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8th October 2009
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Feeling secure?

Have you sent an artic on a ferry in the past nine years? DIcl the trailer have the required ferry securing rings to allow it...

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Turners disputes tanker ferry accident findings

CM COVER STORY THE MANAGING director of Turners (Soham) says a report into the events that led to a tanker crashing through...

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VOSA affirms no closure' plan after CM information request

VOSA HAS CONFIRMED that it will not close any more test stations until further information is available on how the Authorised...

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Vauxhall Vivaro leads the way in fuel economy contest

Tonkm VAUXHALL'S VIVARO panel van has scooped the commercial vehicle category in this year's MPG Marathon fuel economy...

P SPEED LIMITS

Lower limits a local issue THE GOVERNMENT has said that singlecarriageway roads should carry lower speed limits where "risks...

Bibby to tackle software market

BIBBY DISTRIBUTION has bought part of the software firm that supplies the system it uses to run its warehouses The part of Data...

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P REGISTRATIONS

RPC deadline rush sees registrations increase P'• MONTHLY TRUCK registrations last month reached their highest levels since...

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Dams international forced to call in the administrators FURNITURE SUPPLIER Dams International has been forced into...

YAl1 I J II t' L Radley got the chance to drive the new-style

lveco Stralis — it was not a match made in heaven My current allocated Iveco Stralis is due to go off-hire soon, so I was...

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P H . .OAD SAPFTY

Controversy over comments from cycling body chairman A CYCLING advisory body that is funded by the government has caused...

Hermes opens new national parcel hub

PARCEL delivery firm Hermes, formally known as Parcelnet. has opened the doors on its new 85,000ft: national hub at Bermuda...

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P ,NIMAL MOVEMENTS

Ewe've no need to fear EC Livestock regs, says RHA A TRADE UNION'S fear that proposed European restrictions on transporting...

P PALLET DISTRIBUTION

PW Gates makes switch from Pallet Network to Pallet-Track WELWYN GARDEN City-based PW Gates has left The Pallet Network (TPN)...

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Area manager for VOSA admits benefits scam VOSA AREA MANAGER James Dorman admitted a £30,000-plus disability benefit fraud...

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P PARCELS

TNT boss predicts market share gains Eiy Justin Stanton PETER BAKKER, CEO of TNT, fully expects the company to have made...

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Capacity problems see LD Lines switch catamaran service

LD LINES IS to abandon its experiment with a high-speed freight catamaran between Dover and Boulogne just a few months after...

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TruckNetUKs Rikki Chequer discovers that transporting abnormal loads generates a whole Ja host of issues. One sector of the...

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Pi LETTER OF THE WEEK

Becoming an ATF for VOSA would not be a sound business decision I WILL NOT be taking the opportunity to run an ATF (Authorised...

Succeeding with excess

AS A COMMERCIAL insurance broker that specialises in the transport industry. I felt I had to write in response to the Letter of...

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uilding up a sound business

Dale Fiddy, sales and marketing director at NFT Distribution, has taken on the next challenge in his career strengthening a...

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His father was a truck driver, so Dale Fiddy took

the decision to go straight out of education and follow in his footsteps by working for Russell Davies, along with the likes of...

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Safe passage

Tunnels are both a great convenience and a potential deadly hazard. New Europe-wide regulations aim to address this issue....

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THE DISASTERS THAT PROMPTED THE POLICY It is not hard

to see why Europe wanted a common policy for which hazardous cargoes should be allowed in which tunnels. A series of disasters...

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Bid for 0-licence fails due to lack of trust

TC refuses to grant an 0-licence to applicant she did not trust and who had expressed a 'cavalier' attitude. A N APPLICATION...

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CASE TWO

No action taken after undertakings made NO ACTION was taken against the 0-licences held by two members of a group of firms...

IN LEGAL BRIEFS Activities limited

DESPITE TAKING no action against the 0-licence of Peterhead-based BNJ Transport after concluding it had not sought to...

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Curbing the criminals

The Irish government is tackling the criminal element in haulage by making it illegal for those with serious convictions to...

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Highway clearance

A recent court case highlighted the sharp difference in costs that operators can pay when one of their vehicles breaks down by...

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Solicitors Backhouse Jones has achieved a landmark legal ruling, which

said that vehicle recovery operators can only charge statutory rates when instructed to remove HGVs from the highway by the...

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A winning formula

This month, our ever-popular Fleet Management Conference fields a team of experts to ensure you stay compliant and profitable...

After lunch, the focus shifts to how to protect your

profit. Drawing speakers from the UK's leading fleet operators, well be providing a number of practical case studies on how to...

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Cargo, launched in 1981 by Ford and bought by Iveco

in 1986, had the sort of reputation enjoyed by Transit in the van market. It wasn't attractive, but its effectiveness was...

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Renault Premium

Long Distance We put the fleet-spec spotlight on the Renault Premium 6x2 to see if it meets the needs of cost-conscious...

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I We know the effect the recession has had on the

full-time workforce in road transport, but how has it affected agency drivers? CM delves deep to find out. Words: David...

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The potential pitfalls of using agency drivers usually stem from

the fact that they will not necessarily be familiar with the role for which they have been hired, Holding an HGV licence does...

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THE VIEW FROM THE CAB Colin Vale has been an

agency driver for Manchester and Leeds-based Contact Industrial Recruitment for 15 years. Based near Trafford Park, Manchester,...

HOW TO CHOOSE AN AGENCY Choosing the right agency rests

on the same principles as most purchasing decisions — balancing cost against level of service and good working practices. In...

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The importance of checking that the driver agency you use

is operating correctly was underlined this summer hen the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) warned 18 driver...

A European effort to give agency drivers more rights could result in a loss of jobs, claim drivers' organisations.

The RHA's Ruth Pott says the Agency Worker Directive (AWD), which is due to be implemented in 2011, could have unintended...

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Widening its sco e

Forty years after Jim McArdle founded his eponymous construction and haulage business, it now has a high public and industry...

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McArdle's latest innovation —unique in the tipping business -is to employ PODFather proof-of-delivery software to real-time informaton on loads shifted.

With more than 700 tipper movements a day, PODFather electronically manages the entire loading administration by remotely...

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DRIVER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION

The M25 contact's short lead-in time meant extra drivers had to be hired at the fast moment, and there was, says Murphy, a good...

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VEHICLE ACQUISITION

cArdle buys tippers exclusively 8x4 rigids outright, typically urining them for about five years, although transport boss Peter...

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Look online if you want a used truck

Operators looking for second-hand trucks need to search the internet to improve choice and get a better deal Wordsn Kevin...

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A Leaner operation

Northside Truck & Van is on course to emerge from the recession smarter, with a strategy in place to build local business and...

Tim Ward's background mixes both sales and spanners. He joined

Northside in 1981, rising from technician to servIce manager, before joining the sales side. He rose to dealer principal and...