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25th July 1996
25th July 1996
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Report backs Euro hours and VI stops

by Miles Brignall • The Department of Transport should abolish domestic tachograph regulations in favour of EC rules and should...

Benzol director fights revocation

• A director of Middlesex-based petrol distributor British Benzol plans to fight all the way to the High Court after the...

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French refuse help for jailed UK driver

by Lee Kimber • Concern is growing for the rights of British truck driver Stan Al!sop this week as he approaches his third...

Cannabis sentence cut

• A Surrey truck-driver who imported 1,500kg of cannabis worth up to £5m had his prison sentence cut from 12 years to 10 by the...

WELCOME BACK!

A dd up all the recommendations in thi Party Transport Select Committee r on road transport enforcement and have you got? The...

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Owners fined for artic death

• The Birmingham-based owners of a runaway artic which crashed into a cottage and killed a Derbyshire man have been fined...

Recession kills a bulk tipper firm

• Recession in the bulk tipping industry led to the closure of Ely-based bulk tipper Grovemere Distribution this week with the...

End of ferry price war?

by Karen Miles • The cross-Channel price war enjoyed by international hauliers could be coming to an end following the...

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Fined £30,000 for waste

by Roger Simpkiss • Chobham-based haulier Alan Greenwood & Co (Transport) is to appeal against a £30,000 fine and £10,404 costs...

IWM show is stay in Torcp

• The Institute of Y Management's annual ference and exhibiti staying in Torbay fc next two years. In June the announced it...

Light vehicle test fees set to rise

• Annual test fees for Class VII light goods vehicles will rise to £30.68 on 1 August as part of an across-the-board increase...

Euro test threat to tanke

by Derren Hayes • Operators of hazardous goods tankers will have to pay thousands of pounds extra for new vehicles if European...

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Safer parking brings bonus?

by Lee Kirnber • Insurance companies are looking at ways to reward operators who make the effort to park up in secure compounds...

Stunt gets the bird

• Parcels delivery firm Amtrak found itself coping with a marketing nightmare last week when a customer's publicity stunt...

Van hire profits up 23%

• Steady demand for rental vans pushed up profits for equipment hire group Goode Durrant last year despite pressure on rates,...

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Late standards hit haz training

by Derren Hayes • A delay in Department of Transport guidelines governing hazardous goods driver training schools could lead to...

Hauliers fined in Soviet areas

• British officials in the former Soviet Union republic of Kazakhstan want to hear from hauliers who have been forced to pay...

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Cartwright drawbars for Alston

by Bryan Jarvis • Ipswich-based furniture manufacturer Alstons has boosted its carrying capacity with a batch of new drawbar...

New breed of Cats

• US engine maker Caterpillar is stepping up its assault on the European truck market with a new generation of seven, 10, 12...

Mercedes boss to stand down

• Dr Bernd Gottschalk has resigned as head of MercedesBenz commercial vehicle division following differences of opinion...

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Skynet satellite security

by Alan George • Satellite technology developed by the Pentagon for military use is being deployed in the battle against...

Bonneted Scania at Hanover

• Scania will launch its bonneted variant of the 4-Series truck range at the Hanover show in September (CM 1117 July). Based...

Loads both ends

• Southampton-based Transportatruck has a new design of front and rear-loading forklift truck carrier in its fleet. It is...

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All-in-one axle by SAF

by Charles Young • SAF has unveiled its new axle and suspension system which combines low maintenance with high durability and...

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Leyland Trucks bui Ilds on success

by Brian Weatherly • Bankers aren't known for being optimists. Back in 1993, when John Gilchrist was negotiating to buy the...

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Conditions bid delayed

A bid by Bilston-based Hudhaul Transport (1987) to have a timing condition on its licence eased was adjourned after...

Haulier broke examiner's jaw

• A North Yorkshire haulier who smashed a traffic examiner's jaw has been disqualified indefinitely from holding an Operator's...

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Owner-driver who learnt h s lesson wins fresh 0-licent

• A Dudley owner-driver whose licence was revoked last December was granted a h licence after saying he thought he had lea his...

DSH: final warnii at second inquir

• Stoke-on-Trentbased DSH Freight Services escaped with a warning when it appeared at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry for the...

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letters

De your article highlighted "Livestock demo 1‘threat' (CM 1216 June). We are a livestock haulage company which in the past has...

W e in the Drivers Action Movement believe that a united

front needs to be taken on opposing the issue of giving existing Class 2/3 drivers Class I (C+E) licences from January 1997....

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THE PRICE IS RIGHT

• It was hoped that the EuroTech, the first of the current generation of Iveco's truck models, would put right all the...

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Counting the cost of maintenance

ig 1 t stands to reason," says Joe Soap Haulier. "With Bloggs & Co CV Servicing down the road charging £ 25 an hour, of course...

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W hen Corinne Temple sneaked into the London Grosvenor Hotel and

chucked red wine over the bosses of parcels carrier ANC, she was displaying the extremes of tension that can exist between...

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NGC

S 4..Inie people have ambitions to drive a truck; others have a driving ambition to run their own operation. Then there are the...

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ustoms ractice

I nter national operators running a legal, decent and honest business within the European Union rarely encounter a customs...

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Looking for Mr Good Buy

T here are a number of ways to sell a family haulage business, including through the trade, brokers, venture capitalists or...

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'Where do temporary and seasonal drivers fit into all this?'

6 hy on earth do we need further regulation on working time? Our drivers are already well regulated under the provisions of...