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24th August 1989
24th August 1989
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II EDITOR'S COMMENT WORTHY OF HIS HIRE

• Question: If a haulier hires a temporary driver to do a day's work, and during that time the driver is stopped by the police...

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Temp drivers cam 1HA concern

• Hauliers want to see tighter legal controls imposed on companies which supply temporary HGV drivers. The Road Haulage...

August CV sales boom

• Despite the first fall in truck registrations for more than two years last month, the market is reporting booming figures for...

F111 slams NALC plan as 'misguide

• The Freight Transport Association has dismissed the National Association of Local Councils' call for a national sys tern of...

Stagecoach down South

• In a surprise move, Stagecoach Holdings has taken over Southdown Motor Services. The company would not disclose the precise...

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ERF cuts workforce

• ERF is cutting its workforce by around 5% and reducing its daily truck output in anticipation of a downturn in the UK truck...

:hapman wins Lydden

Current European Chammship leader Rod Chapman w off the competition from e restarted "A" final this !ek in the second Truckeed...

Senior service pay row

• Senior traffic examiners in the North-East and the Midlands are taking unofficial industrial action as negotiations with the...

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BRF predicts fewer HGVs

• The number of HGVs on Britain's roads will fall over the next five years, according to a forecast by the British Road...

'Black box' to oust the tachograph

• EC Transport Commissioner Karel Van Miert has said that "black box" style monitoring equipment will replace tachographs, as...

AWD network grows

• AWD has announced an expansion of its national dealer network with the establishment of 27 new authorised service operators...

Central wins mon installation order

• Central Weighing, the Kidderminster-based vehicle weighing specialist, has been awarded further contracts to install both...

Peace talks soon for PTEs and B&C(

• Despite eagerness on bot sides, talks planned to heal d rift between Passenger Tram port Executive bosses and th Bus & Coach...

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AN trumpets 'Silent' runners

• Two new "Silent" trucks, an unusual mid-engined tractive unit, an air-injection system to reduce exhaust emissions and a...

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TransitCover.

Now there's 3. simple route to take. Now you don't have to wade rough a sea of Marine Underwriting minology and techniques to...

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Giants snap up Lowfield

• Just nine months after its management buyout, Lowfield Distribution has been sold to two industry giants — Tibbett and...

Heritage signs or with Royal Mail

• Heritage Hampers, part o the Cleveland-based Heritage Food Group, has signed a £1 million, three-year contract with Royal...

Crown buyout tea

• Disappointing annual resti for the Government's Crown Suppliers will not deter the management buyout team, keen to buy the...

Ferrymasters fle

• Ferrymasters will take delivery of 50 new tractor units, 70 curtainsiders and 60 tilts next month as part of a fleet...

Night freight overseas

• Parcels carrier Nightfreight has taken its first step into Europe with an agreement with Anglo-Dutch operator Twente...

Body Shop deal

• Body Shop international has awarded its dedicated distribution contract to Peter Lane Transport Group. The contract, based...

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Red Star seeks parcels agents

I Red Star has launched a iajor review of its parcels oprations and is now on the hunt )t around 200 hauliers to do allection...

Exel wins Lancia deal

• Exel Logistics Consumer and Industrial has won the distribution contract for Lancia Genuine Parts to 500 dealers nationwide....

Cardiff buys tilts for Tr-Wall deal

• South Wales haulier Cardiff International has taken delivery of 10 12.6m straight-frame tilt trailers to service a new...

ones sets up IGV agency

• Walsall-based S Jones Transport Services Group has started up its own agency to combat the problem of finding top-calibre...

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TurboDaily 4X4 coming

• The new Iveco Ford TurboDaily, due to be launched in the UK at the Scottish Show in November, will be joined by a 4x4 version...

Scissors on for AWD order

• AWD has received its biggest order so far for the TL 17-18, launched in April this year. Marriott In-Flight Catering Services...

Crane conversion

• Walsall-based S Jones has just completed a £48,000 contract to convert a Cumminspowered ERF E14 eightwheeler to accommodate a...

Key Note gives warning

• Imports of commercial vehicles look set to decline as more European and Japanese designs are manufactured or assembled in...

Coca-Cola in join dray developmer

• Coca-Cola Bottlers (Ulste; has invested £500,000 in 24 Mercedes-Benz 1617 drop frame rigids fitted with DonBur Deckstepper...

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South Yorks beavers away

• A new Eager Beaver minibus operation and a new Mainline double-decker base are to start in Sheffield next month, as South...

'School's out' in Dublin

• Dublin-based Private Association of Motor Bus Operators has told its members not to sign contracts for school bus services...

Coach park gap filled

• Cheltenham and District Bus Company is providing coach parking on a commercial basis, following the closure of the town's...

Buy-out prospeci dims in Lothian

Group after MIT assets • Lothian Region Transport has reported a profit for the year to 31 March of 21.91 million, on a of 233...

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TINT drivers

call off strike • Trent Motor Traction drivers called off a second one-day strike on Friday to allow further talks to take...

M-B to show

new series • Mercedes-Benz bus and coach exhibits at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month will include a number of the new...

IFT dears Pinnade 'predator'

I Harrogate-based West irkshire Road Car company s been cleared of antimpetitive practices, after a -month investigation by the...

Shaider's dozen

• Shalder Coaches, Shetland, has taken delivery of a twelfth Volvo in its 23-strong fleet of Bedfords and Volvos. The latest...

Irish connection

• Bus Eireann and Ulsterbus began a daily express coach service between Dublin and Belfast on Monday, the first such service...

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Fly-tippers swatted

• When Joan Rudciock said she intended to do battle with London's fly-tippers, one senior policeman warned her to drop her...

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Harrison: no 0-licence

• The unauthorised use of a vehicle when not the holder of an Operator's Li:ence cost Cyril Harrison, of Derby, £900 in fines...

qoving scrap costs Dean £140 fine

• Using two vehicles to move scrap timber from a yard two days after her inerim licence was revoked cost Vorcestershire haulier...

LEGALNEWSII

• G A Transport had "cloaked" the real reason for the dismissal of lorry driver D A Jones, said a Manchester Industrial...

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Tribunal rejects claim

• Fertymasters acted reasonably in sacking a driver who it believed had made false claims for wages on the basis of...

Taff Ely BC transport men kept in the dark

• Taff Ely Borough Council was slammed for a "lamentable lack of communication" by South Wales Deputy Licensing Authority...

BBT warned over regulation breach

• No action was taken against Blackburn Borough Transport when it appeared before North West ern Traffic Commissioner Mar tin...

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Maintaining a European view

I This November the Eurolean Transport Maintenance ;mind holds its seventh rumal conference in London or the first time. The...

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DEAR

SIR • I read your otherwise admirable "Any Questions" feature with considerable interest, both as the director of this...

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WHAT'S IN A ME?

IN Yorkshire tanker haulier Liquids, Powders & Gas is boosting its core business by offering training, tank cleaning and repair...

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BRING!

HONE THE 114C • The unlikely combination of a German prisoner of war and a half-share in a pig led to the formation of one of...

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

BY THE HAWK • The Daily Telegraph may have let slip its true feelings about the haulage industry in a report on the Transport...

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SAFETY FIRST

• Tanker operators attending the RHA's Tankcon show last month got a double dose of tanker safety with the showing of the...

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THE FIRE TALE

I By the time the fire brigade had arred on that cold, foggy December morn4, the surface of the M25 motorway was ght, so...

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HAZARDOUS GOODS SURREY FIRE BRIGADE

highest risk cargo, and follows with 1.2, 1.3 as the risk decreases, with 1.5, which may follow later as an after-thought...

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• They say that the best things come in small

packages, and Ford must have had this in mind when fitting the latest 1.8litre diesel engine into its new Fiesta. Designed by...

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