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21st October 1993
21st October 1993
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DoE backs hauliers in Green Belt row

by Amanda Bradbury II Lancashire produce hauliers who operate 100 truck movements a night are under threat from planners. But...

Examiners fight VI sale

• Vehicle examiners furious Over preparations" for the privatisation of LGV testing may strike to disrupt the sell-off. The...

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Christian Salvesen swoops on Swift

by Nicky Clarke • Christian Salvesen has bought automotive and industrial haulier Swift Transport Services for almost £84m,...

Hi-tech move on thefts

• Anti-truck theft checkpoints will be dotted around the country within two months as part of a joint venture between the...

Yuill & Dodds hit with week's ban

• Strathaven tipper operator Yuill & Dodds has lost its appeal against a one-week suspension of its licence for 101 vehicles...

EC plans fair play on 0-licence regs • The EC

Commission is to review operator licensing legislation in an attempt to achieve greater harmonisation of 0 licence conditions...

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PAY DIFFICULTIES LOOM

U nions are gearing up to demand a substantial increase in drivers' pay—a move that will scupper hopes for smoother pay talks...

Tunnel access faces LGV ban

• Vital A-road approaches to the Blackwall Tunnel in southeast London used by nearly two and a half thousand LGVs a day could...

RSH gives Flowers new hope • RSH Warehousing has put

fresh life into the Flowers name by buying the York-based firm's warehousing, truck rental and maintenance business. Last week...

Drivers' union chief resigns

• Union chief Victor McGeer, who speaks for 30,000 truck drivers at many of Britain's transport companies, is stepping down....

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£3.5m fleet boost

by Juliet Parish • Contract hire and rentals firm Transfleet Services has bought assets worth £3.5m from rival Rockfield,...

Ford to open holding site

• A massive shake-up looks set to take place at Ford next year as the UK's largest seller of cars makes plans to invest...

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Dales DC chooses Spanish cleaners

• Spanish-owned FOCSA (Services UK) has beaten French-owned Onyx UK and the British-owned AAH Environmental Services to a...

Ash artics ban report denied

by Amanda Bradbury • National Ash, the ash sales subsidiary of National Power has strongly refuted recent press reports that it...

Ports join freight bid

• Four ports have joined Russell Davies and P&O in the bid for British Rail-owned rail container company Freightliner, which is...

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New little big MAN

by Toby Clark • MAN has completed the longterm revision of its truck range with the launch of the L2000, a replacement for the...

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Whale goes underground

• Solihull-based Whale Tankers has developed a low height Jetvac tanker for working in areas such as underground car parks and...

Large load six-wheeler

• Wootton Trailers of Ancaster, Lincs has developed a six-wheeled trailer with extending side and integral hydraulic floor...

US injectors for new Volvo engine

by Alan Bunting • Volvo is to dual-source electronic unit injectors for its new overhead camshaft D12 engine, in order to...

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Stop that sinking feeling

by Alan Bunting • Air suspension has two major advantages over steel or rubber. The ride is generally better: and changing the...

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Theft gang covers the SE

by Amanda Bradbury • A truck crime investigation expected to uncover evidence of the theft of about 300 LGVs by one gang is...

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Supervision in question

• Problems with maintenance at the Littlehampton depot of Rowe & Co, which the company blamed on human failure, led to its...

Family problems to be resolved

• Hucknall.based Gedling Plant Hire's licence has been suspended for a month to allow a dispute between mother and son over the...

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Drivers to take extra training

• The licence held by William Coutts Trans port (Peterhead) will be renewed for two years only, with a final warning about...

Overloaded by 62%

• A 62% overload led to Abery st w yt h-based John and Karen Walsh appearing at disciplinary proceedings before South Wales...

Residents lose to poultry firm

• Premier Poultry has been granted authority to base 24 vehicles and 10 trailers at its poultry processing plant at East...

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Awards night salutes ladies

by Juliet Parish • Campaigning trucker Ilona Richards is to host a glittering awards night to salute the industry's under-rated...

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GREEN AND PLEASANT BELT

He's not the only one. After years of peaceful co-existence it appears that West Lancs District Council doesn't want nasty...

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T hieves drove off in a Volvo 17-tonner in Birmingham last

week after loading it with caravan parts from a factory raid, Mercia Transport's FL6 curtainsider was parked overnight outside...

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VAUXHALL COMBO

EICCLUSIVE I t's always easier for a vehicle manufacturer to aim at an existing market than to shoot for a new one—and...

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FLEET FLYER

I veco Ford's UK truck dealers and salesmen, we suspect, know just how General Gordon's troops must have felt at Khartoum. Like...

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DRIVERS' VERDICTS

Mike Walton drives a Daf 2800 for Nelsons Transport, Keighley, Yorkshire. Before he opened the door he commented: "The handle...

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Getting acrose 0 n 1 January this year customs controls

on freight were cut to a minimum with the arrival of the much-vaunted single market. Since that time: • international journey...

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Weighty options

F lip through Commercial Motor's legal pages on any week and the chances are you'll find a court case on overloading. Some are...

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WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU'RE OVERLOADED

• Overloading a goods vehicle is an absolute offence. In other words the vehicle is, or isn't operating within its plated legal...

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'w•orman and Jean Watson returned from an extended six-month holiday

in 1976 and realised they needed to put their one asset to work to replenish the coffers. The asset was a van and so the couple...

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LORRY LOADER CODE OF PRACTICE

The Association of Lorry Loader Manufacturers and Importers has published a Code of Practice for the safe application and...

according to Rymer depot manager Tom Stephenson, giving it the

theoretical ability to lift 11 tonnes with an extension ability of 53 feet (16m). "Realistically it can pick up about 8.5...

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A high-flier from the parcels business is stamping many of the

disciplines of that cut-throat sector into a 34-yearold family haulage firm. Former Red Star boss lvan Couchman is now running...

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STOP OFF

The Lincoln Farm Cafe T his is the kind of place where you might arrange to meet someone to whom you owe money: it's not easy...