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13th March 2008
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Right man for the job

For more years than we can recall, political pundits have written off the Liberal Democrats as a party with ”unelectable...

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P !KAM GROUP TAKEOVER

Eddie snaps up Jimmy in new shopping spree STOBART GROUP has acquired the road transport and logistics business Irlam Group...

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)A1MLER4ENZ BOOSTS SALE: . ..

'Full speed ahead for Mercedes-Benz DESPITE THE ongoing slump in the US heavy truck market, Andreas Renschler, the head of...

Staff changes at Bulmers Logistics

BULMERS LOGISTICS has terminated the contracts of 23 drivers in Teesport and Hull, but plans to recruit about 35 more in...

ACTROS TRACTOR

The new Actros boasts modest exterior styling tweaks at the front, as well as a revised interior tnrn and instrument panel....

IN MARKET CONFIDENCE RETURNS

uro-4 blues are over TRUCK REGISTRATIONS have recovered from the uncertainty caused by the introduction of Euro-4 engines and...

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Lib Dem mayoral candidate promises to scrap the LEZ

by Roanna Avison BRIAN PADDICK, the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor, has pledged to scrap the capital's...

P HEAVY HAULAGE

Watt a result STAFFORDSHIRE-BASED Abnormal Load Engineering (ALE) was awarded the job of transporting a 193-tonne replacement...

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Haulage firms prosper in flat market

A SERIES OF company reports released last week indicate that haulage companies are weathering poor trading conditions well,...

No cash for cafe expansion plans

THE ONLY TRANSPORT cafe for truck drivers on the A55 in Wales says it cannot expand because the Welsh Assembly claims it is in...

Still costly to run a truck in the UK

THE UK REMAINS one of the most expensive places in Europe to run a 40-tonne truck, according to research by Nera Economic...

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Government denies road pricing plan is 'in tatters'

by David Harris THE DEPARTMENT for Transport (DfT) this week denied that plans to expand the use of motorway hard shoulders...

P OVERLOADING

Rain causes overbad A MONSOON-STYLE storm flooded a truck with several inches of rainwater during transit and caused it to be...

P 'PPER LAUNCF

Renault's new Kerax tipper MAKING ITS first public appearance at last week's Samotor construction show in Verona was the new...

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FTA calls for 'no strike' contracts

by David Harris CROSS-CHANNEL ferry operators should only employ staff who agree not to strike, the Freight Transport...

Deaths prompt investigation

CONCERN OVER THE number of deaths in the transport sector in Ireland has prompted the government to commission a study into the...

Le II .t1,1lsIIs .s L Radley is forced to endure window worries and calls for a bit of a design rethink.

I'm not doing very well with windows at the moment. First, I managed to insert my nearside mirror cluster through the adjacent...

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A Massif step forward

We take a drive in the Iveco Massif, which boasts a revamped interior and engines. Words: Colin Barnett IN THE BEGINNING there...

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Rikki Chequer, community manager of TruckNet UK, reports on current hot topics at the driver forum.

Truckfest Peterborough is the biggest truck show and the UK's largest social gathering of the transport industry. Along with...

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Taxing times

The Netherlands is about to trial its new electronic road pricing system. Taxes such as VED will be replaced with a charge...

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P LETTER OF THE WEEK

Training is difficult and takes time I have just been reading your article on training people for their LGV licences (`The...

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A very rural constabulary

Road crash investigations, serious congestion and even a solar eclipse Inspector Richard Pryce of Devon & Cornwall Police has...

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Three firms given notice of revocation

Transport manager on £4 an hour represents - unfair competition". THREE ASSOCIATED companies have had their licences revoked...

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P CASE ONE

Licence applicant withheld information A RECOVERY operator who deliberately withheld information that showed he was...

Six-month disqualification for wholesaler

A COMPANY with - scant regard for the law" has had its licence revoked and its director disqualified as a result of numerous...

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Warning letters had no effect on decision to operate illegally

DESPITE THREE written warnings from the Traffic Area Office (TAO), a West Midlands haulier continued to operate illegally after...

P CASE FOUR

Hearings on driver fitness will not be private LGV DRIVERS cannot insist that hearings about their professional fitness as...

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Don't slip up

Each year there are around 500 injuries in the transport industry due to workplace accidents. As the Health & Safety Executive...

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Key hazard areas are entry points to the load areas.

Employers should: Where possible, provide deep treads with even spaces in height between. This ensures a secure foothold....

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On the cards

New regulations governing tachograph data can land operators and drivers with fines of up to £5,000 if they are not followed...

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Branch tines

From tiny acorns mighty oaks do grow, or for Kent operator Alan Firmin, orchards have sprouted a significant haulage business....

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Ii he firm employs a full-time trainer to ensure drivers remain up to

scratch. "Rob Ellis has been with us for 18 months and the motiva tion behind his appointment was the Driver CPC," says...

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After years of decline in rail freight, growing numbers of

multimodal rail terminals have been appearing in the UK during the past decade. As container companies increasingly link up...

SWAP BODIES FOR FLEXIBLE WORKING

The Cartwright Group recently supplied Malcolm Logistics Services, part of The Malcolm Group, with 70 intermodal swap bodies,...

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THE SRA VIEW [STRATEGIC RAIL AUTHORITY) A quote from the quango with overall responsibility for the railways

"Britain's rail system was based on the movement of freight; raw materials to the factories and the transport of finished goods...

CASE STUDIES

3MG, the Mersey multimodal sea/rail/road gateway at Ditton in which the Stobart Group and AHC Westlink are partners, offers...

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ROADWAY'S ESSENTIAL HUB

The firm outlines the advantages of an inland intermod. oadway Container Logistics (originally part of P&O but now, along with...

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riving out poverty

All the charity in the world can't help communities without access to transport. We look at how Transaid has become a driving...

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CASE STUDY INDUSTRY SUPPORT

Transaid was founded by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, but is kept alive by the work of road transport...

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On the right Trakker

In 2004 the devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami stunned the world. Work to rebuild the affected countries is still...

SARVODAYA WHO, WHY AND WHERE?

Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka's biggest charity, is dedicated lo making a positive difference to the lives of rural Sri Lankans. The...

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BOXING DAY 2004 TSUNAMI STATISTICS

275,000 people were killed in 14 countries across two continents. The last two known fatalities were swept out to sea in South...

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SUNAMI THE GLOBAL RESPONSE About $14bn (0.08bn) was raised internationally.

The scale of the response was unprecedented, not only in the amount of money raised but also in the proportion of funding from...

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Shifting the goalposts

ADR regulations were updated last year, extending their reach to sub-3.5-tonne vehicles. They will change yet again in 2009....

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Good preparation always pays

BRITISH CAR Auctions (BCA) reported a 12% rise in vehicles receiving pre-auction preparation in 2007 on the previous year....

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Alliance & Leicester has built itself up from a bit

player in the commercial vehicle finance business to one of its biggest names. It's now Launched an assault on the second-hand...

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Online truck bidding has got off to a positive start at Manheim Auctions at Leeds. Kevin Swallow logs on...

With more than 18 months of online van sales experience under its belt, the switch to trucks was only a matter of time for...