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For more years than we can recall, political pundits have written off the Liberal Democrats as a party with ”unelectable...
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Eddie snaps up Jimmy in new shopping spree STOBART GROUP has acquired the road transport and logistics business Irlam Group...
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'Full speed ahead for Mercedes-Benz DESPITE THE ongoing slump in the US heavy truck market, Andreas Renschler, the head of...
BULMERS LOGISTICS has terminated the contracts of 23 drivers in Teesport and Hull, but plans to recruit about 35 more in...
The new Actros boasts modest exterior styling tweaks at the front, as well as a revised interior tnrn and instrument panel....
uro-4 blues are over TRUCK REGISTRATIONS have recovered from the uncertainty caused by the introduction of Euro-4 engines and...
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by Roanna Avison BRIAN PADDICK, the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor, has pledged to scrap the capital's...
Watt a result STAFFORDSHIRE-BASED Abnormal Load Engineering (ALE) was awarded the job of transporting a 193-tonne replacement...
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A SERIES OF company reports released last week indicate that haulage companies are weathering poor trading conditions well,...
THE ONLY TRANSPORT cafe for truck drivers on the A55 in Wales says it cannot expand because the Welsh Assembly claims it is in...
THE UK REMAINS one of the most expensive places in Europe to run a 40-tonne truck, according to research by Nera Economic...
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by David Harris THE DEPARTMENT for Transport (DfT) this week denied that plans to expand the use of motorway hard shoulders...
Rain causes overbad A MONSOON-STYLE storm flooded a truck with several inches of rainwater during transit and caused it to be...
Renault's new Kerax tipper MAKING ITS first public appearance at last week's Samotor construction show in Verona was the new...
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by David Harris CROSS-CHANNEL ferry operators should only employ staff who agree not to strike, the Freight Transport...
CONCERN OVER THE number of deaths in the transport sector in Ireland has prompted the government to commission a study into the...
I'm not doing very well with windows at the moment. First, I managed to insert my nearside mirror cluster through the adjacent...
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We take a drive in the Iveco Massif, which boasts a revamped interior and engines. Words: Colin Barnett IN THE BEGINNING there...
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Truckfest Peterborough is the biggest truck show and the UK's largest social gathering of the transport industry. Along with...
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The Netherlands is about to trial its new electronic road pricing system. Taxes such as VED will be replaced with a charge...
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Training is difficult and takes time I have just been reading your article on training people for their LGV licences (`The...
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Road crash investigations, serious congestion and even a solar eclipse Inspector Richard Pryce of Devon & Cornwall Police has...
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Transport manager on £4 an hour represents - unfair competition". THREE ASSOCIATED companies have had their licences revoked...
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Licence applicant withheld information A RECOVERY operator who deliberately withheld information that showed he was...
A COMPANY with - scant regard for the law" has had its licence revoked and its director disqualified as a result of numerous...
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DESPITE THREE written warnings from the Traffic Area Office (TAO), a West Midlands haulier continued to operate illegally after...
Hearings on driver fitness will not be private LGV DRIVERS cannot insist that hearings about their professional fitness as...
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Each year there are around 500 injuries in the transport industry due to workplace accidents. As the Health & Safety Executive...
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Employers should: Where possible, provide deep treads with even spaces in height between. This ensures a secure foothold....
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New regulations governing tachograph data can land operators and drivers with fines of up to £5,000 if they are not followed...
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From tiny acorns mighty oaks do grow, or for Kent operator Alan Firmin, orchards have sprouted a significant haulage business....
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scratch. "Rob Ellis has been with us for 18 months and the motiva tion behind his appointment was the Driver CPC," says...
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multimodal rail terminals have been appearing in the UK during the past decade. As container companies increasingly link up...
The Cartwright Group recently supplied Malcolm Logistics Services, part of The Malcolm Group, with 70 intermodal swap bodies,...
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"Britain's rail system was based on the movement of freight; raw materials to the factories and the transport of finished goods...
3MG, the Mersey multimodal sea/rail/road gateway at Ditton in which the Stobart Group and AHC Westlink are partners, offers...
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The firm outlines the advantages of an inland intermod. oadway Container Logistics (originally part of P&O but now, along with...
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All the charity in the world can't help communities without access to transport. We look at how Transaid has become a driving...
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Transaid was founded by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, but is kept alive by the work of road transport...
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In 2004 the devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami stunned the world. Work to rebuild the affected countries is still...
Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka's biggest charity, is dedicated lo making a positive difference to the lives of rural Sri Lankans. The...
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275,000 people were killed in 14 countries across two continents. The last two known fatalities were swept out to sea in South...
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The scale of the response was unprecedented, not only in the amount of money raised but also in the proportion of funding from...
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ADR regulations were updated last year, extending their reach to sub-3.5-tonne vehicles. They will change yet again in 2009....
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BRITISH CAR Auctions (BCA) reported a 12% rise in vehicles receiving pre-auction preparation in 2007 on the previous year....
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player in the commercial vehicle finance business to one of its biggest names. It's now Launched an assault on the second-hand...
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With more than 18 months of online van sales experience under its belt, the switch to trucks was only a matter of time for...