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22nd June 1995
22nd June 1995
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• Two British truck drivers have been 'hailed as heroes

after pulling three people to safety from an exploding motorway cafe near Eynatten on the Belgian/German border, Alan Sharpe...

The assets and goodwill of Southampton-based Kingswood Transp. , which

went into receivership on 26 May, has been bought by locally-based general haulier Norman Offer (Transport).

• Former Freight Transport Association president Angus

C has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours list for services to the freight industry. Clark's presidency ended in...

• Vehicle contract hire group Hill Hire has recorded a ,)

inc i ut_.se in pre-rak ofits to £2.3m on a £1 3.1m

turnover, for the year to the end of March 1995.

‘. The Department of Transport is considering allowing drivers to

turn left through a red light at a junction in a bid to ease traffic flows. This is already allowed in the US.

* A £13.5m RO - R0 terminal has been opened at the

Association of British Port's Port of Immingham on the Humber Estuary. The 40-acre Nordic terminal operates 20 sailings a week...

Review calls for end to traffic 'fiefdoms'

by Nicky Clarke • Hauliers could save more than Lim a year and receive better enforcement if the Government accepts a...

DOT figures back calls for 44-tonners

• The campaign to allow sixaxle 44-tonners on UK roads received a boost this week with the release of figures proving that...

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Hauliers warned to reject weight threat

by Lee Kimber • Transport lawyers are urging operators to boycott threatening admission forms issued by Trading Standards...

NFC jobs on the line as

figures slump by £50m • Drivers at transport group NFC face an anxious few months with hundreds of jobs due to go. New...

AN END TO THE FIEFDOMS

E sho uld be carved up into g i ht w ith fiefdoms" o six w th one king as head six w th one king as head of the realm. No, not...

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mister backs' LGV campaign

by Patric Cunnane • Commercial Motor's campaign to regulate LGV driving schools has won Government backing for a voluntary...

Shell calls for good manners

• Shell drivers are being told to use "good manners" to fend off angry demonstrators complaining about the company's decision...

Tibbett & Britten looks at Axial losses

Tibbett & Britten is attempting to cut losses at its car transporter arm, Axial, by restructuring its major distribution...

Hijack victim seeks his good Samaritan

by Lee Kimber • A Fishguard haulage company is trying to find the British driver who rescued one of its drivers when he was...

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MPs press for EC bull-bar ban

by Karen Miles • The campaign to ban bullbars reaches a key stage next month when the Parliamentary Transport Select Committee...

WHO SHOULD BE LIABLE?

• Consignor liability should be considered as a means of reducing overloading, says North-East Traffic Commissioner Keith...

Tachos: dealers fight back

Truck dealers facing prosecution for not using tachograph charts may set up a fighting fund to challenge decisions against...

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• TDG's logistics arm Beck & Poilitzer has won two contracts, worth £4m, to carry car parts and bicycles for

retailer Halforcis. A dedicated fleet of 22 Dal artics and

drawbar units will operate out of Ha'fords' West Midlands, Paisley and Silvertown depots.

TNT Logistics has signed a 24m - a - year contract to provide warehousing

and distribution for Manchesterbased power company --web . Shops in South Wales and the SouthWest will be supplied out of a...

Contract-hire and logistics firm has won the three-year, £6.3m contract

to distribute for HMSO Office Supplies out of its Bristol Centre. Ryder will dedicate 40 new vehicles and 44 staff to the...

Rotherham-based warehousing and distribution firm Gloystarne has won the UK

distribution for Italian confectioner Ferrero, which will involve 390 staff at sites in Rotherham, Scotland, Milton Keynes,...

• Tipton-based Group 4 Nightspeecl has signed a £400,000 contract

to handle urgent deliveries for the British Printing Company. Collections can be made as late as 22:00hrs for a 09:00hrs delivery.

Wheel safety reforms

by Ian Wylie • The British Standards Institute is updating its wheel safety standard following a dramatic rise in the number of...

Tacho evidence convicts driver

• A truck driver has been found guilty of speeding before a fatal accident on the A75 Stranraer-Dumfries road in March 1994,...

Trucking tune

• "I've got a brand new Eddie Stobart song" is ringing out across the airwaves this week as veteran pop group the Wurzels pay...

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Rail sell-off sparks overseas interest

• Foreign firms are lining up to take advantage of the British Rail privatisation—with US companies leading the way. The...

Row brews over M5 bridge limit

by Lee Kimber III Hauliers could pay up to £47m over the next three years because the Highways Agency is forcing abnormal loads...

Britain votes against Euro road sign plan

• French proposals to use the same type of roalsigns all over Europe have been condemned as unnecessary, dangerous and...

Parts prices to drop in Dutch auction?

• A major commercial vehicle manufacturer is negotiating to buy components using a novel auction method that could halve the...

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• ZF and Renault intend to pool resources to produce

mid-range nine and 16speed Ecomid gearboxes. As the medium-duty market is relatively small both companies expect savings from...

• Ford is refusing to confirm that it plans to

introduce a semiautomatic Transit to the range, even though the idea is well under development. Commercial vehicles manager...

CityClass is ultra-low with step-free floor

• Iveco displayed its new generation of ultra-low-floor buses at the UITP City Transport 1 95 show in Paris. The CityClass was...

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There's oney n tick

B irdman Bill Oddie soared into Torbay to open the Institute of Wastes Management's 98th annual show, writes Bryan Jarvis....

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Details required

• A disciplinary hearing on the Scottish Traffic Area licence held by Rochesterbased Pall Mall Services Group has been...

Tacho all-clear

• West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh renewed the licence for 15 vehicles and 20 trailers held by SW Pegg, of Burton upon Trent,...

Murton cuts

• Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Seaham, Co Durham-based Murton Motors being cut to eight vehicles and...

Time appeal

• Bromley, Kent-based Ashvale Transport is appealing to the Transport Tribunal against the decision of the South Eastern &...

Advice break

• A bid by Tipton-based Major Singh Kheela to change his operating centre was adjourned for him to take legal advice after West...

'Over range' on weigher

fl • Basingstoke magistrates fined Powys haulier John Lewis £750 after convicting him of using an artic which weighed more...

Licence is cut to end of year

• The licence held by P and G Haulage, of Willenhall, has been cut so that it now expires at the end of the year because of...

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Hours and load convictions go unreported

• Banff-based Andrew Watson's licence has been cut from four vehicles and five trailers to one vehicle and one trailer by...

Bill reveals excess hours

• Falsifying a tachograph chart and taking insufficient daily rest, cost Inverurie lorry driver Ronald Watson £440 in fines and...

Maintenance has to be monitored

• Birmingham based City Waste's licence authorisation has increased from 15 vehicles and 15 trailers to 25 vehicles and 10...

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Explosive issue in the Chtmnel

I do not envy Mr Higgs, the director general of the Fertiliser Manufacturers Association in his dutiful attempt to defend the...

Don't lose your head on headboards

I refer to the recent article regarding headboards on semi-trailers and I find it most disturbing that neither United Road...

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Strong wicket

5 Ins column is not usually in the business of promoting cricket matches, normally concentrating on the sound of diesel engines...

Head for heights

r, rivers with experience Li of the Blackwall Tunnel know that what goes down doesn't neccesarily come up. The northbound...

Volvo Truck fans bring 'em back from the dead

y good pal Martyn Barrett from Southampton writes to update me on the goings on at the Volvo Truck Club. Seems the members have...

Wash and ouch!

umour has it Naomi Campbell turned down an offer to model the Maestro portable eye and face wash judging by this "in-your-face"...

Foden builds up a head of steam

0 am sure readers of this estimable organ need no encouragement to visit the annual Foden gathering this coming weekend, 24/25...

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Double booking

• Places on Superfast Ferries' new service between Patras in Greece and Ancona in Northern Italy can be reserved when operators

European Ferries

book a cross-Channel passage on P&O's ships. The reservations must be made one week before departure. Contact P&O European...

Group help

• The Abbey Group of Consultancies is a consultancy service formed by five independent companies to offer a full range of...

Stateside speedster

• Emery Expedite has been set up in Kansas City, Missouri to offer high-speed door-to-door deliveries throughout the US....

Tyre collection

• Pirelli is guaranteeing a collection and delivery service of less than one week for customer-owned tyres scheduled for...

Tech programme

• Thirty six seminar programmes are to be presented at the Autotech Congress and Exhibition to be held at the Birmingham NEC on...

Logistics show

• The Freight Logistics Exhibition is a new exhibition for all disciplines in logistics. It will run in alternate years to...

Battery book

• The launch of Hella's 1995/96 battery catalogue ties in with a 63% discount and an extended 90-day credit scheme on wet and...

In the know

• Crawford's Directory of City Connections includes information on nearly 2,000 stock market companies, 1,400 private companies...

Lifting offer

• Longdon Truck Equipment is supplying Zepro aluminium column lifts suitable for 3.5 and 7.5 tonne GVW trucks at £2,000 for a...

Four eyes

• A four-way photo-beam system from Prokam Security Systems offers greater security against false alarms by triggering when...

Security packages

• Scania has introduced a range of security packages for old and new models. Included is an alarm system, incorporating an...

Flexible friend

• Simplair has introduced a high grade aluminium tubing system for compressed air pipework which is corrosion Hollow Bar system...

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Clearer charges

▪ Fina's Diesel Euro Service card will be replaced by a new card, Fina Eurotraffic. from 1 July. Fina syas the new card has a...

Keep clean

• Jamont UK's Spray Soap System is said to reduce soap usage by 50% by dispensing a concentrated soap film over the user's...

Fast exhausts

• Timax Exhaust Systems has launched Truckmaster Direct, a high-speed delivery and technical advice system for its Truckmaster...

Stacker saver

• Jungheinreich is selling a light duty, fully automated stacker crane for a price comparable with a conventional manually...

Crush records

• OTC is supplying certificates with its oil filter crushers on which the crushing power and amount of oil extracted from the...

A5 Shrewsbury

• Expect delays for up to six months while strengthening work is carried out on Atcham bridge. One-way working will cause...

Widnes bypass

• Work has begun on the southern extension to the A568 Widnes eastern bypass. The one-mile dual carriageway extension will...

Brentwood, Essex. it was taken at 22:30 hrs on Saturday

10 June and although the police were called immediately, they were unable to trace the vehicle. It has a red cab with a black...

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o aero kits save you money? Last year CM came up with some definitive answers when we took an MAN 38-tonne tractor around the...

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• ) , -) r I Mike Aldridge is engineering

services director for the NFC's Exel Logistics and BRS fleets, which include some 1,600 7.5-tonners. Most run at the top...

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Profit from cost control

Throughout the pages of Fleet Focus we shall be looking at the one crucial, but often undermanaged, issue that concerns all...

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Rewards of rental

To buy or not to buy? That is the question for truck operators. Future developments in contract hire might change the options,...

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Tratitional Meg remains strong

• Many sectors within the road transport industry still prefer to provide their own finance and own the asset, as a recent...

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Shaking the movers

With seemingly no end in sight to the freefall in UK house prices and 1.2 million householders in negative equity, removal...

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A high-quality service keeps haulage customers coming back but presenting

the right image can make the difference that clinches a deal in the first place. M any people were shocked when BT spent tens...

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'Why should they be bothered putting a kingpin clamp on them?'

i I 'm constantly staggered by the way hauliers allow their drivers to abandon valuable trailers in out-of-the-way loybys or...