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• by Miles Brignall Trucks and trailers used to move animal carcasses infected with foot and mouth disease could soon be moving...
Three accidents in as many days involving trucks caused traffic chaos on the M1 last week. Three people were killed on 27...
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hree men who ran a highIle group of haulage compain the Midlands and Kent been jailed for a total of 12 s for fraud....
I A number of owner-drivers who work for tarmac are questioning what the future holds Mer the quarry giant slashed its rates...
by ruby Clark ERF is to end mainstream UK vehicle manufacturing after almost 70 years, Production of the ECX and ECS ranges at...
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• by Jaz Abbott Rental and leasing firms are split over the latest warning from a Traffic Commissioner that they must check the...
• Police forces across Wales are cracking down on drivers using mobile phones on the move. During the All Wales Mobile Phone...
postponed yet again amid growing fears that truck drivers will barricade it if HGVs are banned from using the route. December's...
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A well known South Wales [tamer haulier is closing vn after 16 years. The entire fleet belonging to fmney-based JM Express is...
We're not surprised that the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association is "very nervous" over the recent comments from...
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II A senior trade union official has slammed the delayed Introduction of the EU's antivibration rules. Barry Leathwood,...
companies LE Jones and LE s (International), has insisted that the ponies' drivers were not given Jobs which ed them to break...
II Three big ferry firms are bumping up their freight capabiiities. KO Portsmouth will take delivery of a new ship in July; the...
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back with subbies • TOG is poised to expand a service that uses a "multiplicity" of subcontractors as part of its push for...
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One of the major stories in recent months has been the revocation of the Scottish Traffic Area licence held by major Northern...
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• by Toby Clark Nissan and Mazda have revised their ranges of 4x4 pickups with a new cab for Mazda's B-Series and a new engine...
• Gray & Adams is to display two new trailer designs at the CV Show at the end of April. The first is a lifting-floor...
• Turners (Soham) has taken 14 Scania P124 'reduced-weight' tractive units for use on 44-tonne distribution work with British...
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An operator has been left owing 11,400 on a vehicle he no longer owns after he was caught running it without an Operator's...
Scottish TC Michael Betts has revoked the two-vehicle Operator's Licence held by Mark and Roderick Cessford, trading as Angus...
about its future maintenance standards. The company appeared before North Western Deputy IC Patrick Mulvenna at a Trafford...
Maintenance problems led to the licence held by Richard Yardley, based in Chaddesley Corbett, near Kidderminster, being...
Philip Beckwith and Jennifer Dennison, trading as Beckwith Haulage, of Caine, Lancashire, have lost their appeal against the...
The licence held by Northampton-based JT Raca International has been revoked by Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms....
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North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell has warned opera tors in her area that she intends to be stricter in the...
• - i 77E Two Scottish hauliers ph have had their 0 Operator's Licences revoked after "loaning" m to drivers they had sold...
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NORTH! By our Northern Correspondent Eric Strongitharrn Oswaldtwistle, The Spagthorpe Motor Company has staged a protest...
delight of having their every move watched by the Safe-T-Corn system. Similar to the UK's SPECS speed cameras but rather more...
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out more of a chasm than a niche for itself as the definitive fleet artic—it's standard issue for a great many medium to large...
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III Granby Road Services 1GRS), based at Langley Moor, Durham, was SR MEF's first owner. It ran on a TNT contract, trunking...
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pay-as-y, go road pricing, it see that satellite-tracking s tems are set to be next marketplace boa So, why has UK business...
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won the V-Sol system in a CM competition in March 2000 which gave us II the opportunity to analyse the new service and assess...
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planning the biggest cheese and wine party in Britain's history, but when two lorries— one carrying 18,000 bottles of Sicilian...
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• Always try to keep your truck in sight If you leave it unattended. • Don't leave semi-trailers unattended in laybys, and use...
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sector. The multi-drop work is extremely busy-12,000 deliveries are made every week. Yet, as Paul Newman reports, the firm does...
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RULE The government is clamping down on dodgy directors. What do you need to do to make sure you stay within the law? etween...
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is introducing more rights for workers, including new rules on unfair dismissal that will cost employers dear if they are...
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• Employees on fixed-term contracts will gain the same pay and pension rights as permanent staff. • Minimum disciplinary and...
• Any employee with one year's service or more can sue for unfair dismissal (to a maximum of 152,600). • Fixed-term contract...
• www.employmenttribunals. gotuk; 0845 795 9775 (for more information see CPA Legal Bulletin, 21-27 February)....
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(weighing-inmotion systems) work on the same principle as Gatso speed cameras and could significantly increase the number of...
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reduce their service of escorting abnormal loads. Our overriding fear is that safety will be compromised and accidents will be...