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16th July 1992
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MORE EUROBABBLE

IN Given the amount of time spent on drafting, redrafting and reredrafting European Community laws, you'd think the Eurocrats...

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Loan bid • Daf is seeking a £62m loan from Dutch and Belgian banks following losses of £122m last year.

FedEx loss • Parcels carrier Federal Express, which closed most

of its UK business earlier this year, lost £60m in the year to the end of May.

CM winners • Owner-driver David Gill from Huntingdon took first

prize in Commercial Motor's Best Kept Working Truek competition at Truckfest South West last weekend. John Miles of Blagdon...

Party's over • The Road Rescue Recovery Association has pulled out of the Recovery Industry Joint Working Party.

Costs down • UK companies are spending less on distribution,

says the ILDM. Distribution costs as a percentage of turnover are down from 5.18% last year to 4.7%, due to savings in...

Star agents • British Rail parcels service Red Star has

appointed five new collection and delivery agents in a move which has merged territories of some former agents. Those whose...

EC hours plan set

• Proposals to harmonise drivers' working hours across the European Community could lead to a sharp rise in hauliers' costs as...

; Germans revive visitor tax plan

• British international hauliers could be paying around £3,000 a year to run a truck on German autobahns from next year. The...

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orce up costs

The European Commission has decided to rethink the issue of drivers' hours and working time because of the many anomolies that...

Linking up in Europe

/ Parcels delivery company Parceline has launched a European service to 13 countries across the continent. The Euroline...

Receiver in at Mullins

• Machins, the Lincolnshirebased food distribution and warehouse specialist, called in the receiver last week after nearly 30...

Team up to fight for French refund

/ British hauliers are being urged to team up to fight for compensation following the French truck drivers' blockade. Michael...

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M-way refusal

• A local authority-backed plan for a 370km east-coast motorway running from Newmarket to Cleveland has been ruled out by the DOT.

Henry sells

• Foden Trucks has appointed Bill Henry as its Northern region sales manager.

NFC Stateside

• NFC has bought US transport company Trammell Crow Distribution. The Dallas-based company's assets amount to £4.2m, and its...

Carmen's merit

• General Logistics — inventor of the Trafficmaster motorway traffic monitoring system — has won the Worshipful Company of...

Alcock leaves

• George Alcock, production director at East Lancashire Coachbuilders, is taking early retirement at 56, ending 54 years of his...

Buyer sought

• A buyer is being sought for £1.8m-turnover removals firm Overs of Camberley, Salisbury and Addlestone which called in the...

Stobart's supreme

• Cumbrian-based Eddie Stobart is Motor Transport's Haulier of the Year. Stobart beat finalists Archbold Freightage and Beck &...

Animals charter threat

• EC officials are drafting new regulations for livestock transport which the RSPCA claims could put many livestock hauliers...

Managers for hire?

• Traffic Commissioners are to meet next month to discuss the Freight Transport Association's proposals to offer a transport...

LA slams PCV offence quirk

• Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has slammed a quirk in the law which makes it harder to prosecute PCV operators than...

TA rings in Bell

• Peter Bell, managing director of Mahon, North Yorksbased SA Bell, has succeeded Ian Ramsay as chairman of the Transport...

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Low emission venture

• Ricardo is forming a consortium to research Ultra Low Emissions Truck Engines (ULETE). The Shoreham-based company will not...

Drive-axle air ride for Daily

• Iveco Ford has ordered 50 Granning Lynx drive-axle air suspension conversions for the TurboDaily, following service trials...

Mini transporter for priority cars

111 Car transporter and preparation specialist Walon of Yeovil has expanded its 140-artic fleet with a two-vehicle carrier and...

Fleet win for 45

Leyland Daf's 45 Series was voted Fleet Truck of the Year at last week's Motor Transport Awards. The little 7.5-tonner beat off...

Double milestone

• A Scania R113 MA 4x2 320 tractive unit is the 40,000th Scania sold in the UK. It has been supplied to Glass Glover...

Second SAF

postal order • The Royal Mail has ordered 23 new triaxle semi-trailers fitted with SAF axles and air suspension. This is the...

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Seddon 17-tonner's engine trio

• Seddon Atkinson's longawaited new 17-tonner will be offered with either a Perkins Phaser or Cummins B Series engine —...

Fodensure cover crosses Channel

• Foden Trucks has extended its roadside rescue and recovery service to the Continent. Those operators covered by the...

Ford cuts prices of diesel Fiestas

• Ford is cutting the price of its 1.8-litre diesel Fiesta vans by an average of 7.7%. The RRP of the diesel Fiesta Popular van...

Boalloy to licence kit builders

• Boalloy is to licence up to eight local bodybuilders to assemble its Fineliner curtainsider from kits. It will allow the...

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False hours cost £3,331

• The partners in Maghull, Merseysideb a se d Haulage Technique, and two drivers were ordered to pay £3,331 in fines and costs...

Adjourned for finance details

• An application for a new fivevehicle standard international licence by J J Adams Haulage, based in Ossett, has been...

Partnership is questioned

• Cedric Johnson's loose form" of partnership with his nephew Peter brought an adjournment of a licence renewal hearing....

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Five-year driving ban

• Alan Melvyn Eardley, the proprietor of Montego European, has been banned from operating coaches or driving coaches and...

LEGAL

DIRECTORY • Commercial Motor has compiled a nationwide directory of specialist transport lawyers, expert witnesses, consultant...

Criticism was unfair

• Criticism of WJ Capper Transport's maintenance system by a DOT Vehicle Inspectorate district manager was attacked as unfair...

Top priority • West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh cut

the duration of the licence held by Dolmac, of Erdington, Birmingham so that it expires at the end of the year. Mervyn Pugh...

*Numerous faults • The duration of the licence of George

Chisholm, trading as Thanet Bus, has been cut to expire in June 1993. South Eastern and Metropolitan TC Michael Turner said...

Case adjourned • Bulman Bulk and Haulage of Penrith, its

directors Peter Housby and David Brown, and a number of drivers, have appeared before Carlisle magistrates accused of offences...

Bases covered • High Wycombe-based Cava Wood Transport was given

absolute discharges after admitting gross and second axle overloads on an artic before Brough magistrates. The magistrates...

Crown court • Wolverhampton lorry driver Derek Jones elected for

trial by jury when he appeared before the town's magistrates accused of falsifying tachograph records. Jones, of Castlecroft...

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Four lose Rover delivery

• Four major car transporters are losing lucrative contracts at Longbridge and Cowley since Rover's decision to reorganise its...

Bob Beattie • Parcels carrier City Link this week is

praising the work of its operations director Bob Beattie who has died. He spent the last 14 years responsible for the...

Package deal • NFC parcels company Lynx has won a

100-package-a-day contract with manufacturer Hager Powertech. The switchgear supplier has asked Lynx to work with their 600 UK...

Germany daily • A guaranteed daily service to Mainz and

Frankfurt is now being offered by Davies Turner in conjunction with GL Kayser.

NODA warns drivers off Tarmac Quarry

• The National Owner Drivers Association has warned ownerdrivers to steer clear of taking on work with construction company...

Blueflite cuts Last Post ties

• Irish haulier Blueflite has pulled out of its partnership with West Midlands-based parcels firm The Last Post alleging that...

Safeway saves day at Bathgate

• The future of Glass Glover Distribution's Bathgate distribution centre has been settled now Safeway is to continue with the...

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Subcontractors wait for M&M

• Magnet Kitchens is examining its former relationship with haulier M&M Transport, partowned by John Dee Ltd finance director...

Oil rig closure hits Scottish hauliers

• Scottish hauliers are set to be hit hard by the axing of 1,300 oil rig construction jobs at US company McDermott's yard in...

Low cost Italian link-up

• TDG operation Beck & Pollitzer has linked with Italian transport giant Castelletti Group to offer a road/rail service to...

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Deckers set to double life

• A Sheffield Omnibus engineer has rebuilt a double-deck Leyland Atlantean chassis to take single-deck bodywork, in a £50,000...

Lower Scania arrives in UK

• Scania's first right-handdrive low-floor N113CRB chassis has arrived in Britain. So far the Milton Keynes-based importer has...

First New electrics on trial

• Iveco Bus has set up a company with two Italian engineering firms to build electrically powered buses. The first two hybrids...

Safeguard offer

• Northampton-based dealer Jonckheere UK is repeating its offer to fit safety guards over the interior handle of the emergency...

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Revocation: cause for concern?

Tony Biker might have kept his 0-licence if his case had been heard when LAs had more freedom of choice. • North Eastern...

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DEALERS Cool agents

• Oxford-based insulated and refrigerated bodywork specialist Klege-Europ (UK) has appointed two new UK aftersales agents....

KLEGE•EUROP FERRIES Freight boost

• Extra freight capacity will be available on the Sealink Stena Line Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire service. The freight-only RU-RU...

EVENTS On the rails

• Hauliers interested in railfreight can visit Freightconnection '92 on 3-5 September at the National Exhibition Centre,...

Go with gas

• The Combustion Engineering Association is running the UK's first Natural Gas Vehicle .016-w conference and exhibition. The...

SERVICES Small fleet special

• Hauliers operating up to four vehicles are being offered a special insurance package by the Road Haulage Association. The...

Extra stop

• A truckstop has been opened at Colsterworth, Lincs on the Al with diesel, catering, parking, toilet/showers, phones and...

PUBLICATIONS Truckers' map

• The Department of Transport has published a new edition of its national road network map designed specially for commercial...

TRAINING More topics

• The Freight Transport Association has extended its range of technical training courses to take in six new subjects. The new...

PRODUCTS Baker's brainwave

• Emergency equipment designed by a retired HGV driver will give a vehicle temporary lights until the system can be fixed....

Speed alert

• An audible system that will warn a driver when he is about to break a speed limit is being introduced by Sailes Marketing....

Weight watching

• Drivers are promised instant overload warnings with a new axle weighbridge from Central Weighing, the Kidderminster-based...

BOADWATCH

AA Hotlines (0836) 401 111 West Country. (0836) 401 112 Wales. (0836) 401 113 Midlands. (0836) 401 114 East Anglia. (0836) 401...

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Indian take-away leads to heated row

[i t is not just French truckers who are up in arms — more than a million Indian lorry drivers have refused to curry favour...

No need to make a meal of it

ah — you can't talk to them in the morning because they're too tired "... and you can't talk to them in the evening because...

Batman returns loaded with chips

1 ast Thursday's film premier of Batman Returns in London, featuring Superpuss Cat Woman (below), was followed by a party at...

Come fly with me — slowly

H he police are fed up with being airy fairy about speeding drivers, it seems. Hampshire coppers are about to take to the air...

Holiday for a lifetime

lews of the new Dartford bridge or the pleasures of watching aircraft land at Heathrow Airport are among some of the delights...

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VANS

LONG-TERM TEST The Leyland Daf 200 family dates back as far as 1974. This long-running series has had many changes, so how does...

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CONFUSION LADEN?

Road transport legislation is littered with talk of CV weight limits, but the terminology is woefully inconsistent... • When...

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VW TRANSPORTER

Price: 211,292 (ex-VAT). Does not include £1,240 for Tipmaster body or Smiths electro-hydraulic tipping gear Engine: 2.4-litre...

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Two British hauliers are participating in an international satellite communications

experiment, fitting devices that allow managers to pinpoint their trucks to within 50 metres anywhere in Europe. I...

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VA - TR/IAN

RETURNS One in four transport managers fail to reclaim VAT spent abroad on fuel and services. CM explains who offers recovery...

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REM STAMP of APliNAP

A green concept truck has gone on trial with the Royal Mail. But will the E90,000 artic pay for itself through fuel savings?...

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No forgiveness for the French

• I'm absolutely dismayed over the scale of protest in France against the new driver licensing law. British and other EC...

Fighting back

• I can have some sympathy with the French truck drivers in their current dispute with their government. Dealing with...

Palmer review

• in last week's Dear Sir, Alan Wilson of the Vehicle Inspectorate pointed out that the decision to integrate traffic and...

No knowledge?

• It was painfully obvious from his letter (CM 2-8 July) that Stuart Kelly doesn't know what a transport manager's job...

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'Lorries have transformed peaceful lanes into noisy, dangerous roads'

, T he country road I cycle to work along is narrow, hedged and curved; a typical country lane. But recently the roadside woods...