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14th January 1972
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Size and structure

Some critical problems of small and medium-sized transport operators in this country were touched on by the managing director...

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Dockers' action may drive hauliers from Southampton

• The roll-on/roll-off berths at Southampton are in danger of losing their ferry traffic to Portsmouth, Newhaven and Shoreham....

Ryder supports VITA on licensing hirers

• Ryder Truck Rental, the big US vehicle hire company now establishing itself in Britain, on Tuesday wrote to the Freight...

Boxer artics and Terrier tippers join Redline range

• The introduction today of Boxer tractive units and Terrier tippers represents a signficant extension of the range of British...

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Profit formula for road

transport by Joh Da ke Too many hauliers are under capitalized, warns TDG chief, and the profitability of many depends on...

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RHA urges VAT on fuel Call to scrap

Training Act • It is strongly urged by the Road Haulage Association that value-added tax should be applied to fuel in the...

MPs visit Motec 2

• The half-completed Motec 2 at Livingston, near Edinburgh, was visited on Tuesday by 16 Scottish MPs as guests of the RTITB....

Sheffield Mllink

• Work is expected to start soon on the 51--mile dual-carriageway link from the centre of Sheffield to Ml. The DoE announced...

Meat distribution codes disturb councils

• More publicity should be given to the existing codes of practice on the distribution and storage of meat products, the Urban...

Big lift from Cheltenham

• Tipping gears which in twin front-end form have a lifting capacity of 46 tons are included in a new range of single and twin...

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More togetherness wanted

• Better understanding between the engineers who build, highways and the engineers who build trucks and buses was called for on...

New M-ways for Essex?

• Essex will need . . two new motorways costing some £60m, forecasts the British Road Federation in a report published this...

Bedford sales

• Exports of Bedford trucks and vans, says Vauxhall Motors, set up a new record of 59,667 units in 1971 despite a worldwide...

Demand for new roads not being met

• No real attempt has been made by Government to match the supply of roads to the demand. Unless an all-out effort is made in...

Inquiry on Penrith haulage complex

• Proposals for a road haulage complex at the southern entrance to Penrith, originated by a former local haulier, will be the...

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TA European

• The Transport Association decided at its meeting in London this week to extend its field of activity to embrace European...

Heartbeats by radio

Especially appropriate in an issue of CM devoted largely to communications is news of an emergency resuscitation ambulance...

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Managing transport 'toys in Europe

NIGEL DESPICHT'S STIMULATING VIEWS • - Our technological skills have outstripped our political abilities. The real problem of...

CM's new seminar season starts

• Retaining the Operator's Licence is the subject of the first of CM's 1972 seminars, which will be held in London on January...

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Successful launch of M4 express

• The introduction of a new non-stop Bristol to London express service running via M4 motorway was successfully undertaken by...

Ribble to drop discount fares

• Ribble Motor Services' application for a fares increase will be considered at a public inquiry on March 1. Director and...

PTE chief's £12,000 upsets busmen

• Mr Frederic Lloyd, director-general of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, is to get a pay rise that will put...

Plaxtons expand while profit rises

• A net profit before taxation of £720,428 was achieved by Plaxtons (Scarborough) Ltd for the financial year ended August 31...

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Computerized payroll for Premier Travel

• When Preinier Travel Ltd adopted a computerized payroll system, pay for office staff of subsidiaries Premier Travel and...

West Midlands PTE expands Autofare

• Following the success of 200 Autofare machines installed on buses operating in its south division, West Midlands PTE is...

Two-way stretch at Lowestoft

I Lowestoft Corporation's new transport )(lard, faced with the task of finding E10,000 to break even this year, was ;eemingly...

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Who should control PTAs?

Sir Francis bows out: arise Sir Harold • News that Aid Sir Francis Griffin, chairman of the West Midlands Passenger Transport...

PEOPLE

A. Fraser Menzies, 38, has been appointed director of distribution UK, Reckitt and Colman Ltd, in place of L. A. Carey, 64, who...

'Free fares' follow up

• Two officers connected with public transport in London are visiting Rome to learn at first hand the results of the recent...

Unlucky ticket draw

• Fears that its £50 monthly lucky ticket draw might be contravening the Lotteries Act have caused Barton Transport Ltd to...

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'Serious Case' adjourned for Purle key witness

• The Metropolitan LA, Mr D. I. R. Muir. adjourned a Section 69 case against Purle Brothers (Holdings) Ltd because a key...

LA gives 'sternest possible warning' on probationary licence

• Since being given a probationary licence in October 1970 — before this the operator had a history of 17 immediate and 32...

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Four vehicles reduced to one for Leeds farmer

• "I suppose the vehicle is in use among the natives in Ponga-Ponga now", the Yorkshire Area LA, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, said...

Absolute discharge given in defective tyre case

• A copy of the Commercial Motor issue for December 17 was produced before Huddersfield magistrates last week in support of a...

Tina manager fined

• Charged at Terrington St Clement (Norfolk) magistrates' court with having made a false declaration when he filled in an...

Employer fined for aiding and abetting

• Tru-Fresh Ltd, egg packer and distributor of Freckleton, Lancashire, was fined a toial of £50 with £32.35 costs before Lytham...

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Responsibilities shirked — LA curtails licence

• Just because an operator was not mechanically minded he could not "shut himself up in a box" and leave the 'inspection and...

Driver fined for M6 accident

• A 47-year-old lorry driver who appeared before Altrincham, Cheshire, magistrates accused of careless driving and who was...

Tribunal told of sugar in fuel tank

• A Birmingham Industrial Tribunal rejected a redundancy pay claim last week by six drivers who had worked at a depot where, it...

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Nominal penalty after design weakness

• Weaknesses in the design of some braking systems of certain commercial vehicles were discussed this week at a Devizes...

Demolition vehicles should be checked every night LA

• It is essential that haulage contractors engaged on demolition sites and motorway construction ensure that their vehicles are...

TGWU area secretary fined for false hgv statement

• Mr Henry Patrick Hull, an hgv driving instructor and area secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, was fined...

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28-ton drawbar options from Ford

• The recent legislation allowing singlemanning of drawbar units by a Class III hgv licence holder has prompted Ford to market...

Hovertrailer to the rescue

• One of Britain's youngest chief ambulance officers recently published his concept of a hover ambulance of the 1980s. As a...

Free van repair scheme extended

• All vans sold by Vauxhall dealers under the quality tested scheme are now covered by an undertaking to repair or replace...

Code for plastic containers

• The British Plastics Federation has issued in handbook form a Code of Practice for the construction of plastic reinforced...

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bird's eye

view by the Hawk • Behind the scenes More than ever this year the Annual Reports of the Licensing Authorities (CM last week)...

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Telex control for European removals

EFFECTIVE communications are helping CETI (Co-operative d'Entreprises de Transports Internationaux) to grow rapidly. This...

A thousand sparks are on the air

THE South Eastern Electricity Board at Hove, Sussex, serves a population of some four million people in an area of 3000 square...

Bristol uses beacons

THE Bristol-Marconi B-Line bus location system, which will provide a means of controlling Bristol buses from a central point,...

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R/T raises utilization by 10 pc

WHEN Hales Containers Ltd of Cheshunt decided to apply radio control to some of the company's waste-disposal vehicles, the...

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The VOC has a thousand eyes

THERE ARE 800 commercial operators in the Vehicle Observer Corps and they, together with the police and the thousands of...

Containers under control

KEEPING TRACK of some 12,000 ISO containers circulating in industry, on freight routes in the UK and the Continent and at sea...

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Leicester leads the psv field

ANOTHER USER of radio telephones is Leicester City Transport, which is undoubtdly a leader in the field of public :ransport...

Forestry men no longer isolated

THE Forestry Commission has been operating radio-controlled mobiles fitted with Pye or Storno equipment since 1952/1953....

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Radio link speeds fibre delivery

ONE of the most recent subscribers to the Air Call Ltd Service is the Cheshire company of Runcorn Transport Services Ltd. In...

Glasgow system beats congestion

GLASGOW CITY TRANSPORT is installing radio-telephones on its buses on an extensive scale. Storno radio-telephones have been...

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A cry for HELP brings a swift reply

THE opening words of a well-known Beatles song "Help, I need somebody!" could well be the signature tune for Securicor's...

Complete communications in Cornwall

HEAVY TRANSPORT (ECC) Ltd and associated companies in the West Country provide a fine example of the intelligent use of...

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Automatic writing speeds the message

METHODS used in industry and commerce for transmitting operating information are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Some of...

Specify your own radio link

SEVERAL COMPANIES, acting as distributors for equipment manufacturers, will provide installation and transmitting facilities to...

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London

Glasgow in-company link THE MOVEMENT of parcels between the South of England and the whole of Scotland is the specialization...

A manual link that gets the spares out

IN an age when computers are used for anything from taking the blindness out of blind dates with "computer dating" to...

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How MAT keeps in touch

MAT Transport Ltd, the international haulage and forwarding organization, operates two distinct communications systems. One is...

Telex takes 45 seconds off running time

IN the Greater London area all fire service calls are directed to the control room at the Embankment Headquarters, and this is...

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road and workshop

by Handyman Auto-electrics for .the mechanic (4) WHEN recharging a stored wet battery remember to do this not less than once...

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DEMOUNTABLE

DISTRIBUTION . by Alan Bunting, MIMechE Body swop test Freight BonaHack's demountable system is readily identifiable through...

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cropper's column

The Govt wants to help' • If anyone can't believe that the Government helps small operators, he should read the Bolton...

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Value-added tax spells efficiency

Operators should be planning administrative changes needed to comply with VAT next year, and both goods and passenger transport...

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0-Mount reference work

As transport and distribution costs become an increasingly large percentage of commodity prices, operators and hauliers are...

Demountable distribution

I note that the "Demountable distributor (7)" feature (CM December 31) make: reference to the inclusion of a rear dropwel in...

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topic

Last rites CONGRATULATIONS are due to the Department of the Environment for publishing the reports of the Licensing...

meet

Monty Prichard • At a time when the Motor Industry Research Association is having to look tc individual users to replace much...

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After February 2, 1973, will "exemp

tion" hgv licence holders have to take the hgv test before applying for their next hgv licence? Is there anything at all in the...

n In order to carry out cultivation, land clearance, drainage

and levelling 2perations, as required on farms in this irea, I have to transport bulldozers, crawler 'rectors and similar heavy...

Q A group of students at our collage are doing market

research studies in connection with the transport industry and require information on manufacturers of goods vehicles...

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management

matters By John Darker, AMBIM The In Relations Act 12, bargaining units NEW MACHINERY is proposed under the Industrial...

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know the law

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (3) REGULATION 13 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and...

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profit from learning

by George Wilmot, Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London A future for the TML committee IS there any...