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MINK INK The Institute of Logistics and Transport Is to

launch a 'think tank next month to address key industry issues. The Human Resources Directors Forum will include hauliers,...

OMAN UM European regulators are preparing to approve a deal

between DaimlerChrysler and Deutsche Telekom to collect German road tolls this week.

SAFETY FORUM

Brake's Fleet Safety Forum has produced a free information leaflet offering advice for fleet managers and drivers on the...

MISSING YOUTH

The body of a 12-year-old who was missing for two days was discovered in a freight yard. Sam Fewster was found crushed under...

CIGARETTE HAUL

Customs officers have seized 9.3 million cigarettes worth £1.8m from a freight container at Southampton docks destined for...

PtA HANDBOOK The Port of London Authority (PLA) has published

the 2003 edition of its Port of London Handbook. It includes information about importing and exporting goods.

TESIXI ADVERTISING

Tesco late launch truck-side advertising across the UK to promote its Cherokee clothing range. The posters will appear on 300...

Trans-Consult: It's time for government bullyingto stop

by Chris Tindall A transport consultancy is mounting a legal case against the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Traffic...

IRHA promises action on `cowboy firms'

• Irish junior transport minister Dr Jim McDaid has promised to crack down on phoenix companies as part of a wideranging attack...

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Drive on truck theft leads 10 31 arrests

• Police arrested 37 people and recovered £600,000 worth of stolen goods and trucks in last week's crackdown on organised truck...

Lawyer slams NSA

• A road transport lawyer is criticising a new government agency for scrapping a service 10 hauliers before its replacement is...

URTU retreats from legal

scrap over !dam pay deal • Union leaders have decided not to take legal action against Cheshire haulier James Ham & Sons for...

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DNA swab tests narrow

hunt for M3 bridge killer • Surrey police hunting the killer of truck driver Michael Little, who was hit by an object thrown...

Parking fines top 240m

• The Freight Transport Association has raised concerns over the number of parking fines issued to commercial vehicle operators...

Fuss can be the way

The recovery of goo, 000 of stolen goods and trucks, and the arrest of 37 people last week, is a positive result in the fight...

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Weight of abnormal loads falls to hauliers

• by Buy Sheppard Hauliers are expected to take over responsibility for escorting the vast majority of abnormal loads by the...

JE Clark closes with 22 drivers redundant

• Bristol agricultural haulier JE Clark & Co (Transport) Is pulling out of road transport after 30 years—a move that will make...

Fatal accident

• A workman was crushed to death beneath a steel pipe when it fell from a pile being loaded on to a truck. The incident...

Brewery pulled for limiters

Carlsberg Tetley Brewery has been fined £4,500 after its drivers used nine trucks with defective speed limiters. The company...

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WINCANTON CONTRACTS WIncanton has won a multimillion pound contract with

Heineken, following a competitive tender. The contract will be based at WIncanton's Lutterworth shared-user facility. It has...

OINNIIIN UCI Logistics has experienced sales growth of 27% in

the last year, and is expecting business to grow by a further 15-20% this year. It says growth is based on new and existing...

11118ET & BRITTEN Tibbett & Britten has clinched a deal

with French fashion group Rodier to run its national distribution centre In Cambral. The group has over 160 shops In France.

111EINNZ ANNNIBMANY Essex-based Roebuck Transport celebrates its 10th anniversary this

month. The group, which recently relocated to a new 12m warehouse and head office facility in Rainham, now has a 50-strong fleet.

Ceedis UK has won a five-year contract to supply Johnson

Matthey's Specialist Coatings with a complete distribution and logistics operation, from a new base at Newcastle-underLyme.

BISHOP'S MOVE Removal company Bishop's Move has set up a

national distribution centre in Redditch. The depot is located close to motorways and has space for 150 containers.

Ex-soldier on hours charges

• by Me Jewell An ex-soldier who blamed drivers' hours offences on his ignorance of the rules has had his HGV driving licence...

Scania is seeking entries for its new Young European Truck

Driver competition—an event it's holding in conjunction with the European Commission to help make roads safer. Any...

An owner-driver for an aggregates company has slammed his company's

decision to increase rates for contracted hauliers while cutting non-contract rates, Bardon Aggregates upped its contracted...

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Save 150 on FTA seminar and protect your licence

• Want to know how you can keep your Operator's Licence and avoid meeting the Traffic Commissioners at a Public Inquiry? CM...

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Working smarter with technology? •

Last week's government confirmation that smart card tachos will be introduced next year means we're only 16 months away from...

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Makers "draw a line in the sand"

by Robin Meczes As promised In February (CM 27 Feb-5 Mar), UK truck manufacturers have drawn what one of them terms "a line in...

Telematics kit may fall foul of `anti-mobile' legislation

II Confusion surrounds the possible implications for telematics equipment of government plans to introduce fresh legislation on...

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Trailer tracking via mobile phone

The Astrotraq solar-powered trailer tracking system from Triteq is now available in a budget package that allows tracking of...

Fuel bill cut by 190k

• A vehicle operator has managed to cut its fuel costs by 12.5% after implementing Cybit's Fleetstar Online vehicle tracking...

Refuse collection system rolled out

• Aimed at the refuse collection sector, the new Four6ODB Comcentre from PM Onboard is a vehicle management system developed...

Mobile tracking with Verilocation

• Overview Mapping has launched an automatic location service that uses mobile phone signals from any of the UK's network...

Hauliers using telematics equipment logging on to the European Union's

planned Galileo global positioning system should in future be able to use the US GPS system with the same kit, The European...

en WM

BTUs new Fleet Wise engine management and reporting system—which is at the core of the Cummins RoadRelay 4 system—comes with a...

MOBILE NAVIGATOR

Mobile mapping applications provider Telmap is to launch a new navigation application for mobile phones. Polaris for Cellular...

TWO IN ONE

Waite° International's new Mobitronic DVD navigation and reversing video system integrates navigation and reversing video...

CAB COMPUTER

The Nexus on-board computer just announced by ICS Black Box is a Windows CE-based modular unit which can deliver services...

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Stralis models for the masses unveiled

Despite the hest efforts of Italian air traffic controllers to make this the launch that never was, Iveco has finally managed...

Driving impressions

• With time tight at the massed European launch on the historic Alfa Romeo Balocco test track, we concentrated on driving one...

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Anti-splash tyre comes to market

• Readers with long memories will recall our report on Renault's VHS safely concept truck ( CM16-22 Dec 1999), one of whose...

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IMUTY SOILU11ONS Lanarkshire-based Gore Utility Solutions has obtained a licence

for one vehicle and one trailer at Scottish Power's premises at Oswestry. West Midland IC David Dixon reminded the company of...

Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Walsall-based

Bradshaw Bros being cut to four vehicles. West Midland IC David Dixon said that Michael Bradshaw had lost his repute as a...

FUTURE MAINTENANCE Undertakings in relation to their future maintenance arrangements

have led tone action being taken against Aberystwyth-based DGD Machinery. The company had been called before Welsh DIG Roger...

INN= WINING Scottish IC Michael Betts has warned Glasgow haulier

John Pettigrew that any further drivers' hours and tachograph violations are likely to result in the revocation of his licence.

FORMAL WARNING Blayclen-based Michael Collins has been given a formal

warning in respect of his future maintenance standards and MoT pass rates. Collins, who trades as Collins Haulage, had been...

Missing tacho charts lead to five-year 0-licence ban

The licence held by James Rae, trading as Newton Stewart-based Raeburn Contracts, was revoked after he failed to appear before...

Haulier's 0-licence cut to a third

A Penrith haulier has had his Operator's Licence cut indefinitely from three vehicles and three trailers to one vehicle and one...

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A commercial garage has won a partial victory against a

TC's refusai to return its impounded tractive unit, with the matter now being reconsidered by a different Traffic...

Cumbria has led to Appleby-based Maurice Armstrong being hauled before

the North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Patrick Mulvenna. Armstrong, who holds a two-vehicle licence, appeared before the...

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Truck racing: like watching a motorway, only faster... and without trailers.

Anyway, we have here a press release from Chipping Norton-based Cherwell Logistics which Is looking to promote the sport this...

TIME TRAVELLER

Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago: r May 1928...

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An advantage of the CF cab is the high position of the bed in the single-bunk version.

T he current Daf CF has been around for just about two years now, and in that time has earned itself a fine reputation among...

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The cab heater wasn't too noisy and its hum was quite soothing.

T he MAN-ification of ERF is becoming ever-more apparent, and no more so than in the ERF ECT, full of hints as to its origin,...

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Foden has worked very hard in recent years to increase its driver appeal.

B eing told you are spending the night in a Foden makes you feel hard done by—after all, the marque is hardly synonymous with...

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The thin and hard bunk turns out to be good for its 90kg load.

IVII AN's own-brand contribution for the test came with the LX cab. In short, that is the narrow cab with a high roof. Needless...

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This cab offers a decent kip and, after eight hours' solid snoring,

Cif's man woke refreshed. G etting from the drivers seat to the bunk and back again after a well earned kip is ultimately how...

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There are more than enough light points so reading or working will not be a problem.

T his was this tester's first experience of sleeping in the Renault Premium with the Single Driver layout. And after one night...

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An instinctive fear of rolling out of bed and falling

to earth made us decide to sleep in the lower bunk. T his hybrid Scania is a unique piece of kit, present in the test more as...

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Storage facilities throughout are excellent—all lockers are fully trimmed and rattle resistant.

V OlvO'S FM Globetrotter effectively provides the same solution that the hybrid Scania offers, but on a full production...

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FOR LONG SERVICE 260E 6x4 MIXER

O wner-driver Mike Fry's EuroTrakker delivers concrete around London for Tarmac Topmix. The mixer's a low-mileage truck but,...

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T E ROADS

Thinking of putting a sexy sextet of Hellas on the roof? And maybe some air horns too? Well, take a tip—let the experts do it....

USER VIEW • Tring-based JR Smith Transport operates throughout the UK and across mainland Europe to Italy and Spain.

Its 25-strong artic fleet is a fair mix; Oaf, Renault, Scania and Volvo plus two new additions: a Magnum and a Kel-Bergsupplied...

KEL-BERG OPTIONS • Kel-Berg Trailers & Trucks was set up

in the UK 12 years ago by its Danish parent company to sell its trailer range, other trucks and arta, and a range of...

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This week started early—at 3am to be precise. Despite being

man6 aging director of a small tyre breakdown company with three vans u c , and four employees, I take my turn along with...

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Used truck dealers aint mixed picture

• Once again, used truck dealers are reporting a mixed picture across the UK as concerns over rising National Insurance...

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Saturday auction are well-attended

• Saturday auctions at operators' premises are still going strong, according to Commercial Vehicle Auctions (CVA) and Malcolm...

SHOW-STOPPERS

Two 2001-vintage X-plated Scanta R124.420 4x2 Topline low-ride tractive units stole the show at a recent sale held by...

AUCTION SURPRISES

While many dealers lend to write oft' old tractive units as being worth little more than scrap value, they can still spring...

GRUNDY PRINCIPAL

Preston LDV dealer Dutton Forshaw has appointed Steve Grundy as dealer principal. He's been with the company for 17 years.

POST-WAR OPTIMISM The aftermath of the war in Iraq could

give used truck exports a useful boost, suggests George Alexander— chief editor at Glass's Commercial Vehicle Guide. "It's a...

Intercounty expands

II Mercedes-Benz dealership Intercounty Truck & Van is embarking on a £5m expansion programme. The company is based in...

Buyers playing safe in uncertain times

The used truck trade is marking time, says independent dealer Martin Rhodes. "There's business about, but not as much as I...