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2nd October 2008
2nd October 2008
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We asked for it

The British Nationa Party IBNP) campaign to defend British hauliers and drivers against foreign competition is clearly serious....

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Administrator examines Innovate's £54m deficit

By Chris Tindati THE ADMINISTRATOR handling the fallout from Innovate's collapse is digging deeper to establish whether action...

RHA rides to the rescue

THE ROAD HAULAGE Association (RHA) has launched a rescue and recovery service for members, managed by Lantern Recovery...

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BNP campaign targets UK drivers

A CAMPAIGN BY the British National Party (BNP) to recruit lorry drivers as members has been dismissed by the Road Haulage...

Lobby for fuel cuts

BULLET EXPRESS Logistics managing director David McCutcheon has warned the government that unless it starts listening to the...

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Hauliers fear the worst after incineration firm collapse

By Chris Tinuati LIVESTOCK HAULIERS left high and dry following a Somerset incineration plants move into administration are not...

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Planning reform is a boon for truckstops

By Chris Tindatt THE DEPARTMENT for Transport (PIT) is trying to introduce lorry parking provisions into its national policy...

• The Transport Tribunal has upheld an appeal by Katherine

Oliver, wife of disgraced haulier Stuart Oliver. In doing so it has quashed an indefinite 0-licence disqualification by...

'yen has asked us to point out ' that the

warranty on the lveco Daily is for three years/100,000 miles and not unlimited as stated in the Daily dual test (CM4 September).

"i Derby Crown Court has fined

NYK Logistics £20,000 after admitting breaching health and safety regulations when an employee was run over by a forklift truck...

CM sister publication Truck & Driver has teamed up with

the Road Haulage Association to produce a sticker to promote the haulage industry. T&D editor Will Shiers says: "Hopefully our...

While most trucks today are built to a standard of

comfort that a few years ago was the realm of luxury cars, some models still have their problems. On TruckNet UK, the question:...

TruckNet's UK community manager, Rikki Chequer, finds that comfort really does matter to drivers.

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Granning Lynx stand-alone EBS axle cuts fitting time

By Brian Weathertey WARRINGTON, Cheshire-based axle supplier Granning Lynx has developed a self-contained, modular lift-up EBS...

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Police trial A20 Stack to stop city gridlock

By Roanna Avison TRUCKS WILL BE stacked on the A20 outside Dover in a trial to prevent the town centre becoming gridlocked with...

Schmitz Cargobull promises five-day trailer lead times

FOLLOWING THE launch of the Fruehauf two-hour turnaround on a rigid tipping body, Schmitz Cargobull is offering to build and...

We shouldn't mock consumerism because we'd all be jobless without it, says truck driver Lucy Radley

The end of the world is, apparently, nigh. Not only are we all supposed to be jobless and destitute by the end of the year, but...

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Training session

Drivers and operators gathered at Villa Park in Birmingham last month to attend CM's Driver CPC Conference to get the latest on...

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All-singing, all-dancing new entrants make their debut

All the sights, 114 smells and sounds from the IAA Truck Show held in Hannover recently. Here's what caught CM's eye THE FIRST...

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The crusader king

Phil Flanders is leading the fight for hauliers' interests in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but his biggest battle is keeping...

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Northern Ireland is a different environment entirely. Equally blessed and

cursed by the proximity of cheaper diesel in the Republic, Northern Irish hauliers inhabit a fiercely competitive zone only...

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A rude awakening

In a new series of investigations, CM crosses the Channel to find out what life is like for truckers across Europe. We begin by...

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Oliver disqualification overturned by Tribunal

The public inquiry was flawed because Deputy Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell was a potential witness. THE TRANSPORT...

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New licence granted to repentant haulier

AN OPERATOR who admitted that "silly mistakes" led to a previous two-year disqualification for drivers' hours offences has been...

Ignoring undertakings costs firm dear

A HAULIER that had its licence revoked after failing to provide financial information to a public inquiry has lost its appeal...

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TC suspends vehicle fleet for safety fears

A MANCHESTER haulier's fleet has been suspended until all vehicles have passed fresh MOT tests after a Traffic Commissioner...

No transport manager for over three years

A FIRM THAT operated without a transport manager for over three years has lost its revocation appeal to the Transport...

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Make-u artists

What can you do as an employer if a candidate has told lies to get a job? Words: Gillian Watkins Wi th the explosion of...

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No second chances

Tougher laws to mete out punishment for traffic accidents mean more drivers will face jail for a fatal. mistake. Words: Andrew...

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When you Leave the road with a Load and head

for the hills, you want a vehicle that can back you up. We test two 4x4s with decidedly different characteristics. Words:...

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Julian Milnes

If the SsangYong is a snip, it also can't equal the Freelander for onor off-road ability. That doesn't mean the Kyron is...

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How green are you?

A failure to plan is planning to fail, so they say. We talk you through measuring your environmental impact and devising a...

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own on the farm

We turn our focus to the agricultural sector, and how hauliers in this arena have been coping in today's testing economic...

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CASE STUDY OW WEAVER MILK TANKERS

DW Weaver (part of the Weaver Group) is based in Stoke-on-Trent and is a specialist milk hauler. It also has interests in...

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Are biofuels a possible growth market for hauliers?

The Government wants three regional producer hubs to refine and distribute biofuels, of which two are already established....

CASE STUDY ESSEX HAY AND STRAW

Richard Wright runs a fleet of four high-profile flatbed MAN drawbar rigs from Clacton-on-Sea. Essex Hay and Straw, based on...

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Location, Location, Location

Geography is the key as Mercedes-Benz dealership Pentagon Commercials turns a mothballed site into a used commercial vehicle...