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1st January 1998
1st January 1998
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Stagnant rates are crippling hauliers

by Nicky Clarke • More transport operations look set to go to the wall this year as hauliers across the country give up the...

BRIEFS

• TDG Williams is to manage a new CI m warehouse for paper converter Hawarden Sheeters near Chester in North Wales. • Drivers'...

Banned director fails in 0-licence bid

• A Cumbrian haulier who ran a number of failed companies and was banned from acting as a company director for 10 years has...

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Ferryrnasters temp killed by girder fall

by Rob Wiflock • A P&O Ferrymasters' temporary worker was crushed to death under tonnes of steel girders at the company's...

COMMENT

SAME OLD SAME OLD T here now follows an important announcement from the festive greetings department. Due to the current...

Truck drivers are fed up

• Professional drivers are one of the angriest and least satisfied group of workers in the UK. They made 4% of all calls to the...

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Ultimatum for URTU on Ford

by Sally Nash III The United Road Transport Union has been told it will be ejected from the TUC in February unless it...

Kinnock urged to end delays in East Europe

• EU Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock and the British Government are being urged to step in and help hauliers who are losing...

Seven years for smuggler

• A Surrey truck driver caught smuggling cannabis resin worth £500,000 has been jailed for seven years. Driver Michael Simms of...

Owners to appear on licences

• From next summer every driving licences issued by DVLA will include a picture of the owner. New drivers, and anyone applying...

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Best practice in the city

by Miles Brignall • The Freight Transport Association has published a guide to best practice for operators delivering into city...

CONTRACTS

• William Jackson Bakery has replaced half its 100strong delivery fleet with lveco Ford Cargo box vans financed by leasing firm...

A snapped bolt forces trucks off Forth Bridge

• Hundreds of heavy trucks were turned away from the Forth Road Bridge before Christmas after a steel bolt helping to secure...

Fergusons on the acquisition trail • Blyth-based Fergusons Transport has

bought fellow paper carrier Broads Transport of Plymouth as part of its aim to become a nationwide company. The deal,...

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BRIEFS

• Renault has added 148 trailer brake parts to its parts range so an operator can now take both truck and trailer to his...

New MAN on the block

• MAN's replacement for the F2000 long-haul tractor range—due in 1999— has been spotted during on-road trials in southern...

Ultra-light composite semi

by Bryan Jarvis • Stevens of Lakoren. Belgium, is developing an all-composite flat semi-trailer weighing just 3,800kg and...

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The right revs

for the j o b... Progress in design has led to a difference in the way trucks should be driven. Iveco has taken a detailed...

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

• Commercial Motor put one of the 470hp EuroStars around the Poplar 2000 route with Campbell as a passenger. Driving norrnally...

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B's Driver obeyed employer

• A Kent lorry driver, who admitted falsi fying a tachograph record and taking insufficient weekly rest, told Macclesfield...

Owner's absence was wrong

• A driver was said to have tied a rope round an axle after an air bag burst on a vehicle belonging to Welshpool haulier James...

Three-week suspension • The licence held by Invergordon-based Mackays Bulk

Haulage has been suspended for a period of three weeks by Scottish IC Michael Betts. The company had been called before the...

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'Wrongly worded' charge dismissed

• The defence costs of Derby shire heavy haulier Heanor Haulage are to he paid out of public funds after the company was...

Merseyside haulier 'unfit' for licence

• North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe is considering disqualifying Bootle, Merseyside-based Gary Johnson...

Three years for triple death

• A driver who lost control of his truck on a corner ploughing into a car and killing its three occupants has been jailed for...

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VANS

AERODYNAMICS AIR CONDITIONING Luton vans are an excellent way of maximising available space. The only drawback is that the...

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Merlin conjures up 12V power

• The new Voltec step down DC-DC converter from Merlin Equipment converts a 24V DC power supply on board larger vehicles to...

Under-slung unit cools down the running costs

• Europa Refrigeration has designed a multi-temperature system for road transport. Claimed to be the first underslung unit of...

Antares offers electrics surf

• Fleet managers, auto electn cians and operators can now surf the Internet to explore Antares' new web site. The company...

Dual voltage rotating light bar

• Vehicle lighting specialist Hello has launched a new Mini Light Bar. The amber warning light is E-approved and available in...

Flexing environmental benefits

• Dunlop Precision Rubber has developed an elastomeric fuel filler hose which combines low permeability with much greater...

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haulage factfile

CM's Haulage Tactile page provides busy operators with brief news items on: forthcoming events, services, business products,...

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bird's eye view by the hawk Commercial Motor takes road

haulage very seriously. However. once a week our quirky correspondent, the Hawk, steps off his perch to take a humorous look at...

Prangs for the memory

O f you consider yourself accident prone when you get behind the wheel, I assure you that you have nothing on dairy farm milker...

Foden's Christmas treat hen Foden the dog got up on

Christmas morning he found there was an extra special present waiting for him under the tree. Thanks to Alan Mayne, managing...

Barcode treat

F ed up with video games and virtual pets? Worried that your kids will grow up not knowing an axle from an artichoke? Then...

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CONMERCIAL MOTOR ROADTEST: VOLVO VN Price! UK equivalent £90,000 Engine: 12-litres, 425hp (317kVV).

GCW Class 8-80,000Ib (UK equivalent 36.36 tonnes) Fuel consumption: 9.93mpg (28.514/100km). What's got sow' into Volvo? First...

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Braking with

Tradition Jacobs Vehicle Systems, the well established US manufacturer of retarder systems, is in the vanguard of engine...

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questioL survi

When Lyn Flegg was unexpectedly left single-handed to run a transport company which was in debt she turned to her staff. With...

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Got a spare

E30,000. Scenario: Your haulage business has recently received £30,000 following the sale of an asset, say an HGV. What do you...

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CARGO

COF MISERY Smuggling illegal immigrants equals big bucks. Worldwide the trade is worth nearly £5.5bn and increasingly UK...

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TN WORST JO

Is HAULAG What is the worst job you've ever done? Steve Banner asked a number of hauliers to dredge up from their memory banks...

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DANGER

in the WOODS Falling prices for timber are putting more pressure on hauliers in this specialist sector. And the strain to...

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any questions

Jim Duckworth, editor of Road Transport law and head of Transport law Services, Woking, Surrey, helps solve your legal problems...

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'We must stand and fight

in Europe against ill thought-out proposals' T he issue of European legislation impinging on British industry is all too...