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2nd November 1973
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Carrot-and-stick to make lorry more acceptable

by CM reporter • There is no substitute for the lorry, and the whole problem of transport and the environment has been...

Heath confident over fuel supplies

but hauliers feel the pinch by Gordon Murray • Mr Edward Heath's statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday that the...

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Government speeds Road Traffic Bill

from our Parliamentary correspondent • To avoid delay the Government has decided to introduce the new Road Traffic Bill in the...

11 tonnes in

UK? Nonsense • Reports that the Government has given up its battle with the EEC to restrict the size of lorries on British...

HTS claims dock breakthrough with new SLIC depot

• Lord Aldington, chairman of the PLA, and Mr Jack Jones, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, joint...

Wyatt driver gets licence back

• A Norfolk lorry driver has successfully applied to the Eastern LA for renewal of his hgv licence following a 2-month ban....

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Overloaded foreigns down to 15 pc claims Minister

• The proportion of overloaded foreign lorries arriving in Britain has been reduced from about 80 per cent to some 15 per cent...

Hgv four-week rule to go

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, has laid before Parliament, Regulations which will allow a driver who has...

More noise news

• Reviewing his proposals to combat vehicle noise, Mr John Peyton, the Minister for Transport Industries, said in the Commons...

Tacho bonus We're on the side of the angels

plan rejected —Dan Pettit tells CM conference by CM reporter • Because the trade unions are still discussing the...

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Carrot-and-stick to make lorry more acceptable

continued from page 18 waterways. Nevertheless it considers that the railways' contribution can only marginally influence the...

Peyton replies

• In a letter this week to the chairman of the committee the Minister has responded to the report on three points. He considers...

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No action by Eastern LA after Silver Roadways' 30 GV9s

• Although his company had received 30 GV9s on a fleet of 55 vehicles and 37 trailers many of the defects complained of were of...

Continental flavour at PDM conference

by Johnny Johnson • Despite the Continental flavour imparted to the Centre for Physical Distribution Management's conference...

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Work on Chunnel gets go-ahead

from our political correspondent • The Government was last week given the go-ahead to proceed with preliminary work on the...

Drivers winning Dykes fight says FTA president

• Lorry drivers have won the second round in their battle against the Dykes Act — the Heavy Commercial Vehicles (Controls and...

Coal merchant expands haulage

• Ellis and McHardy Ltd, of Aberdeen, coal merchant, shipowner and now petroleum fuel distributor, is to expand substantially...

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Midland Red plans more take-overs

• Midland Red — which has taken over two Black Country independents and is negotiating with five more — is planning to acquire...

No deckers for Scottish Bus

• No double-deckers are on order by the Scottish Bus Group. This is revealed by the Group's 1974 orders list released this...

Park and Ride Bee-Line expands back in Leicester tours

• Leicester Corporation Transport restarted its Park and Ride services this week. In past years the undertaking has operated a...

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DoE examiner found School-bus coach in 'diabolical' condition violence

notices. Several of these defects were • On inspecting a 41-seat Bedford coach belonging to a Rotherham operator, a DoE vehicle...

Women for LT Fleetlines for

Teesside • After years of determined opposition to the idea, London Transport unions have accepted the idea of women bus...

South Yorks PTE men appointed

• The four directors of the South Yorkshire PTE have now been appointed. The director-general, Mr Noel McDonald, general...

Speed up call to SBG

• The Scottish Bus Group is being urged to speed up bus services in the Scottish Border country by the Border Association for...

Friday stoppages

• Bus crews employed at East Yorkshire Motor Services have decided on a series of Friday stoppages from 4 pm to 6 pm. The first...

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Short of qualified staff? Court corrects Then reduce fleet, says LA Keaney fine

errors • At a public inquiry held in Plymouth on Tuesday the Western Licensing Authority, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, said he...

Brick load hauled by contractor was not illegal

• Farmer Richard Locker was not breaking the law when he allowed a load of bricks to be hauled by a farm tractor licensed only...

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Four-year attempt to find site 'thwarted', says haulier

• A Penrith haulage firm's four-year hunt for a depot site was described last* week at a public inquiry in Penrith. Barnett and...

More orders from NCL

• National Carriers Ltd is spending a further £1.475m on new vehicles in addition to the £ lm worth of orders already placed...

One from two

• After a large n r imber of defects was discovered on a vehicle taking its annual test, a maintenance investigation was...

Redundant drivers claim more pay

• Seventeen lorry drivers formerly working for Storefreight (Northern) Ltd, Dunston-on-Tyne, which closed down in August, are...

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Better torque in Mk III Leyland 500

• The Leyland 500 series range of trucks incorporating the Leyland-built Lynx, Bison, Buffalo and Super Buffalo models has been...

Test bed fuel counter

• A research system for calculating the fuel consumption of diesel or petrol engines using a sampling revolution counting...

. . . and more power for Guy tractive units

• Power ratios of up to 8.62 bhp /ton are now available for Guy Big I4T 32-ton tractive units following the announcement today...

Noise regs for US

• The US Environmental Protection Agency has completed the first of its major tasks called for in the Noise Control Act of 1972...

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New lift for heavy

loads from Ratc lif • A completely new design of tail-lift, capable of lifting up to 8 tons, has been developed for Lansing...

New Technical Editor for CM

Today Graham Montgomerie takes over from Gibb Grace as Technical Editor of Commercial Motor. Mr Montgomerie, who is 30, has...

Noise, dirt and diesel conference

• "Noise, Dirt and the Diesel" is the title of a one-day conference to be held in London in December which follows last year's...

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HIAB Hydrauto system demonstrated

• The HIAB Hydrauto automatic handling system. which has been described in CM (September 28) was demonstrated by the sole UK...

Fodens for the Army

• Fodens is to supply the Ministry of Defence with vehicles which are expected to form a large proportion of the Army's...

Dayton-Walther modifies

• Dayton-Walther Ltd, of Runcorn, Cheshire, has introduced its Series II Tru - lok fifth-wheel coupling. The new fifth-wheel...

Load Lugger abroad

• A Load Lugger bulk materials handling unit has been shipped to Poland by Telehoist Ltd, of Cheltenham. This brings to 101 the...

Air-cooled engine for Magirus 'club' truck

• The Magirus-Deutz version of the "Club of Four" middle-weight truck will be fitted with the company's 912-series air-cooled...

Unic expands

• An assembly plant formally opened by Unic last week at Trappes, near Paris, is part of a Fiat rationalization plan for...

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Bright lights from York

• A new design of rear lighting, which includes high-intensity fog units, are now being fitted as standard to all new York...

New Taskers swan-necks

• Offering paylo tons, a range of announced by Andover, Hants, F6 and has gvw to 54 tons. Featu of removable fabri rests on the...

Walke body for Toyota person i el carrier

• Three 12-seat announced this we Sons Ltd of Watf Toyota Hi-Ace van add between £105 of the basic van. There are three s...

Petrol e exempti gine ns

• Mr John Peyton, Industries, has laid regulations, allowi exemptions from the for petrol-engined v vehicles first used 10...

RenTco in Ireland

• RenTco Nationwide Trailer Rentals Ltd has extended its operations to Northern Ireland with the forming of a subsidiary,...

Cummins new depot

• Cummins Diesel Sales and Service Ltd, the UK's national distributor for Cummins engines has opened a new service depot at...

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bird's eye

view bytimHawk • Lioness's den? Brave RHA chairman John Wells — he's agreed to take part in a Women's Hour confrontation on...

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TOP-WEIGHT DODGE ENTERS THE RING FROM BARREIROS

by Trevor Longcroft FROM TODAY a brand new top-weight 270 bhp tractive unit is added to the Dodge truck range. Designed for 38...

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On the road in Spain with the new Dodge

I WAS one of two UK journalists able to drive two pre-production right-hand-drive models around a Spanish test track and over a...

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Over 90 per cent British content in Ailsa decker

AILSA'S double-decker, announced today, is the only front-engined model available on the British market. Its Volvo engine is...

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Metropolitan is logical development of single -decker

ANNOUNCED today is Metro-Cammell Weymaim's integral double-decker, called the Metropolitan, which is a logical development of...

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Many new components in Reliant's Robin

IN the development of the Reliant Robin TW8 5cwt three-wheeled van announced earlier this week, keeping within the legal...

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Metropolitan is logical development of single-decker

continued from page 45 top. There are two inlet vents on the roof at the rear. These take in air which is fed, through two...

topic

Sharing the training load COMPLETE HARMONY between the Road Transport Industry Training Board and operators is no more likely...

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letters

Fitters and qualifications The question to the Q and A Bureau (CM October 19) on fitters and qualifications was interesting...

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conference management papers

THE FIRST PAPER, by Sir Reginald Wilson, chairman of Transport Development Group, was concerned with fundamentals of...

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Delivering the goods

FREIGHT TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION national secretary, Garry Turrey, opened his . paper with a cautionary quotation from Hansard: –...

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Transport efficiency and regional policy

PROFESSOR K. J. W. ALEXANDER, of Stiathclyde University, opened his paper "Transport efficiency and regional policy" by...

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Engineers' report from Europe

THE FINAL session of the conference stemmed from visits by five pairs of fleet engineers and managers — from haulage and...

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Q I was interested to see the Q and A Bureau

answer (CM September 21) given to a question about the operation of minibuses by a student organization but I would also like...

Q I am employed as a driver by a hospital group

and regularly drive coaches carrying other employees between their homes and places of employment. For this service a charge is...

Q We have a single-wheel pneumatic tyred towing ambulance and a

twinwheel solid tyred heavy-dray towing ambulance. Are any restrictions on speed or limitations on distance covered? Could one...

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management matters

by John Darker Cross-border - components haulage develops apace Good industrial relations vital for motor components...

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know the law

lay Les Oldridge, TEng (CEO, MIMI. AMIRTE The Heavy Commercial Vehicles (Controls and Regulations) Act 1973 (2) BESIDES the...