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12th January 1995
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BRIEFS

• The re-introduction of Iwo - way tolling, on the Severn Bridge was rejected at a meeting this week between local councils and...

Freightliner delay puts sale in doubt

by Karen Miles • Road hauliers look set to escape a major shake-up in the container carrying market. This week it emerged...

France takes up issue of black boxes

• France is aiming to use its influence in its presidency of the European Union to delay discussion and so kill off a proposal...

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Livestock hauliers to stick with Shoreham

by Juliet Morrison • Livestock hauliers are determined to continue using Shoreham's cross-Channel ferry service despite...

ON AND OFF THE RAILS

IIF irst you say you do, and then you don't. Then you say you will and then you won't. You're undecided now so what're you...

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Prison warning to tub chart cheats

by Mike Jewell • A judge has warned hauliers that immediate prison sentences are an appropriate punishment for being involved...

MBO takes pad of CRP Massey

• (;RP Massey Group's reefer trailer and rigid vehicle manufacturing arm has been bought by its management for an undisclosed...

Delayed launch for five-nation Euro road tax scheme

• The launch of a road tax certificate for trucks over 12 tonnes travelling on German, Belgium, Dutch, Danish or Luxembourg...

More Austrian permits

• One thousand extra entry permits are available to UK hauliers crossing Austria this year—ending a long-standing shortage....

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Haulier to face inquiry on death

• A Derbyshire haulier whose defective truck killed a local woman is to face a public inquiry in Bakewell today (12 January)....

Switch to foreign dery

by Karen Miles • International hauliers are switching to foreign-bought fuel to escape the Chancellor's New Year duty increase...

ADR rules relax for month

• The Department of Trans / serious port has admitted to delays" in the issuing of ADR certificates for drivers hauling...

Latest rises average 3-4%

• Drivers' 1995 pay rises are averaging 3-4% Following the second and third Joint Industrial Council regional agreements. In...

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Final premium

by Juliet Morrison • A veteran recovery operator has been forced out of business by a three-fold increase in his insurance...

IFT boss warns of rising truck truck prices iii •

The days of heavy discounting on new trucks could be numbered as truck manufacturers struggle to absorb recent increases in raw...

Round two of DOT

truckstop battle • Owners of a Cambridgeshire truckstop who fought a twoyear battle with the Department of Transport were back...

Silver Birch Container Services calls in the receivers

• Sixty drivers of the West Yorkshire-based Silver Birch Container Services returned from the Christmas break lost week to be...

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DAM boycoft

• The Drivers Action Movement (DAM) is calling on its 1,000 members to boycott Shell products because of the way the firm is...

Northern Dairies drivers face dole

• Around 17 Northern Dairies truck drivers face redundancy when the Tarvin, Cheshire milk bottling plant closes this April....

Single centre for 0-licences?

by Karen Miles • A central system for processing Operator Licences will be considered this month when the review of the Traffic...

CONTRACTS

• Langdons has increased the value of its contract with Maryland Farms, distributing its bacon and pork products, by 2150,000...

Shipping lines increase pressure over pricing

• Container hauliers face continuing uncertainty in the New Year as the major shipping lines step up their resistance to moves...

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Spitzer tanker wins on price

• Chapel-en-le-Frith operator Combs Valley Tankers has added a German-made Spitzer tanker to its 19-strong tipping tank trailer...

Lawson pioneers retarder for car transporters

EXCLUSIVE by Bryan Jarvis • A Mercedes M-cabbed 1834L drawbar unit in the Richard Lawson fleet has become the first UK car...

Debut for bigger Vanette at the Brussels Show

• Nissan is launching its Vanette Cargo at the Brussels Show this week. The Spanishbuilt van, based on the floorpan of the...

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Truck makers glad all over

by Brian Weatherley • New truck margins may be tight and haulage rates may be appalling but if last year's commercial vehicle...

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Escort revises inside and out

by John Kendal • Ford has released pictures of the revised Escort van range which is about to go on sale. Externally, the...

Durran replaces with other Swedish make

• The recent purchase of another two Volvo FH 380 4x2 tractive units underlines South Yorkshire haulier James Durran's...

Stoke first at the Frontline

• Stoke-on-Trent City Council has taken delivery of the first Scania Frontline crew-cabbed chassis, fitted with a Jack Allen...

• Truckman has developed two hardtops for the Tata Loadbeta

pickup range. The Truckman S and C models both have built-in ladder rests, full-width front window and a toughened-glass rear...

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Daily rest fine

• Keighley based Astorgreen has been fined 1660 with £35 costs by Bingley Magistrates for permitting driver Oliver Becqwort to...

Appeal cuts fine by 90%

• A Birmingham owner-driver who took over a vehicle on trial was convicted of using it without an 0-licencebut his fine has...

Discharged over brake faults

• Sale, Cheshire owner-driver Joseph Brennan was given an absolute discharge after Salford Magistrates accepted that he was...

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Defective brakes brings £1,250 fine

• Using an artic with defective brakes has cost James Jolley Poultry Packers of Westhoughton, Lanes and one of its drivers...

Diesel theft costs £3,500 plus service

• 6 • Stoke-on-Trent lorry driver Norman Coventry has been ordered to do 200 hours cornmunity service after admitting stealing...

Legal help and how to find it

• Commercial Motor's new edition of the Legal Directory which lists transport lawyers, expert witnesses, haulage consultants...

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Emission tests

T he RAC has argued consistently for targeted roadside emissions enforcement but is totally opposed to local authorities...

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BUSINESS MOVES

New name • Hitachi Credit (UK) business finance division will trade as NOVA Business Finance from 9 January. Contact 081-561...

EVENTS

Classic Trucks • The first part of Channel 4's six-part series "Classic Truck" was shown on Tuesday 10 January at 20:00hrs....

SERVICES

Swiss run • Felixstowe-based Anchor Euro Transport has bought four 13.6m swapbodies for use on its Swiss service between...

CM guarantees publicity for any operator unfortunate enough to become

the victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

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PUBLICATIONS

Intermodal logistics • The Institute of Logistics has produced a user guideUnderstanding European Intertnodal Transport....

ROAD NEWS

Motorway charges • Hauliers are reminded that from this month the Federal Government of Germany requires any truck driver...

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LIFE IN TH FAST LAN

Some operators need a 23-tonne payload; others demand 100m 3 of cube. But if you want to move a third of a tonne at high speed...

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When the chips are down

D ome people are just rotten losers, aren't they? A lorry driver thrown out of a Blackpool casino returned with his at-tic and...

D s a company, Unipart believes in hot air, to the

I extent that it has added a new event to the balloon spectaculars it sponsors. Later this month, on 21-29 January, a team...

hropshire reader Derek Heath tells the Hawk that his son

Richard has passed his CPC for Freight Transport at the age of 13, aided and abetted by his proud dad, also a CPC holder, and...

Let someone else take the train

D urotunnel boss Sir Alistair Morton knows a bargain when he sees one. Even though he earns £309,000 a year—more than the Hawk...

Seeing red over Santa

ne of the Hawk's readers disturbed Santa attempting to deliver presents on Christmas Eve in a most untraditional fashion. This...

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T he trucks run by many big fleet operators have become

sophisticated advertising hoardings. Liquorice Allsorts the size of footballs adorn one sleek trailer: another features...

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Yorkshire p ide

Ripponden and District Motors used to be in the bus business. Then passengers started using Ripponden's PSVs to send parcels...

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Founded by a German exPOW with the aid of one

small pig, Stiller Transport has moved its 93-vehicle operation to a greenfield site. But who's this opening it? Why, its none...

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Foreign trailers

We collect French semi-trailers from a port and deliver them in the UK and take loaded or empty ones back to the Port. Some of...

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Bringing it all back home

Concluding our two-part review of overseas debt collection, we assess the problems likely to be encountered in Germany and...

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'A recovery vehicle cannot sensibly be assessed at the same rate as an LGV'

4 I want to challenge the proposal to abolish the concessionary vehicle excise duty rate on recovery vehicles from 1 July this...