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10th September 1976
10th September 1976
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TACHOS OUT

...or 7,000 drivers will know the reason why by CM reporter A TACHOGRAPH strike by 1,000 drivers paralysed the delivery of...

Driver title fight

THREE HUNDRED drivers will be battling it out on Sunday for the coveted CM Lorry Driver of Year title. And this year the...

DRIVERS' hours regulations may be relaxed to help hauhers and

emergency service drivers fight the drought, following a request from the Road Haulage Association. In its letter to the...

NFC report is 'secret'

A REPORT by an independent firm of business consultants on the National Freight Corporation is to be kept secret.. A spokesman...

Room at the top

THE CM Fleet Management Conference is almost sold out, but a few places are still available. This one-day conference during the...

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At least link miways RAC

k CALL for some quick decisions about Britain's future transport policy has been made by the RAC. And at the same time Sir...

'77 looks good

ANDY THOMS, Ford of Britain's truck sales director, has forecast that 1976 would prove to be a record year for Ford commercial...

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ULUT 'Go it alone' helium rapped by Market

ITALY has been given a sharp rap over the knuckles by the European Commission for going it alone on legislation governing the...

Mid-East haulage outlook grim

NO PROGRESS has been made -towards getting fresh supplies of Hungarian and Italian haulage permits for operators going to the...

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qew Buffalo mange option

y Graham Montgomerie NEW ENGINE option is eing offered by British LeyInd in its Buffalo range in a Id to attract sales to...

Don't let up

It seems that the world and his wife have written to the Minister for Transport expressing views on the Transport Policy...

BL unveils Marathon short-sleeper

"SHORT-SLEEPER" cab version of Leyland's top-of-theange Marathon has been announced for the Earls Court show. Available for...

HAVING "de-turbocharged" 'the TL12 for the Buffalo, Leyland has gone

the other way for the Boxer by adding a , turbocharger to the Bathgate-built 98-series engine. Designated the 6-98TV, it...

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help driver in Arab jail

A FO spokesman told CM that a local lawyer has been appointed to act for Mr Barnes, who was unlikely to come to trial for at...

Mates

DAVID BARNES, the British driver in jail in Jeddah after an accident in which six Arabs died, is being kept supplied with food...

SHORT HAULS

Army moves PICKFORDS have opened a new office to serve Rhine army personnel moving between Britain and Germany. The new depot...

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DISMISSAL CLAIM DISMISSED

A SCOTTISH driver who claimed that he had been sacked by his employers had his claim for wrongful dismissal rejected by the...

Mixed reception for hgv drivers

THREE DRIVERS got a mixed reception when they appealed against heavy goods vehicle licence bans at Newcastle last week. In the...

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IS THIS YOU?

10 YOU SUPPLY materials nd equipment to UK odybuilding and repair pecialists? Then the Vehicle Iuilders and Repairers...

It's serviceman

VIAN Concessionaires (GB) _Id has signed a reconditionng contract with Inrad Ser/ices Ltd to service all radia:ors on new MAN...

Market upturn hoists CF profits

A BIG improvement in the commercial vehicle market has meant that Crane Fruehauf has been able to announce an operating profit...

A NEW company has been formed to merge the UK-Continental

bulk liquids operations of P&O Road Services tanker haulage companies under one banner. P&O Tankmasters will be based mainly...

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Ford beefs up transit

A NEW top of the weight range Transit — the 190 — has been introduced by Ford. Although it has a gvw of 3.5 tonnes (3 tons 9...

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A new Duple with Italian styling DUPLE has announced its

lew range of coach and bus )odies for the Commercial Vlotor Show and it includes the all-new Dominant 2 which is being added to...

More cash for Lothian buses

A FURTHER £208,188 in financial assistance to Scottish Bus Group operations in the Lothian Region during the present financial...

A SECOND attempt by National Travel to obtain permission to

operate daily express coach services between the. east coast of Yorkshire and London met strong opposition before the Yorkshire...

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Oxford delayed service charges claim

OXFORDSHIRE County Council is largely to blame for the delays in bringing about bus service alterations in the county (Oxford's...

Supercoach network expands

NATIONAL TRAVEL has added two new express routes to its Supercoach network; they start on September 26. a The new services will...

Cost of complaining

CARLISLE City Council is to consider a recommendation to drop its appeal against an application to reduce services run by...

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A prator mounted in a centre seat

position can carry several days' simply of perishable goods. When raised the cooker Ad acts as a splash guard. FORD has...

Now Ford joins in:

... Long Haul option for Middle East runs by Graham Montgomerie For the almost non-existent roads to be found in some parts of...

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244-tormer from BL

THE LATEST addition to the Contractor range of heavyhaulage specials is the 244-tonne (240-ton) gtw model announced today by...

Off the beat

TO COUNTERACT one of the main criticisms levelled at the EA van — body drumming — Leyland has replaced the flat panel body...

Turk

'wins for the UK by Graham Montgomerie TWO new trucks from Fiat for the British market are unveiled today. They compromise a...

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Instant fines

Some of the worst driving' in Britain can be seen most days on the M2 London to Dover road. This is especially true on Fridays...

Those old enough to remember the last war will be

familiar enough with the time "The fifth column". It was explained to me thus — ahem. "The fifth column was an unidentifiable...

Relief service

Three Dundee bus drivers find themselves the embarrassing centres of attraction among their colleagues. Apparently the hapless...

A first for HW

Harold WiTion has bought the first Ailsa double-decker in England. No, no not him; there is at least one other. This Harold...

It fell off a lorry

I passed a worried, blushing and confused driver the other day on the Thames embankment. He was worried because a member of the...

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RODDY STS HIS Y TO SUCCESS...

Roddy MacAskill has increased his fleet by 600 per cent in the worst two years of this decade by Ian Sherriff HOW MANY of the...

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Scare tactics?

The figure of 60 additional deaths per annum, given by the BRF in their comments on road cuts and quoted under the headline...

We leave it to readers to judge. Ed

Glasgow monopoly I refer to the report headed ''Glasgow sorts out monopoly - . I do not know the source of your information...

a l am told there is an official committee considering the

subject of Industrial Democracy. Could you say whether this is so and, if so, what is the background and the likely outcome?...

Q I am told that the new EEC-type drivers' record books

must be used exclusively very shortly. What is the date from which only this type of book will be accepted by DoE enforcement...

a l am to be prosecuted after police stopped my vehicle

which they say was making excessive exhaust noise. A hole was discovered in the exhaust where the pipe joined the silencer....

Q I understand that if I buy a vehicle capable of

being operated at over 7.38 tons gross then I must have an hgv licence. If I buy this vehicle with the intention of operating...

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Dodge Commando G08 at 75 tonnes gvw

by Stephen Gray LIKE MOST other UK volume production truck manufacturers, Chrysler too makes a vehicle which is designed to...

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IF RON USES

F, HE BUYS IT! ITS AMAZING the number of people who have become hauliers quite by chance. It seems that a large proportion of...

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FORDS NEW TOP weight Transit 190, announced today and just

tested by CM, offers a useful payload advantage over the existing 175 model. This extra load amounts to 140kg (3091b) on the...

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LET'S SIMPLIFY THESE LICENSING CATEGORIES

THE MAJOR categories of public road transport could be reclassified into two fundamental designations of carriage: regular and...

RURAL transport experiments are clearly to be encouraged, say the authors of PSV and the Law.

But they are extremely cautious about it. They want both the experiments and the machinery by which they are introduced...

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Filler caps don't last for ever . . .

RADIATOR filler caps tend to be the forgotten components of the cooling system — if they seem to fit, people assume that they...

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A forged permit can mean loll

By Les Oldridge, T.Eng.(CEI), M.I.M.I., A.M.I.R.T.E. THE LAW has always regarded forgery as a very serious crime punishable...

TALL ORDER

LABOUR PARTY politicians who were active in the run-up to the 1968 Transport Act may be flattered, and also a little bemused,...