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IS IT REALLY 12 months since the last Christmas holiday? The saying goes that "time flies when you're enjoying yourself". If...
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DRIVERS in North Humberside and North West England have rejected low percentage wage offers, and a slightly higher first offer...
PRE-CHRISTMAS tragedy struck the international haulage industry this week when a North Sea ferry sank outside Harwich, drowning...
I ROAD Transport Industry mi ing Board has given itself o her 18 months' reprieve, d is preserving much of the ing group...
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SPECIAL ATTENTION to road schemes dealing with lorry traffic has been given in the Government's Transport Supplementary Grants...
ATTEMPTS by Warrington Borough Council to stop the granting of a standard licence to Bowerpool, a Warrington-based haulage...
REDUNDANCIES, a sharp cu . the shareholders' dividend an steep fall in profits were ported this month from MAN Worldwide...
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BRITISH ROAD SERVICES' membership services division is becoming a separate operating entity within the BRS group, under the...
)11N WITHEY is now manageent development officer for ondon Transport's bus divi3n. He will be responsible for e preparation and...
PETER DAVIES has been taken on by the Seabourne Express Group as international marketing manager. He was previously with...
SUTTON AND SON Truck Rental has made two changes to strengthen and expand its nationwide operation. Norman Woosey becomes...
SERVICE AND PARTS operations of MAN-VW are being strengthened by the closer linking under a single manager. Andy McLeod, now...
JOHN SMITH (left), Cartransport's administrations officer responsible for pay, pensions and taxation, with his wife Doris when...
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INTERFERING with their tachographs, and exceeding the drivers' hours limits, led to six drivers employed by Hereford haulier,...
A GROUP of Wexford hauliers, whose operations were confined to a 10-mile radius of Waterford under the Irish Republic's...
RIVAL consortiums in Bris and Barry are competing launch a new ro/ro service the Irish Sea. The Bristol group under t wing of...
PLACES ARE still available two Freight Transport Assad tion residential courses eel next year at the Manageme Training Centre...
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A NEW SMALL turbocharger has been developed by Garrett AiResearch specifically for use with petrol or diesel engines in the 1.2...
2,150 JOBS will be lost when Michelin (UK) closes its Mallusk car tyre factory near Belfast next year. The proposed closure is...
A FURTHER addition to the antidiesel waxing basket has been introduced by Amos Chemical Company, of Hawley Road, Hinckley,...
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subs idi es': • subsidies : NC( PASSENGERS on profitable Ix routes should not be cros subsidising those which mal losses,...
STRATHCLYDE PTE has changed part of its order for 40 Ailsa B55 double-deckers in its 1983 new vehicle programme (CM. December...
A FORMER Oxfordshire Couni Council deputy clerk is I conduct the special hearing mill Associated Minibus Operator application...
FULL DEPARTMENT of Transport approval has been given to Western National for the conversion of a Bristol BELL single-decker to...
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T CHECKS of coaches at North Wales and Lancashire holiday s$o ds will be repeated next summer as part of a concentrated rt by...
WEST YORKSHIRE PTE will have Britain's youngest director general from early next year, when Cleveland Transit's 38-year old...
VICTORIA COACH STATION has been in existence for 50 years, and to celebrate this an illustrated history has been produced....
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)M ' 0 / B D rr by Graham Montgomeri After the spy in the cab, the voice in the cat Econocruise, always striving to improve...
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WHERE THERE'S MUCK, there's money says the old adage. At Southend-on-Sea, Essex, the age of the sponsored dustcart is about to...
I NEVER expected National Carriers to go in for dirty work — and boast about it. The company's Fleetcare organisation has gone...
A WEST YORKSHIRE bus official is quoted in The Daily Telegraph as explaining that the 2.55pm service failed to run because no...
"ALL POWER is a trust," said Disraeli, long before there were oil companies to use it to raise their prices with remarkable...
THE LATEST extravaganza to take Britain by storm is the dustman of the year competition. Sponsored by Dunlop and Shelvoke and...
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Devizes' answer to the Sistine Chapel, this customised Scammell, awaits a new owner, but you won't find any clues in Glass's....
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Our esteemed Hors eless-carriage for• the Conveyance of Passenger correspondent, Mr Noel Millier, has been pursuing his...
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I THOUGHT Tim Cobb's item on RHA Cargofax (CM, October 30) was interesting, particularly the reference to the transport manager...
MR THORPE'S letter (CM, October 30) does not reflect facts published by the Department of Transport in their TRRL report SR...
WRITING in an entirely personal capacity I find myself in complete disagreement withboth your editorial of November 20 and Mr...
SORRY to point out a small error in John Durant's excellent article on trucking in Canada {CM November 20), but the artic on...
I WAS NOT surprised to read Anthony Fraser's reply to your editorial on the "Motor Show 82", in fact I half expected it (CM,...
IT IS TO be greatly regretted tha Government has chosen to discriminate against drawbar trailer combinations in the recent...
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Leslie Old ridge has been looking at transport law at the turn of the century. Even then, operators had their problems A...
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( d f by Greville Janner, QC, MP Sick pay: be ready by April THE SOCIAL SECURITY and Housing Benefits Act, 1982 comes into...
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Eddie Price is probably Cardiff's best-known haulier but his influence has been felt far beyond South Wales, as Tim Blakemore...
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The Leyland Atlantean has been doing yeoman service for London Country since the spring of 1980 and Noel Millier has been...
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Although the Royal Opera House Covent Garden refused to go on tour to Manchester when celebrating its 250th anniversary, thanks...
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When Premier Transport decided to set up a drawbar operation between its Bristol and Exeter depots, it spent a lot of time...
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THE INABILITY of commercial ashicle and coach fleet perators to dispose of used %%hides when purchasing new eplacements is...
Currie, having experienced the problem of disposing of unwanted vehicles of its own, believes it has a possible answer — the...
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IF you are interested in cutting downtime and outside repair costs, the trick is to do a better preventive maintenance job. How...
WEAK Points of Cars 1983 is the 14th report of AB Svensk Bilprovning, the Swedish National Testing Agency, and this edition...
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by Keith Vincent Council court out? 'THE NEWS THAT the European Parliament has threatened to take the EEC Council of...
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If you're trying to make a pile by selling abroad, here's a firm that has things pretty well covered WHEN CUSTOMERS order...