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By Roger Brown TEESSIDE CONTAINER operator Bulmers Logistics has entered and emerged from a pre-packaged administration....
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By Mike Jewett ..... SENIOR TRAFFIC Commissioner Philip Brown has welcomed Mr Justice Wy - n Williams' fligh Court decision to...
VOSA IS TO SHED three test stations by the summer with 10 test lane closures set to follow, as it looks to shift tests to...
THE EFFECTS OF the recession on trailer-makers were underlined this week when Montracon admitted that last year's E5m...
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1 - J.? jc,anna 8ouri.c OPERATORS ARE being urged to 'use or lose' TruckPol as the freight crime body faces an uncertain...
KENT COUNTY Council has outlined its hopes for improvements to the county's infrastructure as additional truck parking and the...
THE DODDS GROUP of Sittingbounie is the first UK operator to put isuzu's new 18-tonner into service.The Forward F180.260,...
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By Chris Tindal. TEN ILLEGAL immigrants were discovered in the back of two lorries at Shardlow Services on the A50 last week....
AIR FREIGHT hauliers have welcomed the government's plans for a third runway at Heathrow The proposed runway, which could be...
It's late Sunday night and I still haven't written this week's column. Not because I have a lack of material: the forums, as...
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THE FREIGHT Transport Association (FTA) has slammed the London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) as an "expensive folly" which has...
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has agreed a set of measures to detect and prevent the abuse of digital tachographs. ft has...
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By Chris Tindall HAULIERS WORKING out of Hull Container Terminal are celebrating after the port agreed to drop its proposed £5...
DUNDEE-BASED operator James White has had his 0-licence revoked for a year after failing to park his trucks at the registered...
A LORRY DRIVER has been jailed for nine years following the discovery of heroin with a street value of E1.8m hidden underneath...
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By Roger Brown TRANSPORT BOSSES have urged the Government to inject more money into road improvement projects in a bid to...
A MEDICAL consultant is interested in hearing from any road freight companies willing to help with research into obstructive...
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By Roanna Avison VOSA HAS insisted that it is within its rights to prevent an MoT being cancelled if it is not given...
PALLETFORCE HAS opened its E30m national hub in Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, enabling more than 150 trunks a night. The...
EUROPEAN CV registrations fell by 9% in 2008, with van sales the worst affected — dropping by 10.4%. November and December saw...
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Words: David Harris ACCORDING TO THE Freight Transport Association (FTA), around a third of all UK-registered trucks now have...
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THERE'S BEEN a lot of talk in the trade recently about using a magnet to interfere with the signal from the gearbox to the...
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THE ECONOMY has been a key point for our 'Big three' german trailer interviewees, and Ulrich Schapker, member of the board at...
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A FAILURE TO obey a Vosa officer's directions to stop has cost Manchester owner-driver John Henderson £515 in fines and costs....
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THE CONGLETON, Cheshire operating centre of HI Lea Oakes was ruled to he suitable after North-Western Deputy Traffic...
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THE 0-LICENCE FOR two vehicles and two trailers, which was held by Dunfermline-based James McNabb has been revoked by Joan...
USING A VEHICLE that had detective steering has cost MidCheshire Pallets £1,005 in fines. The Winsford-based company pleaded...
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after twice being warned for not carrying his digitach card while driving. As one of the first reported cases of its kind, what...
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The cost of occupying a commercial building is usually the main overhead for businesses, and increasingly, existing commercial...
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Boarhunt Group has built its portfolio on the back of hard graft and prudent planning, and it is confident it can buck the...
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prosper, especially when, as now, banks are reluctant to lend money. For hauliers, a crucial element in getting paid on time...
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Telling a haulier about risk management may conjure up the phrase Teaching your granny to suck eggs'. but there are a number of...
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WINCANTON HAS cut the number of sick days taken by its workforce by 10,000 in a successful pilot scheme, saving E178 per person...
A SHARP INCREASE in warehousing labour costs may be one consequence of the new Agency Workers Directive. The directive, which...
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AN ORANGE, POLL of industry leaders at the National Business Awards showed that more than two thirds of UK industry felt the...
THE EQUIFAX business failures report for October/November 2008 showed more companies going bust in all sectors and all...
ROAD TRANSPORT operators could be paid up to £2,500 by the Government to hire and train long-term unemployed candidates....
CONTAINER hauliers can take heart from HMRC figures which suggest that the lower sterling exchange rate is finally helping...
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TRANSLINC, WHICH provides contract hire and maintenance to local authorities, is now advertising its de - fleeted stock...
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Many commercial vehicle leasing companies turn their hand to supplying directly to local authorities.., and fail. Mark Werrell...