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free database for companies seeking drivers. and drivers seeking jobs. At the site select 'employment' then 'driver...
in' to deter rivals poaching • by Guy Sheppard and Dominic Perry A new "lock-in" clause may soon help hauliers prevent newly...
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lass picket of all the courtlain milk processing plants ?pots is planned for today '3day) in a bid to increase rice farmers...
Hauliers are to be canssed to see if loads on ard crashed trucks can be Dated as 'written off', owing police and recovery...
iriver was seriously injured when his vehioughed into a petrol station kiosk on the Al Doncaster. ie 38-tanner, horn Tibbett &...
depot security • by Guy Sheppard Dozens of hauliers could be blacklisted from lucrative container work unless they comply...
• Two truck drivers have been arrested for smuggling ecstasy tablets with a street value of .£1.711m into England. Customs...
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• by Donthdc Perry Norbert Dentressangle's new UK managing director admits that protracted problems in the Eastern Traffic Area...
• by Jennifer Ball A Felixstowe truck driver had been at work for 20 hours without a break when he fell asleep at the wheel and...
• The Government is considering widening the first three junctions of the M6 near Coventry as part of plans to improve the UK's...
• A revised code of practice for tipper drivers operating i agricultural sector has been launched by the UN Agricul Supply...
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Miles Brignall 'ehicie Inspectorate has published its annual 1 and it appears to have met all its major tar.1xcept in one...
Hauliers fed up with their local VI test stations should bear in mind the warning of Hilaire Belloc: "And always keep a hold of...
• A truck carrying drums of acid, caustic soda, and ammonia crashed into a block of flats after the driver left his cab to ask...
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LI by Dominic Perry A Liverpool-oasecl international haulier has gone into administration, blaming its financial crisis on the...
• Police are appealing tor witnesses after a Slovenian truck driver jumped from his moving vehicle—he had been tied up by...
• P&O, which is "well into the process of looking for a new owner" for its Trans-European logistics division, lost 244.2m in...
m Police are seeking witnesses to an accident in North Yorkshire last Friday when a black and white artic overtook a Ilne of...
MAGNET-IC APPEAL Lane Group has beaten off some of its largest competitors to win a multi million-pound three-year contract...
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I by Chris Tindall Five companies have been fined £128,000 with £53,000 costs after asbestos was dumped in a public area during...
• A Sussex driver aims to set up a job-share scheme for International drivers who want to work part-time, but as regular,...
II The Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency has reported a second security breach in two weeks after 3,500 passports were lost. This...
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• Operators are rapidly losing their patience with Vehicle !nspectorate (VI) test stations and are demanding a change in the...
Many hauliers believe that Vehicle Inspectorate test cc tres need a complete overhaul if they are to serve customs efficiently...
• Many operators do not bother complaining to the VI because they fear it will make the situation worse. Rather than making a...
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o celebrate the new association Peen Stena Line and the award-winmusical Miss Saigon, Commercial Ir is giving you the chance to...
A driver was killed when his HGV collided with tanker loaded with paraffin in Northumbria 'he incident happened at 12:50hrs...
m by Chris Tindall Residents in a South Yorkshire town are fighting to prevent hundreds of coal trucks using their roads under...
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• by Robin Meczes Tipper operators who have their rear fog lights mounted high up in a bid to avoid damage when tipping loads...
Overall CV registrations continued to rally in August, risin g 4.5% from August 2001 to 16.263. The total for the first eight...
• Ford is to cancel its electric car project. Production of the Think City model at Ford's Norwegian site will cease by the end...
• Peugeot has revealed its revamped Partner van which is expected to reach the UK by the end of November. The latest Partner,...
Daf rigids on a five-year contract-hire agreement through Fraikin Truck Hire five 220hp LF55s and three 150hp LF45s are plated...
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Maintenance problems have led to the Operator's Licence held by Telford-based Barry Patterson Transport being cut from five...
A Nottinghamshire haulier who showed a "consistent and flagrant disregard for normal safe operation" and whose trucks were kept...
North Woolwichbased Daniel Garrett has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £1.985 for using a vehicle without an...
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An Oldham haulier has won a partial victory in his appeal against the revocation of his Operator's Licence, when the Transport...
Agency transport managers have been criticised again after a Public nquiry had to be adjourned because an operator's transport...
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Our new column in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comei. around. 75 years ago 20 September 1927 The...
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ooked at in isolation, the UK eight-wheeler market is so small that you have to wonder why so many manufacturers go to the...
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the older 10-litre engines" Archie Lewis James Lewis and Sons is a family haulage business that was established more than too...
without it now" Mick Gorman Mick Gorman started MG Bulk Haulage in 1986 and now runs two Seddon Atkinson Strato...
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It is the manufacturer's responsibility to inform the Vehicle Inspectorate of any defects on safety-related items. The VI has...
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market" John Watts John Watts, senior editor for CAP's Commercial Vehicle Monitor, says: "Seddon Atkinson is one of the smaller...
There is little wrong with SA's chosen proprietary driveline, indeed many operators will declare it's why they buy the Strato...
I' ...the eight-wheeler is a truck often favoured by owner-drivers" Chris Wright Chris Wright is MD of Commercial Vehicle...
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"pay their fair share towards the cost of our roads", the government has finally sought views on charging a distance or...
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trucks can take on a major f operator and win. Barclay's if Warton Freight Services, is basec Barking, East London. He's a...
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every one of them is a Daf 85 8x4 We rarely came across a hauliE such a uniform fleet. "We get extremely good tl service with...
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With a gross domestic product of £180bn. London's economy is bigger than that of many European states. including Ireland,...
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no less than five airports serve the city and one of them, Heathrow, is the busiest international airport in the world....
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for a fabric company fitted rails in his van and set up in business transporting hanging garments. In 1985 he got a warehouse,...
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family haulage business. Managing director Ray Dickson and his son Jamie are the third and fourth generations to work at the...
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in the world of laminates. These days laminates are everywhere: they are the sheets which coat desktops, kitchen work surfaces,...
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Motoring Assistance which found that only 2% of drivers stop for a 10-minute break every two hours in order to combat...