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countries. including the RHA, attended a meeting with the European Commission last week to voice their concerns over the...
• by Melanie Hammond Conservative MEPE are rallying opposition to the proposal that would force new truck drivers to undertake...
The Vehicle Inspectorate used its new impounding powers for the first time last week, seizing two vehicles being run without...
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Sleepy death driver jailed Fr !nip • A truck driver who killed a couple in a motorway pile-up after he fell asleep at the...
Christian Salvesen has ised four distribution cenas, warning that its full-year outs will fall short of expections as a result...
bounces back.. CM INVESTIGATION Is by Miles Brignall The man behind Corshambased freight forwarder EuroFreight, who had...
• The Vehicle Inspectorate plans to introduce sophisticated weighing equipment that can check a truck's weight without stopping...
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• by Guy Shepherd Two UK toll operators have been accused of taking advantage of foreign hauliers who want to pay them in...
• Irish construction hauliers are forming a new national federation in a bid to fight for better rates from business. Ireland's...
• Another rail disaster was narrowly averted last week when an articulated lorry plunged onto railway lines in South Wales....
Is Trade associations have called for Mayor of London Ken Livingstone to exempt cleaner trucks from his controversial...
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by Mike Jewell irthern Irish haulier Dukes insport (Craigavon) and its . ectors are awaiting the outme of their appeals...
A Christian Salvesen driver is taking the company to an industrial tribunal to claim back pay he says the company denied him...
Like everything in life, the sooner you know how expensive something is, the sooner you can judge its true value. Nowhere is...
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m Heathrow-based Emery Worldwide is to become part of one of the world's biggest logistics companies. Its US-based parent, CHF,...
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3ly Mike Gordon - mers For Action, the group ich instigated the fuel )tests in 2000, has called off threatened action agalnst...
with rival ferry firms • Ferry and logistics operator MO has hinted at a possible merger with its rivals in the ferry market...
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• Perhaps the best way to understand the control of the automatic system is to back the tractor under the trailer as the first...
• Moving up and down the box is done with a stumpy gearstick which has a small button on the right and a yellow button at the...
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NI Following our story on the UK Lift Co's Wheel-Lk 2000 system for restraining trailers on loading docks (CM 10-16 January),...
• Volkswagen has launched a new entry-level panel van, the Transporter BBB Special. This short-wheelbase, standardroof model...
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 41301 for multi-drop urban work. The van is equipped wit the Sprintshift shift system, an automated...
• St Helens-based operator Nijmanaeetank has replaced its entire fleet with 83 Scanias over the past two years. The Dutch-owned...
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A Coventry haulier who assumed that an application to change his operating centre had been granted has had his licence...
SPEEDING OFFENCES Four speed limiter offences led to Moss tr. Lovatt (Milk Carriers) being fined a total of 1.500 with £85...
A Durham haulier who consistently failed to have his vehicles examined by the Vehicle inspectorate has lost his appeal to the...
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limiter in his vehicle cost Dumfries driver David Beattie £2,070 when he appeared before the Chester magis trates. Beattie...
adjourned pending a reappraisal of its maintenance systems in the next six months. The company had been called before North...
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please contact Backfire, Commercial Motor, Jim H103, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 SAS, or fax 020 8652...
Spagthorpe Motor Company this week like a dark cloud kill of pent-up natural fury and aggression waiting to hurl down a torren...
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hot on the heels of the Vauxhall Vivaro r.9DT1 (CM 13-19 Dec 2001), which is the same vehicle under a different badge and...
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Temperature-controlled trailers and bodywork manufacturers are we] known for being innovative; for busy hauliers the problem is...
The 3.5-tonne market is split between panel-van conversions and chassis-plus-body types. Citroen, Mercedes and Volkswagen have...
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SIBecause no two operations are the same, bodybuilders have found it difficult to develop standard bodies, especially at and...
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• Noise and emission reduction are dominating refrigeration unit developments. Direct-drive units are seen by many as the...
II An alternative to dedicated temperature-con trolled vehicles has emerged in the past 18 month: mr.1 self-contained...
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Moveable bulkheads help operators maximise flexibility. They can be transverse or longitudinal, with the space converted into...
II ATP (Association de Transports Perishables) is the recognised world-wide standard for insulated bodywork and transport...
• What size is the box and is the operation chill or frozen? Refrigeration capacity and air flow are critical in maintaining...
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more vans on the road than there used to be. Sales fi g ures from MercedesBenz are a g ood example. In 1 974 the company was...
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ervices runs three 7.5-tonners for Dc ork—but the firm's span reaches uch further than that. As eports, the company...
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to other ad users but to their own perators' Licence if they lose a eel. Since its launch in 1998, ousands of Wheel Nutlocks...
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transport is once again a regular feature on the UK's roads. Make raay for some lengthy debates ibout the safety of animal...
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• Mgt 24hours. • Adult cattle, sheeip and goam14 hours, followed by 3 mid-journey tint Mihail( and a further rnavirmim of 14...
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• The Road Rescue Recovery Association believes it knows the way forward: "We have got to go back to a controlled free market,"...
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ier can often face a big bill to get his truck ecovered. The reason? ce rota schemes which restrict some jobs to selected...
It should cost a car driver £105 to have his vehicle loaded onto a recovery vehicle and there is then a £12-a-day storage...
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Like an end-of-term school card, the Vehicle Inspectorate's Annual Effectiveness Report shows how well—or badly—tae nation's...
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ROADWORTHINESS Last year the Vehicle Inspectorate shifted its enforcement focus more away from simply hitting the annual...
Last year the VI placed greater emphasis on drivers' hours and records offences (having focused primarily on overloading in...
Despite its shift in focus the VI certainly hasn't turned a blind eye to overloaders. During 2000/01 it actually issued more...
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According to the VI, "on the whole we performed well against our targets". But it admits that when it comes to annual test...
Arguably the most depressing piece of information in the VI's latest annual effectiveness report is the pitifuly low level of...
CM's been saying for years that too many commercial vehicles are running around the country with dodgy or disconnected...
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I magine the scenario. You've just had the annual meeting with your accountant; you've had a good year and produced a...
BEFORE improvements are introduced The company generates good profits but the directors are unable to take their bonuses due...
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• In 1972, a vehicle needed two days in the workshop to put right what had gone wrong in five days, so today's vehicles get my...
have seen many changes; some good, some not. Vehicles have improved immeasurably in terms of reliability, economy, driver...