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8th May 1982
8th May 1982
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Licences for recovery

IT IS five years since Commercial Motor established the Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators. The initiative came from the...

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3tatistics'nonsense' on lorry 'subsidies'

WIRONMENTALISTS have latched on to Government track cost lures which show that, even after the March Budget, the heaviest rries...

Used Merc scheme

IN WHAT must be seen as a move to capture a share of the owner-driver market, Mercedes Benz (UK) last week launched a used...

Copyright

COMA (Bilston) has been yarded £32,000 in settlement jainst Linktip of Wolverhamp)n for infringement of opyrig ht. In a legal...

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Eyre repeats hint

JUNIOR Transport Minister Reginald Eyre repeated the Government's promise to introduce further lorry control measures, when he...

Taming of Shrewsbury

ROLLS-ROYCE Motors has asked Shrewsbury's Chamber of Commerce to back moves for the heavier lorry. The Shrewsbury Chamber has...

Breakdown insurance

BEDFORD Commercial Cover, an exclusive mechanical breakdown insurance scheme covering both new and used vehicles, has been...

DAF aiming for total turbos

AT DAF Trucks in Eindhoven, future engine development emphasis is now totally towards turbocharging. According to Mr van...

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Sideguard concern

RIOUS problems are envisaged n over the sideguard legislation sr. GRAHAM MONTGOMERIE re At a meeting between erators,...

TKM profit drops

TOZER Kemsley and Millbourn has announced a pre-tax profit of £1.014m for the year ending December 31, 1981. This is...

Fiat wins CM London-Brighton trophy

FOR the fourth year running Richard Peakett of Grayshott, Hants, has won the Class B, Commercial Motor Challenge Trophy for...

Invisible assets for sale

FIVE future motorway service areas are available for anyone able to come to an agreement with the Department of Transport....

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Mersey surcharge after driver assault

NATIONAL express parcels company has added a delivery surlarge for Merseyside, to cover the cost of providing additional...

More room

AN INCREASED need for storage space for empty containers has prompted a reorganisation of the Manchester Containerbase. Asa...

New law )n transfers

:IN safeguards for employees' ihts in business transfers have me into effect. Employees in a business lich changes hands on or...

W. London loTA centre

THE Institute of Transport Administration's inaugural meeting of the West London Centre will be held at the Osterley Motel,...

Jaw-jaw success claimed for RHA trailer exercise

The RHA's COMPACT unit exhibition trailer was parked in Battersea Park for the duration of a bank holiday Wheels of Yesteryear...

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Bridge it

A CHANNEL bridge plan, b adapted to the needs of trot and costing approximati £3.2bn, has been put forward the French...

Fruit van turned te jelly'

VEHICLES operated by fruit and vegetable merchant A. W. Veri and Sons of Oldham were said by vehicle examiner Frank Howell be...

RHA loses over 1,300

THE Road Haulage Association's 1,385 to 12,732. The Metropolitan and Southeast area was the worst hit, losing 282 members,...

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Operators refused

NO Kent companies, Vent Brothers and Pethimore Ltd, of Riggs II Farm, Otterden, Faversham, have each had their applications for...

5p c rise

OPERATING costs in haulage rose by 4.85 per cent in the first three months of 1982, according to the Road Haulage Association....

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DAF Pilote scheme

FOLLOWING THE introduction of hub centering wheels for the complete UK vehicle range from August 1980, DAF Trucks is now...

A tip off

MODIFICATIONS have be made to the range of hydraul metric tipping rams manufa tured by Telehoist Ltd of Cho tenham, which are...

Mini-skip

POWELL DUFFRYN Engineering has added a new mini-skip unit called the Mini MeiIler to its range of waste collection vehicles and...

Seal of success for RB?

REYNOLDS BOUGHTON has desi its RB44 four-wheel-drive truck. Built for the Institute of Geological Services Environmental...

There's a catch to it

A LUTON-type body has been launched by PEM Trailers of Bournemouth and has an interlocking panel design with sloping front, grp...

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Bus desigi

DELEGATES from the bus in try heard some peculiarly I don Transport thoughts one-day seminar on design the urban bus held by...

Operator's plans upset

PLANS by a former director of JDW Transport of Ipswich, Michael Noble to obtain a new psv operator's licence appear to have...

MoT tests

SOUTHEND Borough Council has dropped controversial plans to go into competition with garages for the town's MoT test and car...

PO scherth

NATIONAL WELSH and the F Office have introduced an exp ment involving the sale of season and unlimited travel tickets post...

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OPERATORS committed to hires for Pope John Paul's visit to

Britain this month should check the legal position in case the visit is cancelled. The growing crisis over the Falkland...

Smoking out the drivers

01 anti-smoking organisation has complained about Edinburgh bus irivers who smoke on duty. The Association for Non-smokers'...

Swedes

SCANIA has handed over the first two BR112DH double-deck buses to Tyne and Wear PTE. The buses, fitted with Alexander R-type...

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BRIAN ROSIER has become managing director of the Ferrymasters Group.

He is based at the Group headquarters in Altrincham, Cheshire. JOOST VAN SCHUNDEL has been appointed general manager for...

THREE new members were elected to the Freight Transport Association

board at last week's elections, and serve under new president IAN DAWSON (CM, May 1). They are FRASER MENZIES Of Reckitt and...

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VED and tax evasion

IT MAY not be often that I agree with one of your editorials (having been attacked in them before) but we are clearly of like...

Moving paper by road

MAY I use the excellent medium of your correspondence page to raise a subject scarcely ever mentioned? I refer to the...

Go one up with our CPC offer

STUDENTS can enrol now for the CM Special Offer course for the Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage...

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All you need to know about vehicle l'ecovery

The Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators is holding its annual conference and exhibition at Birmingham next week. Tim...

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The crashing is done: let recovery commence

CM photographer Brian Weatherley's day out filming simulated recoveries with AVM and REME at Chattenden THE VEHICLE recovery...

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The mechanical aids to vehicle recovery

Bill Brock casts his eye over the range of electric winches, hydraulic pumps and inflatable cushions that recovery operators...

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To the rescue

Breaking down is certainly no fun, but with the recovery services that operate these days, it is not quite the calamity it used...

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s it a mirage in the lesert?

THERE exists a desert of nderstanding as to what appens to cars between uitting the production line and iaterialising...

lold start in hard imes

EORGE JOHNSON, 75-year-old ianaging director of G and C )hnson (Claxby) Ltd, North DIsey, Lines, remembers times , at were even...

No shelter from rates

SURELY the ultimate in fiscal nonsense has been reached with the Valuation Appeal Court's decision that the Lothian Regional...

The Ryans keep it in the family

IF Peter Thompson had had a bigger crystal ball he might have chosen Ryan's Freight Consortium as the title of the new...

The Scots who went off the rails

AS BRITAIN rattled its sabre in Argentina's face, Glaswegians remembered the day in September 1914, when patriotic fervour...

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• Tackling the coach operator's nightmare

A coach that breaks down presents its own special set of problems, not the least of which is dealing with the unamused...

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How stands the electric vehicle? Is it yet economically viable? Karrier Motors are in the vanguard of development

PROGRESS to date in electric vehicle design was summed up by David Brain of Karrier Motors at Drive Electric '82 — an event...

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lotta lotta oottle-jack

OTTLE-JACK supplier, Lake id Elliot, is launching a new, wer-profile hydraulic bottleck for buses and coaches, illowing...

■ 11 change — and three minutes

-IE Coats HIT 6000 lorry and is tyre changer can complete a re change in less than three minutes, according to Narco...

Spray choke and carb cleaner

SAFETY KLEEN, the company that offer a parts cleaning service for garages and industry, also offers a range of ancillary...

Tool trolley

WARCO has introduced a tool trolley of robust pressed metal construction. It has a deep lower storage compartment for larger...

My lord: your cabinet awaits

TOOL BUTLER is a mobile cabinet/workbench from Lockpanel. It is a double-sided unit, one side being a lockable cabinet with...

Platform trucks made to order

DESIGNED specifically for use in the modern "advance" factories and workshops is the T.1071 turntable truck, produced by Tyne...

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Intelligibility gap

IN MOST activities, and road transport is no exception, scientific and technological advances create a widening gap between...

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A concern for recovery

A more respectable image for recovery operators is what the Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators is battling for. Mike...