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28th August 1982
28th August 1982
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We have waited too long

MRS THATCHER is likely to make Cabinet changes in the final run-up to a 1983 General Election. We hope that she will not move...

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£5m a year to get lorries off the road

IE GOVERNMENT is now spending over Om a year to support the insfer of environmentally sensitive traffic from road to rail, and...

New ERFs

F has joined the band of inufacturers offering vehicles idy to meet the White Paper mosals for increased weights, ind when they...

Avoid Edinburgh

COMMERCIAL traffic should avoid central Edinburgh on Sunday, September 5, between 8.30am and 1.30pm, when the Edinburgh...

The rise of Lazarus at DTp

PETER LAZARUS, Deputy Secretary at the Department of Transport, will become the top civil servant in the Department on November...

NIC auction next month

RTHERN Ireland Carriers is holding an auction next month to pose of the 12 De Lorean sports cars it has been holding as urity...

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Highland data in full fling

NEARLY 70 companies are now making regular use of the free BRS Datafreight service which is being operated from Inverness by...

Tax threat

INTERNATIONAL drivers wl regularly cross Austria ha been threatened with new sat tions by Austrian Transpo Minister Karl...

World vievy

TRANSPORT and Road Reseal Laboratory deputy director ( off Margason is Britain's ste ing committee representati for the...

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Govt floats figures for water freight

n total, 63m tonnes of freight ire moved, or 2.3bn tonne/km, nesenting 1.5 per cent of all me/km freight moved. The rvey showed...

ICI mail

COURIER and Data Transit, the Birmingham-based national courier firm, is to extend its contracted internal mail service for...

Benz sounds off on noise

DAIMLER-BENZ'S 1981 annual report shows that despite declining cargo traffic affecting commercial vehicles it was still able to...

Case delay

EARING of 50 drivers' hours I records charges against :ksons Transport (Dereham) I and six of its drivers was lourned sine die...

Peugeot picks up for 1983

PEUGEOT has revised its 504 pick-up for 1983. The major change is the revised choice of engines. A 1.8-litre, four-cylinder...

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Wynn urges public to back Armitage

IE PUBLIC should come to its senses and encourage the Governant to Implement the gross weight proposals in the Armitage port,...

M-way 'OK'

TRANSPORT Under Secretary Lynda Chalker has claimed that this year's motorway repair programme is causing less inconvenience to...

Trailerent thinks big

TRAILERENT is starting a 1:20m expansion programme intended to double the size of the company's United Kingdom depot network...

4. Irish road upgraded

SEVEN-MILE section of trunk id in Northern Ireland is to be graded to dual carriageway at ost of Northern Ireland Environment...

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Can you afford not to be there?

Registrations for CM's Fleet Management Conference have now reached 450. We can still accept more. The programme has caught...

Freight News Lack of funds prevents driver's defence appeal

AN APPEAL against a conviction for making a false tachogr, record by Ivor Teale, a driver employed by Arthur Oakley Transr Ltd...

Computerise your routes

AN IRISH company is offering to the transport industry computer packages which can be bought outright for £40,000. Rainsford...

Greenwooc expands

GREENWOODS Transport panded one of the count most environmentally sensi transport depots, at Rownha near Southampton, earlier...

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up the wrong tree?

E development of a wood gas-powered engine by Renault Vehies Industrials CCM August 7) is to continue for several more Inths...

VOLVO is to recommend the, 227kw (305bhp) F12 chassis for

operation at a constant 38 tonnes gcw — if the White Paper weight proposals are implemented. The F10, with its TD100 GA engine...

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Ambulance chassis for Dodge 50

KARRtER Motors has introduced a new ambulance chassis version of the Dodge 50-Series. The specifications made to the new model...

Overnight storage

TRIPOWER Ltd of Everton, r Sandy in Bedfordshire, has signed a new system of pa distribution for the safe a night storage of...

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JIDANCE to vehicle operators on the correct method of coupling

hides and trailers with mixed two and three-line braking systems Issued today by the Department of Transport. '=ollowing a...

SOME CONFUSION has arisen over the use of the word

"approval" when used to describe non-factory-fitted equipment for Ford chassis, TIM BLAKEMORE reports. I8CT Equipment for...

Berg anticipate regs

AS THE October deadline for implementing new EEC braking regulations looms over British operators, Berg, with its extensive...

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Gearbox's six-appeal

BEDFORD'S top-of-the-rar psv chassis, the YNT, is n available with a ZF S3.65 speed manual gearbox as an ternative to its...

PTE's artic stay idle

THE PROSPECTS of Sot Yorkshire PTE's pioneering ticulated bus fleet returning service look slim, as the leng stalemate in...

New body from Duple

The normal height Laser is the product of extensive surveys carried out by the Blackpool firm and has been designed to meet the...

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Referee Howell allows Tonna's disputed goal

liNSPORT SECRETARY David Howell hats overruled South Wales ffic Commissioners' decision to refuse Tonna Luxury Coaches'...

United strategy

PROPOSED Government legislation to outlaw the cheap fares policies of some Labourcontrolled Metropolitan County Councils led...

;eat review

REVIEW of the number of ildren that can be carried on hoot buses should be finled next month. Transport icier Secretary...

Shuttle date

COACH operators wishing to apply for shuttle service permits to Europe for the coming winter should note that the closing date...

'THE CHARTERED Institute of Transport's 22 United Kingdom sections have

elected chairmen who also serve as ex-officio CIT council members. Those with road transport connections are MALCOLM ROXBURGH,...

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pony by committee nit of cImiel

OMMITTEES are noted for reating camels out of horses ut one such body has reversed le process and produced a hetland pony by...

Jot in front of the !rivers, please!

URING the lunch interval etween the adagio movements F drivers of snaking artics and gids in the final of the ommerciai Motor...

Yes, they have no bananas

THE withdrawal of the last Swift, one of the less illustrious models in the defunct AEC line, by the South Yorkshire Passenger...

Footprints in Foden's Sand(bach)

THREE of the most important phases in Foden's history are marked by the latest additions to the road transport collection of...

A bus to stimulate budding writers

WHEN Shillibeer brought-the bus to London in 1829 he was not just starting a revolution in passenger transport. He was...

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New Sherpa well sei to outclimb the old

The old-style Sherpa van scored high on durability and reliability in our long-term road test, but only poorly when it came to...

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Dual-fuel . . the choice is a fine one

The Sherpa we have been testing can run on gas and petrol. Which is the most economic? David WilLox has the answer OUR...

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Here's a flexible business proposition

A husband-and-wife operation in Cheshire has acquired an unusual addition to its small fleet. The newcomer has been specially...

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A true, off-road work horse

Although not beyond criticism, the LandRover long-wheelbased high capacity pickup convinced Bill Brock that it can hold its own...

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Still fit for the Kalahari

Phase three of Land-Rover's development programme was completed recently and Brian Weatherley has been testing the advances in...

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Things are looking up for reprieved Sherpa

1980 saw BL in a quandary over the light commercial sector. For a numberof reasons, there was a strong temptation to turn off...

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Air brakes, 10

IN THE first of these articles on Air Brakes it was said that the components used could be divided into four groups, (1)...

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Range Rovers with an arresting performance

The West Midlands Police force was the first to buy Range Rovers for motorway work, and the policeman's lot on motorway patrol...

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Local government hits back

I WAS surprised that CM should give such prominence to the opinions of Mr Richard Barlow (July 3), who until recently had no...

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four studies /

four choice k WIDE variety of courses in ransport studies now exists, Ind choosing the right one is a retry important...

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Rolls-Royce's technical director at Shrewsbury talks about the quality of

castings, tightening up standards at the foundry, turbo-compound engines and twostage turbocharging "THE most important thing...