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17th March 1994
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BRIEFS

• Rod Heather, former managing director of Foden has joined Reno; It ',/' as cornmercial sales director. Renault announced 13...

SNCF to sue over Chunnel delays

by Amanda Bradbury • BR moved swiftly this week to distance itself from French railways operator SNCF which is intending to sue...

No payout in Kildonan Transport crash

• The joint receiver of Scottish independent haulier Kildonan Transport says the company is likely to show at least a Lim...

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DVLA clamps down on VED exemptions

by Nicky Clarke • Thousands of vehicles will begin paying higher tax rates this year as the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency...

Keep trucks in their place

MI Local authorities should encourage the relocation of distribution and operating centres so they use the most suitable...

Law will change on receiverships

• Trade Secretary Michael HeseRine is set to change the law on company receiverships following a controversial court decision...

VI testing backed by transport MPs

• The cross-party transport select committee has recommended that the testing carried out by the Vehicle Inspectorate should...

DOT goes slow on 0-licence revamp

• The Department of Transport is understood to have made a U-turn on the way in which continuous licensing is now to be...

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PED OUT

• A switch to pipeline deliveries and a reduction in the number of fuel tankers delivering to Manchester Airport could become a...

Ensign trucks missing

by Steve McQueen • Chelmsford Police were called in by receivers at Robson Rhodes last week after it emerged that a fleet of...

Astra goes down

• More than 40 small hauliers are unlikely to get debts of up to £9,000 each paid back following the collapse of freight...

Burmah drops fleet to give contract to Heron

by Juliet Parish • Fuel wholesaler Burmah Petroleum Fuels plans to cut its transport costs by up to 10% by dropping most of its...

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TDG has cash for acquisition

by Juliet Parish • Transport Development Group is turning to UK and Continental acquisitions after raising "a bundle of cash"...

Thirty drivers on tacho charges

• Thirty drivers employed by Portsmouth fresh produce haulier Mainland Market Deliveries are facing tachograph charges at the...

Lovers Lane appeal set for May

• The Lovers Lane Transport appeal that led to the European Court's ruling on the interpretation of the four and a half hour...

Profit boost leads Hays' EU expansion

• Hays signalled its intention to go for distribution growth on the Continent last week when it posted half-year results with...

Half fail in M-way check

• A police check of 30 vehicles on the M6 at Perry Barr last week has resulted in half the vehicles-14—being issued with...

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eavyweight decision time

by Brian Weatherley • While the Department of Transport has been busy debating what constitutes a "railhead journey" many of...

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STRATEGY, WHAT STRATEGY?

STRATEGY: "A plan for gaining an advantage." Hands up everyone who thinks the Government has one for road transport? We only...

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Cheaper and safer Ford CDVs

by Toby Clark • Standard driver's airbags and door-reinforcing bars are among changes to the specifications and prices of...

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Bodies on a budget

Fewer bodybuilders have been exhibiting at the Birmingham Motor Show in recent years, and while their presence has grown at the...

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Eastwood warned

• St Ives, Cornwall-based Nicholas Eastwood was warned about vehicle maintenance by Western DLA John Robins at a Penzance...

Overload fine

• A warehouseman who loaded pallets in the reverse order cost Bakers Transport of Sheffield and one of its drivers £688.12 in...

Two by two

• Granting Fort Williambased Stewart McCallum International a licence for two vehicles and two trailers, Scottish LA Michael...

Decision quashed

• The Transport Tribunal has quashed a decision by South Wales DLA Gerrard Sullivan to disqualify the directors of...

No action

• LA Michael Betts took no action against the licence of Maidens-based John Marshall & Sons at an Ayr disciplinary inquiry, but...

Formal warning for PM

• No action has been taken against the licence held by Cumbrian hauliers Joan and Peter Newton following vehicle excise duty...

Whittaker tack fine quashed

• Preston Crown Court has quashed a £1,000 fine imposed on NL Whittaker by Lancaster magistrates for failing to have a two-year...

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Compressed rubbish overload

• An overloaded refuse vehicle has cost Al lerdale District Council in Workington and one of its drivers £640 in fines and...

Frenchmen fined

r i• Three Norbert 0 Dentressangle drivers have been ordered to pay 11,065 fines and costs by Rochdale magistrates, for...

Licence loss ended job: not dismissed

• A Glasgow industrial tribunal has ruled that a driver employed by Paisley based WE! Malcolm was nor dismissed; his...

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Awards success for women

by Juliet Parish • They turned up at a Derbyshire hotel in their tractive units from all over the country: owner-drivers and...

Pavilion listens to drivers

IN Pavilion has been collecting truck drivers' views on its customer care-line since last October: now it has begun acting on...

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Marston's contract

R egarding the article ."Marston's closes its garage" in Commercial Motor 24 February on page 5, you state that Walsallbased...

Putting the record straight

I refer to your item regarding Prizeflow in CM 3-9 March_ While your report is correct, in that the authorisation on our...

Severn tippers

Tread with interest the larticle published in the issue of 24 February on Balfour Beatty regarding its operations on the second...

Call for common sense

I f the thoughts projected by the senior Licensing Authority (CM 24 Feb-2 Mar) came to fruition, the truck industry might be...

being fined 1300.

In a third court, a prosecution for overloading an axle by 900kg, while the vehicle was some 600kg inside its allowable gross...

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The egg lady speaks out

riving a truck and becoming an MP: these are the only two things you still have to be 21 to do legally in this country,...

Le Singer names Le Shuttle loco

ow, Luciano Pavarotti and Edwina Currie—is there room for two such huge egos on the same page? Our Pay was caught giving the...

A dummy run for royalty El his pristine lineup of lorries

at Body Shop's Littlehampton headquarters is not quite what it appears. The cosmetic retailer was expecting a visit from...

The way we were

oad haulage adapts to change better than any other sec - tor of British industry and CM has been recording those changes every...

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EVENTS Suspension courses

• ImS is to continue its programme of one day courses on SF air suspensions and axles aimed at fleet operators. The course...

Diesel conference

• A one day conference on diesel engine practice will take place on 22 April at Wil, in Switzerland. Speakers from Bosch, BP,...

Modellers rally

• The National Association of Road Transport Modellers is holding an open truck rally at the Transpennine Rally on 6/7 August....

NATS in Arizona

• The North American Trucking Symposium is to be held on 10-12 April at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale at Gainey Ranch,...

SERVICES Eastern Express

• Basildon-based VCS Road Services has introduced a twice-weekly trailer consolidation service to Hungary and Poland. And it is...

PUBLICATIONS European suppliers

• A report which identifies how vehicle component and materials suppliers can benefit from political, trading and manufacturing...

ROADWORKS

• The AA is warning drivers to expect delays in the following locations: London and the South East: M25 in Bucks at J15J16...

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H eath Waste Services & Building Supplies suffered the loss of

a Mercedes 16I7K skiploader which was stolen from Bicester Road, Aylesbury, on Monday 7 March between 00:00 and 06.30hrs. The...

A 0,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the

recovery of a yellow MAN tipper belonging to MG Cosgrove Civil Engineering. The vehicle was taken from a Tarmac compound on the...

T hieves have scored a hatrick raid on the premises of

a Coventry haulier: making off with two vehicles and a trailer belonging to the company in one night. A fourth vehicle hired...

B eware all truck thieves! A major new initiative against truck

theft is coming soon from Commercial Motor, the Road Haulage Association and Iveco Ford Truck. The Trucktheft Action Pack—...

new Leyland Daf FA50 with a 3.8m wheelbase was

stolen from Banbridge Coachworks, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland sometime during February. The company did not...

N orfolk Constabulary, Norwich Union, the Road Haulage Association and the

Freight Transport Association have started a truckwatch scheme to cover the Eastern Counties. Hauliers pay a one-off fee of...

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so co e

T hose manufacturers who don't offer a full-width cab are busy ta ing existing standard-roof single bunk sleeper cabs and...

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LONG AWAITED The Eurocab helps hide the fact that the

current SK cab is getting a little long in the tooth. This is just as well as Merc's long-awaited replacement heavy truck cab...

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ERF EC Sovereign

E RF's EC Sovereign cab is a high-spec sleeper that can stand alongside most of the continentals in its class. But to compete...

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IVECO FORD EuroTech

W ith the EuroTech Iveco has attempted to address all the criticisms of poor interior finish and cab comfort levelled at the...

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MAN 22.422 6X1

F or the second year running an MAN emerged from our handful of standard sleeper-cabbed artics as being the easiest on a...

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MERCEDES•BENZ 2544 6x2

M ercedes was a late-comer to high-roof cabs, launching the Eurocab late last year as standard on the 1850 and 2550 and as an...

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VOLVO F1142 Globetrotter T he FH12 has enjoyed its fair share

of plaudits and awards over the past year; testers have seen the luxury of the top-spec cabs and assumed that they represent a...

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NISSAN SUNNY VAN 13d

Price as tested: £8,680 (ex-VAT). plus 2144 for load liner. Engine: 1,681cc, 40kW (54hp) diesel. GVW: 1,650kg. Payload:...

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Three franchise parcels specialists led the field in CM'S winter

parcels surveyyhen 10 unwitting operators delivered next-day packages from Glasgow to Penzance. But how did they do it? We went...

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A mtrak rated first on service (48 points out of a

possible 50) and second on speed (23hr 27min) in our survey (CM 23 December-5 January). The secret of success? "All we do is...

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V olvo's new 12-litre engine was launched in the FH range

last September amid all the hype and publicity corporate PR could muster. Talk of a £600m development budget filled the...

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RECENT AND IMMINENT LEGISLATION

Si = statutory instrument cif = coming into force SI No 116 The Driving Licences (Designation of Relevant External Law) Order...

FUTURE LEGISLATION

EC Legislative Initiatives • The Vehicle Inspectorate options for the future-Consultation on the privatisation of HGV Test...

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STOP OFF

The Hollis The welcome could have been brighter and the sausages might have been warmed up but at least Cannock's A5 Truckstop...

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ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR THE ROAD TRANSPORT OPERATOR No 3: Moving abnormal indivisible loads under the Special Types Order...

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Produced in association with

SCAN 'IA Attendants, police and highway notice and projection marking ATTENDANT. In addition to the driver, an attendant must...

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AXLE, BOGIE AND GROSS WEIGHT LIMITS

The permitted gross and axle weights of vehicles used under the Order depend on which one of three vehicle categories is chosen...

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Special Types exerrptions from C and U Regulations

A vehicle made before 1 October 1989 and authorised under the Order (in any category) is exempt from the following C and U...