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10th November 1984
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Anti-blacklist tactics

IF OTHER socialist councils follow the example of Oxford and compile a blacklist of hauliers who have crossed miners' picket...

Next Week

THE ROAD Haulage Association's annual conference is Britain's most important forum for discussing the industry, and there will...

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It's merger week

TWO OF THE best known companies in the haulage and distribution business have been subject of takeovers in the past week. SPD,...

Blacking order

A HIGH COURT judge has ordered an end to the blacking by Cardiff dockers of lorries owned by Gloucestershire haulage firms,...

NUM blacklist

A LIST of hundreds of hauliers from all over the country that have allegedly crossed miners' poicket lines has been compiled by...

'No more than 38'

THIRTY-EIGHT tonnes is the optimum weight for lorries in Britain, Transport Minister Lynda Chalker said this week. She told CM...

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Clash over waste

THE FUTURE licensing of waste disposal vehicles of disagreement between the Freight Transport the Road Haulage Association....

NIRTA wants E-controls

ENVIRONMENTAL controls on haulage operating centres should be extended to Northern Ireland, according to the Northern Ireland...

Coal question

THE CENTRAL Electricity Generating Board is to review its long term contract with British Rail's Railfreight for carrying coal...

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After Bathgate finally closes

A NEW motorway link has been proposed as part of a Government promoted study of how to regenerate Bathgate, West Lothian after...

CM drops LDoY competition

COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S sponsorship of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition, which began in 1963, will be terminated in March...

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Neely: 'Too much'

HAULIERS are paying more than their fair share for the environment, Road Haulage Association national chairman Bert Neely told...

Capon: 'Positive line'

THE TRANSPORT industry should adopt a more positive line on new legislation, Leyland Trucks product developmen1 director Peter...

£130m saving possible

A NATIONAL saving of £130m could be made without a drop in standards if local authorities managed their fleets more...

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International move

THE CORPORATE sales operation formed recently by Britannia Movers International has appointed Ted Philp as its managing...

Endurance

TED HUDSON, who joined Murphy Bros of Leicester in the days of solid-tyred lorries without power steering or indicators, has...

FCS restructures

AS PART of a plan to double its size and raise turnover to £16m a year, Freight Computer Services has restructured its...

WILLIAM BYRNES, until recently managing director of General Freight International,

has been appointed managing director of UML, Port Sunlight, in succession to JAMES DUCKWORTH, who takes up a London-based...

Prime mover

FOLLOWING the entry of Toyota GB into the UK coach market, the company has appointed Stephen Prime as coach sales manager. He...

Edgley for OKL

SPECIALIST chilled foods distributor OKL Distribution has recruited Bob Edgley as operations director at its King's Lynn...

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Judgment in the balance

JUDGMENT is still awaited on another case which challenges the accuracy of a dynamic axle weighbridge. Evidence of tests...

Transport law

THE FREIGHT Transport Association will hold 13 two-day transport law courses at regional centres throughout the country next...

Taxing fine for haulier

A CUMBRIAN haulage boss has been ordered to pay more than £300 after a court heard how he was using a lorry with nearly £6,000...

French ferry

SNCF's 1,800 passenger vehicle ferry, the 9,069-tonne Champs Elysees — the largest ferry ever to be introduced on crossChannel...

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Championships at Truckfest 1985

TRUCKFEST, the drivers' and users' competition, will be held at Peterborough's East of England Showground on Easter Sunday and...

Expanding

TRAILERENT, the trailer rental and contract hire company, has opened three more branches bringing its national total to 15. The...

Training

SMITH and Robinson, the tanker haulage specialist in the Hargreaves Transport group, experience is organising 20 Road Transport...

CV exhibition

THE ROAD Haulage Association is to sponsor a commercial vehicle exhibition in England next September. It is being organised by...

Basebond at Manchester

CONTAINERBASE is extending its Basebond Customs facility to its inland clearance depot at Urmston, Manchester. The service,...

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Oil injection

TRANS Europe Sales and Service's new TEP3000 auxiliary oil injection unit is designed to prevent damage to turbocharging main...

Fork lift refrigeration

PETTER Refrigeration of Hamble, Hampshire, has launched a new trailer fridge unit designated the 6500. The 6.5kW(8.7bhp)...

Perkins powered

Major Parts cylinder heads are available for Perkins 4.236 four-cylinder and 6.3543 and 6.3542 six-cylinder engines, as well as...

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THE POST OFFICE has taken its first major steps towards

electric mail vehicles with the purchase of 80 electric panel vans worth £800,000. The order will be divided equally between...

These kits take care

A REPLACEMENT kit including wheel bearings, seals and gaskets for Continental commercial vehicles has been produced by...

LOWFIELD Distribution has taken delivery of four new distribution vehicles fitted with an extra axle to increase their weight capacity.

They are Dodge G16 chassis fitted with a Turner air-lift single-wheel trailing-axle by Vehicle Systems Engineering of Barking,...

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Temporary D reg?

REGISTRATION of bus services under deregulation could be only a temporary need, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley said last...

Reservations on tenders

DESPITE supporting the introduction of tendering for local bus services that require subsidy, the Bus and Coach Council has...

Launch of BCT

BUS AND Coach Training, an off-shoot of the Bus and Coach Council, was inaugurated by Geoffrey Holland, director of the...

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Step by step to o-p-o

LONDON Regional Transport's bus operating business, London Buses, has reached an agreement with the Transport and General...

The overdrive Custom by Ford

OVERDRIVE is to be a standard feature on all new Ford Transit Custom minibuses. The electrically operated overdrive has a ratio...

DEREGULATION of the bus industry will not start until 1986.

The Queen's speech this week said that legislation will be introduced this session to abolish road service licensing throughout...

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Courtesy case

A SERIES of alleged offences arising out of the operation of "free" courtesy services to Manchester International Airport...

Coping with the disabled

DELEGATES and speakers at a major London conference on transport for the disabled expressed real fear that an increase in the...

Time up their sleeves

LONDON Regional Transport's Chiswick workshop is reckoned to be saving about 1,200 man hours and £6,000 a year by using CR...

Dereg fears

LOTHIAN'S bus services would be drastically affected by the Government plans for deregulation, said Terry Weir, convener of the...

DUMFRIES and Galloway Regional Council's provision of rural stage services

on school contract routes has been given a limited volume of customer support, according to one of the contractors. Kian...

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'A growth industry'

RESULTS for UK international hauliers seem impressive. They have reported increases above the EEC average in international...

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Let's all lean over sideways

BEDFORD and Leyland are leaning over sideways to sell more lorries and USG are leaning over sideways to sell more diff locks!...

Less pretty, maybe but we're first

MAY I draw your attention to page 18 of Volume 160, No 4086, of Commercial Motor for the week ending September 15, 1984. I...

Thanks to CM

I HAVE recently received from T. J. E. Price, a founder member and vice-president of Tenovus, the most generous gift of £100...

Council counsel

WITH REFERENCE to the Manpower Moves item headed "Council counsel" (CM October 27) where reference was made to Jim Shirley, we...

Hyva skiploader

I WOULD like to draw your attention to the article printed on page 157 of Commercial Motor October 20, regarding the HYVA...

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rite away for a free holiday

WHICH way distribution? Nobody, of course, can answer that question with absolute certainty, but if you can present well...

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Chemicals giant's new haulage formula

Corporations as big and strong as ICI have the whip hand when controlling their suppliers, as Jack Semple found out when he...

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And now, a more down-to-earth look at the Leyland Roadrunner.

If you've seen the TV commercial for the Roadrunner you'll know Leyland have proved that their new 7.5 tonne truck can take a...

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Deep in the forest attics stir

Although 8x4 rigids are better able to penetrate deep into forest terrain, most hauliers who operate in the Kielder Forest are...

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It's a Men pin-up truck

Its gleaming good looks and sylvan setting might have earned it a place in Foden's calendar, but Carl Gibson's S106 6x4 has a...

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Haulier is accredited tractive-unit builder

He started to assemble lorries from abandoned wartime American chassis and powered them with German tank engines to form the...

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A higher degree of cleanliness

CONCEPTS Scot-Lift range of mobile column lifts and Chassijet 2000 automatic programmable chassis-washing system are suited for...

Torque of a wide range

NORBAR Torque Tools has introduced a range of professional torque wrenches (three models) covering 10 to 300 Nm (8 to...

Parts get a sevenpoint clean-up

KARCHER (UK) can solve various cleaning problems. It can provide high-pressure cleaning, vacuuming, sprayextraction valeting,...

Hazards identified

MINIATURE versions of IATA and IMCO hazardous goods labels have been produced by R. A. Bowdidge, the Essex safety company. The...

Electronic speed

VDO INSTRUMENTS is offering a 140mm Speedometer to interchange with a Kienzle tachograph head, both physically and...

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Bigger volumes for Ryland Tankers

Helped by the resurgence of the tanker market Ryland Tankers appears to have turned the corner. Bryan Jarvis visited its new...

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BRS staff put the team first

THE MORE I learn of the National Freight Consortium, the more, it seems to me to be a model for British industry, not excluding...

A ban by any other name . . .

TRANSPORT for an Improved City condemns the construction of major new roads in the belief that people should be compelled to...

Lorry racing daily 7am to 9pm

THE Road Haulage Association, which also demands a public inquiry, expects something like the start of a Formula I grand prix...

Back to the horse on village bypass

REDBOURN, a much-buffeted one-horse Hertfordshire village on what used to be A5 and is now A5183, was promoted to four-horse...

Are road inquiries a dead letter?

PUBLIC inquiries into road airport and nuclear power station projects are steadily diminishing in credibility. There is a...

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TM and TM again --

Bedford is continuing its tradition as a major supplier of army vehicles with the TM6-6. Tim Blakemore took one of the new 6x6...

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Let's look at the new Lighting Regs

A single document now contains all the laws and new terms include 'position lamps' rather than side lights THE Road Vehicle...

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Book Reviews

National revolution THE LEYLAND NATIONAL has become one of the most familiar buses on Britain's roads over the last 14 years,...

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Hit and run

I would like to nominate the driver of our school minibus who one morning in January, 1984, as he was coming through Molesey,...

Attack resisted

On January 25 this year, a delivery driver, having finished a delivery to the London Tara Hotel, was grabbed by two men as he...

Eight brave transport me

JUDGING began last Friday for the 1984 Mark Vane Memorial Award. Eight nominations have been submitted to the panel and the...

Hosp tal fire

Mr W was driving his bus on service l through the grounds of $t Crispin Hospital, Northarripton, when he saw smoke rising from...

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Bus driver to rescue at car crash in Wales

On Wednesday, December 7, 1983, Mr C. was operating the 17.45 X1 bus service from Swansea Bus Station to Cardiff when a Mark 1...

Collapse at a pally

This nominee is employed by a bus and coach company which hires out coaches and drivers to private parties. On Friday, March...

Icy plunge

Lorry driver Mr M dived into icy water to rescue four people trapped in an overturned car. A witness said that the car seemed...