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RHA presents five-point plan: RTITB shortcomings listed: new thoughts on block grants • Widespread complaints by hauliers...
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• By the end of next year Freightliners Ltd proposes to have a fully operational terminal established at Avonmouth, Bristol....
• • Delegates to the Municipal Passenger Transport Association's annual conference at Eastbourne, August 24 to 28, will be told...
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• "Some of the most virtuous may have received short-period operators' licences, while less virtuous hauliers may have got...
• A 24hr London to Paris daily scheduled road freight transport service for British exporters starts on May 4. Seabourne...
grant claims; reductions in grant claims; amendments to the grant scheme; a lack of knowledge of the industry by the Board's...
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pay 'appalling , • The average salary paid to transport managers is slightly below £1500 per annum, or about 20 per cent below...
• Following a sales network re-appraisal in the UK and Eire, three distributors are to be appointed to sell Frigiking goods...
• The series of one-day seminars presented by Commercial Motor which started in London last month, continues throughout April...
Picture 1 One of three Mark 3 Roden refrigerated chassis vans recently bought by Express Dairy Co (London) Ltd. They will be...
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• A compromise proposal on drivers' hours in international road transport was made last week at Geneva, at a meeting of the...
• Since going to press with the article, page 79, on Alusuisse/Star aluminium tipper bodies, CM has been advised that the, Star...
• Nearly all the confusion and anomalies surrounding the new drivers' hours and record rules could be attributed to one fact—...
Road transport law • Kitchin's long-established Road Transport Law has appeared for its 15th edition in a completely new...
• A new Gower Press handbook just published could qualify for the title of "The Compleat Distributor"; certainly it is...
• An English language version of Vehicle Body Engineering, by J. Pawlowski, is now available from the English publishers,...
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• New Zebra Pedestrian Crossing Regulations have been circulated in draft by the Minister of Transport and the Secretary of...
Three Belfast firms link • Three Belfast haulage firms are merging to form one big private road transport firm. The new firm,...
• The articles by Mr R. P. C. Block under the title Costing for Maximum Profit which attracted so much attention when they were...
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• Concern about the correct and even distribution of container loads, and the problems facing shippers who are unable to...
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• A car accident, a year's suspension from driving, the disappearance of a 40ft. artic and a writ that cannot be served were...
• Richardson's Transport (Coventry) Ltd was refused its application for an 11-ton low-loader on B licence because a prima facie...
• An operator's licence for one vehicle was granted to each of the 10 drivers who had previously been employed by E. Holme...
• Although Mr. D. I. R. Muir, the Metropolitan LA and his deputy, Mr W. M. Levitt, presided together at a public inquiry on...
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• Effluents Services Ltd, of Stockport, was granted an operator's licence for 14 vehicles plus a margin of four, in Manchester...
• A consortium of 30 North East local authorities appealed recently at Newcastle to the Minister's Inspector against fare...
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A new 20-22-seat bus, ideal for ucation, welfare, personnel, and other rms of contract operation, has been troduced by J. H....
Medical checks for bus and coach ivers aged 50 and over are being troduced throughout Britain—under a law issed in 1934! This...
• Appeals against the granting of licences to other psv operators were dismissed by the Minister of Transport in written...
• A 36 page booklet describing in simply understood language the new drivers' hours regulations as applying to psv drivers. was...
• Pay negotiations between London Transport and the TGWU began on Tuesday and were continued again today when London's 27,000...
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Standees banned • Although Trent Motor Traction Co Ltd busmen in Nottinghamshire have withdrawn sanctions, over 500 crews in...
• The Western National Omnibus Co Ltd is on Sunday to introduce one-man-operated double-deck services between Plymouth, Looe...
• London Transport is replacing existing 56-seat buses with o-m-o, 72-seat double-deck buses, on Monday . to Friday route 234...
• The London Transport Passengers Committee has decided to admit the Press to future meetings. The LTPC is an independent body...
• The bus-only lane in Tottenham High Road will now come into operation on Sunday April 12, the Joint Traffic Executive for...
by Derek Moses • By the use of 11-year-old single-decker buses on one-man operation, an independent operator is apparently...
• Sunderland Corporation is introducing bonus scheme for bus cleaners. A loc councillor complained that corporation bus were...
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Ministry of Transport examiners have :en instructed to give special attention to e condition of buses attached to the artlepool...
• Mr. Brian Faulkner, Northern Ireland Minister of Development, has revealed that the total bill for compensation paid to 6,000...
• The coach which will convey the England football team during the World Cup series in Mexico left Southampton on Wednesday en...
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by Ron Cater • There were some 170 exhibitors at the fifth Autovak Exhibition of garage equipment in Amsterdam this week. The...
• Automatic gearboxes of various types and spin-resistant differentials are included in the subjects of papers to be read at...
• An increase in CAV production capacity of more than 50 per cent will be provided by an expansion programme, announced on...
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A number of improvements are built to a batch of eight refrigerated semi-trailer 3dies at present being completed by obert B....
)r W. P. Mansfield, after 26 years with the ;ritish Internal Combustion Engine Research istitute, has expressed a desire to be...
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Roy Bowles • In the 10 years since Roy Bowles, then aged 29, entered the business of the land carriage of air freight parcels...
We welcome letters for publication on transport topics. Address them to Commercial Motor, 40 Bowling Green Lane. London, EC1....
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N VEHICLE or trailer repair, the lathe can lay a big part in making up new items in tee or brass, and a great deal of time and...
New equipment for transport operators gets prominent treatment in next week's issue of CM. As well as the fortnightly review of...
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by the Hawk Going Dutch A Dutch haulier was telling me recently about some effects of the very frustrating German permit...
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'IF a bodybuilder is prepared to make the best use of every available material in the construction of a wide variety of body...
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Speed turnround with tax savings THE HIGH RATE of taxation on goods vehicles has been an important incentive to bodybuilders...
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BRITISH operators of refrigerated vehicles have a wide selection of refrigerating equipment that they can specify. As well as...
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BODYWORK AND REFRIGERATION AN 11-vehicle-business deal being finalized over the phone—"I'll settle it when I go over on...