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21th January 1977
21th January 1977
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ledford saps

so No 1 EDFORD jumped back into e No 1 seller spot in the itish truck market last year. Figures issued by the Socie of Motor...

Drivers' hours delay sought

WILLIAM -RODGERS, Minister of Transport, has urged the EEC to stop the clock on bringing in Euro-style drivers' hours rules to...

Crash probe on language barrier

FOLLOWING an accident involving an artic unit in which a mother and child died, Ken Weetch, MP for Ipswich, has called for a...

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ERF'S PROFITS

ERF have reported 63 per cent increase in turnover during 28 weeks ending last October, and the Board has recommended an...

Bias not on roads

AN ESTIMATED £821 million is being spent during the current financial year on road construction and improvements in Great...

Operators sort out bus grant squabble

AN agreement designed to end previous squabbles over the allocation of bus grant has been drawn up by the Department of...

On-the-spot override fines

OVERRIDING bus passengers in Merseyside could find themselves faced with a fine of up to £50 if they are prosecuted as the...

LEADERS of Britain's bra delivery men claimed victc in their

fight to get a higt minimum bread price wh the employers referred t conflict to arbitration. United Road Transp( Union general...

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Bright future ahead for NFC

NATIONAL Freight Corporation results were expected to be announced last night (Thursday) during the long awaited Parliamentary...

A SOUTH WALES transport company in Barry, founded more than

fifty years ago, has gone into voluntary liquidation. S. Harfoot and Sons Ltd, who employ a staff of fifty, was started by...

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Jo overtime driver mins dismissal claim

LORRY driver who refused do overtime on a Saturday s unfairly sacked, an 1n ;trial Tribunal at Brighton ed. The amount of...

NIFC depot gets design award

A El MILLION branch of Roa - dline UK has won a major commendation for working conditions and environmental considerations from...

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London streets cleared

OVERNIGHT parking in the streets of London has been almost eliminated by parking bans, according to Greater London Council...

SUGAR COATED?

A NEW El million truck centre is to be opened by South West Scotland Mercedes-Benz dealers Caledonian Truck Services, a...

Meadows office

INTERNATIONAL freight forwarders Thomas Meadows and Company Ltd has opened a branch office near Gatwick airport. The new...

Warning fa rivers

Operators must impress on their drivers that if they did not face up to their responsibilities, the Licensing Authority could,...

TRANSPORT House has announced the procedures required for the election

of a new general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, following the announcement of Jack Jones's intended...

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SHORT HAULS

Africa run EUROBRIDGE International Transport of Manchester has announced a new weekly container service from the UK to North...

Commonsense is the tads° key

A COMMON SENSE and relaxed attitude — that is how Transport Minister William Rodgers advises this country to approach the...

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Courtesy is the accident answer

A WARNING that many low bridges are not signposted has come from the Freight Transport Association, following a Department of...

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Cuts punishmenf dealt out by Gov.

The AMA has always accepted that in the difficult economic situation, Government spending would have to be cut. What has...

STUNNING blow has been alt South Yorkshire CounCouncil by the

Department Transport. The County's - ansport Supplementary rant for 1977/78 is slashed Dm last year's E51/2 million, to...

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LONDON Transport will be putting 400 new Fleetlines on the road, each one designed to reduce exterior noise level.

Present noise levels are about 89dBA, which should be reduced to 82dBA with the help of a reorganised engine compartment. The...

(PEOPLE)

Beagley to head CIT NEXT president of the Chartered Institute of Transport will be Tom Beagley who takes over from current...

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Leopards go south

AIDSTONE Borough Coun1 Transport Department has aught 14 of the 18 'Lilac eopard' coaches previously perated on the Nottingham...

Surrey commuters coach it to London

COMMUTERS from Cranleigh, Surrey, will soon get the chance to travel to London and back by coach — but only for a two-month...

impact

THE Greater London Council Transport Committee is worried about the proposed 17.4 per cent rise in London Transport bus fares...

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dsI air hydraulic braking sysem is now standard equipaent for

the Leyland Terrier ruck range replacing the oriinal 'full power' hydraulic ystem. Leyland claims the new iyout has been...

Whale fills a vacuum

WHALE 'tankers of Ravenshaw Lane, Solihull, West Alidlands has built a highthroughput vacuum tanker which, it is claimed brings...

FORD CHANGES GEAR

FORD is to use its own C3 lutomatic transmission for the Genk-built Transit range, replacing the existing Borg Warner 35 unit....

TOP TEN

FIRST six months of 1976 saw Daimler-Benz hold the number one position for cornmercial vehicle production, over 15 tonnes in...

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Teeth drawn from freight polici

GLC about-face on road haulage SOMEONE at the Greater London Council must have been reading the Government's Green Paper on...

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Training today's men for tomorrow's work

Making certain of a competent and reliable road transport system for the future means the responsible training of young...

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Why the)f?

This was the question we put to four large operators who run Bedford 'Y' Series bus and coach chassis. Here are some of their...

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3:A driver's bull

min bonus plan.. DRIVERS in West Germany, like trade union officials, local government officers and operators, cannot...

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Yelloway-one of Britain's leading coach operators-chooses Reliance, one of Britain's leading coaches.

Yelloway of Rochdale are one of England's leading coach operators. Their coaches frequently cover 1,200 miles in 48 hours. They...

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1977 Bruxelles Salon International Vehicules Utilitaires

Report by Graham Montgomerie. Photographs by Dick Ross AS announced in CM last week, Scania's uprated DS14 V8 engine is making...

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The day the duff went bang

IT WAS late afternoon one Christmas Eve when I and my not-so-youthful eight wheeler came trundling home down the A5, towards...

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) 9 U ho ped:ft

have read with great interest :M January 7, "Opening up repairs" by John Darker) of le activities of David Ailion in endeavours...

IRO ittigibua speNtima

I read with interest and fear the report 'Help us, plead minibus drivers," (CM, January 7) about a working party of...

Your report headed "Terminal timewasters" (CM December 17) needs, I

think, to be set in perspective. The TR R L report referred to, commissioned by the NFC and BRB, was in fact a general study of...

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Collecting refuse with power and efficiency

Steve Gray on a refuse collection round in Norfolk discovers how effective the She /yoke and Drewry Revopak refuse truck really...

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Mean streak...

Had any good driving licence reminders recently? I did, just before Christmas, telling me that my existing one expired on...

Be seen...

I wonder how many delivery men are injured in the course of their duty during the winter. am thinking especially of the milk...

Bled's Eye View

EEC road reports... Terry Wogan, with the lilting Irish brogue who presents a disc and chat (his own) show on Radio 2, Monday...

ABC of LT

I have never liked the suffix letters that many bus operators use to number their services. I'm also sure most passengers can't...

Avanti Foden...

Our man in the north recently noticed an advertisement in a contemporary motoring journal which read: "For sale, 1935 500K...

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Filling defence order books

Designated VA 4400 the aur-wheel-drive units will evenJelly replace the VA 314 and 'A 328 models which were also upplied by OAF...

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Pupils see France by coach

's a growing business . . THERE'S MORE to school transport than carrying children to school every weekday with occasional...

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Pagittg make fltut tem

CRITICS who have suggested that the Organisation known as Transport 2000 performs no useful function must now eat I heir words....

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For those of you who missed Motor Transport on April 9th 1976, here are few recorded highlights.

Mr. E. A. Rowley. Transport and Distribution Manager. 0 zalid (UK) Ltd. "...I realised how much information there was in the...

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Truck profits on form...

MANY operators dread working out their vehicle operating costs and some openly admit that they would not know how to do it even...

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Shellsa e helps stop your precious metals being eaten away.

Today's engines are inherently more vulnerable to corrosive attack. Castings are thinner. Service lives and maintenance...

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Spec that truck ...

SPECIFYING or tailoring vehicles for particular jobs is not easy, but is vital in order to get the best results. Ideally, the...

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Ford power: Turbo H...

Graham Montgomerie describes the latest changes made to Ford's Turbo 1.1 engine. OPERATORS are divided in their views on...

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Contract Confidence for

• • -top sermang... MUCH of Ford's success s based on a highly specialised and professional dealer network. Since the...

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ALL Ford Truck Specialist dealers, and there are 141 of

them in Britain, carry a large stock of parts—typically around £250,000 worth— and the majority of most parts are available on...

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Can we help you?

Ford's Contract Confidence servicing agreement provides a full set of record sheets and charts which can be used as a...