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16th September 1977
16th September 1977
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2 Putting a face on What a good thing it

was that 10,000 people saw the 31 1977 CM Lorry Driver of the Year final last Sunday. This was the industry — both own-account...

The great CM debate takes place in the Royal Lancaster

Hotel nex Wednesday when 600 delegates attend the Fleet Management Conference. It has been an absolute sell-out, but if you...

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success in Germany

• RITISH commercial vehicle xports to West Germany towed a 53 per cent rise in alue during the first five ionths of this year....

VewE180m Wci plant

NEW engine plant is to be lilt by the Ford Motor ompany at Bridgend, Gla'organ, for operation in the irly 1980s. The project,...

BR plans for more fr ight

IN A BID to attract more freight away from road transport to rail, British Rail has announced a £67 million scheme to take on...

Bedford wins £40m order

BEDFORD has won a EA million order from the Ministry of Defence for over 2,000 8-tonne gvw TM 4 x 4 vehicles. The vehicle is a...

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VOLVO REDUCE PRICES

FOLLOWING the devaluation of the Swedish Croner, Ailsa Trucks Ltd (UK concessionaires Volvo commercial vehicles) is to reduce...

Bussing.'a monopoly

BUS services in a Forth Valley town have prompted an appeal to the Government for better public transport. Routes have been...

BIM launch 'Spur'

,A MAJOR initiative designed to improve UK industrial performance was launched on Tuesday by the British Institute of...

Ro-ro ferry to France

OPERATORS to Western France should note that our simplified map of the French coast in the CM Ferries Number (September 2)...

TML confusion hits operators

CONFUSION reigned within the industry this week as managers tried to determine whether the will have to take the new exam for...

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storms through and is

ed CMI-DoY THERE WAS a touch of mag in the air at the finals of th year's CMI,DoY competitio last Sunday, as the sun carr out...

Film—but no stars

BOC with the second largest entry at the finals made a 16rnm film of the day's action for showing to their employees. A...

Road works ahead

THE Department of Transport has accepted the £1,923,678 tender of Border Engineering Contractors Ltd for the improvement of the...

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f4 1/2 ni

RO • RO BOOST LO-R0 facilities at North :hannel ports Stranraer and ,arne are to get a £41/2 million oost. Stranraer harbour...

Discharge in res case

A SCOTTISH haulier and driver have escaped normally compulsory driving licence endorsements for a tyre offence because the...

Commercial sale soar

IMPORTS of commercial vehicles — 4,557 — were 32.89 per cent higher last month than in August 1976. And importers gained 20.48...

Carriers takeover

ABER Carriers (1954) Ltd, Welshpool, Powys, the trans port and warehousing company, is to be sold to G & W Collins Ltd, St...

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[PEOPLE]

Tribute to CMLDoY founder SPEAKING at the CM LDoY finals on Sunday, council chairman Gerry Aston paid tribute to the...

New draft for dock labour

ROAD HAULIERS will be among those affected by the draft of a new Dock Labour Scheme prepared by the Secretary of State for...

Sight pi or foi As

LICENSING Authorities have now to consider whether drivers with defective eyesight should be allowed to drive heavy goods...

Carryfast at-a-glance

CARRYFAST LTD has introduced a new tariff schedule for its nationwide express parcels service. The tariff, based on the new...

Biggest

ferry ... TOWNSEND Thoresen'! 6,386-ton Viking Viscount thI week became the biggest ro-r( ferry to enter service at Dove with...

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YES - RHA recruits THE Young Executives' Section of the Road Haulage

Association seems likely to make an increasingly effective contribution to the Association, writes John Darker. Branches have...

'No ban' sparks Pompey row

A ROW has broken out in Hampshire over the refusal of the County Council to ban heavy vehicles from three of the busiest roads...

SHORT HAULS

Swedish run P&O is introducing a new ro-ro service between the UK and Sweden, to be operated by Ferrymasters, part of P&O Unit...

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ArGB Alder shake-up

ALDER VALLEY is the latest National Bus company to undertake a major service revision programme. The changes have been carried...

HORAM HINTS AT SUBSIDIES

UNPROFITABLE bus operations may be subsidised, in future, by the Department of Transport. Under Secretary of State at the DTp...

'Aladdin please'

GRAND Metropolitan Hotels and Townsend Thoresen Car Ferries have just announced a new joint service to coach operators. The...

26.57m bus bill

scorrisH BUS Group is to spend £6.57 million on 276 nev vehicles for its 1978 programme. The programme includes three Leyland...

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Body merger

PWO LEADING British spe:ialist bodybuilders have nerged their interests. Neville ndustries (Mansfield) and :harrold-Huntingdon...

Minimum noise with Maximec

CAV, the diesel injection equipment manufacturing division of Lucas Industries, has announced an addition to its range of...

New 'Dusseldorf' at Frankfurt

A NEW high-powered variant of the Daimler-Benz "Dusseldorf" range of integral vans makes its appearance at the Frankfurt show...

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lire fighter Taurus

TAURUS, a new Reynolds Boughton high-speed fire appliance chassis — featuring Boughton's own gearbox — is expected to make its...

Uniroyal claims 10 pc saving

TEN PER CENT fuel saving is guaranteed on long-distanci haulage from a new commercial vehicle air deflector soon to IN marketed...

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King of the road 1977

Birmingham driver is CAUDoll FINE weather at Bramcot* Warwickshire, on Sunda} lured over 10,000 spectator to the finals of the...

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Results round-up

Other results Rigid Section (Institute of Traffic Administration Trophy): M. Stokes, North Eastern BRS. Articulated Section...

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T 0 MEET Italian legislation which requires a power to weight

ratio of 8bhp per ton, the largest engined version of the Fiat 170 NT tractive unit, a V8, has been designed to put out a...

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Mild and bitter...

Amid all the furore of the suspension on TGWU from TUC for 60 minutes one point seems to have been lost. Before an audience of...

Where there's smoke there's..,

I thought that report published last week by the British Safety Council was a bit of a cheek. If you haven't read it, don't be...

Stranger on the shore...

One man who must feel a little bit disappointed after the Blackpool conference is Jackson Moore of the United Road Transport...

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Continental Coaching ? Noel Miller says.

TAKE THE P NGE CONTINENTAL COACH tours should hold no terrors for operators who have been asked, by clients, to take parties...

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Ferry story is all Greek

GREECE has only 1,500 miles of railway in an area roughly the size of England; consequently, road transport is vital to the...

French hauliers fear urban tolls

BY the end of 1977, another 305km of motorways should be opened to traffic by the French in a programme which aims to complete...

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New models on parade at Frankfur

IN THE 1977 calender for commercial vehicle exhibitions, the "big one" is Frankfurt. Held on alternate years to its British...

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90 a wife?

I agree almost 100 per cent with those who have written to you concerning "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (CM August 12). Like...

Duet

I almost forgot to ask where Mr Silbermann purchases his maximum gross vehicle at around £15,000. If it is worth having. I am...

flautioto detaga

I have been following with interest the saga of hauliers' difficulties at Dover's Eastern Docks, as it seems to go from bad to...

13ftealulowa

Iteellang • • • • With reference to the BRS letter concerning costs of breakdown services (CM August 26), the comparison quoted...

Gape at UK

Nimitet• • • Whilst I agree with the SM MT alarm at imports of Japanese vehicles I would point out that there are gaps in the...

SPeolt up 6tvt two

I couldn't help smiling to myself at the comment made by The Hawk (CM July 15) that the seats on trams were slatted and...

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Arthur Beckenham, CIT

UR STUDIES: YOUR CHOICE A WIDE VARIETY of courses in Transport Studies now exist, and choosing the right one is a very...

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Sam Lyne, Divisional Manager, Direct Training, RTITB

MI SKILLS TMs THIS YEAR is hardly a vintage one for transport managers. A fading econo my, stronger trade unions, 'pay...

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Education & Trainin

• • . a CM seminar ficcainting for the small haulier.... 2 Introduction NHILE evaluating the past erformance of a company...

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All too often these signs are 3nored by operators, large

and mall, for they should trigger off our winter preparation proramme in order to get vehicles 3ady in ample time for the gours...

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SIMPLE MECHANICS

Steering geometry 2 by Preceptor A WELL-DESIGNED steering system will always tend to maintain the vehicle on a straight...

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Man and superman in transport

ONE of the problems for a body such as the Chartered Institute of Transport is the assumption many people make that it is...