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5th December 1996
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• The administrators of Dee Transport say that a buyer

for the company has been found and a deal should be signed this week. The company called in administrators in November with...

DOT to consult on move to 44 tonnes

by Miles Brignall • UK hauliers could soon be operating 44tonne trucks to and from ports, as well as on piggyback road/rail...

Little chance of change to drivers' hours

• New European legislation on drivers' working time is unlikely because national governments would not accept it. Insiders...

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ROLL UP FOR 44-TONNERS

Q uestion: What do the Camping and Caravan Club, Porsche Cars and the Guide Association have in common? Answer: They're all...

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Smuggling ring smashed

by Karen Miles • A haulage director has been accused by Customs and Excise of being involved in a £65m smuggling operation....

Driver did not know of drugs

• A court found a lorry driver not guilty of smuggling after hearing that he knew nothing about the £1.5m worth of cannabis...

Sewage haulier had no licence

• An agricultural haulier that has a major contract with Anglian Water is being investigated by the Vehicle Inspectorate for...

VI plans to form intelligence unit

• The Vehicle Inspectorate is considering setting up an intelligence unit to gather information on rogue operators. A...

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Tax dodging hauliers will have their trucks clamped

• The Chancellor's threat to beat vehicle excise duty evaders by clamping their vehicles will extend to LGVs, the Driver...

Bryant quits hunger strike

by Karen Miles • Essex owner-driver Steve Bryant has ended his four-week hunger strike after securing changes in his jail...

Now Austrians join the fray

ft Protesting Austrian farmers added another 14-hour delay to the journey of Transglobal driver Bernard Copland who had already...

Millionaire lottery winner forced to lay off drivers

• A tipper operator who won 22.5m on the national lottery two months ago is being forced to lay off drivers due to lack of...

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CON RACTS

• Danzas has won a six-figure contract to co-ordinate the transport and distribution of Electrolux components from Germany to...

Immigrants hid in load of tyres

by Ann Price • An Italian lorry driver, who pleaded guilty to smuggling 18 illegal immigrants into the UK, has been told he...

Escape route for Blackwall

• A £2.2m escape route for over-height lorries is being built at one of London's biggest traffic blackspots, The Blackwell...

Ferry merger stalled

• Haulier's fears over the proposed merger between ferry companies P&O and Stena will be fully explored, following The...

Brake calls for accident data

• The road haulage industry should introduce a single method for collating accident data to help firms reduce accident...

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'Wages explosion' fear as profit tax relief goes

by Karen Miles • Union leaders are forecasting a "wages explosion" from drivers following the Government's decision to scrap...

Trailer VED is to rise

7 Trailer vehicle excise duty rates will rise between 2.6% and 3.6%, despite Chancellor Kenneth Clarke's widely publicised...

Tax hike will force up breakdown premiums

• Hauliers will have to pay higher premiums on breakdown insurance policies bought from used truck dealers after Chancellor...

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Lords call for bigger gas cuts

by John Kendall • The Government's decision to cut the duty on gas fuels by 25% in the Budget has been described as a...

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Two-year cover for Citroen CVs

• Citroen is offering a new twoyear unlimited mileage warranty on its entire range of commercial vehicles from 1 December...

Managing the motorways

• Racal BRT has won a contract to install a traffic management system for the M4 and M48 in South Wales. The digital...

Iveco Ford wires up to improve parts supplies

• Iveco Ford Truck is moving away from the traditional parts supply chain with the introduction of the "virtual warehouse"....

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• Drum Engineering has shifted the manufacture and sales of

front-end tipping gear From its Bradford site to its Bolton-based sister company, Webster Drives, Webster already makes PTOs...

Daewoo gets heavy

by Bill Godwin • Korean manufacturer Daewoo is developing a new generation of heavy trucks. The range consists of 4x2, 6x4...

Tatra builds 8x8s for UAE military

II Tatra has started production at its Czech Republic factory of US $220m worth of T815 eightwheel-drive military vehicles for...

Sconia reefers for Wmcanton

• Wincanton Logistics' retail division has 14 new Scania P94 reefer rigids for secondary distribution work on a CRS Stores...

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Maintenance warning

• I Tayling Island roofing contractors Gable (UK) Holdings, which was said to use its one vehicle as a "big wheelbarrow", was...

Licence won on deposit

• A former bankrupt has succeeded in obtaining an Operator's Licence after agreeing at a Bristol public inquiry to keep...

Court quashes overloading fine

• A Lancashire haulage company has succeeded in having a fine quashed for an overloading offence. Bristol Crown Court...

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Out of action for a week

e A Wiltshire owner-driver, who had been convicted of falsifying tachograph records, breaching drivers' hours and unauthorised...

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CRT picks up a Fassi crane

by Bryan Jarvis • Machinery delivery specialist Charles Russell Transport is the first UK operator to take one of Fassi's...

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Burden of British road tax

I am the wife of an owner-driver. I've just listened to the budget and I suppose we are meant to sit here and feel grateful...

French dispute

T would like to bring to your 1 attention the following problems we are experiencing with our trucks in France. We currently...

Be warned!

I have recently visited Morocco for the first time as an owner-driver hauling hanging garments back to the UK. I was...

Rough justice in Morocco

R eporting the sorry plight of truck driver Steven Bryant, jailed for nine years in Morocco for carrying cannabis in a load of...

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Rockin' Robin

EE °thing delights the Hawk more than to see his favourite vehicle, the Reliant Robin, being put to good use. This example...

Norris wakes up at last

0 ust months after his resignation from the post of minister of transport, it appears that Steve Norris has suddenly turned...

Lovely heater. meter maid

0 f you want to prevent your neighbours or visitors to the local takeaway parking outside your house, why not install your own...

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SOL ID

13IkIZGA Volvo has returned to the 7.5-tonne market after a break of eight years following the demise of the unsuccessful FL4....

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HOW flexible ARE YOU?

Taking on casual workers no longer means that you can avoid paying benefits such as Statutory Sick Pay if in reality they...

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Sea changes

Forced into new alliances by the Channel Tunnel, ferry companies are considering mergers that could force their rates up and...

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Fie d t

Is the new breed of high-horsepower, roadgoing super farm tractors competing unfairly with hauliers in agricultural regions?...

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More to fear on farms than something nasty in the woodshed

• The Freight Transport Association is distributing a code of practice to ensure the safety of delivery drivers on farms in...

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NOT

Heavy haulier Hallett Silberman celebrates its halfcentury this year, proud of its 75-truck multi-faceted operation, testimony...

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QUALITY STREET: ACHIEVING 609002

• ISO 9002, which has superseded the B55750 quality standard, is a set of guidelines for establishing a quality management...

The people BUSINESS

Hauliers who have won the Investors in People badge report cost savings, accident reductions and productivity increases. Should...

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WHAT ABOUT THE WORKERS?

• When the Government began planning its new system of vocational qualifications in 1986, one of the main aims was to offer...

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NE STEP YOND

After years of running a domestic operation you get the urge to spread your wings and run trucks abroad. But making the...

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PREPARING TO CROSS THE WATER

You will need to research: • Markets best suited to your business. Delivering to countries close to the UK will probably...

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'Employers will not be able to delay the inevitable much longer'

T he Transport & General Workers' Union welcomes the news that the UK must implement the European Working Time Directive. We...