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19th January 1979
19th January 1979
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The silent men

Throughout the road haulage strike negotiations, one important Government minister was silent. There was not one word of...

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Ilembers resisting !aim, says RHA

IMS that member companies of the Road Haulage ciation had broken the two-week-old drivers' strike by ng outside the national...

Out side contracts for UBG

THE UNITED Biscuits Group has formed its distribution operations into a separate company, UB Distribution Services Ltd, as an...

Takeover

YORK Trailer Holdings Ltd has formed the Anthony York Company by acquiring the assets of Chicago-based vehicle equipment maker,...

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Owners to meet and bury the hatchet?

A meeting of managers of freight offices run by the member organisations of the BAOD is to be held in Coventry on January 28 by...

Permits quota to Portugal

PERMITS for vehicles going to Portugal will have to stay at the same level as for 1978, according to a Department of Transport...

Latest Leyland fleet

A NEW FLEET of 20 buses has been bought by Central SMT at a cost of £600,000. The new Leyland Nationals, each with a seating...

British boost at Brussels

BRITISH manufactur exhibiting at the Brussels] tor Show which opened week had the chance to sl their products in the "neut...

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ottish ski bus row

InEMORE bus operator has claimed that pressure from nds Omnibuses has led to the Aviemore Centre refusing rmission to run a...

des summary

of new commercial vehicles in 1978, at 256,285, were 13.8 t higher than in 1977 in the UK. igures issued by the Society of...

Tougher accident policy

JOHN GRANT, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment, has called for industry and magistrates to "wake up and...

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Freight goes further but tonnage down

;DODS vehicles are carrying a gradually decreasing amount of 3nnage, but carrying it a longer distance, say new figures from le...

Iridge at long last

FTER an 80-year wait, a road bridge to replace a level-crossing ?.ar Nantwich railway station is to be included in Cheshire...

Depot would 'interfere'

HAULIER P. Priestner, of Moore, has been refused permission from Warrington plans sub-committee to use land in the town for...

No facts no licence says LA

A RECENTLY-formed Cardiff company operating on an interim licence had its application for a substantive licence reserved by the...

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Toll inquiry

THE SURFACE Transport Committee of the Merseyside Chamber of Commerce and Industry will be represented at a public inquiry into...

SHORT Transport is the vita

:eschi axle was port of distribution !legal, says judge "A GALAXY of systems ranged around strategy as its central sun", is...

Containel

DCD (UK) Container Servi+ has opened a new contait depot at Felixstowe. It is adjacent to dock g. No 2, and replaces the old...

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SHORT HAULS

EEC update EEC TRANSPORT commissioner in Brussels, Richard Burke, will open an Intern-. ational Cargo Handling Co ordination...

Low-profile weighbridge

A low-profile weighbridge, first supplied to the Amey Roadstone Corporation, has met with approval. Orders totalling £125,000...

Cycle to work!

William Rodgers, Secretary of State for Transport, appealed for the motoring public not to makeunecessary journeys into London...

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Dutch track

THE road transport section of the Dutch Department of Traffic is now constructing a new test facility for motor vehicles on...

Luxury Routiers

BESIDES running the fam Relais Routiers stop-ox• for lorry drivers in France, Les Routiers organisatioi now adding a chain...

Faster to Piraeus

A FORTNIGHTLY rollroll-off service from Till Docks to the Mediterrane; being started on March ; the Swedish Orient Line (E part...

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hiimrose Seddon twin-steer convert

VIN-STEER conversions for Seddon Atkinson 200 -ies chassis are now being ered by the Primrose Third le Co Ltd of Blackburn, rhe...

lottery range

,.,OR1DE Automotive Batteries have just announced their ) range of Chloride, Exide and Dagenite range for cars and imercial...

Rodgers angers SMMT

A FIERCE row is in the offing between the Department of Transport and the SMMT, backed by some British and Continental vehicle...

Leak detector

A PORTABLE battery-powered leak detector for refrigerants and other halogenated gases has been introduced by the Robinair...

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Low height DAF variant for UK

DAF is to make its own single-spine version of the 2100 series available in Britain. First announced at the 1978 Amsterdam...

Heavy-duty dampers

ARMSTRONG Patents have introduced a new heavy-d shock absorber for transcontinental heavy lorries. Designa the N68, the new...

ERF economy drivelin

SHELL has just taken delivery of the first of 40 ERF B-Series tractive units fitted with what is described as an economy...

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Behaving on the bus

CHILDREN at the Turvers Junior School in the West Midlands were the first to have lessons about the local bus services from the...

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Commuter coach is a viable alternative

WITH British Rail drivers taking action for higher wages CM's feature writer, Brian Chalmers-Hunt, a regular rail commuter from...

Industry blasted

THE environment magazine Vole this month has published an extraordinarily biased attack on the standards of the British coach...

Prophets to meet

"PUBLIC Transport — 1 eighties and beyond" is I theme of the next Associat of District Councils anni passenger transport m....

Tour for • • instructic

GERMAN coach manuf turing is to form part of subject of a seven-i educational and study toui Germany. The tour is being run by...

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RAN, VW join forces io market complete range

by Graham Montgomerie THE Frankfurt Show in September, Man and Volkswagen launch their joint new vehicle range. In the UK the...

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Hand tools musi be up to the joi

WHEN selecting hand tools for the workshop, it is essential to choose those which will be capable of dealing with all the...

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Risking the load for want of a torch

IT IS more essential than ever to get the best possible productivity now that drivers hours have been reduced to nine and a...

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Play safe with by...).

protective elothhig NEVER BEFORE have safety and worker protection been so much in the public eye as they are today_ The...

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Essential first aid for all in transpor1

EVERYONE in haulage needs a basic first aid knowledge so . that they are to some extent prepared should an accident occur in...

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Taking stock of the Eighties

HE TWO FIRMS that we look : this week are based in rural ssex. One, • G. B. Beeston & on, was established in the 9th Century...

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I man ;who does

..E. Jones, chairman of S. ones Industrial Holdings td, is not just concerned bout the plight of school?avers without jobs in...

Bending words

'ou might think that Ford Anaysis of Car Transport Statistics, he progeny of Ford and Hos:yns Systems Ltd, would tell rou how...

Learning the trade

At least two MPs will now be able to take an informed part in debates on transport. They are Stephen Ross (Isle of Wight) and...

They've got problems

Australian long-distance lorry drivers. I read, tend to be a neurotic bunch and their Canadian buddies are liable to be bloated...

Spread the word

The fruits of a discussion between Dick Farmer, chairman of the Atlas Express Group, Jack Brown, chairman of Atlas Express Ltd,...

On the line

A new $2,000 million transport plan for Melbourne, Australia, includes the purchase of trams to replace 340 that are more than...

Nearly reaped

Jack Maddock, the dynamic editor-in-chief of Truck and Sus Transportation, Australia's thriving 180-page monthly, has abandoned...

DIY for DAF

OAF Trucks are changing from contractors' to ownaccount transport to improve their spares service still further. Regular...

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Help apprentices build toolkits

AT THE START of his career a motor vehicle apprentice is likely to have no tools of his own but to use those belonging to the...

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( From the Drawing papn Montgomei AT MOST commercial vehicle shows throughout

Europe there is nearly always a - showtime special" — a model designed to attract attention to the stand without necessarily...

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• eili t i luj

It is said that every cloud has a silver lining and the lorry drivers strike is no exception. What an amazing change of tune...

Ceamefic Paktiatitad

A friend showed me a copy of the Foster Report on Operators' Licensing, but I suggest that all transport offices should find it...

Ditiappeotigg juggvutaut6

I am sure you will have noticed, as I have, the almost total lack of the use of the word "juggernaut" prior to and during the...

13eme

With reference to your annual historic vehicle road test in your Christmas issue, it might be of interest to other historic...

Caie'a yea dame

Why is it that Britain, which has the most road-oriented transport system in Europe fails in the provision of good cafés and...

Cattalo' 'a Wed

I collect materials published vehicle manufacturers an would like to obtain brochu on the following vehicles: G AEC, Albion,...

Kum tut

I would like to reply to Mr Syk letter - Tough talk on tende (CM, December 29). He does not seem to unc stand how frustrating...

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Three awards for tipper men

April 6 is the big day PPER men from all over the K will be gathering at Harroite on April 6. That is the inue for this year's...

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Book revl ews

A Study Manual of Professional Competence in Road Transport Management by David Lowe (Kogan Page, E8). WITH the many...

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Pusher artics lead the way in bus design

'HE DAIMLER-BENZ /305G pusher artic bus has ad an outstandingly good aception and is already in ervice with many German nd...

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Another turn of the screw

ONE might have expected the lorry drivers, in their latest round of negotiations, to have followed the example of the Atomic...

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) EOPLE NDORO has appointed n Weigh as its new transt manager, Britain.

.ased at Fleetwood, Mr igh has day to day responlity for the overall operaof Pandoro's fleet of 2,000 lers and 250 tractive...

Weigh's in at Pandoro

while the new sales executive in the Bristol area is Alberto La Barbera. William Rodgers has announced the appointment of...