced a new fire-tender chassis based on the Dodge 100 series G13 model. Standard equipment for the 4.36m...

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Swedes stay put

SCANIA-Bussar AB, the bus manufacturing company within the Swedish SaabScania group, intends to keep its share of the UK bus...

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Glasgow 'deckers parade

JEW LEYLAND Titan, B ■ eries National, and Metrobus nodels were on display last veekend at Greater Glasgow ) TE's public...

Day trips to stay

DARLINGTON-based coach operator Scott's Greys has failed in a bid to lengthen oneday tours and keep abreast of the EEC's...

Ribble in Preston fares cut

LANCASHIRE'S agency agreement with Ribble has been extended to Preston, but another fares reduction experiment in the same area...

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New box of tricks

THERE were plenty of new and some improved tricks announced when CAV's Northern staff got together at their recent conference,...

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Tempted fa

gum' ag up read recently in the Sunday :xpress that Britain could :reale another 800,000 jobs, f only the Government Nasn't so...

Seitiug up the

hugigg elk Following articles in CM, February 10 on the managerial discipline Terotechnology, I wrote a letter which you...

Coutpalulafiego, 'muck capfaigoi

I would like to raise three points related to our school's European tour with Fastrek. Firstly, I would like to comment on...

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Setting the pace for Europe?

WHEN in mid-1976 Italy went quietly ahead on its own and raised gross weights for commercial vehicles (to the consternation of...

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SUCCESS FOR POLISH PICK-UP

AMBITIOUS plans by the Polish motor industry for an enlargement of its production programme in the early 1980s which will bring...

HANOVER FAIR

THE HANOVER Technical Fair, largest of the European events of its kind, which opened on Wednesday (April 19), once again...