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22nd October 1976
22nd October 1976
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ALB

Future bright for Overland THE FUTURE is looking brighter for BRS Overland, the company which was set up almost a year ago to...

War declared on the tacho

WAR was declared on the tachograph last week by leaders of the Transport and General Workers Union. After a four hour meeting...

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Government mauled in Dock fight

from our Parliamentary correspondent [HE GOVERNMENT is putting on a brave face after nauling which its Dock Work Regulations...

Minister's decision

['HE TRANSPORT MINITER will not order the gational Bus Company to buy mly British buses. But when he rejected the dea in the...

Road closure

IARK LANE, Tottenham, ■ lorth London, is to be closed o through traffic. It has been losed under an experimental an since June...

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ay claim gets • TGWU go-ahead

TRANSPORT and General Workers Union pay policy has been approved by the union's national council — and it is now up to the...

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Low fares tough line

THREATS to cut off cash from metropolitan authorities with low fare policies have been made by Transport Minister Mr William...

Passengers take a back seat

Unless the metropolitan counties toe the Government line on transport spending, they face the threat of a complete withdrawal...

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truck sales

TRUCK sales in Britain showed signs of an upswing during September, according to figures issued this week by the Society of...

Marketing operation

FODEN have set up a new marketing and sales operation to handle their Scottish customers and provide a back-up for the...

Hauliers' attack on accident pay plan

A GOVERNMENT plan to recoup the cost of treating accident victims — which could add £30m a year to the cost of road haulage —...

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SHORT HAULS

Starting work WORK is to start soon on the Sandtoft to Trent section of the MI80 South Humberside motorway and it will take...

Haulage insurance

HAULAGE insurer Ernest A. Notcutt has opened its new office in Cambridge at Road Haulage Association headquarters. The company...

M/way extension

SOUTH Humberside's motorway, M180, is to be extended to take in the new Scunthorpe by-pass at a cost of £10,612,627 announced...

Paris groupage

CAVE WOOD Transport is to expand its groupage services to and from Paris with a new link European warehousing group, Compagnie...

Severe warning on vehicle servicing

AN OWN-ACCOUNT operator believed that because two of its vehicles were new and under warranty they did not need monthly...

CF fight takeover by Fruehauf Corp USA

CRANE FRUEHAUF have rejected as "derisory" a take over bid by the Fruehauf Corporation, of Michigan USA, who already own a...

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Leyland workers agree £41m plan

BRITISH LEYLAND'S plan to reorganise the Truck and Bus group got a major boost last week. Workers at the Albion plant in...

SHORT HAULS

BRS rental in Scotland BRS TRUCK Rental service is now fully operational in the West of Scotland with the opening of the...

Greenwich TIP

TRANSPORT INTERNATIONAL POOL have opened another new depot to make trailers more available to London operators. The new branch...

Frozen order

The first batch of TDC refrigerated trailer vans was recently delivered to BOC Transhield. Produced at the TDC works at...

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Listen to transport

experts say IRTE transport policy being reversed now there is endless consultation before the policy is announced. He told the...

THE PRICE OF SAFETY

GOVERNMENT road spending is far too low when compared with the cost of road accidents says the Road Operators Safety Council in...

etired after

TONY BOWLAND has retired as managing director of NMU Transport Ltd after 44 years with the company. He is being replaced by...

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Union fails to stop fare rises

THE TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union has failed in its attempt to stop bus fares in Edinburgh from rising. At a hearing...

1:1 - 0 - 1 1ULWI ALMOST any of the 1,500 mail vans in use

in Scotland could be used to give a postbus service. This was said by Mr Trevor Carpenter, chairman of the Scottish Postal...

'Howell offside'

SUGGESTIONS from Sport Minister Denis Howell that coach operators were at fault in the Birmingham football riot have been...

Wages policy decision soon

UNIONS' AND OPERATORS' associations in the coach industry are being brought together by the Advisory Conciliation and...

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BUS STOPS

Reduce Staff LIBERAL LEADER Mr David Steel suggested in the Commons last week that if Scottish Transport Group's passenger...

PASSENGER

MILITANT MUNICIPAL bus operators may try to compel the Department of Transport to resume payments of new bus grants to them by...

Municipal mei

get militant ove grants advice. The ADC has been advised that action can be taken against the Transport Department — but the...

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pd* ball licence kicks off row

City of Nottingham Transport is perhaps the worst hit operator. It had 16 vehicles delivered after April 1 this year for which...

OR WAVENEY

Tory council proposals, five Waveney district councillors would sit on a consultative body with an equal number of Eastern...

Output boost

WILLOWBROOK expects to be able to double output after a new extension to its Loughborough factory is opened in December. A new...

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ALB TECHNICAL Waste tanker safety trend

AN INCREASING number of tanker operators involved in the carriage of industrial wastes are specifying safety features on their...

SWIMMING VEHICLE FROM SWEDEN

A PROTOTYPE cross-country vehicle able to ford deep streams and negotiate gradients with its floor completely level has been...

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P RO I` 11,

An occas!onal series on faces in the news F flower in UK garden THERE were signs this week of the long awaited recovery in...

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Hermes House

TUNBRIDGE WELLS has been home to the Freight Transport Association for a year. It has been twelve months which have seen...

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Hauliers must co-operate

It seems like only yesterday we were mourning the loss of the old A/B system. Today we have a new one; those who have a pound...

Common sense dismissals

Mr Jonathon Lawton rightly stressed at CM's Fleet Management Conference (CM October 8) that warnings of disciplinary action,...

Come and join us

I wish to thank Commercial Motor for the reference in the article headed "Come and join us" by John Darker in the Earls Court...

Pleasing report

We were interested to read Mr Gibson's letter in CM and the comment that he - Buys British" when he can. We were particularly...

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Happy anniversary

Bernard Atkins started his company, F.B. Atkins & Sons of Findern, Derby, 50 years ago. It always puzzled me how a company can...

FILM STARS

Strongly recommended to all engineers — the newly released Perkins film Man the Inventor. The diary of the diesel engine, it's...

Silence fell

The tachograph manufacturers took a bit of stick at the Fleet Management Conference, I see: they were even accused of trying to...

The old boys

It's almost like a history page this week, so here's another tale. If you like historic details, and let me say here the only...

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Road to foreign

IT'S ALL very well operating the most up-to-date machine across Europe but any truck is only earning money when it is moving a...

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Is dismissal a four-letter word?

A TRANSPORT CONTRACTOR who told his driver to "— off" was deemed to have dismissed him and he was instructed to pay the driver...

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Cl One of my drivers attended Nuneaton heat of the Driver

of the Year Competition where he was asked: what is the minimum height of a tail board? Could you quote the relevant...

Q lf I pass a double-deck psv driving licence test, will

the licence granted to me include all classes of psv? If I drive only non-psv minibuses during the period of that licence, will...

Now that new regulations about drivers' records have been passed

and books with 15 sheets need not have duplicate sheets, do the completed records have to be preserved for 12 months as...

/ have just bought a vehicle of which the unladen

weight is about one ton 18cwt and which has been plated at 3.6 tons. The latest equivalent of this vehicle is plated at just...

a ll' I use one of my rigid vehicles to recover

a broken-down attic, the two vehicles, in effect, become a drawbar-trailer outfit. The maximum length allowed for this kind of...

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Growfun pains

IN 1966, Thomas Brothers Haulage and Container Service bought a Bedford Telehoist skip truck and 10 skips. In retrospect,...

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Limeys score with PlutonNokto

by Martin Watkins WHEN West Ham Football Club offered Laceys of East Ham a contract to provide an executive coach for the team,...

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Rust only a matter of time

IT'S COMMON knowledge that if iron is in contact with a flow of water and a supply of air it will rust, and as soon as we get...

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THE AGE FOR PENSIONS

by John C. Vann As inflation bites deeper into our pockets, concern mounts for our old age. Aimed at helping to alievate these...