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5th January 1995
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BRIEFS

• Drivers carrying less than 100kg or 250 litres of flammable pas in cylinders are exempt from new legislation which requires...

Axe looming over police tack, stops

EXCLUSIVE by Karen Miles II Tachograph offence investigation and patrolling have been formally targeted for the first time as...

• The move to

curb police involvement in traffic enforcement comes as Fewston Transport, the firm at the centre of the Sowerby Bridge...

All work to be on tachograph charts

• The High Court has ruled that drivers must record all periods of work—including overtime—on tachograph charts. The court...

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EXCLUSIVE SURVEY by Juliet Morrison • Britain's truck driving schools

are turning out poorly trained drivers, according to an exclusive Commercial Motor survey. Our poll of 100 hauliers found that...

Licence lost on repute

II North Eastern deputy LA Mark Hinchliffe has revoked the nine-vehicle licence held by Marjorie and William Moore, trading as...

W e all live in a world where we're bombarded by

hundreds of messages every clay. Some are tangible, others subliminal. But whether we receive them consciously or...

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Coach ban safety fear

Commercial vehicle congestion on the motorways looks set to increase with an expected Government announcement that coaches are...

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Hauling bac on the hills

by Bryan Jarvis III Few would argue that the addition of some form of extra 'endurance' braking to a truck's standard braking...

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Sheeting from the cab

by Miles Brignall. • Finnish company ProtecMatic has introduced its latest fully automatic sheeting device which can cover a...

Sales to turn to kilometres

• The days of selling trucks will soon be over, according to David Thomas, Mercedes-Benz director, commercial vehicles. "We are...

Wilsdon taken over

• Paneltex, the Hull-based specialist insulated panel and truck body manufacturer has acquired Wilsdon & Co of Solihull from...

50 Series tooling shipped to China

• Renault has sold the entire tooling for the old 50 Series to RDS Automotive of Leamington Spa, which will use it to set up a...

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was a a very busy year in the light commercial

market. Although UK sales were not substantially increased (the LGV market sets the pace at the moment), a lot of new and...

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Final warning

• Scottish DLA Allan Worthington took no action but he issued a final warning about maintenance standards and convictions...

Ban for 'irresponsibility'

• Scottish LA Michael Betts has refused to grant an 0-licence to David and Daniel Moscrop, trading as Eye Valley Transport, of...

Former director was not an employee

• A Manchester industrial tribunal has decided that David Green, the former managing director of Rosewood Transport and...

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Miller loses bid to change centre

• Surrey-based haulier Frederick R Miller has lost its appeal against South Eastern & Metropolitan LA Brigadier Michael...

Breaks too short

• A Welsh lorry driver who made a series of six-mile trips delivering stone from a quarry fell foul of the drivers' hours rules...

Tacho charts recorded only part of journey

• Some missing mileage on its tachograph charts cost Pine Products £395 in fines and costs. The company, of Siddow Common,...

Queries raised over legal status of land

• A bid for a new kka. based Simon James licence by Barry was adjourned for clarification of the legal status of the land to...

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The year in view

What kind of year was 1994? A year of patchy progress with truck makers, tipper operators and driver agencies detecting signs...

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FATAL

ATTRACTION Truck drivers are the most dangerous drivers on the road, involved in more accidents than any other group of...

CRASH COURSE

• Accidents involving LGVs happen and when they do the consequences are often serious. The reasons given differ but all are...

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CLASS OF ITS OWN

Unlike their Stateside counterparts, European pickups tend to be small and practical. The Fiat Fiorino is smaller than...

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Eddie's sideline

2 ddie Stobart has gone into the souvenir business in a big way. The latest issue of &abort Exp ress, the Carlisle haulier's...

Baby. I can't drive my car

O uperstar Paul McCartney was unhurt after an accident in which his Mercedes was hit by a lorry which skidded an wet leaves in...

An expanding market

arcels carrier UPS has been the beneficiary of extra business by lingerie manufacturer Gossard, which has found its cup runneth...

Double victory for Leeds racer

2 eeds truck racer Conrad Thompson has won the British National Class of the British Truck Racing Championships for the second...

Grease is the word

0 t's elementary, my dear Watson, for mechanics at K Watson Commercials, which has won ERF's workshop team of the year for the...

CMgives haulier millions

3 ustomers of Fife haulier Robert &mailers must have thought the firm had won the lottery when they read in a recent feature...

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CI']' qualifications

• New requirements for the Chartered Institute of Transport's transport and logistics qualifications are to be announced at a...

Fleet Management

• A booklet from PHH Vehicle Management Services details the key issues in fleet management. PHI-I research reveals that after...

Into HIrii ga r

• Euro East Transportation of Dartford, Kent is opening a fast freight service to and from Hungary taking advantage of the...

Tyre disputes

• The National Tyre Distributors Association has introduced a conciliation and arbitration service for its members. Customer...

Free brolly

• Automotive products manufacturer Deb is giving away a golfing umbrella with each pack of Jizer degreaser (25 litre),...

Trailer brakes

• SAF and Perrot have jointly produced a new disc brake for drawbar trailers and semi-trailers. The product is known as PAN-22...

Up to standard

• The PAL KE Palitir range of air hoists from IngersollRand are the first products of their type to meet all the requirements...

Hydraulic Gates

• Hemel Hempstead-based BPT Automation has produced a range of electrohydraulic gates suitable for industrial premises. The...

Trouble tracer

• AE Auto Parts has issued a timing belt trouble tracer chart to help diagnose problems. It shows common timing belt failures...

ROADWATCH • For the latest road news around the UK

simply contact one of the following AA Hotline numbers (calls cost 36p/min offpeak; 48p at all other times): West Country:...

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yez-ir in 7..] - rhe ye2ir t Li . J o j nie iiiick fl in with \ive'r.,1 EJ'ettJey, I t's nice to be wise after the event. The...

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iglirt and better

The big news in the industry may be weights going up but one manufacturer predicts only 25-30% of operators could usefully use...

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W ith trade between member states becoming easier and easier, many

hauliers are finding themselves doing business abroad. Sometimes this involves delivering to other countries; in other cases it...

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Tractor tax

We operate six and eight-wheelers in a country area and have for years carried agricultural goods, such as fertiliser, grain...

Bogie char_ge

One of our eight wheelers was stopped by police and weighed on a normal weighbridge. I am not sure how they did the weighing...

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Insurance bonus

t'urther to your report in the 1-7 December issue of 014 we are, of course, as disappointed as all concerned that the...

Here to stay

O the past years I have IL/watched with interest the tirade of anti-lorry letters in the press. Love them or hate them, the...

DWA experience

A s an LGV driver, I read with interest your article on Driving Without Aware ness (CM 1-7 Dec). In the early 1970s I became...

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'The railways will use their fundings to undermine our industry'

g carry goods for reward. If I am to stay I in business serving a customer-driven demand, my job is to carry those goods as...