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6th June 1987
6th June 1987
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• COMMENT STOP THIEF!

• Once upon a time, commercial vehicles got stolen because their loads were valuable. That still happens — but...

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RHA seeks T-fonm relief

• The Government is being pressed by the RHA to temporarily remove the need for a customs stamp on T forms (transit forms) in...

TGWU fights early

• The Transport and General Workers Union is stepping up its fight against cabotage — which it claims could be implemented...

Two face trial on stolen trucks charges

• Two men discovered with four stolen trucks, together worth over 2135,000, are in the dock at Maidstone Corwn Court this...

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cabotage plans

cabotage will also "allow unsafe vehicles and below-standard drivers", to operate in Britain. The union's Greater Manchester...

OFT looks at ferry pricing

• Transfrigoroute's campaign against the pricing policies of the cross-Channel ferry companies (CM 31 January), has resulted...

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French finally agree to pay Iamb war cash

• The French Government has agreed to compensate in full eight British hauliers whose vehicles and cargoes were damaged by...

Thieves hit haulage

• Crime is costing the road haulage industry a fortune in lost freight and stolen vehicles. Of the 577,000 thefts reported...

• British drivers gave a good account of themselves at

last month's Austrian Truck Grand Prix, held at the Osterreichring. In the up-to224kW class, Rod Chapman took the top spot in...

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Homespeed loses 'one man'

• Homespeed, the home delivery arm of Pickfords, is to close three of its branches and may make up to 200 of its staff...

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Dealers falling down

• The withdrawal of Bedford from the UK heavy truck market late last year contributed to a 17% fall in the total number of...

BRS Western wins £80,000 windows deal with AWS

• BRS Western's Kidderminster branch is to supply two Ford Cargo 0813s to window systems company Aluminium Window Systems in...

Interlink going for a double

• Bristol-based parcels delivery company Interlink is forecasting a pre-tax profit of £4.5 million for the financial year,...

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MI NEWS VEHICLES

10 A new double-deck taillift enclosed within a van body's rear doors has been developed by Ross & Bonnyman. The first...

ERF buys a semi

• ERF says it will be the first truck manufacturer to offer Eaton's SAMT (Semi Automated Mechanical Transmission) as a...

Marshall gives Whitbread more body

• Bodybuilder Marshall of Cambridge has been supplying bodies to Whitbread for 40 years. The latest batch comprises 42...

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(FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU THE 1985/6 VAN OF THE YEAR1

In 1985 when we launched the Citroen C15 Van, we were confident that it had all the design qualities for today's businessman....

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Gardner 6111 price shocker as workforce face cutbacks

• Operators who specify the 224kW-plus Gardner 6LYT engine in their new ERF, Foden or Seddon Atkinson are in for a shock when...

Seddon drops big 8 x 4

• Seddon Atkinson has dropped the 411 8 x 4 chassis from its latest rigid model lineup, leaving the Ctunmins LTA 10-290...

W Midlands fires up on Tadchurch

• The West Midlands Fire Service has retrofitted Tadchurch rubber suspension on the rear axles of its swapbody support...

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Bright brought to book

• Shropshire lorry driver John Bright, convicted of the falsification of tachograph records at Shrewsbury Crown Court, has...

Tribunal tells Renwicks to pay out £1,728 to Faichen

• Lorry driver John Faichen, who was transferred to a new depot by Renwicks Freight (Scotland) after his original depot had...

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NCP wins its case

• Yorkshire haulier Fred Chappell has lost its bid in the High Court to claim over 214,000 damages from National Car Parks in...

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Talbot succeeds with six

• Little more than six months after Peugeot Talbot revealed its prototype tri-axle Express minibus at the 1986 Motor Show,...

Bus Users blast Moore over deregulation

• Following Transport Secretary John Moore's recent claim — slammed by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities — that...

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Proto Travolator

• A revolutionary concept in PSV construction debuted last week at the UITP show in Lausaunne (see page 24). The DAB...

Chester City adds new minis

• Chester City Transport has bought three Northern Counties bodied Dodge '50' series minibuses to try on a variety of...

Premier Travel splashes out

• Premier Travel Services is adding nearly 21 million worth of new coaches to its Cambridge-based fleet_ Ten new Volvos have...

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nor /\1 RA

iss roll out the bus news • Newly-independent Leyland Bus and Robin Hood Vehicle Builders represented British PSV...

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LIVERY

COMPETITION • Entries are now open for the 1987 Commercial Motor Livery Competition. The competition is open to all...

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TB gives Astras puff

• TB Turbos, the Lancasterbased turbocharger specialists, has appointed another firm of turbocharger experts in the south of...

VW dealers learn how

• Question: what takes 3.2km of name tags, 8,181 litres of tea and coffee, 0.3 tonne of biscuits, and 4.5 tonnes of course...

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Tr-axle van unwrapped

• Peugeot Talbot will shortly be launching a big-volume parcel van version of its triaxle Express mini bus (see PSV News)...

Winton's little power take-off

• A new power take-off designed specifically for light vans and trucks up to 3.5tonnes GVW has been introduced by Winton...

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DEAR

SIR HOURS OF PROTEST • I have been driving trucks for 34 years, and all I've known throughout my working life is long hours....

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READY FOR BUSINESS

Hard on the heels of Iveco Ford and the all-disc brake Cargo, Volvo has launched a UK range of FL4 7.5-tonne distribution...

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INFINITELY PREFERABLE

A car version of Ford's long-awaited continuously variable transmission is now in production, and judging by our test drive it...

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TRANSPORTER TAKES A BRAKI

• Thirty-seven years old, and with an "appearance and principal design features. . that have remained unchanged" during that...

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

BY THE HAWK • You are, of course, all heartily sick of politics, so I'll keep my comments on the general election brief....

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ONE WAY TO QUALITY STREET

While many big own-account operators are moving out of owning and maintaining their trucks, Rowntree Mackintosh is moving...