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A pensioner killed himself and another driver when he drove for four miles the wrong way down the M4 between J14 and J15 near...
find out if a legal challenge to the new aggregates tax has succeeded. The tax came into force on 1 April after the British...
and ConsIgnia about co-operation in the UK postal market have collapsed—TPG says it remains committed to developing a presence...
people when his truck ploughed into a mobile crane on the M6. has had his five-year sentence cut to four years.
by 2010 are likely to be scrapped—only one of eight schemes in the 10year transport plan is likely to be completed on schedule.
year to £20,9m: among its acquisitions was UK firm Axial Group.
Barcelona have agreed that the Energy Taxation Directive should be passed by December; this could see the EU setting minimum...
• by Guy Sheppard UK international hauliers suffered a huge drop in market share last year, even though the overall number of...
ft Police are appealing for help In tracing a skip lorry di who may hold clues to a 60-vehicle pile up on the Al no bound...
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Local authority representatives will meet motorway sero station operators and drivers' leaders within the next inth to discuss...
rights will hit agencies • by Sally Nash Agency drivers could be under threat as EU legislation designed to give temporary...
W The government is backing European Commission plans to introduce digital 'smart-card' tachographs by 2004. despite a number...
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A by Jennifer Ball rance and Italy have agreed a deal to open the Mont Blanc tunnel to all traffic by the summer, boosting...
4 Galileo, the European Commission's pan-European sati life navigation scheme, has finally been given the go-ahe with the EU...
• An increase in rush-hour traffic speeds over the past three years may be partly explained by an increase in off-peak freight...
• The government has been criticised by road safety campaign group Brake over its decision to spend only 5ao of Its road safety...
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Written answers to Parliamentary questions have always required an ability to read between the lines. Transport Minister John...
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Increasingly angry voices are being raised in Luxembourg and Austria over fallout from the Iralowetz affair' and the practice...
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by Toby Clark ith 30 many British manufacrers closing factories it's easy feel depressed about the UK uck industry. So it's...
Leyland's battle plan is to land the biggest single vehicle purchase made by the Ministry of Defence for more than 20 years....
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i by Colin Barnett le fruits of the ITIS Nav-Trak traffic flow ionitoring system are now available to perators of all types of...
• Operators running 'green' fleets are the 'exception rather than the rule" according to Freight Transport 2002, a new report...
Volvo has developed a version of its 420hp D120 engine that meets Austria's ECO-4 requirement. Based on the standard Euro-3...
Tyne and Wear-based demolition contractor C O'Brien and Sons has added a rear-steer, four-axle GIL King Hydroneck low-loader to...
Hopkinson Transport (Chesterfield) has taken delivery of a Mercedes-Benz Actros 2543 6x2 tractive unit to pull tankers...
Vauxhall MasterHire is providing 12 vehicles to Yorkshire Dales National Park. The £160,000 deal includes eight Astravans, two...
on five more Scanias, making Non the fleet. The latest are four P94 6x2 260hp rigids and a P114 6x2 twinsteer 380hp tractor.
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• Considering all the different sizes of containers and swap bodies in use, it's somewhat ironic to think that containerisation...
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Bernard Hushion unusual for customers to refuse to take delivery of (or unload) the rear box first, either because it isn't...
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L - 4 0 0 Tra ffic is North Western sioner Beverley Bell has adjourned her consideration of disciplinary action for...
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McFletch Hire Services of Halstead has had its Operator's Licence revoked and the :ompany and its sole direc tor and...
A driver and his employer have been ordered to pay more than £3,750 in fines and costs after police stopped a speeding vehicle...
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have a chaiienge for Senior Traffic Commissioner Michael Betts. On the occasions that have found myself facing a magistrates...
In the first instance the FTA called on the Chancellor to peg diesel duty, by a strange coincidence delivering the same message...
I write in response to the recent comments of Paul Laeremans, president of the International Road Transport Union ( CM14-20...
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a national Health and Safety Award. However, the group obviously wasn't too keen on either its prize or the cause. To celebrate...
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you wait for ages then three come along at once. In recent weeks we have evaluated MAN's latest middleweights in a group test...
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roll, which gave us plenty of confidence to drive that bit quicker into the sweeping bends along the A485 from Newtown down to...
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Martin Boddy looks no different to any other truck driver. But watch him pull up at his destination and hoist himself and his...
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B arrow-in-Furness is one of the most remote towns in England. it stands on a peninsula: the cold waters of the Irish Sea crash...
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"We carry anything that the oil firm want us to." Bruce Chisholm, Ashley Industries 0 its way to two local hauliers: ME...
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Britain's North Sea oil and gas industry is colossal. It hvarves the production of every other European Union ;tate. In 2001...
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to beating your head against a wall. Sadly the owner of Grove Freight Services is in good company. His firm in Wantage,...
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t was a skiver's dream come true: 2 May 2001 was dubbed World Phone In Sick Day by a group of pseudo-anarchists seeking to...