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10th July 1982
10th July 1982
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Good for nothing

THE PROPOSAL by a group of British Conservative Euro MPs to scrap bi-lateral permits should be strongly supported by the...

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Little change on jobs

HERE has been little change in transport operators' recruitment lens, according to the latest survey from Manpower, the...

THE GOVERNMENT wants heavy goods vehicle driving test fees to

rise by 35 per cent, and for licence fees to be raised. In order to meet current inflation costs, it wants the test fee to rise...

Vauxhall

VAUXHALL is to move all of its cars by road from next month, as part of a reorganisation of its distribution arrangements....

Wood delay alarms LBA

FEARS that the results of the Wood Inquiry into lorry bans in London will not be acted upon until well into next year have...

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80pc heed recalls

EIGHTY per cent of goo( vehicle operators have re ponded to Department Transport/Society of Mot! Manufacturers and Traders r...

Gas regs

REVISED regulations have be introduced for gas-propelli vehicles and gas appliances motor vehicles and take eh from November...

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport expects to open 15 miles motorway

and 35 miles of other trunk roads in England this year, a this will take through traffic out of about 15 communities. Stating...

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CM LDoY results

THE CM LORRY Driver of the Year regional finals ended last weekend. More results are: Belfast/Antrim. Class A: D. Scott (Post...

Chalker booked for RHA

TRANSPORT Under Secretary Lynda Chalker and a rail-into-roads theorist are to speak at this year's Road Haulage Association...

CV radio in autumn?

THE GOVERNMENT could give the go-ahead in September for a Simplex radio telephone system for commerical vehicle operators. _...

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Come to Scotland

DISTRIBUTION companies may be wooed to Be!Ishii! in Central Scotland, as part of a £57m project to create 3,500 new jobs in...

Ferry slow

SCOTTISH Secretary George Younger is "not very keen" on setting a deadline for the introduction of the road equivalent tariff...

No move on ECMT permits

MINISTERS of Transport from 19 European countries meeting in Dublin last month failed to reach any agreement on increasing the...

Freight guide

DETAILED guide to estimating )xport groupage and air-freight :osts has been written by Mauice Rounding, head of the marcet...

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FTA accuses Herts

A CONSULTATION document issued by Hertfordshire County Council was not designed to record the views of trade and industry about...

Solo carrier

ATLAS EXPRESS has becorr the sole parcels carrier for Tin berland, the do-it-yourse stockists. The move is an attempt 1...

RENTCO has bought its 1,0001 van trailer for its nationwic rental and contract hire fleet.

The unit is a 40ft van fitte with a roller shutter rear door. was built by Crane Fruehat and was one of several ne trailers...

Go ahead for London linl

DRAFT Orders for the South Woodford-Hackney link road in Nortl East London have been published by the Department of Transport....

Royal Mail Parcels up

ROYAL MAIL parcels business rose by five per cent in May, compared with last year's figure. The range of service offered by...

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• Lorry fears 'irrational

SOME people's dislike of lorries is no different from others' dislike °gumbo jets, spiders, or curry, according to the...

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Taggart's arrival revives Wilsdon

SINCE Andrew Taggart Was appointed managing director of Wilsdon, of Locke Lane, Solihull, less than 12 months ago, the company...

Autoquip possibilities

THE POSSIBILITY of holding a Autoquip exhibition every othe spring to coincide with Mote Show years, is being invest gated by...

French overtures

AGMAT of San Nazaire, Franc is looking for British vehicle an component manufacturers t enter into co-operative deals t produce...

Gardner sows future seeds

L GARDNER and Sons of Manchester has increased the capacity of its Barton Hall engine works by having a new crankcase...

NCB tip-kits from Tamplin

THE NATIONAL Coal Board plans to use Tamplin Tip-Kits in an experimental development programme. Tamplin Engineering, which...

Peak rises

PEAK TRAILERS' undergear sales rose by 63.4 per cent in the first quarter of 1982. Since 1974 the company's annual turnover...

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Bendix advances in piped breathing

2 IPED breathing has been introluced by Bendix for its heavy joods vehicle air-braking ;ystem, replacing the breather usp....

Livery man arrives

PROMOTIONAL printer Paul Bannerman of Plough Lane, Wimbledon, London offers a seven-year guarantee on its prespaced livery...

Wakey, wakey, campers!

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport's vehicle and component approvals division at Bristol is concerned about the lack of response from...

Skip-mounted griller

ECON/ATKINSON, the Ripon-based highway maintenance equipment engineering firm, has produced a elcum skip-mounted gritter to...

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LT looks at its goo and bad points

LONDON TRANSPORT'S bus business is reported to have undergone a "tough self-examination". According to its staff newspaper, LT...

Yorkshire Rapide

NATIONAL EXPRESS has joints( forces with Wallace Arnold tie the latest in its expanding net work of first class Rapide coact...

RTITB bus pack

THE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board has published a modular study pack on psv road traffic regulations, designed to meet...

Dole fares 'hammer blow'

GREATER Manchester County councillor Ken Hickman has described Government opposition to GMC plans for cheap fares for the...

COLISEUM Coaches of South ampton has become the firs British

coach operator tt operate a Volvo B1OM coacl fitted with Lucas Girling Skid check CX anti-lock brakini system. The installation...

ERFs for Kenya

ERF has won an order for 12 bus chassis from Kenya Bus Services, of Mombasa. The chassis will be assembled in Kenya, and are to...

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Flights

FLIGHTS Coach Travel, of Birmingham, has introduced a new booking service for its airport express coach services. The scheme...

rale and Lyle Transport has made DAVID WALDER managing Jirector.

He takes over from DAVID DAVIS, now president of he T&L Group's Canadian Zymaize subsidiary in London, OnIario. Mr Welder was...

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LT stacks the dec

LONDON TRANSPORT'S E26m order for 360 double-deck buses for next year will be welcomed with relief at Leyland Bus and...

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The many merits of IVECO

Tim Blakemore sings the praises of the IVECO 190.29 tractive unit. Its versatility in all kinds of operating conditions was...

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Dancing the night away for St John

TONIGHT'S sponsored dances, for which National Carriers has been delivering publicity material to halls all over the country,...

Sidney braced for a free fall

RAILWAYS may lack flexibility but railway union leaders at least have an elastic approach to one another. This is implicit in a...

Fred the Para drops in on Cadbury

FEW PEOPLE followed the progress of the Task Force in the South Atlantic with greater concern than Fred Gandy, of North Western...

BRS delivers the goods — by bike

SIR ROBERT LAWRENCE, chairman of the National Freight Consortium, has a habit of lifting stones to find out what is underneath....

That was pricecutting, by George!

'GEORGE TURNBULL, the new president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, complains that the buyer's market "is...

Nightingale sang in Lochaber

ALAN NIGHTINGALE, a London Transport inspector, is writing a history of David MacBrayne's bus services from 1906 until 1972....

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CM'S Cost Tables are now ready

Our 1982/83 Tables of Operating Costs published next week provide operators with a guide to their costs and assist them to...

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'Leave the car, Hans.

Let's dial our bus IN A REMOTE rural district of West Germany children carrying their instruments to music lessons, housewives...

Magirus exports rise to 63 pc

MAGIRUS-DEUTZ'S annual report for 1981 reveals the extent to which the German member of IVECO has been affected by the market...

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300 delegates already registere( for FMC have youl

Recognised as the premier road transport conference, FMC is again attracting transport men from throughout the industn at home...

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Three-quarter Springbok

The South African-built vehicle has a second body skin to help retain its good look. It will provide a challenge to Japanese...

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DAF's main parameters in engine design are piston speed bore,

stroke ratio and heat transfer rate, and one thing is certain: by 1985 every DAF engine will be turbocharged EARLIER this year...

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Age and sex no barrier

I'VE JUST read in Bird's-eye View an article about Cretian coach drivers being retired at 45, and that drivers aged 55-64 are...

EEC: We can see through you

MEMBERSHIP of the EEC has had many effects on the British road transport industry, but alas little has been done to make life...

Axle weighers . Our solution

WITH REFERENCE to the discussion at Tipcon on axle weighers, it occurs to me that a cheap and effective solution might be to...

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Spanish cauldron...

If International Harvester succeeds in pulling out of its ENASA deal, the commercial vehicle industry in Spain could be thrown...

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Reality of the BRS dream

THE DREAM of a nationalised transport industry, integrated and organised along military lines, was a long-cherished one, but it...

FTA Yearbook

THE Freight Transport Association Yearbook '82 is a detailed and informative road transport bible that contains a wealth of...

Heavy stuff

THE SECOND EDITION of Heavy Vehicle Technology (Hutchinson £12) is not the weighty manual that the title implies. It is...

Tram

O'Shanters RAIL, rather than CM's customary type of road transport, hardly surprisingly takes precedence in the latest edition...

Buses of all shapes and sizes . . .

BUSES provide the basis for public transport throughout the world and come in an almost infinite variety of shapes and sizes. A...

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LAs — best of both worlds

OF ALL THE officials of one sort or another whose activities impinge on those who try to make a living out of road transport,...

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Brakes, 7

THE SIMPLEST device for converting the stored energy of the compressed air in the reservoir into the mechanical effort...