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12th December 1991
12th December 1991
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R COMMENT

• It's crunch time. By next Tuesday (17 Dec) British hauliers should know if EC legislation will force them to fit 50mph speed...

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First Multidrive to go to waste

• The first Multidrive to be fitted with a bulk waste body has gone into service with Birmingham City Council's environmental...

South offers 3.2%

11 Drivers' unions are considering a below-inflation offer of 3.2% from the Road Haulage Association Southern Region, which...

Boalloy slashes Marling's profits

MI Boalloy has plunged into the red, causing a drastic drop in profits for its parent, Marling Industries. Marling says the...

Storm follows moonlighting blitz

• A crackdown on suspected moonlighting truck drivers is unlikely to be repeated, following a furore by civil rights...

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RHA slams freight forwarders' claim

• Claims by a freight forwarders' body that its membership criteria are tougher than the Road Haulage Association's shows...

Help for French victims

• A helpline has been set up for UK truck drivers who are attacked in France — but so far no one has used it. The Road Haulage...

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Beast hauliers to register

• Livestock and poultry hauliers will have to be registered with the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) under a...

44-tonners 'inevitable'

• Forty-four tonne trucks are inevitable from next year, a leading anti-truck campaigner has conceded. And although the UK...

Truck sales-the agony continues

• The slump in truck sales shows few signs of easing. Sales of trucks and artics fell 27% in November compared with the same...

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Royal Mail going greener

• A streamlined Leyland Daf 95.360 artic with an experimental low noise engine and several environment-friendly features is one...

Water carrier is Hereford bound

• Hereford and Worcester Fire Brigade's latest fleet addition is this 158kW (212hp) Leyland Daf FA 60.210 17-tonne water...

Thermostar is given free reign

• York Group's former reefer specialist, Thermostar, is to be given free reign by new owner Schmitz Anhanger to develop and...

Perkins first for Switzerland

• Foden's debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month will feature a Hi-Line 4x2 tractive unit fitted with what it claims is the...

Back in the USSR

• Several Western European truck manufacturers will be at Russia's first major motor exhibition next year. Scania, Iveco,...

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Chilly tips from Vaile

• South-West bodybuilder Vaile & Company has established a new tipper division, Tudor Vale Tippers. It is based at Valle's...

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Danskin assets are sold

• The assets and business of Danskin Distribution have been sold, just eight days after the company went into receivership, to...

COD warning

• Hauliers and their drivers were warned this week to watch for cash on delivery requirements specified on international...

Blueflite bid succeeds

• Blueflite of Dublin has beaten off attempts by 20 leading UK and Irish contractors to take over parts deliveries for General...

Track 29 is irresistible

/ Major distribution groups have been attracted "like bees round a honey pot" to Track 29, British Rail's heavy parcels network...

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Tiphook profits increase

• Trailer rental giant Tiphook has revealed half-year profits up by 56% to £39.3m while distribution company Christian Salvesen...

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Bass cuts hit drivers jobs

• At least 29 drivers will lose their jobs when brewer Bass completes a programme of brewery closures beginning next year....

IPC contract renewed • Milton Keynes-based operator D Mortimer has

won a renewal of its multi-million pound contract distributing magazines for IPC Marketforce, a subsidiary of Reed...

TNT Express expands

• TNT Express is opening city-centre depots in Manchester and London at a cost of £6.5m in a bid to increase its share of the...

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D&A charges dropped

'IF • Charges alleging the use of a vehicle with dangerous steering and brakes by D&A Transport (Longton) have been dismissed...

Lynx was not to blame for runaway truck

E Lynx Express Delivery Network admitted using a vehicle with defective brakes after one of its 12.5 tonne Bedford trucks ran...

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Volvo to close Workington

/ Volvo Bus is to close its assembly plant at Workington over the next eight months resulting in the death of the Leyland Lynx...

Hood joins Car Chair

/ Robin Hood, founder of the GRP bodybuilder of the same name, has joined Car Chair Vehicle Builders of Hailsham, East Sussex,...

Rider Group profits rise

/ Rider Group, with 1,300 buses in Yorkshire, almost doubled its trading profit in 1990/91 to £6.2m on a turnover of 2,83.3m,...

Bird made redundant

in West Durham Coach Sales made sales manager Brian Bird redundant last week and stopped selling the Toyota Optimo II, although...

Automatic five from Renault

/ Renault is counter-attacking at the light end of the market, with the introduction of automatic transmission throughout its...

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IIINEWSBODYBUILD1NG

• For sheer variety, innovation and quality, the Belgian Royal Professional Association of Goods Transporters of Flanders'...

Belgian bodybuilding bonanza

French bodybuilder Cargo Van ordered a special 13.6m semitrailer with raising (by 400mm to 4.4m) or slide-back canvas roof and...

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BUSINESS MOVES Ryder re-sites

• Ryder Truck Rental has moved into larger premises in Edinburgh, just off the M8 near Turnhouse airport. Area director Ken...

OPERATOR'S HANDBOOK Z'

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eports in the up-market press last week speculated that the

Post Office might abandon second deliveries of letters and get postmen to combine mail, milk and newspaper drops. The stuff of...

ccording to reports in the Cuban press, bus services in Ifavana, the country ' s

capital of two million people, are to be drastically reduced. The new measures are the result of a severe shortage of spare...

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INSIGHT

RECOVERY • When the RAC and British Standards Institution launched a code of practice for the recovery industry in June, they...

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ROADTEST

FA 60 210 • Record breakers are nothing but trouble. As if it isn't bad enough having to go over the test results with a...

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ROADTEST

FA 60 210 When it comes to outright acceleration only the FL7 and the Cargo 1721 proved quicker running up to 80knri/h. You'll...

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I was employed at one company for 20 years as

transport manager and two months ago I was told the firm was going on to third-party management. I was told I was redundant and...

Is "good condition" enforceable

When starting out as an owner-driver earlier this year I bought a tractive unit for cash, from a haulier who was folding his...

Irremovable bans

A vehicle examiner who found a loose steering coupling on our vehicle decided to place a prohibition on it. Our mechanic...

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• It was one dark and stormy night in November

1987 that Commercial Motor last set out to test the combined roadside call-out services of the UK's 10 major manufacturers. On...

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BREAKDOWN

TEST The call to ERF Freeway at 08:00hrs was picked up promptly, and handled by the switchboard operator in a friendly and...

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Stone Age transport

• I have been reading the letter pages in Commercial Motor about how various people think the transport system in the UK should...