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25th August 1972
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Winning friends and Influencing people

No immediate challenge to the supremacy of road transport for the carriage of freight is foreseen by the joint winners of the...

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EEC Commission rejects UK plea on10-ton axles

ADVANTAGES WILL OUTWEIGH EXTRA ROAD COSTS • In a report intended as a basis for discussion by the Council of Ministers, who...

Unigate buys Valley 100-vehicle group

• Unigate, through its Wincanton Group subsidiary, has acquired • the South-Wales haulage and garage businesses of the Valley...

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Ratepayers revolt against paying more for Massachusetts Bay 'PTA'

From an American correspondent • Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, model for Britain's Passenger Transport...

Siddle Cook pulls out of heavy haulage

• One of the oldest hauliers in the North of England, Siddle C. Cook Ltd, Consett, Co Durham, has decided to pull out of heavy...

Overnight piggy-back to Italy

• A new overnight service to take lorries (with or without trailers) by rail from Cologne, Germany, to Verona, Italy, has been...

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No mass switch of drivers from TGWU to URTU

by John Darker • Any expectation that thousands of disgruntled TGWU drivers will transfer quickly to the United Road...

Transport Extravaganza

• On August 26, 27 and 28 the annual Transport Extravaganza — which this year has attracted nearly 500 entries — will be held...

High class distinction at Cuckoo Hill

• Bollards are to be placed in Cuckoo Hill (Harrow) and Eastcote High Road (Hillingdon) "to stop large lorries using these two...

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Rigid eight-wheeler has 30ft-long body

20-ton payload with off-road capabilities • Possibly Britain's longest rigid eight-wheeler, a one-off Atkinson Defender with...

VAT '73 is opened

• Copies of two booklets giving comprehensive guidance on Value Added Tax (VAT) are included in a basic information package...

EEC `mini' session at RHA conference

• Commercial aspects of operating on the Continent will be the subject of a "mini" conference organized by the Express Carriers...

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Revived railways or road trains? RHA essay winners probe the future

• Instead of awarding a first, second and third prize for the 1972 Road Haulage Association essay competition, the judges have...

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Skye 'pilot' scheme angers lorrymen

• An Inverness county council system for tendering for haulage and maintenance on road works, adopted in May, has angered a...

Om for Chunnel study

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries and Monsieur Robert Galley, the French Minister of Transport, have agreed...

Workers' holiday helps haulier

• Workers at the road haulage contracting firm of Thomas Caunce and Co Ltd, Rufford, Lancs, have given their employers a...

J and M Transport

• The address of J. and M. Transport (Bridgend) Ltd, listed in our New Companies feature on August 18, is Stormy-Down, nr...

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Leicester halves passenger loss

Surplus reflects success in beating congestion • Leicester City Transport halved its passenger loss in the year ended March 31...

New bus lanes for Londoners

• Three experimental bus lanes will be introduced in London over the Bank Holiday weekend. One is in Gloucester Place,...

Birmingham bus priority plan

• West Midlands PTE has asked Birmingham Corporation to share the cost of commissioning a study of bus priority schemes....

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Burrowing under Liverpool

• Merseyside's transport chiefs went to earth recently — to see construction work on the new L12m loop line underground rail...

Edinburgh crews accept offer

• Edinburgh's threatened bus strike has been averted. An increase of £1.25 on the basic weekly rates was overwhelmingly...

Commission to explore at Alex anders

• The question of industrial relations at the Falkirk coachbuilding works of Walter Alexander and Co Ltd has been referred to...

Finalists for the Castrol Shield

• The match for the Castrol Shield in the final of the National Public Service Vehicles Undertakings Cricket Competition will...

Willowbrook-bodied Seddons in service

• The first two Seddon passenger chassis to be fitted with the Willowbrook Expressway body have now entered service with Monty...

Free post

• Postmen are to be carried free of charge on Hartlepool Corporation buses in return for an annual lump sum of £840 paid...

30,000 Wander bus tickets

• Over 30,000 Wanderbus unlimited travel tickets have been sold by Maidstone and District and East Kent since they were first...

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Future overloaders face disqualification

Western IA revokes 38-vehicle licence • The revocation of a licence in its entirety — 38 vehicles and 15 trailers and all...

Road check led to 1205 fine

• A Manchester lorry driver was fined a total of £205 at Stafford following a routine check by police of his vehicle on the M6....

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we hit , em in the pocket ,

• The best way to deal with the problem of foreign companies who send overloaded trailers or containers to the UK is to hit...

11 drivers without insurance

• At Hinckley, Leics., magistrates' court, George Rex William Woodward (50), of Station Road, Earl Shilton, was charged With 28...

GV9s blamed on garage let-down

• Saying that he was not satisfied with past, present and, from what he had heard in evidence, future arrangements for...

Redundancy claim by haulier's ex-m.d.

• An Industrial Tribunal at Carlisle reserved its decision when Mr William R. Sharp, of Penrith, claimed redundancy payments...

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Bee-Line gets Luton airport service

• The Secretary of State for the Environment has reversed a decision of the Northern Traffic Commissioners refusing Bee-Line...

Driver took tvo by mistake

• As a result of being found guilty on five charges of using tractor vaporising oil in commercial vehicles a Cheshire haulage...

WA wins students' fares appeal

• At Leeds on August 17 an appeal was heard against cheap week-end bus fares for students from Yorkshire to London, when...

Brake faults blamed for deaths

• At Helmsley last week verdicts of accidental death were recorded at the inquest on eight elderly coach passengers and two...

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Trevor Webster rejoins truck and bus

, T. (Trevor) Webster, who was sales director of British yland's truck and bus division when he was appointed deputy anaging...

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Automatic gearbox for the Walk-Thru

More power for light vans, more payload for VC trucks • Changes to the Chrysler United Kingdom vehicle range which will be...

Derby depot for Ford trucks

• A new depot for commercial vehicles opened in Derby this month. T. C. Harrison Ltd, Ford main dealer in South Yorkshire,...

Adjustable frame height from Unipower

• Unipower Ltd, of Aintree Road, Perivak Middx., has made use of Hands Neway trail ing arm air suspension units to provid a...

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European trailer from Zubery Owen-Rockwell

Rubery Owen-Rockwell will have an 11.5ill trailer axle at the Commercial Motor how which has been specifically designed ) meet...

Service facilities at Leyton

• A new maintenance and service depot for A. J. Bradick Ltd, 24-34 Oliver Road, Leyton, was opened last week by Mr Peter Haxby,...

Rally for Dennis veterans

• In conjunction with the two-day Guildford Town Show to be held in Stoke Park, Guildford, on September 2 and 3, Dennis...

Bristol Street forms Welford Truck Bodies

• Bristol Street Group is forming a new company, Welford Truck Bodies Ltd, to bring together the Bristol Street Group, Welford...

Plywood floors

• Distributors for Thames Chassiply wholepiece plywood floors for commercial vehicles, Rydgeway Vehicle Mouldings Ltd and James...

Wadham Stringer buys Sparshatt group

II The bodybuilding activities of J. H. includes Wadham Stringer's ambulance parshatt and Sons and of Fergussons production....

Cushionride for trucks

• The Primrose Cushionride rubber suspension system which was introduced earlier this year for trailers is now available in a...

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Roto Line has UK office

• Roto Line's Scandinavian ro-ro ferry service now has its own office in England. On August 1 Roto Line Ltd was established at...

£2.5m Volvo axle factory

• A new £2-frn factory has been opened by Swedish vehicle manufacturers, AB Volvo which will produce 25,000 truck rear axles...

2-speed wipers for Escorts

• Two-speed windscreen wipers and pvc door trim are to be standard equipment on all 6 and 8cwt light vans in the Ford Escort...

Three-wheeled small truck options

• Using basically the same chassis /cab as that of its suction road sweeper, Melford Engineering Ltd, of Cottenham, Cambridge,...

Anglo strengthens Continental links

• Anglo Overseas Transport this week finalized a major reappraisal of its arrangements with Continental agents. Under new plans...

Under 3-ton Bedford KDL

• New undercarriage techniques and th use of a modified Clark Equipment hod: shell have enabled Brade Leigh Product Ltd, Albion...

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The 13-ton axle 3nd all that

[HERE'S no point in the 13-ton axle," eith N. Buckby, manager, sales igineering, of the• York Trailer Company dcl me when we...

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letters

A young driver can prove himself I would just like to let you know how much it pleased me to see you voicing your opinion on...

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topic

If it moves tax it DURING the dock strike, the news media did everything but garland with flowers the foreign lorries bringing...

meet

Gilbert Over • In choosing Gilbert Over as its first President, recently, the newly unified British Association of Removers...

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road and workshop

Tyre bills: m ore for your money • Cheap retreads can be costly in the long run and dangerous • Speed is a tyre-destroying...

the costing column

Get your priorities right Not every road transport operator keeps adequate records of the cost of running his vehicles. And,...

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Dial-a-ride in perspective

NEXT WEEK sees the start of the most significant application so far of the Ford-sponsored Dial-a-Ride scheme of door-to-door...

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cropper's column

Cold-shouldering the haulier • Safety is a glamour word these days am much effort is directed towards it achievement. Local...

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bird's eye

view by the Hawk • Might-have-beens If you've ever wondered what happened to those prototype 40/42/44-banners built for the...

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THE 'JAKE BRAKE' ADDS SAFETY-AND PAYS FOR ITSELF IN REDUCED RE-LINE BILLS

by Gibb Grace, DAuE. CEng. M1MechE THE Jacobs engine brake, or the "Jake brake" as it is affectionately known in the USA, is...

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The case for the fast Wearies

Paul Brockington MI MechE EMPLOYING battery-electric vehicles i; essential to the profitability of a typica dairy. And...

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EEC transport director to open CM Conference

• Dr Gunther Kraus, EEC Commission director responsible for transport policy, and having a special brief concerning Britain's...

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Q 1 have a part-time employee who wishes me to teach

him to drive a heavy goods nehicle. He works four nights per week, II tours per shift, for his full-time employer, for whom he...

Q In a recent Q & A you quoted the relevant

regulation to indicate how it was possible, despite what a local authority taxation department official had said, for a motor...

Q In CM last week (August 18) Mr Ted Garrett, Labour

MP for Wallsend, was quoted as saying that under the present regulations a lorry driver who is out of work for six months...

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management

matters by John Darker AMB M Diversification pays off I TALKED recently with the directors of a small transport firm, Moss...

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know the law

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The height of vehicles IT HAS always seemed strange to me that although the width, length and...

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profit from learning

Learning the language of economics by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies. University of London. INCREASING...

new companies

Frosty Trucking International Ltd. Cap: £100. Objects: To carry on the business of international haulage contractors, etc....