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Downing Street officials are believed to be increasingly concerned about the reaction from rural communities to the...
haulier Transland Transport is operating in the UK with no 0-licence and its fleet of ageing Ivecos is rarely serviced,...
weeks to live" plan to take national direct action on 8 June. This follows a meeting last week between hauliers' campaign group...
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• Police are investigating how an R-reg Scania came to run out of control at speeds of around 70mph for 20 miles along the MI...
being challenged to investigate claims that the contractor manning the toll-booths on the Skye Bridge has not been assigned the...
The Foreign Office has not pressed for the release of truck driver Steve Bryant, who is currently in jail in Morocco on drugs...
agency lorry driver believes he was beaten up by French officials after being arrested in Bayonne in February on suspicion of...
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the front cover? An arcane, and patently unreliable solicitation from her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requesting the...
drivers from Coryton and Stanlow hijacked the company's annual general meeting on Friday to complain about its refusal to...
a TNT depot in Norfolk whose actions prevented two parcel bombs from reaching their destinations. An earlier package, which...
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recently privatised transport company in Budapest, is using its old government contacts to take business from European...
Association chairman Royston Bowles will not face manslaughter charges following a fatal accident involving one of his...
Commissioner Keith Waterworth is warning operators who encourage drivers to speed that he will not tolerate "that kind of...
to be aware of the growing problem of "travellers" threatening drivers to sell them cheap diesel while they are refuelling....
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training is teetering on the brink of crisis as the industry's national training standards organisation wants to call in...
on winning financial bonuses from their bosses are using a group of North Yorkshire villages as rat-runs en route to Teesside,...
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Willock II A Shropshire owner-driver is facing a £300 bill for rejecting a poorly paid job. Edward Ball of Scott Trans was...
firm has won an absolute discharge after pleading guilty to using a truck in a dangerous condition following a wheel-loss...
truck was involved in an accident was cleared of using a vehicle with defective brakes. CF Thomas Transport told Hinkley...
Barnard, which will make round-the-clock deliveries to 2,000 sites across the UK using 21 drawbar outfits. • uG Beck & has won...
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drivelines with tried-andtrusted cabs and chassis. But while the latest engines promise better economy what been done for the...
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bus and coach businesses. The 50/50 company would produce up to 4,500 PCVs a year. • A Scania importer has been established in...
added yet another engine option to its heavy truck line-up in the shape of the Caterpillar C10 (right). ERF already offers the...
designed an air management system for the Mercedes-Benz Actros Distribution cab. It comprises a fairing for the top of the cab,...
safety and cut costs by fitting an Allison automatic transmission to one of its trucks on a Milk Marque contract in...
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has completed its line-up for the UK pickup market with the addition of four-wheel-drive versions to its two model ranges. The...
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amply demonstrated by several new developments in plant carriers and special low-loaders. An example is the enterprising...
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Transport has been revoked on financial grounds by Eastern TC Ns • I Brigadier Compton Boyd. The company appeared before the TC...
to block a bid by a Cheshire international haulier to treble the number of vehicles and trailers on his licence. Giovanni...
company, whose vehicles had attracted 36 prohibition notices since 1993, has had one of its specified vehicles suspended for 14...
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Takeley-based Paul Ellis has been refused a new international licence and Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Brian Horner said...
using a vehicle without a tachograph when it was travelling to an auction in order to be sold. Stephen Norman, trading as...
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industry now return to Earls Court and become a single truly international show? The popular IRTE exhibition has sold out of...
diesel price rise protests. Much can be achieved by putting one's point of view in a forceful, but peaceful manner. The public...
RTITB's financial collapse, though hardly unexpected, is a matter on which I would like to comment (CM 30 April-6 May). If...
information. In March, a brand new Mercedes Actros I was driving overturned on a roundabout. The police confirmed that no speed...
editorial on new-generation tachographs included a gratuitous sideswipe at academics—"most of them don't know the difference...
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poor state in relation to haulage rates, increased fuel costs, drivers' pay and conditions, health and safety, as well as...
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year I buy a Commercial Motor teeshirt, but not this year. At 1.45pm on Sunday they had completely sold out—what happened?...
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the select f course, they didn't have heated cabs in those days, thought The Hawk as he set off for the start of the 37th...
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the Postman Pat comments and the bizarre name, you'll find that the new Renault Kangoo is an eminently practical high-cube van....
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Engine: 1.7-litre, 67hp (50kW) turbo-diesel. GVVV: 1,680kg. Payload: 509kg. Test distance: 9,600 miles. Fuel economy:...
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using a fleet of 7.5-tonners to take books to primary schools for the children, parents or school to buy. The company has to...
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and tachograph rers for more than a decade. Last rans ort Ministers drafted legislation ut an end to the most common drivers'...
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memories, all capable of recording and storing data. • The smartcard has two memories—one holding information about the driver...
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Britain's bridge strengthening programme at least seven years behind schedule? Patrick Hook reports on an issue which is set to...
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and any way to boost the number of visitors gets full backing. One project with high earning potential is the 8km road tunnel...
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A futuristic traffic flow experiment is due to get underway this autumn using "telematics" remote-controlled information. This...
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shock action' Ihave read with interest all the moaning and groaning from the haulage industry and the action that is being...