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By Chris Tindatt TRUCKS COULD be banned from overtaking on the Al2 after an independent inquiry recommended a 12-month trial...
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By Roanna Avison SCOTTISH HAULIER Scotflow is continuing to trade while hoping to find a buyer after its parent company was...
TRUCKS COULD share bus lanes in Walsall if local residents give the thumbs-up to Walsall Council's congestion-busting scheme....
SIX TRAILERS containing alcohol have been stolen from Wincanton in a raid that saw a security guard attacked. At approximately...
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By Chris Tindall THE POUND'S weakness against the euro has given a small ray of hope to UK-based international hauliers and...
Council accuses truckers of ignoring bridge weight limits TRUCKS HAVE BEEN ignoring weight restrictions and damaging weak...
test for truck drivers has increased from 60 to 100 questions, and the number of hazard perception clips has risen from 14 to...
version of its AirMax truck tyre, claimed to be the first low-diameter front tyre with a capacity of eight tonnes. Both the...
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By Roger Brown HW COATES HAS expanded in Scotland after buying McLellans Transport out of administration. The privately owned...
KEITH TAYLOR LOGISTICS (KTL) has acquired the assets of the SCS Group of companies, including SCS Logistics. A spokeswoman for...
WINCANTON HAS signed a five-year deal to distribute roofing products for Marley Eternit from sites in Glasgow and Reading. The...
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By Chris Tindati THE HIGHWAYS Agency (HA) has upheld a decision not to release the legal advice it received that would explain...
A RED DIESEL fraud in Northern Ireland made massive profits for all those involved, a court has been told. Kevin Campbell, an...
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"unacceptable" that chemicals were found dumped in a lay-by in an "intentionally" abandoned lorry. On 31 July, North Wales...
Despite it being the holiday season, with most drivers en famille in Barbados, TruckNet UK is busy as ever. On the UK...
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By David Harris HAULIERS OBJECTING to plans to impose a weight limit on a Somerset road have been dismissed by the council...
NORBERT DENTRESSANGLE Group has posted an 83% increase in revenue for the first half of the year, boosted by the acquisition of...
A DRIVER WHO had his HGV licence revoked for 10 years after he was prescribed an anti-epilepsy drug following a fall from his...
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By Roger Brown TDG HAS INCREASED its profit and turnover in the first half of 2008, despite the company being surrounded by...
enjoyed "immense" business growth since joining the Palletways network in 2004. Between then and 2008, the number of pallets...
Gray & Adams to complement the 50 already purchased over the past year. The new trailers will he the first in the group's fleet...
opened a chilled distribution centre at Haverhill, Suffolk on 4 August. Since Culina joined farces with Baylis Logistics...
Better drivers slash fuel bills TELEMATICS SPECIALIST lsotrak says its latest tests suggest that hauliers could save 19% in...
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By Chris Tindai: THE HEALTH & Safety Executive (HSE) has written to MP Alan Milburn offering practical support for a campaign...
ABERDEEN-BASED haulier ARR Craib Transport has extended its business into rail freight, supply chain management and facilities...
SAM WHITTA10ER has been appointed truck sales and marketing director for MercedesBenz UK. Whittaker left his role as national...
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Swift and decisive action is vital if UK hauliers are to survive in today's economic climate, but is the Government simply...
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increased by 70%, but in the same way that roads are not being provided suff dent assistance, the Sustainable Distribution Fund...
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WITH REFERENCE to your article 'VDO digitach upgrade helps resolve mode switch errors' (CM 10 July), I quote your second...
FIFTY YEARS ago police vehicles tended to be black and other road users knew that a vehicle approaching with its headlights on...
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The Transport Association is a self-help group of members working together for mutual benefit. CM gets the lowdown from...
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Official. figures for cabotage activity in the UK do not reflect the scale of the problem, according to the Freight Transport...
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blowing Last chance Pair to appeal against indefinite disqualification for failing to comply with lawful agency requests...
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Haulier faces five-year revocation PORTLEVEN-BASED KDC Logistics and its directors Kenneth Reid and Douglas Strachan were...
THE TRANSPORT Tribunal has quashed the 12-month disqualification of Eastleigh-based Paul Short, trading as P&J Transport, from...
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LEAMINGTON SPA-BASED Manjit Singh, who lent an 0-licence disc to his best friend, has lost his appeal against the revocation of...
BOREHAM WOOD-BASED MULROY Construction has lost its appeal against the revocation of its two-vehicle restricted licence after...
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Drivers can be fined up to £5,000 for overloading. What can they do to minimise the risk? drivers need ;to know Words: Guy...
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Speed cameras are widely criticised for being unfair and inaccurate, but are there better ways to improve road safety? Words:...
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If a vehicle is caught speeding by a camera, the registered keeper will be sent a form within 14 days, asking them to identify...
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are wasting huge sums of money by not bothering to prepare their vans for resale, according to Manheim Auctions. While the...
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Our van of choice was a 2000 W-reg SWB Renault Master, which had spent the past three years working as a builders van and taken...
The first thing Manheim's reconditioning team did was empty the van of all the rubbish, including several hundred screws and...
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VAUXHALL ASTRAVAN SPORTIVE SE 1.9CDT1 Price: £14,920 Payload: 647kg Mileage: 14,545 Expenses: None Faults: None Average mpg:...
Running the Astravan as a long-termer is a whole lot of fun, making journeys more interesting, and, dare we say it, shorter....
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Solid, dependable, and reliable just the way we like our long-termers to be. Price: E16,155 Engine: 2.5-Dtre 128hp Payload:...
There's nothing to report, nothing has changed and nothing has occurred — that's the way we like it. The argument will always...
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ritish The Roger Dyson Group is one of a dying breed; a British manufacturer. Its 0.5m new-build and revamp will cement its...
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leaver who became a mechanic. "I began in the side of the industry that we now supply to," he says. Gaining a driving licence...