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4th April 2002
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A pensioner killed himself and another driver when he drove for four miles the wrong way down the M4 between J14 and J15 near...

TAX INUIIINBE Tipper operators must wait until next week to

find out if a legal challenge to the new aggregates tax has succeeded. The tax came into force on 1 April after the British...

TALKS OVER Talks between Dutch mail and logistics company TPG

and ConsIgnia about co-operation in the UK postal market have collapsed—TPG says it remains committed to developing a presence...

SENTENCE CUT Northern Irish driver Wilbert Porter, who killed three

people when his truck ploughed into a mobile crane on the M6. has had his five-year sentence cut to four years.

PLANS SCRAPPIIIP Government plans to widen 360 miles of motorway

by 2010 are likely to be scrapped—only one of eight schemes in the 10year transport plan is likely to be completed on schedule.

PROFITS JUMP Car transporter firm Autologic's profits jumped 52% last

year to £20,9m: among its acquisitions was UK firm Axial Group.

EMIT TAX Heads of government at the EU summit in

Barcelona have agreed that the Energy Taxation Directive should be passed by December; this could see the EU setting minimum...

UK hauliers are frozen out a Continentals take Euro wad

• by Guy Sheppard UK international hauliers suffered a huge drop in market share last year, even though the overall number of...

Skip driver ma] have crash clui

ft Police are appealing for help In tracing a skip lorry di who may hold clues to a 60-vehicle pile up on the Al no bound...

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:arum to boost M-hour stops

Local authority representatives will meet motorway sero station operators and drivers' leaders within the next inth to discuss...

EU move to boost temps'

rights will hit agencies • by Sally Nash Agency drivers could be under threat as EU legislation designed to give temporary...

Spellar: smart card tachos on track for launch in May 2004

W The government is backing European Commission plans to introduce digital 'smart-card' tachographs by 2004. despite a number...

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Mont Blanc opens to HMIs in summer

A by Jennifer Ball rance and Italy have agreed a deal to open the Mont Blanc tunnel to all traffic by the summer, boosting...

Galileo gets the go-ahead

4 Galileo, the European Commission's pan-European sati life navigation scheme, has finally been given the go-ahe with the EU...

Rush-hour traffic speeds

• An increase in rush-hour traffic speeds over the past three years may be partly explained by an increase in off-peak freight...

Drake says wake up to fatigue

• The government has been criticised by road safety campaign group Brake over its decision to spend only 5ao of Its road safety...

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Once again in English

Written answers to Parliamentary questions have always required an ability to read between the lines. Transport Minister John...

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Eastern promise gets out of ham

Increasingly angry voices are being raised in Luxembourg and Austria over fallout from the Iralowetz affair' and the practice...

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Leyland: fighting fit Ind ready for action

by Toby Clark ith 30 many British manufacrers closing factories it's easy feel depressed about the UK uck industry. So it's...

What's the big deal?

Leyland's battle plan is to land the biggest single vehicle purchase made by the Ministry of Defence for more than 20 years....

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ITIS Nav-Trak for the masses

i by Colin Barnett le fruits of the ITIS Nav-Trak traffic flow ionitoring system are now available to perators of all types of...

Running green still an exception

• Operators running 'green' fleets are the 'exception rather than the rule" according to Freight Transport 2002, a new report...

FEWER POINTS

Volvo has developed a version of its 420hp D120 engine that meets Austria's ECO-4 requirement. Based on the standard Euro-3...

LOW LOADER

Tyne and Wear-based demolition contractor C O'Brien and Sons has added a rear-steer, four-axle GIL King Hydroneck low-loader to...

TIMER TRACTOR

Hopkinson Transport (Chesterfield) has taken delivery of a Mercedes-Benz Actros 2543 6x2 tractive unit to pull tankers...

VAUXHALLS PARKED

Vauxhall MasterHire is providing 12 vehicles to Yorkshire Dales National Park. The £160,000 deal includes eight Astravans, two...

11711 -27 7 - 9 Interior building products distributor CCF of Reading has taken

on five more Scanias, making Non the fleet. The latest are four P94 6x2 260hp rigids and a P114 6x2 twinsteer 380hp tractor.

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Combitrailer's gam( of two halve!

• Considering all the different sizes of containers and swap bodies in use, it's somewhat ironic to think that containerisation...

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"It's more expensive than a single trailer, but you get the extra flexibility."

Bernard Hushion unusual for customers to refuse to take delivery of (or unload) the rear box first, either because it isn't...

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Time to get into the 21st century

L - 4 0 0 Tra ffic is North Western sioner Beverley Bell has adjourned her consideration of disciplinary action for...

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Company loses licence because of unpaid fines

McFletch Hire Services of Halstead has had its Operator's Licence revoked and the :ompany and its sole direc tor and...

Limiter turned off at the turn of a key

A driver and his employer have been ordered to pay more than £3,750 in fines and costs after police stopped a speeding vehicle...

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CHALLENGE BETTS!

have a chaiienge for Senior Traffic Commissioner Michael Betts. On the occasions that have found myself facing a magistrates...

GIVE US A CHANCE Two signified-I t r ' r-. S happened recently.

In the first instance the FTA called on the Chancellor to peg diesel duty, by a strange coincidence delivering the same message...

POSITIVE FUTURE

I write in response to the recent comments of Paul Laeremans, president of the International Road Transport Union ( CM14-20...

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Yorkshire-based Controlled Demolition Group has flattened the competition to win

a national Health and Safety Award. However, the group obviously wasn't too keen on either its prize or the cause. To celebrate...

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you wait for ages then three come along at once. In recent weeks we have evaluated MAN's latest middleweights in a group test...

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Handling on steel suspension is very solid without too much

roll, which gave us plenty of confidence to drive that bit quicker into the sweeping bends along the A485 from Newtown down to...

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D ruising along the autostrada on his weekly run to Italy,

Martin Boddy looks no different to any other truck driver. But watch him pull up at his destination and hoist himself and his...

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SEA

B arrow-in-Furness is one of the most remote towns in England. it stands on a peninsula: the cold waters of the Irish Sea crash...

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MARITIME

"We carry anything that the oil firm want us to." Bruce Chisholm, Ashley Industries 0 its way to two local hauliers: ME...

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BRITAIN: Oil and gas giant

Britain's North Sea oil and gas industry is colossal. It hvarves the production of every other European Union ;tate. In 2001...

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ebt collection can be painful, says Barry Smith—he likens it

to beating your head against a wall. Sadly the owner of Grove Freight Services is in good company. His firm in Wantage,...

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t was a skiver's dream come true: 2 May 2001 was dubbed World Phone In Sick Day by a group of pseudo-anarchists seeking to...