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27th December 1974
27th December 1974
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BRS confirm: Truck rental is on

AS REPORTED in CAI last Friday, British Road Services are to set up a Truck Rental Division which will commence operations on...

Own-account operators turning to hire firms

THE recent road haulage wages agreement giving drivers £40 for 40 hours is already having an effect in the own-account sector....

GLC asks: 'How do we pay for LT?'

MORE THAN 15,000 copies of a consultative booklet on ways and means of financing London's public transport system are now being...

No wholesale State take-over

WHATEVER fears operators may have for 1975, wholesale nationalization need not be one - of them. At a press lunch this week Sir...

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Employers can insure class 1 hgv drivers aged below 25

by CM reporter THE SHORTAGE of Class I hgv drivers is being aggravated because operators believe that they cannot have men who...

Costs per mile of

dearer . fuel THE recently announced increases in the cost of fuel will be much more significant for the operator of...

SBG substitutes Fords, Bedfords for Leopards

THE Scottish Bus Group is to substitute Ford and Bedfords in its 1975 order programme for Leyland Leopards because Leyland...

Port charges going up

PORT CHARGES are to be increased at all British Transport Docks Board ports by an average of nine per cent from January 1,...

PRICES:

Ford up AN AVERAGE increase of 9 per cent in the cost of its commercial vehicles has been announced by Ford. Examples of the...

Leyland up

PRICES of new vehicles from the trucks and bus division of British Leyland have been increased by an average of nine per cent....

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LT orders Bristols to replace RFs

AN ORDER for 95 single-deck buses on Bristol chassis' has been placed by London Transport for delivery in 1975-76 to replace...

Scots MPs press for more co-ordination

A GROUP of Scottish Labour MPs has urged operators and local authorities to improve co-ordination of public transport...

0-licence fees up

FEES for operators' licences are being increased from £4 to £5 from January I or substantive applications. The £1 interim...

DoE tackles boredom

A WORK RESEARCH UNIT in the Department of Employment has been set up to help firms tackle problems of stress caused by boring...

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Putting tachos to good use

EXAMPLES of how tachograph charts can assist in accident analysis and he • , used for driver training were given at an open...

Ryder's team to probe BLMC

Anthony Wedgewood Benn Secretary of State for Industry, has named the team which will investigate BLMC's affairs under Sir Don...

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Coping with Christmas at Covent Garden

by CM reporter • THE past pre-Christmas weeks have been the first real testing time for the new Covent Garden market situated...

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A NEW DEPOT covering five acres and easily accessible to

the main trunk roads connecting South Humberside with the rest of the country, has been opened by M. and H. Slater (Tanker...

NIT at Larne

A NEW OFFICE has been opened • by Northern Ireland Trailers (Scotland) Ltd at Larne. The new address is Redlands Estate,...

Mathewson name change

THE BRADFORD-BASED export shipping and warehousing company, W. Mathewson and Co Ltd, has changed its name to ConstantineLloyd...

Workshop In dry dock

A WORKSHOP for the repair of fractured cylinder blocks and cylinder heads, as well as other types of small castings, has been...

Eurofleet to open Bristol branch

THE BEGINNING of next year sees the opening of a new UK branch for Eurofleet Rental Ltd, in High Street, Kingswood, Bristol....

Harold Wood In Grays

ANOTHER DEPOT — at Grays, Essex — has been opened by Harold Wood and Sons Ltd, of Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, UK an international...

Company merges

FROM January 1, 1975, the carriers business of S. Fry and Sons Ltd of Tower Road, Warmley, Bristol, is to be incorporated under...

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Help to buy hauliers

A JOINT organization to help customers acquire haulage companies in Britain and on the the Continent has been set up by three...

Foreign drivers better at keeping left

THE LANE discipline of Continental lorry drivers was praised by Government spokesman Lord Melchett last week. He was speaking...

Manchester, Bradford to Rotterdam

A TWICE-WEEKLY SCHEDULED service to Rotterdam from Manchester and Bradford has been organised by the Constantine Forwarding...

North sea ro-ro

THE SECOND ro-ro ferry, Norstar, owned by North Sea Ferries, has joined her sister ship Nor/and on the Hull/Rotterdam...

ASMAP traffic doubles

INTERNATIONAL road haul, age by the Association of Soviet Automobile Carriers (ASMAP), which has recently joined the IRU, has...

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GLC thanks Sir Richard

A TRIBUTE to the abilities of Sir Richard Way, who retires as chairman of London Transport on Tuesday, has been paid by the...

Silent Rider back with PTE but not in service yet

SILENT-RIDER, the prototype battery-powered Seddon midibus jointly developed by the Greater Manchester PTE and Chloride Ltd....

School transport decision awaited

COMPLAINTS about the time being taken to reach a decision about the report on school transport were rejected by a Government...

Pirate Days

WITH public transport all set on what could be its first genuine boom since the war it is salutary to read of the industry's...

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Berliet diesels for Saviem trucks?

by Paul Brockington ONE of the results of the 'merger' of Berliet and Saviem and incorporation of Berliet in the State-owned...

Shelvoke and Drewry take-over

A MEMBER of the Butterfield-Harvey group, Shelvoke and Drewry Ltd, has acquired the whole of the revised share capital of...

Turning to gas

MOSCOW plans to convert 35,000 lorries, buses and cars to gas — according to the Novosti press agency. The city council, it...

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Switch on to switch off

AN ENERGY CONSERVATION programme launched in November 1973 by Perkins Engines of Peterborough, has helped the company save...

York expects a good year

IN SPITE of York Trailer's Corby plant being on short time the company's chairman, Mr F. W. Davies, expects profits for '1974...

MIS Parcels trailers order

BRS PARCELS LTD has ordered 150 more Scammell automatic coupling units; 20 8.5 metres automatics are leaving Scammell's...

Reliant Interest

A REDUCED interest rate of 91/2 per cent is being offered by Reliant Motor Co, in conjunction with Hodge Finance, for most of...

ERF gets big order

ORDERS FROM South African Railways for 102 commercial vehicles, valued at over £1.28 million, for delivery during 1975, have...

Scotcros profits up

A 10 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £227,000 from 206,000 was announced last week by Scotcros Ltd, the parent company of...

TES for Merc

TRANSPORT Engineering Services (TES) have been appointed Mercedes-Benz truck main dealers for South West Scotland. The...

Perkins for VW

A CONTRACT with Perkins Engines to supply Volkswagen with diesel engines for a new utility vehicle is expected to be announced...

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Who'd be a haulier?

• DEDICATED to the nation's professional hauliers by a retired Brother, Michael Keogh, This Haulage Life costing f2.10p post...

British transport

AS a student in the immediate post-war years studying for the RSA examinations, I found great difficulty in obtaining an...

The economics of transport

ALTHOUGH more suitable for the student of transport economics and the urban traffic planner than for the transport operator,...

TR RL report on haulage costs

A REPORT published this week by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory might have proved very useful for tipper operators...

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This misprint we welcome

Now there's a happy New Year sight for sore eyes — and one of the brighter spots in our life of journalistic toil. The gorgeous...

Think big

For years operators have been complaining that they couldn't attract high-quality men to driving jobs. I've never really gone...

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Escalating transport costs favour the

small brewer by Paul Broclungl STRATFOR D QN -AVON is some 23 miles from Donnington brewery in the Cotswolds, near...

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Seat spacing gets star grading

After more than two years of preparation by leading German tour operators, travel trade associations and coach builders, a new...

Coming events for coachmen Doubts about the continuance of the

international coach rally on the Cote d'Azur in the light of present economic problems have now been dispelled with the...

Bargain rides to beat the smog

Munich, which has several very long road underpasses crossing the railway yards outside the main station, this month originated...

Stop-start saves fuel

An American scientist has announced that the composition of the heavily smoke-laden air in a typical "dive bar" in downtown Los...

Volvo-Scania co-operates in space project

The current trend in German luxury coaches towards high-level passenger accommodation has obviated special recommendations for...

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Easy starting of low-compression diesels

A pre-war Hungarian device could provide a means operating a turbocharged compression ignition engine on i lowest useful...

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Asking for more

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough PAST experience as described by other people is rarely...

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A quick SIFT for nternational freight

)y Gordon Murray. rhe Midlands' new inland clearance terminal is rapidly proving ts worth 11TH international road freight...

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All torque Brock house has announced two new torque converter

applications. The first is a two-speed, full power-shift torque-converter transmission which features soft shift and...

Arc welder from B and D

Arc welders for use in garages and maintenance workshops have been introduced by Black and Decker. Three models are included in...

Electronic axle weigher

An electronic axle weighbridge has been added to the range of weighing systems by Molenschot Scales. The weigher is available...

All air

The Jumbo-air compressor from H PM Compressor Services is a single-cylinder unit with a piston displacement of 0.08cum per min...

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I understand that there are proposals to increase the heavy

goods vehicle licence and test . fees. Can you say what the new fees will be if the proposals are implemented and when will the...

Q In a recent issue of CM you said that

the provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1974 needed a Statutory Instrument before they became law though more recently you...

Q We are just beginning to oper ate vehicles with

demountable bodies and, as we intend to demount the bodies with the goods inside them, we have been able to fax the vehicles at...

When does an attendant become necessary when a vehicle is being operated under the Special Types Order?

A Article 24 of the Motor , Vehicles (Authorization of Special Types) General 'Order 1973 lays down the requirements for...

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The new law on labour relations

8: N ew aspects of employment contracts by John Darker AMBIM IN an ideal world every new employee would be free to negotiate...

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Public service vehicles 4

by Les Oldridge Teng (CEI) MIMI, AM1RTE FOR many years it has been necessary for psv operators to see that their vehicles...

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Obstructing the highway

Surely it is time for the haulage industry to take some action to prevent any further restrictions to the movement of its...

Aluminium chassis frames

I was very interested to read the article by Paul Brockington concerning the use of aluminium in the building of chassis frames...

Stylists wanted for coaches

The article "Putting on the style" (CM, December 6) was very interesting in many ways. As our three best known manufacturers...

Stabilizing transport prices

I was surprised that the Chancellor increased the petrol tax, and I would suggest, that since the cost of transport adds...

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The first lady of transport

by lain Sherriff A REWARD is offered to anyone providing information leading to the discovery of the Walker Cup. Before golf...