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3rd July 1982
3rd July 1982
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ndustry wants Bill's loose ends tied up

E INDUSTRY will make another I in its favour when the House irts work on it next week. his emerged after a meeting tween...

NFC cash revelation

)ST of the money raised by sale of the National Freight mpany went into the organiion's pension fund and net )ceeds were only...

BL out?

is considering its long-term dianship with the Society of tor Manufacturers and Tradand is having discussions h the...

Haulier's permit threat

A WELSH haulier, Mr R. P. Edmonds of Dyfed, is under threat of physical violence if CM does not stop an investigation into...

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No clues on weights

THE QUESTION of what weights the Government will finally authorise for lorries was carefully avoided when Transport Under...

Another bridge?

AFTER hearing that the Severn Bridge needs to be strengthened, Transport Secretary David Howell is reviewing the longer term...

Front guan assistancE

THE TRANSPORT and Road search Laboratory is provid assistance to industry for testing and evaluation of signs of front...

Off rails but still moving

THE NATIONAL rail strike earlier this week had a patchy effect. The Post Office told CM on Monday that it hoped to be able to...

RHA aims for November

THE FIRST phase of the reorganisation of the Road Haulage Association into districts takes place at the end of this month, when...

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Scrap permits: MEP

ILL EEC road haulage permits should ears, a group of British Conservative rublished earlier this week. The report, Transport...

Go for EEC fund: MPs

THE GOVERNMENT should make renewed and urgent efforts to achieve EEC agreement on a European transport infrastructure fund,...

GLC backs new bridge

HE GREATER London Council as backed down from a potenial clash with the Department f Transport by dropping its ob)ction to the...

Study 'based on errors'

THE FINDINGS of the joint Franco/British Study Group on a fixed Channel link (CM, June 26) were based on errors and...

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London ban shelved HE ON-OFF saga of the Enfield nd

Barnet lorry ban in North ondon has gone through nother twist, and is to be helved until the Wood Inquiry as published its...

Euro fines

NTERNATIONAL transport drivTs passing through Belgium would be well advised to take plenty of cash with them as rom next year,...

Freight:. News Total ban?

THE GOVERNMENT was last week asked to discuss with the Greater London Council the question of forbidding very large vehicles...

FTA welcome ferry inquiry

SCOTTISH road transpon operators were delighted last week by the depth of investigation which the Monopolies and Mergers...

LDoY results

FURTHER results from the CM Lorry Driver of the Year regional finals have reached the office. South Wales. Class A: I. Fox...

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A aues ti on o f reout

A FORMER director of two insolvent transport companies has been granted a standard international operator's licence for one...

Going Dutch

A JOINT company is beii formed by Whitbread Lando and Southern British Road SI vices to handle Whitbrel wholesale distribution...

Snap, crackle, and pop

NORTH WESTERN BRS has strengthened its developing contract hire business with a £0.5m contract to provide Kellogg's with 11...

'Pathet i c ' record: BRF

THE FAILURE to reach a decision on a Dorchester by-pass, first planned 30 years ago, has been condemned as a "pathetic example...

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Vlersey tolls teaser

HE NEED for closer consultation with commercial vehicle perators over methods of collecting Mersey Tunnel tolls was emhasised...

Freight News FA's law seminars

THE FREIGHT Transport Association is to hold a series of major seminars entitled Transport Law — '82 at regional centres from...

`Ban political strikes'

NO RIGHTS can be given to strikers without taking away from the rights of others, said Employment Under Secretary David Wadding...

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Technical News

S&D task force WITH NO fanfares of trumpets, She!yoke and Drewry made its debut as a military vehicle builder at the British...

STEVE GRAY our technical edittor, has moved to become editor

of our associated journal Motor Trader. Steve joined CM eight years ago with a wide experience of the motor trade and the...

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Jackson annoyed

LAST MINUTE agreements be tween applicants and objector waste time, South Wales Traffi Commissioners' chairmal Ronald Jackson...

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NBC cuts warning

HE QUEST for financial efficiency at National Bus should not overle the need to maintain an adequate local public transport...

. , Passenger News

Support for Govt LT THERE is widespread support for a separate transport authority for London and for London Transport to be...

Trouble ends at Bexhill

tE BEXHILL Bus Company is holding its own and is set to expand, ter two years of teething problems, reports TIM COBB. The...

Kent fears

EAST KENT and Maidstone and District are mounting a campaign against a threat by the Kent County Council to reduce their...

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Ford pick-up to take on Japanese

FORD is now selling its South African built one-tonne payload pick-up in a bid to take on the Japanese importers. Two versions...

Taskers new service

A NEW SERVICE to operators and hauliers which will deal with all aspects of the White Paper proposals on lorry weights has been...

Can you write?

IF YOU can write, have technical background, hold class one hgv driving licenc want a change of job, and a prepared to travel,...

Anchorpac at IWM

ANCHORPAC launched a lc cost, portable waste comp tion unit at last week's lnstitu of Wastes Management exhil tion at...

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.ondon Transport's unning joke

yHEN there is industrial action if one sort or another on ondon Transport Underground, Iritish Rail's service to Aoorgate is...

largain travel for nileage friends

NLIMITED TRAVEL for 15 days n Greyhound Lines' 100,000 mte-miles of coach services in re USA and Canada and two ne-way flights...

Dog's inhumanity to man

ANOTHER eminent lawyer who is unlikely to be remembered for his association with transport is Tom Field-Fisher, QC, who...

Transport expertise goes unremarked

THE OBITUARY notices that I have read announcing the recent death of David Karmel, QC, detail a distinguished career at the Bar...

A gamble on a tunnel?

A NATIONAL LOTTERY to pay the overwhelming interest charges on the Dartford tunnel has been suggested by an Essex county...

'May day, May day' on the road

LORRY DRIVERS once earned the title, Knights of the Road, as much for their readiness to help drivers in distress as by their...

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Private enterprise looks set to clean up

THE 84th Institute of Wastes Management Conference and Exhibition has just been held in Scarborough. It featured a number of...

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German treasure hunt

AT FIRST GLANCE, Transport '82, held last week (CM June 26) in Munich was a complex and at first glance rather disappointing...

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Say it loud we're heavy and proud!

JUGGERNAUTS are noisy, break up our roads, overcrowd our streets and damage our cities and villages. Juggernauts are a menace!...

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Bureau de change to a new Tactic) service

FOLLOWING hard on the heels of the legislation which made tachographs compulsory in goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes gross [the...

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Diversification that's the name of the game

WHAT DOES a transport company do when it has a large fleet of tippers relying on an ever-declining building industry that is...

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Eastern bodybuilders fight the flab

CM's new technical editor Bill Brock looks in on Wilcox of Peterborough and Seadyke of Wisbech INFLATION and rising costs...

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Promising update from Eastern Coach Works

THE Leyland 851 is a coach body that has been quietly launched on to the market, and at the moment it is unlikely to be...

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Ancient and modern

NUMBERS of gleaming ERF tractive units with dry-powder tankers are now based where a tidemill mentioned in the Doomsday Book...

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50 years, 500 customers and 500,000 engines

PERKINS ENGINES of Peterborough celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Starting with small, rented premises, no equipment and...

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"They stumble that run fast"

IT SEEMS a purge is being planned to stamp out a new menace in the Dartford tunnel. Apparently a secret club has been brought...

Having it both ways

THOSE political agitators who plan to disrupt the launch of the South African-built Ford Cortina pick-up (CMJune 19) allege...

Cummins-uppance for the Hawk

I AM worried about the Hawk, normally such a paragon of Hawk-like virtues. But in CM June 12, there is a sign of...

Buses to the rescue again

ONCE again the travelling public was inconvenienced this week by management and men for women) of British Rail. Thankfully good...