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29th November 1974
29th November 1974
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Violence erupts as

9,000 SBG men stay oui VIOLENCE broke out in several parts of Scotland this week as an unofficial strike by more than 9,000 bus...

More pay claims on the way

HAULAGE contractors, having met a drivers' wage demand, are about to be confronted with two more. This time from administrative...

Get those rates ur now Silberman

HAULIERS should put their rates up now and not wait for weeks of negotiation with customers. This was said last night by Mn. M....

GROUND rules on the exemption of fuel oils from tax,

being prepared by the European Commission in Brussels, will not include public transport. The Commission revealed this week...

arrangements deliveries the new Covent Garth market are now restricted

between 10.30pm ar 2.30pm the next day to tl fruit and vegetable mark and between 10.30pm al lam to the flower markr Operators...

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Cheshire operators seek extension into Yorks

NORTHERN operators of extended coach tours continue to seek extension of their catchment areas and the Yorkshire Traffic...

Wheel spray tests

A THREE-POINT programme of research to find ways of reducing wheel spray has been commissioned by the Environment Secretary....

Common standards

for tyres . frotn our Brussels correspondent COMMON standards for the quality of motor vehicle tyres are to be laid down by...

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LOCAL delivery and collection services like those performed, by milkmen

were among the possible exemptions mentioned by Mr Fred Mulley, the Minister for Transport, when he introduced to the Commons...

Legend has it that there was once, in ancient Greece,

an innkeeper called Procrustes who tailored his guests to fit his bed. If they were too tall, he cut off their legs; should...

Roadships loses nearly a million

DESPITE a forecast of a modest profit by its chairman on January 8 this year, R oadships Ltd, the former Ralph H ilton...

Glasgow seeks 25 per cent

AN APPLICATION for fare rises of up to 25 per cent from January 7 has been lodged by the Greater Glasgow PTE with the Scottish...

Beef ban threat lifted

THE THREAT of a ban on road hauliers who handle Irish beef imports by members of the National Farmers Union was lifted this...

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ROUTES:

No cure for rebel driver WHEN good roads were provided all but the occasional rebel lorry driver would use them, and an...

ROUTES:

Make a start on local schemes now A CALL to make an immediate start to local schemes for lorry routeing, before a national...

£3m for BRSP depots

BRS Parcels Ltd is to spend Dm on four new depots. This was announced last week when Mr Jack Jones, general secretary of TGWU,...

Tribunal defers penalty

THE decision of the Scottish LA to remove two vehicles from the license of Leith Waste Company has been upheld by the Transport...

Vandal slashes air leads

FOR THE second time within two months a Stockport haulage company's vehicles have had their air brake leads cut. In the latest...

New acquisition for McGregor Cory

THE entire share capital of Louis Duforest International Ltd has been acquired by Ocean Transport & Trading Ltd, on behalf of...

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Tribunal accepts explanation but rejects appeal

A SCOTTISH haulier who had not attended a public inquiry at which one of his vehicle licences was suspended had his explanation...

More roads for Liverpool docks' call

FURTHER road developments and improvements in the Port of Liverpool were needed urgently, Mr Desmond McKiernan, Liverpool...

Smaller lorries mean more lorries

A GROWTH in the number of goods vehicles by as much as seven times the present figure would result in the banning of heavy...

Transport's lack of sex appeal

THE UNDERLYING theme in a talk on "EEC Transport Policy — future trends of significance to road transport operators" in London...

Mitchell Coils profits up

A 10 PER CENT increase in pre-tax profits in the 12 months ended on June 30 is reported by Mitchell Cotts Transport Ltd. The...

British win in Euro driver contest

A BRITISH lorry driver. Mr Peter Croft of the Ford Motor Co, won the rigid vehicle section of the international championship...

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Operators and planners reflect on Dykes Act

AT A "Planning for Lorries" conference arranged by the Freight Transport Association in London this week prominent transport...

NFC cold-store link

A SUBSIDIARY of the National Freight Corporation — Tempco International — is going into partnership with Bejam Ltd to operate a...

Union Trucks' Scania depot

A £85,000 HQ for Union Trucks Ltd, northern region distributor for Scania, was opened last week at Killingworth, near...

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Expect more expensive trucks Leyland sales chief

THE . current national and international shortages in materials, money and manpower will almost certainly mean trucks and buses...

New transport centre

A NEW transport centre was opened last week at Wednesbury, Staffordshire, by Wilkins and Mitchell Ltd, the Midlands based...

UK-France service

A TW10E-WEEKLY groupage service between Manchester, Birmingham and Bark ing and Paris and ' Rouen was started last week by...

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Superbus deficit increasing

but prospects of more services IN A SUMMARY report on the Stevenage Superbus Experiment published last week, the weekly...

New council members for R HA

.Two new members have been appointed to the national council of the Road Haulage Association. Mr J. J. Masters, managing...

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Bus grants case: eight fined £3375

THREE bus companies and five other defendants were fined a total of £3,375 with costs of £7,900 at Newport Crown Court last...

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Getting more dery and getting more out of it

IRTE fuel forum covers topical issues BRITISH LEYLAND is prepared to produce a reliable, effective road speed governor as an...

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CAP THAT!

by CM reporter UP TO DOUBLE normal tyre life without loss of roadholding performance is claimed for Kenprest, a new tyre...

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'Barefaced cheating' says magistrate

Vegetable merchant fined £1,400 for 'irresponsible' hours offences HOURS and records offences committed by Leeds vegetable...

'Technical hitch' says haulier

A CORNISH HAULIER had one specified vehicle and a margin of three vehicles suspended from his licence for one month following...

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Six-month licence suspension

THERE HAD clearly been negligence in the management of a family group of road haulage companies and the evidence could not be...

Haulier had no licence

A SUNDERLAND haulage firm, Leslie & Alan Gilmore, 11 Gordon Terrace, Southwick, which had been in business since 1963, were not...

Improving traffic flow

THE FOUR London Boroughs and the GLC are jointly considering a report of the northeast London project which suggests solutions...

Driver did not know psv licence was necessary

ALLEGED shortcomings in the psv regulations were referred to by a defending solicitor before Taverham (Norwich) magistrates....

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Automatic satisfaction with Esso's 'extra'

Dil-company fleet experience with automatic and iemi-automatic tankers has been good; now the noblem is that similar...

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Image bustin'

My colleague John Darker accompanied Neil Carmichael and his party of local dignitaries on a circuit of Stevenage to sample the...

Light fantastic

Travelling to, rather than from, Germany has been a much lighter item than even alloy pistons in fact a small baloon. To wit,...

The innocent

Three lessons that the old soldier always teaches are: never volunteer, never plead guilty, and never ever volunteer to plead...

Easy on the eyes

If all the sexy calendars are getting you down year by year, you might like to rest the eyes with the minicalendar that's just...

0 rwellian transport

Will biises have been superseded by the end of the century as some more imaginative people have suggested? Not according to...

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They care about maintenance down Lambeth way

3eset by planning difficulties caused by the boundaries .evision and by strikes at testing stations, local authorities lave...

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Taking your lorry abroad

9: Spain and Yugoslavia 1RITISH operators — both hire and evvard and own-account — require iermits from the DoE's...

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A future in forwarding?

Two European transport operators have very different philosophies, based on Continental experience AT A TIME when British...

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An easy way to better diesels? Work at the ISVR

gives prom is that retarded injection of small droplets could pay off all round by Paul Brockington ONE RESEARCH institute,...

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Elders and betters

PROPOSALS for the grant of a heavy goods vehicle licence to persons under 21 include a provision that the licence may be taken...

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I am a freight vehicle operator and I am thinking

of adding a passenger vehicle, which will he a public service vehicle, to my operations. I cannot . find any reference to the...

Q I am P5 . rears of age and am leaving

school next Julv, 1 am hoping to he an apprentice . fitter. When I am 21 1 would like to drive for a haulage . firm. Could you...

huy a coach for conver sion into a holiday home,

how can I tax it and is there any restriction on size to lax it at the private rate? Would I he allowed to tow a small trader...

Who is legally permitted to peruse drivers' log sheets, apart

from the operator who signs them, the police, and Ministry inspectors? It has come to my notice that a shop steward has been...

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The new law on labour relations

4: Trade union activity by John Darker AMBIM LABOUR RELATIONS is much more of an art than a science! For every clear cut...

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Public service vehicles 1

by Les Oldridge TEng (CEO, MIMI, AMIRTE THE 1972 Road Traffic Act repealed the 1960 Act except that part relating to public...

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Portable lifts

A range of low-cost portable hydraulic cranes called the Link Crane Mark Ill has been introduced by Link-Hampson Ltd,...

Forget me not

The Rotadate system is used for planning and ensuring the continuity of maintenance programmes. The chart has a black...

Diesel welder

A diesel-powered welding unit, in corporating a Deutz-Mag single cylinder 14hp engine has been introduced by Max Arc, The...

Blow and suck

A new dual-purpose Gemini pump provides dual services from one pto. Drum Engineering is now offering its Gemini 130 compressor!...