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2nd September 1993
2nd September 1993
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Freightwatch boss convicted of theft

by Kathy Watson • One of the principals of Kent truck theft prevention company Freightwatch UK has been found guilty of theft,...

EC plan hits cattle costs

• Livestock hauliers fear the cost of transporting cattle could double if the EC accepts proposals on the use of...

Spy cameras

by Kathy Watson • Kent County Council is to catch overloaded trucks using weight-triggered roadside cameras. In a pilot scheme...

Under the Road Traffic Acts police are empowered to force

hauliers to drive to weighbridges—but if the suspect truck has to travel more than five miles to be weighed and is then found...

Police praise blaze hero

MI A truck driver has been praised by police for driving a burning truckload of straw away from a busy street. Neil Marlow ran...

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)ok for overloaders

either be installed on motorways or at the exits to one of the county's ports. Once the system has identified an overweight...

Administrators in at Roadexpress

• Administrators have been called in to Roadexpress, the Coventry-based courier which handles much of the road deliveries for...

Key rejects mirror pleas

• Roads minister Robert Key has ruled out introducing legislation forcing operators to fit close-proximity mirrors on older...

• Operators could pick up hundreds of truck bargains in

the next year courtesy of the Department of Transport. Manufacturers working to a 1 October deadline for the Euro-1 emission...

Draft delay • Hauliers' hopes that forthcoming draft plans on

44 tonnes would allow wider use of such vehicles were dashed this week. Draft regulations will be published in a week's time.

Unfettered hire • The European Commission wants to remove the

remaining restrictions on the hire of goods vehicles without drivers. Next Monday (6 September) it will hear representations...

Sallow six • Six men charged with truck theft offences

as part of the Metropolitan Police's "Operation Sallow" investigation were remanded on bail last week to appear at Tower Bridge...

Twenty scotched • Twenty drivers were served with prohibition notices

during an FIGV spotcheck at Scotch Corner on the Al in Yorkshire last week. Alleged offences ranged from excessive smoke...

Ferry plea III The father of a missing man appealed

directly to cross-Channel truck drivers at Dover on Tuesday this week, handing out leaflets asking them to look out for his son...

Truck boost • number of new trucks registered in the

UK during the past 12 months jumped 4% on the previous vean according to Department of Transport figures.

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Post haste?

• The privatisation of British Rail and the Post Office are not being put on the back burner, says the Government, denying...

MAN profits slide

• Profits nearly halved at German truck builder MAN during the past financial year. But the firm says its British arm reported...

Profit and loss

• Four directors of rental giant Tiphook awarded themselves salaries of over £495,000 during the past financial year while the...

Rental demand

• Transfleet Services is spending £12 million on 300 new ERF, DAF and MAN models to satisfy booming rental demand up to...

UK demand

• Britain was the only country in Europe that showed an upturn in demand for Scania trucks during the first half of this year....

Truckers top

• One in three motorists believe truckers are the best motorway drivers. An Autoglass survey shows middle-lane hoggers and...

Cornish jam

• Congestion caused by LGVs has prompted council transport officials in St Ives, Cornwall to consider revamping the town's...

A-road speed fine plan

by Grant Prior • The Government is considering hitting LGV drivers with swingeing new A-road speeding fines. The Department of...

Haulage gloom recedes Hauliers protest • Further evidence that operators

are hauling themselves out of recession emerges from an exclusive Commercial Motor survey this week: 44% of the respondents say...

• Thousands of drivers will be forced into making an

extra 10mile daily trip as council chiefs this week impose a permanent truck ban on a Suffolk A-road. Hauliers are up in arms...

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Volvo hasn'tffluc e a out with its tong-awaite range—there's a

lighter, slepkertabictej the electrMill); controlled OH _ engine - At almost eclipses the revamped 16-litre lump's European...

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ERF rigids roll in at Glasgow

• ERF launches its EC rigid range at the Scottish IRTE Show this week, alongside a revised ES cab. The two, three and four-axle...

Volvo F1112/16 driving impressions

by John Kendall • The new Volvo PH range makes its world debut at the Scottish IRTE Show in Glasgow this week (see pages 8-11)....

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Licence bid for Dial A Skip fails

• Dial A Skip (London)'s man aging director Henry King does not have the capacity or integrity to operate an eight-vehicle...

Faulty weighbridge

• A Darlington operator has been cleared of overloading a semitrailer to a dangerous extent, following a two-day legal battle...

Manager loses dismissal case

• The service manager of a Doncaster Mercedes-Benz dealer who was sacked after he did not tell a customer that his truck was...

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Manager failed to run businesses

• The duration of licences held by a Welsh operator with two companies has been cut as he did not regularly inspect or keep...

Rights to site queried

• An operating centre cannot be held to be suitable if a licence applicant has no right of occupying it, the West Midland...

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Waste war

• Leigh Environmental will appeal against a decision to refuse planning permission for a rubbish dump near Bramshall, Staffs...

Boss's buy-back

• A former director of Gateshead-based haulier Brown Wharrier Transport is planning to buy back part of the seven-truck...

Slow start

• Mechanical faults delayed the introduction of a new £1 lm ferry to the Ardrossan to Isle of Arran service in Scotland last...

Building builds

• Work in the construction sector is continuing to pick up with an 11% increase in the industry's order books for the second...

Morrison faces planning battle

by Grant Prior • Sixty additional drivers will be taken on by William Morrison Supermarkets if the company wins a planning...

Rapide snaps up bigger rival

by Juliet Parish • Rapide (UK) Freight Services is on the verge of buying an unprofitable rival textile haulier three times its...

Parceline loses Woodhead deal

• Parceline loses a £100,000-ayear contract to rivals Securicor and Parcelforce this week after a five-month trial with shock...

Parcel contender

• A parcels network has been launched with the aim of taking on the major players in the nextday market by using a network of...

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The cost of cabotage

by Nicky Clarke • The EC has named January next year for the completion of the “Cabotage Directive". This will give the legal...

WHAT EC TRANSPORT MINISTERS FINALLY DECIDED: ' • To allow

full blown cabotage by 1 July 1998. Cabotage is the freedom for hauliers from one member state to pick up and deliver goods in...

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More cube with Combo Daihatsu duo

on the road • Vauxhall's Astramax replacement will go on sale on 21 October. The Combo is a high-cube design that mates an...

• CM has briefly driven both of Daihatsu's two new

commercial vehicles: the Fourtrak Fieldman and the Italian-built Hijet microvan and pickup. The diminutive Hijet's perky...

Daily to wrap up parcels market

• Ive.co in Germany has launched a number of specially bodied 3.5 to 6.0-tonne Daily models aimed at courier and parcels...

Citroen produces C25 transporter for dealers

• Citroen has introduced a complete 6x2 car transporter/ recovery vehicle based on its C25 Relay chassis-cab unit. The D1400...

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SMILE, YOU'RE OVERLOADED

"Big Brother is Watching you." Anybody who's ever read George Orwell's 1984, a chilling, if arguably inaccurate, vision of the...

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Small show big happenings

by Brian Weatherley • It's an indication of the calibre, and the buying-power, of visitors to the IRTE's Scottish show that so...

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BED WAS CUBIC

Price as tested: £21,430 ex-VAT (Ford Transit 190 100PS chassis-cowl £15,405, body shell £4,965, twin rear doors £565, single...

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Hissed again...

A D mong the final five finalists for the Scania Transport Trust Awards is this fine 1924 Super Sentinel steamer, restored to...

In the Vanguard of multimodal transport

ould this be the intermodal transport of the future? Vanguard Vehicle Services was called in to lift a 50-tonne barge out of...

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• CM guarantees publicity for any operator unfortunate to become

a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves...

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N ()el O'Rourke's worst trip on B&I Line's freight-only Liverpool to

Dublin service was a few years back when the ship, unable to dock in Liverpool because of gales, spent three days drifting up...

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ROUTE: DOVER TO CALAIS OPERATOk: PO EUROPEAN FERRIES

"I\ .1 " ot all P&O's customers appreciate the rights of truck drivers to be pampered .... as they cross the Channel. "I...

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RENAULT MAXTER

Price as tested: £200,000. Includes £66,150 for basic chassis and Huwer tank body. Engine: 9.8 litres, 249kW (338hp). Tested...

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Six fit qtr]

Austria is one of six members of the alternative common market, the European Free Trade Association—but this summer's row about...

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'These large companies are forcing the honest haulier into the ground'

4 . warning to prospective owner drivers. Yes, I was one of those unfortunate people who let their heads rule their hearts and...