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23rd March 2000
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COOL SCAM% Chilled and frozen foods distributor Norpack Food Services

has taken delivery of 17 Scanias following its recent £3.5m investment in an 8,000pallet cold-store extension to its...

Inn COMES

Truck driver Phillip Knight is appearing at Canterbury Crown Court on smuggling charges after cannabis with a street value of...

'MAILER REWARD Limerick-based Cosgrave Transport is offering a reward for

the recovery of a stolen trailer. It is a white 1999 SDC on BPW axles with a blue chassis. number SDC8645B3A6A28469. Contact:...

USW.1110

Liverpool-based waste oils and associated wastes recycling company OSS Group is to make a cash offer for its Leedsbased...

SHIELD 11111WPW) The BP Amoco "greenshield" logo recognised at fuel

stations across the world is to be ditched as part of an international rebranding programme.

BOARD REJIG Following the MAN acquisition, ERF is to establish

a new executive board headed by John Bryant. former group MD, as CEO and chairman.

Brown promises 44-tonners and impounding in new Bill

• Despite offering little to level the playing field between UK and foreign hauliers the government has finally promised some...

Stowaway fines start next week

H The government begins its crack-down on international operators harbouring illegal immigrants next week, with ,22,000 fines...

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Rover sale will hit Midlands haulage

f by Karen Miles Alarm is spreading through the West Midlands this week, as hauliers and drivers face the loss of up to a...

HFA's duty protest circles Newcastle

• Hundrees of trucks and tractors converged on the centr of Newcastle upon Tyne on Saturday, as farmers and hauliers united in...

Roderick leaves RIM boar

• Edward Roderick, managing director of Christian Salvesen UK, has resigned as vice-chairman of the Road Haulage Association in...

No back tax for de-flagged Irish

• No back taxes will be levied on 2,000 Northern Irish trucks which flagged out to Dublin and were subsequently de-registered...

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COMMENT

A start, but just a start Better than nothing, it's true, with a purely inflationary increase on fuel duty—yet this week's...

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French dealer asked /35,000 for rescue

N by Charles Young A French truck dealer was accused of overcharging a British haulier by £30,000 for the recovery of his...

Tories shadow Transport Forum

• The Shadow Road Haulage Forum Report was unveiled last week by Conservative Shadow Transport Minister Bernard Jenkin MP after...

Shropshire lads spread the word

• Shropshire hauliers are calling on their colleagues across the country to follow their example and get out into town centres...

No jail for addict thief

The disabled man who stole an artic full of Ribena after his heroin dealer told him to has escaped a jail sentence; instead...

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MPs examine foreign threat

• by Melanie Hammond Competition from foreign hauliers on the back of steep UK fuel and vehicle taxes were the main issues...

• Employees at a truck sale and hire firm are

turning detective in a bid to trace vandals who caused 225,000-worth of damage to vehicles. Bosses at Brandrick Trucks and...

Fire crews have praised the quick thinking of a tanker

driver who prevented a cloud of ammonia gas spreading across parts of the M5 in the West Midlands, Last Tuesday...

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np FOR TM!

TIP Tanker, Rental & Contract Hire has supplied Tate & Lyle Sugars with four new Clayton single-compartment liquid bulk...

111111CANAM DOUBLE Wincanton Logistics has won a three-year contract renewal

to deliver gas cylinders for Air Products, and has been named its European distribution contractor of the year.

MARS STARS Confectionery firm Mars has awarded Fullers Logistics the contract to manage its new semi-automated warehouse in Slough, Berkshire.

MANAMNO MALMO Irish food distribution firm Musgrave Group has awarded

Wincanton Logistics a fiveyear, £10m contract to manage its distribution centre at Mallusk near Belfast.

MEN INCA Securicor Omega Express has won the right to deliver all Richer Sounds hi-ti orders placed over the Internet.

Axial, the car transporting arm of Tibbett 8c Britten, has

picked up the contract to deliver all new Tata models throughout the UK. The contract was held previously by Motor Vehicle...

IMF A10101:11 Ryder has supplied six Oaf curtainsiders to Germanowned

Al Packaging as part of a six-year, full service contract-hire agreement.

BUSINESS M BUNNING NCN Express Parcels has won contracts worth

more than £4m a year delivering cut flowers to homes throughout the UK. Clients now include Marks & Spencer, Waitress....

Motorist spotted drunken trucker

II A disqualified truck driver who was nearly three times over the drink-drive limit has been banned for three years. Carlisle...

Seafrance gets a bigger ship

• Seafrance is to introduce a new ship to its fleet, which will significantly raise its capacity on the Dover-Calais Channel...

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Cload refocuses Volvo vision

Once upon a time the only problem for Volvo was whether it could get enough product. Now the truck is likely to be the least...

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United CV show is set to break all records!

With 560 exhibitors eager to promote their wares, The Commercial Vehicle Show 2000, organised by the Society of Motor...

The right body can make the difference between profit and

loss—the CV show Is packed with examples of innovative engineering to boost your productivity. • ANDOVER TRAILERS is...

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The residue of horse power...

Proving that where there's muck, there's brass. MAN has provided a pair of lightweight 360hp eight-wheelers to haul the residue...

First reborn Transits hit the street today

II Ford has announced designations and some of the prices for the all-new Transit range of vans and chassis-cabs, which are...

NORTHERN PHOENIX The new Dennis Eagle Phoenix SP refuse vehicle

is proving successful in its assault on the Scandinavian market. Forty examples have been sold in Denmark. Sweden and Norway,...

OM KITED

LDV has introduced a special edition of the Cub van, together with a new way to buy it. With features including a selection of...

DISPATCH ARRIVES Citroen's Dispatch range is now available with the

95hp HDi common-rail engine. As well as improved emissions and performance, the HDi has service intervals extended from 10,000...

MEN

Shropshire machinery haulier Dave Parry and Son Transport has complemented its fleet of antics with this MercedesBenz Atego...

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Smooth operator on the rough

Mercedes-Benz launched the new generation of Unimogs at its Stuttgart base last week. The three-model range represents a change...

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Licence surrender accepted from operator with no trucks

a John Evans & Sons (Llanelli) was allowed to surrender its licence when the company appeared before Welsh Traffic...

Transport Tribunal cuts condition

The Transport Tribunal has removed a condition from the licence held by St Austell-based Leonard Gale which prevented him from...

WISOMMI APRS

Neil Naylor, who trades as Haulwaste, of Macclesfield. is appealing to the Transport Tribunal against the revocation of his...

Residents have had conditions imposed on a licence for seven

vehicles based at Stoke-onTrent granted to licensing Wholesale. The conditions limit the size of vehicles, hours of operation...

LICENCE REFUSED

An objection from Essex Police has resulted in the refusal of a bid for a new international licence for seven vehicles and...

NO ACTION Though taking no action against the licence held

by Dundee-based Gordon Ewan. Scottish DTG Richard McFarlane has warned him about his future operations. Ewan had been called...

MMIRENANCE WARNING Larkhall-based South Lanarkshire Building & DIY Supplies escaped

with a warning when the company appeared before Scottish TC Michael Betts. The company appeared at an Edinburgh disciplinary...

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No test or tax

man whose truck displayed another operator's 0-licence disc and a tax disc that was issued to a car has been committed to crown...

Two-week suspensio for hours and record

Drivers' hours and tachograph offences have led to one of Newport-based Attewell Haulage's three operational vehicles being...

Driver 'routinely' failed to record

A driver employed by Blackpool-based RP Winder (Wholesale Meats) admitted falsifying tachograph charts when he appeared before...

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RHA RECRUITS

The Road Haulage Association has now appointed its new Director-General, and is distancing itself from an article in the Mail...

FIGHT BACK!

After reading your article on flagging out ( CM9-15 March) I expect many operators will now be sweating profusely. Many of...

TUNNEL VISION

I read with interest your news item about "a new system called immersed tube tunnelling" to be used for a proposed...

CARD LOSSES

Since 19891 have used BP Oil UK agency cards for both my businesses. We have happily paid a fairly high price for our fuel,...

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CM MEMORIES

With reference to Allen Smith's letter in which he mentioned the murder of a member of staff (CM 2-8 March): when I joined the...

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NOW THAT'S A RUNNER!

John Bateup, of Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, bought this Ford Escort 8cwt van for £618 in 1969 to set up in business servicing...

PRAISE INDEED

(tx • The last time the ironmongers mended his coal shovel, The Hawk was so pleased that he immediately rushed off a letter of...

NOBODY'S PERFECT

Eagle - eyed CM readers might have been a tad confused when the hallowed Bible of Britain's haulage industry published the...

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itroen's new Relay could hardly have been born into a

tougher market: the Mercedes Sprinter and Ford Transit were always strong contenders, and their latest incarnations will be...

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Operating in one of the poorest counties in Britain is

no picnic, even if that county is a holiday paradise in summer. But one Cornis haulier has managed to thrive and double his...

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HOW TO ENTER Simply read the text on these pages

then answer all the questions in our "Win a Midlum" competition form below, not forgetting the tie-breaker and all your...

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Truck theft is a problem but less attention is paid

to the millions of pounds worth of loads which go missing each year. But that could change with the formation of a national...

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T he merger of NFC

and Ocean has been heralded in the City as a match made in heaven. Indeed, the two companies comple ment each other perfectly....

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OCEAN GROUP • Founded in Liverpool in 1865 as The

Ocean Steam Ship Company, it pried its maritime trade as the Blue Funnel Line. During the two World Wars it lost 58 vessels to...

NEC

11in 1982, Mrs Thatcher's government sold off NFC to its employees. In the mid1980s NFC made Its first US acquisition and began...

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1 t is not just

the contrasting landscapes that make driving past Birmingham and bowl ing through North Yorkshire two very different...

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ACP° SPEED ENFORCEMENT POLICY GUIDELINES

The first thing to bear in mind is that no chief constable is bounc AOPO's guidelines; in theory, each constabulary could...

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Many hauliers employ part-timers in their warehouses or offices. Following

EU pressure, these workers are about to receive rights equal to full-timers on pay, holiday, pensions and benefits. H auliers...

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Archie Norman, Conservative Party transport spokesman, explains why Labour has got its freight policy wrong...

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