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10th December 1987
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• COMMENT SELF-LIMITING?

• Anyone who thinks that the road haulage industry has been let off the hook over speed limiters has got it very wrong indeed....

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Bottomley no to HGV limiters

• The Government has no plans to make speed limiters on lorries compulsory, but it is "examining ways of ensuring greater...

• The London Lorry Ban has cost councils in the

capital 2250,000 to run. Some 2,000 warning signs have been erected, and 20,000 10-page permits issued since the ban came into...

Transport's deadly ton-up toll

• Transport-related accidents in the workplace kill 100 people each year and account for 50% of fatal injuries in industries...

rakes top vehick ailure chart

• The Department of Transport is considering offering pretesting of trucks on its roller brake equipment in a bid to reduce the...

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• ERF has moved its engineering i ond design section to its

site at Middlewich, Cheshire. The purpose-built design centre and research and development facility covers over 2,500 ni` and...

More for UK 11R truckers

• The EEC has allocated an extra 125 multilateral permits to the United Kingdom. Operators are invited to apply in writing for...

Iveco Ford bounces back

• Vehicle manufacturers enjoyed a pre-Christmas boom in truck, van and bus sales last month. Registrations during November...

• A lorry driver caused the death of a 21-year-old

man by driving recklessly on the A75 Euro route in Scotland, a jury at Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court found last week. Andrew...

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Permits breakthrough?

• With the West Germans isolated, the rest of the EEC is now on the verge of agreeing a major increase in the multilateral...

Launch of licence loss cover scheme

• From 1 January more than 300,000 British CV drivers will be able to insure themselves against loss of their HGV or PSV...

Humber bumps up bridge tolls

• Tolls on the Humber Bridge will rise on 1 January. Cars and light vans will be charged 21.50 (up from 21.20) and mini-buses...

• Police are trying to trace a Foden eight-wheel tipper

belonging to TK Longthome of Skipton, North Yorkshire, which was stolen from the town's industrial site in the early hours of 1...

I/ Isle of Wight County Council is considering the construction

of a road crossing across the Medina Estuary, which is currently served by the Cowes chain ferry and the Newport Bridge 6km...

• The Press Council, journalism's watchdog body, has censured the

Sun newspaper for describing a TNT lorry driver as a "lying truck er" when he refused to cross picket lines during the...

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Who could forget the winter of 1987?

The same people who forgot the winter of 1986. The Arctic winter of January 1987 arrived without warning. And because no-one...

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Intermodal Tiphook

• Tiphook plans to launch its contender in the inter-modal market next April, when the rail wagon it has developed to take...

• Karnmac Trucking this week opened a 5,155m 2 bonded warehouse

in Milton Keynes, which is being used exclusively for a contract with Coca Cola and Cadbury Schweppes. Under the contract,...

• Edinburgh-based Christian Salvesen has announced a profits increase of

9% for the six months to September this year, with turnover up from 2104 million to 2130 million. The company blames poor...

Auto's twin-deck

• Northants-based Auto Spares and Salvage has bought its first Volvo; an FL616 fitted with a twindeck car body designed to...

Suter sells

• Engineering congolomerate Suter, which purchased Mitchell Cotts earlier this year, is to sell Mitchell Cotts Environmental...

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Growth to 1992

• Sales of trucks in Britain are likely to continue growing over the next five years buoyed by the strength of investment in...

IN Specialist hamper company Farepak has chosen Alpine, the National

Freight Consortium's refrigerated transport specialist, to distribute 300,000 Christmas hampers in the three weeks before...

• Woodrow's of Dunfermline is replacing some of the 36

Bedford TL1260s in its delivery fleet with Mercedes following two years experience of operating a secondhand Mercedes LP313....

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Spring launch for Hino artic

• Seven new-to-the-UK Hino truck-models, extending from 7.5 to 38 tonnes, are expected to be launched during 1988 to complement...

Kurtrans' first curtain-sided reefer

• Ingimex subsidiary Kurtrans Developments of Telford has added step-framed, doubledecked and insulated refrigerated models to...

Peugeot 205 changes for '88

• Peugeot Talbot has revised the engines, styling and payloads of its 205 range of hatchback panel vans. The model line-up...

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TRRL air the equaliser

• Following the fu - st stage in a three-year research programme, the Transport and Road Research Laboratory has published a...

1.11 County lets the sunshine in

/ Land Rover has made a number of small changes to the specification of the Land Rover range which was on display last week at...

Walker Index's triple decker transporter

• Walker Tridex of Telford says its three-deck car transporter, built to carry 12 vehicles, is 50mm lower than any previously...

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Duple's single-decker

• Hestair Duple has delivered • the first of its new 300 series single deck bus bodies to Gypsy Queen coaches of Durham. It...

WMT slams the trimmers

• PSV operators who trim operating costs too far in order to win passengers could be threatening the entire public transport...

Cummins unveils Euro Support

• Cummins has set up a new European support package for PSV operators running on the continent with Cumminspowered coaches. The...

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• Darlington-based United Automobile Services has been bought by Caldaire

Holdings (which already owns Wakefieldbased West Riding Automobile) in the latest sale of a National Bus Company subsidiary....

• National Welsh is having seven of its "medium-type" Leyland

Leopard coaches rebodied by Plaxtons, in time for the start of the 1988 summer coaching season. Plaxtons will carry out the...

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Tanker's no-show stinger

• Lichfield-based Tanker Road Services has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £38,550 after failing to appear to...

Fitter fitter at Munro

• No action has been taken against the licence held by Falkirk-based Robert Munro (Transport) following disciplinary...

Stockmell costs cut

• Warwick Crown Court has reduced fines, costs and back duty totalling £2,778.43 that had been imposed on Stockmen Transport of...

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Licence for Clemence

• New north-western licensing authority Martin Albu has granted a new licence to a company formed by the managing director of...

• Student Products managing director Stewart Miller and driver John

Davies have been committed for trial at Manchester Crown Court by the Salford magistrates on charges of falsifying tachograph...

Ronton record reviewed

• When he cut the duration of the licence held by Newportbased Ronton Haulage, South Wales licensing authority John Mervyn Pugh...

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The Eaton SAMT Transmission.

The microprocessor controller on Eaton's semi-automatic mechanical transmission can process gear changes as smoothly,...

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MAT GROWS IN HOLLAND • MAT Transport, the Dutch company

within the MAT Group, has opened a new depot and warehouse complex in Zwijndrecht, near Dortrecht in the Netherlands. The...

OCEAN CORY IN WALSALL • The Passenger Transport Division of

the Ocean Cory Tyre Company has moved to West Bromwich Road, Tamebridge, Walsall, West Midlands WS5 4AN. The Bandag Tyre...

RTS AT LANGAR FOR BREMHILL • Trailer manufacturer RTS Group

has been bought by Bremhill Industries and restructured under the name RTS International. wrs is now trading from new premises...

SWOON HEAVIES GOING UP • Oldham-based truck manufacturer Seddon Atkinson

has raised the prices on the majority of its 2-11, 3-11 and 4-11 models by an average of 3.9%. Typical prices for selected...

N EW PRICES FOR FOURTRAK • Daihatsu has released the

prices for its latest Fourtrak four-wheel-drive models (see CM Light Vehicle News 3-9 December). The new prices (ex-VAT) are as...

FLEET-MAN SOFTWARE FROM IES (UK) • Bristol-based IES (UK) has

launched new fleet management computer software called Fleet-Man which can provide either partial or total management of a...

IN-CAB COOKING FROM ADREC • The Plug-In range of cooking

equipment which is designed for use in the cab is now available from Adrec International, based at Hemel Hempstead. The range...

VAT LEAFLET FOR TOUR OPERATORS NI Coach tour operators, who

face a new VAT scheme from 1 April 1988, can obtain an explanatory leaflet from local VAT offices. Alternatively contact HM...

OUT OF COURT SETTLEMENTS • The Commissioner of Customs &

Excise has reviewed its policy on the VAT treatment of payments made under out-of-court settlements of disputes after...

BVRLA COURSES FOR BOSSES • During January the British Vehicle

Rental and Leasing Association is holding courses for managers in contract hire and leasing sectors. There are five classes:...

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TRI-SCAN ROADSHOW IN CROYDON • Tr-Scan, the Blackburnbased fuel management

system manufacturer, is holding another series of roadshows to demonstrate its products to fleet operators. The next show will...

MOTOROLA'S MOBILE PHONE RANGE • A range of three mobile

cellphones has been launched by Motorola Communications, all with speed dialing, last number recall and illuminated keypads....

FREECALL ON THE AIR SOON • National Mobile Radio, the

company jointly owned by Motorola, British Telecom and National Radiofone, will be operating its new radio communications...

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URTU: WORKING FOR DRIVERS • I was amazed to read

in your edition of Commercial Motor, 19-25 November, the reference to the TGWU campaign concerning food and quality for lorry...

TEARS FOR TRANSPORT • I have just read your article

'The Head Hunters' in Commerical Motor, 26 November-2 December. Another sector of British industry whining that there are too...

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JOB CENTRE FOR TRAFFIC MANAGER • With reference to you

article entitled "The Head Hunters" (CM 26 November — 2 December): on reading it very carefully and objectively it gives the...

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• Following our pot boiler the other week on recruitment

problems, scores of concerned readers have been writing in saying "what's the matter? I'm available!" Has Commercial Motor gone...

• Red faces all round at a recent motor trade

banquet in Scotland. The raffle — which raised .£3000 for the industry's excellent benevolent fund, BEN — came up for drawing....

• The tacky calendar competition continues to draw in your

entries. This week it's Pirelli's turn. Now Pirelli is the firm'which for years gave the world the motor trade calendar as we...

• A lovelorn West German haulier hid his East German

lover under a load of rock salt during an ingenious escape to the West, the Hawk learns this week. The fraulein, a 41-year-old...

• After the seemingly endless tide of new truck launches

with all the attendant smoke bombs and trucks rising out of seas of dry ice, it was refreshing to attend the recent launch of...

• The Hawk is travel weary this week. Paris, Rome,

California, New York, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea . . . you name it I've been there. Did it all in an afternoon last week as...

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KEEP YOU BANK MANAGER NAPPY:

TELL HIM ABOUT IT eth Keeping your bank manager happy is vital, especially if you run a growing company which may need e odd...

KEEP YOU BANK MANAGER HAPPY:

AVOID THE CASHFLOW CRISIS et Very few businesses are able to operate successfully on a cash-onthe-nail basis. Most will allow...

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BE SURE:

INSURE e Many commercial vehicle operators have nightmares about their insurance problems, not least because of heavy...

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BUYING TIME

Financial and accounting jargon is almost as bewildering as computer jargon, so we have tried to provide a simple guide through...

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PROFITABLE PENSIONS

Old age and retirement may seem a long way away, but it is never too early to start planning. We have a quick guide to the...

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ASIER ON THE JUICE

• Our last Volkswagen Transporter road test concluded: ". . . it is an old-fashioned van with more than its share of...

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• P&O FERRIES PETERS Russell Peters is joining the board

of P&O European Ferries. He will be responsible for freight marketing policy throughout P&O, and will be based at Dover....

• DANZAS HAWKINS/KING/HART Freight forwarder Danzas has appointed Michael Hawkins

general manager of its European services. He will work with Ian King, who joined Danzas in May, and who shares the title...

• VINCENT GREENHOUS SLAUGHTER Ian Slaughter is the new parts

marketing manager of Vincent Greenhous, the newlyappointed Leyland Daf dealer in the Midlands. Slaughter, 39, has spent his...

• BAXTER HOARE PEDRICK/OSBORNE Fred Pedrick has become a senior

manager of freight forwarder Baxter Hoare, replacing Bob Kelly who has left the company. Pedrick was the company's deep sea...

• SCANTRUCK BAKER/ACOTT BROWNSELL EDWARDS Scantruck, distributor for Scania Trucks

in London and the Home Counties, has appointed four sales executives. Keith Baker will cover West Kent, East Sussex and part of...

• TIP EUROPE BARR TIP Europe is making Colin Barr

its marketing director, • Europe. He will be based at the company's Watford headquarters and will cover advertising, public...

• COMMERCIAL MOTOR WEATHERLEY/HADWICK/ SCRASE • Following the departure of

Tim Blakemore from Commercial Motor, there have been a number of internal changes within the magazine. Brian Weatherley has...

• WEST MIDS TRAVEL COLSTON Don Colston, finance and marketing

director for West Midlands Travel, has won a certificate of merit from the American Public Transit Association. The award, for...

• SOUTH YORKS PTA SMITH/HAYWOOD/ BOOTH South Yorkshire Passenger Transport

Authority is advertising for a successor to Ian Smith, the director general, who retires next year. It has appointed Philip...