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30th March 1989
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LIVING ON THE FRONT LINE

• When the proposed Single European Market arrives in 1992, hauliers will be in the front line. It is the road transport...

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Fewer fatalities

• UK road deaths fell by 5.6% last year to around 5,000 killed — the lowest figure for 35 years. In 1987 5,300 people died on...

UK hauliers prepare for battle

• In the first major survey of British hauliers' preparations for the 1992 Single European Market (SEM), Commercial Motor has...

MCW: Plaxtons poised to pouncel

• Metro-Cammell Weymann, the bus building arm of Laird Group is "neither confirming nor denying" rumours that Plaxtons has...

Contracts' strange brew

• Brewery distribution will change if the Government's plan to force the "big six" brewers to sell 22,000 of their 34,000 pubs...

Passengers must pay

• Transport Secretary Paul Channon has called on LRT's new chairman Wilfred Newton to "complete the restructuring of London...

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Manton in Icestar link-up

• Southfields, the Loughborough-based curtain-sider body and trailer manufacturer, has linked up with Manton International of...

Truckfest record

• This year's Commercial Motor Truckfest (30 April-1 May) is on course to attract a record-breaking entry of the best trucks in...

Cold welcome

• Following a sustained campaign by Transfrigoroute, Dover's Eastern Docks now has a temperaturecontrolled inspection room...

Biffa into Belgium

• The first of two Britishbuilt Garwood Type FEL compactor bulk waste vehicles to be supplied to the Belgian subsidiary of...

AMA unhappy at safety law

• Local authorities have given a guarded welcome to the road safety proposals contained in the latest Department of Transport...

Driving union

• The Transport and General Workers Union has launched a campaign to halt its membership decline, including a week's intensive...

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Blast prompts action

• The Government has announced new controls over the transport of explosives after a van belonging to ICI subsidiary Nobel...

AMA on Autoguide

• The Autoguide navigation system is causing concern at the Association of Metropolitan Authorities. It says local authorities...

Truckers on Brands grid

• Brands Hatch will host the Mobil Truck Superprix on 1516 April. A record entry of over 60 teams will contest this first event...

Welsh wizardry

• The Welsh Development Agency has invested £220,000 in haulier Tommy Williams to help him expand his international operation...

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Truck or van — whatever the size of your commercial

vehicle, there's no doubt it represents a sizeable investment. Of course, investments such as this are usually budgeted for...

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Foden launches new Cat ATAAC

• Caterpillar has stepped up its assault on the UK truck engine market by supplying its air-to-air after-cooled (ATAAC)...

Spring debut for Fiesta

• Ford's new Fiesta van will go on sale on 13 April, just over two months after the new passenger car version was announced. It...

JR uses US spec • American advances in refrigerated trailer

technology are being used by Cardiff-based JR Supplies in its Loadmaker insulated bulkheads. The company says the new...

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Bostrom profits

• Vehicle seating manufacturer Bostrom reported pre-tax profits of 22.12 million on a 222.26 million turnover in 1988. BRS...

YTE to close Corby depot

• York Transport Engineering is closing its Corby depot because "it no longer has a srategically or geographically important...

11I3 announces growth plans

• Contract distribution group Tibbett and Britten has revealed plans to spend more than 25 million on new vehicles during 1989,...

Healthy books

• Booker, the distribution, agricultural and health products company, increased profits by 214 million to 278 million in 1988....

TIP plans rental fleet expansion

• Trailer rental group TIP Europe is looking to expand its trailer rental fleet from 16,000 to 17,500 within the next six...

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Meachers buys for expansion

• Meachers Group has bought freight forwarding firm Oast (Agencies) in Southampton and will open five more distribution centres...

Swains retreats from three days

• International haulier Swains of Stretton is pulling out of three-day distribution in the face of fierce competition from...

Little acorns

• New parcels company FRX International of Hounslow, Middx, claims its prices are 10% lower than any other parcels company. It...

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Drawing out drawbars

• While Brussels Eurocrats discuss an 18.35m drawbar "short" limit, one Dutch haulier is proposing an overall train length of...

Pulling the paper skips

• Tony Thompson and Crane Fruehauf have designed a new trailer system for collecting waste paper, which enables full skips to...

Charnwood is in the Clover

• Charnwood Borough Council has taken delivery of two Clover Road Master refuse collectors, based on the Iveco Ford Cargo 2424...

MoD may buy foreign

• The row over who should pay for modifications to 2,500 Mark II diesel-engined Land Rovers supplied to the army (CM 21-27 July...

• Mercedes-Benz will be displaying four trucks at next month's

Tipcon exhibition at Harrogate. The 2435S twinsteer 6x2 tractor launched last autumn will be displayed alongside its 4x 2...

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A s Chief Transport Engineer for Northern brewers, Joshua Tetley, Walter

Cox rates budgetary control as one of his top priorities. Steve Squire, Trunking/Tanking Customer Service Manager, does too....

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Blundred hits east London

• Harry Blundred marked the launch of Transit Holdings' Docklands minibus service last week with call for total PSV...

• Newark-based operator W Gash & Sons is being taken

over by Lincolnshire Road Car company, leaving most buses in the Newark area under the control of the two companies' owner,...

Nuts about Scania

• Brazil took the lion's share of Scania's 3,704 bus sales in 1988, buying 1,267 vehicles compared with 915 the previous year....

Spring launch for Fulham Hoppa

• A new London tnidibus service called "Fulham Hoppa", running between Putney Pier and Chelsea Harbour, will be launched on 1...

Burnley battleground

• Competition will be hotting up in Burnley next month, when municipally-owned Burnley and Pendle begins to collaborate with...

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NE goes Expressliner

• National Express has unveiled the Expressliner Plaxtons Volvo coach — its standard vehicle for the 1990s. All National...

London routes famed out

• Contracts for the operation of six bus services have been awarded by London Regional Transport following competitive...

WMPTE cuts rural aid

• West Midlands PTE will cut its annual £5.6 million subsidy for non-commercial bus routes by £980,000 next year as changes are...

Labour slams dereg

• A Labour government would radically alter the course of public transport policy in Britain, says Shadow Secretary of State...

Peace comes to Rhyrnney

• Rhymney Valley's battle of the buses is over, with the sale of Council-owned Inter Valley Link to National Welsh for a figure...

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Robbery haulier sued

• A haulage company has been successfully sued for breach of contract following an incident when robbers armed with a sawn-off...

• West Midlands Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh has cut

the duration of the 14vehicle PSV 0-licence owned by Sealandair (Coaching) of West Bromwich. The company appeared at...

Droveridge fraud leads to heavy fine

• Using PSVs without an 0licence or insurance cost Droveridge and its transport manager John Buxton 2885 in fines and costs,...

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Rest-break row goes on • A Crown Court Judge has

backed the view of Lancashire police that at any given time a driver has to have had 45 minutes' break in any period of 41/2...

IR A lorry driver, who claims he received a severe

whiplash injury in a motorway accident, is suing a company for the alleged negligence of its employee. In a High Court writ...

Dean wins through

• Lesley and Ann Dean, trading as Three M's Transport, has been granted a new two-year six-vehicle international licence by...

• Failing to pay a £95 licence fee after being

granted an in'crease in vehicle authorisa4ion led to Solihull ownerdriver Brian Andrews, trading as B Andrews Haulage,...

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BUSINESS MOVES

WHEN ROADS RUN OUT • Angloco, the Batley-based supplier and manufacturer of fire-fighting vehicles, has been appointed sole UK...

EVENTS

TOTAL QUALITY • Coopers & Lybrand is holding a "Total quality" conference on 4-5 May at the Cavendish conference centre in...

PUBLICATIONS

BRITAX GOODIES • Britax has published its 1989 catalogue detailing its truck and bus lamps, mirrors and wiper equipment. Free...

PRODUCTS

NON-SLIP STENCILS • Fasson UK is marketing self-adhesive, non-slip vinyl stencils for vehicle liveries. Marketed as FasCal...

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ROAD NEWS TWO MONTHS DELAYS ON WEST MIS • The

Department of Transport has warned motorists of delays on the western section of the M25 between junctions 11 and 13 for the...

ROADWORKS

Mll London: Lane closures boil carriageways between 35/6 (Loughton/M25). M25 Surrey: Contraflow at ,J113 (Staines) and ill...

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• A good deal has been said recently on the

subject of the Mercedes-Benz electropneumatic shift (EPS) gearbox. The UK operation has pinned its colours to the box, and has...

• What sort of mileage do you drive each year?

Probably rather more than the national average revealed by Roads and Traffic minister Peter Bottomley in the Commons last...

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AEC VEE-EIGHT MEMORIES • Further to the letter from E

G Corke (CM 2-8 March) about AEC fitting automatic gearboxes, he is probably referring to the AEC vee-eightpowered Mandator...

LEASING WITH LOMBARD • We have noted with interest the

unsolicited accolade which Lombard has received in the article "Making the Most of Their Money" in Commercial Motor's finance...

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To show how flexible the Roadrunner is, we will be

changing its body no less than five times to suit each operator's business. Penman Engineering will be fitting a sliding side...

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CLEAN GREEN AN EAN

Ford's best-selling Transit family has been delivered of a new baby — a clean-burn 2.5-litre diesel engine designed to meet...

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WIN A FACT-FINDING TRIP TO EUROPE

Commercial Motor and Castrol are offering one lucky reader the chance to prepare for the challenge of 1992 with a free...

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INTO THE UNKNOWN

Ted Carroll has left a secure job after 23 years to take up the challenge offered by running his own transport business with a...

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GOING IT ALONE

Northern supermarket group Morrisons is defying the trend to third-party distribution. The fast-growing Bradford chain believes...

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ALMS TO ARMENIA

Two weeks ago, the first British artics rolled into the Armenian capital Yerevan, loaded with relief supplies for that...

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RIDING HIGH

Stagecoach was founded in 1980 with two secondhand coaches. Now, it is one of the biggest private bus companies in Britain. The...

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• TANKFREIGHT PRESTON/PRICE Tankfreight has a new director, Paul Preston,

to concentrate on marketing Tankfix, the national engineering network for workshops and all types of third-party commercial...

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SHOP TALK

• While we are particularly concerned with the components and service side of the industry serving road haulage, the health of...

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A news digest of road transport reports from all sectors

• The European Community is introducing mandatory anti-lock braking for artics plated at 26 tonnes gross combination weight and...

Britool aims for top with 300 van fleet

• Britool is launching 10 mobile showrooms on the road each month until a fleet of 300 vehicles is built up to sell its own...

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Sizing up parts mart

• In the automotive components market, "Small is not beautiful," the Financial Times Motor Conference, held with the Single...

Australian diesel add Nylon for UK

I Interface Technologies launched two new Nuion products at Autopartac, which attracted a large number of trade-only visitors...

150mph jet dishes dirt

• Small operators may find that their washing requirements are met by the just hunched KEW-Hobby domestic pressure washer,...

Truck auctions now read ADT.

• British Car Auctions has changed it name to ADT Auctions. The BCA Group merged with ADT in 1987. ADT mainly operates security...

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The right unit lasts

years With a little care in their upkeep, power take-offs should provide many years of reliable service IN Because of their...

Advice for longer life

• There is a greater likelihood of trouble with a power take-off either when it has been removed from the transmission, or when...

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First step is to remove the transmission cover plate, fill

the hole with a rag, and clean off the mating face. The studs should then be inserted to the shoulder of their threads, and...

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Tipping with confidence

The tipper market is booming at the moment. We look at the services offered by the many tipping gear manufacturers, as well as...

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Protecting your prop

Propshafts take quite a beating, particularly in off-road use. We visit a company experienced in their maintenance, repair and...

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• The life of a tipper, particularly one that is

working off-road for a substantial part of its day, is an especially arduous one. It therefore follows that the demands on a...

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Bendix battles 'pirate' recon

• Air brake equipment manufacturer Bendix is stepping up its battle against spurious or "pirate" reconditioners of its...

Bright, safe futures for paint shops on form

• Bodyshop managers face important changes in health and safety practices that, despite widespread uncertainty as to the...

M'Way ushers in a new age

• Refurbishment plans for many MotorWay depots are placing them firmly in the 21st Century, says the company, Almost all traces...

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Fitter's are kept on course

• As trailers have become increasingly more complex, it has become increasingly difficult for workshop fitters to keep pace...

• Julie McNay, who works for BASF C+I subsidiary Valentine

at Oldham-based Cunbar, is the first woman to win the City and Guilds London Institute's silver medal for vehicle painting....

CHEM advice: box clever

• With the introduction of roll-on/roll-off hook-type equipment that is able to lift up converted rope-type of dinosaurtype...

These factors spell brilliant future

• The only reservation Arnold Parker, chairman of the Factoring Services Group, has about the introduction of the Single...

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Take a cable

The message is that Dermaglen's aerosol-applied chain and cable lubricant Cable Brite lasted about two weeks on the outer...

WORKSHOP PEOPLE

• Richard Shepherd, MP for Aldridge and Brownhills, cut the first turf of the 22 million truck centre being built by the S...

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Factors that count

Arnold Parker, chairman of the Factoring Services Group, says getting the buying advantages enjoyed by the national chains has...

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Cab and Engine Heating

For Trucks, Vans, Coaches and Minibuses I f you're looking to install additional heating into your commercial vehicles, take a...

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Spring show

• The Autopartac exhibition, held in Olympia 2, London, was a busy show attended by trade-only visitors. Interface Technologies...

Tune up after-sales, W Mids IMI told

• When the West Midlands Centre of the Institute of the Motor Industry held a seminar on "The challenge of aftersales into the...

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AFTERMARIL.

is anti-foam, protecting the environment. Comma Turbo 90 • M & F Components introduced a range of ignition leads under its...

Halton opts for clean wipes

• Halton Transport of Widnes in Cheshire has chosen Mainlycke Tork wipers to replace its previous supply of laundered cloths....

Follow fuel movements daily with gauge

• The Petrosonic tank gauging system from Autovend records fuel levels in bulk storage tanks, meaning that daily fuel movements...

IMC vulcanises tyres on site

• When Hertfordshire-based 1MC (Engineers) updated its Monaflex tyre repair system, it turned to Controls & Automation to...

The cream of advice by Deb

• Deb, the manufacturer of Swarfega, has relaunched its protective and aftercare creams for the automotive industry. Deb...