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3rd February 1994
3rd February 1994
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BRIEFS

• Members of reefer haulier association Transfrigoroute, will be able to dip into a network of international lawyers from March...

Food stores axe cost

by Amanda Bradbury and Juliet Parish • The bubble finally burst this week on supermarket distribution, as Tesco and J Sainsbury...

Us' powers in driver cases curbed

• Licensing Authorities are to have their powers restricted with regard to drivers involved in disciplinary cases, starting in...

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AAH loses another contract

by Juliet Parish • AAH Holdings will make 26 drivers redundant and close its Yeadon depot next month when it loses another...

• Christian Salvesen shares fell sharply this week as the company issued a profits warning.

The board believes profits before tax and exceptional items for the year ending March 1994 will be below current market...

Decision on VI testing soon

• A Government decision to privatise the Vehicle Inspectorate's commercial vehicle testing arm is expected within weeks,...

Haulier faces tacho charges

A manager of Beattockbased haulier North East Transport & Plant Hire (Broughty Ferry) is to be prosecuted on charges of...

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NFC chairmen in row

by Amanda Bradbury • A slanging match between NFC's current and past chairmen over treatment of the company's employees was...

Hauliers ask for checks and bills

• Regular users of the Severn River crossing should be sent itemised accounts to check they are not being overcharged for using...

Enforcement under scrutiny

• The enforcement of vehicle standards regulations is under review to determine whether it could be reduced or enforcement...

• A controversial report that has helped to wipe the

"green" sheen From diesel vehicles was published last week by a group of scientists studying urban air quality. The group was...

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Tippers needed for CrossRail spoil

• London tipper operators will win an additional 50,000 truck movements over five years when construction of the CrossRail...

Tetley to shed drivers

by Juliet Parish • Leeds brewer Joshua Tetley & Son is asking its 42 drivers and 100 warehouse staff to consider taking...

BOC set to acquire Onward

• BOC Distribution Services is on the verge of adding Onward Transport to its distribution network of 900 trucks and 34...

• If the Government continues to Fetter moil services, drivers'

jobs will be at risk in the UK transport industry, the Post Office told a powerful parliamentary select committee this week....

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Timber switch to road?

by Eugene SiIke • From this spring, West Highland hauliers are poised to win up to 50,000 tonnes of additional timber haulage...

BRIEFS

• Partco is set to become the third commercial vehicle firm to go for a stock market flotation this year. The truck and car...

Taylors in chase

• Taylors of Martley is targeting high profile rivals in the food and drinks distribution market including NFC and Eddie...

Waste paper work up for grabs

• Transport of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste paper within a 150-mile radius of Maidstone is up for grabs as a Kent...

Bosses buy B&P Engineering

• Transport Development Group announced last week that it is to sell Beck & Pollitzer Engineering to its management. In an...

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DEREGULATION DOUBTS

Like some anti-bureaucratic Dalek the Government is busy shouting "De-regulatel...Deregulate!" The words are currently echoing...

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CM's future trailers

by Brian Weatherley • Commercial Motor's 38 tonne roadtest programme has been brought bang up to date with the arrival of two...

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FH gets front air

• Following the recent launch of its FH range, Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) is offering front air suspension on a heavy drawbar...

Elite targets the Scarab keeps

urban beer drops by Steve Banner • Dennis Eagle is targeting big breweries running urban artics with a lightweight tractor...

• Scarab has supplied three Multicars to keep the UK

rail station at the Channel Tunnel free of snow and ice in winter. The German-built 4.1-tonner is powered by a Volkswagen 1.9...

Onipower blows dust off heavies

• Unipower's C series bonneted civilian heavy hauler looks set to make its debut later this year. The Watford-based company...

• Volvo is building a right hand drive FL1 0

6x6 rigid for a civilian customer at its Irvine plant in Scotland. Full details are not yet available, but it is likely that...

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Green solutions to red tape?

by Nicky Clarke • Law-abiding operators will welcome transport minister Steven Norris' announcement two weeks ago that...

• Many other proposals to deregulate the transport industry were

put to the Government, including 44 tonnes on six axles for all vehicles. The decision to confine 44 tonnes to vehicles...

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• The licence held by Andrew Combes, of Muir of

Ord, Ross-shire was revoked by Scottish Deputy LA Allan Worthington, when Cornbes failed to appear at an Inverness public...

Cleared of deception

• Harrison International Freight Services, of Rufforth, near York has been cleared by magistrates of using a vehicle without an...

Driver wins bridge sacking

• ASJ Freight Forwarding has been ordered to pay £4,987 compensation to a driver dismissed after a bridgebashing incident. A...

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Discharge for Tyson

• A man who used his son-in-law's licence was given an absolute discharge, after admitting using a vehicle without an...

Bibby gets a green light for six trucks

• Widnes-based JF Bibby (Trucksales) has been granted a licence to operate six vehicles. The company wants to continue part of...

Licence bid refused in 'bizarre' case

• North Eastern Deputy LA Brian Horner has refused to grant a licence to MC Garages (Barnsley), trading as Majestic Transport,...

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BRIEFS

• Citroen's C25 Relay van range has gone up in price by an average of 1.45%. The cheapest model is now the C25E 1000, at £9,275...

Suzuki undercuts 4x4s

by Toby Clark • Suzuki has added another model to the UK's growing list of 4x4 commercial vehicles. Despite a comprehensive...

Japanese-built SuperCarry is relaunched to rival Hijet

• Suzuki has relaunched its SuperCarry microvan. The van has been updated and priced to undercut the Daihatsu Hijet and is now...

0 IPUMM importer SMC Industrial may assemble right-hand-drive versions of the

Portuguese 4x4 in the UK writes Steve Banner. Currency considerations have prompted the move, says Managing Director Ian...

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1 3 ook closely at this Volvo F12 Globetrotter with its

pristine, clean shaven, suspiciously-youthful driver. You might be forgiven for thinking the vehicle is driven by a dummy (or a...

Bo Biorkman

5 rom Scania in Sweden comes the sad news of the death of Bo Bjorkman at the age of 60: he headed Scania's PR activities for...

What's in a name

EE ews from tanker manufacturer Vallely Engineering which has supplied four vacuum combination tankers to Cox Cabins (aka Cox...

A moving account

Aft y old friend Arthur Ingram, author of many notable Aft y old friend Arthur Ingram, author of many notable books about road...

Stand by your phones!

ho is the lucky winner of CM's "Win-a-Strato" competition? Within the next fortnight, some lucky reader will get a phone call...

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Recipe for chaos

I t was interesting to hear the alternative proposals to the M25 widening scheme offered by the Home Counties rebel Tory MPs...

Where's the justice?

I have just read with disgust your piece titled Crackdown on Cowboys (CM 13-20 January 1994). In my opinion the sentence...

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DEALERS

Parts on wheels • Sherwood Group is launching a 29-hour Iveco Ford parts service in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South...

BUSINESS MOVES

Zuest on the move • International freight forwarder Zuest and Bachmeier has moved its head office from Coulsdon to the...

EVENTS

Bodies on show • The bodybuilders' exhibition, International Commercial Vehicle Bodywork Show, opens on 15 March with a visit...

Driver accolade

• Details of the newly titled Truck Driver of the Year and the Van Driver of the Year competitions will be announced on 4...

PUBLICATIONS

Tacho pocketbook • A fifth edition of TachDbook has been published by W&I Foster in the wake of the EC Court's recent...

TRAINING

Truck choice • Places are available on VBG's Artics vs Drawbar seminar near Runcorn. It will look at how legislation and...

FERRIES

New to St Malo • A new ferry route from Poole to the Breton port of St Main will operate from midMay to October. Brittany...

COMPETITIONS

Language class • Any hauliers who have broken the language barrier in the drive to increase their business in Europe have a...

PRODUCTS

First aid • The Glass Medic screen plaster is designed to stick on a chipped or cracked windscreen area to help contain damage...

ROADWORKS

Bridge break • The M6 will be reduced to two lanes in each direction between junctions 21 (Martinscroft) and 21a (Croft...

ROADWATCR

• For the latest road news around the UK simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak;...

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TOO GOOD TO R FUS

Scania doesn't produce rubbish, but it would like to move some of yours. Its latest 6x2 midlift/steer axle P93 chassis is...

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G as at tac k The Euro-1 emissions limit hardly caused a stir

among hauliers, so why start talking about Euro-2 when it's over two years away? Be warnedEuro-2 could have a significant...

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T he major burden of creating cleaner diesels clearly rests with

the truck manufacturers. But are the fuel companies pulling their weight? Bernd Gottschalk, who heads up Mercedes-Benz's truck...

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South London haulier Robson nearly folded six years ago—a victim

of over-expansion and failure to control costs. Now fitter, leaner and wiser, it attributes its renewed success to a strict...

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M any franchised dealers face closure thanks to changing methods of

selling commercial vehicles, according to a report by CAP Nationwide Motor Research It says several factors point to a total...

The number of franchised sales outlets for commercial vehicles has

fallen by a third over the past ten years. Hundreds more may disappear over the next decade if manufacturers opt to cut costs...

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MERCEDES 310D

T he bad news is that it has rained quite a bit since the last report on CMs Mercedes-Benz long term test van. The good news...

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'One problem we face is driver apathy when seeing our amber beacons'

4 have worked in the garage and the I recovery industry for over 25 years and have seen the industry change dramatically into...