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Oaf Financial Services is trying to track down two vehicles that have disappeared after the companies operating them ceased...
58 illegal Chinese immigrants found dead in the back of a truck at Dover in June. Perry Wacker of Rotterdam, was remanded in...
in York are set to cause traffic chaos in the new year. Work on the A1036, A166 and A64 will last 10 weeks. starting in January.
to the use of the A40 linking the M40 with the Vale of Evesham. Councillors want HMIs to travel via the A435 and A46.
week after a crash turned the road into a river of white paint. A Belgian truck ploughed into a parked Dulux vehicle and then...
proposed tax on commercial property could cost business 12.75bn in the next five years.
worsen UK driver shortage by Melanie Hammond UK hauliers face an even worse driver shortage thanks to EU legislation which...
11 High-profile haulier Eddie Stobart is slashing more than 120 jobs from its workforce in the run-up to Christmas but denies...
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,.;i! The prospect of hauliers moving tanks on a regular basis looks more likely to happen after it emerged that the Ministry...
hauliers a surefire method of avoiding £2,000-a-head fines for unwittingly carrying stowaways in their trucks. The ferry...
• P&O drivers working un Shell's fuel distribution contract are expected to reject a new pay deal this week. It is understood...
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Apart from a truck, there are two things you need for haulage: fuel and drivers. But though the whole country knows about the...
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by Melanie Hammond Staffing problems have continued to compromise the efficiency of the Vehicle Inspectorate this year with...
• English Welsh and Scottish Raiiway, Britain's biggest freight - train operator, is asking the government for cash aid to help...
• The practice of charging drivers under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act for falsifying tachograph records while abroad has...
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by Dominic Perry A Kent owner-driver has been left homeless and jobless after immigration officials found stowaways in his...
• West Midlands Travel and the police have appealed for help in tracing a truck driver who is alleged to have beaten up a bus...
• A parcels delivery firm with 26 trucks went bust after being hit by increasing fuel prices and rocketing accident insurance...
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el More than 1,500 commercial vehicles were stopped and checked at 59 sites nationwide last week as part of the latest...
m by Guy Sheppard A European Union proposal to cut sugar production of member states could cost hundreds of jobs in one of the...
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by Mike Jewell A haulier which was granted a licence in September on the reputation of its director has lost it again after it...
• Haulers working out of Royal Portbury Dock near Bristol face a significant loss of work after the government announced the...
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• by Bryan Jarvis In 1999 the Japanese automotive industry suffered the latest in a series of bad years. Motor vehicle...
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• Volvo's campaign in North America dates back to 1981when it bought part of the White Motor Corporation and acquired the White...
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• by Peter Lawton Thirty jobs have been saved following a management buyout of Wilcox Croup from United Trailers. By February...
C15. Berlingo, Dispatch and Relay ranges. The new warranty deal came into effect on 1 December
headed by managing director Steve Walsh. The dealership, formerly known as Lynton Refrigeration. offers a 24-hour service....
Tarmac Northern chose 8x4 Fodens to maximise payloads of ready-mixed concrete. General manager John Hudson reports that the CAT...
are forming a 50/50 global alliance to work on medium-duty engines, fuel systems rIcluding common rail, and other driveline...
The partnership set out to develop a trailer tough enough for ferry operation, with the lowest possible lifecycle cost. The...
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Mark Hinchliffe to consider further representations made by Bradford-based T Saunders it Sons about the effects on its business...
The licence held by Wi&bechbased William Smith has been suspended until he attends a public inquiry. Smith failed to appear...
The licence held by Jedburghbased Nicholas and Jill Davidson, trading as Friar's Transport has been revoked. Scottish TC...
An overloaded vehicle cost partners lqbal and Kamal Ahmed £800 in fines and costs. Macclesfield magistrates heard that the...
A tachograph offence led to the licence held by Greenockbased Mark Brown Transport being cut from three vehicles and three...
al A Cleveland haulier lost its licence after operating untaxed international trucks as a "protest vote", and storming out of a...
The wife of a Liverpool haulier who lost his licence after being convicted of handling stolen trailers has had her bid for an...
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Using a defective vehicle has cost Powys haulier David Pugh PATO and three penalty points on his driving licence. Pugh pleaded...
28 days after amassing fines totaling £13,750 for a range of offences. Welsh Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Bourlet heard...
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There has been much talk lately about the influx of foreign hauliers and non-EU drivers working in EU-registered trucks...
I have worked in the road transport industry for a considerable lime and I have always been proud to be involved with it. That...
So the government didn't give the industry the help it required to survive. That doesn't surprise me. Sure, I'm all for...
I was always under the impression the Driver's Hours Rules and Regulations were introduced as a safety measure. How, then, is...
An interesting suggestion about how to reduce fuel costs for business users without compromising the government's avowed policy...
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The Hawk thought he'd died and gone to die-cast heaven when he learnt the details of Corgi's Classic Road Haulage collection,...
A Matchbox Magirus Deutz crane-lorry bought for 2s 6d in 1961 has been sold at auction for a world record 27,475. The truck,...
These days you never know what's going to fall off the back of a lorry. Motorists in Manchester's rush hour traffic certainly...
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a good idea for hauliers to step back now and again, and take aced look at relevant issues In depth. Thanks to our colleagues...
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• We have been negotiating a new insurance policy for our fleet. On the proposal form we said that none of the company...
• I specialise in transporting mobile homes, and use step-frame trailers on this work. They are up to 14ft wide, and usually...
• I am having a dispute another driver about i rest when part is taken ferry. We know that it daily rest is broken, part being...
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I PRICE AS TESTED: £74,319 (ex-VAT). Includes basic vehicle, £71,250; 600-litre fuel tank, £544; alloy wheels, £2,525. ENGINE:...
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Government grants have long been used to tackle over-capacity in struggling industries—now there is talk of applying the idea...
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the railway system, concluding that with a Victorian infrastructure and a well earned reputa tion for unreliability it needed...
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smallest to the largest players, has been telling me for a long time of the devastating effect on their business of the high...