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DRBINO JOBS

Eddie Stobart needs 25 new drivers following cardboard manufacturer lggesund Paperboard's decision to hand all its UK...

NO COMINENE

Scania is refusing to comment on newspaper reports that Volkswagen has launched a bid to buy it. Scania has already rejected an...

GROUP 80ES

A northern trailer group which includes Grahams of Gildersome went into administration last week. The four companies in the...

MEAT NECKS

Assured British Meat plans to boost public confidence in the UK's livestock haulage industry by checking livestock vehicles at...

BELGIUM BOUND Scunthorpe-based GE Curtis is in the process of

flagging out a number of its trucks to Belgium. The company has opted for Belgium because its parent company Sarens is based...

EMILY CLUNG

Only five months after it opened, the £200m A1/M1 link road in West Yorkshire had to close for a day earlier this week for...

Trans-Action backs plan for 1150,000 pro-truck TV ads

by Charles Young A new campaign designed to bolster public Support for hauliers and lobby the Government to lower their tax...

Commons duty row

• A Government minister has branded the Conservative Party as extremist for supporting the campaign to scrap increases in road...

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• by Karen Miles Fears over the damage eastern European

hauliers and drivers are inflicting on operators throughout the European Union are about to be addressed by the European...

Heavy haulier Econofreight is in talks about the possible sale of its logistics operation to Stockton-on-Teesbased Stiller Transport.

Keith Lewis, managing director of Brambles Heavy Contracting. which owns Econofreight, will not comment until all the i's have...

s i Port hauliers wiped

out by foreign firms • A series of Hampshire hauliers working out of Portsmouth Port have gone out of business as...

TNT driver's lucky escape

• A TNT Newsfast driver was lucky to escape serious injury last week when his 17-tonner crashed through a motorway bridge...

Driver agency expelled

• Manchester-based driver agency Drivernet Services is considering court action after being expelled from the recruitment...

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URTU could block digital tachographs

hy Sally Nash The United Road Transport Union is threatening to mount a campaign against the introduction of digital...

Against the grain?

Self-help is good help—but it mustn't be the only help. What are we talking about? The attempt by a group of grain hauliers to...

Duty-free loss hits rates

el International operators have received their stiffest warning yet that the cost of crossing the Channel will rise next year...

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COOL VEG Christian Salvesen's Food and Consumer division has won

a 10-year contract for vegetable processing and cold storage services at its Lowestoft site.

ABS FOR KM Leyland Daf is to fit ABS systems

to the Ministry of Defence's 1,600 DROPS vehicles which it originally supplied in 1989. The contract creates 30 new jobs.

GOOD START Commercial Vehicle Finance has turned over £1.5m in

its first two weeks of trading. The Basingstoke company is geared towards the owneroperator and small fleet business.

TEA HOUSE TOG Pinnacle has opened a warehouse in Spoke,

Liverpool for a new raw tea contract for Premier Brands, the makers of Typhoo.

WAD WENT Vehicle electronics company Red Forge is to fit

axle load identification systems to more than 100 of White Rose Environmental's fleet.

SNAP 411111 Pharaoh Recycling Group has a new contract with

the London Borough of Enfield to collect paper, batteries and scrap metal.

PICTURE PARTS NCH Express Parcels has won a contract with

Kodak worth more than £900,000.1t involves delivering spare parts to field service engineers throughout the UK.

Tolls knock Humber traffic

• by Guy Sheppard Freight traffic across the Humber Bridge has decreased for the first time in its history, confirming fears...

Roads starved of funds

• Less than 20% of the funds raised through vehicle and fuel taxes last year was ploughed back into the UK's roads despite them...

Collision kills landfill worker in Scotland

A worker was killed last week when an Unmanned tipper truck and a refuse truck collided at a rubbish tip in Lanarkshire....

Jobs rise forecast

• Manpower transport anti distribution employers have bucked the national trend by showing increased confidence in job...

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Death smash driver on road for 12 hours

• A lorry driver who died in a head-on smash on the A69 might have survived if he had been wearing a seat-belt, an inquest has...

Roadside tests ask drivers to walk line

• In a return to 1950s-style roadside tests, truck drivers may be asked to show they can walk ht a straight line or touch their...

Malcolm Group buys terminal and asks for rail-freight funds

Scottish haulier the Malcolm Group plans to expand its container traffic with the purchase of a six-acre rail-freight terminal...

Union on board at transporters

• A trade union official has congratulated two car transport firms after they agreed to recognise staff membership of the...

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a ing and sha mg

Grain hauliers are demanding better food safety, including a bar on trailers which have carried banned substances—and rates...

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Drums for high-cube trucks

• Hendrickson Europe is offering a new drum brake aimed at low-weight high-volume use. The 335 x 150mm drum has improved...

Small reefer unit goes on standby

• A new reefer unit for small panel vans is being offered by Hubbard. The 360REM for 12 or 24V vehicles has a standby facility...

Drop in and 'walk' forward

• Tyseiey Waste Disposal of Birmingham has taken its seventh Legras FMA (alternative moving floor) 91m 3 (119yd 3 ) Bulkliner...

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Geartronic is ready for the battlefield!

• The new generaton Volvo Geartronic fully automated transmission system is aimed directly at the long-haul and regional...

Solid discs do the business

• Our drive in the revised FH12 also provided the first opportunity to try out Volvo's electronically controlled disc brakes...

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Volvo retarder is small but beautifully formed

The Volvo VR3250 hydraulic compact retarder certainly lives up to its name, adding just 23mm to the overall length of the...

Dynafleet does the lot

DYNAREET 211 U The original Dynafleet transport information system (CM 29 October 1998) was essentially the final stage in the...

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CORD FINE

Failing to produce tachograph records cost GT Roberts & Son £325 in fines and costs when it appeared before Denbigh...

DONAL LICENCE Romford-based Jeff Parker. trading as Jeff's Skips, was

granted a new one-vehicle licence with a condition that he produce five months' tachograph records, maintenance sheets and...

MINT WI

A review of the licence for 33 vehicles and 75 trailers held by Sittingbourne-based EH Nicholls Jnr has led to conditions being...

NO AMIN

No action was taken against the licence held by Les Taylor Contracts, of Peterhead, when the company appeared before an...

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Maintenance problems have led to the week's suspension of five vehicles and seven trailers from the licence held by West...

Driver said he broke rules to keep customers happy

A driver who had blamed pressure from his employers when asked by a traffic examiner why he had falsified tachograph records,...

Newport company loses licence

A Newport-based haulage company, said by South Wales Traffic Commissioner David Dixon to have totally disregarded the...

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Disqualified haulier refused new licence

Mill A County Durham , haulier, who was *--: . disqualified from holding a licence for three months last August, and who is...

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Do you want to comment on any stories in Commercial

Motor? Does someone in the Industry deserve a pat on the back, or a dressing down. Drop us a line at Commercial Motor, Room...

CRASS CUTTER

Having read the story about how the VI wants operators to round up the cowboys I can't help but wonder what kind of incentive...

AD IKIERT By advertising in Commercial Motor you are ensuring that

you are appearing in the magazine that is best read by the UK's road transport sector. By supporting your advertisement with an...

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DEAR TONY

An open letter to the Prime Minister: Let me tell you of what was to be a successful business built on hard work, dedication,...

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SEEING THE LIGHT

The next time you compile your list of the most boring jobs, I reckon that surveying street lighting to see if it's bright...

THE KEYS TO RELIEF

The Hawk has always known what a bunch of big-hearted folk work in the transport industry. And during the recent war in Kosovo...

MOVERS AND GROOVERS

Contrary to popular belief, the Hawk does know how to communicate with young people using the modern lingo. Here goes then;...

FULL STEAM AHEAD

It's good to know that the spirit of adventure is still alive and kicking in this green and pleasant land. Four intrepid chaps;...

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D onsidering the way that vehicle excise duty rates have been weighted, the shift to 41 tonne artics has been fairly...

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ir Driving into the BP truckstop at Crick we met

Chris Young In the MAN 19.403 he drives for Tom Nichol, out of Aldridge near Birmingham. He liked the way the exhaust brake...

• Owner-driver Ian Keenan was driving a Scania 113 360

lefthooker drawbar rig. He said: "Visibility is about the same but this has more room." But he liked the stowage box and...

Dick Flowerdew, who drives a Oaf 95 400 for

Inter City trucks out of Folkestone, could in no way be described as a Scania fan. "The bottom step sticks outside of the body...

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There's so much happening in the business world that it's

a good idea for hauliers to step back now and again, and take a coal look at relevant issues in depth. Thanks to our colleagues...

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COMPANY

Inspection of premises The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has published a report* indicating that businesses now face...

Junk faxes and calls

I t is an offence under the Data Protection and Privacy (Direct Marketing) Regulations 1998 to send unsolicited direct...

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Robot gllie wheel r1,,i.

F rom simple reversing alarms to steer-by-wire systems, driver assistance mechanisms are becoming increasingly common. Research...

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hen Simon Sayers returned from holiday last month, he no

doubt hoped to ease himself gently back into the hustie and bustle of the haulage industry. Maybe a few days in the crawler...

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IVI any international hauliers have a sneaking suspicion that they are regarded as a soft target

by ' Continental law enforcers because they come from the U K. Henk Buzink, managing director of Fransen Transport in...

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Under the National Minimum Wage provisions hauliers must pay their staff the going rate—and ownerdrivers who pay themselves too...

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SHUNTER PROBLEMS

• We are hauliers and, as repairers of goods vehicles, we also hold a trade licence. Like many other operators we have an old...

PLATES AND BELT

• One of our drivers was out on the road checking a vehicle, which had trade plates, for a mechanical defect. He called at his...

• Regulation 35(4) of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing)

Regulations 1971 states that a motor trader must not use a motor vehicle under a trade licence other than for a business...