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25th April 2002
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Austrian jailed for illegally employing East Europeans

by CM's German correspondent The Austrian haulier at the cetre of the 'social dumping' scan. dal that has rocked the Luxembourg...

PROFITS Sad DFDS Transport's profits in the UK and Ireland

soared by 193% in 2001 to reach £3.4m. Managing director Jens Skibsted Nielsen says that the group's prospects for 2002 are...

BREWS AVIUM

Tibbett & Britten has become the first specialist logistics service provider to win a Queen's Award for international Trade. In...

BREAKDOWN DWI A boy was killed last week when a

17-tanner hit a broken down car on the hard shoulder of the M6. The truck was heading north at Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham...

ROAD SPEND Hampshire County Council will spend £39m on improving

the county's roads over the next 12 months. The money will be halved between structural maintenance of roads and bridges arid...

FERRIES GO Ferry operator P&O plans to cut a number

of its routes. including Dover to Zeebrugge, so it can slim down its fleet from ten ships to eight.

DX RAN The European Commission plans to publish proposals in

the summer aimed at harmonising European fuel duty over the next ten years, The EC is talking to the International Road...

NASTY MOUNT Freight Transport Association chief executive Richard Turner has

met with MEPs to clear up confusion over EU changes to the drivers' hours regulations.

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TAN-21 causes huge delays

• Hauliers In some parts of the country are sending vehicles out on the road without Operator's Licence discs as Traffic Area...

Bogus traffic wardens are beyond arm of law

• by Guy Sheppard A potential loophole in the law could allow criminal gangs to escape prosecution if they impersonate traffic...

W&G aims to raise respect for professional drivers

Transport & General irkers Union general secre'y Bill Morris is spearheading "high-profile" campaign to se the status of truck...

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Brown promises to charge foreigners

w by Miles Brignall Hard-pressed hauliers who breathed a sigh of relief when the Chancellor announced a freeze on diesel duty...

COMMENT

Time for a Brit disc! Been worrying about the everincreasing number of foreignregistered trucks on our roads— especially those...

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Congestion blamed 2 "

8 May for hours offences by Pete Swingler A Nest Midlands haulier has blamed a string of hours convictions on increasing...

MAN agrees to chassis repaint on wrong order

2 MAN has been criticised by a Midlands haulier for failing to act over allegedly poor customer service provided by one of its...

Irish insurers enjoy a boom

is Irish insurers made almost nine times the profits of the UK industry between 1983 and 1999, according to a report by the...

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More trouble brews at P&O spot division

• by Sally Nash P&O Trans European has warned unions it is 'restructuring" its troubled spot and affreightment division where...

Stowaways prefer to go by rail

x) Asylum seekers have switched their attention from trucks to freight trains in response to tighter security at Eurotunnel's...

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Truck thieves beware...

II by Chris Tindall Fou!! Wes! Midlands police forces have teamed up in an attempt to rid the region of its reputation as the...

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DRS: Swapping trad for high-tech

• A household name can be a doubleedged sword. Everybody knows what you are, but they may not know what you can do. With a...

The Dynafleet service, which will also be unveiled at the

NEC, costs BRS about £1,000 on each new truck. But that pales into insignificance compared to BRS's planned fleet replacement...

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All the belles of the ball

BMC UK will make its debut at a UK truck show with the Turkish-built, Cumminspowered trucks already seen under the ERF EP...

Fleet management and telematics Safety and security

These days, hauliers are as likely to be using a keyboard as an ignition key: ICS Black Box will be at the NEC with its new...

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Accessories and parts for every motoring occasion

Italian brake manufacturer 8 reriibu, bestknown for car and motorcycle applications, will show a range of CV brake discs for...

Lifts on the level, up and under

Rateliff's stand will, as usual, feature a wide range of tail-lifts, including the FILR1507FP "level-ride" retractable model....

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Citroen's varieties

• by Colin Barnett Funny things, joint ventures. Throughout the planning and pre-production stages, it's all touchy-feely...

Driving impressions

• During the UK launch of the New Look Relay at Citroen UK's Slough HQ we were able to try the latest Sevel vans on the road...

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Fast on the smooth tough on the mu

• by Toby Clark Six months after its launch, Volvo has expanded the FM family and now offers a full range of construction,...

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Denso injects life into Euro-4

The Japanese Dense Corporation Is shortly to begin production of components for a new common-rail injection system designed to...

Arval's Actros double-whammy tanker is 'unique'

• Arval PHH believes that its latest placement, supplied to Baxter Johnson Oils, may be unique. the vehicle in question is a...

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Centre granted with conditions

A Reading based plant hire firm has succeeded in its bid for a new two-vehicle licence after agreeing to a number of...

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Bell gives one more chance to get it right

A Manchester haulier was given one more chance to get its maintenance sorted when it appeared before North Western Traffic...

Ten prohibitions for new firm in just eight months

A Walsall company whose maintenance standards were so poor that it received seven immediate and three delayed prohibitions in...

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Ferodo CV catalogue

• Federal-Mogul has published a new edition of its Ferodo CV, van and car catalogue on CD-ROM. It now includes dimensions and...

Spilkil kits

• Cleanaway's Technical Waste division is equipping its vehicle fleet with truck spill kits supplied by Empteezy of West...

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lam writing in response to the Commercial Motor article with

regard to a Public Inquiry presided over by David Dixon, Traffic Commissioner for the West Midland Traffic Area, when an...

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Congratulations to Peak Performance Management for winning the title of

'Best Risk Management Company' at an awards ceremony described as the fleet industry equivalent of the Oscars. The award is a...

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hings are looking good for Citroen—figures published by the Society

of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show it has regularly been swapping second place with Vauxhall in the UK van market so far...

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T his month's Tech Tips choice is the heaviest variant of

Isuzu's Nseries, the NQR 7.5-tonner. Isuzu trucks rust came onto the UK market in 1997 with 3.5 and 6.atonne models; the...

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make good use of fork-lifts: whether they're owned, contract hired

or simply borrowed. 11111 ost hauliers make good use of fork-lifts: whether they're owned, contract hired or simply borrowed....

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ACCOU

Mil ost, though by no means all, hauliers fall into the definition of small or medium enterprises (SMEs): the very group that...

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VANS VAUXHALL VIVARO 1.911112700 SWB

0 ur Vivaro is generously specced, with nearly three grand's worth of extras on board. Some goodies we would be more likely to...

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A t its simplest level haulage is about moving goods from

A to B. and every customer has his own needs. But no matter how specialist those needs they will not worry Furnell Transport...

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needs more than just dropping off a pallet and saying

'thank you very much'. It means we can get asked to deliver anything from a microchip to an incubator or an airship." In many...

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An early start today, making some calls from the mobile

to key clients ensuring today's dryers are in and whether any last minute drivers are needed. As a driving agency it is...

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Tipping semis in demand

• Tipper trailers are in great demand, as is reflected by the price fetched by a io-year-old Fruehauf at a recent sale held at...

Hardie's base in Cheshire

• Thomas Hardie has set up a P.m second-hand truck centre in Middlewich, Cheshire. "We've purchased seven acres of land...

Rhodes moves away from ERF

Rhodes has been with the company for a year, having previously worked for Renault. His roots are in the independent truck...

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Launches set to end tractor slump

• Dealers are hoping demand for new tractors will start to pick up after a disappointing couple of months. New products on the...

New home for Holmes

• Hertfordshire Mercedes-Benz dealer S&B Commercials will move into a new four-acre depot in a year's time, says managing...

It's luxurious

• "Auctions have tended to look after buyers very poorly, and that's something we intend to alter," says Mike Gray, CV sales...

MERCEDES-BENZ TAKEOVER Mercedes - Benz has taken charge of heavy truck sales

throughout Peterborough-based dealership Fengate's territory. No explanation for the decision has been given by the...

HIGHEST MAMMON

Accurate description of CVs entered for auctions is vitally important, but the picture painted by the vendor isn't always a...

WARRINGTON VILLAGE

Dealership Warrington LDV is set to join forces with Wallasey, Merseyside-based Village Motor Company. Village will take...

INDEPENDENT CHANGES

Independent CV workshops are set to benefit from changes to the Block Exemption regulations. "The European Commission's latest...