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28th January 1977
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EEC GET TOUGH ON TACHO DELAY

A TOUGH STANCE has been taken by the new EEC Commissioner for Transport, over Britain's refusal to bring in tachograph...

A2 crash kills two

TWO MEN were killed and another seriously injured, when a French truck crashed into a brokendown artic at Dartford, Kent, in...

Permit move threat

Pi CARDIFF haulier has zlaimed the French will give him international permits to bring vehicles into Britain, if he moves his...

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EEC draft amendment

AN important draft amendment to the EEC Council directive on type approval (70/I56/EEC) will allow ancilliary component...

POLICY DEBATE IS DEFUSED

WILLIAM RODGERS, the Minister for Transport, took most of the steam out of the long awaited transport policy debate last week,...

Joining RNA seen as 'luxury'

MEMBERSHIP of some Road Haulage Association branches is falling-off, with newcomers to the industry regarding membership as a...

Freigi recorc

ners ear FREIGHTLINERS Ltd had record year in 1976. ( Bleasdale, managing directo revealed last week that sut cesses of the...

NFC £50m grant after a fight

GRANTS of up to £50 millio can now be made by th Government to the Nation: Freight Corporation, to hel the nationalised transom...

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NFC changes at top level?

CHANGES in the management structure of the National Freight Corporation are likely, following talks between Secretary of State...

Face lift for cafes?

A scheme to create a network of drivers' restaurants offering discounts and conforming to "Continental standards" has been...

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Hats off to ERF

You've got to doff your cap to the truck that's designed to make maintenance so simple-by simply doffing its cab. The new 'SP...

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NCL launch contract services package

CONTRACT Services, described as "a total distribution package tailored exclusively to the needs of individual customers" has...

SAVIEM GO ON SAFARI

IN temperatures of 33°C (98°F), an expedition with seven specially prepared Saviem lorries will make its way west to east...

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Sanctuary in Ireland

THE Scottish Office in Edinburgh has confirmed that active discussions are in progress concerning Irish based operators and...

A NEW depot service to cater for developing companies heeding

a base near London has been established by the newly-formed Chesham Storage and Distribution company. The company offers...

Leics operator licence warning

TWO Leicester operators, Liddingtons Transport Ltd, Barwell, and Ace Transport of Duns Lane, had their 0licences curtailed by...

Hgv 1 bid after crash

A HEAVY goods vehicle driver who made a special journey from Holland to appear at a public inquiry before the Yorkshire...

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'Foreign' tippers attacked by RHA

"FOREIGN" hauliers engaged in shifting 3,000 tons of fish from Plymouth quaysides are giving the road haulage industry a bad...

Retread for tyre show

SO great has been demand for exhibition space at the first International Tyre and Equipment Show (March 22-24) that the venue...

SHORT HAULS

Spares delivery H. S. MORGAN Transport has increased the numbers of dealers served by emergency parts delivery for vehicles...

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Reform 0-licences, say Removers

THE British Association of Removers has called for a radical reform of operators' licensing. In a memorandum to the Department...

Lecture series

A SERIES of evening lectures on management will be presented by Professor Samuel Elton in London, on March 21. "Management...

.Geordie Elvin is the new president of the Guild of

Transport Managers, succeeding Graham Simons who has retired after seven years in the Post. A founder member of the Guild, Mr...

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RAC extra cover on foreign runs

A NEW six-point insurance plan for international hauliers has been announced by the RAC to complement its existing carnets...

Danger load carrier cleared

CHARGES of using a lorry with a dangerous load - brought against the operator of a box van loaded with chemicals, were...

SHORT HAULS

Coil company THE Boughton Group has purchased the entire equity in Winn Boughton Ltd — joint venture company formed with Winn...

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LT TRIALS FOR THE METROBUS

ONE of the first prototypes of the new Metrobus double-decker is to go for trials with London Transport. Initial production of...

Saved by FTA

pl an... A NEW public service vehicle inspection service, developed jointly by the Freight Transport Association and the...

LT battle bus brea

LONDON Transport's availability record of Fleetline buses had been "appalling", until LT carried out its own modifications to...

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Oxford studies 'no-go' bus areas

BUSES may well be denied access to Oxford's city centre, despite an encouraging report made on the pedestrian precinct by the...

LICENSING POWER TUG-OF-WAR

THERE was a case for transferring the responsibilities for determining bus routes and coach operations from area Traffic...

CPT dinner

THERE will be no annual dinner held by the Confederation of Road Passenger Transport this year. The next date for this function...

Agency switch

Meadowbank Engineering has been appointed the Foden distributor for North Humberside and part of South Yorkshire. It will take...

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Fiat increases

TWO commercial vehicles from the Fiat range have been increased in price. The 13ONT will be raised by 6.9 per cent to £8,335...

Par f the course?...

. . . and VW improve the LT range IF VOLKSWAGEN goes ahead with production of its Golf van, shown in prototype form at this...

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Exchange of ideas

MOVEMENT 77, the sixteenth International Mechanical Handling Exhibition, is to be held at the National Exhibition Centre in...

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RNA hits out at rail freight

BRITISH Railways are uneconomic and cause noise and pollution, claims Road Haulage Association director-general, George...

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A week in the country

Johnny Johnson reports on an FTA management course 1/1/H1LE there is no doubt about the eloquence, there is nothing mysterious...

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somewhat blinkered view,

Any salesman worth his salt can reel off some persuasive reasons why his manufacturer's trailers are the best to buy. But what...

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Opetwiska outy We amoeba ta

Further to the letter by David Williams (CM, January 14) on the difficulties hauliers may have in getting paid for work done, I...

Mug wog tog-.

As public relations consultants to Rockwell International we were interested to read your feature on hand-held calculators (CM,...

Goat time of Gadget...

I was interested to read the article by Martin Watkins (CM December 31) when he compared the Bristol VRT, Ailsa and AEC 'RI'....

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Talking of Freightliners

Freightliner containers—a success? Paul Mungo talks to a firm that benefits from the system FREIGHTLINER container number...

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£215 for driver who walked out

A HAULIER, Nelson s Transport (Keighley) Ltd, was ordered by the Leeds Industrial Tribunal to pay £215 compensation to a driver...

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Overdrive packs performance punch

Fitting an overdrive unit to the Sherpa 215 model has produced better fuel figures for the vehicle, says Bill Brock LATEST...

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A ril have been offered traffic %IL in drums and I

have not carried this type of package before. I thought that it would be best to carry them longitudinally along the vehicle,...

Q Recently we received

instructions from a customer, whose premises are about three miles from our depot, to collect, on trade plates, his tractor...

Is there anything laid down in the regulations which specifies

the size of broken-down vehicle which a recovery vehicle may haul? My company is thinking of acquiring its own recovery...

Q How far back can a Licensing Authority go to take

into account previous convictions when considering the curtailment, suspension or revocation of an 0-licence, and what...

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After half a century of running his own transport fleet

Arthur Adams has now retired, and in this article he looks back at the gamble he and his brother took IN 1926 two young men...

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Of good report

Last week I came across a press release telling me all about a publication which dealt with foreign vehicle distributors, their...

New National language...

My thanks must be due to National Travel (South West) for telling me about its new leaflet in Gaelic, giving information for...

Bird's Eye View

March on... This is the story of the March Trading Estate in East Anglia. I have just received a beautifully designed brochure...

Wait and see

The Transport Department seem to be becoming very adept at shelving transport decisions until after the forthcoming Transport...

Busmanx

Following a steering committee report, the bus fleets of Douglas Corporation and the Isle of Man are to be amalgamated and...

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Renwick on road to recovery

EXTENSIVE reorganisation in the multi-business Renwick Group has resulted in a dramatic turn around in profitability. For the...

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Visibility for safety

WE hear of so many accidents these days, especially on the radio, that it is all too easy for engineers to adopt an attitude of...

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Quiet

please... Graham Mon tgomerie finds that silencers are an exhausting subject... TO MOST OPERATORS the silencer is the part...

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Clean sweeps are a 'must'

REGULATION 25 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1973 lays down that all motor vehicles which have...