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It wasn't broke, so it ain't gonna be fixed — at Least not by handing it over to the private sector. Leaving aside the matter...
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By Joanna Bourke HAULIERS STRUGGLING to cope with soaring fuel costs face another financial kick in the teeth after Vosa...
large-scale redundancies inevitable' at Macfarlane MACFARLANE TRANSPORT called in the administrators last week, blaming rising...
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By David Harris THE THREAT OF privatisation of some of the key functions of Vosa was lifted this week, as the Government...
Supply fears grow for LEZ filters as maker closes its door A SUPPLIER OF filters that enable trucks to comply with London's...
to pay nearly £27,000 in fines and costs f or a series of drivers' hours offences. The penalties were handed down to Ruthin....
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By Chris Tindall THE LIBERAL Democrats have waded into the debate about resurrecting plans for a Lorry Road User Charge (LRUC)....
Industry is hostile towards Tories' proposed 'fair fuel stabiliser' 0 LESS THAN A week after MPs voted against the Scottish...
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By Joanna Bourke LORRY DRIVERS are among the most sleep-deprived workers in the UK. because they are worried about the credit...
EU States no Longer need permission for green subsidies THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the payment of national...
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Turner buys into manufacturer DIESEL ENGINEERING company Turner & Co (Glasgow) has entered the UK road tanker manufacturing...
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By Bert Roozendaat VDO HAS QUIETLY implemented some significant improvements to its DTCO 1381 digital tachograph. These include...
GU Events, the company behind the recent Tip-Ex tipper show, is turning its attention to the tanker sector with the launch of a...
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By Joanna Bourke THE UK LOGISTICS industry has defied the credit crunch by growing 10.5% — but darker days are anticipated. A...
A HAULAGE COMPANY based in Telford, Shropshire, has been fined a total of £4,700 after pleading guilty to overloading a vehicle...
Names such as Eddie Stobart, Phillips of Seahouses, TNT, Duncan Adams, Curries and Europa are well known and regularly seen on...
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By Roanna Avison DESPITE THE rallying cries of the industry and the number of hauliers who lobbied their MPs last week, a...
Ms Steve Hobson joined hauliers at Medway Services on 2 July as they congregated before heading into London in convoy. A small...
Graham Cross, director at Oxfordshire-based Mor Cross Transport, was also at the protest because he wanted a level playing...
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By Chris TinuaiL DESPITE THE FACT that Westminster City Council has issued some 50% fewer parking tickets to HGVs in the first...
THE TANFIELD GROUP, parent company of Smith Electric Vehicles, has seen its share price fall dramatically in the wake of a...
It's understandable that those on the outside wonder why, as ours is a solitary job which attracts loners, drivers spend so...
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THE PROBLEMS of finding somewhere to park up at night is getting worse and worse. There are far too few sites around, and...
I attended the recent DSA Conference on the new Driver CPC and was concerned about the courses that will be approved for...
For more than 30 years I have been involved in haulage. In all this time I have seen many changes. some for the better, some...
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With diesel prices soaring, many hauliers are switching to fuel cards, but this means more credit risk for the card operators....
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The van industry is in uproar regarding the publishing of emissions data from the makers, but a solution may be on the...
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Hauliers are subbing out work to foreign drivers in a frantic attempt to compete and make money. But is it a solution to an...
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Offences range from tachograph fiddling to driving excessive hours. DRIVERS' HOURS and tachograph offences have cost Ruthin,...
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or4 • THE TRANSPORT TRIBUNAL has ruled in favour of a firm that claimed its truck was operating without an 0-licence because it...
a decision by West Midland Traffic Commissioner Nick Jones to refuse to return an impounded vehicle on the grounds that it was...
AN OPERATOR driven into Liquidation by bad debts and rising fuel prices surrendered its licence to North Western Traffic...
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A DERBYSHIRE skip operator that ran its single vehicle "very badly and perhaps unsafely" has had its licence revoked. The...
Using a vehicle without an 0-licence has cost Runcorn-based Michael Watmore £735 in fines and costs. Watmore, who was trading...
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An average of five UK transport workers a day are hurt through falls from vehicles. Drivers need to be careful. Here are the...
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In future, there will be no hiding place for disqualified drivers in the British isles. A ban in Britain will be effective in...
SI I For employers, the system in place before the recent agreement was an additional administrative headache when it came to...
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Don't leave debt collecting to chance. Our top 10 tips set out the best way to make sure your cash is flowing in the right...
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have a selling point. Some are lucky enough to hit all the bases, others hit only the one — targeting buyers with a specific...
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We like the NP300 for its honest, solid engineering, expunging the need for 'Fancy Dan' extras such as leather seats complete...
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following the increase in permissible gross weights up to 44 tonnes within the Construction & Use Regulations, heavy haulage...
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One unusual application for the newcomer is the contract Carnaby has with shipper Cobelfreight. This involves unloading Volvo...
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Making sure your tyres are at optimum pressure can reduce fuel consumption and increase tyre life. We look at the technology...
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Faulty headlight alignment is at the top of the table when it comes to annual test failures. Surely it's in everyone's interest...
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Smoothing out these areas underpinned Don-Bur's intentions to build something that reduced drag, but optimised aerodynamic...
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Trailer aerodynamics was unheard of when a man with a van' started up in South London. Three decades on, his 30-plus fleet has...
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Similar to many successful businesses, the transition from one-man band to a modern, fast-moving parcels and pallet fleet...
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Savvy operators are looking at all, areas to improve fuel economy, and that includes mudf laps. The Spraydown mudf lap design...
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Responsibility for making sure Iveco's aftermarket infrastructure can cope with firm's extra push falls to Bob Lowden, director...