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22nd August 1981
22nd August 1981
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Jew horizons

kST YEAR the United Kingdom exported 70m Ions of goods Europe — East and West — according to a recent survey. is represents...

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Union 'protection' cards incense RHA

E ROAD Haulage Association has reacted bitterly to unofficial ion by Transport and General Workers' Union members in Liver01,...

Info plan

THE ROAD Haulage Assoc tion's vehicle and traffic formation scheme (VATIS) is have a third and final trial peni from September...

ERF shuffle

SALES director of ERF, Bo Chadwick, left the company thi week with deputy chairman Eni Green now responsible for ERF' sales....

Transport seminar series

A SERIES of seminars entitled Transport Law — Current and Possible Changes is to be launched by the Freight Transport...

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Fowler gets involved in dangerous affair

GULATIONS extending and updating the existing legislation on .1 carrying of dangerous substances in road tankers have been laid...

Cold edge of steel

APPEARING BEFORE a ban ruptcy court, a 37-year-o haulage contractor has de cribed how the 1979 ste workers' strike spelt the...

BFI holds itself open

an open day at Castle BFI staff will be available on a consultancy basis to advise people interested in all the group's...

Back to normal at Soton

FOLLOWING a three-month dispute between dockers and ti British Transport Docks Board at Southampton, shipping lines set ing the...

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Problems of the world

A WORLD conference on ri search into transport problem with the theme Research ft Transport Policies in a Changin World, is to...

Maw data

PRESTON-based Foster (Tachographs) Ltd has installed a cornputerised tachograph analysis system as part of a £115,000...

Drawbar licensing

DUT 75,000 general goods !ides are currently licensed to drawbar trailers, Junior insoort Minister Kenneth rke said in the...

East London receivers

STOREMASTERS LTD at Canning Town, East London, is to act as a receiving depot for Ferryrnasters Scandinavian and West European...

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Attention owner-drivers!

A SPECIAL competition for owner-drivers is being staged on Satu day, September 19, the day before the CM Lorry Driver of the Ye...

Lorry ban too dear

A BID to introduce a lorry bar Alston, Cumbria, has failed, county councillors have agri it would be too expensive to grade the...

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More for Felixstowe FREIGHTLINER is planning to develop its Felixstowe-based

servic from September 7, with additional trains and improved tannin equipment. A new daily service is being started to...

Third Zone ENGLAND'S third Enterpril Zone — at Langthwaite Grang South Kirkby, Wakefield -now in operation.

Only six months after the a nouncement in Parliament that was under consideratio Langthwaite Grange boasts th it offers a more...

Checked

HE Department of Transport reognises the usefulness of the hecks carried out by its vehicle xaminers at night and at weeknds,...

Consumer conference A ONE-DAY conference, Co po sumers in Transport ,

has be jointly organised by Liverpo Polytechnic and the Charter Institute of Transport. Speakers include Ron Ar strong of...

Dismissed manager not incompetent

Jr written warnings. The first is in February 1980, and conrned a delay of three weeks in taming an MoT test date for a hicle....

Overnite in Ireland Tr's Irish Overnite service was week in

the ores unched last we week in the ores unched last we ice of Northern Ireland Envinment Minister David Mit The service, which...

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3ENERAL manager of the Bristol )ranch of Peter Lane (Transport)

.td, Tony Hammond, has noved to the position of direcor. Mr Hammond started with he company in 1972 as a traffic lerk and over...

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Leyland Down Under

LEYLAND has joined forces wit Nino to supply buses to Austrz lian customers. If You've Go The Passengers We've Got th Buses is...

As you wen

DESPITE being faced with a r duction in rate support gra and voting to cut spending 1 £15.2m, Lothian Regional Cou cil's...

J "1 • ong down

IS YEAR's steady downward nd in the registrations of new v is continuing, according to latest SMMT figures. rhe most dramatic...

Pegaso's soccer special

BUILT TO transport the world's football players during next year's World Cup tournament in Spain, the Pegaso pictured below is...

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Enter the Valiant

HE FIRST modular Valiant bus odies destined for world marets have been completed at adham-Stringer's new factory t Stanton, in...

Psv licence is written off

A LANDOWNER'S reluctance to confirm coach parking arrang ments in writing, led to an operator's application for a psv liceru...

Private downfall

A DRIVER with Lothian Regio Transport, who was sack after twice driving for a privi company, has lost his claim unfair...

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rings the changes

PUR NEW body options – tipr truck, dropside truck, Luton n and milk float – are now ailable on the Mitsubishi L300 assis cab,...

AXLE LOAD indicators are mu in demand at present, but

ma are expensive pieces of equa ment. However, a Kent-bas company has now produced indicator that is both versat and relatively...

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Swop body Scania earns top marks

ROAD-MARKING body which an be swopped for a salt-carry g body in the winter months, as been produced by the wedish National...

Middle Eas municipals

SEVERAL British manufactur are sharing a large order to bt. specialist equipment foi Middle East country under major supply...

Electric takes to the road

THE DODGE 50-Series Electric will be road-driven in the UK for ti first time next month. The new vehicle, aimed mainly at...

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Scotland

74: All traffic uses the southbound carriageway at Johnstonefge, Dumfriesshire due to long-term bridge widening. 77: A 12-tons...

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End of monopoly game

THE TIME he had packed his gs and vacated London for the mmer recess, Transport ?cretary Norman Fowler had It Britain's public...

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hosts

V1ETIN1ES an argument in a tic court arouses a strong iression of what the French dela vu. It has all ipened before and a long...

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GWU believes in lye and take

IBODY can say the Transport d General Workers Union sn't believe in give and take: union takes and everyone e gives. This is...

roken up about the Tong Pembroke

IRELAND's preoccupation th territorial unity the bconscious reason why the B I Line, which operates the rries from Cork and...

Coaching helps the disabled

AS A contribution to the Year of the Disabled, members of West Middlesex Coach Operators' Association are to supply 15 coaches...

This is the age of the drain

THE Consumers' Association is determined to out-shout British Railways Board, the railway unions and the Government in its...

Police cow those with a conscience

ANTICIPATING a bull and coNA. the Springboks' rugby match Hamilton, New Zealand, the police, heavily outnumbered, used cattle...

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Cross-Channel hauls the scene in the Eightiet

At least the EEC has made through borders transit much easier than 10 years ago, John Farrant, chairman of the Road Haulage...

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For CPC students taking RSA exam

JANUARY 1978 saw new legi lation whereby anyone responi ble for operating goods vehicli for hire or reward must be jar...

History of a pioneer Scottish operator

OVER 100 views of buses, frorr the First World War to the 1970s are contained in Alexander Al bum, an illustrated history of...

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Go international and explore a vast market

E CM Special Offer course the Certificate of Dfessional Competence in ad Haulage (International) low available and students ly...

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There's even a througli moute package for Greect

IE MOST imaginative delopment on the roll-on/roll-off ry scene since our 1980 guide is published is the launching a through...

Industry is under pressure

ALMOST without exception, North Sea Ferries market the products through the intermediary of professionals the respective...

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lew lashings )r ro-ro RANGE of SpanSet "one-trip" xpendable cargo

lashings 3signed for use with container 3ts and roll trailers, has been unched by Antrak Freight Ltd, London El, said to offer...

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Freight forwarders: experts or cowboys?

They're certainly middlemen, so do we need them? One or two could hammer the naive haulier but a reputable company can give a...

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Go one up with our CPC offer

STUDENTS can enrol now for the CMSpecial Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage (Nation in...

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Hauliers take note: they've got you covered

If you're unlucky enough to get into wrangles with the law, costs can be crippling. A legal expenses insurance package could be...

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TIR check-list

These are the checks a driver must make prior to an international transport operation, according to the 1RU's TIR checklist....

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The French connectio

International operation is a specialised field — but that shouldn't deter potential newcomers. John Durant looks at the...

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So you want to take your lorry abroad

Joining the circle of operators engaged in overseas operation is difficult, but the RTCC says there is potential for British...

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Drivers give thei ----" on the ferrie

The lorries board, the ramp closes and t vessel slips out to sea. But what do th( men who regularly take our loads abro think...

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CMR: the basis for international contracts

HE CMR — that's the simple tie of a book by Alan E. )onald on a complex subject. or the initials stand for the :onvention on...

On your own?

This could be for pa ABOUT HALF the haulage in a country — the own-account an large fleet operators — are represented by the...

Independent, but for how long?

I WAS sorry to see the recent disappointing results of ERF Holdings. This again shows the British motor industry strugglin in...

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Matching air freight blow for blow

Nineteen years ago C. Bourne became Seabourne — after all, why shouldn't a daill road freight service to the Continent match...

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Electronic tachographs may soon be n more remarkable a phenomenon

on boa than a fuel gauge, and can iron out installation and calibration problems often associated with the cable-driven breed...

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One voice, one purpose

Never has it been more vital for the transport industry to unite and counter the propaganda of the anti-lorry brigade, urges...

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he Employment Act 1980

Later information by Douglas Ainley HE FAIRNESS of a dismissal nd the reasonableness of an mployer's action must be idged on...