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SALE SIMS More than Elm worth of CVs were sold

at the TruckAuctionsUK first monthly sale at Donington race track on Monday.

AVI flALY

The FTA is advising hauliers to avoid Italy where blockades are being organised spontaneously across the country. Traffic on...

CIIIECK IT OUT Sargents Trucking Services is offering a checklist

for hauliers who wish to implement a system to check for the presence of illegal immigrants. It costs 15 ( exVAT) and can be...

NOT ECSTATIC

A haulier who transported the Spice Girls stage equipment has been charged with smuggling 100kg of ecstasy into Dover. The...

GSA CASUALTY Tibbett & Britten is the main distribution casualty

of clothing retailer C&A's decision to close its UK and Irish operations. It operated out of three distribution centres to...

CMCHAUENGE DaimierChrysler has directly responded to a CMchallenge 14-10 May)

by making Autotrans a no-cost option until the end of the year. The system, which features automated control of a conventional...

Angry hauliers gear up for

a summer of discontent • by Melanie Hammond Blockades and demonstrations across the UK and the Continent are brewing again...

• Union leaders are threatening a blockade of every major

port serving the UK in a bid to win concessions for drivers caught carrying illegal immigrants. The threat by the United Road...

• Protests against fuel prices in other European Union states have won tax concessions in recent weeks.

• In Portugal, the government has scrapped a 12% fuel tax increase after a series of public sector strikes. • In Greece, road...

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Deaths fuel calls for stowaway rethink

II by Charles Young International hauliers are likely to face increased pressure to check their trucks for illegal immigrants...

Dentressangle gets a chance out East

• Norbert Dentressangle (UK) has retained its good repute despite breaches of the drivers' hours rules on the Continent, and...

Treasury denies plans to slash fuel duty

• The Treasury has denied reports that Gordon Brown wants to slash fuel tax and switch instead to raising more money from road...

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C OMM 11

It's time for action Following the tragic discovery of 58 corpses in the back of a trailer at Dover, everyone suddenly has a...

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Late accounts could cost you your licence

• by Mike Jewell The North Western Traffic Commissioner has warned that she will not hesitate to revoke the licences of...

Double threat to Channel links

• Hauliers face a summer of chaos with the prospect of industrial action affecting both P&O ferry and Eurotunnel services....

Tipperman fights a £4,000 rescue fee

• Welsh tipper operator H Davies & Sons is locked in a legal dispute with a vehicle recovery operator which has charged it...

Congestion claim

is slammed by BRF • The British Roads Federation has dismissed government claims that traffic congestion is improving. The...

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Delivery deal for beet fleets

• by Guy Sheppard Hundreds of sugar beet hauliers have been promised a shorter working week following a meeting to resolve a...

• Spot checks by Customs officers throughout the Republic of

Ireland have caught 587 vehicles using illegal diesel. At least half the offences discovered during the two-week campaign in...

• European Union transport ministers have admitted they are powerless to enforce haulage operating standards on East

European governments, despite an agreement designed to bring them into line with EU countries. Transport ministers from former...

DOUBLE BASS Drinks industry logistics supplier Tradeteam has won a

1500m, five-year extension to its agreement with Bass Brewers. Tradeteam will now he providing logistics to Interbrew-owned...

MR DELNERIES Cranleigh Freight Services is to handle part of

the MFI Home Delivery Service from its new Aldershot depot. The contract covers the area from Oxford to Slough, down to Bognor...

RRE STARTERS Ryder has taken responsibility for the maintenance of

a fleet of fire engines as part of an agreement worth 11.3m with Derbyshire Fire Authority. The five-year deal provides 24hour...

LOINISBMCE Express parcel carrier ANC Business Services Group has clinched

a three-year contract with publisher Harper Collins, continuing its 14-year relationship with the company.

SINGLE CONTRACT Automotive haulier Axial has renewed its transportation contract

with Daewoo Cars in the UK and Ireland. The threeyear deal is valued at around 113m: it brings together all UK and Irish...

EURO MOVES

Hays has won a five-year, 1200m distribution contract with Ivaco to handle its European parts and accessories distribution....

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Peugeot's new baby

• by Colin Barnett After a few false starts Peugeot's 206 Van has finally hit the road. We got to drive the Ryton-built...

Win a trip to Frankfurt on Volvo by web

• Volvo is running a competition in which you could win a £43,000 F1.15-tonner and an all-expensespaid trip to the Frankfurt...

Renault Choice on used CVs

• Renault VI is launching a used truck and van programme called Renault Choice. The company says the scheme will offer good...

Spar stays stocked with short artics

• Gregory Distribution has introduced eight ultra-short artics to its contract with Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward. The...

01111Y LUNN

Alloy Bodies is now offering this Luton body for the lveco Daily with similar designs on offer for other manufacturer's models....

CASHBACK OFFER

Citroen is offering cashback offers on new models worth £500 on Dispatch vans, £751) on C15 Champs and £1,000 on Relays until...

FLYWHEEL RECALL

Land Rover is recalling 10,000 Discovery and Defender 1D5 models built between September 1998 and June 1999 because of a...

RANGER FLEET

Continental Landscapes has bought 45 Ford Double Cab 4x4 Rangers. Ford says the pickup Is still the market leader with more...

SCANIA DRAWBARS

Laura Ashley Is taking four new Scania P94DB 4x2 rigids with Ray Smith drawbars, all In the company's new livery— anew beige...

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VEHICLE NEWS EXTRA

• by Tim Makemore This year's IRTUBTAC technical trials featured the debut of Stan Robinson's spectacular roadtrain, described...

Low fuel, low noise lowdown

• Fuel economy was by no means the only item on the agenda at this year's trials. ArvinMeritor was there in strength to begin...

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ABSENT FINE Rhyl-based Gallagher Construction has been fined £600 with

170 costs for using a vehicle with a defective tachograph. The company was convicted in Its absence by the Ellesmere Port...

MAINTENANCE WARNING Carterton, Oxon-based John Smith Removals and Storage escaped

with a warning when it appeared at a Bristol disciplinary Inquiry following concerns about maintenance.

UCFJICE SUSPENDED The licence held by Lee and Lynda Greaves,

trading as Oreaves Surveying & Engineering, of East Mailing, Kent, has been suspended until a new operating centre is...

NO Ill Running two vehicles for a fortnight after their

tax had expired because of an oversight cost Aintree-based Hunterstrong Engineering, trading as Nothover Heavy Logistics, £355...

LICENCE REVOKED Tachograph convictions have led to the revocation of

the licence held by Wisbech-based Gordon Carson, trading as GJ Carson Delivery Service. Eastern DTC Robert Lockwood also...

Late licence fee and 'mho offences ended in a fine

Using a vehicle after his 0-licence and its vehicle excise licence had expired, as well as two tachograph offences, has cost...

Mistakes meant cut in licence

Three immediate prohibition notices and three variation notices, all imposed on the same vehicle, have led to the hcerce held...

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Duty and fines order quashed

Stafford Crown Court has quashed an order that Corby-based ACK Haulage should pay £1,155 in back duty after a tractor taxed at...

Lack of information led to revocation

The Transport Tribunal has dismissed an appeal by Gloucester based Mark Baldwin, trading as M&S Transport, against the...

Driver should have noticed faulty brakes

Liverpool haulier Piksli James Kirkby, .1 trading as J Kirkby & Son, was ordered to pay £690 in fines and costs after being...

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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...

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Lay-by is where CMtakes a break from the serious issues

and our correspondent The Hawk takes a sideways look at read haulage. If you have suitable tales of charitable works or quirky...

MIDLUM WON!

Congratulations to DJ BEAUMONT OF BEAUMONT TRANSPORT, EAST DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER, who has just been chosen as the winner of a...

THRICE TRUCKS

It's not only buses that come in throes but, like the song says, reasons to be cheerful—in this case the latest releases from...

VIRTUAL TRUCKIN'

If you've always reckoned you could teach traffic planners a thing or two, then here's your chance to prove it. A new PC...

THIRST FOR JUSTICE

In the annals of crimes and misdemeanours who would have thought taking a sip of water would be added to the list? Certainly...

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VAUXHALL CORSAVAN

I PRICE AS TESTED: £7,465 (ex-VAT). ENGINE: 1.4 litres, petrol, 59hp (44kW). GVW: 1,375kg. PAYLOAD: 383kg (plus 75kg driver)....

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Safe haven, music room, or study centre—however you style the

inside of your cab, we have the latest word in interior design. Browse through the CM survey of the hottest selling in-cab...

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KING OF

Hauliers may not identify with the new boss of the Road Haulage Association, but he feels as though he's going back to his...

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(AND A LITTLE

GOOD LUCK) Investing in the right equipment is essential if you want to thrive in the haulage industry. But what happens when...

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The Home Secretary is planning to turn the screw on negligent com pany bosses, and hauliers will

be no exception. As Pat Hagan reports, careless operators who cause death either to third parties or their own staff— could...

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S Howell Transport is a prime example of a solid

family firm. Successful it may be, but the finance director at the company is keen to expand into the lucrative world of...

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Jim Duckworth, editor of Road Transport Law and head of

Transport Law Services, Woking, Surrey, helps solve your legal problems in this regular column. Wrtte to Commercial Motor, Room...

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Ali, In any other business.-Jennifer Ralston, Moments Notice! co-owner, bemoans the lack of standard business practice In the haulage world...

• If you want to sound off about a road transport Issue write to features editor Patric Cunnane or fax your views (up to 600...