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After 30 years, a controversial operator has stepped aside in favour of one of his daughters. Mike Jewell and Chris Tindall...
TRUCK WATCH, THE regional freight crime reduction initiative. has been extended to the Yorkshire and Humber regions. In...
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MAN HAS WITHDRAWN its hostile takeover bid for Scania and is now seeking a friendly merger with the Swedish truck manufacturer...
PALLETLINE, THE original hub-and-spoke-based distribution network, has climbed back into the black. It made a pre-tax profit of...
THE BRITISH Association of Removers (BAR) is calling on London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Transport for London to provide cash...
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Data storage proposals for digitachs look likely to differ from analogue tacho requirements, causing confusion for all. Louise...
VOSA IS NOW halfway through a study into headlamp aim which is designed to find out why this is the most common cause of trucks...
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EVANS TRANSPORT, the Devon-based warehousing and distribution company, made a pretax profit of £228,000 last year on a £10.6m...
SPF.CI A LIST CV INSURANCE broker Lloyd Latchford has launched a 'pay by how you drive' scheme. Premiums for this scheme, which...
Barry Proctor considers the aftermath of the recent storms and makes a couple of suggestions to reduce the impact of similar...
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Sensitive anti-terrorist screening equipment is picking up natural radiation emitted by loads such as tiles and cabbages. David...
THE UK arm of Italian haulage company Arcese Trasporti has taken delivery of the first Euro-5 Stralis Active Space tractor...
TDG SON, the heavy loads division of TDG, has clinched a 126.4m deal with Benelux prefabconcrete producer Betonson to handle...
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The families of two schoolgirls killed in a collision with an artic have made a special plea to drivers to stay off the phone....
EDDIE STOBART HAS placed its feet firmly in the EGR camp by ordering more than 500 EGRequipped Scanias. Following trials,...
THE COMPANY distributing cash machines on behalf of American firm NCR insists the manufacturer is not about to close its Dundee...
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GreenChem admits it was slow to capitalise on Ad Blue's introduction. Julian Milnes reports. A MAJOR UK and European supplier...
CM READERS have a chance to transform their transport management for free this week as we give away DBS software worth 21,000....
BELGIUM TIPPING AND moving-floor trailer manufacturer STAS has finalised details of its partners for the company's UK and...
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comes the Renault Maxity Renault has stuck its badge on the Nissan Cabstar and re-named it the Maxity. Andy Salter drives...
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In the UK the Maxity is set to go head-to-head with the lsuzu NKR and Mitsubishi Fuso Canter 35 so that's how it has to be...
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An operator whose trucks were confiscated wants to get back on the road. Peter Swingler reports. A CAR TRANSPORTER firm owner...
EUROPEAN UNION scientists have developed a tracking/ monitoring system to help livestock hauliers comply with the latest EU...
HARPERS WASTE Management expects to cut fuel bills by 3% under a managed tyre policy with ATS Euromaster. The waste removal and...
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The great meeting of minds and manufacturing promised in the VAN-Scania takeover has failed to take place. Where will the truck...
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Chris Harwood of LGV Trainers has issues with training funds, agencies and driving schools. Tim Maughan gives him the...
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I READ with great interest your article surrounding the use of speed cameras and socalled 'excessive speed' (CM 25 January). As...
I HAVE just spent several happy hours skimming through the 369 pages of the latest draft of the EC whole-vehicle type approval...
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Gray went to Dover to discuss them with Dover Harbour Board chief executive Bob Goldfield. I n 2006 no less than 2.3 million...
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A MANCHESTER operator has been ordered to pay £6,148 in fines and costs after permitting a driver to breach the drivers' hours...
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A NORTH YORKSHIRE firm of plant hire contractors has been given a formal warning after North Eastern Deputy Traffic...
USING A VEHICLE without an 0-licence and displaying a forged 0-licence identity disc in the windscreen cost Paul Mellor of...
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SOUTH EASTERN AND Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps has told objectors to an operating centre that he shares...
A bid for a licence for eight vehicles and eight trailers by SJ Slater Ltd to enable the company to take over the business of...
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1 f you've ever thought twice about contacting the police as a witness to a fatal road accident, lorry hijacking or theft, then...
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New drivers' hours regulations are on the way. To help digest them, Pat Hagan focuses on the 10 things you need to know. I...
same. Drivers can still do nine hours a day, extendable to 10 hours twice a week. As for weekly limits. although current rules...
At the moment, a driver's compulsory 45-minute break for every four-and-a-half hours of driving can be split into three...
areas of change. Bosses currently have to compensate drivers with extra breaks after they have reduced their 11-hour rest...
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Legislation: Drivers' hoots for bosses is that drivers can now effectively refuse to take their rest in the vehicle if they...
If daily rest is split, the current rules demand there can he only three periods. The first two have to he at least two hours...
The big change here is how you can reduce rest periods. Under current rules the required 45 hours can be cut to 36 at the...
A fairly straightforward adjustment, as the required daily rest period for drivers who double-man trucks increases from eight...
Under existing regulations, when travelling by ferry or train, daily rest can only be interrupted once; part of the rest has to...
No room for confusion any more over driving done on private sites, rather than public roads. The EU is clear that all driving...
As from 11 April, drivers must record all other work â including any for other employers â if it's done in the same week as...
The new regulations allow a country to impose a penalty on a driver or employer for an infringement detected on its territory...
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T o be honest, 2006 was not a vintage year for CM'S truck testers. The biggest single reason was the imminent arrival of the...
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Engine: 1. 9-litre, 118hp Transmission: Six speed all-synchromesh manual gearbox GVW: 1 ,975 kg Load volume: I 6rn Tested:...
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Engine: 2.5-litre, 141hp Transmission: five-speed synchromesh gearbox with two-range transfer box and selectable 4WD...
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A nyone who travels regularly on the M20 or M25 will have witnessed this scene. A foreign-registered left-handdrive artic and a...
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Nearside accidents are on the increase so ways to improve nearside rear vision are a hot transport topic. Anything other than a...
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A fter interviewing the most influential vehicle designer of the last century, Giorgetto Giugiaro, at his headquarters outside...
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As well as ensuring compliance with key legislation such as the WM, telematics systems can help reduce emissions by boosting...
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The future Since he arrived at CVA at the start of the year Matt Brookes has been busy addressing added-value sectors of the...
future. Kevin Swallow reports. F °Rowing the recent departure of auctioneer Charlie Wright, Commercial Vehicle Auctions (CVA)...