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"Since we moved over to the Fodens, downtime has been...
Page 30 from 18th October 2001Mick Mercer started his skip hire business 21 years ago and established a transfer station in Basingstoke in 1990. He runs 22 vehides and Ii......

Fuel costs operators a fortune, and the expense often fails
Page 34 from 23rd November 2000to be passed on in the rates. But this does not bother Lincolnshire haulier John Huddleston. As Steve Banner found out, if the price is not right,......

Multi-axled flatbed trucks with loading cranes normally...
Page 40 from 27th February 2003or heavy machinery. It's hard work and they suffer accordingly, but regular inspections and maintenance keep the wheels turning safely and......

BIRD'S EYE VIEW
Page 46 from 26th November 1987BY THE HAWK • Last week Commercial Motor ran an article in the headline pages bearing good news for those of us worried about the state of......

TALKING HOP
Page 31 from 29th October 1987Following last week's report on the RHA's 1987 conference, and the Dip's warning that hauliers may have to produce weight tickets before being......

THUMBNAIL SKETCH
Page 55 from 7th April 1988TWO-AXLE THREE-AXLE TIPPERS TIPPERS LEYLAND DAF FREIGHTER 1617 Leyland Daf 16.17 Freighter Day cab Chassis Price: £26,070 exc VAT (17.18 same......

To describe the recession of the early eighties as "...
Page 186 from 27th April 1989would be to indulge in the Great British habit for understatement for the truck manufacturers it was catastrophic. Within five years just about......

FINANCIAL MARKET
Page 43 from 14th August 1982by George Malcolm II change E IMPORTANCE of currency thange rates for any company it exports in a big way is own into sharp relief by the 31......

BREATHE EASIER
Page 66 from 7th July 2005Scania researchers are already looking towards life after Euro-6. Alan Bunting reports. T here's no let-up in the controversy about how best to......

Bargains
Page 62 from 10th June 2004galore! Armed with a £10,000 budget, our used truck buyer trawls through one week's CM private sales ads in search of a tractor. Chink.........