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17th June 1993
17th June 1993
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Cold storage

• Iceland Foods is building a composite distribution centre in Swindon to handle frozen, ambient, chilled and fresh products...

Night target

• Owner-drivers and larger operators driving at night and early in the morning will be the most highly targeted group by the...

Less traffic

• Goods vehicle traffic fell by 3% during the first three months of this year.

No verdict

• The jury was still out on the case of the Rotherham nighwatchrnan said to have been murdered for a truck as CM went to press...

Bad form

• The Road Haulage Association says it is unhappy with the Vehicle Inspectorate's recently revised Overweight Prohibition Form...

Navel patrol

• Animal transporters could be targeted by Shropshire County Council in its crackdown on the sending of calves to market when...

Toleman to cut job! t Ford plants

by Juliet Parish • Car transporter Toleman Automotive is cutting jobs in the hope of retaining compound contracts at Halewood...

• Livestock hauliers will have to accept regulations much tougher

than current law if they want to join a quality assurance scheme introduced last week by an animal welfare charity. The Royal...

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'Chaos' warning hits hazardous training

• The Freight Transport Association and Road Haulage Association are warning that dangerous goods driver training could...

VI believes test sale could be prevented

by Karen Miles • The Government's decision to privatise HGV testing could still be reversed through pressure from the road...

Cabotage: it's imminent

• EC transport ministers are expected to resolve the 25-yearlong argument about truck taxation in an emergency meeting on...

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Private escorts

• The move to contract out escorting of wide loads to private companies would not be scuppered by the need to change the Road...

M6 relief fee

• Hauliers can expect to pay at least £3.30 when Britain's first toll road around the north-east of Birmingham is opened in...

Not guilty

• George Devlin of Shepherds Bush was found not guilty of carrying an insecure load but was fined £80 for defective brakes...

Money lost

• The 55 hauliers owed around £95,000 by defunct bulk diesel supplier, Fuel Management Supplies, will be told at a creditors...

HGV prisoners

• The proposal to use convicted prisoners with HGV licences to make deliveries between prisons has been condemned by prison...

Stobart drivers fined

• Twenty-eight drivers employed by Carlisle haulier Eddie Stobart are to pay nearly £12,000 fines and costs for falsifying...

• "Ile Leyland Trucks name is back on the British

haulage scene after an absence of six years following the takeover of the Leyland Daf manufacturing operation in Lancashire....

to draw up code

III Pressure group Transport 2000 is planning a meeting for the autumn at which it will formulate green codes of practice for...

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Innovations abound at the TankCon show

The Government's "green shoots of recovery" have taken root in the tanker market, judging by the optimistic feel of the RHA's...

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• Despite backing from the green lobby, electric CVs are

still a rarity: only seven of the 40 exhibitors at the Electric Vehicle Association's Move Electric 93 show had vehicles in...

Cats could replace traps

• Catalytic convertors could replace particulate traps in the search to clean up diesel exhaust emissions. Michael Davies of...

• Cummins has confirmed that its new engine, the 10.8-litre M11, will come to Europe.

Automotive marketing director Ric Kleine says its arrival will probably coincide with the Euro2 emmissions limit.The M11, which...

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'Only cowboys survive'

by Amanda Bradbury • A South Wales haulier's refusal to compromise on maintenance or lawful operating is forcing him to sell up...

Salvesen profits • Trading profits in Christian Salvesen Distribution's UK

operations rose by 3.5% to £20.5m last year. Distribution accounts for 44% of group trading profits worldwide, which rose 13.6%...

Salvage target

• New legislation, education and cash will be needed for the Government to succeed in its aim of salvaging 50% of recyclable...

Badger's advice

• TankCon delegates were told by TDG's European transport managing director Steve Bodger that safety should be the key...

Aggregate mileage

• Fraikin has won a contract to supply eight vehicles to Eatfresh for its nationwide operations using aggregate mileage...

Wincanton rising • wincanton's profits rose 2(13% last year, from

£12.8m to £15.4m, according to the latest trading figures from parent company Unigate. Turnover was up from £171m to £205m. The...

Court threat over tyre bill

• An angry Scots haulier preparing to fight a 11,600 bill mainly for replacing two tyres in France. Jim Macaulay, managing...

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Toyota wants parts bids

by Juliet Parish • Four hauliers are to fight it out for a Toyota (GB) contract worth more than 1:2m a year, They will be...

Bellman calls time

• North Yorkshire-based quarry and demolition site haulier Bellman (UK) has gone into compulsory liquidation owing about...

UT wins t15m Cargill deal

• United Transport has switched from being a spot hirer to a contractor with liquid oil refiner Cargill after winning a...

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REPUTE IN DISPUTE

Here's one for all you barrack room lawyers—what constitutes Good Repute for the purpose of an 0-licence? According to the...

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'Unfriendly' waste case

• Tipton-based hauliers William Gabriel and SG Humphries heard that their licences are likely to be revoked when they appeared...

Semi-trailer theft costs £2,200

• Cheshire haulier Gary Murphy has been fined £1.500 with 1700 costs for the theft of a semi-trailer. He was also ordered to...

Dutch driver is well over hours

• A Dutch driver checked by traffic examiners at Ross on Wye, appeared before Hereford Magistrates after it was found that he...

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Access delays licence

• Malpas-based Alan Yoxall, whose bid to operate an artic was blocked on appeal by Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council, must now...

Move granted • Lanstar (Scotland) ha: been granted unrestricte authority

to move its opt ing centre from hivernes Paisley, after neighbouri residents who had made environmental represent tions, failed...

Costs paid

• Dover-based Momart cleared of permitting a driver to falsify tachogr records and take insuffic weekly rest after the pro...

Sacking fair

• A Manchester Indust Tribunal has decided the was reasonable for Transwift Freight Servic to sack a driver after he changed...

Spanish try

III Spanish lorry driver I Maria Ranajo-Zayora, w was fined £4,200 by the Coventry Magistrates af driving for 12 consecuth...

Full licence • Llanwit Fardre-based Raymond Webber, whoE two-vehicle licence

was prematurely terminated October after maintenar problems, has been grar a full five-year renewal. told South Wales TO Job...

Convictions bar Wilkinson

• A bid for a new licence by Stokeon-Trent-based Eric Wilkinson was refused on grounds of repute when he failed to appear at a...

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0-licensing in upheaval

Vehicle safety is not the only worry if the 0-licence threshold goes to six tonnes— traffic area offices and jobs could go and...

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Getting in a Lada

ave you heard the one about the Lada driver whose patience finally snapped after suffering the double whammy of a flat tyre and...

All together now D orget all those jokes about Essex man

and woman being less than bright; the Larke family of Leaden Roding, nr Gt Dunmow, Essex, reckon they may be unique as every...

Cautious drivers welcomed

a he "Accident Black Spot" warning is not unconunon on the public highway-less so in a car park. This cautious advice is...

It's the way they tell 'em

Ei orkshire lasses can be a mite passionate, according to one of my Northern colleagues, but clearly none more Sc than young...

Tipping the old ivories

3 ssex haulier Containerlift has just bought its third Sidelifter from New Zealand. This nifty piece of kit is capable of...

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Premium rates

Truck insurance premiums have soared by 30% over the past year and insurers are getting tougher on claimants. But there are...

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A Nottinghamshire furniture company has lost its only truck, specially equipped

for drop body work. The Leyland 17-18 Freighter is worth 245,000 and belongs to Mark Webster Furniture of Sutton in Ashfield...

S omerset-based civil engineering and plant hire specialist LA Moore is

having to buy in £300 worth of haulage a day to keep its business running following the theft of its heavy plant carrier, a...

previous livery, etched on to the paintwork.

T hieves cut through a chain secur i ng a double gate to

get to a Ford Transit 100 panel van belonging to truck and van rental firm Hinkley Business Vehicles. The white van, (reg J3...

A n artic and trailer worth around £80,000 was stolen from

Langdon Industries in Somerset during the night of 7-8 June. The unit, registration number H8775YA, is a Scania 143-170...

N ewcombe Transport Services suffered its ninth breakin within 15 months

when it lost its Mercedes tractive unit from its Blaby industrial estate site. Thieves smashed the window of the vehicle, broke...

A 12m Crane Fruehauf tandem axle curtainsider belonging to WA Glendinning

was stolen from a lorry park in Doncaster last week. The red trailer, which has a cream band around it, has the company name on...

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Flexible friends

From sick cover for owner-drivers to holiday relief in large fleets, agency drivers are an essential part of the industry— but...

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L ate last year Scania revised its approach to twin-steer tractors

by introducing a lifting second steer axle. Combined with an improved weight transfer device this makes Scania's unusual...

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TOLL S' ORIES

• If the Government introduces motorway tolls two-thirds of Britain's truck drivers plan to switch to Aroacis in a bid to avoid...

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WAYS & MEANS

UK hauliers on international work have long been used to paying as they go. Now the DOT is evaluating road pricing schemes for...

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Challenge appreciated

any thanks to editor Brian Weatherley and all at Commercia/Motor for organising a most successful competition and the...

Nukewatch help

'p he article on road haulage 1 of nuclear warheads and materials covered the issue very thoroughly and Patric Cunnane hinted...

Welcome news

rp he reoent pronouncement 1 from the unions that drivers have taken more than enough of the economic stick came as welcome...

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P 'Can we expect a low

VED for 44-tonners on six axles?' , N oise limits, weekend and bank holiday lorry bans, 28-tonne gross vehicle weight limits...