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.The report of the Working Group on Football Cro Behaviour, published by the Scottish Educat Department, recommends, quite...
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HERE are now 20 approved tchograph calibration .ations in Britain — and 'ere are another 73 appliAtions waiting to be aproved...
LLES of commercial vehicles se by 11.4 per cent in Sepnber over the same period it year — and imports also se by 2.4 per cent...
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FUEL consumption on light vans will be reduced by 30 per tent in 10 years' time, according to Shell scientist Dr David...
be in jeopardy, National Bus Company chief executive Robert Brook has warned. This could be a major effect of the introduction...
CONSERVATIVE shadow transport minister Norma Fowler has asked CM for the right to reply to the assertior contained in our...
have been firmly denied by company this week. The charges were le4 at the company by UniI Road Transport Union geriE secretary...
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kit in the meantime, a BRS rkesman commented that company was set to inase its business over the t three years. No decrease in...
Colt Cars have given Pem Trailers of Bournemouth exclusive approval to fit their dropside and box body range to the Canter...
aheacl The seven - mile Ripley-Swanick-Alfretoi By-pass in Derbyshire will be opened toda by Eric Varley, Secretary of State...
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1E A75 Gretna-Stranraer troroute has been described a goat track by Ian Brown, eretary of the Road Users oup Transport Action...
Road Haulage Association that staff turnover at RHA headquarters is too high. In the past 10 months, 11 of the 34-strong staff...
THE OVERLAND group c companies has opened ne) premises at 275 Aston Lan( Birmingham (telephone Nc 021 356 9411 — 10 lines),...
CAMEL FREIGHT LTD is no offering container groupage t the 12 Middle East countrie: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordar Kuwait, Lebanon,...
CLEARWAY Truckin Company Ltd, Aylesharr Kent, is operating a ne% driver-accompanied service t destinations in Libya, vi...
GOODYEAR Tyre & Rubbe Co is constructing a furthe three new regions distribution centres a Borehamwood, Herts Motherwell,...
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ROYAL NAME is likely to oe given to the high level iridge over the Mersey )etween Widnes and Runcorn when it is formally...
VIERSEYSIDE County .:;ouncil has been told the 3overnment is unwilling to give new powers to apply for a oan to pay off debts...
ZONTAINERBASE :Manchester) is having its ausiest period since trading ;tarted in 1968. Container ;hipping lines using it now...
ANIS has opened a new lorry rental complex near Heathrow at the junction of the A30 and Stanwell Road. The company operates its...
- SAUDI Arabia's National Transport Company, in which P&O has a 30 per cent stake, is expanding its haulage activities in the...
A DECISION to suspend, immediately, the 28-vehicle fleet of A. Smith Garage Transport Ltd, of West Bromwich, made in the...
GOVERNMENT ideas on transport, outlined in the White Paper, are welcomed as being "unexpectedly heartening" by the London...
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be veloped for boxvan operations, has been introduced by the - tick and Plant Division of Reginald Tildesley Ltd. Mounted on...
CHLORIDE Automotive Batteries are investing more than V million during the next 12 months to equip their entire fleet wit...
. ..JBBER rear suspension is 4ng fitted to new Foden ree-axle heavy lorries for port. The suspensions are being stalled by...
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RITAIN'S drivers fought 'rough to finish sixth out of I teams at the international nry driver of the year ompetition staged by...
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By the Passenger Editor SHOULD BE made an offence uor on a vehicle hired to carry That is one of the Iendments to the law...
BURRELLS of Ipswicl recently appointed Bedfor PSV main dealers, hav announced an order for 16 ne , coaches for the Tricentrc...
TEN LEYLAND National have been bought by th Scottish Bus Group. Thes buses, which will join Scottis Omnibuses Eastern Scottis...
AFTER a re-organisatio within the Brent Chemical Group, the passenge transport division of Ardrox i to be fully integrated int...
GLASGOW will not be face with a bus strike. The city' 650 maintenance men hay voted by two-to-one, to accer a revised pay...
Manufacturing rights to th patented design of the ir dependent front suspensio used in KaSsbohrer-Setra ps have been acquired b...
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HE WHITE PAPER was the chief topic at municipal transport's irst annual conference, in Eastbourne. Organiser of the conference...
LONDON COUNTRY Bus Services and Green Line Coach fares are to rise as a result of a Traffic Commissioners' hearing last week....
and from January in a bid to crease its revenue by 10.3 cent. Company traffic maim Robin Jones, said: "For 96 cent of our...
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PALLET recovery schemes involving payments to drivers For their collections may not 3e new. But as the industry. once again,...
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NOTHING speeds 1 movement of goods in / around warehouses quickly as the many typet forklift trucks. This year there is a r...
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esi b • Graham Mtmtgomerie...pietures by Dick Ross A T LONG LAST, the fue consumption record to the Commercial Moto Scottish...
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HE DEMOUNTABLE body stem can answer 75 per nt of the transport mariar's questions." This was brave contention put rward by...
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ke2p we*ye& I was sorry to read in last week's CM that the education and training series is coming to an end. I realise it was...
thou*, kautiota? -laving read, rather belatedly, tour letters concerning delays :o vehicles in Dover, I feel that he shipping...
As a young reader of CM I have read your articles on Education and Training with interest. I am 19, have seven GCE 0 levels,...
biuuet kvt CKt am sitting at home reading this week's CM back to front as usual and at last have read your editorial; I must...
be ea I would refer to an article , appearing in CM (October and would point out to you that I never recall stating that I...
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ICE my previous visit last ir to Imperial Coachbuils Ltd at Basildon, Essex, company has changed its ne to Crane Fruehauf lids...
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When an operation overdoes it, the writing is on the wall... by Ron Douglas NE NEARLY ALWAYS look it our figures at the end...
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and "pirates", id the pallet recycling isiness is no exception. 'fortunately, as with other ides, a few pirate operators nd to...
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SOME of my Fleet Street motoring colleagues have been over in Japan, presumably to study how the Japanese can build cars and...
Once again, the space at the Scottish Show (Nov 11-20) is a sell-out and the organisers have booked extra space at Yorkhill...
CM does, it is blushings and barking all round. This week's best "lit' surely comes from The Bucks Herald. "Woodhouse Hume Ltd...
The RHA and a local haulier spoke up for Kate's Cabin, a popular café and place to stay for lorry drivers on the Al, at e...
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, OLITICIANS and economists have brought us to a state vhere, on financial questions, we are prepared to believe rnything or to...
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PASSENGER vehicle exhibits in next month's Turin commercial motor show at which Fiat domination will be only slightly redressed...
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INTERNATIONAL conferce on passenger transport items and technology in an areas will take place at , thenburg from June 27 to 30...
THE BERNARD Van Hoc award for research studies the field of road passenge transport, instituted in 19T by Van Hool, of Belgium,...