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16th January 1982
16th January 1982
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Editorial No log on tachographs

TWO WEEKS into the tachograph era and it is estimated that more than 50,000 vehicles have still to be fitted with the...

Next Week

FORD LAUNCHED its Dover engine range earlier this month (CMJanuary 9). Next week, Bill Brock reports on the experience of an...

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Waiting for Scotland

EE more areas have reached single-figure wage settlements, the industry was holding back from jubilation as we closed for as on...

Start up on the dole

AN ENTERPRISE Allowance Scheme has been launched by the Department of Employment to help the unemployed establish new...

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Messina to Libya

THE MESSINA Line, running from Genoa in Northern Italy, has strengthened its services to Libya. The new ro-ro container...

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Sales rise forecast after 20 per cent fall

W COMMERCIAL vehicle sales last year were 19.9 per cent down 1980, itself 11.4 per cent below the record 1979 figures. But...

Foster dies

1TRAM FOSTER, the first ilier to become a Licensing thority and Traffic Commisners' chairman, died last ek after six years'...

More ro/ro at Antwerp

THE PORT of Antwerp has had an increase of about five per cent in ro-ro traffic for the first nine months of 1981 when compared...

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Action fever Drry benefits

E QUEST for votes at the next election is depriving industry of benefits of the heavier lorry, Freight Transport Association...

£97 for TCB men

OtSS ONE heavy goods icle drivers employed by nent Caledonian Breweries being paid £97.80 basic pay, increase of £7.80 over...

Sick pay seminar

IN VIEW of the new rules regarding sick pay, self certification and absenteeism, there will be a one-day seminar chaired by...

Beware: damaged roads

THE FREIGHT Transport Association has advised lorry drivers to take extra care, as severe weather conditions have caused road...

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Traffic up in Dover

DOVER HARBOUR handled almost half a million commercial road haulage units in the first 11 months of last year. For the 11...

Turn rails into roads

LONDON's lorry proble might be eased if some unc used railways were conver into roads, the Centre for Po Studies has told the...

New agent

GENTRANSCO, the inter tional shipping and forwarc company, has appoini Francesco Parisi as agent fol Italian services....

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Freight News Lowe down on laws

OPERATORS who want to refresh their knowledge of recent changes in legislation may be attracted by courses being run over the...

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DICKIE Duncalfe is retiring from RHM Foods Ltd after 41

years in: the transport industry. He is a past president of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers and served on the IRTE...

Diary Dattes

THE following events have been scheduled to take place in January. 18 Institute of Transport Administration. Car and Truck...

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OAF widens range for Amsterdam Show

DAF TRUCKS has announced its 1982 models which will be shown For the first time at the RAI Show in Amsterdam next month. Engine...

Good Bett for radio

BETT BROTHERS, builder and developer of Dundee, is using a two-way-radio system in a bid to reduce vehicle operating costs,...

All-round coverage

COOPER CLARKE Ltd, of Me chester, has added anoth HIAB 965-equipped Seddon kinson lorry to its delivery fie supplying building,...

Trthology probe

THE ROLE of tribology in taming a more efficient engi will be examined at a conf ence organised by the Insti tion of Mechanical...

Mod handles all boxes

LITTLE HAY'WOOD Transport, of Burton-on-Trent, has introduced a fifth Ampliroll vehicle-handling system into its fleet. The...

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)1esel comes out top E"

in TRRL vans survey E DIESEL-ENGINED vehicle is considerably more efficient in its of primary energy than either the petrol or...

old-in sides Jp payload

RCHESTER Transport, of Dor:, claims improved cost mtiveness of one part of its B ration through increased 'load from its first...

Mini Wilcox

THE FIRST mini-tipper body built by E. M. Wilcox Ltd of Peterborough on a Ford Cargo 0808 chassis has gone into service with...

Engineering News wrthdraw

ERF has withdrawn its engineering staff from its Middlewich Engineering Centre. This is part of the overall economy programme...

Hitch-back forklift imported from States

THE SPYDER is claimed by its distributor, Spyder Sales and Service, at 53 Moorfield Road, Duxford, Cambridge, to be the most...

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Registrations down 20pc

ACCORDING to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) psv registrations dropped by more than...

Fares hint for GLC

IN A MEETING with Greater London Council leader Ken Livingstone and transport committee chairman Dave Wetzel, Transport...

Even more bendies

ROESELARE Sales Ltd, the concessionaire for Belg Jonckheere coach bodies, I! sell both double-deck and a ulated coach bodies in...

Another Bromley

SOLIHULL Council is takin leaf out of Bromley's contra sial book, and is threateninl take West Midlands Metro' tan County...

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Service chalked up

CENCES for two school serces have been granted to rime Hall Educational Trust by e North Western Traffic Comissioners following...

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K REV*.

mical inquiry into rries and altitudes THOR L. H. Wackins in vironmentai Impact of Roads Traffic (applied Science Plishers,...

URTU guide to overnights

THE latest edition of Your Café Accommodation Handbook (URTU, 50p plus sae) runs to 200 pages and also includes information on...

Operating buses in Hong Kong

AS a psv enthusiast (and preservationist) I was somewhat disconcerted on carefully reading an article on Hong Kong by Noel...

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Preparing For

AT THE START of another year there are some small signs that the economy is recovering, but this does not mean that things will...

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Let's get London moving: appoint a supremo

John Darker, back from an examination of routes in the Paris region, asks: 'Are French planners more persuasive, or Frenchmen...

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Let's get London moving: appoint a supremo

was debate between those — including some road operators — who wanted a lot of access points to M25, and those fearing that too...

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New route into France by Stuart Bladon

IN northern France, the A26 motorway was extended towards Calais on December 19 when the new Lillers-St Omer section was opened...

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Go international and explore a vast market

THE CM Special Offer homestudy course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage (International) is now...

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BC strikes small ow for Britain

E National Bus Co's decision ibandon the 24-hour clock is a all blow for Britain against eign oppression. How many :lel...

Drivers deserve better conditions

HOW much longer must lorry drivers suffer at the British Customs post at Newry in Ulster? Billy Bittles, writing in The...

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Good prospects for lower price autos

THE ARRIVAL of the fully automatic transmission as standard equipment rather than a rarely specified option has been predicted...

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Good on-line prospects for lower price autos

feature also eliminates the "jerk" from the first gear into second which is wide spaced and thus the most likely to cause...

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Many changes of mind on gearbox selection

)11 MANY YEARS the most Dpular type of multispeed ansmission in use on Britain's 3avy commercial vehicles was e splitter...

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How many transmission ratios are best?.

MANY truck buyers in the United States, especially fleet operators, have achieved good fuel economies with simpler gearboxes....

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Where the ceramic clutch beats asbestos ones . . .

THE CLUTCH is a comparatively simple piece of equipment in the sense that it has few moving components to go wrong. One of...

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An automatic choice for heavy traffic

RESEARCH into driver fatigue shows that on average a driver changes gear three times every kilometer or five times a mile. In...

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Steering, mirrors and braking

ONE of the major adjustments for learner drivers on commercial vehicles is the change from small cars to large and...

YOUR NATIONWIDE PASSPORT TO WORRY FREE TRUCKING.

Ve are stuck iith it AN SUBJECTS stimulate so uch correspondence in the lily press as roads and road insport. Transport...

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=L a i Cr by Bill Godwin

iernnans press on . . but quietly EHICLES with "environmental vise reduction" pack options !came commercially available 11...

Continent takes to eight-leggers

THE EIGHT-WHEELER configuration has long been established in Britain, Italy and Spain. It is now obtaining wider recognition by...