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22nd November 1986
22nd November 1986
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• Despite the odd, stray sales plug from a sponsoring

manufacturer, last week's European Transport Maintenance Council gathering in Hamburg was a very worthy and earnest affair. The...

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Taxing time for Munt

• Harry Munt, whose haulage company H and M Light Transport of Puckeridge in Hertfordshire is fighting a battle with the...

ACC backs rigid rise

• County Councils have accepted proposals by the Department of Transport to raise weight limits on twoaxle rigid vehicles to...

Testers fea LAs going to far

• A number of Department of Transport traffic examiners are voicing concern over what they see as a possible extension of the...

Dew no North Sea benefit

in Latest figures from the International Road Transport Union show that the cost of diesel in Britain has almost doubled in the...

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French stall on lamb war cash

• British hauliers who have had their trucks attacked and loads destroyed by French farmers are still waiting for compensation....

Toll rise warns FRA

II Freight Transport Association president Stuart Phillips has warned members that the Government is turning the tolls screw...

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Chaos at Dover

• The new computerised freight clearance system, Direct Trader Input — DTI — has been Named by hauliers for the scenes of chaos...

ITECs road transport link

• A nationwide chain of up to 130 road transport computer centres is being set up through the country's Information Technology...

• TNT Roadfreight (UK) has backed up the distribution contract

it holds with Netlon by painting two of its 12m dryfreight trailers with the Netlon Spray Suppression logo. The mobile...

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THE NEW FORD TRANSIT.

AS TRUSTED WITH GOLD BULLION, INTENSIVE CAR PATIENTS AND MRS. PROWSES KETTLE. The Ford Transit is the overwhelming choice of...

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ERF kings of the Castle

• Following Ow recent amalgamation of RTZ Cement's four member companies into Castle Cement, the combined group has now gained...

Mastertank goes for six

• A month after the launch of Mastertank — the demountable tank transportation service — joint partners Freightliner and Tank...

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CTR's UK share

• British trailer manufacturers and body builders have taken the major share of the orders for 700 semi-trailers, worth over...

UPS snaps up BT Transport

• Evesham-based United Parcel Services has acquired the distribution business and operating base of BT Transport Services...

Dawsett slams unfair East

• Roger Dowsett, managing director of Dow Freight Services, has hit out at unfair competition to British haulage firms provided...

IN BRIEF

• Pontypridd-based furniture manufacturer, Cambria Mobel, has signed a £300,000 four-year contract hire agreement with Rentco...

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Smaller Silentride

• Vehicle Systems Engineering (Suspensions) of Barking in Essex has developed a scaled-down version of its Silentride air...

• A Norwegian operator, Olivin ; has put into service two novel seven-axle articulated tippers.

The tractive units are modified Scania 6x4 R142Es with fourth, air-suspended single-wheeled axles supplied by SAF, the German...

Bandag's low roller

• Bandag is planning to introduce low rolling resistance retreads to Europe next year. They will be similar to the Fuel Mixer...

Easi-Track's load security

/ Load security — always a headache for the general haulier — can now be made easier with the introduction of the Easi-Track...

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Wilcox lightweight

• A new, lightweight, 42.3m 3 capacity tri-axle tipping semitrailer, with a kerbweight of around 5,000kg, is now being offered...

BICC swops its bodies

• Using two different drawbar configurations has allowed BICC to streamline its distribution in the South of England. BICC has...

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Crowther fined El for each lost chart

• ,Shropshire operators G G Crowther & Sons, Crowthers Animal Livestock Haulage and Lionel Burgoyne trading as W Burgoyne &...

Ashe & Nephew guilty on use of agency vehicle

IN Liverpool Stipendiary magistrate George Wooton has found an operator guilty of 'using' a vehicle which had been hired and...

19 drivers fined for tacho offences

• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences cost Northern Ireland operators Montgomery Transport, its associated company Gaskells...

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Walk out stay out

• A driver who walked out, claiming he had been wrongly accused of stealing diesel fuel, has failed in a claim for compensation...

Mellor wins licence battle

• "rhe international licence held by Derbyshire hauliers David Mellor has been renewed without restriction by Eastern Licensing...

Outram licence trimmed

• The duration of the eight vehicle licence held by W Outram & Sons of Sheffield is being cut so that it expires at the end of...

• Tanker operators Hipwood & Grundy and one of its

drivers were cleared of an alleged 1.46% axle overload after Huddersfield magistrates were told that the overloading had been...

Lodge's licence

• Essex haulier Derek Lodge trading as Tiptree Union Haulage has had his licence renewed for 12 vehicles and 10 trailers with a...

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Bonnyrnan careless

• The driver of the Eastern Scottish coach which crashed into a traffic queue on the M6 in October last year, killing 13 people...

• A row has broken out between bosses of the

Metro in Newcastle and the newly privatised Busways Travel Service. Metro's bosses claim a new Faresaver ticket issued by...

• Metro Canuneli Weymann is playing its cards close to

its chest over sales of the new MCW Metro Rider, which was launched at last month's Motor Show. At the time of the show, MCW...

Glasgow bus troubles set to continue

• Glasgow's deregulation bus troubles seem set to continue — at least in the short term — following the decision last week by...

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Welsh bus slump

• There has been a massive slump in registered bus route mileage in Wales with a cut of one-third, making Wales the worst-hit...

IN BRIEF

KF Cars goes for Dodges • Reeve Burgess has sold two 15-seat coaches, based on the Dodge 50 Series, to KF Cars of Crawley. The...

Sixth buyout

• As CM went to press, a sixth National Bus Company subsidiary looked set to go independent through a management-led buyout. A...

Wrong year

• Essex coaching independents Tellyn Motor Services have succeeded in a claim against Arlington Motor Company involving the...

Four Scanias for Leicester

• Leicester Citybus has added four new double deckers based on Scania N112DR chassis to its fleet. The new vehicles are powered...

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• SWEDEN ASBESTOS BAN Trucks and buses with asbestos brake

and clutch linings will no longer be available for sale in Sweden after 1989. The same ban will be introduced in 1988 for cars...

• GERMANY TRUCK - TECH The truck of the nineties is likely

to be 'computer-controlled' if West German research in this field is anything to go by. Both German vehicle manufacturers and...

• NETHERLANDS VIDEO Compared with many of the video text

systems used by transport operators in the Netherlands, the Transportplan system is reputed to be user-friendly. It is very...

• BELGIUM HARD - LINE The EEC Commission has ruled that the

Belgian system of on-the-spot fines for foreign drivers who infringe Belgian traffic laws is not anti-European and has thus...

• EEC FREIGHT GROWTH The total tonnage handled this year

by freight transport firms in the EEC countries excluding Spain and Portugal is expected to be around 478.8 million tonnes, a...

• CZECHOSLOVAKIA TROLLEY

Last year the Czechs started a big trolleybus production scheme, which will supply 30 major towns with trolleybus systems. In...

• HUNGARY OIL DEAL The Petroleum Company of Komarom in north-west Hungary is producing GTX

motor oil with the consent of its British partner Castro!, which is supplying small quantities of additive. Hung - aroPress No 19

MI HUNGARY IGNITION

The Municipal Precision Mechanical Company of Budapest has started regular production of a novel type of electronic ignition...

• SAUDI ARABIA NEOPLANS A total of 1(X) combined units

of the Kymax road speed governors and alarm and shutdown units have been fitted in Saudi Arabian bus company Neoplans as part...

• USA TRUCK SALE America's Sun Company plans to sell

three of its big trucking subsidiaries through a public stock offering. St Johnsbury Trucking, Jones Truck Lines and Milne...

• USSR SUPER TRUCK Production has started in the Soviet

republic of Byelorussia of the new MAZ64-22 high-capacity truck. It is capable of carrying 35 tons of freight 1,000 km, without...

• JAPAN RUBBER BUY Sumitomo Rubber Industries of Kobe, Japan,

is to acquire the majority interest in the Dunlop Tire Corporation of Buffalo, USA. Gregory Wand, director of sales and...

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Ron Whittle becomes youngest IRU president

• Ron Whittle, FCIT mlyr, has been elected president of the International Road Transport Union (IRU), the worldwide association...

Sales promotion manager for York

• York Group has appointed Graham Lee as group sales promotion manager. He will be responsible for sales promotion activity,...

Burden for Bedford Pickfords

• Pickfords removals has appointed William Burden as manager of its Bedford branch. Twenty-nine-year-old Burden started his...

IN BRIEF

• Norman Cohen has been appointed operations director of London Buses, replacing Marcus Smih who retired on November 14. •...

OBITUARY

• It is with regret that CM records the death of Renault chairman Georges Besse who was murdered close to his home in Paris...

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PUBLICATIONS

WINTER PREPARATION • With winter only a snowfall away, The Freight Transport Association has produced a handy 10-page guide on...

FUEL

DERV SURVEY • Next month, the technical committee of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers is once again conducting a...

BUSINESS

MARSDEN BUY-OUT • Marsden (Coachbuilders) has acquired the assets of Vanplan and is now operating as Marsden Vanplan. The new...

TRAINING

HAZFREIGHT COURSES • Batley-based Liquids Powders & Gas Transport has published the dates for its 1987 spring Hazfreight...

FREIGHT GUARANTEE II A comprehensive guarantee service has been launched by the FTA for its international group members.

With a few exceptions, any company or individual acting as the principal to a full Community Transit Movement must be covered...

VEHICLE RENTAL

UBM VAN AND TRUCK • Avonmouth-based Iveco Ford dealer UBM Ford (Trucks) is launching a van and truck rental service. The new...

MAINTENANCE

ETMC OIL SEAL CODE • The European Transport Maintenance Council (ETMC) has launched its new recommended code of maintenance...

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LORRY PARKS

REDBRIDGE CHANGES • Redbridge Borough Council in London has opened a new lorry park at 409 High Road, Ilford, to replace the...

SAFETY

HAZCHEM MARKINGS • Hazcheni Signs of Edgware has produced a vehicle marking system and an information clipboard for drivers in...

ROAD WOR KS

• Even though the advent of winter means that the number of road repair projects being carried out will decline there are still...

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WHERE ARE THE BRITS?

• About six years ago I wrote to another magazine and said then that I believed that the diesel engine would level Out at about...

NEW REGULATIONS • I was interested to read of the

concern expressed by Mr CB Ward of Ward Associates at the apparent anomaly created by recent changes in the definition of...

BRITISH RETORT • I refer to an overloading incident involving

a Frenchoperated lorry. I thought it might be of interest to you to have details of the incident bearing in mind the recent...

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WHY YOU NEED A CPC

SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER • Whatever potential changes in transport regulations are discussed,...

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MUCK ADO ABOUT NOTHING?

CM investigates the problems faced by tipper operators looking for legal dumps in the crowded South East. • Next Easter...

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EUROPEAN TRANSPORT: THE FUTURE

IVIAINTAINANCE? JUST LIKE SEX! • Truck maintenance is like having sex, said the conference paper prepared by Norfolk...

ETMC chairman Frank Lem told delegates: "road transport is bad

at representing its own interests." He wants to see that change. • According to Frank Lerno, chairman of the European...

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STANDARDISING: A MUST FOR EEC

le Bass distribution project manager Alan Barker told the trailers and bodies group session at Hamburg that the transport...

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ENGINES OF THE FUTURE

IN The diesel engine of the future is going to benefit from a delayed or retarded injection system, argued Peter Wright,...

COMPUTERS WILL BOOST PROFITS

• A series of talks on new concepts in the transport maintenance field included a look at SKF's simple two-piece hub unit for...

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• Spare a thought for hapless driver Cyril Milner who,

on his first day at the wheel of his new boss's artic, neglected to apply the handbrake when picking up a load. Milner bravely...

• With the festive season fast approaching, many of you

will be in the process of organising your personalised Christmas cards for despatch to business contacts. You may care to note...

• GM's roadtesters have yet to get their hands on

one of Leyland's new '300' series-engined Roadrunners, but judging by the comments of Leyland Truck Distributors' Association...

• American tourists on high speed coach tours sur le

Continent will be pleased to hear that next year every EEC border crossing is to be graced by a sign, telling lost travellers...

• A trip to the village green firework display seemed

just the job for a four-wheel-drive vehicle we have on test. So our youngest road tester loaded the vehicle with grandmother,...

• Somehow one does not associate the rootin' tootin' transport

industry with teddy bears. Yet following last week's tale of Lex Wilkinson and the talking transatlantic teddies comes news of...

• Yet another animal story, I fear, this time concerning

not the noble moose but the common or garden household tabby. More accurately, tabbies for its the plural that's at the nub of...

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ADY FOR E ROUGH

There is a small but steady demand for crew-cabbed pickups offering some offroad capability. Volkswagen aims to grab its share...