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10th March 1978
10th March 1978
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est fees are at cost

EASES in the fee for a goods vehicle driving id been big, but the pro£33.50, now being disI with the industry, did beyond the...

Doubts raised on CPC exam

MORE THAN 30 small operators turned out at Ealing on Monday to meet 0 licence committee chairman Prof. Christopher Foster to...

Weights must go up'

,W ROW over maximum vehicle weights is brewing in the EEC following a new proposal for amunity-wide maximum of 44 tonnes and an...

Rulebook overload

BRITAIN'S new regulations on professional competence have driven one company out of business. Nationwide Transport Ltd has...

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German operator moves in

LONDON coach operators who are involved with the incoming tourist trade, are becoming increasingly worried by what they...

Concessions costs still rising

NO NATIONAL scheme of concessionary fares — that was the message from the Department of Transport when John Horam, Transport...

A, Call t

Id 1978 mans out NEARLY 1,000 delegates to the national convention of the British Institute of Management at Wembley on...

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Setbacks no worry to NCL

DESPITE losing a major contract worth £7m National Carriers' management is confident that 1978 will see an improvement in its...

WESTMINSTER RAUL

IS OUR nice, civilised Secretary of State for Transport becoming a kilometre convert? Up to now he has seemed decidedly cool...

NSING Authorities will need to use their detailed knowledge of

the road )ort industry to the full if the admission to the occupation provisions of operator's ing are to be successful and...

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1edford appea fails

ciPPEAL by P. Foster !age) Ltd, formerly Beda Haulage Ltd, of Bedagainst a Bedford Crown t ruling that their pleas of to 48...

Removal men knock 'cowboys'

A PLEA to end the licensing "double standard" for removers came from the British Association of Removers this week. In its...

Faults increase

NEW goods vehicles last year were found by FTA's New Vehicle Inspection Service to be marginally more defective than the...

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SHORT HAULS

New Hestair Dennis distributor GUILDFORD-BASED specialised vehicle manufacturer Hestair Dennis has appointed a new distributor...

Motorway extension

THE Department of Transport has announced that work is to start soon on the 10km (6.75 mile) westerly extension of the M56...

Correspondence course

TRANSPORT Tutorial Association Ltd has prepared a new correspondence course for the Certificate of Professional Competence...

First contract

THE association between international transportation specialists Robert Wynn and Sons and the Express Kenya Company of Nairobi...

Residential courses

THE Oxford Executive Development Programme, conducted by the Eurotech Management Development Service, are to hold nine oneweek...

A WARNING that two offences in five years will mean

automatic revocation of the licence under the new operators' licensing system came from the Department of Transport this week....

THE DIRECTORS of five haulage companies appeared at Teesside Crown

Court last week, accused of bribing British Steel transport officials and the traffic clerk of another firm who handled their...

'Most' have CPC

MORE THAN 5,000 people will be taking the examination ft Certificate of Professional Competence in May and there v more still...

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Some you win, some you lose

LONG-DISTANCE lorry driver James Queen was sacked for bad timekeeping. But an industrial tribunal, at which he claimed he was...

RHA

elections L. 3. Bassett, of Bassetts Roadways Ltd, has been elected chairman of the West Midland Area of the Road Haulage...

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King's Lynn ban 'affront'

ROAD HAULAGE Association vice-chairman Ken Rogers slammed a Norfolk commercial vehicle ban as "an affront to democracy" last...

CLOSE THE WINDOWS!

CARBON monoxide concentrations inside vehicles in heavy traffic often exceed those found at the roadside, according to a report...

emp oye

CHARLES Williams, chai of the Price Commission the Confederation of B Industry last week tha commission would alwa form...

No more deaths..

MORE people would be killed or injured on Midlands roads if the M40 and M42 were not built, businessmen in Smethwick were told...

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DON'S buses get a new next month, with ges on

40 routes. It is the step in implementing Ion Transport's plans to ove the capital's bus ser eater London Council's Ion...

Mass prote forces • r

A MASS protest by the workforce at the Goodyear Tyre factory at Drurnchapel, Glasgow, over the 'serious deterioration' of one...

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Court backs psv appeal

LEWES magistrates have overruled a Traffic Commissioner's decision and gave back a coach driver's public service vehicle...

Desk-bou operator attacke

THE - COACH licensing s3 is restrictive and out of said Kent coach tour opt D. A. Swinard last week. There were many oper who...

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uick fit dywork

EMT RANGE of dropside bodywork suitable for 'ord Transit, Bedford CF iherpa has been marketed ,. E. Jackson (Coachs) Ltd of...

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Lucas depot for electrics

LUCAS'S purpose-built Electric Vehicle Service Unit is a world first. The facilities at Acton, West London, are initially...

Alloy bodies reduce weight

INGIMEC'S aluminium tir body system will be mark , by Wilsdon and Co 1 specialist body builders repairers of Solihull,...

Trailers for digger parts

CHAMBERS and Cook (European Services) Ltd has purchased seven new trailers with purpose built bodies in which to carry urgent...

Getting it straight

HEAVY-DUTY frame-straightening installations are to g specialist section within the Vehicle Builders and Repa Association. The...

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Vot like that!

THE confidence of the Traffic Commissioners has been troyed after reading the Standing Committee B report on the import Bill...

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For better or worse

One of the "rules" of the Transport Managers' Club is that the after-dinner speaker sh not take road transport as his subject....

Turf tips •

Talking about the aggressive and commercial approach! What about the latest National Travel (South East) Ltd package? They call...

Two-tier 111111?

The RHA is concerned about its public image. That's hardly surprising because the people up at Woburn Place have been getting...

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Turbocharging and' turbochargers

lie technical editor talks to Holset about the rhys and wherefores of forced induction INTERNAL COMBUS)14 engine functions by...

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*taloa

NWot tete woo I was most interested to read the articles on terotechnology (CM February 10), a discipline in which I have...

13talzeo

With reference to the article by "Preceptor" on brakes CM February 24), there are paragraphs on page 52 in column one which are...

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SIMPLE MECHANICS

KES-6 Servo unit, by Preceptor 'MANY vehicles, perhaps not heavy enough to warrant a full power braking system, are fitted...

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"Your business doesn't rur AT fuel, but on money."

We all know that television serials are just make-believe. Most of the time. But sometimes some of the things that are said...

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Short routes to reliability

1ORTER bus routes, duced traffic control deo, improved bus access id more operator involveant at planning stage — ese are the...

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...New candidate for the motorway club

31 COACHES are popular operators and isengers alike, but too en they are based on iicles that do not seem ticularly suitable...

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Finding the fault

JSI NG death by dangerous driving, dealt with in Section 1 he Road Traffic Act 1972, is the most serious traffic pnce a driver...

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Facelift and new engine for Transit

THE FORD Transit has just had its first major facelift, detail improvements apart, since it was launched in Europe in 1965. But...