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FTA supports planned trial of overtaking ban

By Chris Tindatt TRUCKS COULD be banned from overtaking on the Al2 after an independent inquiry recommended a 12-month trial...

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Scotf low parent company closes its doors

By Roanna Avison SCOTTISH HAULIER Scotflow is continuing to trade while hoping to find a buyer after its parent company was...

Access to Walsall bus lanes hinges on residents' say-so

TRUCKS COULD share bus lanes in Walsall if local residents give the thumbs-up to Walsall Council's congestion-busting scheme....

Security guard attacked in Wincanton trailer raid

SIX TRAILERS containing alcohol have been stolen from Wincanton in a raid that saw a security guard attacked. At approximately...

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Weaker pound makes UK hauliers more competitive

By Chris Tindall THE POUND'S weakness against the euro has given a small ray of hope to UK-based international hauliers and...

P WEIGHT LIMITS

Council accuses truckers of ignoring bridge weight limits TRUCKS HAVE BEEN ignoring weight restrictions and damaging weak...

The driving theory - .mum

test for truck drivers has increased from 60 to 100 questions, and the number of hazard perception clips has risen from 14 to...

Goodyear has !Aim: launched a new

version of its AirMax truck tyre, claimed to be the first low-diameter front tyre with a capacity of eight tonnes. Both the...

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McLellans bought from administrators

By Roger Brown HW COATES HAS expanded in Scotland after buying McLellans Transport out of administration. The privately owned...

SCS Group assets purchased by Keith Taylor

KEITH TAYLOR LOGISTICS (KTL) has acquired the assets of the SCS Group of companies, including SCS Logistics. A spokeswoman for...

Wincanton signs roof deal

WINCANTON HAS signed a five-year deal to distribute roofing products for Marley Eternit from sites in Glasgow and Reading. The...

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HA sits on Orwell Crossing legal advice 'for public good'

By Chris Tindati THE HIGHWAYS Agency (HA) has upheld a decision not to release the legal advice it received that would explain...

Fraudster is told to hand back hidden assets of diesel scam

A RED DIESEL fraud in Northern Ireland made massive profits for all those involved, a court has been told. Kevin Campbell, an...

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By Joanna Bourke THE WELSH Environment Agency has called it

"unacceptable" that chemicals were found dumped in a lay-by in an "intentionally" abandoned lorry. On 31 July, North Wales...

Dave Young, stand-in community manager for TruckNet UK, talks suzies, jack-knifing and failed firms.

Despite it being the holiday season, with most drivers en famille in Barbados, TruckNet UK is busy as ever. On the UK...

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Council dismisses hauliers' pleas for access to road

By David Harris HAULIERS OBJECTING to plans to impose a weight limit on a Somerset road have been dismissed by the council...

Norbert Dentressangle sees revenues rise

NORBERT DENTRESSANGLE Group has posted an 83% increase in revenue for the first half of the year, boosted by the acquisition of...

Anti-epilepsy drug driver back on road

A DRIVER WHO had his HGV licence revoked for 10 years after he was prescribed an anti-epilepsy drug following a fall from his...

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Strong profits for TOG during offer period

By Roger Brown TDG HAS INCREASED its profit and turnover in the first half of 2008, despite the company being surrounded by...

Reason Transport has

enjoyed "immense" business growth since joining the Palletways network in 2004. Between then and 2008, the number of pallets...

Chilled distribution company Davis Haulage has ordered more trailers from

Gray & Adams to complement the 50 already purchased over the past year. The new trailers will he the first in the group's fleet...

Culina Logistics

opened a chilled distribution centre at Haverhill, Suffolk on 4 August. Since Culina joined farces with Baylis Logistics...

11111111 P OPERATING COSTS

Better drivers slash fuel bills TELEMATICS SPECIALIST lsotrak says its latest tests suggest that hauliers could save 19% in...

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HSE 'agrees to spread word' on truck seat-belt campaign

By Chris Tindai: THE HEALTH & Safety Executive (HSE) has written to MP Alan Milburn offering practical support for a campaign...

ARR Craib expands its remit after increase in turnover

ABERDEEN-BASED haulier ARR Craib Transport has extended its business into rail freight, supply chain management and facilities...

New man at Merc

SAM WHITTA10ER has been appointed truck sales and marketing director for MercedesBenz UK. Whittaker left his role as national...

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Strategic thinking

Swift and decisive action is vital if UK hauliers are to survive in today's economic climate, but is the Government simply...

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The graph illustrates that between 1994 and 2006, rail freight

increased by 70%, but in the same way that roads are not being provided suff dent assistance, the Sustainable Distribution Fund...

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Drivers face prosecution if they forget to alter tacho mode switch

WITH REFERENCE to your article 'VDO digitach upgrade helps resolve mode switch errors' (CM 10 July), I quote your second...

No need for running Eights

FIFTY YEARS ago police vehicles tended to be black and other road users knew that a vehicle approaching with its headlights on...

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You scratch my back...

The Transport Association is a self-help group of members working together for mutual benefit. CM gets the lowdown from...

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Do the maths

Official. figures for cabotage activity in the UK do not reflect the scale of the problem, according to the Freight Transport...

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CI isqualified after

blowing Last chance Pair to appeal against indefinite disqualification for failing to comply with lawful agency requests...

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Haulier faces five-year revocation PORTLEVEN-BASED KDC Logistics and its directors Kenneth Reid and Douglas Strachan were...

Tribunal overturns disqualification

THE TRANSPORT Tribunal has quashed the 12-month disqualification of Eastleigh-based Paul Short, trading as P&J Transport, from...

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Disc-Lender loses revocation appeal

LEAMINGTON SPA-BASED Manjit Singh, who lent an 0-licence disc to his best friend, has lost his appeal against the revocation of...

Poor communication Leads to Licence Loss

BOREHAM WOOD-BASED MULROY Construction has lost its appeal against the revocation of its two-vehicle restricted licence after...

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Weighty matters

Drivers can be fined up to £5,000 for overloading. What can they do to minimise the risk? drivers need ;to know Words: Guy...

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Are cameras moving out of the picture?

Speed cameras are widely criticised for being unfair and inaccurate, but are there better ways to improve road safety? Words:...

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If a vehicle is caught speeding by a camera, the registered keeper will be sent a form within 14 days, asking them to identify...

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Van fleet operators

are wasting huge sums of money by not bothering to prepare their vans for resale, according to Manheim Auctions. While the...

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THE VAN BEFORE

Our van of choice was a 2000 W-reg SWB Renault Master, which had spent the past three years working as a builders van and taken...

COURSE OF ACTION

The first thing Manheim's reconditioning team did was empty the van of all the rubbish, including several hundred screws and...

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LONG-TERM TEST VEHICLE

VAUXHALL ASTRAVAN SPORTIVE SE 1.9CDT1 Price: £14,920 Payload: 647kg Mileage: 14,545 Expenses: None Faults: None Average mpg:...

THE VERDICT

Running the Astravan as a long-termer is a whole lot of fun, making journeys more interesting, and, dare we say it, shorter....

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Business as usual

Solid, dependable, and reliable just the way we like our long-termers to be. Price: E16,155 Engine: 2.5-Dtre 128hp Payload:...

THE VERDICT

There's nothing to report, nothing has changed and nothing has occurred — that's the way we like it. The argument will always...

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i n est of

ritish The Roger Dyson Group is one of a dying breed; a British manufacturer. Its 0.5m new-build and revamp will cement its...

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Roger Dyson started out in 1969 as a 17-year-old school

leaver who became a mechanic. "I began in the side of the industry that we now supply to," he says. Gaining a driving licence...