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19th December 1981
19th December 1981
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le-write the script

HE PANTOMIME season is well settled in. After two resentations in the House of Commons of "Albert and the lonster" the season...

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40-tonner limps on, but will it survive?

E 40-TONNE lorry crawled an inch closer to reality last week, but as begun to jack-knife and it remains to be seen whether the...

By-pass giveaway?

THE GOVERNMENT plans ti fund another 35 local authorit by-passes next year, Transpor Secretary David Howell told th Institution...

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'Save RTITB' plea

OAD Transport Industry Training Board director general Eric Tina!l aimed for the Government's Achilles heel last week by...

Leyland ma to quit

ONE OF LEYLAND Vehicl senior executives is leaving company early next year establish his own business. Leyland Trucks' sales z...

Night parking charge row

lANSPORT Secretary David Howell was last week urged to seek )wers to limit the charges made for overnight parking on otorway...

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Higher quota urged

E GOVERNMENT intends to press for further liberalisation of ropean road haulage, and ensure that any increase in road ulage...

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'Not realistic' to employ a manager

IS unrealistic to expect owner drivers to employ a full time ansport manager, said the Northern Deputy Licensing Authority...

Interchange site study

MERSEYSIDE County Council has identified five possible locations for new road/rail freight interchange facilities following an...

Overloadinl warning

LICENSING authorities take serious view of overloading e Northern Deputy LA Char Kelly said it was a pleasure see that in cases...

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IGISTRATES at Bewdley who preferred a lorry driver's evidence a

speeding case to that of a computerised meter had their decin upheld in the High Court in London last month. ord Justice...

LIVESTOCK hauliers in South west Scotland have criticise+ the growing

volume of livestoc haulage being done by farmer by tractors or in vehicles no suited to the work. They sa that this is not only...

Ferry delay warning

TERNATIONAL hauliers could face long delays at United Kingdom Ty ports during the first week in January. Traffic queues are...

New French service

ALL France 48 hour road express has been set up by Meadows r Freight Ltd to complement its existing service to West Germany d...

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White for Williams

B. E. WILLIAMS of Senney Bridge Powys has purchased two new White Road Commanders right hand drive 4x2 tractive units which...

New automatictacho

VEEDER-ROOT has launched a new automatic tachograph called the Timesaver. The only time the driver needs to touch the duty knob...

Lowloade introducel

THE FIRST lowloading se trailer with three automatic steered axles to be built Britain has recently been in' duceri by...

People

I WILL be all change at the Iritish Road Services group on anuary 1, when three of the ompanies gain new managing Iirectors,...

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Dodge to quit GKN Telford factory

THE PRODUCTION of Dodge 100 Series cab shells will be switched from GKN at Telford to Karrier's own Dunstable plant from April...

on Wm

TAM TRUCK SALES, UK conces sionaires for Isoli (Italy), are nov offering hydraulic transporte recovery equipment mounter on an...

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More gas less blast

TRANSPORT SECRETARY DE Howell has laid before I liament regulations which update the standards for fuelled vehicles and gas-ti...

Micro-ski, options

NCS TRUCK EQUIPMENT Chesterfield has modified Microskip unit to carry I empty 3cuyd skips as a furt option. The control...

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Scotland

A9: Single line traffic at Blair Atholl, Guay Bridge (north of DunId), Ballinluig, and south of Auchterarder, in Tayside...

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School coaches failed to arrive

■ NDON COACH operator Glen Valley Coaches Ltd is not fit to hold blic service vehicle licences, decided the Metropolitan...

Trial area damp squib

THE NORFOLK trial area hai gone off like a damp squib, th( Government has conceded. Hardly any changes have beer made in bus...

Subsidies: a comparison

BRITAIN comes at the bottom of the list when a comparison made between the subsidies given to bus services in 13 Europea...

Answer to Metro

NEWLY FORMED retailers' asrciation has succeeded in rsuading Gateshead council put on a free shopper's bus, Hawing the opening...

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:ritios of Bedford's ack-up service

VRITE in support of the recent itics of Bedfords and of their ick-up after-sales service. We bought a Bedford TL 1630 ter being...

Height limit idea is great mistake

NOW that the Government's White Paper on raising the tonnage of goods vehicles from 32 tons to 40 tons has been released, I am...

The American truck scene

TRUCKS were no overnight success in the States, writes Elliott Kahn, author of American Trucks of the Seventies (Frederick...

Working in transport

TRANSPORT these days comprises a huge sector of the economy, and there is overlap between land, sea and air. Any young persons...

What Barry has to offer

A COLOUR brochure describ the facilities offered by South Wales port of Barry is titled Barry: Geared to f Cargo Handling. The...

Europe's fire engines

Fire Engines of Europe is an illustrated hardback slimline from Ian Henry — 64 pages for £3.25; eighteen of these page: are...

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luggernaut hysteria as great pop record

WORTHY organisations from ie transport industry.., have itherto displayed a naive and )uching belief that the great ritish...

:onfusing Aunty t Christmas

UNT AGNESS is always a roblem but particularly at hristmas. Her inquiring turn of and, which normally expresses self as...

The detector detector

A JOLLY gift for the commercial vehicle export manager who wishes to make his mark is the Whoopee Joyboy Detector Detector, as...

Season's greetings and sympathy

THE PRESENTERS of a BBC radio programme on leisure pursuits were asked whether they knew of a pleasant hotel where Christmas...

The dental clinic on wheels

THIRTY apprentices at RAF Halton near Wendover, Buckinghamshire have renovated a 1939 Fordson WO1 1 six-wheeled dental clinic...

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Transport pointer in the Nortl

John Durant visits the FTA's Northern office; meets a union leader who favour5 tachographs; and talks to an operator buying a...

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Has this winter taughi us all a lessonl

The worst conditions for 31 years may have spin-off benefits! ZARDOUS winter road condins are too often thought out when it is...

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An overnight succes1 in Penriti

The Penrith Truck Stop was designed wit] lorry drivers in mind — even the filling station only serves diesel. It offers...

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lie Employment Act 1980" Notice: 2

by Douglas Ainley PLOYEES who are otherwise itled to notice may lose their itlement if they are guilty of ;f1 gross misconduct...

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All change on till Tyne and Wear busel

Newcastle's new underground railway network has drastically altered the North east's commuter habits. Noel Millier explains how...

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Mobil has developed a synthesised oil which it claims will

save fuel consumption. Marketed under the name Delvac SHC it is constructed rather than refined from a base crude oil ilLDING...

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lesponsibility or training

HE Government's decision to bolish 17 of the 23 industrial - aining boards indicates a clear nough opinion on such bodies...

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Flowers blooms despite the recession

Mike Rutherford visits Flowers Transport and finds out how this successful haulage, warehousing and distribution specialist is...

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Go one up with our CPC offer

STUDENTS can enrol now for the CM Special Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage (National...

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Instant tacho analysi

the Jarrow wal l John Whittingham has developed a timesaving instant tachograph chart analyser and business for his North-east...

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1 7 - 1 ffi l [TCYji by Bill Godv

iticcess story of lial-a-bus VEST Germany's riedrichshafen dial-a-bus ervice has all but succumbed to )chnical problems...