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30th January 1970
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Farsighted project

The commercial drivers motel illustrated on page 18 could be built within a year. The imaginative Cossington project conceived...

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0-licensing bids open

Hanlon probes overloading ID The first applications to be called to a public inquiry devoted solely to operators' licences...

Roads for prosperity

• Some of industry's biggest guns last week fired an opening broadside at "the critical effect on the British economy brought...

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MoT snap checks on trailers

• A nation-wide check on goods vehicles with trailers—artic and drawbar—was carried out on Wednesday by Ministry of Transport...

Death of Mr. James Amos

• James Amos, former chairman of the Scottish Bus Group, died on Friday, aged 74. After service in World War I he returned to...

Hours rumours denied

MP accuses Mr. Muliey of mishandling the situation and asks for two-month delay • Rumours, widespread last weekend, that the...

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Haulier jailed for conspiracy

• One man was sent to prison and another fined at the Old Bailey last Friday for conspiring to defraud a transport firm. One of...

'0' applicants slow in Scotland

• When 250 operators and engineers from the Industrial Transport Association, the Road Haulage Association and the Freight...

Nuttall 'public' optimism

• Confidence that during the next few years benefits will accrue from the rationalization of businesses in William Nuttall...

Action committee runs for cover

• Road hauliers and warehousemen who last week formed the anti-Bristow committee to fight the proposed extension of dock...

Managers say `no'

• A suggestion from the Industrial Transport Association to the seven-month-old National Guild of Transport Managers that the...

Test case on container labour

• While an industrial tribunal in Manchester on Tuesday considered a "test case" for the future of Britain's container traffic,...

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Records books

• Tollit and Harvey Ltd., 64 Southwark Street, London, SE1, has now produced, after consultation with the MoT, the "Guildhall...

Tankermen's rise?

• Pay increases of more than 15 per cent are being sought by 2,500 Esso Petroleum transport workers. The claim, which goes...

Turner not Fuller

• In the road test report for the Ford D1000/Taskers 24-ton artic published on January 16, the gearbox was wrongly stated to be...

Agency drivers

• Mr. Mulley told the Commons this week that he is considering whether a change in law is needed to meet the difficulty which...

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Commercial motels are

on the way by John Darker • Lorry drivers' motels have been urgently needed for many years but the road transport industry and...

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Spares shortage worries engineers

• Representatives from British Leyland, Ford and Vauxhall are being invited to take part in an open forum on the subject of...

Marley forms 2,400-vehicle transport company

• A new wholly owned subsidiary, Marley Transport Ltd., has been set up by Marley Ltd. The company is using the new transport...

EEC argument on tachographs

• Despite opposition by France, the Common Market Transport Ministers decided on Tuesday to introduce a Community requirement...

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Savings by simulation

The potential of transport consultancy • Examples of the savings which operational research can offer in road transport were...

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Haulier fined

• Penalties amounting to £707 were imposed on two partners in a haulage firm who faced 50 summonses at Leyland magistrates'...

SELNEC MAKE'S Britain's biggest fares revision

• An application by SELNEC PTE to revise its fares would realize an additional £2,773,500, it was stated at the beginning of...

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Hines the last chapter

• The beginning of what is probably the last chapter in the history of D. E. Hines (Transport) Ltd., of Streetley, took place...

Pakistan express refused

• Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, sitting in Leeds, on Thursday of last week, refused an application by Shaheen Express, of...

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Woman coach owner loses p.s.v. licence

• Buses used by West Wales Coaches on a contract to carry 200 workers to a chicken factory were described as being in a...

Executive coaches opposed

• SELNEC PTE's proposal to operate an executive commuter coach service from Hale Barns, Cheshire to Manchester, is likely to...

Free buses for shoppers?

• If a scheme currently under discussion materializes, shoppers in Birmingham's city centre will this summer have the use of a...

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Poly-centre problem for PTA

• "Although SELNEC (Greater Manchester) PTA lies in one of the world's major industrial conurbations it is a poly-centre unit",...

Teesside order switched

• The vehicle replacement programme of Teesside Municipal Transport is to be modified following a decision of the transport...

No world-wide take-over

• A statement issued last week by World Wide Coaches Ltd. referred to rumours that there was a possibility of the company's...

Feeder services

• Mr. Peter Welding, Merseyside PTE's director of planning and development, said last week that experiments with feeder buses...

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Film to aid h.g.v. drivers

• A film just produced by the Road Transport Industry Training Board is likely to eliminate the butterflies from the stomachs...

Drivers' hours exemptions

• Mr. Mulley has laid before Parliament a draft of the Drivers' Hours (Passenger Vehicle) (Modifications) Order to provide for...

No parking lights in provinces?

• The Minister of Transport is proposing to extent to the whole country the London arrangement whereby vehicles may park...

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Milk Board's big tanker order

• John Thompson Ltd; the Wolverhampton-based engineering group, has received orders worth over £150,000 from the Milk Marketing...

New IMI exams

• Following a change in the Institute of the Motor Industry rules of membership. allowing admission through examination only....

Skoda van changes

• Changes made to the Skoda 7cwt van imported into the UK include a new shape to the rear end of the body and modifications to...

Tyburn to have new general manager

Nicholas J. Barham, 34. has been appointed general manager (designate) of Tyburn Road Tank Services, part of the Powell Duffryn...

OBITUARY

We record with regret the deaths of Stanley Finkle and B. Smart. Mr. Finkle, 81, had retired from Sunderland Corporation...

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meet

Peter Livsey • What's it like to be made responsible for the sale of 50,000 commercial vehicles annually, after being in the...

Not yet in perspective

While not disagreeing with much that Mr. Haxby, director of training, RTITB, said in his article (CM January 9) any more than...

'Suspended tow'

As a breakdown vehicle operator and garage owner of some 20 years' experience, I was puzzled by an article on the Criton...

Closing bridges

This is a copy of the letter I have sent to the Minister of Transport concerning the closure of bridges throughout the...

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road and workshop

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (3) MANY TASKS in the course of vehicle parts reclamation call for precision drilling to...

Next week

Tippers and tipping are the focus for next week's issue of CM, which is a big special number. Operators will be particularly...

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container transport

and freight handling by David Lowe Charting container movements • A giant magnetic wall chart is helping one of Europe's...

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bird's eye view

by the Hawk • On target again Smiling Sam Gray, the 1968 Lorry Driver of the Year who hails from County Antrim, is in the...

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WHAT PRICE MORE POWER?

by J. M. Jack, BA, Transport Research Unit, University of Leicester CURRENTLY, most firms operating artics at 30-32 tons gross...

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insurance

by John Vann, FCII Medical fitness test for drivers • Heavy goods vehicle drivers face a new regulation from February 2. From...

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Pistons for high outputs

IN a Technitopics published many years ago, the author propounded the theory that the use of relatively heavy pistons would...

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Panic delivery needed...?

Call in the trouble shooters by David Lowe, MInstTA The release of small vehicles from carriers' licensing has added impetus...

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the costing column Starting to cost

• The Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs have been published regularly since 1911, and the number printed continues to...

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3: Research can be the haulier's key to expansion and diversification

(Previous articles in this series appeared in CM on January 2 and 9.) FREIGHT CARRIERS are very knowledgeable about operations...

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topic

Of making many books there is no end by janus N ALMOST any other occupation than that of a lorry driver a working week of 108...

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management

matters by John Darker, Amaim Depot planning the BRS Parcels saga (2) LAST WEEK I outlined evidence given at an appeal by BRS...

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know the law

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI The new h.g.v. driving licence (2) AN IMPORTANT PART of the new law concerning h.g.v. driving...

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Q What is the current position with regard to the

marking of names, registered offices and weights on commercial vehicles under 30cwt used in the food trade? We understand that...

Q I have read that diesel smoke emission is increased

if injection timing is retarded. A fellow operator has mentioned that the cause of excessive smoking in a particular case was...

Q Could you tell me the names and prices of

any publications which clearly explain in simple terms operators" licensing and vehicle plating? A Details of vehicle testing...

Q If a normal driving licence was destroyed by fire

could the holder obtain a fresh three-year licence as an alternative to a duplicate licence, thereby increasing the period...

Q I wish to know the formula for the

loading capacity of a given vehicle, when the tyre size, chassis and wheelbase, kerb weight and the plated weights are known....

Q I would like to raise a query regarding the new

"0"-licence application form as described in Commercial Motor on November 7. Take question 7 (a) Oil "by hiring": does this...

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the common room

More guidance for school leavers by George Wilmot I REFERRED (CM December 12) to the most encouraging work of a road haulage...