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Treaty of Rome
1) Historic treaty of 1957 bringing together the original 6 Common Market countries, now expanded to 15 EU member states, and from which has grown the SEM.
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Tread
1) Part of a vehicle tyre which is in contact with the road surface. Has patterned grooves designed specially to provide grip/directional stability/disperse water, etc (racing cars and motorcycles use 'slick' tyres with no tread pattern which grip due to their soft texture when hot - ie at racing speeds).
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31.07.2013 09:58 |
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Travelling height
1) Height required by law to be marked in vehicle cab when carrying containers, engineering plant, skips, etc which exceed 3.66 metres (ie 'travelling height')- Marking must show height to within plus/ minus 25 mm and be in letters at least 40 mm high. See also Height marking.
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31.07.2013 09:56 |
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Travel card
1) An authority to travel usually sold in advance of the j ourney s to be made. Often representing reduced price for a number of journeys or concessionary rates for travel.
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Transportable pressure receptacles |
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31.07.2013 09:55 |
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Transportable pressure receptacles
1) Tanks and cylinders used for transporting gases.
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31.07.2013 09:53 |
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Transport Kills
1) Report produced by HSE on study of fatal accidents in industry which shows vehicles to be one of biggest killers (through loading, unloading, maintenance, movement and especially reversing of vehicles).
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31.07.2013 19:15 |
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Tread depth
1) Legal stipulation as to the minimum depth permitted for vehicle tyres, normally 1mm (but increased to 1.6 mm for new cars and light vans not exceeding 3,500 kg, from 1 January 1992) across three-quarters of breadth and around entire circumference.
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31.07.2013 09:59 |
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Travelling showmen
1) Person following the business of such. His vehicles (see also showmen's vehicles) are subject to special rates of VED.
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Travel demand forecasting |
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31.07.2013 09:58 |
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Travel demand forecasting
1) An exercise used to determine future travel patterns under given or hypothetical conditions. Used to plan the provision of public transport services or the need to build or expand road or rail networks.
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31.07.2013 09:56 |
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Travel
1) To make a journey.
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31.07.2013 09:54 |
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Transport Tribunal
1) Judicial body (under control of Lord Chancellor) constituted solely to deal with 'O' licensing appeals. Comprises president (usually a judge) and at least two other sitting members - see booklet, Appeals to the Transport Tribunal available free from Traffic Area offices.
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Transport Action Clean Up |
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31.07.2013 09:52 |
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Transport Action Clean Up
1) DTLR programme aimed at cutting emissions pollution from vehicles in larger UK cities. Operators of older vehicles are offered grants towards the purchase of emission-reducing equipment such as catalytic converters and particulate traps.
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