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on the High Court group action brought by hauliers and drivers over the controversial 12,000-a-head fine system for stowaways...
the anticipated number of enquiries regarding the new VED rates that came into effect on 1 December. The FTA is urging hauliers...
Speed cameras are to be coloured bright yellow to maximise visibility, reinforcing the message that they exist to prevent...
The Port of Calais has started work on a year-long £9m project to improve freight facilities. Innovations will include a new...
Bristol-based Lane Group's employment business, Pl. Workforce, has boosted its turnover by 50%, helped by new operations in...
Paul Boateng, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and Eric Pickles, shadow transport spokesman, will be among the speakers at...
• by Dominic Perry and Melanie Hammond A freight-forwarding fraudster who for years swindled hauliers out of tens of thousands...
• Fatal road accidents involving fins are to be treated as homicides under strong new guidelines produced this week by the...
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a major gang of truck thieves were jailed for a total of 20 years. Worcester Crown Court heard charges ranging from conspiracy...
one and 10 trucks has slumped by 12,900 in the past four years, according to findings of the 2001 Road Transport Market Survey...
• Transport Minister Jahn Speilar is calling for better facilities for truck drivers on motorways and main roads. He wants...
• As CM went to press Exel Tradeteam drivers, based in Birmingham, voted in favour of industrial action in a ballot over pay...
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NI by Miles Brignall A second haulier has come forward claiming lie has been overcharged at the bunkered fuel site at Raglan...
• Suggestions of a government climb-clown on its controversial new aggregates' tax have heartened industry leaders who fear the...
It's not every day the Financial Secretary to the Treasury writes in Commercial Motor—and we welcome Paul Boateng's exclusive...
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EXCLUSIVE 8 by Paul Boateng MR Financial Secretary to the Treasury The haulage Industry is a vital part of the UK economy....
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sure. Although some other :iountries either already have or ire planning to introduce lorry 'clad-user charges, any new ;:harge...
• by Mike Gordan So finally it seems that foreign hauliers are to pay their way for using UK roads. The trouble is that so are...
A crackdown on the fraudulent use of red diesel is another of the measures announced last week by Gordon Brown—a move that has...
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• by Guy Sheppard Police are appealing to Commercial Motor readers to come forward if they have witnessed or have ever been...
• Irish beet hauliers returned to work this week as sugar beet production resumed following a four-week strike by farmers. Up...
• A minor change to abnormal load regulations could speed up the long-awaited introduction of private escorts for heavy...
• Energy efficiency officials are offering hauliers a free video to help save on fuel costs. The techniques shown in the video,...
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• Small and medium-sized operators could save thousands of pounds by using fleet management and telematics systems, according...
its vans until the end of the year. They include 09a interest/10% deposit deals on the Caddy; 0% interest/25% deposit on the...
the incentive for Oban-based food carrier J Forteith & Son to acquire a pair of 7m Daf 65CFs. Despite their size, the 220hp CFs...
blades. Made of a special polymer which is claimed to be stronger than steel and lighter than aluminium, the SNK ploughs are...
Vehicle logistics specialist Eurofleet has opened what it says is the UK's first dedicated van and truck refurbishment site. It...
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new six-vehicle licence, Scottish DIG Richard McFarlane issued the company with a formal warning about its future approach to...
a series of prohibition notices has led to the revocation of the licence held by Oldbury-based B&C Metals. The firm appeared...
Birmingham-based West Midlands Skip Hire Ltd being cut by two vehicles for 14 days by West Midland DIG Alan Bourlet.
Owen £200 after he admitted interfering with the speed limiter in his vehicle.
from 67 vehicles and 100 trailers to 62 vehicles and 100 trailers for a week by Scottish TC Michael Betts at a Turriff...
Allegedly using eight unauthorised operating centres and breaches of the tachograph rules have led to Bilston-based Starr...
A Wiltshire haulier has won the '.'irst stage of its appeal against its licence revocation for tachograph and hours offences....
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A Cumbrian farmer whose firm's one vehicle was found to have serious brake defects was told by the North Western Traffic...
Local residents have failed in a bid to remove the operating centre of a Lincolnshire haulier from its licence. However...
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Mote Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back, or a dressing down? Drop us a line at Commercial Motor, Room H203,...
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Staff in the the ladieswear section of Osw - aldtwistle's finest department store, Thrifty's, were aghast this week after the...
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years of experience in truck manufacturing as the separate entities of Seddon and Atkinson, and as a unit for the past three...
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ilif hen Ford introduced the latest generation of Transit it was a rearwheel-drive design, like every Transit before it. But...
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wage wherever he or she works in Holland. Every two years employers and the unions, FNV and CNV, sit down and negotiate a...
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Thousands of goods vehicle drivers may unwittingly be using the wrong licence, says a report which blames a mixture of...
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shows that drivers are right to feel hard done by—they do get paid less than comparable workers in industry. Steve McQueen...
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victim to an unusually high number of nocturnal thefts. Adam Hill reports on how good, old-fashioned detective work eventually...
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market have had on road haulage, then read on. The latest NOP survey shows just how rough the ride has been. Brian Weatherley...
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• I was driving all-tonne truck at about 30mph on a main road which had a speed limit of 40mph. I was only a short distance...
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Greater London Council, Ken Livingstone has been the distribution industry's friend since being elected London Mayor last year....