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26th June 1997
26th June 1997
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Allen Munro Transport sold to new managers

by Lee Kimber and Miles Brignall • Controversial tanker firm Allen Munro Transport has been sold to new management for .t3m....

Licence changes hit chassis-cabs

• From 1 January 1998 drivers will be prohibited from moving some chassis-cabs to and from body builders on car licences....

NEW TACHOS OLD PROBLEM

ike Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve, our old friend Joe Soap Haulier lies tossing and turning in bed. In his nightmare world,...

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RHA slams feed code

by Sally Nash • A new voluntary code of practice designed to stop hauliers carrying animal feed and cattle waste in the same...

44-tanners are green says ETA

• The introduction of 44 tonners is urgently required, if only to prevent Britain from choking to death, says Freight...

Scottish quarries merge

• Hauliers' jobs will not be affected by the merger of Morrison Quarries and Tilcon quarry operations in the north of...

Beware of bogus quality certificates

• Operators are being warned to be on their guard against non-accredited companies offering "worthless" ISO 9000...

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Bell Lines seeks buyer

by Karen Miles • Hauliers owed £17m by the crisis-struck Bell Lines will learn this week how much of their money they will...

Review threat to 12 road schemes

• Twelve road schemes, including the Salisbury bypass and the Birmingham Relief Road, could be axed as part of a wideranging...

Securicor/Nightspeed boast better profits

• Haulage giants Securicor and Group 4 Nightspeed have both posted improved results. Securicor's distribution division...

Delays put RfD sale at risk

• The sale of British Rail's international freight company, Rai'freight Distribution (RFD), could be in jeopardy. The...

Wincanton hit by recognition row

• Wincanton Logistics is refusing to recognise the Transport and General Workers Union at its Corby site, despite finally...

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Torqueing about truck wheel loss

by Miles Brignall • The Government has relaunched its leaflet campaign aimed at reducing the number of wheels which fall off...

Bigger firms are slower payers

• Fewer than half of all large firms pay their bills on time, and companies in the Midlands are the slowest payers, according...

British drivers must wait for Bulgarian trial

• Peter Hobbs and John Mills, the London drivers serving seven-and.a-half years in Bulgaria for smuggling 20.5kg of heroin,...

Rail threat to timber

• Timber hauliers working in Kielder, Northumberland could be hit by plans to reopen rail services to the Borders—a move...

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National blitz hauls in 700

by Karen Miles • The level of law-breaking among truck operators was again underlined last week when police forces across...

Crow is released from French jail

• Bradford owner-driver Martin Crow is considering a bid for compensation from the French Government after he was released...

No calls on the move

• The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents insists that hauliers should not be exempt from any ban on using mobile...

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Trailer discs on tri

by Toby Clark • Trailer leasing firm Transamerica is to pioneer the UK operation of discbraked trailers by comparing braking...

Three cars on one licence

• Autofab of Brighouse, West Yorks has designed a lightweight two-car carrier on an Isuzu NPR 6.2.tonner which can be driven...

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Volvo cleans up with a gas truck

by Oliver Dixon • Using fuels other than diesel to power a commercial vehicle is hardly a new idea: gas-powered buses are not...

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BRIEFS Charts must be shown

• An operator can be charged if, when using a vehicle, he fails to produce tachograph charts for an authorised officer, the...

New straps failed to hold load

• Two girders which fell from a pickup truck being driven by self-employed driver Anthony Kingsley of Slough have cost him...

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Discharged with fine

• Sutton Cold field-based GB Express (Mid lands) is to appeal against a £1,000 fine imposed by Abingdon magistrates for an...

£32,000 for waste without 0-licence

3. Yorkshire-based tipper operator Gravelrise has

tipper operator Gravelrise has

been ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty totalling £32,88383 by Selby magistrates after hauling colliery waste on...

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letters

T o The Ministry of Transport and 1. Mr Kinnock: Why don't you forget these silly little gadgets hanging off motorway bridges...

DSA dissenter

T he transport training industry has now come to the conclusion that the Driver Stations Agency has completely lost its...

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bird's eye view by the hawk

Eyes gown for a full house arcelforce picked up a bit of posh recently when it was chosen by Princess Di to distribute a...

Ei ou don't need to wait until you have a crime

to report to contact the police—you might find they can help you with your driver training. Twenty drivers at parcels...

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• What's in a name? Well, transforming the Renault R

range to the Renault Major was certainly one way of extending the life of an ageing model. But in the few years that followed...

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came along in March 1992.

The taller Turboliner cab was added in August and air suspension became standard on this model from November of the same year....

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Damage limitation

C ommercial leases are rarely properly read. Attention naturally focuses on the rent and rent-review clauses, but a haulier...

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'If the landfill tax increases this will sink many companies'

L ooking ahead to next week's Budget I confess to being worried about landfill tax. If the Government were to increase it the...