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4th February 1984
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The vicious circle

HANS TAUSCHER, managing director of Mercedes Benz (UK), did well last week to remind his colleagues in the manufacturing sector...

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DTp gunning for

oversize demounts OVERSIZE demountable bodies and containers will be outlawed if Department of Transport proposals to amend...

'Cut derv' says FTA

A CUT in dery tax is high on the Freight Transport Association's shopping list to Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson for...

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NFC's bumper year

THE NATIONAL FREIGHT Consortium trading profit reached £16.3 million for the year ended October 1, 1983, the NFC annual report...

Severn news

THE ACTION to be taken on strengthening the Severn Bridge and improving access to South Wales will be unveiled by Transport...

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Teesside on brink

EMPLOYERS and unions have two weeks to avoid a strike of haulage drivers on Teesside, but both sides appear keen to resolve the...

MB denies dumping claim

MERCEDES-BENZ UK has celebrated its 10th anniversary with record sales of commercial vehicles and cars, but the Daimler-Benz...

New regs coming soon

THE NEXT few months promise to be packed with legislation. The Department of Transport's decision on road tax is due this...

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Tarrant is NCCS's md

NATIONAL CARRIERS Contract Services, part of the National Freight Consortium, has made Mike Tarrant managing director, at the...

Can to Pickfords Removals

Stephen Carr joins the marketing team responsible for the development of new and existing UK and overseas products and...

Abdee to chair managers' club

THE TRANSPORT Managers' Club London area has elected Ian Abdee chairman for 1984. He is currently a director of Speedy Delivery...

Obituary

WE RECORD with regret the death of Gerald Scott, general manager of Cargo Van Equipment. Mr Scott set up the Bridgendbased...

Breeze's in at BRS Midlands

BRS MIDLANDS has promoted Mike Breeze to manager of its Corby branch. He will be responsible for developing the branch's...

NBC management changes

made changes at four of its James Cressey has become network manager for National Express. He will be based at Midland House,...

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Kammac's tax-save plan still in doubt

THE LEGALITY of a self-employed drivers' scheme still remains undecided, after the Transport Tribunal suggested that the legal...

Ukasta data

UKASTA, the United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association, has harnessed the Freight Transport Association's services to...

Dow satisfies

CAR-PARTS delivery specialist Dow Freight is claiming a high satisfaction level from one of its major customers. According to...

Carswell grows

CHESHIRE-based national parcel delivery company Carswell's of Congleton has expanded into Southern England by taking over a...

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BRF blasts Govt

ROAD IMPROVEMENTS in the metropolitan counties will be less achievable if the Government's present ideas for life after the...

A9 gap filled

THE SECOND LAST contract has been awarded for the 127-mile improvement scheme for the A9 Perth-Ardullie trunk road. The 1.6m...

Another ban

LORRIES over 7.5 tonnes gvw have been banned from a Northumberland town for an experimental six-month period, after the county...

Haulier gets Manx ferry

A PARCELS delivery company has started a weekly shipping service to the Isle of Man, geared to the needs of palletised goods...

Banks favour Chunnel

A GROUP of British and French banks which is studying the feasibility on financial grounds of a Channel tunnel was reported in...

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RHA vDutchmen

A NEW LICENCE application by a company formed by the Van der Luijt family of Dutch hauliers is being strongly opposed by the...

HM CUSTOMS AND EXCISE has published a new package of

information about vat. It consists of a booklet (notice 700) entitled The vat guide, a range of publications on vat liability,...

Tolls to go?

THE GOVERNMENT is to be asked by Merseyside County Council to abolish Mersey Tunnel tolls over a 10-year period. A deputation...

Jack's fined

FINES of £200 were imposed at Stonehaven Sheriff Court last month on Exportdoo, trading as Jack's Transport of Dundee. It...

Fork-lift comp

FOLLOWING the success of the 1983 competition, the second Fork Lift Operator of the Year competition will take place on...

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Look for Terberg

DUTCH specialist vehicle builder Terberg is showing several new models at the RAI Amsterdam Show, from February 9 to 18. One...

HSE shells out on L-R

A SPECIAL bodied Land-Rover for the transport of explosives has been supplied to the Health and Safety Executive by...

Trailor in stalemate

MOVES by Trailor to resolve the problems at its loss-making container division are being hampered by French national and local...

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Rigid weigher

AN ON-BOARD load indicator designed for rigid vehicles and known as Co-Pilot was on display at the Geneva Show last week. It...

Fuel measuring

A SWISS manufacturer, AIC Systems AG of Kastelsstr 45-52 CH 2540 Grenchen, Switzerland displayed a fuel measuring system at the...

Demountable removals

SCOTPAC, the international removals company in the P and 0 group is using demountable van bodies, that can be lowered fully to...

Pre-cured lorry tyres

A RANGE of flat-strip pre-cured treads for lorry tyres has been developed by RE Tyre and Rubber of Alton, Hampshire. Available...

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Trailblazing Plaxtons

PLAXTONS last week became the first British coachbuilder to launch a 4m high double-deck coach, when its long promised...

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Giant coach group

ONE OF Europe's largest coach tour operating groups has been created in North-West England by the take-over of Altrinchambased...

GMT go Dennis

HESTAIR DENNIS has won an order to supply 20 new midibuses and 30 double-deckers to Greater Manchester Transport. The single...

Kings Cross parking

NEW INTERIM coach parking arrangements are being introduced in the Kings Cross area of London when the National Car Parks...

Licences for WMPTE rival

WEST MIDLANDS Traffic Commissioners have granted three road service licences to Heart of England Tours, considered at a public...

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Cleared but costly

A COVENTRY coach operator has been ordered to pay E1,000 towards the cost of his trial, even though he was found not guilty of...

Independent drops out

HEAVY OPPOSITION has led Pontypridd independent Clayton Jones Coach Tours to drop applications for authority to run four...

Trial area expansion row

HEREFORD and Worcestershire County Council has asked Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley to extend the trial area in...

No Odic for ICC Tours

SOUTH EASTERN Traffic Commissioners have decided not to renew a psv operator licence held by Mr Collins, trading as ICC Tours....

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Land Rover diesels

THE LONG-AWAITED new 2.5litre diesel engine has been launched by Land Rover for its One Ten models and for Freight Rover's...

Dim/dip view

DIM-DIP devices are to become compulsory on new motor vehicles manufactured from October 1, 1986. Announcing draft...

Two-stall horsebox

G. C. SMITH Coachworks has produced a Luton-type horse box body with two stalls suitable for medium/heavy van chassis operating...

What's in a Nissan?

DATSUN UK, the independent, privately owner importer of Japanese Nissan Vehicles, has changed its name to Nissan UK as part of...

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No Trooper: Bedford

RUMOURS that right-handdrive versions of Isuzu's 4x4 Trooper vehicle will be sold in the UK badged as a Bedford have been...

Mercs sticks to diesels

MERCEDES-BENZ will continue to concentrate its light vehicle marketing efforts on diesel-enoined models for 1984. Eighty per...

Caddy coming

A LONG DISPUTE between VAG (UK) and the British Govern ment which has delayed the sale of Volkswagen Caddy pick-ups in the UK...

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GLZdrawbartoSony

A CRANE FRUEHAUF drawbar trailer is the first UK-built trailer to be equipped with Fruehauf's mark four version of the GLZ...

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Transport in the year 2020

IN 1984 George Orwell looked 36 years ahead and his prophecies, laden with gloom and foreboding, have largely been proved...

Caught in the spotlight

THANK YOU for publishing B. A. Mann's reply to my letter on high-intensity rear fog lamps in your December 31 edition. How...

The bumpy ride to hospital

I BELIEVE that Dennis had a prototype design for an ambulance with front-wheel drive for low loading as well as fully...

Goods in transit insurance

I HAVE READ your article in CM, January 21, on RHA Insurance Services with considerable interest My interest is however...

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Wheels within wheels for disabled

DISABLED PEOPLE around North Humberside have had their horizons widened by East Yorkshire Motor Services, which has converted a...

DTp joins Orpheus in tree business

"Orpheus with his lute made trees," sang a wench to cheer up a justifiably depressed Queen Katharine in Shakespeare's King...

Carry on with the judge's tablets

I MENTIONED recently the idiosyncracies of an American judge who made drunken drivers pay to advertise their shame in a local...

Makers winning war on dearer fuel

MOTOR MANUFACTURERS are doing their best to counter everrising petrol prices by cutting consumption. They have already far...

When the RHA fed 150 MPs

THE FUTURE of haulage was in the balance, Lord Mount Temple, who was Minister of Transport 50 years ago, warned . at a luncheon...

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The Peter Pan of the animal-feed world

IF J. M. Barrie was alive today he might be surprised by the grain vehicles that trundle around Kirriemuir in Angus. It's the...

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Engineerss notebook

MOST STORIES begin with chapter one, but the Volvo White story begins with Chapter 11. Back in September 1980 the original...

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Full gas marks for NFC's Tankfreight

Wales Gas is the latest customer to benefit from the Harrogate firm's step up to the new weight limit. First-class service and...

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Telephone Bill . . .

WHETHER or not drivers who are aspiring freight, traffic or transport managers like to read this is up to them! I asked Bill...

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When is chicken feed not chicken feed?

When it's 2,200 tons of the stuff and Buxted has to deliver it every week. Tim Blakemore has been looking at the firm's new...

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Van Hoc)l hands it to Al International

As well as buses and coaches, the Belgian firm has a body and trailer company that has been pushing much work the way of this...

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CEGB Scammells see radio-active service

Nuclear waste travels regularly on our roads. How? Safely? From where to where? Brian Weatherley, geiger counter at the ready,...

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Tough stuff from Loctite

SPECIALIST SEALING compound and adhesive manufacturer Loctite has launched a new adhesive called Sheet Steel Bonder 341. It...

Helping to protect against rust

TO HELP protect vehicles against rust, the Peabody Oil division of Sale Tilney Technology has introduced a chemical rust...

Colorful electroplater

LIGHT VEHICLES also need protection against rust, so Gunston Colorplugs has introduced a quick electroplating technique which...

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Bottom end of the market

FOR DRIVERS of vehicles with vinyl seats, Cabac has launched a new type of filled seat cover designed to keep drivers warmer in...

Wiping-up operations

BOWATER-SCOTT has produced two new disposable paper wipers with dispensers removing the need for regular laundered towels....

Workshop cover-up

THERE is no law to say a mechanic or fitter cannot look smart even working in a garage. Wood Harris has introduced the...

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When it's crashing down, business is booming

If you go down to the woods today, you might well come across Tree Harvesting collecting timber and transporting it to the...

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Transporting dangerous substances?

Read this THE MOST recent Regulation governing the movement of hazardous substances came into force on January 1 this year....

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Whether forecasting

Nationalisation, a maximum gross laden capacity of 22 tons, Michelin 'Metallic' type tyres and Jowett's Bradford van — only...

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Looking at L7 ___ by Keith Vincent

Instruments of power "THE MINISTER may make regulations ..." or "The Minister may by order. ..." These words probably occur...

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iffiraarm1778 L ° by George Malcolm

Profitability and the price war THE LORRY price war has been going on in Britain for some time. Its impact has been felt...

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The miller's tale

RANK HOVIS'S self-weighing flour tanker has been taken up by one of the largest Dutch bulk transport operators, which has...

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Putting the (mini back in bus

TWENTY YEARS ago the term "silent service", traditionally applied to the Royal Navy, was at least as appropriate to the...