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RHA wants Euro-5 early-bird reward

The DfT has been asked to extend the RPC scheme to cover operators that have already bought Euro-5 trucks. Roanna Avison...

1 2-year sentence for Noah-East arsonist

A GANGLAND ENFORCER who was involved with a series of massive truck and haulage depot fires across the North-East has been...

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New row over delays at Vosa test stations

A DEALER IS warning that the lack of test dates at Vosa stations could kill off their businesses. CM has received a number of...

Volvo looks at mirrors

GiVEN VOLVO'S deserved reputation for safety, it is ironic that the mirrors on its heavy trucks have been repeatedly singled...

See you there!

CM AND ITS stablemates will be out in force at this year's CV Show. Come and play on Roacitransport. corn, enter our £500...

Takeover targets

At least 206 UK road haulage firms are prime targets for a takeover and another 269 could be sold off by their parent...

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Drivers struggle to find the time to satisfy two masters

Following the introduction of the new hours regs, drivers are requesting guidance on how they fit in with the VVTD. Roanna...

Driver wins case but is left out of pocket

OVERTURNED his unviction, driver Stephen MeFarane is campaigning to increase the :ompensation available to those vrongly hauled...

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US HEAVY TRUCK sales have fallen more than expected following the introduction of stricter emission regulations.

According to the Commercial Transportation Research Company, Class 8 sales for January-March 2007 were down 72% on the first...

VOLKSWAGEN Commercial Vehicles is planning some major extensions to its line-up.

First to appear, probably at the RAI Show in Amsterdam this October, will be a long-wheelbase version of the Caddy. A 500min...

Centrica pledges safe driving

BRITISH GAS parent Centrica has introduced a permit-to-drive scheme for all of its employees who drive company vehicles or...

Silver anniversary purchase

LEEDS-BASED Lawcris Panel Products has invested £638,000 in 11 trucks ranging from 7.5 to 27 tonnes, expanding its fleet to 30....

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FAIR DEAL FOR EARLY BIRDS

The Chancellor's plan to offer operators a reduced pollution certificate (RPC) for upgrading to Euro-5 before the emissions...

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Taco drivers to be balloted on strike action over 'changes'

Drivers at Tesco's Livingston depot are staging a strike ballot; the supermarket giant believes "industrial action will achieve...

Taking the plunge...

A 44-TONNE ARTICULATED truck ended up in the Manchester Ship Canal last week after it rolled off the edge of Trafford Tankwash...

DHL goes greener with heaviest Newton electric truck to date

GERMAN PARCELS giant DHL has commissioned the world's heaviest electric delivery vehicle to date; it will go into service with...

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Locals push for extension of 'shod-cut B430 truck ban

Heavies are already banned from the southbound carriageway of the B430; now an action group wants to drive them off the road...

Win £500 at the CV Show

with Roadtransportcom Roadtransport com was launched on 1 February 2007 providing a single website designed to help keep you up...

Liverpool Port refutes haulier's claims of 'chaos'

THE PORT OF Liverpool has put up a robust defence against accusations by a haulier that queues and waiting times have made it...

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DfT plans to omit rail freight

from 2009-14 spending plan Freight will not be included in a rail network blueprint due out this summer, but the DfT insists...

TruckNet UK...

Rikki Chequer, community manager of the popular drivers' website TruckNet UK, reviews the past weekwith smoking and training...

Diesel thieves hit truck dealer

NEARLY 20 TRUCKS were drained of diesel in a fuel-syphoning raid on a Shropshire CV dealer last week. The gang broke into the...

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PDA protests planned over loss of truckstop

The possible closure of Alconbury truckstop angers the PDA, which has set up a petition to preserve the and for secure parking....

VVincanton says: Share depots to cut down on empty running

WINCANTON wants customers to share distribution centres in a bid to cut congestion and emissions. The haulier has launched a...

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A CORONER IS calling for LGVs to be fitted with

extra mirrors to eliminate the blind spot below the front of cabs after a pensioner was run over by a truck in slow-moving...

Vlercs make sweet music at C Butt

OTTING11AM-BASEDlogis:s company C Butt is taking ;livery of 17 Euro-5 18-tonne l36L Mercedes-Benz Actroses. le new Mercs will...

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Felixstowe Port says: We need your help!'

A leaflet being issued to operators and LGV drivers is designed to improve the implementation of Operation Stack on the A14....

Most parking specialists at show rejected road charging to beat jams

NEARLY TWO THIRDS of specialists in the transport and parking technology industry have come out against the imposition of...

Smurfit opts for Euro-5 Daf CF85s

APER-BASED packaging coinany Smurfit Kappa has bought a , air of Euro-5 Daf FAS CF85 hiree-axle drawbar prime movers. They are...

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Permission to make a claim

Birmingham Employment Tribunal allows diabetic driver to claim sick pay. Peter Swingler reports. 4. TRUCK DRIVER who...

Vahindra returns to the UK market with SUV/pickup

IF ANYONE IN the UK remembers the name of Mahindra. it will be for its licence-built version of the classic Jeep CJ, sold to a...

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Measure for measure

A Freight Best Practice survey tells next-day parcel deliverers how to measure — and improve — their efficiency. Chris Tindall...

SURVEY RECOMMENDATIONS The Freight Best Practice survey makes a number

of recommendations: • Use key performance indicators (KPIs)to measure performance internally and externally; vehicle...

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Catching the camera's eye

Which commercial vehicle drivers are the biggest speeding culprits, and where do the infringements take place? Dylan Gray looks...

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Standing out from the crow

:lose Asset Finance has a CV finance book approaching E1 10m, but it's not about to rest Dn its laurels. Andy Salter catches...

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LEI a big cost for a small gain

YOUR ANALYSIS headed 'A capital idea' (CM 5 April) serves to highlight once again the farcical situation surrounding the London...

Reviewed recovery charges will still be unfair to good operators

IN YOUR FEATURE on recovery charges headed On the road to recovery' (CM 5 April), you said: "Like the emergency services,...

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The road to nowhere?

Satellite navigation systems might seem like the ideal solution for vehicles making journeys to lots of different sites. But is...

IGNORING THE SIGNS There's nothing new about trucks hitting bridges

or becoming stuck in narrow streets, but increasingly sat-nay is being blamed. Here area few examples: • April 2007: A German...

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The hardware

The Tom Tom satellite-navigation will be familiar to many people. As a sat-nay device is supposed to, it plans the route and...

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Trucks were hired at £100 a week by sham operation

The five-vehicle licence is revoked and the operator disqualified for three years as a "warning" to others. Mike Jewell...

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Inspection records were filled in late

‘_ GARAGE'S LICENCE was revoked after it was ound guilty of fiddling the records of the truck it used or hauling customers'...

Transport Tribunal rules that evidence was too weak to justify revocation

THE TRANSPORT TRIBUNAL has ruled that a Traffic Commissioner acted on insufficient evidence when he revoked a company's licence...

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THE CASE

Strid conditions imposed on licence DESPITE BEING LINKED to two liquidated companies a Sheffield-based operation has been...

Liverpool firm fined £2,500 in its absence after failing to produce tachograph charts

FAILING TO PRODUCE tachograph records on demand has cost Liverpool-based Maguire Trading £2,648 in fines and costs. The...

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Fatal flaws

Should drivers face five years in jail for a fatal mistake caused by careless driving? As long as the judgment is fair the new...

JOHN BELL Transport manager Huntapac Transport Preston, Lancs There's a

big difference between careless driving and a simple mistake, John Bell points out, and it's to be hoped that the legal system...

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THE PANEL (continued) MALCOLM MILLARD MGM Haulage Flexford, Southampton

Malcolm Millard Haulage veteran Malcolm Millard believes five years in jail is fair for causing death by careless driving. But...

THE VERDICT

• Five-year jail sentence is a fairer reflection of the loss of life than a £2,500 fine • The tougher penalty could make...

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p and coming law with the FM

'UTURE LEGISLATION :corporate manslaughter: The government rishes to introduce a new offence to hold rganisations to account...

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SHOW TELL

Look past the furore over Euro-5 and there will be plenty of innovations and concepts at this year's CV Show. CM reviews the...

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Covering all the options

Look for several launches among the vans and pickups, but manufacturers who want to stand out from the crowd will need to be...

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Part and parcel

Trailer launches might be in short supply, but there will be plenty going on among the trailer component suppliers. This year...

After dabbling with its Hi lux pickup Toyota has finalises its

work here for the moment with improved drivelines. It has increased t e power of the 2.5 and 3.0-litre engines, while the Dyne...

EMINOX Eminox will launch a range of stainless-steel replacement exhaust

systems designed to work with EGR and SCR systems. They include twin and single vertical stacks as well as under-slung systems....

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iecond time around

HE USED TRADE has started ) infiltrate the CV Show through lanufacturers and auction ouses. Following on from last ear's...

Worth the weight

The right tyre combination can represent a significant fuel and weight saving for CVs — but it's imperative to make sure they...

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Driving with up to 200 tonnes distributed on

more than 20 axles is a specialised task which places very special demands on the driver, as Ivan Stjemqvist discovered... I n...

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TROUBLED TIMES

There was uncertainty in the air at the 2007 Mid America Trucking Show as it began to sink in that there are Jncharted waters...

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Prospective buyers of new trucks face a dilemma — should they go down the Euro-4 or the Euro-5

route? Steve E reports. 0 perators thinking of purchasing a new truck today are in something of a quandary. Should they opt...

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In the second instalment of one CM tester's journey to truck driving stardom, Julian Milnes

hits the road in a 7.5-tonner — with minimal fatalities. y ou may remember that a few months ago (CM21 December 2006) your...

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CONCLUSION

While taking a 7.5-tonner for a spin is not the biggest challenge in the commercial vehicle world, it gives an insight into the...

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WE THE POUNDS

R uncorn, Cheshire-based Axtec is that rare thinga British-owned firm designing CV gadgetry and manufacturing it in Britain....

The construction wing

Aztec fields a construction staff of nine. This sounds unusual for a CV component manufacturer, but there is a good reason: the...

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Langdons experience

Bridgewater, Somerset-based Langdons runs 190 trucks, ranging through 7.5 to 44 tonnes, and is a specialist reefer operator...

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DESPERATE VAN MAN

We set three staffers the challenge of buying a roadworthy panel van — for £600 or less. So what did they blow their cash...

RENAULT MASTER Dylan Gray

My purchase was an M-reg Renault Master - 135D, the only full-sized van in the challenge and bought on eBay for 2510. The...

Buying a half-decent van for £600 isn't as easy as I thought it would be.

I was under the assumption that the classifieds would be bursting with potential vehicles but that wasn't the case. All my...

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Being the slowest off the mark, I was locked out

of the LDV and Renault brands. My initial thought was to opt for that mainstay of the British one-man band, the ex-BT Transit....

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Used truck shortage 5

LEURO own to operators' luctance to adopt new technology is to blame for a shortage of used et vehicles, says a leading...