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IRING Road Haulage 'dation chairman Jack ! has slammed Governt interference in road 3ge and "intimidation of ed...
kD Haulage Association vice-chairman John Silbermann expected to become the RHA's new national chairman this k as CM went to...
kNSPORT Minister William Rodgers defended the decision of British Road Services to hold its .ual planning conference in Las...
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ROAD haulage has weathered the downturn in the economy better than the majority of industries and demand will increase...
HINO lorries are "unimpressive" according to a group of Cheshire hauliers which visited the controversial Dublin plant of J....
ROAD users are overpz their share of track costs the tune of £1,795 million 1978/79, says the British ; Federation. Goods...
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NITENANCE standards should be improved and extended, according to the ute of Road Transport Engineers. In its evidence to the...
QTROVERSIAL plans to e heavy goods vehicle ing test fees have been )ped by the Government. - ansport Minister William gers told...
90 per cent since February 1974 — the figure for increased costs per ne-kilometre is only 15 per cent. I pay tribute to the...
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)W broke out at the ih Association of vers' Bristol conference veek when an overseas 3n underwriter chald members to make up...
ORT-TERM anti-lorry trictions are seldom rthwhile, says a report m the Transport and Road search Laboratory. f plans are well...
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FINES and costs totalling £445 were imposed on Brian Waddington (Continental Transport) Ltd, Holmfirth, and one of its drivers,...
THE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board is under Government pressure to end pay agreements which have increased average...
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:EWARDS of £1,400 have een offered by Yorkshire, perators for the return of quipment stolen from the rea recently. Hallams...
CHINAFLOW, National Carriers specialist china and glassware delivery service division has expanded its operations into Northern...
Hazard load labels THE GOVERNMENT hopes to introduce regulations later this year to provide a statutory scheme in place of the...
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LONDON Transport's major fares and ticketing experiment in the Havering area has not initially been successful in significantly...
NATIONAL Bus subsidiary Northern General has offered its unique Tynesider doubledecker for sale. Rebuilt six years ago from a...
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r omen ' s wards E Fife bus conductresses ) were unfairly dismissed e been awarded a total of 7 compensation by an intrial...
A FIRM policy to erase an estimated Elm deficit suffered annually by Lothian Region's bus service has been urged by the...
AN ELECTRO-mechanical barrier will operate in favour of buses on a Wolverhampton housing estate. The one foot high, six feet...
SWANSEA has introduced a new bus priority system which goes into operation in June 1978. The scheme uses a selective detection...
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Continue! THE QUESTION of which of two local operators could best provide a market day service for villages to the north of...
INVESTIGATIONS are to be carried out by the Commission for Racial Equality into the National Bus Company and its subsidiaries....
CUTS TO City of Oxford's bus services will not be opposed by the Oxfordshire County Council. National Bus, which submitted the...
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,RKE and Sherwell Ltd, gravure printers, has bought an mai 6x2 24-tonner from Grose, the Bedford main dealer for :hampton....
E. M. WILCOX Ltd of Peterborough has won a Design Council Award for the outstanding design of its fold-in-side tipper body....
N Metherwell, a garage owner of St. Dennis, Cornwall, has red into competition with British Leyland by producing the Imaster —...
BP OIL took delivery of a road tanker with a glass fibre body which will be used for the delivery of petrol to garages. The...
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Report by a financial correspondent THE ANNUAL Report of the National Freight Corporation was issued last week. It is a...
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MARATHON 2 range ides a 2.97m (9ft 91n) elbase day-cab model either the Leyland T112 ummins 250 engine. A ;-Royce option was...
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The most reliable truck of its type I know' Lionel Tuson, Group Transport Controller of Debenhams Limited, has this to say...
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BERLINER Verkehrs Betriebe (BVG) is not unlike a British PTE. It operates 1,619 buses — 1,240 doubledeckers and 379 single-deck...
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As the manager responsible for the selection and application of light service vans for our petrol pump maintenance operations,...
1117130• • • Our sister company in South Africa has largely overcome the problem by making, at considerable expense, a moulded...
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oel Milner tests Ford's latest R•series coach kNY COACH operators v buy lightweight coaches expect them to do the be job as a...
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the watchword in labour relations atience is
its original title was lciliation and Arbitration vice, and the initial word dvisory" was not added a few months — the sere was...
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'FIC law is always compliI, but often where special or ual vehicles are concerned il puzzle confronts anyone is trying to avoid...
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I see Bill Rodgers has been telling the Transport Salaried Staffs Association that there widespread determination that there...
Lord GeorgeBrown had a party — to coin a phrase — at the Tipcon official business lunch recently. His Lordship was never stuck...
The broad hint dropped by Sir Dan Pettit last week th would not return for a third term as NFC chairman whe present contract...
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John Tibbett retires Tibbett and Britten chairman John Tibbett is retiring from full-time duties to work on a E new private...