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from 18:00hrs on 7 March on the roadtransport.net web site. Sponsored by MAN, the coverage will highlight any road...
to tie yellow ribbons round their vehicles aerials to show support for lower fuel taxes.
charged with the manslaughter of 58 Chinese people found dead in the back of a reefer in Dover last year. Perry Wacker of...
A certificate-level qualification has been launched by the Institute of Logistics and Transport in a bid to beat the industry...
About 120 Welsh truckers took part in a go-slow protest from Cross Hands to Swansea on 24 February to renew their campaign for...
A Government taskforce is demanding stricter penalties on companies who fail to ensure safety after recent figures showed that...
A driver registered on the former First Point Truck Drivers' Programme wants to heap from others who were among the first batch...
minimum wage complaints by Charles Young Drivers for a wealthy Scottish haulier were forced to quit after they complained...
• In a statement from his lawyers Colin Macaskill, who currently runs about 25 trucks, admits his company was investigated by...
• When the former drivers started work with Macaskill there were no formal contracts—they were simply told that their hours...
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Eby Dominic Perry A Spanish operator has run up tens of thousands of pounds of debts with UK hauliers. Santander-based...
• Confusion at the DVLA over re-taxing vehicles has left some hauliers with a choice of running illegally or parking up...
• Road Haulage Association national chairman, John Bridge, has hit back at claims that last year's fuel protests were a waste...
• Hauliers who have partially flagged out their vehicles have been given until the end of April to remove foreignregistered...
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top the million mark r - zr • by Guy Sheppard The number of foreign trucks entering the UK passed the million mark for the...
IN Hauliers who have forked out thousands of pounds in tolls over the past three years could be entitled to claim the VAT back,...
• The European Commission wants to allow more than one operator to provide loading and other freight facilities at ports. In a...
• The Road Haulage Association will launch its campaign for fuel duty parity with the Continent at the Commercial Vehicle show...
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• by Miles Brignall Livestock hauliers throughout the country are in crisis as the UK struggles with the worst outbreak of foot...
At last, unwelcome though it may be, a decision about partial flagging out from the Transport Tribunal. It probably won't come...
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II Hertfordshire police want to trace a truck driver who gave them information about a car which was travelling along the M25....
Salvage to handle its nationwide vehicle disposal contract on its tractors and trailers.
£8m by lino firm loran Nairn. The contract will create 20 new jobs.
the responsibility of handling its Internet delivery services on contracts in the UK and France.
II by Brendan Nolan A new industry steering group in Ireland has promised to more than double the number of trucks checked by...
• Germany is about to cut its drinkdriving limit to 0.6mg/100m1— equivalent to one pint of beer or two glasses of wine for most...
of Wincanton Logistics, has been elected president of the Freight Transport Association. He succeeds Lawrence Christensen, who...
• The rising costs of tipping and fuel along with local council policies have led a Northwich-based waste haulier to close his...
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• Logistics group TDG has spent £22.5m on a Dutch company as part of an expansion programme in the Benelux countries. The...
• by Barbara Hagan Haulier Thomas Roberts, who owns JP Hutton of Workington, Cumbria and drivers Barry Rails, James Ray and...
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by Guy Sheppard Controversial plans to complete an M25-style orbital route around Birmingham and the Black Country are back on...
• Hauliers working in Italy and Germany face lengthy delays unless they can produce a certificate for their trailers, the Road...
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• by Peter Lawton The European Commission still believes that UK buyers are paying too much for their cars, and as a result Is...
• Many buyers turn to the Continent for better deals on trucks as well as cars, but they can encounter difficulty. Sean Clark...
• An innovative skeletal developed by CM Trailer of the Year Awards finalist King Trailers has been delivered to Scottish...
• lveco is celebrating marketleading sales for its Daily City Truck range in Western Europe; last year sales of the 3.5-tonne...
• Volvo and TOG are teaming up to create what the two companies describe as a "pioneering strategic alliance". The alliance is...
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• by Robin Meczes Production line efficiencies and a more competitively priced end product are among the goals for ERF's new...
tarp for tippers. The standard sidewinder centre-roll sheet can be operated from the cab and takes 10 seconds to deploy; it...
production line at Worth. The red 818 was presented to Bremen-based plumbers' merchants Cordes & Graefe.
a Land Raver Defender when she comes to life in a film based on the Tomb Raider games. Played by actress Angelina Jolie, Lara...
Carrier Transicold has opened a reefer dealership and approved service centre in Lincolnshire. Carrier Transicold Spalding is...
When Thermo King announced recently that it was closing its main plant in Ireland some commentators assumed it was due to...
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• by Peter Lawton Every year tens of thousands of vans and trucks are called back by manufacturers for essential safety...
• For the read safety campaign Brake, the standard response to recall notices should be 100,0 every time. Director Mary...
• The voluntary Code of Practice was drawn up following discussions between the VI and the SMMT in 1979. Under the code,...
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Partners John Morris Jones and Doreen Davies of Veales of Conwy were fined t100 each with £85 costs by Denbighshire magistrates...
when he failed to appear at a Bridgend disciplinary inquiry. Welsh DTC Alan Jenkins refused to accept an offer of its surrender.
The 0-licence held by Knott Endbased Acorn Scaffolding was revoked when the firm failed to appear at a Leeds disciplinary...
revoked when it failed to appear at a Cambridge disciplinary inquiry. It had been called before Eastern IC Geoffrey Simms...
a licence for 10 vehicles and 10 trailers. However, West Midland TG David Dixon imposed conditions on times of operation and...
Bomacks Con , tractors, based in Bootle, will have • to wait until late March to find out what action, if any, North Western...
Cardiff Despatch's licence has been cut from 12 vehicles and five trailers to eight vehicles and five trailers for two weeks,...
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A Nottingham company which was described by North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney as "amazingly amateurish" has had...
is no place in the North Western Traffic Area for dishonest operators. She issued her warning while disqualifying Kevin...
Samuel Burton, based in Llanelli, was disqualified from holding an 0-licence for 12 months after losing his licence at a...
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industry racist?" (CM 22-28 Feb); there is no need to ask the question: it is a fact. t am an Asian and passed my Class ltest...
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify a few points in Melanie Hammond's recent articles concerning the SWF group of...
up a mobile phone while on the move any different from removing a cigarette from the packet, placing it in the mouth and...
I read with interest the opinions of owner-driver John Hayward from Chesterfield (Sound Off, 18-24 January) when he accused New...
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test track in the depths of the Black Country a contender for the lucrative Tosco Fleet Contract was being put through its...
NORTH! Reinforcing its reputation as the North's leading innovator, the Spagthorpe Motor Company has turned its back on rising...
greeted by this impressive "Keep Right" sign funnelling e lanes of traffic into one. Obviously, our caring, sharing Highways...
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n hen we last tested a Nissan Cabstar tipper, back in 0993, our introduction began: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The...
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SHOGUN PININ PRICE AS TESTED: £11,995. ENGINE: 1.8-litre directinjection petrol. MAXIMUM POWER: 118hp (88kW) at 5,250rpm....
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: 7 . 0 - t.trient, it can artive4tr..-'anything from a - Jiffy bag to a container and is as 'likely to have originated . in...
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Cowboys beware: the authorities are out to catch you. This fact was graphically illustrated when Operation Merlin got into gear...
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Britain's regions. One West Midlands haulier has secured some of this cash to help with his research into fuel efficiency. But,...
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Closures at Ford and Vauxhall mean that car transporters face a steep decline in work. Some are exploring imaginative...
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operator? Then take some advice from the experts and avoid this list of hellish highways and holdup horrors. Above all, never,...
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the electronic superhighway, but you can't be logging onto the Internet when you're driving a truck. Dedicated online travel...
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lorry ban enforcement in London Is a farce—and it's time to fight back. • To sound off about a road transport issue write to...