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Hero driver is tacho checked
Page 11 from 2nd December 1999• South Yorkshire police prosecuted a Barnsley truck driver for not having a tachograph—just weeks after he was hailed as a good Samaritan for......
Manslaughter call on drink-drivers who kill
Page 8 from 13th November 1997• Drink-drivers should face the immediate, automatic suspension of their licences and those who cause fatal crashes should be charged with......
Third year's fall for LGV accidents
Page 11 from 1st August 1996• Truck driving is getting safer. The number of LGV accidents declined for the third year run ning in 1995, despite an increase in the number of......
A A recent article (New law .L.threatens Truckfest,...
Page 30 from 13th October 1994CM 22-28 September) has raised quite unnecessary alarms in the trucking world by claiming that the Criminal Justice Bill. which outlaws "gatherings......
DEAR SIR
Page 60 from 13th September 1990PARKING PROBLEMS • I have read reports recently in Commercial Motor about a public inquiry in Leeds where 15 operators were given severe warnings......
drivers' war
Page 7 from 13th September 1990ried that the attack will make things worse for British truck drivers who, so far, have escaped personal violence. "From now on it will just be a......
SHOP TALK
Page 89 from 4th June 1992• From looking at the newspapers and the impending legislation for vehicle maintenance and the haulage industry you get a story that doesn't add......
Awards night salutes ladies
Page 22 from 21st October 1993by Juliet Parish • Campaigning trucker Ilona Richards is to host a glittering awards night to salute the industry's under-rated female drivers and......
"Even if cowboys are caught the punishments are a joke"
Page 53 from 23rd February 1995Brake, the campaign for tougher penalties on operators who break the law, should be supported by all law abiding hauliers, says campaign director......
SAVE US FROM EXTINCTION I have been a reader of
Page 27 from 25th February 1999CM for more than 25 years, and drove HGVs for a living until an injury 10 years ago. During the past quarter of a century I have watched in......