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Unlike Pam Ewing, the curvaceous heroine of Dallas, we can't all wake up declaring: "Bobby... I've had the most awful dream."...
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Hy Chris Tindall and David Harris ROAD TRANSPORT firms are bracing for a double whammy of toll operators increasing charges...
THE GOVERNMENT has outlined plans to develop a joined-up truckstop strategy as well as consider the possibility of longer...
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By Joanna Bourke HAULIERS ARE celebrating the result of the Manchester Transport Innovation Fund (TIE) referendum in which...
CRANLEIGH FREIGHT Services (CFS) has had to lay off staff in the wake of MFI going into administration, with the firm admitting...
UK OPERATORS want the Traffic Commissioners to target foreign hauliers coming into the country, but broadly support the way the...
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By: Joanna Bourke VOSA HAS CLAIMED the owners of Liverpool's Twelve Quays docks in Birkenhead are stopping it from carrying out...
has resigned from his post after four years in the role. He tikl the Transport Select Committee. "We have achieved so much,...
DRIVERS AT MCPHERSON of Aberlour have following feedbackand requests from members, called off strike action and agreed to a...
IN LAST WEEK'S edition we wrongly reported that DHL drivers had been awarded a sum of compensation by an employment tribunal....
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By Christopher Walton SEPTEMBER 2009 could see a spike in truck registrations when Euro-5 becomes mandatory for all heavy...
MAN IS TO buy Volkswagen's Brazilian truck and bus business, in a move that could further muddy the waters regarding any...
Well, it's nearly another year over in the life of TruckNet UK. It has been a turbulent 12 months for the industry, and this...
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Times are tough for hauliers, so we asked a group of transport bosses to compile a wish list for 2009. Words: Roger Brown...
Services • Scrap the ludicrous rise in fuel duty. The rise in costs is equivalent to the wages of eight drivers. It has...
more to encourage retailers to share their transport anc logistics requirements. This would help us increase our utilisation...
Managing director of Fergu sons Transport • Provide exemption from the Working Time Directive. • Make serious investment in...
we can opt out of the Working Time Directive. If people want to work harder to provide more for themselves and their families,...
easier for trucks to service London firms are faced with the lorry ban, congestion charge and the low-emission zone, • Don't...
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alternative to Stack By Chris Tindall CONTROVERSIAL PLANS to build a vast lorry park for 900 vehicles outside Felixstowe have...
Vos to cut 345 jobs in response to recession DUTCH OPERATOR Von Logistics is to cut 345 jobs across Europe and not renew the...
THE SCOTTISH government last week announced its long-term investment programme for transport over the next 20 years....
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By Chris Tindall THE El GHWAYS Agency (HA) is considering restricting lorries from the outside lane on a stretch of the A14 to...
OPERATORS ARE losing money through the poor maintenance of tail-lifts, according to Mike Bird, operations director at tail-lift...
FEDEX HAS TAKEN delivery of its first Modec electric van, one of 10 that will be operating in central London. The move is part...
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By Roanna Avison THE 2009 EUROPEAN Road Transport Show (ERTS) at the RAI in Amsterdam has been cancelled following the decision...
POLICE ARE WARNING drivers not to use selftesting breathalysers to gauge whether or not they are safe to get behind the wheel...
A TRUCK DRIVER who admitted smuggling almost E700,000 of cocaine into the UK was jailed for nine years last week. Canterbury...
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Enter our competition to win one of two FM Protector telematics systems from MiX Telematics. One thing that most professional...
A Corporal Jones B Sergeant Dixon C Inspector Clouseau Send your answer on a postcard to: 'MiX Competition', Commercial Motor,...
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Wincanton has spent a lot of money and taken a lot of flack this year entering the container market. So as containers feel the...
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CHANCELLOR ALISTAIR Darling's preBudget report ("Darling's fuel duty hike slammed by industry" CM 27 November) has left the...
I WOULDN'T WANT your readers to slip into a false sense of security that this type of crash damage is survivable, as your...
THE PROPOSAL put forward by the Lib Dems for a restriction on the amount of fuel carried on trucks while in transit through the...
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Haulage Exchange is on a mission to drag the industry into the 21st century. Lyall Cresswell and Luke Davies explain about how...
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A family's bid for an 0-licence has been thrown out by Scottish TC A FAMILY that continued to operate despite the failure of...
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THE TRANSPORT Tribunal has refused an appeal against a decision cutting a haulier's licence from two trucks to one, rejecting a...
A PARTNER in a Herefordshire haulage firm, who had continued to operate after a partnership was dissolved in October 2007, has...
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THE TRANSPORT Tribunal has quashed the decision of the South Eastern & Metropolitan Deputy Traffic Commissioner Christopher...
KEIGHLEY-BASED Munir Hussain. trading as Alquasim Poultry has lost his appeal against the revocation of his three-vehicle...
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businesses since the introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter Act in April. Under the terms of the Act, companies now face...
Running parallel to the new offence of corporate manslaughter is the Health & Safety (Offences) Act 2008, which comes into...
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law in April, creates the new statutory offence in England, Wales and Northern Ireland of "corporate manslaughter', and in...
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Ireland does not have corporate manslaughter law but legislation providing for fines of up to €3m and prison sentences of two...
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with flagship tractors (The grande exam', CM 29 May), we thought it was time we got back down to earth and tested trucks that...
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The manufacturers that took part in this test could be confident that even if their truck did not win, it would get a fair...
The 1,000 Point Test was once again carried out in the HunsrOck region of southwest Germany, from the Rasthof Hochwald...
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D tan Gra To put things into perspective, the difference between the highest and lowest scores was only 0.6%. Each truck had...
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Here's CM's essential guide to buying a tail-lift. We list the things you should be looking for as well as the pitfalls....
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In April 2009, the law governing under-run bars changes. This will affect cantilever-style lifts, many of which are supplied...
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Can't tell your column lift from your cantilever? Let Commercial Motor enlighten you... Column lifts These are mounted to the...
These are mounted to the vehicle or trailer chassis and have a platform that is opened. closed, raised and lowered using...
Also called up-and-under lifts, the operating mechanism and platform of a tuck-away lift stow under the rear overhang of the...
Also called slider or zoom lifts, because they, literally, slide under the tail of the chassis. The platforms stow horizontally...
Either internally or externally mounted, double-tier its are designed for lifting goods to the upper decks of double-deck...
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must be CE-marked to show they conform to the EU Machinery Directive. CEconforming lifts, for example, will have lifting...
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GM's iconic 6x6 'Jimmy' probably hauled more freight, through more theatres of war, than any other military vehicle in WWII....
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Christmas doesn't just happen. All the toys, trimmings, tipples and turkeys have to come from somewhere. We find out how the...
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Royal Mail delivers about 150 million cards and parcels a day in the run-up to Christmas, and each letter box and post office...
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hen you sit down to eat your Christmas dinner, you'd probably be a bit disappointed if it didn't include a turkey (unless...
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Behind Daimler's 'Trucks you can trust' initiative is a programme of testing at all stages of a vehicle's design and build....
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Deciding if the specialists are up to scratch Every so often, when the participants are Least expecting it, CM's 'mystery...
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to DHL just after 09:00. A quick and accurate telephone L.wking system gave the price and an estimated collection time of...
the collected parcels. The man at the post office counter seemed unfamiliar with the process, and spent 10 minutes on the phone...
collection before 15:00. At 12:45, a "shaggy-haired but very nice and polite lad" wearing a FedEx fleece arrived in a clean...
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a human, rather than the more typical five. The lady explained that there were two choices. For collection, you need a company...
polite Dutch speaker, but whose accent seemed to place him in a far-off call centre. There were several questions about the...
hours to nine days. This time, however, things were much closer, with three parcels arriving within 30 minutes of a round 24...
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Parts and service are the driving forces behind Pelican Engineering investing £1.5m on new premises for its Hino dealership and...
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Livingston-based company MV Commercial impresses with its simple, powerful, used truck website. Words: James Clark Company:...