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CRANSPORT MINISTER Nilliam Rodgers dropped ;ome broad hints this week hat he is thinking of backing he unions and employers in...
THE INSTALLATION of a dynamic weighbridge at Newhaven on which all commercial vehicles entering the country through the port...
FOLLOWING a breakdown of talks, negotiations between the United Road Transport Union and hauliers in the Manchester area have...
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A POWERFUL alliance of transport trade unions and consumer interests is to mount a major publicity campaign in London and the...
included in vehicle operators' insurance policies. This is likely if the Road Haulage Association's demands to increase lorry...
THE FUTURE of the Dock Work Regulation Bill hung in the balance this week — even though the Government carried its guillotine...
A PLAN to impose a permit system on hauliers bringing lorries into Central London moved one step nearer reality this week. The...
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:SCAPE PLANS to free Briain from bringing in the :uropean hours and achograph legislation took a evere knock last week. Unless...
ONLY six per cent of the drivers eligible to claim hgv licences under the 1976 Act without taking the test have claimed them...
THE NUMBER of vehicles involved in accidents where jack-knifing occurred is falling year by year. This fact emerged from...
British truck manufacturer. During September, production of British Leyland lorries dropped and the numbers of imports rose....
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THE LONG-AWAITED Commons debate on transport was killed off last week — because the Tories were anxious to score a victory over...
in an effort to try and postpone lorry route schemes that may be coming into effect in the South East. A spokesman told CM...
THE REVOCATION of a two-vehicle 0-licence by the deputy Yorkshire Licensing Authority was the subject of an appeal to the...
SENSIBLE charging policies for waste disposal must be adopted by Local Authorities. This is the theme of a speech at the...
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Secret report THE COOPERS and Lybrand report on the National Freight Corporation is not to be published. Stating this in the...
THE FLEET of a North-Eastern operator will in future be concentrated on general haulage. The Northern Licensing Authority was...
Yorkshire farmer and his wife led to problems when Mr A. W. Caine, of Helmsley, holder of an 0-licence for one vehicle since...
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THE ATTRACTIONS of using the railways to move bulk loads should not be allowed to over-tide the needs to keep transport costs...
vehicles registered in Great Britain show that freight traffic in 1975 increased by two per cent. Tonnage lifted fell by one...
Price rise FORD has announced an increase of 5% on the price of its trucks. The additional cost will make the maximum retail...
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THE OFFER of 27p a share made for Crane Fruehauf Ltd by the Fruehauf Corporation of America (CM October 22) does not even cover...
FAILURES at the annual MoT test dropped to their lowest level since the test began with only 174,000 vehicles -including...
Lyle Transport. He succeeds Jim Scott who moves to become joint managing director of Garton and Sons and a director of Manbre...
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CONTINENTAL coach holidays offered by National Travel and Bee-Line Roadways of Middlesbrough for 1977 are being marketed under...
A NEW express bus service operated by United Counties will link Corby to Kettering rail station from November 22. This is...
BUS GRANTS may be phased out slowly until 1983 instead of finishing abruptly in 1980. But the replacement of the grant cash by...
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AN APPLICATION by S. A. Bebb Ltd of Llandwit Fartre, South Wales was ill-founded it was claimed because one road service...
PUBLIC TRANSPORT is being subsidised at a rate of £11.2 per head of the population. This figure was given in the Commons last...
A DRIVER abandoned his bus load of passengers after a disagreement with an inspector — telling him he could drive the bus...
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Martin and Co Ltd., is being used to fill trucks with return loads of scrap aluminium destined for Germany and Holland. Loading...
ELEVEN BEDFORD welfare ambulances equipped with Ratcliff tail-lifts have been bought by Phab, the Physically Handicapped and...
PLE_SSEY HYDRAULICS of Swindon, Wilts, has announced a temperature-controlled hydraulic drive system for vehicle engine cooling...
THE SWEDISH electrical manufacturer ASEA has introduced a new load indicator using force transducers so that no moving parts...
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by Johnny Johnson INTERNATIONAL HAULIERS entering the UK at Newhaven should take note that all their vehicles will be check...
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Nobody's fuel is wasted: Stephen Gray reviews a year testing lightweight te accent is more mpg. The pictures are by Dick Ross...
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THE "new" Transport Minister, Bill Rodgers made one of his infrequent public appearances last week at the CIT lunch. There they...
Max Meynier of RT, Luxembourg is a disc jockey with a difference, In fact on the continent Max keeps lorry drivers in touch...
man up north walked into a great cacophony last week in Middlewich. He popped in to see Graham Martin in his bus yard and was...
Ever since females found a new freedom through the Sex Discrimination Act we've been bombarded with tales of how well they are...
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Bodybuilders 3.5 Tonne challenge to better mass produced vans' capacities. Bill Brock also looks at the economic way of...
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FOR A COACH like the Reebur 17 to be in production less than a year after the start of design work, seems an impossibly tight...
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examples are discussed by our art editor David Naylor and Philip Russell, deputy head of IPC Business Press Creative Services....
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DESPITE the reduction in environmental pressures to limit the use of large com mercial vehicles in urban areas, there is still...
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Volkswagen of the LT range of light commercial vehicles last year marked that company's diversification into the over one-ton...
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you dealt with mat-. ers concerning "Notice of 'Mended Prosecution" regardng driving without due care and attention, dangerous...
type journey record sheets last week. This has resulted in the records being wrongly completed and in some cases they are...
tachographs? I thought that these should be fitted on new vehicles from last January yet I see reports of them being removed...
the correction next to the entry which has been struck out. The correction must also be initialled. a l am constantly aware of...
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Bill Brock tries out two seat-belt systems now being considered for van drivers IF ALL DRIVERS of vans and private cars used...
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EVERY so often, a cooling system becomes clogged up in such a way that normal flushing techniques will not clear the passages...