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18th January 2007
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IS THIS THE END FOR 7.5-TONNERS?

If the scale of the impact of digital tachographs on the road transport sector needed any further illustration, look no further...

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Turners builds up by acquiring atitil

East Anglia's Turners (Soham) has started the year with the purchase of respected bulk powder distributor CRW. Chris Tindall...

CM'S parent company buys TruckNet UK COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S parent company,

Reed Business Information, has taken over the assets of TruckNet UK, the UK's leading road transport website for drivers....

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Concern over driver jobs at Yea rsley as depot closes

YEARSLEY GROUP admits the closure of the Birds Eye depot in Hull could lead to redundancies among its drivers — but says it...

Scan'ia plans Euro-5 EGR launch

SCANIA'S EURO-5 engines will appear this year, but operators hoping for a two-pedal Opticruise transmission will have to wait....

Bulmers plans further growth

TEESIDE'S BULMERS I ..ogisties plans further growth after expanding its fleet last year: the bulk and container operator is...

AVE exhausts

Our report on Astra Vehicle Technologies' replacement Euro-4/5 SCR exhaust systems suggested they were only available for...

Absent verdid

In our 11 January edition it was reported that Joseph Hathaway of Newry, a driver employed by Dumfries Freight, appeared before...

Driver crushed

A truck driver was killed on Friday 12 January after being trapped between his 51-tonne artic and the wall of a house in...

Kurds caught

Three Iranian Kurdish immigrants were arrested at GPS Sprayers' site in Station Yard, Thame, Oxon on Friday 5 January after...

Staying on

Ian Fleming of Dundeebased CJ Land has been elected to serve another year as chairman of the Freight Transport Association's...

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Syntex to face Eastern TC and demonstrate it is 'legitimate'

The Traffic Commissioner will decide whether to revoke the licence of a six-month-old East Anglian haulage company. Chris...

Review may end 'II ht touch' VVTD enforcement

STRICTER ENFORCEMENT of the working time regulations could be on the cards to guard against operators abusing the system....

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Removers & showmen hit out at 'unfair' LEZ THE BRITISH

ASSOCIATION of Removers (BAR) and the Showmen's Guild have branded London's low-emission zone (LEZ) as unfair — they warn it...

Job of the week: help develop TfL for £50k

TRANSPORT FOR LONDON is recruiting three senior managers for its freight team. These permanent positions, which include the...

Work/life balance pm=

The public wants a 24/7 economy — but what does that mean for those who have to deliver it? LGV driver L Radley knows... "I...

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TC calls for tighter controls on 0-licence applications

Can the Traffic Commissioners trust 0-licence applicants to be truthful? It seems not — so maybe it's time to tighten up if we...

What the TC wants...

HEAPS SAYS the McKinney & Son case and others have led him to believe the 0-licence application procedures must be reviewed. He...

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Euro court case ruling will affed flagging across EU

The European Court of Justice is to decide whether to allow firms to flag out to countries where costs are lower. David Harris...

CM'S Online Health Challenge 'a success'

THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR Online Health Challenge came to an end last week — more than 400 people completed the 12-week programme to...

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EWS predicts boom in UK rail freight

RAIL FREIGHT specialist EWS Network is predicting a sharp rise in the number of intermodal containers transported by rail. The...

French firm wins Welsh chemical deal

LEADING FRENCH BULK chemical operator Groupe Samat has consolidated its presence in the UK market with a "large, major, and...

Farrall's golden Globetrotters

CHESTER-BASED Edwin C Farrall Transport is celebrating its golden anniversary by buying two Volvo FH12 6x2 Globetrotter& The...

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German trials identify problems with LHVs

Safety fears have been raised by the latest EU country to assess longer, heavier trucks. Dylan Gray reports. INITIAL RESULTS...

Call to fight back pain

LOUGHBOROUGH University (LU) has been granted £200,000 to help improve drivers' health. The cash, awarded by the Bupa...

Rollover driver fights sacking

A DRIVER is seeking compensation for unfair dismissal after denying that excessive speeding made his truck overturn. John...

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IRHA and RHA slam 4.65m limit

Plans to introduce a height limit on LGVs in Ireland have met opposition from two road haulage associations. Chris Tindall...

Artic drivers' pay rises by 9.4%

THE AVERAGE hourly pay for category C+E drivers has risen by 9.4% since the Road Transport Directive took effect — but...

VW rejects MAN bid for Scania

SCAT\ A. SHAREHOLDER Volkswagen has rejected MAN's hostile takeover bid for the Swedish truck giant, saying it wants the...

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Operators on the Humber to receive free logistics advice

A dedicated logistics institute will open this summer to support local operators and provide undergraduate courses. Chris...

Peugeot first to announce prices for mini-Sevel

PEUGEOT IS THE first member of the Sevel partnership to release UK prices and GVW ratings for the latest mini-SeveI lk range of...

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Euro-5 Volvo to help fight cancer

NORTHERN IRELAND charity Action Cancer has become the first UK operator to run a Euro-5 Volvo. The FH 400 4x2 Globetrotter XL...

Look out for stolen curtain-sided trailer

ADR EXPRESS IS appealing for information about a trailer stolen from its yard in Droitwich, Wares at the end ofJune 2006, The...

Tesco gives green light to 50% biodiesel blend

TESCO IS RUNNING more than 75% of its 2,000 trucks on a50% biodiesel blend marketed as Greenergy B50. Tesco is one of the...

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Networking solutions

With another pallet network about to join an already crowded sector, Dylan Gray looks at government research that shows what...

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Winners and losers

Who sold the most CVs last year, and how will the market perform in 2007? Louise Cole runs her eye over the end-of-year sales...

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2 lveco's Thorneycroft-Smith predicts another

tough year —"and that's not being pessimistic, it's being realistic". Bruce Allison at Renault says: "In recent years the UK...

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TNT Logistics by any other name...

TNT Logistics rebranded as Ceva Logistics in December. Chris Tindall asks managing director Neil Crossthwaite what the future...

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SUPER TRUCKS

Filmed on location in Iowa, USA it includes coverage of 100's of truckers 'showing' their highly polished and cleaned rigs in...

TRUCKING UM

US truckers can trace their origins back to the days of the wild west and drive some of the biggest rigs in the world. The crew...

ALASKA HIGHWAY

Dramatic coverage of the 1500 mile long Akan' featuring trucks, drivers, forestry machinery, spectacular scenery and wildlife...

HEAVY UIFI1NG AND HAULING

Four, not to be missed, features including the movement of cranes from Rotterdam to Canada, an industrial yew] through...

HEAVY TRANSPORT

This 60 minute film shows how, with good planning and skillful driving, you can move almost anything and this film shows just...

BEDFORD YOU SAW THEM EVERYWHERE This DVD comprises of six

promotional films dating from 1953 to 1973 and features various Bedford lorries and the uses they were put to. This is a real...

ICBs AT WORK

This programme looks at some of the larger JCB machines at work on sites. It takes in earthinoving for warehouse construction,...

BIG EARTHMOVERS

This fantastic film features some of the larger earthmoving equipment working on major projects in Britain including T5 at...

TRANSPORTING CEPTIONAL LOADS

Each of the exceptional loads shown required careful planning and equipment and includes the movement of a Boeing 747, bridge...

LOGGERS

This superb film covers from chainsaw to sawmill in British Columbia. It covers the transportation of timber by truck, train...

TRUCKING AND LIVING IN CANADA

Truckers are among the skills in short supply in Canada. This great new film was aimed at Dutch drivers wishing to move to...

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ACCURATE ROUTE PLANNING MADE EASY!

Description Fully updated with the very latest road and postcode data, Travelmanager is still the UK's No 1 selling route...

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With Ford about to launch the Transit Connect in the

US and DaimlerChrysler involved in a Chinese joint venture, 2007 is shaping up as an eventful year for the global light CV...

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International year of the van?

So much for DainilerChrysler.What of Ford? According to reports from Turkish news agency Sabah, Ford is to start marketing the...

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FREE DIGITAL TACHO SOLUTION

W hether you're talking about digital or analogue tachographs, few companies can rival Tachodisc for technical expertise and...

HOW TO APPLY The first 50 readers who e-mail sales@

tachodisc.co.uk, call 01925 28332801 send a postcard to Tachodisc at 19 Kingsland Grange, Wool ston, Warrington, Cheshire WA1...

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Tribunal refuses licence bid from Dove that's a phoenix

The Transport Tribunal has rejected a Kent firm's appeal against a TC's refusal to grant it a licence. Mike Jewell reports....

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Vehicle suspension for firm with

25 prohibitions in five years A BREAKDOWN in its driver defect-reporting system has led to a Forfar operator having a vehicle...

00/ 0 pass rate could affed licence A STAFFORDSHIRE haulier is

waiting to see what action West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Lester Maddrell will take against his licence following his...

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Big spender can't build Rome in a day but wins licence increase

A LANCASHIRE skip hire company that spent almost £500,000 on new workshop facilities and recruited an engineering manager from...

Tribunal overturns licence curtailment

AN OPERATOR whose licence was curtailed by the Western Traffic Commissioner Philip Brown has had the decision overturned by the...

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Ready, willing and able

2007 will be a big year for the enforcement of disabled workers' rights. David Craik provides a guide to the Disability...

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The Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) The CEHR

will begin work in October, integrating the roles of the Disability Rights Commission, the Equal Opportunities Commission and...

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Agency drivers under control

Operators who believe that a loophole in the law relieves them of the need for an 0-licence when employing agency drivers had...

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FUTURE LEGISLATION

Corporate manslaughter: The government wishes to introduce a new offence to hold organisations to account for gross failings by...

ACT NOW

The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2006, CIF 1 February 2007. Increases the limits for awards at employment...

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ii the past we've brought you group tests of l)-frills

sleeper cabs and bells-and-whistles 11(!et flagships. But while you won't retain drivers with gaffer's motors, few fleet...

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DOUBLE OR NOTHING

Double-deck trailers can significantly reduce vehicle movements — benefiting the environment as well as operators' profits....

Innovate Logistics

"You could take a lot of lorries off the road if DDs were used more," says Pete Osbourne, MD of Innovate Logistics. In the last...

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In addition to trains, Britain's biggest retailer employs fixed DD

trailers built by Lawrence David. Like many shop chains it doesn't use them for store delivery; access is too tight and...

Driving and training issues A recent posting on TrucknetUK, the

professional drivers' interactive website www.trucknetuk.com -expressed a number of concerns about double-deck trailers....

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Tail-lifts Na trailer is of much use unless it can

be unloaded quickly and efficiently. Ratcliff Tail Lifts supplies all the major trailer manufacturers including Cartwright and...

CASE STUDY Operations director Daniel Holland has eight double-deck trailers

in this Pershore-based fleet, all built by Boalloy. Two of them are step-frames and six are straight-frames all are fixed-deck...

BS Trailer Services

Oliver Moore of Leighton Buzzard, Beds-based BS Trailer Services who recently celebrated 10 years in the business -numbers...

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LIGHT TRA LERS IP

With new type approval regulations on the horizon, lightweight trailers are coming out of the shadows. Sharon Clancy reports....

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HE LIMELIGHT

coupling and avoiding overloading of the trailer axles. Bradley has introduced a sensor that gives an audible signal when the...

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BUILDING UP ON SUCCESS

Trailer manufacturer SDC Trailers has a new-generation management team which is determined to keep the company at the forefront...

PARTS AND REPAIRS AT SDC The increase in the number

of trailers manufactured at SDC since 2001 has resulted in parts and repair growing too. Repair now occupies eight bays and the...

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PPED FOR THE TOP

Volvo took the wraps off its new FL and FE medium-duty range at the Hanover Show in September — and we've now had the chance...

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ON THE ROAD We recently took the FL and FE

for a run round Volvo Trucks' Warwick HQ, and despite one or two little niggles we came away extremely impressed. Butt irst,...

THE RANGE In launching the new range, Volvo Trucks has

taken the opportunity to re-align its medium-duty line-up. The 4x2 rigid FL now covers the 12-18-tonne GVW sector; the 4x2 and...

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COMING & GOING

O nce again Ford proved to be the daddy, topping the 2006 CV sales chart. With an advertising campaign promoting the Transit as...

THE LOWDOWN

The latest Transit feels traditional and uninspiring, but it's early days yet and perhaps those motorway runs mean its...

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Its time to say goodbye to our Nissan Navara King

Cab, which is slightly larger than its contemporaries and also big on all-round ability. We'll miss it, but not too much —we've...

THE LOWDOWN Having piloted the Navara through busy city streets

and over some hairy off-road terrar we've found plenty of pros and very few cons. It is built to such a high standard that we...

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Cheap AdBlue at your service

One franchised used tuck dealer is offering AdBlue at cost to its customers whenever their vehides make workshop visits. Steve...

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in on Euro-3

Anyone selling niche products and late-year, low-mileage Euro-3 vehicles with analogue tachos should prosper in the new year....

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Ready-to-work eight-leggers

Sometimes dealers have to take a risk, and that's what MercedesBenz dealership Sparshatts of Kent did before Christmas. says...