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1st January 1983
1st January 1983
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1983 the year of the haulier

HERE'S TO THE year that is gone. ad as 1982 might have been, it was in many sectors better than 1981, and 1983 looks like being...

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:RF cuts loss

F has started on its road to ovary, and made a £60,000 ding profit in the 28 weeks to tober 16. The comparable ure for 1981 was...

Gilroy md at L. Rover

)NY GILROY, Freight Rover's lanaging director for the last vo years, moves today to beme managing director of Land Dyer. Mr...

Two-day Hazard course

TO ENABLE companies to conform with the Dangerous Substance Regulations 1981, E. P. Training Services of 6a High Street, Esher,...

'Cut derv'—RHA

1THE ROAD Haulage Association has beaten the Freight Transport Association this year in the race to submit its Budget request...

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Canada launches research project

A RESEARCH programme into heavy vehicle weights and dimensions is to be undertaken in Canada at a cost of £1.2 million....

Scammell gets £25m order

SCAMMELL, the specialist and military vehicle-building division of Leyland Vehicles, has won a £25m contract for tank...

A real Stakhanovite

TASS, the Soviet news agency, has sent us this view of a (AZ 45408335 lorry, a new Georgia-built design for use on agricultural...

'Red tape sucl

A SURVEY of 400 carriers in United States reveals that t number one problem is "s licensing, taxation and• paperwork burden"....

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Dip plans will hurt Terators, says FTA

VERNMENT proposals to drop the statutory requirement for fic orders to be published in the London Gazette should be indoned...

RHA's man joins industry

DOUG TAYLOR, the Road Haulage Association's industrial relations officer, is leaving his post this month to work for a...

Car depot

BRIGHTON-based car delivery specialist Carlink is opening a new storage and distribution centre at Hither Green, South East...

SFC's new HG at Falkirk

THE SCOTTISH Freight Company and its two operating companies are moving this week to new offices in Falkirk. SEC bought the...

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We've improved our road tests

CM's new light vehicle test route over which the Talbot Express van (page 27 this week) was tested is just one of a number of...

Goodyear's good year

GOODYEAR Tyre and Rubb enjoyed the leading share of t world tyre sales in 1981 accor ing to US industry leading an lysts,...

AA/BRS steps up training

THE Automobile Association has expanded its training courses fo patrolmen in support of the joint AA/British Road Services...

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Tiger wins two, loses one

LEYLAND and Plaxton have shared orders for 29 Tiger coaches for two independents, but another Leyland customer has placed its...

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Road to recovery

Cowan Recovery flourishes where some other firms have crashed. Keystone of its expansion? The accounts department TWELVE YEARS...

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Guide to commercia vehicle rental companies

ONLY A GLANCE in your local newspaper or Yellow Pages is needed to discover the overwhelming abundance of competing vehicle...

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Whether to rent, lease or hire?

The ins and outs of these methods of vehicle acquisition are explained by George Malcolm ORE THAN a third of the 1,782...

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And now she tells him

ERIC RUSSELL, who on Christmas Eve retired as secretary of the Road Haulage Association (page 32), knew better than to...

From hurricane to gentle breeze

IF HE HAD not been a chartered secretary, Eric Russell would have liked to have been either a journalist or a lawyer, although...

Cricket club that began On a station

WHAT HAS Enfield Town railway station to do with cricket? The answer is that the meeting at which Enfield Cricket Club was...

Political suicide by integration

AN INTEGRATED transport policy, as seen by the writers of that inspired television series, Yes Minister, is political suicide...

There's a song in his cart

BURLY, BEARDED Brian Hayward, 45-year-old member of the main board of the National Freight Consortium an' group managing...

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Stand up for hauliers Make this your year

WHATEVER ELSE the outcome of the Armitage Report and the subsequent debates in Parliament and country may have done, it made it...

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Express pacemaker

Talbot's new van is no sloth, but Tim Blakemore also discovered that its parts supply was half a step behind when he made some...

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Changing the guard at Roadway House

The retiring secretary and the incoming secretary of the Road Haulage Association talk to Arthur Sherlock-Mesher of their...

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BP's hazard card prowl there's safety in number

From today, tanker drivers must comply with new regulations for dangerous substances. David Wilcox has been attending a...

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Closed shop outlaw& by new Employment Adi

Legislation introduced by Norman Tebbi . means that workers can no longer be dismissed for not belonging to a trade union....

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My kind of town

A DAY OUT of the office. What a desk-shackled sub-editor dreams of. Released to sample the sightseeing tours of London. Two...

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Are your drivers sleeping on the job?

Here's a demountable solution to overnight stops. The aerodynamics ensure that fuel consumption does not suffer unduly A TOTAL...

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The fascinating Thirties...

THE BUS industry probably shook off its cowboy image around 1930, when the Road Traffic Act entered the statute book, and much...

4 only . . we gave roads priority

AGE of the train? Even in 1912 the railways were losing out to the crudest, most legislated against road vehicle of all — the...

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itatistics

FIE 1980 EDITION of Statistics f Trade Through United ingdom Ports is now available, rice £15, from the Bill of Entry nit, HM...

touteplanner

HE Ordnance Survey has just ublished the 1983 Edition of its °pular route planning map at :625 000 scale (6.25 kilometres D l...

From team room to the Ml

THE FIRST MOTORWAY in Britain was opened in 1958 by Premier Harold Macmillan; The Times reported that a new era in road travel...

PLA Handbook

THE 1983 Port of London Handbook lists the wide range of services and facilities available throughout the port, operated both...

Unresolved mysteries

IN 1926, AEC — "the builder of London's buses" — produced an experimental Tri Tractor. If you are a tractor buff, you will like...

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Supervision key to success story

Cave Wood is still recruiting despite the recession THE CAVE WOOD Group, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, has ordered new...