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30th June 2005
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Foden's swansong

Foden lacks a top-end artic to boost sales, but CM has discovered one undergoing operational trials. It seems that it's too...

VISPs back RHA call for haulage inquiry

rHE ROAD Haulage Associaion's call for the Scottish Execu:ive to launch an inquiry into the Inure of the haulage industry has...

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T-SYSTEMS, the technology firm behind the German LKW-Maut truck toll,

has outlined its ambitions for the UK's Lorry Road User Charge scheme. Despite a two-year delay in the launch of the Maut,...

Lost contrad leads to trador sale

CARLINE TRANSPORT in South Wales is selling 65 tractor units after failing to renew a contract with steel maker Corns. Most of...

STOP PRESS

The European Transport Council has called for the introduction of digital smartcard tachos to be postponed until 1 January 2006.

lrlam talks

URTU says its meeting with James lrlam &Sons to discuss its decision to derogate from the Working Time Directive for night-time...

New chair

London's Peter Hendy as the new chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.

Safety call

Brake CEO Mary Williams has called for companies to take corporate responsibility for the safety of their drivers.

Police scrape

Police are hunting a truck driver who fled the scene of a crash involving a police car in Biddenden on Cranbrook Road at 3.30om...

Gate-crasher

A runaway truck has smashed into a house in Crossgar, County Down; there were no casualties.

Centre planned

Notts County Council is considering plans for a consolidation centre on the Al near Blyth to serve Doncaster airport and reduce...

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Mobile phone drivers ask not for whom the Bell tolls

Bad news for drivers who use mobile phones at the wheel: the TCs are cracking down on this offence as well. Mike Jewell...

it's acquisition Day for 0 Burgess

:3 BURGESS, one of East Sus;ex's best-known haulage firms, las been snapped up by Middlesex iggregates firm Day Group. As well...

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Dennis goes for Volvo at Euro-4

CUMMINS HAS suffered a further blow to its European market: Dennis has decided to go with Volvo-Deutz engines at Euro-4. This...

Let drivers have their say

Brian Lee of Allan Morris Transport respects his drivers; he wonders why fitters and customers seem unable to do likewise....

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London HO ban may ease

Operators delivering into London could be granted more freedom to travel through the capital. Guy Sheppard reports. TRUCK...

:HRISTIAN SALVESEN has von an employment tribunal )rought by one

of its drivers who :laimed unfair dismissal after he vas sacked for refusing to submit o a personal search. Graham Bird,...

with third bridge

THE SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE has approved a third road bridge over the River Forth,near the existing Kincardine Bridge. The new...

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That was the year...

CM was launched in 1905; for our centenary year we're bringing you stories from years gone by. This week we're back in 1929 and...

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Cash and cameras

Stuart Thomas has been reviewing the way the gentlemen of the press have treated transport recently; not least the furore over...

Ban fags but not in my cab

A survey reveals transport is the UK's most anti-smoking sector. Guy Sheppard reports. TRANSPORT COMPANIES are more strongly...

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National negotiations or strike say drivers' unions

Two of the country's biggest trade unions are threatening strikes at supermarket giant Morrisons. David Harris reports. TWO...

Soens killed off by VVTD and rising costs

HESHIRE-HAULIER James ioens Transport went into liquilation last week, blaming a corn)ination of the Working Time 3irective and...

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Fe rry healthy it is too !Tow:key mbuys STENA LINE

PLANS to extend a scheme offering truck drivers free twice-yearly health checks on its ferries after a successful pilot on its...

COUNTY DURHAM-BASEE haulier Hargreaves has bought the last independent coke-productior firm in the UK.

Hargreaves is expected to double its turnover to £130m followin the acquisition of Barnsley-basec Monck ton Coke; the expansior...

Relief as HA investigates secrets of killer road

SUFFOLK OPERATORS have welcomed the Highways Agency's promise to investigate the safety of the A14 following a series of acci...

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Strike forces Bardon U-turn

Strike action at an aggregates depot in the South-East has forced the depot operator to reinstate four operators. David Craik...

Campaigner bailed in laundering case

EMMA VASEY, the campaigning wife of freed truck driver John Vasey, has been arrested as part of £1.9m money laundering and VAT...

Beware Bidston Moor...

THE HIGHWAYS AGENCY is threatening a crackdown on truck drivers in Merseyside who continue to ignore safety warnings and use...

Mermaid strikes again

NEARLY HALF the trucks stopped in the latest roadside checks carried out under Operation Mermaid were breaking the law,...

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Crime crackdown rolls on

POLICE HAVE ARRESTED two people for handling stolen goods and counterfeiting during a crackdown on organised truck crime in the...

Foiled attackers

POLICE ARE appealing for information about an attack on two Romanian truck drivers in Northampton. The incident happened at...

£25,000 arson reward MARITIME TRANSPORT is offering a £25,000 reward

for information leading to the arrest and conviction of arsonists responsible for over £250,000 worth of damage at its Isle of...

Truck crime roundup

• A blue Scania (reg N2 PGP) was stolen from Stafford Park, Telford on l9 June. Contact: Operation Indicate on 0121 626 9121 •...

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Timebomb drivers

As part of National Men's Health Week, Commercial Motor in association with lveco, carried out a day of health checks for...

Ignore our eight

De Ville-Almond Indet nurse consultant, vice president of the Men's Health Forum, director of the National Obesity Forum "All...

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Chris Morgan, Automotive & Logistics Datamonitor UK-based logistics company Wincanton

has announced its results for the fiscal year 2004/5, with pre-tax profits increasing by over 40% year-on-year to reach £35.2m....

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The army game

=TX Logistics has a 20-year contract to haul the army's main Jade tanks. Tim Maughan speaks to MD Derek Brown about guaranteed...

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What logistics firms need is common sense

WITY IS IT that the words or'solutions' on a delivery docket invariably means that the day's busy schedule is likely to suffer...

With diff ratios less is more...

I AGREE THAT the AEC Mammoth Major Mk1II should be considered as one of the century's great trucks and hope it will be included...

Operators can't afford to take anything on trust

AFTER READING about the recent incident concerning a Greenford operator and a New Zealand employee's invalid licence I recalled...

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Premature retirement

The ripples continue to spread from Paccar's announcement that it's considering "retiring" the Foden brand in 2006 — but for...

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No awareness is no defence

AN IRISH FIRM which needs a "root and branch review of its operating procedures" has had its licence halved after its claim...

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A PROHIBITION RATE of nearly one-third over five years at

its Southampton depot has led to a severe curtailment of the Western Area Traffic licence held by national car transporter...

Driver fined £800 for falsifying records A DRIVER has been

ordered to pay £800 in fines and costs after he pleaded guilty to offences including fiddling his tachograph and taking...

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Rapidly expanding firm accused of fiddling tachograph records

A CONTAINER OPERATOR must wait to see what action will be taken against its licence after it appeared before the North Western...

Fleet cut by three-quarters after inquiry

A FIRM has been allowed to operate just one vehicle out of four after a disciplinary inquiry to explain three unsatisfactory...

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Hours to question why

For four years Europe has been debating revisions to drivers' hours regulations and it could be another two before changes are...

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Kill bi II

Guy Sheppard reports on :ontroversial plans to create a new offence of corporate manslaughter. C ompliance with every law...

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Q8A-diu

This week's answers have been supplied by a team of lawyers from Backhouse Jones of Clitheroe, Lancs. Can I claim? I was...

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GREAT BIRTHDAY

GIVEAWAY SAMSON ITE LUGGAGE COMMERCIAL MOTOR TO BE WON WITH Another month and another great giveaway as park of Commercial...

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THE HALL OF FAME 5

■ M L % This is our last look at our favourite vehicles of all time, but our vvebsite vwvw.cm100.co.uk is waiting for your...

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EMERGENCY STOPS

A mbulance specification is voluntarily governed by the mouthful known as BS EN 1789:2000— Medical Vehicles rnd their Equipment...

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WALKING THE I. NE

European OEMs were out in force at the Mid America Truck Show. Oliver Dixon reports on the challenges facing a globalised...

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Refleding on the painful process of taxing the fleet

Do you dread retaxing the fleet? Tony O'Brien has plenty of time to reflect as he does the waiting room shuffle. F or several...

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Axor to the rescue

CM's used truck tests will kick off again with the Axor — a truck designed to fulfill the needs of the fleet user. N ext month...

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NEW APPOINTMENT

Welcome Bruce, farewell Euan Renault Trucks UK has named Bruce Allison as its new marketing director. He replaces Euan Harron...

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Where the w.

money is Alex Wright, Manheim Auctions' sales director of commercial vehicles, gives CM the lowdown on which light CVs are...