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14th February 2002
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`Admin error' leads to six-month delay

• by Nies Brigriall A West Midlands haulier has slammed the Spanish subsidiary of Christian Salvesen after it took a whopping...

Fixed penalty plan for phones

• The government is considering recommendations for the issuing of fixed penalty notices to drivers caught driving too close,...

Satellite fleet plan setback

iv Galileo. the European Commission's ambitious panEuropean satellite navigation scheme, has been dealt a blow by the EU's...

Keep it simple!

Charging hauliers to use British roads will make them more efficient discuss. According to an "influential government transport...

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Trade group will attack new quarry tax in court

• A new quarry tax which will threaten the livelihoods of Britain's rural tipper operators could be deemed illegal if a trade...

Firm folds over paper

III A shake-up of paper distribution contracts in north-east Scotland has led to the closure of a family-run haulier employing...

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'remiums increase explosively

by Miles Brignall uliers carrying goods even rnotely linked to explosives large insurance hikes in a light of last September's...

FTA backs higher police recovery charges

• The Freight Transport Association "substantially increase" charges for says it supports Home Office plans to police-managed...

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Firm faces retrial as VI wins appeal

by Jez Abbott and Pete Swingler lemperatu re-controlled logistics firm Express Chilled Distribution (ECD) faces a retrial after...

Scots 'true grit' query

• Hauliers and politicians are alleging that winter maintenance standards on Scottish trunk roads have slumped to unacceptable...

'Tolls encourage efficiency'

• Charging hauliers to use roads will help make them more efficient, says an influential government transport advisor. But Dr...

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Just add water...

Watering down your diesel sounds like a recipe for disaster, but a number of transport companies have found that it can save...

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D utch treat

Europe's road transport industry gathered for its biennial visit to Amsterdam's RAI Exhibition Centre. If there were no real...

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LEGAL NEWS

INOPERATIVE LIME Falsifying tachograph records and using a vehicle when its speed limiter was inoperative has led to the HGV...

Tachograph fiddler's fleet off the road for a fortnighi

An East Yorkshire haulier who was involved in the falsification IWA-WI of tachograph records by one of his drivers has had his...

Decision to revoke licence upheld

Somerset-based Douglas Wilkins has lost his appeal against the decision of the Western Traffic Com missioner Philip Brown to...

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Lentrol keeps its promises

A Cheshire company given until the end of last year to prove it could operate properly, has succeeded in winning a full...

Operator drove on when he hew about brake defects

A Warringtr based operator who failed to _ . appear to answer charges relating to overloading and using a vehicle with...

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NON-COOPERATION I write in response to your article "Could do

better" (CM 24-30 Jan) and specifically to the graph indicating headlamp misalignment as the most common cause of test failure....

RESCUERS NOT HIGHWAYMEN Re: HGV recovery—at what cost? (CM 24 - 30

Jan). We are a family run business operating for 75 years from our site on the Great North Road at Conington. We provide...

MORE TRAINING, NOT LESS I was interested to read Andy

Boyle's Sound Off in Commercial Motor( 24 - 30 Jan 2002) and in the same issue the reactions to the EU proposals of 450 hours...

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NOW?

The recent reports on impounding brought to mind an incident a few years ago. A client, for whom I had done some express work,...

RECOVERY CORRECTION

Re: Eagles' feathers unruffled by conviction allegations (CM31 Jan-6 Feb). I wish to draw your attention to the above article...

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Thieves are having a field day at the Department for

the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)—the former Ministry of Agriculture—for they have harvested £174,000 worth of...

Seine SO buses were lined up on a road recently

after 5,700 gallons of highly volatile aviation fuel were delivered to their south London depot by mistake. Staff at...

Weighing in at over five

tonnes, the new 59/80063 is the sumo-sized big brother of Mr Michelin. The world's biggest tyre carries up to 400 tonnes and is...

You have been warned. VIZ, the adult comic that gave

us Sid the Sexist, Billy No Mates and the Fat Slags has a new chum on the block and he has an "HGV licence to kill". Laurie...

NEWS from the

NORTH! By our Northern Correspondent Eric Strongitharm Oswaldtwistle. Hats off to the Spagthorpe Motor Company! That's the...

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very operator knows that bigger trucks are more productive—but how

nuch more productive? CM has taken three similarly specified niddleweight rigids at 7.5, 12 and 18 tonnes to see which comes...

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Theft of vehicles and loads is increasing. Organised gangs are now targeting trailers because the UK—unique in the European...

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The health risks of driving could cost the haulage industry

dearly, particularly akthe driving population becomes oldepAnd we earn more alma the riskqf cholesterol and heart d ease. Ian...

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PUBLIC INQUIRIES

In the second of a two-part report on public inquiries Gill Mtirr investigates what hauliers can do to prepare for the big...

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B Mclean (Haulage) was

ounded in 1969.1t is a prime Ni k xample of a family-driven firm: 'I o fewer than six of the Mclean Ian, spanning three...

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Paul Laeremans, president of the International Road Transport Union, says

the perception that rail is always more eco-friendly than road is false. II If you want to sound off about a road transport...