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Employers respond well to graduate and recruitment grant scheme FROM A levy income of £19½m during the year ended March 31...
THE Road Haulage Association this week confirmed the programme for its annual conference, which will be held at Plymouth on...
A TRIAL programme for evaluating competitive types of double deckers is now being planned by the National Bus Company. Its...
Page 20
MR JOHN WELLS, immediate past national chairman and a council member of the Road Haulage Association, was expected to offer his...
NATIONAL CARRIERS has introduced an improve( 24-hour version of it Medallion service betweer Plymouth/ Exeter and Man chester....
THE possibility of green rear lights for road vehicles with red stop lights to indicate stationary or braking vehicles was...
being advised by the Association to wait, for the time being, before taking action to comply with EEC tachograph regulations....
INCREASES in insurance premiums for commercial vehicles of up to 18 per cent from October I were announced by insurance...
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THE ROAD haulage industry has increased its efficiency by nearly 60 per cent in a decade with hardly any increase in heavy...
ANOTHER plea to hauliers to examine their costs and adjust their rates was made by Mr D. C. Pragnell, chairman of the Road...
A SHARP increase in the number of people attending the Earls Court Commercial Show was evident this week. By 2 pm on Tuesday,...
Page 22
CLYDE vehicle ferries may soon be involved in a new regular trade carrying large road tankers loaded 'with liquid natural gas...
A TWICE-weekly TIR trailer groupage service between the North of England and Germany has been introduced by Thomas Meadows and...
DOMESTIC demand for UK commercial vehicles in the short term seems to be holding up well, However, over the longer-term growth...
A PROPOSAL. to control the movement of heavy lorries in bad weather conditions has been dismissed as "impracticable" by the...
NATIONAL CARRIERS Ltd is to offer the CM Lorry Driver of the Year organizing committee three Prizes to be awarded annually to...
Page 23
MAN and Daimler-Benz are to install a gas turbine engine in a vehicle for manufacturers' appraisal in Germany next week. This...
ALTHOUGH the total commercial vehicle market this year in the UK would sag to about 65,000 units instead of the 80,000 which it...
AFTER a slight improvement, the shortage of spare parts for vehicles of all types still presents a critical problem. At a...
Page 24
BUS crews in Central Scotland who have been refusing to work overtime were told last week to resume normal working. The...
LONDON TRANSPORT is to take delivery of a large number — probably about 600 — "quiet" doubledeckers. The substantial part of...
1 3 11011 chairman A PLEA for members of thi Passenger Vehicli Operators' Association tc support the "progressivi step...
Page 25
AN EX-CONDUCTOR turned driver only two years ago was awarded the title of Bus Driver of the Year at the Road Transport Industry...
REGULATIONS come into operation on October 1 giving limited exemption from hgv driving licence regulation for drivers of...
A REPORT which has been presented to Bedfordshire County Council reveals that half of the county's population is entirely...
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CARDIFF City Transport Co, which faces a public inquiry into poor services next month, have asked the Traffic Commissioners to...
Gerald Duckworth, director of planning of the National Bus Company, retires on Monday on account of ill health. His...
THE National Bus Company is likely to lose about £5m this year. This deficit could treble next year and cause widespread...
Mr Richard Bottrill, general manager of Edinburgh Corporation Transport, was this week appointed director of public transport...
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A NEW Scania, the 111, was introduced at Earls Court last week to replace the Scania 110. A new version of the company's...
VOLVO's eight-wheel chassis first introduced at the Commercial Motor Show two years ago will be going into volume production...
IN ADDITION to three of the TM's already shown at Earls Court, Bedford will have a TM2600 at the Paris Motor Show which opens...
THREE new tachographs are being shown on the Lucas Kienzle stand at Earls Court. These include an electronic version for...
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by Martin Hayes BRITISH bus operators this week had their first opportunity to sample a new bus transmission manufactured by...
THE Institute of Road Transport Engineers was urged last week to support new moves for engineers' professional representation....
AN ORDER worth £100,000 has been won by Crane Fruehauf Service and Equipment Ltd for 1,040 pairs of heavy-duty two-speed...
A NEW steering power rack and sector gear has been announced by Burman and Sons Ltd. The development is claimed to give 50 per...
Page 29
CM technical staff chose a variety of vehicles from the Earls Court demonstration park for brief road appraisals... SEEING is...
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Reported by the Technical Editor IN RECENT YEA RS the arrival of the Scandinavian trucks started a chain reaction in the field...
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sophisticated by Graham Montgomerie THE FACT that the Commercial Motor Show is taking place at all, in spite of all the...
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by Martin Hayes PASSENGER operators visiting this year's Earls Court Show will have noted one very obvious message; it is the...
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by Jerry Rodwell TWO years ago, the Show bodywork review asked "which demountable system will win out?" This year, the...
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Attention to detail by Gordon Murray MUNICIPAL vehicle exhibits at Earls Court this year are dominated by ambulances — in...
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but nothing radical by Tre gcroft vor Lon FROM A CLOSE study of the trailer stands at the Show, it is apparent that each...
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11 now essential °F Speakers urge operators to lobby local authorities on the 'Dykes Act", to liaise more closely with...
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In the second session Dr John Havard, an under-secretary at the British Medical Association, and chairman of the Scientific...
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Roger Denniss used many colour slides to present his paper on the American trucking scene, published in CM last week, and...
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When that seasoned "hire and reward" haulier Mr R. M. Heins, development director, P and 0 Road Services Ltd, addressed the...
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This is the second article in a short series on the enforcement authorities' proposals for intensification of roadside weighing...
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NO lack of anecdotes at this year's CM Fleet Management Conference, which certainly went went with a swing, I thought. Speaker...
They sold a Volvo F86 for £11,000 in London on Friday night, but don't get the idea that even our inflation has yet gone that...
At CM's conference last week there was high praise of US trucks, especially for their cab design. The singers of those praises...
Mind you, talking to Seddon-Atkinson man Jeff Greenhalgh, just back from Australia, those American train lengths seem...
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It is surprising how many people enter the road transport industry by chance. Like John Furness, since February this year,...
HARDLY a word about transport can be found in the manifestoes of either the Conservative or the Liberal party. In contrast with...
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sophisticated continued from page 45 vehicle as on the Volvo F88. The ZF company is strongly in favour of synchromesh gearboxes...
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that there is a guide nook produced by an international association which might help us in getting a picture of frontier...
lorry which could be used for towing. All the vehicles are kept in part of a bus garage, but it is necessary to move, some of...
back to base when it was stopped by the police. The vehicle concerned was an artic equipped with jacks and a towbar so that it...
for use in connection with business, which principally consists of carrying livestock. I am not sure if this body will be...
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I suspect that the severity of disciplinary punishments meted out by road transport employers to drivers tends to vary with the...
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by Les Oldridge TEng(CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE LAST WEEK I dealt with the Highly Flammable Liquids and Liquefied Petroleum...
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W We refer to your article by Johnny Johnson entitled "Road tunnel LPG restriction will be expensive" (CM August 9). We would...
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I was particularly interested by the contents in your editorial (CM September 13) concerning the belated attempt on the part of...