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3rd January 2002
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UNEXPECTED BACKING Chancellor Gordon Brown has given unexpected backing to London Mayor Ken Livingstone over his controversial congestion-charging plans.

ROAD RUNNERS Consignia, the private company that runs the Post Office, is threatening to substantially reduce the amount of...

Brace yourself! CM readers predict fuel hike in Budget

EXCLUSIVE • by Dominic Perry More than two-thirds of haulage firms believe that Chancellor Gordon Brown will force up diesel...

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As simple as that!

Abe Lincoln was right: "You can fool all the hauliers some of the time, and some hauliers all of the time—but you can't fool...

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• Temperature rises in the fridge market

• by Sharon Clancy The temperature-controlled transport sector is a complex mix of blue-chip logistIcs specialists at one end...

Telematics warms up

• lveco's Dario Salvati (see below) is convinced that telematics will become one of the most important development areas; Iveco...

Little vehicles rule food to the door

• Iveco's reefer research reveals that 60% of food home deliveries are made with highly manoeuvrable vehicles of 3.5 tonnes and...

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Green light for military deal

II by Cohn Barnett The £290m contract to provide 92 heavy equipment transporters (HET) to the British Ministry of Defence has...

ATEGO TRANSPORTER Personal car delivery firm Enable has bought an

Atego 1323 fitted with a 118-approved box body designed for car transport. This allows it to deliver a car as a sealed...

Ryders International show true grit on ice

Grit spreaders are the ultimate in seasonal kit, with the • potential to tie up expensive trucks just waiting for bad weather...

Save on storage

• A software firm claims that hauliers of all sizes could save money as well as time by using a document handling system....

Mitsubishi drops its prices

• Mitsubishi has revised its [200 pickup range for 2002, alongside significant price reductions. All models now have a...

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DEFECTIVE ILIINMR Chester magistrates have fined Wirral-based Al Demolition (NW)

£450 with £70 costs for using a vehicle with a defective speed limiter. GROSS OVERLOAD A 1135% gross overload cost...

Tacho and centre offences lead to two-week fleet cut

Bilston-based Starr Roadways, which was acquired by Stiller Transport in November, has had its () licence authorisation cut...

Father must stay out of business

Mark Jones, the sole director of Wrexhambased European Express 2000 has been warned that he risks losing his Operator's Licence...

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Driver fined for driving for far too long

County Antrim Driver Sean McCauley was forced by Vehicle Inspectorate traffic examiners to park up for nine hours after they...

Overloaded and not rested

Hours and overloading offences led to Erith-based driver William Sullivan being ordered to pay 1,500 in fines and costs by the...

In our edition of Commercial Motor 13-19 December 2001 we

published a report of a public inquiry involving Ken Petty Haulage appearing before North Eastern Area Traffic Commissioner Tom...

The 0-licence held by Cumbrian livestock transporters HAS Skelton was

revoked after the partners were forced into bankruptcy by the foot and mouth epidemic. Robert John and Stuart Skelton held a...

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HELPING HAND

It looked huge: I had parked my Austin Metro facing uphill only moments before, when I called in the Metal Yard office to...

SOUND FINANCE

You recently published an article concerning my client Goldwings (Wales) that stated that its Operator's Licence had been...

LEASING BENEFITS

1 am wiling to you in relation to the feature entitled "Cash in a Flash" (CM13-19 Dec 2001). My concern arises from the opening...

SAFE DRIVING

I was very surprised about your Any Questions column (CM6-12 Dec 2001) regarding the letter headed "Give-way Dilemma" from a...

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By our Northern Correspondent,

Eric Strongitharm, Oswaldtwistle. Residents of Oswaldtwistle were left openmouthed with awe and wonder this week as the town's...

At last: the Christmas mystery solved. Father Christmas's unwordly ability

to deliver presents to every child once a year could actually be a hallucination induced by the consumption of fly-agaric...

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L ES S F or most engine manufacturers the move to Euro-2 and

Euro-3 meant higher power coupled to an increase in engine capacity. Iveco took a different tack and decided to squeeze more...

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"Iveco are as good if not better than most other

trucks." David Mountain 16 Commercial fleet manager Dave Mountain has been with Sigma Kalon, based in Morley, for the past 26...

"The feedback on reliability of the eight and 10-litre Cursor engines is good so far."

Bob Reed keeps an eye on new truck models and used price trends at CAP Red Book He says: "It might have been better for sales...

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"We deliver to 14 depots around the country and we need the advantage of the power-to-weight ratio

that 350hp gives us."Ted Bolt ' Two of the UK's biggest mail order companies are part of the same group. Bradford-based...

YE RD ICT

Starting out with the small capacity Cursor 8 gave tveco the means to produce a lightweight tractive unit. Although plated for...

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C O NT It 0 I. I. 1 t is said

that because everyone has to eat, food distribution must be one of the safest bets for a road haulier, at least as far as...

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BAKING T OUL

ralcing systems offer remarkable scope to control the dynamic behaviour of a vehicle; not just by slowing down or stopping, but...

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Knorr's European technical manager for trailer applications is Colin Ross,

who raises an important point about ABS and EBS systems in general: how are tractor and trailer to be connected? All modern...

TEDS4

TEBS4 is the first fully developed generation of Knorr's Trailer EBS system, and it integrates many of the functions of...

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RACY First to enter a recession, first to come out of it that's the UK tractor market. So who were the winners and losers, the...

UK TOP 10 TRACTORS-1st: Volvo FM12 380 4x2 After spending

a while further down in the pack the Swedish truck maker has powered back into pole position. At the beginning of December it...

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Engine: Daf XE 12.6-litre 430hp in-line six.

Gearbox: ZE Ecosplit 16-speed, Rear axle: Daf 1387. Kerbweigtir: 7,690kg. Artic market positions* g Overall: 3rd. 4x2...

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Life in haulage can be tough but for hard-pressed operators

help is finally at hand. dvIU tiraik reviews a scheme launched by the FTA and RHA which offers advice on improving your...

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hen the Milk Marketing Board was deregulated in the mid-1990s,

Milk Marque, the major farmers' co-operative to emerge with a 40% share of the milk supply busiss in England and Wales, came...

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A s insurance is both a legal requirement and a business

necessity for hauliers, what happens if your insurance company becomes insolvent? Are you still covered by your policy? If not,...

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E -day is here at last. The electronic or virtual euro

has been used by businesses since January 1999, but this week the euro arrives for real as 310 million people in 12 countries...

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BOO MINIM

There are seven different notes: 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euros. (If anyone tries to give you a 1,000 euro note, watch...

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d If you want to start a fight in a conference room full of

transport engineers, open a debate about warranty returns. When a component fails prematurely, everybody from the driver to the...