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27th August 1992
27th August 1992
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THE BRITISH DISEASE?

• This week Commercial Motor is accused of being: "Illinformed and biased'' and having an attitude problem "typical of the...

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Laden call • CM editor Brian Weatherley has written to

Roads and Traffic Minister Kenneth Carlisle calling for major changes to LGV driver training and testing. This follows a CM...

Vehicle recalls • Vehicle Inspectorate recalls in the first six

months of the year included Volvo F12s for possible fractured fuel pipes and Seddon Atkinson Stratos for engine crossmembers....

Allison deal • German axle and gearbox manufacturer ZF has

bought the Allison Transmission Division from GM — but the deal must be approved by the German and US governments.

Bond scheme • By the start of 1993 the British

International Freight Association expects to introduce its bonding scheme to safeguard hauliers against any of its 850...

Licence appeal • The Road Haulage Association, the Transport &

General Workers Union and the United Road Transport Union have called on the DOT to allow LGV drivers who lose their licences...

French drivers want Euro licence

• A French truck drivers' union is demanding the introduction of a single European LGV driving licence in a bid to standardise...

Training boss denies a clash of interests

• A former Road Haulage Association chairman has resigned as boss of a road transport training firm after clashing with...

Disc system bids to fight truck theft

• Hauliers in the Scunthorpe area are to be urged to adopt a disc system to deter vehicle thefts. Scunthorpe crime prevention...

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CBI backs road funds

• In an effort to head off cuts in the Government's road building programme the Confederation of British industry has called...

News hauliers face probe

• The transport of newspapers is expected to be investigated by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in a year-long probe into...

DOT drops threat of axle test fees

• Plans to introduce an axle surcharge on the cost of the annual test have been dropped as part of a Department of Transport...

European Commission clamps down

• Operators face even tougher diesel smoke testing from 1 January 1996 when the European Commission's recommended limits come...

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Last minute • Most hauliers will wait until the "last

minute" before fitting speed limiters, predicts Lucas Kienzle managing director Fred Kay. Trucks over 16 tonnes will have to...

Deadly traps

• Recovery operators are • being targeted by car thieves who tape contaminated syringes under the seats of abandoned vehicles...

Belt up • Children who travel in truck cabs will

soon have to wear seatbelts by law. The Government is to make it illegal for unrestrained children to sit in the front seat of...

Young boss / Nigel Woodyat, national fleet engineer of Parcelforce,

has become the youngest ever chairman of the Brewery Transport Advisory Committe (BTAC). Woodyat, 36, has been with Parcelforce...

M25 delays / Major maintenance work on the M25 between

junctions 10 and 11 (Wisley and Chertsey) is scheduled to start in September and will last 13 weeks.

Transport chair • A chair in international transport is being

set up at the City of London Polytechnic; the first holder will be Professor James McConville.

Lion's share • Manchester-based TDG subsidiary Network Logistics has won

a £500,000 12-month contract with Lion Foods to distribute Lion products from factories in Runcorn and Wrexham.

linkman dispute settled

• About 550 drivers at Linkman Tankers have accepted a pay and conditions freeze until 1993, ending four months of negotiations...

Mystery bids for AWD

• Three companies have emerged as front runners to buy British truck builder AWD, which went into receivership in early June —...

Hauliers bullish in national survey

• A survey by Business Freight Management, a Financial Times newsletter, revealed surprising optimism among 50 haulage...

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Scania's corning clean

• Scania's range of low emission engines for the P93, P and R113 and R143 ranges are ready a year ahead of the Euro-1...

Braking down in Arundel

• Hersham Valves of Arundel, West Sussex has developed an engine retarder based on its variable pressure slide (VPS) exhaust...

Nem gases up for first time

• The first Iveco truck to run on natural gas has gone into service with Swedish National Rail. The 40-tonne GVW prototype...

Alcoa saves weight ••• and tax

• Two ERF E6.21 4x2 rigids have been built to 14-tonne specification for Alcoa, saving £.650 a year in road tax. Because they...

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Life savers on parade

• For a sector worth no more than 800 vehicles a year, the UK ambulance market is courted by a surprising number of...

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Drivers shape services

• Truck drivers are being given a say in the facilities on offer from a new Granada service area which is due to open on the...

Andover finds a Czech mate

• Andover Trailers and Czech engineering firm Transporta are to sign a £2,5m partnership deal. Transporta, formerly the...

Sales slump set to continue

• Transport companies will not have the money or the confidence to spend more on new light trucks for at least another year,...

Dartford tolls to rise next week

• Tolls will rise for the Dartford tunnels and bridge next week. Two-axle commercial vehicles will be charged £1.50 each way;...

Forrest Gray sale

• Ely-based Forrest Gray (Transport) is expected to be sold soon following the receivership of its parent company Chequers...

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RHA ponders Parcelforce

• Some of the country's top parcels carriers met this week for urgent talks on the sale of the Post Office's parcels division,...

Acclaim Express looks for locals

• Acclaim Parcel Express is looking for more licensees for its nationwide delivery service. Acclaim was set up at the beginning...

Signs of life in truck rentals

• Signs that the truck rental market may be recovering emerged in news of Dawsongroup's return to profits for the first half of...

Still searching • Paris-based Group Giraud is still in the

market for a British haulier — one which is not too large but has a good network of contracts. The group says it has found that...

Davis switches ▪ Nigel Davis is the new national sales

manager at Cambridge bodybuilder Wisbech Bulk Systems. He moves from rival EM Wilcox.

Navistar loss • America's biggest truck maker, Navistar, is taking

a battering. It has lost $115m (Z62m) after tax in the three months to the end of July.

Cool centre • BRS is opening a freezer rental site

in Birmingham. The site is the sixth in a network of specialist ERS centres offering refrigerated vehicles, service and advice....

Latest casualty • Halifax-based storage company S Allen Transport has gone into liquidation.

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Load fines are quashed

6 .4 • Fines imposed on Lancashire haulier David Haworth and one of his drivers for using a vehicle with an insecure load,...

Maintenance hiccup hits fleet

• King's Lynnbased Barry Burton (Transport) has had the authorisation on Is 0-licence cut from 26 vehicles and 37 trailers to...

Manager cleared on tacho charge

• Gordon Millership, transport manager of Rowley Regis-based Millership Transport, was cleared of causing a driver to falsify...

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Irish targeting denied

- 061 - 4 Ihr.1 MA vehicle examiner denied that his colleagues had been targeting Irish vehicles when Northern Ireland...

Cut wage is repaid

• West Midlands haulier Alan Tomlinson, trading as A Tomlinson Haulage, has been ordered to repay £95.28 deducted from the...

Rossini rebuke • Porthcawl tipper operator Julian Rossini received a

severe warning about the maintenance of his vehicles from South Wales LA John Mervyn Pugh. The LA renewed Rossini's two-vehicle...

Driver compensated MI IDS Transport has been ordered to pay

£2,321 compensation to a driver, who was sacked after he failed to turn up for work on a Bank Holiday Monday. A Birmingham...

Waste charges • Macclesfield-based Roger Rathbone is to be tried

at Chester Crown Court on charges alleging 12 offences relating to the depositing of controlled waste on land when he did not...

Overworked 1111 Failing to take the minimum weekly rest cost

William Taylor, trading as WA Taylor Transport of Liverpool, £125 in fines and costs. Macclesfield magistrates heard that...

Clive Carter • In our issue of 20-26 August, the

caption to a legal story 'Road was in vicinity' said LA Brigadier Compton Boyd "cut Clive Carter's (0-licence) renewal by five...

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Bosses buyout at NC

• Northern Counties has been bought for £1.9m by a management-led employee buyout team which includes a finance director who...

Strathclyde's bid bounced

• The Government has turned down a £28.1m management/employee buyout at Strathclyde's Buses. The deal was negotiated over the...

Early launch for 300 Series

• Right-hand-drive Kassbohrer 300 Series are likely to be available for the 1994 coach season, a year earlier than the German...

Pompey mobility

Car Chair Vehicle Builders of Hailsham, East Sussex has produced its first coachbuilt mobility vehicle, a £35,000 coach on the...

Action fades

• About 300 bus drivers at Harry Blundred's Hampshire-based operators Red and Blue Admiral voted in favour of industrial action...

Money matters IIII The Department of Transport has appointed accountants Price Waterhouse to advise on the privatisation of London Buses.

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Gardner: a tale of technology

• Last week Commercial Motor revealed that Perkins is to sell Gardner, the 124-year-old Manchester engine manufacturer it...

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Servicing Seddon

• Seddon Atkinson has appointed Thanet Commercials of Broadstairs as its parts and service main dealer for East Kent. The...

Telford Centurion

• Centurion Commercials, Scania's distributor for the Potteries area, has opened a depot at Telford. Contact (0908) 215380.

Insuring insurance

• Operators whose leased trucks are written off in crashes often lose out because the settlement from their insurer covers only...

Keeping time

• Alan Jones, managing director and chief executive of TNT Express (UK), will be talking to the Chartered Institute of...

Tank topics

MI Tank Europe 92, a conference on bulk distribution, will take place on 20-22 October in Antwerp, Belgium. Topics to be...

Talking logistics

• The Institute of Logistics & Distribution Management has drawn up its autumn events list, which includes a conference on...

Roofbars to suit high-roof vans

• Thule of Sweden has launched a high-roof carrier system, High Foot, to suit light commercial vehicles with roofs raised above...

Roofbars to suit gutterless vans

• A range of roof bars designed to fit car-derived vans with gutterless roofs has been launched by Paddy Hopkirk. Models...

Pulling the pin

• Jubilee says that its new Pin-Puller will make pulling the fifth wheel easier, The Pin-Puller has a one metre reach and can...

Backing backs with video course

• With legislation due next year on manual load handling at work, Multimedia Training has developed a new interactive video...

Dangerous goods training courses

• West Herts Training, with P&O Roadways, is offering courses to help drivers of vehicles carrying dangerous loads stay within...

AA Hotlines

(0836) 401 111 West Country. (0836) 401 112 Wales. (0836) 401 113 Midlands. (0836) 401 114 East Anglia. (0836) 401 115...

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Callingall collectors: Aardvark for sale

hat is claimed to be the only Kenworth Aardvark in Britain is up for sale for £38,000 complete with a Momma and Poppa living...

Law up against the wall

N agle-eyed reader might have spotted what seemed to be a blatant piece of driver's hours lawbreaking in our Law on the Wall...

Recession — what recession?

ILI 'ye been poring over some back issues of CM and coming across various pronouncements by leading members of the transport...

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amen Hammond, partner in Sheffield-based C&D Express Transport, believes thieves

were stealing to order when they took a Mercedes 814 From his firm's depot in the Holbrook area of the city. The white,...

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• The vast majority of Britain's truck drivers accept random

drug and drink testing, according to a CM survey at one of Southern England's busiest truckstops. Random testing of HGV...

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/ Thoroughly practical is not perhaps the most flattering response

to the introduction of a new vehicle but this was how the Design Council summed up the C 40 cab used for the Leyland T45...

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P erkins' reworked 12.2-litre Eagle _ --- --.1 P erkins' reworked 12.2-litre Eagle

_ --- --.1 800 series engine came in as the most powerful of the five power options offered by Leyland Daf's 6x2 tractive unit,...

A lthough this was not uncomfortable it could have been made

more acceptable by increasing the thickness of the insulation. While the engine provided plenty of go the brakes were less than...

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UP IN SMOKE

As smoke regs get tighter hauliers will have to spend more time and money ensuring their trucks are green, clean and legal. •...

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TRUCKING

David Gill uses his ERF El 0 to haul concrete — and to win prizes for its pristine condition. He takes his trucks, and his...

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crao crirrse

Changes to EC legislation mean forward-control vans could soon be subject to crash-testing. CM witnessed a demonstration...

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Fuel for thought: 1

• I have just read Tom Llewellyn's contribution to Sound-off (CM 13-19 Aug). He echoes my feelings that it would be more...

Fuel for thought: 2

• I have had my premises broken into and I have lost a tractive unit. I agree with Tom Llewellyn's Sound-off (CM 13-19 Aug)...

Stop training for a better future

• The article concerning driver training, (CM 6-12 Aug) was interesting. Here's hoping that when Britain recovers from this...

French riposte

• You expressed the view that the French government allowed the recent road blockades by French truck drivers (CM 30 July-5...

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The culture of the 1980s has actually damaged the idea of the dignity of labour'

4 I am tired of meeting executives in the European and UK motor and transport industries who waste their precious time...