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6th May 1999
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Union fury over DOT opt-out plan for Sr working week

• by Karen Mlles The Transport and General Workers Union is launching a furious campaign against the Government after...

TNT AWARD Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has presented TNT International with the first ever FTA Environmental Best Practice Award.

GREENLAND GOES Monmouth-based Greenlands Transport, which can trace its roots

as far back as 1928, has thrown in the towel. blaming fuel and VED rates. Five out of the six staff have found other jobs.

RAC BID Lex Service has made an agreed offer of E437m for the roadside rescue group RAG.

SHEEN VOIYOS Smith's of Bury is appealing for help after

two tractors and a rigid containing copper wire and stainless steel were stolen from its site on 1May. The Volvo F12, FL10 and...

REDLAND BOUGHT The management of Sheffieldbased Redland Distribution has bought the firm from its French owners Lafarge for £10m.

COMING ATTRACTION Due to production problems our feature on claiming

a VED reduction by fitting emission reducing equipment to your truck, as highlighted on this week's cover, will now appear in...

ROAD REPORT UK trunk roads deteriorated by nearly 10% in

1998, according to the National Road Maintenance Condition Survey. It reveals that more than 900 miles of trunk road are in...

Yorkshire hauliers rally round

More than 200 furious hauliers have launched a nationwide petition to highlight the plight of British truckers who are losing...

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DOT aims to clamp down on hauliers who flag out

• by Miles BrIgnall Flauliers hoping to escape the UK's punitive Vehicle Excise Duty rates by re-registering their trucks...

have thought that everyone would have thought like me, hut they didn't.''

EC checks non-EU drivers The European Commission is investigating the increasing use of cheap, non-European Union drivers by...

Axial's Ford contract goes to partnership

• A joint venture between AutoLogic and American group Allied Holdings has taken on the Ford logistics services contract...

Truckfest anger

Truckfest regular Ray Leigh Transport delivered a scathing attack on truck operators attending the showcase event over the Bank...

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150 jobs are lost as Plane goes down...

• by David Craik Cheshire-based air-freight haulier Plane Trucking has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 150...

...and another air-freight haulier threatens move to Luxembourg

• Undercutting by Dutch drivers coupled with UK fuel and VED hikes is forcing Scottish air-freight haulier Kilsyth Transport to...

COMMENT

It's a long long road Last Sunday we had a visitor to the Commercial Motor Truckfest stand. Nothing unusual about that, except...

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Brothers face Crown Court for sentencing

M by Mike Jewell Two brothers who ran a North Wales tipper firm and were caught falsifying tachograph records by an...

DOT to review curfews on urban delivery times

• Night delivery bans and curfews could soon be relaxed for hauliers following pressure on the Government by the Freight...

Malcolm Group says jobs are safe after acquisition

• The 50 employees of Blackburn-based Wilfred Holden have been assured that their jobs are safe following the company's £1.25m...

Look after your heart!

I Truck drivers have been warned again about their killer lifestyles following the publication of a report on tackling heart...

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IC wants hours and mhos in NV test

is by Mike Jewell North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe has called for the LGV driving test to include a...

Final attempt to end a nightmare

II Peter Hobbs and John Mills, the truck drivers sentenced to serve seven - and - a - half years in a Bulgarian jail for...

Right was wrong

• A Fareham owner-driver who drove on the wrong side of the road terrifying other motorists landed up in court Last week....

Sharks take to the road

• Dorset-based AET transport has made Its bid for the haulier carrying the most unusual lead in the county by carrying a...

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Mason aims to fill the gap

• by Toby Clark Renault VI has launched the long-awaited successor to its Messenger range, and declared an intention to double...

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Vector reefer is said to set new standard

• by Peter Lawton The new Vector reefer unit from Carrier Transicold is the company's most powerful to date, and Carrier...

The first [conics go to waste

11 Mercedes-Benz's campaign for municipal sales is under way with a fleet order for the Econic from Sevenoaks District...

Black box could cut crash claims

Light cv operators who want to reduce accident damage and insurance claims might benefit from the new Accident Data Recorder...

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Frank discussions with the rent man

Before truck manufacturers start complaining about how the big rental companies are unsettling the market, TLS chief executive...

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This is a show for all reasons!

It's a social event...it's a truck show...it's a business seminar—no, it's Commercial Motor Truckfest. Which means it's all...

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Tachograph technician is fined for 'hot wiring' job

Tachograph tech nician Richard Williams, from Denbigh, has been fined £850 for "hot wiring" the tachograph in a tipper...

Lack of letter caused problems

The Transport Tribunal has quashed the revocation of the licence held by Cambridgeshire haulier Mike Smith—but it stressed that...

MEM Three vehicles have been suspended from the 15-vehicle licence

held by Newport, Gwent-based UK European Transport Services because of the company's maintenance record. It appeared at a...

EIGHT DOWN Concern over the maintenance standards of Glasgow-based Projectcrete

led to the firm's licence being cut from 18 vehicles to 10 by Scottish IC Michael Betts. The company appeared before him at a...

1110HE WEIGHT Ian Slorach and Ann Bakee trading as AB

Couriers, of Wetherty, have won an appeal against a condition limiting vehicles on their licence to 7:5 tonnes. The Transport...

MOE VENIRES Huddersfield-based TE Newholme has been granted a licence

increase from six vehicles to nine vehicles and three trailers. But neighbours persuaded North Eastern DTC Brian Horner to...

SECOND comma

Evesham magistrates have fined local driver John Suffield £400 after his second conviction for falsifying a tachograph record....

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Video evidence rejected

Neighbours pro duced video tapes in an attempt to prove that Christopher and Trevor Atkinson, trading as TO Atkinson & Sons, of...

Driver was not an employee

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a contract which allowed ser vices to be carried out by a person other than the contractor...

Lesson learned from overload

Oldbury-based driver Philip Brooks has appeared before West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon following his conviction...

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Factfile provides operators with brief news on subjects ranging from

events and traffic blackspots to theft and fuel prices. If you have information for inclusion send it to Commercialliotor, Bow...

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Do you want to comment on any storks in Commercial

Mote Does someone in the industry deserve a pat on the back, or a dressing down? Drop us a line at Commercial Motor, Doom...

LUDICROUS RATES

If I were in the position of the four haulage companies working for Hapag Lloyd I would leave them in no doubt about where they...

VAN SUPPORT

I watched the recent news on the Trans-Action protest and noticed that farmers and taxidrivers are now taking part. I myself...

SINGLE SNOW

Following agreement between the SMMT, the IRTE and the RHA, we are moving closer than ever in 2000 toward a Commercial Vehicle...

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Lay-by Is where CM takes a break from the serious

Issues and our correspondent The Hawk takes a sideways look at road haulage. If you have suitable tales, charitable -works, or...

AIMS SHIPSHAPE

Those brave souls who man the lifeboats of the RNLI often live in remoter parts of the British Isles, so it is vital that the...

GOOD DEED, BAD LUCK

Spare a thought for Martin Townsend, 19, a computer operator from Little Stoke in Bristol. He was driving home in his pride and...

NOW, THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC!

Yes, I wondered toe. Apparently the chap with the trumpet Is Euro Commercials sales manager Nathan Black, serenading the...

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SCANIA R113-360

I Price as tested: £30,850 (see text). Engne: 11.0 litres, 357hp (266kW). GCW: 38 tonnes. Payload: 23.75 tonnes. Average speed:...

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There's so much happening in the business world that It's

a good idea for hauliers to step back now and again, and take a cool look at relevant issues in depth. Thanks to our colleagues...

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NEWS

CM's Need To Know is put together in association with Tolley Publishing, which produces regular monthly business bulletins...

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LIQUI ASSETS

The ever increasing cost of diesel may be the bane of every haulier's life, but no operator can move a single pallet without...

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iN ho says diesel and water don't mix? Certainly not

Fir, which has been trailing a new fuel called Aquazole in several hundred trucks and buses operating in France. Made up of...

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Fuel might cost your business an arm and a leg,

but it is no different for your competitors. The way to stay ahead is to ensure that you manage your fuel costs better than...

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THE NEW PETERB1LT 387 It's another world, all right: the

US trucking scene is quite different from Europe's. But with an increasingly global truck market we will doubtless see some of...

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Mary Williams, executive director of road safety campaign group Brake, explains why you can't afford to ignore safe vehicle management.

• If you want to sound off about a road transport issue mite to features editor Patric Minus or fax your views (up to 600...