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29th June 1979
29th June 1979
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Cut it out

The Government's avowed intent to cut public spending has raised the predictable political wailing from the Opposition. Public...

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Bright ideas rewarded

CHARTERED Institute I Transport director-gener Brigadier Donald Locke pr sented the Centre for Physic Distribution Managemel...

Momeward devolved

LATIONAL Carriers' Homeward" home delivery ?rvice is no longer a national .rvice and the operational tsponsibility for Homeward...

Grp tanker passes

Fs GRP (glass reinforced plastic) tanker has now received learance from the Health and Safety Executive to deliver petrol the...

French speed cuts

-TRANCE is to enforce speed imits strictly and in some :.ases reduce them as part of a mckage of measures designed .o cut the...

New Mem engines?

MERCEDES-BENZ may bring in a new range of engines to s its model range of over 16 tons at the Frankfurt Show September. New...

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Hull service aims to squeeze cut rates

HULL IS to have a new freight service aimed at cutting out the low-price freight services that have been offered from the Hull...

Midrange gearboxes

A NEW RANGE of transmission with six, nine and 13speed models is to be introduced by Eaton at the Frankfurt Show in September....

NCL hits back at survey

NATIONAL Carriers has ch lenged a survey which claim that many small carriers I not increase their prices 1978. It says that...

Inquiry de

THERE WILL be news sot about the inquiry into lorri and their impact on the e vironment. Transport Minist Norman Fowler said in...

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mcho regs go-ahead Kpected for autumn

GOVERNMENT expects the ean tachograph regulations to be the autumn. 5 forecast was given in the Cornlast week by Parliamentary...

tandard demountable

SMMT working party on demountbodies is shortly to announce a lard that will allow clear-deck dert system interchangeability on...

3 tries

ectric THERN ELECTRICITY d's Chairman John ;ewood has commenced ectric vehicle evaluation ramme which, if sucal, could mean...

WESTM NSTER HAUL

WELL, they've got over their first hurdle. The Government's transport team and their Labour opponent have been blooded at...

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Myer fired after )utting his back out

DRIVER who injured his back at work and became incapable performing work of the kind he was employed to do was not fairly...

'ory promises on way

IE GOVERNMENT hopes to roduce during this session Parliament some of the legttion needed to reform the affic Licensing system,...

lestair loss— not bad

[STAIR CHAIRMAN David Hargreaves told CM this week Lt the special vehicles division (Hestair Dennis and Hestair ee) lost...

Berger's wins livery

REPRESENTATIVES of Berg Paints were present in Londo last week to receive th Commercial Motor Liver Competition class award....

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Banned drivers must give up hgv licence

IT WAS NO excuse for holders of hgv driving licences to claim that they were not aware that they must be surrendered to the LA...

Scottish survey

ONLY 44 per cent of the Scottish companies profile( a financial survey increa: their profits over a 12-moi period. Two years'...

Union raps CB radio

TRANSPORT and General Workers Union Leeds regional officer David Bolton has hit out at campaigns to introduce Citizens Band...

BRS ready to compel against Freightliner

BRITISH ROAD Services could be competing with its former sister company, Freightliner, if a customer wants a rail/road system...

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an town loses case m overnight stays

HE PRINCIPLE of heavy vehicle bans that should allow lverS to reach their overnight lodgings has been upheld by Usk agistrates...

London stall on dock road

THE GREATER LONDO Council is to go ahead with planned £104m relief road serve London's dockland but it has deferred a decish on...

Excise review

DEFENDING THE .Gover ment's decision to look age at Labour's plans to do aw with vehicle excise dut Transport Minister Norm,...

Seat-belt free vote

TRANSPORT MINISTER Norman Fowler last week gave an assurance that there would be a free vote on the seat belts bill which, he...

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Portable load-banks cut fork-lift need

RATCLIFF TAIL Lifts have reduced their range of mobile loading banks to three. The lifting platforms are electrohydraulically...

Tyre user manual

THE BRITISH Rubber Manufacturers' Association's Service Manual for Truck Tyres now incorporates new legislation affecting truck...

Firestone Sherpa

THE AUSTIN-MOR1 Sherpa pick-up is now av able as a fire appliance. ' approved conversion, kno as Firesprite, is being done Town...

Foldawai

A MODULAR second; decking system, called Di II, is now being manufactu in the UK by BKL Extrusii Ltd of Birmingham. Deck II...

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Vlini-Saviem suits ion-hgv personnel

ENAULT TRUCKS and ises have introduced a new intender in the under-7.5-ton nge of commercial vehicles. Plated at 7.38ton gvw,...

)riving impressions

I soon found that the best ear-change points were 3000 )m upwards and 1600 on the .ay down. With the 4.55 eandard axle ratio,...

Magirus 16-tonner on sale

THE 16-TON RIGID fri Magirus-Deutz is now avg able for the UK mark Known as the 168M 16FL was first shown in protot3 form at...

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ASW

FOR THREE WEEKS the city of Hamburg has been host to the largest-ever European transport exhibition. The show, which closes on...

Hamburg hosts ideal for transport future

vehicles, introduced a new 6 x 6 tipper chassis retaining the unique Tatra spine chassis but using a KHD air-c000led V8 diesel...

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Brighton's CM trophy at Showbus rally

GREY-GREEN TRAVEL of London sponsored the Great British Showbus Rally at Hillingdon for the first time last weekend. The...

Psv last the cours better

THREE-QUARTERS of registered in 1967-8 are stil the road — compared v only 15 per cent of hgv. So says ROSPA's newspa Care on...

No to concessions

THE GOVERNMENT has no intention of introducing a natio scheme of concessionary fares at present. Stating this in the Commons,...

Subsidies needed!

TRANSPORT SUBSIDIES are needs, said Kenneth Clarke, Transport, last week — but local money from their own spending William...

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Plug-in system to solve mobile library power problem

1OBILE LIBRARIES are as aried as their contents. They ange from Ford Transit-based ehicles up to 40ft conainers and are...

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Cut the waste in ubbish handling

Brian Chalmers-Hunt reviews rie Solid Wastes Management exh'ibition at Scarborough. Harry Roberts took the pictures. VISITORS...

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US truck firm's 63m desert song

International Harvester faced its biggest challenge ever when it won a 214-Tuck contract for Saudi Arabia POSSIBLE to set down...

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)og in the Tianger

WAS AMAZED at Mr F. K. 'eachey's comments on .eeping lorry weights down CM, June 8). He claims his Niel peaceful street has...

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Contract refuse: is it practical?

John Durant visits a local au ority with a part council, part-contracted rubbish collection Pictures by Brian Weaterle , THE...

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byte Hawk

Price of progress Like bungalows in comparison with houses, single-deck buses have risen in price even more steeply than...

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Builders gearei to welfare need!

Noel Miller reviews e market for welfare transp( and spots likely builders from e regio PUBLIC EXPENDITURE cuts will clearly...

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ouncirs Elm Om transport budge

Local government reform has meant sweeping changes in tie management in Stra clyde. By Alan Millar. Pictures by Dick Rc...

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Most old councils only half costed their vehicles

WHEN the new council was established it soon found that most of the old authorities had only half costed their transport. The...

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Rationalised fleet is future aim...

A RATIONALISED vehicle policy is being introduced slowly throughout the department, but cutbacks in the region's budget have...

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Rationing system to cope with fuel shortage

:LJEL SUPPLIES were very nuch on my mind when I met )ick Housley and John Lindsay, iut they feel happy about Inter al...

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Save more cash

at one big gulp Fergussons argue that municipal operators will do better to invest in higher capaci - y gully emptiers, Graham...

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Safest drivers on today's roads

If the quality of training has anything to do with it, then they migh just be ambulancemen. Report by David Wilcox Pictures by...

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Auto Transit is handy hit towns

FORD'S C3 automatic gearbox has been used for some years on the Granada car range. We tested a Transit 80 with it fitted this...

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A Border trial

Alan Millar looks at a multi-puroose transport cancer which could spread. Pic - tires by Dick Ra THE TRANSPORT problems of...

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Room at the top in BRS

National Freight Corporation company Western British Road Services has announced two senior management promotions. Brian...