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5th May 1988
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DOG EATS DOG

• What is wrong with tipper operators? The tipper market, we are told, is booming, because the construction industry which...

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• The Department of Transport has pledged to crack down on overloaded lorries.

Traffic examiners aim to weigh 99,000 HGVs in 1988/89, an increase of 35% on the 1987/88 figure of 74,000, which was itself 26%...

UK hauliers losing

• Britain's boom economy hauliers are among the worst paid in Europe, next only to Greece — but this will mean a surge in...

Ferrymen escalate ports battle

• British hauliers are preparing for siege conditions at Britain's main ports following the National Union of Seamen's de...

Soggy load puts firm in soup

• A bitter three-year legal battle ended this week when a haulage firm agreed to pay 24,500 damages to food company Nestle....

• Huddersfield Poly, the only third-level education centre to provide

a degree course in transport and distribution, has opened the first Transport and Distribution Centre in a UK polytechnic....

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the rate race

Germany will be the most lucrative target for our hauliers after cabotage becomes legal with European liberalisation in 1992,...

Seddon Atkinson aims for Strato-sphere

• The new Seddon Atkinson heavy truck range, which will be sold with the latest Cabtec cab as used in Leyland Daf s 95 Series,...

Dealers face 'glittering future'

• British truck dealers face a "glittering future" now that the age of closures and mergers is over, according to MAN...

Euro threat to small hauliers

• Small haulage firms might not survive the effects of European deregulation after 1992, according to a study made by Volvo,...

• Brewing giant Watney Mann Truman looks set to transfer

its 400-plus vehicle distribution to Volvo subsidiary Ailsa Truck Finance. The deal with the Grand Metropolitan-owned company...

• A "Don't risk it — Tax it" campaign got

under way in London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and Cumbria earlier this week. The crackdown on motor-tax dodgers...

• Volvo Truck Corporation, parent of Volvo Truck GB, has

announced a 50% rise in profits to a record £149 million (SKr 1.6 billion). Heavy truck sales in Western Europe increased 14%.

• Tyre manufacturer Pirelli, due to announce its financial results

this Thursday, is to spend 100 million more on its UK subsidiaries before 1993.

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'Train danger-load drivers'

• Calls have been made to roads and traffic minister Peter Bottomley for drivers hauling explosives to receive the same...

Up to 60% of the HGVs at Dover foreign, says Dip

• A Department of Transport survey carried out last November showed that almost 60% of heavy goods vehicles arriving on RO-RO...

Bodybuilder pair set to merge

• Lancashire-based Coachwork Conversions and the B Walker group of Markyate and Stockport, both bodybuilders, are to merge. The...

Hands-off radio boosts cab safety

• Volvo has helped develop an in-cab radio which stays tuned to a channel without adjustment. In the case of national stations...

Dip updates danger regs

• The rules for transporting explosives by road are to be up-dated in the summer says junior transport minister Peter...

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eroes' run to the sun

• Greenhorn Sand and Ballast has got rid of its fleet of Pierce Arrow R5 tippers now, but what heroes the drivers must have...

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G&A's aero fridge kit

• Scottish reefer builder Gray and Adams has developed a stylish aerodynamic body kit for its refrigerated semitrailers. It is...

Demount bodies on sloping frame from Northern

• A body demounting system which uses a pivoting subframe has been devised by Northern Tail Lifts of Shipley, West Yorkshire....

Pegaso to sell Seddon 2-11 chassis

• Seddon Atkinson has followed ERF's example by producing a factory-built 17-tonne dropframe rigid chassis and it is already...

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RTft twin-steer R-range

• Renault Truck Industries has decided to add three new 38-tonne tractive units to its right-hand drive R-range, premium artic...

Seddons start cleaning work for Monklands

• Monldands District Council, based at Coatbridge in Lanarkshire, has bought its first Seddon Atkinsons and put them straight...

• Dover Roller Shutters of Denton in Manchester, has introduced

an automatic, high security, external hook lock for vehicle cargo doors. The Dover K Lock is key operated, with an option of...

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Solar coaches on show in Perec

• The world's first solar energy system to be fitted to a coach was demonstrated in ideal conditions at last week's Autobus...

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LBL staff slate plans

• Engineering staff at London Buses (LBL) have slated Government plans to restructure the company into 14 autonomous companies...

• Metro-Cammell Weymann has won a I million order for 150 double-deckers from Birmingham-based West Midlands Travel.

All the vehicles will be powered by Gardner 6LXB engines, producing 133kW through Voith D851.2 fully automatic gearboxes....

SBG hopes looking grim

• The Scottish Bus Group's hopes of becoming the National Freight Consortium of the North look like being dashed within the...

Dominators for Leicester CityBus

• Leicester CityBus is the first operator to use Cumminsengined Dennis Dominators and is now running 13 of them on its city...

• Cambridge-based bus operator Cambus has taken delivery of three

Optare-bodied double-deck buses. All based on the Leyland Olympian chassis the overall dimensions are 9.6 metres long, 4.32...

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Be ready for Europe or else

• Britain must upgrade its roads for 40-tonne trucks by 1993 or pressure from her Euro partners will become "very big", warns...

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biggest, brightest ever!

• You can always tell when it's a bank holiday — it rains: but even regular dousings from the clouds couldn't dampen the...

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The winners' gallery

All around was the steady throb of diesel engines set to a backdrop of air horns, disco music and the beat of helicopter rotors...

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Newsflow aims for Hod share

• National Freight Consortium Newsflow will be distributing 70% of national newspapers by the end of the year, according to its...

Young launches 1992 database

• A database to help business prepare for the Single European Market set for completion in 1992 has been launched by Lord...

Superdrug deal for CT

• Trailer manufacturer Craven Tasker has won an order for nine 12-metre boxvans from high street chemist Superdrug for its...

United Carriers' radical new look

• Over the next two years, Bunzl-owned United Carriers is implementing a new livery throughout its fleet of 1,600 lorries, as...

More Cargo for BRS Southern

• BRS Southern has bought five Iveco Ford Cargos as part of its programme to replace its entire 7.5-tonne fleet. The vehicles,...

NFC service deal won by Tankfix

• Within weeks of launching a drive for more third-party work, Tankftx, the engineering and maintenance arm of road tanker...

• Texaco has boosted its consolidated world net income by

105% for the first quarter of this year compared with the same period in 1987 — from US $118 million to US $242 million (263.3...

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Hargrave aims higher

• Hargrave International, the Spalding-based UK and TER reefer operator, aims to boost its turnover closer to 25 million and...

Bremhill to raise cash from shares

• Bretnhill Industries, the parent group of specialist trailer engineer RTS of Newbury, is raising 23.2 million from a...

• A computer system which helps warehouse managers lay out

racking and loading bays has been developed by National Carriers Contract Distribution. It is called Award (Advanced Warehouse...

1WF goes for beer with Leyland Oaf

• Transport and Warehousing Facilities, acquired by Liverpool-based Bibby Group last month, has bought five Leyland Daf...

• Wincanton Vehicle Rentals is to spend 23 million on

new vehicles over the next six months. It is replacing 270 of its 800-strong fleet and buying 50 additional vehicles — mostly...

Bunzl buys two more in the US

• Transportation and industrial group Bunt has bought two more US distribution companies for 29.1 million. They are DJ...

• International carrier Norfolk Line is spending 22 million on

150 12.6-metre tilt trailers as part of a replacement programme for its 2,500 strong fleet. They are built by Pacton in Holland...

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PDV Transit on the road

• Dormobile has completed 40 examples of the new longwheel-base, Ford Transitbased PDV parcels van, and has been taking them to...

Collaboration aids Japanese influx

• European light vehicle manufacturers are bracing themselves for a massive Japanese invasion of their markets despite tough...

UK escapes the AX unti11989

• Citroen has sold its first C25-based Luton van but, despite the promises, the UK will not get the heavyweight Visa van or the...

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Lords seek cleaner vans

• Light vans should be included in any future exhaust emissions legislation, says a major new report from the House of Lords...

New AP gearshift goes automatic

• AP Borg and Beck has taken its automatic clutch and throttle system (CM 7-13 January 1988), and combined it with an...

Dixon builds Transit hitch

• A tubular towing bracket with an adjustable coupling has been developed by Dixon-Bate of Clwyd, Wales, exclusively for the...

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Heanor escapes suspension

• Heavy haulier Heanor Haulare avoided a four-week licence suspension by "the skin of its teeth" when it appeared before...

LA rejects Stockmell licence renewal bid

• A bid for a new licence, for 20 vehicles and two trailers, by Stockmen Transport (CM 2127 January) has been turned down by...

• Using a vehicle without spray suppression equipment cost South

Wales haulier Glyn John Transport 270 in fines and costs when the company appeared before the Ross-on-Wye magistrates. The...

Pinned down by tacho law

• A lorry driver who scribed traces on his tachograph charts with a pin and nail has been ordered to pay fines and costs...

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Econofreight no evidence

• Heavy haulier Econofreight United Transport was before Wakefield magistrates last week to answer the charge that driver...

Rea!meal innocent of 44 overloading charges

• Southampton-based haulier Realmeal and driver Charles Loton escaped 44 charges of overloading last week before the city's...

Amberline services stretched too far

• Liverpool coach operator Amberline and 25 of its drivers were ordered to pay fines and costs totalling 210,200 last week when...

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

BY THE HAWK • One of our sternest critics dropped in to see us the other day. Schoolboy Simon Skinner wanted to see at first...

• Tut tut. The Flash Department of Trade and Industry

(shortened to DTi The Enterprise Initiative) has been rapped on the knuckles after tripping over itself in a self-defeating...

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CPC: BAD TIMES...

• I write with reference to CPC — is it failing the grade? (CM 21-27 April). I passed the CPC Goods National in October 1987...

. . AND UR GOOD • As a regular reader

of Commercial Motor ! feel I must put pen to paper in reply to your latest News Extra item regarding CPC exams. I have both my...

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WHFITLE'S NEW PRESTON NG GROWS • Whittle International, freight forwarder

to Spain, Italy, the Balkans and the Middle East, has just completed the first stage of its new Preston offices. The offices...

NEW AXLE WEIGHERS • A new range of portable, lightweight

axle-load weighing units have been introduced by West Midlands-based PAT-CTI Services. The units give readouts of single-wheel,...

OLDIES SET TO ROLL • More than 350 old lorries,

buses, fire engines and cars, dating from the last century to 1968, will take part in this year's Historic Commercial Vehicle...

• The Institution of Mechanical Engineers' two autumn conferences will

be on latest and future developments in traction control technology for road vehicles, and disc brakes for CVs. The first is on...

VOLVO IN BLANTYRE • Volvo Trucks (GB) has opened a

new parts and service dealership to cover south west and central Scotland. The dealer is Ailsa Trucks (Northern) of Barrhead,...

• CC DATES NEXT SYMPOSIUM • The Bus and Coach

Council's 1989 coaching symposium will take place at the Holiday Inn, Cardiff, on 17, 18 and 19 February. Details from: Philip...

TRUCK 88 ORGANISED • Truck 88 will take place on

6 and 7 August 1988 at Grappenhall near Warrington in Cheshire with a host of attractions for north west drivers. There will be...

THE KALAMAZOO SOLUTION • Kalamazoo has launched One-Up — a complete accounting package for first-time computer users, aimed at hauliers,

dealers and small businesses. One-Up provides computer hardware and software, printer, discs, a full range of stationery and...

THE FAX AT YOUR FINGERTIPS • A power supply which

enables ordinary mains-powered facsimile machines to be operated from a 24V supply, such as a truck battery, has been developed...

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AA TELLS ALL ABOUT UNLEADED PETROL

• Questions about unleaded fuel and its use are answered for motorists in a new leaflet published by the Automobile...

UNDERSTANDING TERMINOLOGY

• A dictionary of terms used in road transport is being published in four languages (English, French, German and Spanish) by...

NEW ROAD FOR NORTH LONDON

• A major road scheme at the junction of the North Circular (A406), Al, and Regents Park Road (A598) in central London will...

MARYLEBONE CLOSURES

• The Department of Transport announced today that, during installation of road surface drainage gullies between Macfarren...

MORE IN MANCHESTER

• Transport Secretary Paul Channon has announced the go-ahead for the completion of the £160 million Manchester Outer Ring...

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ROADTEST IVECO FORD 190.36

• Regular readers will have noticed the claims made in Iveco Ford adverts for the 19(136 Turbostar 4x2 tractive unit. Its...

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OILING THE WHEELS

In the States you can have your CV serviced in less than 13 minutes. Under Paul Clarke's guidance HDL engineering aims to...

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• NFC GI LLI ES

Jim Gullies has been appointed group managing director, National Freight Consortium special services group and a member of the...

• BUCKS GALLOWAY Stewart Galloway has joined distribution specialist Bucks,

as deputy depot manager at Maidstone. Previously, he was traffic and distribution manager with Carpet Express.

• HAMMOND TRANSPORT SPENCER/LEDIARD Hammond Transport has appointed two sales

managers. Robin Spencer is handling the South from its Luton and Redhill depots; and Tim Lediard is covering the North and the...

• St&• DISTRIBUTION HEPPELL Philip Heppell is the new general

manager of S&H Distribution, based at Birmingham head office, covering operations in Birmingham, Lichfield, Redditch and...

• FERRYNULSTERS HO LM BLAD Ulf Holmblad becomes divisional financial controller of

Ferrymasters' Scandinavian operation. He is currently accountant for the Scandinavian full-load division and joined...

• DISTRIBUTIVE COM. PURR SERVICES CH I LVERS

Graham Chilvers is the new customer support manager for Distributive Computer Systems of Leamington Spa, specialist supplier of...

• BRS WESTERN °LYE R/DAVI ES/HIGGI NS Specialist transport company

BRS Western has appointed three branch managers. Bill Diver takes charge of BRS Swindon, having spent 3 years as manager of the...

• SILVER ROADWAYS LEAROYD Silver Roadways, general and hulk haulage

subsidiary of Tate and Lyle, has appointed Lyndon Learoyd northern area manager with responsibility for branches at Leeds,...

• RYDER TRUCK RENTAL . HARTLEY/SHARP/ LYSAGHT/BA1TERS

Ryder Truck Rental has made four management appointments. Ian Hartley becomes national accounts manager, succeeding Jeremy...

• HOLDING AND BARNES BUTLER

Holding and Barnes has appointed Paul Butler yard manager at its motor salvage site in Canvey Island.

MAN VW Mc E N HILL

Brenden McEnhill has been appointed to the new post of after sales manager at the Swindon HQ of MAN Volkswagen. He has been...

• COACHLINE BATES

Peter Bates has joined vehicle paints specialist Coachline as salesman for the North East, Cleveland and parts of West Yorkshire.

• FFA PHILIPS/STANTON/ PEARCE/STEELE

The Freight Transport Association has unanimously elected Stuart Phillips to continue as president for a third year. Tony...

• NEWSFLOW/NCCS SHERMAN/GILCHRIST Newsflow, National Carriers Contract Distribution newspaper division,

is taking on John Sherman as development director. Sherman, formerly operations director, is being replaced by Jim Gilchrist,...