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16th August 2001
16th August 2001
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NO OEN

Hauliers could find town congestion cut if a pilot scheme allowing local authorities to charge utility companies "rent" for...

Subbies hit by two failed firms in just four months

• by Dominic Perry Eye plc, the freight forwarding firm set up by the owners of failed haulier John Adams Si. Sons which...

Biosecurity breaches risk fines

Drivers breaching strict measures to prevent the spread of foot and mouth in North Yorkshire are being warned that they face...

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• lJKASTA, the trade association for grain suppliers, says that

it is taking matters into its Own hands following the government's continuing refusal to provide details of the trucks used to...

• by Miles Brignall Westfield International Transport, the Bristol haulage

firm locked in a battle with Customs & Excise after the seizure of its truck containing 500kg of tobacco, has asked its local...

RNA waits for Spence to act

• The Road Haulage Association is waiting for People's Fuel Lobby leader Andrew Spence to explain to them exactly why he wants...

FTA's survey pinpoints new driver shortages

The Freight Transport Association is forecasting a shortfall of 80,000 drivers after the introduction of the Working Time...

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• by David Craik

Police traffic officers are reported to be contacting the headquarters of the Association of British Drivers on a "regular...

• A haulage firm is under investigation from the Health

and Safety Executive after a man was crushed to death at the company's yard in Gloucestershire. The accident happened at the...

FTA challenges Blunkett

• Fines levied on firms for carrying Mega, stowaways have now passed the £12m mark, prompting the Freight Transport Association...

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Conoco oil drivers plan 24-hour strike

• by Miles BrIgnall Oil tanker drivers at Conoco are set to disrupt fuel deliveries to hundreds of Jet garages across the...

Focusing on revenue

Facing a bill of nearly £50,000 for something you say isn't your fault and that you couldn't have known about. That appears to...

Coroner condemns deplorable drivers

• A coroner has slammed the drivers of three trucks who failed to stop when a woman died in an horrific crash on the A5 in...

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ore red tape for hauliers

• by David Craik A new European directive on fleet insurance will have costly administrative ramifications for hauliers,...

SOUSA! KEPT DTS Logistics has secured a further distribution contract

with High Street retailer, Kookai. DTS will provide warehousing, re-labelling and transport from its Brimsdown, North London...

Stuck truck creates rail chaos

• Services to a major rail route were badly disrupted last week after an artic became wedged under a railway bridge. Trains...

Fewer trucks on road says DoT

The level of goods vehicle traffic in the UK fell by 2% in the second quarter of 2001, says the Department of Transport,...

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Walsall Council is being urged to improve security at a

West Midlands lorry park after thieves stole a truck from it and left a trail of devastation. Residents from Forrester Street...

• by Kevin Swallow

Criminal gangs are targeting unsuspecting UK hauliers to transport stolen equipment out of the country, according to a plant...

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New roads open up from Turkey to UK

• by Brian Weather* Three years ago, at the Frankfurt Show, CM revealed that the Turkish truck maker BMC was planning to...

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SITA gets out of a tight spot

el Two skiploaders, specially designed to lift skips out of tight spaces at an angle, have gone into service with SITA in...

ERF's new ECS line-up has taken another step with the

first 6x4 tractors entering service. Tyseley Waste Disposal, part of the Onyx group, has added a pair of Cummins 440-powered,...

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CASE ADJOINED

The hearing of a series of offences against lorry driver Anthony McIntosh, including forgery, tachograph falsification, and...

Three toppled trailers see company hauled before OTC

A North Yorkshire firm has peen hauled before North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe after three of its...

Driver wins 119K for dismissal

A lorry driver from Cardiff has been awarded over £19,000 by an Employment Tribunal after it ruled his Irish employer's...

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Drivers warned over speeding

Allegations of persistent speeding led to 14 drivers working for a North Wales firm being hauled before Welsh Traffic...

'Dreadful record' driver loses NV driving licence

A Humberside lorry driver, said to have the worst record the North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney had ever seen for...

Fitter falsified paperwork

A mobile fitter, who admitted forging vehicle inspection records as a favour, has been given an eightmonth conditional...

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Our friends at the Association of British Drivers have pointed

out a survey which proves that, while trucks can be the cause of some road accidents, they are not the only dangerous objects...

NEWS from the

NORTH! By our Northern Correspondent Eric Strongitharm Oswaldtwistle. "Are ye sure it's bloody well dead?" was Chairman and...

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VI, hen Volvo introduced the FM to UK operators in the

summer 011998, the range came with two new engines. The FM7 was specified with a larger 7.3-litre unit, increased from 6.7...

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"We have never had a problem with Volvo. We have always found their trucks

to be reliable."Nick Brown MI Demolition specialist Brown &Mason has its head office in Southwark, London, which is where CM...

"They are ideal for our operation. We are

100% happy with them."Stephen Masterman Plumbing merchant Plumb Centre has 12 feeder depots that supply the company's 200...

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RECALLS

• The Vehicle Inspectorate's Safety Branch has informed us that they have been notified of four safety-related recall items for...

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"We've had no engine faults, no gearbox problems and tyre wear is good. It does

as well on fuel as our FM12. 99 mick Garry Mick Gorry started in transport with a Bedford KM in 1969. Today JM Gorry & Son,...

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VERDICT

We were surprised to learn that Volvo had actually marketed the FMio tractive unit in the UK, as we hadn't noticed any on the...

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shout it from the

Ask most hauliers what they know about marketing and many will admit it could all be written on the back of a postage stamp....

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Image is vital in the haulage industry: customers want to

be served by immaculate fleets and well-turned-out staff. As Steve Banner reports, fleet operators who want to be taken...

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SALT FT

[ART A conversation with Mark Davenport revolves—literally—around the subject of lifecycles. Discussing the business of which...

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ctivities carried out at a depot bring the operator within

the scope of legislation that controls waste, noise and emissions into the atmosphere and water courses. Operators must also...

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Everybody needs good neighbours

0 To be a good neighbour, Increase your involvement with the local community and be aware of your potential unpopularity. Anne...

Improve your environment

• The most effective way to identify potential problems in the operation of a depot is to undertake an environmental audit. It...

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Although the future seems gloomy for Britain's hauliers, according to

a new survey, a closer look at the figures reveals that a select few are managing to make their profits grow. Javid Cra finds...

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THE SURVEY

Plimsoll Publishing analyse 1,0000k companies in the road haulage industry. It Nun that 20.5% (129 companies) would see...

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H armony and Europe are two words that rarely sit comfortably

in the same sentence. For those proEuropeans striving to bring economic and political unity to a club made up of different...

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The Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Amendment) (no 3) Regulations

2001. CIF lAugust 2001. Add reference to a recent Directive 2001/1concerning vehicle emissions and advise of the publication of...

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d Why don't hauliers want to make any money? They do?

Well that's not the way it would appear. The average haulier gets a smaller return on his investment than he would if he put...