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• by Cliff Caswell Organised gangs smuggling alcohol and tobacco are making a mockery of Customs' powers to seize trucks found...
• Drivers delivering chilled goods to Safeway's regional distribution centre at Bellshill. Glasgow, have complained they are...
executive Richard Turner met with Paul Boateng, financial secretary to the treasury this week to outline the enormous tax...
The boss of a multi-million pound people smuggling racket has been jailed for six years. Indian businessman Kashmir Singh Nanan...
Logistics firm Wincanton has developed an IT training scheme for apprentice programmers with the first course members due to...
group BOG, has made a 17% increase in operating profits in the third quarter of this year. Turnover also increased by 4%.
Jamie Cann, the Labour MP for Ipswich and prominent supporter of the East Anglian Hauliers Group, has died aged 55. He was...
The government says that its plan to increase rail freight by 80% within the next 10 years will be met if the administrators of...
traffic in the third quarter of 2001 was up by 6% on the figures for the third quarter of 2000.
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Ongoing delays in the launch of the Traffic Area Office twork's TAN21 computer system ( CM 11-17 Oct) are now using problems...
slam union over time • by Dominic Parry The Transport and General Workers Union (T&G) appears to be heading for a clash with...
driver cheated death last Saturday when his artic was left iging over a bridge while his cargo of 600 sheep carcasses ied down...
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• by CM Caswell Haulage enforcement top brass have thrown their weight behind the impounding of cowboy hauliers trucks....
• The United Road Transport Union has won recognition at its second major haulage company in the space of a month. Canute...
II Management of two of the UK's biggest vehicle fleets could merge as postal group Consignia and telecommunications giant E3T...
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Sheppard ,teapon against road tax s is expected to recoup of pounds a year. 1-tech Stingray cam:an detect unlicensed vans and...
Among the infamous expressions created by management consultants is: "Assume will make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me': In short,...
le row between car giant and union bosses over the sfer of scores of car transing jobs to the company's use delivery team looks...
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• by Pete Swingler West Midlands Police have launched a major operation to crack down on truck hijackers following 120 attacks...
• Police have issued a fresh appeal for information this week after a coroner recorded an open verdict on a man who was killed...
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• by Brian Weatherby When it comes to operating in the global truck market, it's clear that one man's "total integration gain"...
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)y Clark yle its first official appearance in ,ast week, displaying three chase Coach 82, Bus show at the NEC. Turkish...
ssland Tankers claims its latest 44-tonne tanker is the lightest type on the market. . from the running and ig gear, the...
I Bridgewatch is a new device which arns a driver of low bridges ahead. ne system is based on a small in-cab nit which combines...
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• by Kevin Swallow It may surprise you to learn that just 160 converted Ford commercial vehicles have benefited from the clean...
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A Telford international haulier must wait to hear his fate after a disciplinary inquiry heard he had hired Irish-registered...
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A steel fabrication company from Seaham in Co Durham has lost its 0-licence after its only vehicle collected four immediate...
The Transport Tribunal has upheld the decision of Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms to revoke the 0-licence held by...
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on British roads. Many of these vehicles incorporate specialised equipment and most operators also use equipment such as...
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April 1998 at the last of the Road Haulage Association's TipCon shows held in Manchester. The - 17-tonner was targeted...
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Mick Mercer started his skip hire business 21 years ago and established a transfer station in Basingstoke in 1990. He runs 22...
time." Ron Cheetham Ken Abram's red and yellow livery is a f; sight on Britain's roads. He started ii haulage in 1962 and now...
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Rob Tipping II Animal feed manufacturer Massey Bros can trace its history back to the mid 19th century and remains a family...
Chris Wright Commercial Vehicle Auctions is a independent auction house based Doncaster that has been trading sinc 1989....
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Say Foden and 18-tonne rigids don't immediately come to mind, but here we have one of the soundest drivelines offered by any...
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agreement with their customers. "We're not engaged in any formal contracts," says Trevor Reed, a director of Goole, East...
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Collecting debts can he a nightmare—particularly for small businesses. lipq nrimio has been taking a trawl through the advice...
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their business, largely untroubled by the legion of cars which clog up UK roads. But medical experts are becoming increasingly...
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So yet another trades union dinosaur wakes salivating at the prospect of the feeding frenzy surrounding the Working Time...