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31st March 1978
31st March 1978
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Ten years on

Training — a word used in hushed whispers, incredulous tones or with blasphemous adjectives ten years ago — has grown to...

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'EARLY total of 1,500 Hino ides will start to arrive

in tam n from December ough "the Irish back door". is claim was made last week the BBC1 programme lino's possible penetration s...

Hopes gone for weight lift

BRITAIN is definitely not going to accept 40 or 44 tonne vehicles in the foreseeable future — and that means for at least five...

Overweight means Saudi stopover

SAUDI ARABIA is imposing new restrictions on vehicles entering the country from June 1. If the new rules are broken drivers...

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Time is r out for ill

THE ROAD Haulage Association has said it believes the haulage industry will start to suffer bankruptcies and unemployment...

Licences down

THERE was a marginal decrease in new 0 licence applications in the United Kingdom last year, but in Scotland the drop was a...

M1 spot-check but A NORTHAMPTONSHIRE police spot-check meant in: court

appearances for 16 foreign drivers last week and all found guilty of offences including over-loading and excee drivers' hours...

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)over freight drive

OVER docks is now handling traffic creasing at around 25 per cent a year, C'ONFIRMATION from Transport Minster William Rodgers...

WES TM S TER HAUL

DOING without Hansard for three or four days is a hardship most MPs can live with. After all, they can always supply their...

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ransport rowth...

)RDING to a recent mic survey, this year will owth in transport terms, )nly because of the mic stagnation of 1977. is likely...

New powers for operator purge

THE GOVERNMENT is prepared to consider whether any changes should be made in those parts of the Transport Bill which increase...

Irish licence warning

IRISH hauliers should not expect continued issue of licences from the Scottish Licensing Authority if they did not comply with...

!ogles double freight

TTANY Ferries is dou; its freight capacity on Portsmouth/St Malo and nouth/Roscoff routes. ext month a new ship, the 0 ton...

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Testers stage token strikes

GOODS vehicle testers in Salisbury are staging a series of one hour token stoppages in support of an 18 per cent pay claim...

Lords hit 'nosey' Li

PROTESTS at licensing orities who demand t( audited accounts from cants requiring a restr operator's licence to r lorry were...

Use ICDs says Dover

DOVER Harbour Board is advocating more use of inland clearance depots, "but to maximise use they will require to be open 24...

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ATER London Council's ion transport committee rman Harold Mote has

eked London Transport th he has accused of being strated and inadequate" he claims has wrongly ied taxis for causing deto...

Telma looks to market future

CHANGES in the marketing network of Telma Retarders to cope with new developments, likely new legislation, and a push in the...

£100 a week busmen

UNDER a £10 million wage deal between London Transport and the Transport and General Workers Union, LT bus conductors wages...

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Fiat's 'Daily' delivc

A NEW range of light vehic/es has been announced by IVECO. To be marketed in Europe under the Fiat and OM marque names, the...

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Training Board is poised to meet the bigger demand

WRING 1976/77 there was significant increase in adult raft training and for the econd year running in the lumber of apprentices...

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Better managers

MANAGEMENT development is the means by which we "attempt to improve managerial effectiveness through a planned and deliberate...

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Coach iptaine comm am the road

by Noel Milner. Pk s by Mike Loveridgel THERE is more to being a touring coach driver than driving a coach — or rather there...

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Better training

for road transport IE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board exists for one non only — to promote a higher standard of...

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Colin scores in training'

Wembley H DLIN NUNN was in charge an Army workshop in ngapore with a staff of )0 when he was 20. ppropriate, that, for now, )...

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There's money in training

TRANSPORT Driver Training (Esher) Ltd began as a group of operators who needed to train drivers for their own operations. Now...

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...diesels, geisels

.WELLINGTON boots and the RAF bomber were named after the Duke of Wellington, and that makes him an eponym; bunsen, and diesel...

Stranger than fiction

PART OF the purpose of CM's International Conference at Calais and Dover recently was show operators and their customers what...

No rise is a good rise

Have you read that the Price Commission has approved a price increase? Of course you hay but the report was wrong. The Price...

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Training: not wasted

THE COURSE offered at the FTA training centre was objective, down to earth and intensive" was the verdict of transport men who...