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TOLL S UCCESS

In the three weeks since congestion charging was introduced in Durham Citifs Peninsula, traffic using the road has been slashed...

CI.YDE SAILING Clydeport has signed a deal with shipping giant

Maersk Sealand which will bring container vessels from the Mediterranean to the Clyde for the first time in 20 years.

mon AWAY

Traffic jams in the Midlands stretched for 11 miles after a 44-tonne artic was blown over in last weekend's storms. The driver...

WAD RESTRAINT The Association of Load Restraint Equipment Manufacturers has launched a website at www.muta.ortuk.

UZI

More than 90% of people questioned in an RAC survey said talking on the phone while driving causes other people to drive...

HMV FAMILY P&O's Channel and North Sea operations, Stena Line,

Portsmouth and North Sea Ferries, will now operate as P&O Ferries with a central reservation number. Contact: 08105 202020.

FTA slams stowaway fine amendments

• The Freight Transport Association has written to the immigration Minister Beverley Hughes protesting at the government's...

LIG launches 10% claims to prepare for 48-hour week

a by Guy Sheppard Unions are to press for three annual pay increases of between 8-10% to ensure that drivers in the...

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London rental warning

• The Freight Transport Association is seeking urgent talks with the vehicle hire sector to seek a solution to problems posed...

More NS misery at Southampton

• [he fast track booking system (VBS/ at Southampton Container Terminal has been slammed by drivers facing huge tailbacks this...

City collapse inquiry

• Truck finance firm GE Capital has brought in a team of forensic accountants to try to find the 215m it lost when City Group...

Hauliers team up for big contracts

• by Dominic Perry The 56-member Transport Association is considering emulating new company Jigsaw Solutions by setting up a...

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Truckers face fixed penalty fine system

m by Miles Brignall The UK looks set to introduce Continental-style fixed penalties for truck drivers caught committing minor...

Row over air-dump scheme for tippers

• SAF's recommendation that operators using a tipping trailer equipped with its air-suspended running gear should dump the air...

IRU warns of eastern threat

• The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has called on the European Union to protect hauliers from the effects of EU...

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Lots of room to stretch

• Adding 1.3m to the length of a Topline R Series sleeper cab could create the kind of truck that will stop HGV drivers from...

Appeal would delay release

• The family of a Scottish truck driver jailed in France for drug lrafficking has given up its appeal against his six-year...

Drivers at a price...

Are you ready to pay 10% more money each year for your drivers? Do you really think they're worth it—or are you simply planning...

Rapid removal avoids jams

Transport Secretary Alistair Darling is backing calls to cut the amount of time motorway lanes are closed following an...

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Fish hauliers under threat in Scotland

is by Guy Sheppard Fish hauliers in Scotland say they will be wiped out if the European Commission bans cod fishing in a bid...

One-minute prohibition

• Another Welsh haulier has accused the Vehicle Inspectorate of issuing delayed prohibition notices unnecessarily. Herm Owen,...

Leven scores a try

• Tackling a new scheme... professional rugby player Chris Lovett Is the first person to win his Category C licence under the...

Court hears of cold blooded attack by thief

• A delivery driver who was run down with his own van as he tried to stop it being stolen was killed in a "deliberate and...

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Repatriation costs hit hard

EXCLUSIVE Yw by Emma Penny The brother-in-law of a driver who died In an accident while working in Spain says companies...

Hash smuggler gets six years

• A truck passenger has been jailed for six years after pleading guilty to smuggling Elm of cannabis into the UK. The driver...

Abbey to roam roads

• Vehicle advertising company RoadAds has signed up Abbey National as the first company to use its mobile billboard scheme....

f.SM DEM.

Van rental specialist Northgate has bought Target Vehicle Rental for £3.35m. This adds 1,100 vehicles to Northgate's...

TOTAL CHOICE Total has selected Wincanton as its 'strategic supply

chain partner'. Wincanton previously handled about a third of Total's distribution: now it has it all involving 330 employees...

ON SHORTUST Lynx Express is on the shortlist for the

2002 National Training Awards for a supervisory management course to help boost staff retention and development which it...

INFIL ANONMENT Keith Cheti has become operations manager at food

distributor Reed Boardall, based at the company's Boroughbridge. North Yorks depot.

1=1

OTS Logistics is sponsoring the charity Aid to Africa with free warehousing at its Leicester site for supplies donated by...

WALON WISH Walon aims to become the first company in

the automotive logistics industry to win Investors In People accreditation, having completed the first stage in the programme.

DEPOT NNE Parcels firm Target Worldwide Express has moved its

Lanarkshire depot from Bellshill to new purpose-built premises at Eurocentral just off the M74/M8,

BIGGER DEPOT

Geo& is expanding Its Glasgow depot—adding 930m 2 to store another 1,500 pallets.

WAITROSE CONTRACT KO Trans European has extended its warehousing and distribution contract with retailer Waitrose until 2006.

Greenhous, 03, passes away

• Patrick Greenhous, chairman of the Greenhous Group from 19601994, died last weekend at the age of 83. Patrick joined the...

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• by Jennifer Dail A student has won a Welsh Development Agency technology prize for developing an anti-stowaway security system.

Mark Hammill's design features a night vision camera on the rear of the trailer to monitor the rear blind spot and trailer...

• Scottish MP Bristow Muldoon has called for a clampdown

on drivers who jump red lights at level crossings after a sharp Increase In the number of offenders. He cites the Kirknewton...

Sad farewell

• Geoff Jackson, who retired in 1995 after 25 years with Volvo Trucks, died on Tuesday 15 October after a brief battle with...

Drugs hauled on way to Glasgow

• Merseyside police have found more than 218m worth of drugs in the back of a truck heading for Glasgow. Officers stopped the...

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Pieces of el

NI Alliances in haulage are nothing new—after all logistics giant - DG started out as a group of regional big player's coming...

II The Jigsaw concept is not without precedents. In East

Anglia the alliance between Knowles (Transport), Jack Richards Transport and R Corn working on contract to HL Foods under the...

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Tanker prices set to soar...

• by Robin Moues Aluminium tankers look likely to become a lot more expensive from January as a direct result of the way new...

MAN has upgraded the L2000 and M2000 Evolution rigid line-up.

All L2000s are now supplied with an air suspended driver's seat, tinted glass, electric nearside window and external sun visor....

E=I

A system to combat fatiguerelated accidents is being Installed in three demo vehicles for evaluation in six European countries...

LIFE SAYER Nissan and All Papworth have developed a 4x4

ambulance for St John Ambulance based on the 158hp turbo-diesel Nissan Patrol; the volunteer service now has 15 examples in...

CHICKEN TRUCKS Trailer maker Wilson TS and Grampian Gauntry Food

Group have recently introduced a new design of itve poultry rigid and drawbar trailer to the latter's Anglesey Division, Cymru...

Massey moves on 111•••

IN Road tanker specialist Massey Tankers has increased its workload and employee count following a £1.5m investment on a new...

Partner line-up revealed

• After announcing a revamped Partner van last month (CM 19-25 Sept), Peugeot has now revealed the full UK model line-up and...

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Call for subsidies to boost system uptake

I by Robin Meczes Vehicle rental arid fleet services supplier Leo Transfieet is calling on the government to help boost the...

Right ad

• Stolen vehicle recovery specialist Tracker Network helped the police retrieve a record £502,000 worth of HGVs during...

Bridge warning

• Transport and logistics giant Gist has begun using a tracking system to warn drivers of impending bridge-bashing incidents....

CUTTING OVERTIME

Kent-based construction and waste building products haulier CSE Haulage has Installed the YMI telematics system from...

NEXT-DAY DELIVERY

Cardiff operator Rhys Davies Freight Logistics is to fit Thales Telematics' Orchid fleet management system on 80 of its rigid...

HOURS PROTECTOR

Alcatel Mohicom's new On Board Computer records driving and rest periods and transfers the details via satellite to a main...

CAMERA LOCATOR

Road Angel, from Blackspot Interactive, uses Internet technology from Transition Computing to keep road users up to date with...

Records save council from claim

Use of ICS Black Box's Nee Log on-board computer has saved St Edmundsbury Borough Council from a claim for damage. The system,...

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Training scheme for technicians

• Renault Trucks has started a new technical training scheme at its Dunstable headquarters; the first 11 would-be technicians...

Glow plug reveals all

• Sykes-Pickavant's latest developments include a new diesel glow plug tester with an easily read OK/fautVinterrnittent LED...

FUEL LOCK

MB Marketing's new Anti Siph will combat the theft of fuel from vehicle tanks. The device locks into the filler neck and will...

INIMISHOP STORAGE Anyone wanting storage and workshop equipment should find a wide selection in Metalrax's free 276-page catalogue.

Contact: 0121 772 6135.

TRUCK PARTS

A new search facility www.boschautoparts.co.uk will make finding genuine OE truck parts easy, says Bosch Truck Parts. Just...

WINTER CONSUNIABUS

Specialist vehicle builder Dennis Eagle is offering an allmakes range of winteressential consumables. It includes wiper blades,...

TOP COAT SYSTEMS Spies Mocker's new Permasolid HS 'slow' hardener

3538 is one of a family of three CV 650 top coat systems. It can be used on large jobs and offers excellent drying performance...

AIR CENTRE Tr-Sphere of Stafford is now marketing Boge's new

CKLseries of direct drive screwtype compressors. Rated from 2.2-5.5kW, they can be added to an existing air installation,...

New courses

• DuPont's new Refinish Training Centre at Dagenham, Essex has a number of courses on offer for the latter part of 2002,...

Compressors updated

• Sellarc has revised and upr-ated its range of vehicle-mounted air compressors for the tyre replacement and automotive repair...

Brake tester for axles up to 1 et

• Test equipment manufacturer Kismet has a new roller brake tester with an array of practical features that make it virtually...

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TIME TRAVELLER

Our column in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago 1November 1927 The time is not...

Snowitikt.7' Reader Bill Taylor tells us that at least the

UK is well prepared for any adverse wintry weather. "I thought that Backfire might be interested to learn that during an...

Why bother with lifting gear when you can hire someone

with such superhuman strength as this prime specimen? Despite appearances to the contrary, CM was obviously relieved to find...

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Overloading offences have resulted in Ladybank, Fifebased Riddell Haulage's licence

being cut to 14 vehicles and 20 trailers, putting one operational vehicle off the road for a week. The company had been called...

LICENCE SUSPENDED

Maintenance problem have resulted in the licence held by Cwmbran-based Virgo Plant Hire being suspended in its entirety for...

UM] The licence held by Caldicottbased Valley Transport has been

cut to two vehicles after being called before Welsh IC David Dixon at a Pontypridd disciplinary inquiry because of concern over...

Barnsley firm loses licence over maintenance failures

A firm running a truck with brakes reported to be almost as badly maintained as the truck Involved In the Sowerby Bridge...

Driving away costs man 2900

Driving a vehicle away from a test station after it had been given an immediate prohibition cost a Hertfordshire owner-driver...

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Tacho cheating censured r An unlicensed

Worcestershire operator has last its bid to have one of eight Impounded vehicles returned to it after the West Midland Traffic...

Worcestershire operator has last its bid to have one of

eight Impounded vehicles returned to it after the West Midland Traffic Commissioner rejected its appeal. TC David Dixon had...

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cania is keen to let UK operators know what a

reduced-weight tractor unit can offer at 44 tonnes. "Maximising payloads, economy and efficiency," says the brochure. Yet the...

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KW Devereux & Sons is situated among the densest concentration

of heavy industry in Britain, yet the firm's red trucks don't haul locally-produced chemicals or steel. Ambient foods and...

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A great deal of road transport is time sensitive with the

transport user demanding delivery yesterday. However, with bulk loads the pressure to hit a specific delivery window is often...

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T he dearth of drivers coming into the UK road transport

industry remains acute, and transport managers across the country are scratching their heads to come up with ways of recruiting...

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TECIF

p art of the IMI group, Polypipe produces a vast range of plastic products for the construction, building and leisure...

TAC • The in-cab function checks include verification of u

to-date speed butter and tachograph calibration. Wit the Mfrs electronic tacho, that includes examination the main diagnostic...

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CROSSROADS TRUCK & BUS

N Crossroads Truck & Bus Is a privately-owned transport group with 10 sites In Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. This includes a new...

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D straight from the existing 16 catalogue, which is why,

when totting up our shopping baskets, it compares so very favorably across the group. We first listed a dozen quick moving...

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66 from a quantity-based transport licensing system over The UK

led the world when it decided, in 1968, to move to a quality-based and market-led system. At that time, the idea of withdrawing...

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Used price gap en axles starts fading

• The second-hand prices of threeyear-old 4x2 and 6x2 tractor units are drawing closer together as 4x2 values harden and 6x2...

ERF dealer adds MAN to service

• Widnes ERF dealer Perris and Kearon is now providing parts and service for MANs too. "There was a small MAN outlet a few...

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New Renault depot

• A new, i.5m, purposebuilt Renault Trucks sales, service, and parts dealership has opened on the outskirts of Southampton....

Closure auctions down on last year

III Fewer hauliers may be looking to sell up and leave the industry, reckons independent dealer Robert Reynolds. Over the past...

ENQUIRY SLOWDOWN

New and used truck sales enquiries are slowing down as the year heads in to its final two months, reports Eddie Knights, safes...

FAG BATTLES ON

Despite stiff competition from BCA and Commercial Vehicle Auctions, Fleet Auction Group is still battling away to win truck...

LIGHTWEIGHT FINANCE

Close Consumer Finance has set up a division aimed at providing a service for dealers selling commercial vehicles grossing up...

MERC VAN CENTRE

Mercedes-Benz Brentford has set up a dedicated van service centre in London. The Lionel Road site employs seven technicians....