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6th January 1978
6th January 1978
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:lecision time on 0-licensing

DRK began this week to sort t just what changes, if any, ? road transport industry Int to see in the 0-licensing item....

arry on t 10 hours ays DTp

VICE by the Freight nsport Association to mbers that they should it to existing drivers' hours !s until the new situation is...

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Dennis plans to dominate

HESTAIR Dennis has announced that it intends to reorganise its Guildford plant to give it the capacity to produce 800 bus...

Leasing operation

NATIONAL Westminster Bank subsidiary Lombard North Central is to go into the commercial vehicle leasing market this year with a...

DTp test for caravans

OWNERS of larger motorised caravans — those having an unladen weight of more than 1525kg (33621b) — which are more than three...

New ha marks s

;me rd A NEW scheme has been introduced by the Department of Transport, in association with the Department of Trade and the...

Free cut car usage

BUS services came under the scrutiny of the Transport and I Research Laboratory last year in two projects. "Simulation Studies...

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Decision eopardises contract

0 ERTH firm claimed before Scottish Licensing thority that losing any of its )ds licences could affect a ge contract it had to...

Bus scheme is lailurel—TRRL

FAILURE was the conclusion of an overall assessment of Nottingham's "zone and collar" bus priority system carried out by the...

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SHORT HAULS

Changing SIGNPOST Motors — part Of the Kenning Motor Group — has been appointed a main dealer for the Chrysler United Kingdom...

FREIGHT

Looking good for '78 PRODUCTION of commercial vehicles in the first nine months of 1977 was 289,184 units compared with...

Horne is SL as operatin 13Ie n t re

AN OBJECTION by Sedgefield District Council to the renewal of the 0 licence held by Ronald Slack of Dobbs Buildings,...

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M -way decision

ANSPORT Minister [ham Rodgers has decided voceed as soon as possible h the construction of the 0 between Ashford and kestone,...

Managers give industry SPUR THE "SPUR" campaign initiated by British

Institute of Management recently ('SPUR' stands for Strategy, Performance, and Utilization of Resources) has been endorsed by...

1: - 1 :11ja

SHORT HAULS Test fees TRANSPORT MINISTER William Rodgers is consulting interested organisations about the making of new...

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Starting a 'second life'

Peter Wright retired last week as chairman and managing director of the Perkins Engines Group and executive vicepresident,...

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lespite protests

ENT Motor Traction, a tional Bus Company subiary, has won applications ged with the East Midlands &lc Commissioners for an...

irty dozen plus two

TY buses have caused ith Yorkshire police to ord14 Sheffield buses to be en off the road. o dirty were the buses that police...

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Titan on target after race for time

LEYLAND's launch of the Titan double-decker bus in May caused Leyland's Truck and Bus engineers to be involved in a race...

'Local' loses bus battle

FIRST round in a battle with the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners was lost by a public house in Shoreham, Sussex last...

Do's and don'ts of experiments

NOTES on the operation of the Passenger Vehicles (Experimental Areas) Act, have been published by the Department of Transport....

Fare dea on coilectio

GREATER Glasgow PTE is introduce new automatic fi collecting equipment late t year. New fare boxes will elim ate the need for...

Helping ou with rates

PRICING private hire is subject of a survey being ( ried out by the East Midla branch of the Coach and In pendent Bus Section...

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Concertina loading From Sweden

iEDISH hauliers use more draulic lorry loaders than yone else in Europe. But tit many fiat-bed drawbar nbinations fitted with...

Extracting the vacuum

. AL1SA Vacuum Extraction has produced a range of powerful vacuum extraction units which are offered for sale or lease hire....

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Transport pendulum needs steadying

A STRONG PLEA for stability in the legislative framework of Foad haulage was made by Mr George Quick Smith, in a paper...

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rumber ine oriorit ?

it be that our politicians at last, got the message we must economise? I am to believe so after colleague ee Geary's trip last...

No-one knew Suzie

They won't be drinking tea at the Ministry of Defence this week. The winner of our funny class in the Suzie competition was...

Gone full circle

I thought I had heard it all last year when colleague Noel Millier waxed long and eloquent on the beautifully appointed coach...

Calling all new 111ANmen

If you purchase a MAN after JanuarY 1, your driver could be one of the best-dressed men around. The publicity department at MAN...

Half way there

The headlines on the latest edition of the BRS company newspapers tell vastly different tales from around the country. Wilf...

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Tacluquiplia

dela &oak As a tachograph agent, fully trained and equipped to EEC standards in April, 1971, and only recently approved by the...

9K Nitwit of

Alum With reference to the letters of H. Gray and A. Temple (CM, December 9), I would like to answer Mr Gray. Bus drivers...

Stot•••

would get nothing of the kind to compensate. I am married to a lorry driver and I feel that getting up at 6am is quite early...

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Over the past few weeks I have read in CM of bad opinions held by hgv drivers about psv drivers.

With regard to the reader (CM, November 11) he seems to take great pride in colliding with buses, irrelevant of fault. As to...

.CeiS kave

mum Owe When I drove an artic for a living I used to wonder why bus drivers would pull out in front of me. As professionals,...

Iftehe about &Ma

My thanks to Mr Norris to his letter (CM, November on international diesels. I, for one, would be ye interested in any further...

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Never overlook the obvious

But, I would ask them to cast their minds back to jobs that have appeared time after time on the work sheets and, while this,...

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Keep up to date on training

What the City & Guilds s have to offer transport FOR a modern industrial economy to survive there is a need to invest in...

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We take up you views

THIS will be an important year in road transport_ There will be two changes to our drivers hours regulations before the end of...

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Why diesel additives add up...

OPERATORS are always concerned with the economy of their operation and can usually be relied upon to be well up in the latest...

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In good compa

John Foster, looking at the many ways of organising a business, says...`There's a financial ladder facing the ambitious one man...

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Can you sack an erni for refusing to work yee ?rtime

The imposition of "prohibition" and "improvement" notices can be financially damaging and disruptive to production schedules....

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Operator nal%

3 sacked A nationwide network of lawyers provides the legal service, However, solicitors are not usually required except for...

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For short hauls it's 'yes' to auto lorries...

AFTER two years trials with several tractive units fitted with different automatic transmission systems, Freightliners have now...

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FreigN/iner

This damage will result in service repair problems which again restricts earning capacity. Productivity . . . Vehicle...