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21st July 1988
21st July 1988
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IN COMMENT WAGES AND WORSE

• Has the time come to end the concept of a national drivers' wage agreement? ERS certainly seems to think so, as do Schweppes...

PACK

• All around the country there has been a wailing and a gnashing of teeth — and our phones have been ringing red hot. The...

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• The Department of Transport is to increase the number

of HGV and PSV driving test examiners from 98 to 120 in a bid to cut waiting lists. Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley...

P&O ferry fire rekindles Channel safety fears

• Claims that a cross-Channel freight ferry's engine room was a fire risk have been supported following a fire on P&O's...

At-home Hauser scoops Prix

• The German Truck Grand Prix last week was won by outsider Dieter Hauser. The West German drove his class C Transimex MAN...

TGWU calls for stilt lallot at BRS

• The Transport and Genera Workers Union is calling for at all-out national strike at BRS, the National Freight Consortium's...

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• Terry Allan, the Transport & General Workers' Union leader

of London's 20,000 bus workers, retired this week after 30 years' service with the union — and plans to start a new career as a...

Dip changes UK's dim-dip regulations

• Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley is to amend the UK dim-dip lighting requirements, so that vehicles will be exempt...

Mapost ElOm boost

1 The Post Office is to inject 10 million — including 22 milon on new vehicles — into its latapost parcels service over le next...

Rebel busmen go solo

• A group of former Highland Scottish drivers is operating eight minibus routes in Inverness in competition with their former...

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Lost wheel info needed

• A transport expert is to survey hauliers fined for losing truck wheels in a bid to gather evidence which could be used to...

Our lucky winner collects his prize

• Ricky Herbert, warehousing and distribution manager at Garfield Lewis in Leeds, took delivery of his Leyland Daf Boalloy...

Private cash plar for Britain's road

• Traffic on Britain's motorways has increased so fast thE Transport Secretary Paul Channon may use private money to build new...

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LLOYDS BOWMAKER KNOW-HOW

Talk to a Lloyds Bowmaker asset finance ialist and you will realise quickly that his e concern is to help you turn the...

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1-Rover diesels under fire

• Following reports of premature engine wear and breathing problems (CM 9-15 June), Land Rover has agreed to modify engines...

Leyland Daf looks for repower

• Leyland Daf is pushing ahead with its plans to provide replacement engines for a number of its Freighter, Cruiser and...

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Volvo tags an axle onto F16

• As predicted by Commercial Motor last April, Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) is now offering its 342kW (465hp) F16 flagship as a...

German Cargobull reefer on the road

• German trailer builder Schmitz is sending one of its 12.5m Cargobull reefers on a countrywide demonstration tour in a bid to...

Trooper gets a bigger engine

• Isuzu's 4x4 Trooper Commercial van will be offered with a 2.8-litre direct-injection turbodiesel engine from next month....

P100 turbo blows in • The first turbocharged conversion of

a petrol-engined Ford P100 pickup was shown at last week's Kent County Show. The conversion, by Tur bo Technics (Northampton)...

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Charlesworth goes it alone

• Phil Charlesworth has left Neville Charrold to set up his own aluminium tipping trailer and bodybuilding company, called...

Short-term lease offer from Whale

• Municipal cleaning vehicle manufacturer Whale Tankers is launching a shorter-term contract hire scheme which allows customers...

Alpine wins Um Unfood contract

• Temperature-controlled specialist Alpine has won a three-year 21 million contract with cash and carry wholesaler Linfood, to...

York buys-out Piacenza

• Management-owned trailer manufacturer York Group has finalised its takeover of what it claims is Italy's second biggest...

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Next buys Hino distributor HCV

• Warrington Hino truck dealer and distributor HCV, which went into administrative receivership last month, has been bought by...

Adams to go third party

• Irish Dairy Board UK subsidiary Adams Foods is to stop distributing its own products and move to third party by the end of...

Esso's Purfleet depot revamp

• Esso, in its centenary year in the UK, has completed a £26 million investment in its lubricants operation at Purfleet. The...

Plant Hire expands its fleet

• Heavy plant hire firm Plant Hire Universal of Sale, Cheshire, has added a sixwheel Scania 340 tractor unit to its six-strong...

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Benton licence curtailed

• A black mark would remain on Benton Bros (Transport)'s record following the premature termination of its licence because of...

Britrox site unsanctioned

• A licence held by Daventrybased Britrox is to finish early at the end of July because of the use of an unauthorised operating...

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Fosse Travel forgiven

• No action has been taken against Belgrave Coaches of Leicester, trading as Fosse Travel, for the admitted nonoperation of a...

Longden loses appeal

• Manchester Industrial Tribunal has upheld the decision by Mellor Trailers to make redundant a driver who had refused to pay...

Mills Concrete loses renewal bid

• Environmental objections by local residents have led South Wales Deputy Licensing Authority Ronald Jackson to refuse to renew...

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1 DC slams NCC mduct code

le Bus and Coach Council acted angrily to calls for orceable code of practice s operators, made last by the National...

S Midland buys Midis

• A substantial order for rnidibuses by former National Bus Company subsidiary South Midland coincides with a retrenchment of...

Ihmfi snapped up by Brewer

• South Wales bus operator AE &FR Brewer has acquired Llynfi Motor Services and now has a fleet of almost 50 buses as a result...

halms threatens legal action

Legal action is being eatened by Thames Transit s Harry Blundred against ford Bus Company (OBC) .tr the city council's subsidy...

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Routemaster gets Daf repower

• London Buses is evaluating AEC Routemaster repower packages from Daf and Iveco in a bid to keep the ageing double-deckers on...

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DEAR

SIR • CLUES WANTED IN LOST WHEEL MYSTERY All transport operators are aware of the "lost wheel mystery" and the current...

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STAMP OF APPROVAL

• Royal Mail Parcels runs one of the argest transport fleets in Europe and it carries more items each year than all of he other...

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BIRD'S EYE VIEI V

BY THE HAWK • A bemused National Breakdown controller thought someone was taking the mickey when he took down these breakdown...

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HEAVY HAULAGE ECONOFREIGHT

• How do you get 151 tonnes of truck, measuring 6.4m high, 6.2m wide and 41.4m long around London's North Circular Road and...

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Now Mobil brings you a better way to control your diesel fleet

Introducing the UK launch of the Mobil Diesel Club (MDC). A fuelling system designed to help you run your diesel fleet more...

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TOUGH ON

THE ROUGH • Onlookers gaped in astonishement as, with all its wheels driving, the AWDBedford TM8x8 Multidrive clawed its way up...

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IMPRESSIONS AVVD MULTIDRIVE

appears to be minimal. This has allowed Bennie to achieve around 70,000km from some of them: the last pair of orginal XZAs was...

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ROADTEST VIA/ POLO VA\

• jar 1.3-litre engine produces 46kW (62hp) at 5,300rpm — also 30% up on the Polo's output. On a strictly power-to-weight...

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SALES BOOM

• Few trailers, with some notable exceptions, could be described as glamorous — but the current boom in road haulage is being...

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A TRAILER FOR THE FUTURE

• A few years ago, a discussion on trends in trailer design would have been dominated by talk of monocoques and zomposites and...

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REFURBISHMENT: AS GOOD AS NEW

• Road haulage is littered with several well-known "facts". Unfortunately, they seldom stand up to long, hard scrutiny. Here...

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PRESSING DOWN ON A WEIGHTY PROBLEM

• It takes a brave transport manager to develop a special vehicle for his fleet. The costs can be immense, and the potential...