AT THE HEART OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY.

Call our Sales Team on 0208 912 2120

15th August 2002
15th August 2002
Page 1
Page 1, 15th August 2002
Close

Page 4

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Drivers who slow down before passing speed cameras could soon be caught out by a new system. Twin Specs cameras, which can be...

KREMPlID MURDER

Police are appealing for witnesses to a suspected attempted murder on the Alt westbound at Lolworth on 8 July. At around...

TV SAGA

A documentary following the experiences of key fuel protesters after they left the picket line in September 2000 is being...

PROTEST POSTPONED Militant farmers have postponed their protest on Monday

19 August after the government relaxed some of the restrictions on livestock movements. Farmers in Northumberland who want the...

110 - FRILLS SCHEME The RHA has asked us to point out

that its new scheme for owner-drivers ; RHAone, is a "no-frills scheme" allowing members access to legal aid and its Conditions...

Insurance premiums set to wipe out vehicle operators

• by Sally Nash Waste hauliers and tanker firms are going to the wall as a result of rocketing employers' liability (EL)...

The Freight Transport Association has fired off a letter to

the Financial Timesquestioning why the distribution industry is being punished by spiralling insurance premiums when it has...

Page 5

Bridge fencing safety doubts

IP Road safety campaigners are calling for immediate improvements to the fencing around motorway bridges following an...

Drivers , hours proposals

stall in 'chaotic' meeting • A deadlock in negotiations could mean controversial changes to drivers' hours rules being...

Firm wins appeal over licence revocation

• A CongletOn-based company has successfully appealed against the revocation of its licence after one of its trucks killed a...

Moto rejects parking rate claims

• Motorway service operator Moto has hit back at claims that Willi Betz drivers pay less for parking than others, after furious...

Page 6

Transport manager jailed for corruption

II by Jennifer Ball A corrupt transport manager from road and rail giant Freightliner has been jailed for a year after he...

Vandal attacks plague haulier

A Black Country haulier says he is on the verge of closing his 36-year-old business because of a spate of break-ins and...

Cumbrian men jailed for conspiring to steal fuel

• Two men from Cumbria have been jailed for their part in a plot to steal diesel from local hauliers at the height of the fuel...

Page 7

kil0 closure renews call for rapid clean-up plans

I by Chris Tindall emands for a reduction the length of time otorways are closed Pllowing road traffic xidents were renewed is...

Why are you waiting?

It's amazing how many parallels there are between the animal world and road transport. Both have predators. Both have a pecking...

Nan relieved.., of position

A Christian Salvesen warehouse worker with medical condition that results in a weak blad!r has been sacked after he became se...

Page 8

Haulage boss jailed for huge drugs stash

11 by Chris Tindall A haulage boss has been jailed for smuggling drugs with a street value of more than £1m and attempting to...

Ciggies found in false floor

• Three men have been arrested in east Nottingham after Customs & Excise officers from Derby found one million cigarettes under...

Es forced into city centre

• Heavily congested roads round Aberdeen are forcing 90% of HGV drivers into the city centre, bringing misery to residents and...

Draw up your battle plans, warns report

• Vehicle operators are being advised to adopt battle plans for survival after research has shown a big shake-out of...

Page 9

Ipompetition leads to work

Logistics company TOG and ainsbury's have hosted the final the Manpower Mirror Driving ompetition on 3 August at cum in...

'river disappears from ferry

I A UK truck driver is feared 1st at sea after he went missing cm a P860 ferry during a hannel crossing. The unnamed driver...

Enli tened firms tria young drivers

by Jennifer Ball A young driver who wrote to Commercial Motor complaining that insurance restrictions were preventing fully...

Tanker operator recognised for its environmental endeavours

r , Essex-based tanker firm Suckling Transport has received further recognition of its green operation with inclusion in a new...

Page 10

Fed up with the waiting game....

Delays at regional distribution centres RDCs) are costing operators time and noney, and are increasingly responsible or drivers...

Page 11

ROC delays: life at the sharp end

II It's not only everyday drivers who face delays at Nes, as Andy Salter, editor of Cies stablemate TRUCK, recently found out....

Page 12

Safe...Safer...Safest

I by Brian Weatherley Jut of the 41,000 fatalities recorded ?very year on the European Union's pads, 4,000 of them involve...

CRASH-ZONE CONCEPT

Scania is also floating a more radic solution to reducing the number of poopi killed when a car and a truck meet hea on. Its...

Page 13

BELT UP IN YOUR TRUCK!

• Scania's safety team has recorded poor HGV seat-belt usage amongst drivers throughout the EU with only 20% of truck drivers...

Page 14

DaimlerChrysler uses SCR to cut emissions for Euro-4

• by Robin Meczes DaimlerChrysler has announced it will meet Euro-4 exhaust emission regulations by adopting selective...

Lafarge tilts toward Wilcox

• Lafarge Aggregates has placed an order for 28 new straight-frame Wilcox tipping trailers, pictured during tilt testing at the...

Heavy CV sales still dropping

• Vehicle registrations last month jumped to a record high following a slump in June, but heavy truck sales have still fallen...

MEDWAY MERGED In the first step to combining the MAN

and ERF networks, ER Medway is being absorbed by MAN distributors, The Southern Motor Group, which will take over the Rochester...

LT PACKAGE Volkswagen has announced a new service and maintenance

package on the LT at just 199 year. For a one-off payment o t297 (ex-VAT), buyers of new LTs will got three-year, 75,000 mile...

ALLIS011 ADDITION

The option of a factory-fitted Allison automatic gearbox is now available 011 specific models within lveco's Cargo range. Five...

OPTIDRIVER OPTION Renault Trucks has announce( that its Optidriver fullyautomated

gearbox, launched at this year's CV Show, is to bi made available as an option a Premium long-distance model with the 12-speed...

SOFTEST Following the launch by the Society of Operations Engineers

(SOE) of the 1RTEC licence for engineers and technicians in the heavy CV sector, work has begun to develop a test for light CV...

Row SCR works

m Urea is non-toxic, colourless and odourless. The SCR system is made up of an additional tank and electronic metering unit for...

Page 16

SUCCESSOR LICENSED tough revoking the licence leld by Charley-based ihemplant

Stainless Holdings a the grounds that the ompany had ceased trading, lorth Western TO Beverley Bell as granted a successor...

MEDLEY IN TROUBLE

he licence held by ,ottingham-based Medley !ant Hire has been revoked at . Leeds disciplinary inquiry. he company had been...

hough taking no action gainst the licence held by CH

ontracting, of Duns, erwickshire, Scottish IC lichael Betts has issued the ompany with a formal taming about its maintenance...

REVOKED oar maintenance has led to he revocation of the

licence old by Cradley Heath-based F McEwen & Sons. The ompany appeared before lest Midland TO David Dixon at Birmingham...

TC gets tough on Cumbrian 'bandit country operators

Rogue operators In Cumbria face a crackdown after North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell described the area as...

`Phoenix' firm licence bid held up

A Cheshire firm branded a "phoenix" company by the Road Haulage Association at a Leeds Public Inquiry has had its application...

Page 17

Price paid for tacho failures

, A driver who failed to hand in his tachograph charts within 21 days was fined £360 and cost an east London operator more than...

Kent firm told it is 'unfit' to hold Operator's Licence

A Kent-based firm has lost its bid for a licence after the South Eastern 8i, Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner ruled that it...

Page 20

Stuart Archbold's comments are always good value. However, his warning

that fuel duty harmonisation within the EU as advocated by the Commission is a major step towards a centrally-governed...

Regarding the DoT report on truck drivers still going too

fast (CM4-10July)-1 think if 75% are exceeding the speed limit of 40mph then you should be asking yourselves why and writing...

PLAYING GOD

I read with absolute dismay in recent editions of the antics of Traffic Commissioners with regard to HGV licences and the way...

NO CHANCE

I have always felt criticism of Eastern Area TO Geoffrey Simms to be unfair—he has a very responsible job to do, which often...

Page 25

veco continues to dominate the 7. tonne sector, as it has

done for many years. Last year the company sold 4,357 units at this weight, claiming a massive 29.49% share of the UK market....

Page 26

"The truck runs all over the UK and is specified with a sleeper cab."

Colin Circuit About two-and-a-half years ago, I nskip of Bedford and Bedfreight pooled their warehouse and transport...

Page 27

THE RED BOOK

"Cargo is all things to all men...the name has almost become a generic term." John Watts John Watts, senior editor for CAP...

Page 28

"The 7.5-tonne Ivecos are good workhorses, they are easy to maintain and parts availability is

good." Ian Harding Ian Harding is living proof that it is still possible to make a go of it in the transport industry. In 1985...

COMMERCIAL VEHICLE AUCTIONS

Chris Wright is MD of Commercial Vehicl Auctions. CVA holds sales at Doncaster o two Wednesdays each month with throughput of...

"We like the I get from Ivel Ind the level of support we

wellent." Rick Wildrige Two years ago Rick Wildrige returned t , run the family firm Haldo Developments bu he continues to...

Page 29

VERDICT

Operators reveal why Iveco continues to be dominant in this sector. All three we talked to operate the same 75E15 model. They...

Page 30

V chicle maintenance workshops are dangerous places. In the year to

April 2001 they witnessed two deaths, 401 major injuries, and 1,397 accidentor illness-related absences, according to the...

Page 32

T alk to TDG's chief executive David Garman for any length

of time and it soon becomes clear that this is a man who considers himself to be on a mission. Five years ago TDG was best...

Page 34

RECENT& IMMINENT LEGISLATION

he Motor Vehicles ((C Type pproval) (Amendment) egulations 2002, CIF 7 August 002. Amends existing 3gulations to include EC...

Page 37

oratio Myer, who foundei Myer's Comfortable Beds ii 1876, was

a logistics pioneei In those days most iron bed steads were made in Birm ingham, the traditional meta . bashing centre of...

Page 40

TOYOTA HILUX 270

I PRICE AS TESTED: 217,495 (ex-VAT). ENGINE: 2.5 litres, 102hp (76kW). GVW: 2,870kg. PAYLOAD: 1,045kg. FUEL CONSUMPTION...

Page 42

New EU laws coming next year and in 2006 will

ban used tyres from landfill sites. Miles Brignall looks at some of the implications. I f you had just bought a business and...