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26th November 1983
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kiel-proof scheme

I PRIVATE Member's Bill to be presented to Parliament picks up a subject first raised y CMten years ago. The Bill will seek to...

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Employers 'sensible' in wage bargainin

HAULAGE DRIVERS' national union officer this week praised employers' response to the winter's wage claims, as the first...

Featherstone slams DTp

DEPARTMENT of Transport claims that down-licensing would create enforcement difficulties are "pure fabrication", Freight...

Night bans

FIFTY OPERATORS have be made the subject of a £50,C study commissioned by t Greater London Council investigate the likely...

Kelvin Hall success

Just over 140,000 attended the show, compared with 132,081 for 1981. This year's figure is still four per cent below the 1979...

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Cowans new chairman

NE BRIDGE Labour MP Harry Cowans is set to be the new Chairn of the House of Commons transport select committee. Cowans is one...

Carryfast buy-out

CARRYFAST, the express parcels carrier which SPD took over from GKN, is to be sold to its own management. A management...

Areas approved

THE REORGANISATION of the Traffic Areas has finally been approved, despite the misgivings of the Labour Party. THE motion to...

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NFC's healthy results

PROPERTY INVESTMENT is expected to exceed property sales at the National Freight Consortium this year and next, it said last...

Leyland order

LEYLAND TRUCKS' French subsidiary has won a £530,000 order for 25 Rolls-Royce-engined 38tonne Roadtrain tractive units. The...

Sc ot s cuts?

SCOTLAND'S trunk road I gramme could be reduced d tically as a result of Government's public expe ture White Paper published...

Shake up at MAN

THE LOSSES piled up this year by MAN, West Germany's recis hit commercial vehicle manufacturer, have cost parent corn chairmand...

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Rivett for Australia

PAUL RIVETT is to become managing director of the National Freight Consortium's Australian removals and distribution subsidiary...

Independent Home

THE INDEPENDENT Express Corporation has taken on Mike Horne as national sales manager. He heads up the 22-strong sales team and...

Yeates' new gm

JIM MARTIN has taken over a5, sales director/general manager of the coach division of W. S. Yeates. Mr Martin joined the...

Duncan confirmed at Motec

THE ROAD TRANSPORT Industry Training Board has confirmed its choice of a new manager for Motec, its Multi Occupational Training...

Brook joins BET

NATIONAL BUS Company de puty chairman and chief execu tive Robert Brook has beer made a non-executive directo of United...

Millard, MBE

JOHN MILLARD, general mar ager of Victoria Coach Statior London, since 1978, has bee invested as a Member of th British...

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Post-GLC waste plans

THE DEPARTMENT of the Environment is already planning new arrangements for waste disposal, after the Greater London Council and...

Renwick grows

RENWICKS FREIGHT has moved into a freight depot in Blackburn, West Lothian to meet growing business demands. The four-acre...

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Judge dismisses weighbridge case

SUGGESTIONS by a Road Haulage Association consultant that the dynamic axle weigher at Warndon, Worcestershire was inaccurate,...

Gin and chips

JAMES BURROUGH, distiller of Beefeater Gin, has bought 00,000 of computer hardware from Freight Computer Services to provide an...

M25 works mean diversio

THE CONSTRUCTION of M25 London orbital route now reached the M4 and trz will be diverted while an terchange and bridges are bu...

A47 delays

THERE WILL BE delays on A47 Kings Lynn Southern pass for about three week allow maintenance work three bridges. Each...

Towmaster profit falls

TOWMASTER TRANSPORT transport division of Sc Whisky group Arthur Bell Sons, made a profit of £2,00 the year to June 30, 1983....

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Licence bid fails

SHROPSHIRE COMPANY which tried to mislead a Licensing uthority to gain more time to raise a £120 fee for an operator's :ence...

Waste verdict opposed

IE TRANSPORT Tribunal has come under flak from the Road ulage Associciation over its ruling earlier this year that the remoI of...

Frejus link

A FIVE MILE (8km) stretch of the planned motorway linking the Frejus tunnel exit in France to Turin in Italy has been opened....

Dow for Colt

DOW FREIGHT Services of Bredbury, Stockport, has been chosen by Colt Cars for its fast parts nationwide delivery service. Dow...

Mersey toll improves

WHEN the new automatic toll collection system settles down vehicles will get through the tunnels more quickly, Richard...

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Com uter inibblin

AUTOMATE or liquidate is the stark choice facing British manufacturers, according to Sir leuan Maddock, technology development...

Bedford's real axle changes

BEDFORD has announced d tails of rear axle changes in i TM (EBV) tractive units. Temporary supply problen with Raba rear axles...

MAN-VW cut;

MAN-VW has joined the ma other manufacturers who ha recently revised their parts pri list in an attempt to win ha business from...

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Bradley's bracket

NND K BRADLEY of Bingley, Ist Yorkshire, has improved Mk 10 heavy-duty towing t, designed for trailers up to I0kg (3.45 tons)...

Ray Smith cantilever

ERBOROUGH-based Ray Smith Tail Lifts new cantilever tail lift s an extra haff-tonne capacity. The two-tonne model is fitted a...

New G Series Mercedes

THE LATEST model in the Mercedes G Series range of four-wheeldrive cross-country estate cars is the 230GE. Power is provided...

Throttle kit from Rochdale

A KIT from Torque of Rochdale gives automatic engine throttle setting, providing protection for auxiliary equipment. The...

Cargo checker

A VEHICLE cargo security system that automatically records vehicle weight, date and time of day, gives a new meaning to "Spy in...

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Fifth wheel oil

THE LUBE LINER sold by Industrial Mechanised Products of Tunbridge Wells, Kent through local distributors eliminates the...

A REAR-MOUNTED ultrasonic sensor to warn the driver of any

objects behind his vehicle is being marketed by Reversafer of Middlesex. The device, called Reversafer, indicates to the...

Rubber suspension

HENDRICKSON EUROPE of Cork in the Republic of Ireland is marketing a new single-axle rubber suspension available in kit form...

Oil savings

TESTS at the Transport at Road Research Laboratory's te track at Crowthorne, Berkshit using BP Oil's Vanellus FE e gine oil and...

Bedford TK

BEDFORD has quashed rumoi that production of TK mod above 7.5 tonnes gvw is tub( to stop. Though TL/TK production Dunstable is...

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Tougher cash cuts

E GOVERNMENT's war on "wasteful" public transport subsidies s been driven a stage nearer home by Chancellor of the Excheer...

Fares outstrip prices

4GE SERVICE bus fares rose faster than the retail price index :ween 1973 and last year, according to Government statistics just...

Coach/air deal

NATIONAL HOLIDAYS is launching a new coach/air holiday programme named Skyrider. It involves coaching holidaymakers to...

Hestair Duple

HESTAIR has confirmed the management changes at Duple Coachbuilders in Blackpool (CM, November 19). The company name has been...

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UC branches out ut will it

_ apologise too NATIONAL BUS Company subsidiary United Counties Engineering UC's technical division, has launched a...

AMONG the unusual trans ideas appeared at the recen1 sign

Council Ergonomics Ex tion entitled Only Hut Among them was a talking stop called Elsie — short Electronic Speech Inform...

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Fl with s head

HE passenger news section tour edition of November 12, 13 (on page 19) I saw a 'thine "Transport 2000 reply" ad on, keen to see...

me head indignation

JR November 12 issue tamed an article, in your al, expert style, about the don Transport Passengers - imittee's response to...

Elan not 'anti-industry'

THANK you for your generally very fair coverage given to Elan's survey of export distribution practices among UK high...

London needs coach terminals

YOUR correspondent, Nigel Breeze of Southend in "Dear Sir" of October 29, 1983, comments on the "ills of coaching". His strong...

0 what can't little hands do?

CAN anybody beat this for inefficiency? On Wednesday, May 4, 1983,1 broke down with my Leyland (401 engine) outside Interchange...

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RHA enjoys I reign in Spain

OCIAL DEMOCRATIC :hose Salford for its I conference; the Liberals, ;ate; the Labour Party, on; the Tories and the ; Union...

Harold Russett

national chairman, I Russett, opened the cone by welcoming delegates new faces in particular. 'the objects of holding the Brice...

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Pieter Groenendijk

Mr Groenendijk is the secretary-general of the International Road Transport Union (or as Harold Russett described him, the...

Peter Capon

Product development director at Leyland Trucks, Peter Capon, was one of the week's best speakers. His paper (accompanied by a...

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Lord Lucas

y three of the conference Id have started with an 3ss from Lynda Chalker, ;ter of State for Transport, ;he was unable to attend...

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Peter Thompson

Peter Thompson, chairman and chief executive of the National Freight Consortium, followed Lord Lucas's speech with a paper and...

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Freddie Plaskett

Freddie Plaskett's report on the final day of the conference was much as expected. He ran through the RHA's membership services...

Tony Ball

ony Ball of Tony Ball Assoes had a dual role to play at conference. He was the afterler speaker at the RHA gala ler (a leading...

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Who pays compensation

Ralph Cropper raises another worrying point about the new licensing legislation THREE WORDS spoken by a Licensing Authority at...

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Any Korea prospects?

DK the Japanese years to le public acceptance and ility they enjoy today, and h the Japanese vehicle facturers would probably...

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Loss of use can bt taken care of

INADEQUATE insurance can easily lead a haulier to lose his business. Let me tell you how that nearly happened to one operator;...

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ravelling by eutonic transport

. ock assesses the ?des-Benz diesel n he's just taken S Europe MANY of the motoring vere fussing around the 10 Mercedes-Benz,...

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Phone us for help

Sue Palmer, manager, ICFC Business Development, explains the financial assistance available for small firms in transport THE...

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donkey no longer for work

EATING down British Rail • a new five-year mail ract, the Post Office atened to make greater use oad transport for seconds...

5 Team goes in hting

3 Leyland Trucks trying to :age DAF Trucks, which has 'loved Alan Minter to note sales, by engaging ik Bruno, described as...

Goodbye red tape, hello video tape

A HIGHLIGHT of the transport calendar is the Freight Transport Association's annual Scottish dinner, an attraction which packs...

Luring passengers on to the water

ENTHUSIASTS for the Thames bus do not give up despite the failure of previous attempts to persuade people to travel to and from...

Dove's wings help restore Mary Ross

WHETHER or not the Mary Rose Trust prayed "Ohl for the wings of a dove," the need for transport for artifacts from Henry VIII's...

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Steering, 1

THE STEERING mechanism of a motor vehicle must enable the driver to change direction with the minimum of effort and to maintain...

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!at the thieves

EN SECURE overnight (ing is unavailable, a 3erly fitted vehicle alarm can r protection against the loss ehicle or cargo, as...

3wdrift

ifreeze IELF OPERATORS big or I, specialised lubricant ufacturers Century Oils :ets its Snowdrift antifreeze tariety of...

Take to the air

LIGHT commercial vehicle dealers with limited groundfloor showroom space, but with room for vehicle display on a second floor,...

Extendable washing brush

CLEAN VEHICLES are good image builders for road transport operators, and a new extendable washing brush from Polco Products can...

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Unless, Minister. . .

The Official Secrets Act prevents Reg Dawson from revealing the advice he gave, as Head of the DTp's Road Freight Division, to...

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US dream trip makes winning a Smart move

WHEN Graham Smart won the Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year title last September, he effectively became the best and...