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7th November 1996
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BRIEFS

• Trailer leasing firm has been awarded £3.1m by the Court of Appeal following a dispute with Darwen Leasing over the sale of...

Haulier is jailed after fatal depot accident

by Michael Jewell • Alan Jackson, former managing director of Jacksons Transport (Ossett), has begun a 12-month jail sentence...

Death crash driver had no licence

• A lorry driver who was killed in a road accident had no WV licence and was defrauding the Benefits Agency, an inquest has...

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by Karen Miles • Essex owner-driver Steve Bryant has gone

on hunger strike in a desperate attempt to persuade the Moroccans to release him from jail, Bryant, 42, is already suffering...

DAM calls for load code

• The Drivers Action Movement (DAM) wants hauliers and the Government to give drivers better advice about heavily laden...

A s you read this, perhaps over your breakfast, an Essex

owner-driver is starving himself in a Moroccan jail. While the taste of food may still be in your mouth consider the case of...

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Warning signs for tall trucks...

by Steve Banner • All trucks over three metres high will have to be fitted with in-cab height warning signs in a bid to reduce...

...while Railtrack refers hauliers to AA's hotline

• Railtrack has issued a new number for drivers and hauliers to contact when planning routes and seeking details of low...

Driver claims he was sacked for organising union meeting

• A Southampton driver who claims he was sacked by Stoford Transport for organising a meeting with the Transport & General...

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TNT rethinks mail service

by Karen Miles • The company which has given loudest support to a privatised letters market admits that the chances of private...

Bosses buy Walon from French parent for £34m

• Walon's UK operation has been bought by its management from its French parent company Chargeurs for £34m. The Somerset-based...

MBO for Lynx on the cards

• Transport group NFC is understood to be hoping to sell its parcels delivery arm Lynx having decided it no longer falls within...

United drivers win one level wages structure

• Strike-threatening tanker drivers at United Transport (UK) have won a swift victory over their employer after the company...

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Ferry firms face fines

by Karen Miles • British hauliers are free to seek compensation from five ferry companies following a European Commission...

CONTRACTS

• Swift Service—the industrial division of Salvesen Logistics—has a £3m threeyear contract with National Packaging, the UK's...

Faster Frejus at a higher cost

• The road on the French side of the Frejus Tunnel is being upgraded to motorway standard as part of a scheme to speed up the...

Driver blacklisted for lack of licence

• An owner-driver operating for express freight carrier Europa has been blacklisted from working for the company after it was...

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Loads at danger level Shortage 'could

force up wages' by Derren Hayes • Hauliers in Yorkshire are overloading their vehicles to danger levels, according to a...

• A serious shortage of experienced drivers and a lack

of investment in training could push drivers' wages up over the coming year, says the Road Haulage Association. The RHA's...

RHA out to bust depot hold-ups

• The Road Haulage Association's northern division wants to hear from hauliers experiencing long delays at distribution...

Long delays out of Poland

• Truck drivers have blocked the Polish-Ukrainian border post in protest at delays of more than three days to get into the...

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Law drives electronic brakes

Almost every brake manufacturer is investigating electronic controls for braking systems. But the future of electronic braking...

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BRIEFS

• The second AEF international automotive show is due to take place at the Istanbul World Trade Centre in Turkey between 14 and...

Delivery package

• Continued growth in TK Packaging's cardboard manufacturing and supply business has led it to add three more delivery vehicles...

Brake Assist has power

by John Kendall • Lucas Varity and Mercedes-Benz have won the Prince Michael Technology award for the jointly developed Brake...

Key pad voice enquiry added to tracker kit

• Basildon-based Integrated Security Group has introduced a voice enquiry service for its Tracer vehicle location and...

Fresh trailers for veg

• Cambridgeshire vegetable grower Albert Bartlett and Sons has taken delivery of two Lawrence David refrigerated curtainsider...

Wisbech triaxles replace eight-wheelers

• BOCM PauIs is planning to replace a fleet of eight-wheeler rigids used for animal feed distribution in the West Country with...

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BRIEFS

• Cheshire-based James lrlam & Sons's order for 30 Leyland Daf 85-400 tractors expands its fleet to some 180 vehicles. •...

Cargobull chills Tesco

by Bryan Jarvis • Tesco has placed one of the largest single orders in the UK for 258 multitetnperature reefer trailers from...

Warrington council renews waste fleet with 11 ERF EC8s

• Having retained its own refuse collection and disposal contract, Warrington Borough Council has re-equipped its fleet with II...

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International Motors to expand following new Isuzu deal • International Motors has won a renewable contract to continue...

Two from Skoda

• Skoda will launch its Van Plus some time next year It is based on the Felicia estate car with the back seats taken out and a...

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Hauliers doing their duty

Truck operators don't need a crystal ball to see whether fuel tax is going up in this month's Budget—it's already been decided....

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Muted response to MPs' safety report

After hearing evidence for three months, the all-party Transport Select Committee's Report into The Adequacy and Enforcement...

REJECTED! The Government said no to:

• Shorter drivers' hours; Allowing speeding prosecutions to be based on tachograph evidence; Halting the closure of the Cardiff...

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VI burglary

• A man who broke into the VI's Birmingham District Office at Garretts Green has been committed for trial at Birmingham Crown...

Ferry time unrecorded

• A Wrcastershire international haulier, his company and 16 drivers are contesting allegations that they breached the hours and...

Expansion plans put on hold until the New Year

• A company which wanted to double its fleet to pay for its new depot and improved maintenance facilities will have to wait...

Forwarder fraud case adjourned

• Four men cFlarged with conspiracy to defraud the creditors of two Norih-East freight forwarders have been remanded on...

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Argument led to car damage

• A haulier has been found guilty of damaging a car after an argument with its driver. Gregory Allport of Caunsall Road,...

Hanks waits for second bid

• A company's licence application was refused when the previ ous North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu advised it that...

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EVENTS

• 13-16 November: Minibus and Accessible Transport Exhibition, Conference and Seminars; Norbeck Castle Hotel, Blackpool....

SERVICES South coast rentals

• UK Vehicle Rental, part of Transport Development Group (TDG) has opened a new depot in Bournemouth offering refrigerated...

PUBLICATIONS Tailored safety

• WTS Health and Safety Consultancy has produced a Workshop Safety Procedures Manual. It provides analysis of health and...

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PRODUCTS

Closing in • Wilmslow-based vehicle tracking systems maker Eagle Eye has developed a new tracking device that uses satellite...

PEOPLE

Palletline • Douglas Manson has been appointed the new chief executive of pallet load distributor Palletline.. Contact: 0121...

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Cost is not the question

I was very pleased to see the article (CM 24-30 Oct) celebrating the excellent work done by Clive Tanner which led to two...

One rule for one...

I found it reassuring that the deputy chief executive of the Vehicle Inspectorate accepts the long-established tenet of...

Man's pay for a man's job

y ou probably won't print this as I expect Commercial Motor errs on the side of this Tory excuse for a Government. It is wrong...

Down but not out

T hank you for publishing 1 an article about the work of our trust and the funding crisis which we are struggling to overcome...

Excuses wearing thin

I t beggars belief that the Government can treat the recommendations of the Transport Select Committee with such contempt (CM...

Heavier is not more unsafe

I must respond to Tim Beasby's letter (CM I 24-30 Oct) in which he implies that the European Commission is against a 44tonne...

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bird's eye view by the hawk

ritish soldiers of 6 Battalion, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME), recently hosted a multi-national vehicle...

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NOT SO DUSTY

Seddon Atkinson is nose to nose with Dennis for pole position in the refuse collection sector. We put Seddon's Pacer through...

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E VEN KEEL

Active-roll suspension technology could allow a truck to corner like a sportscar—at a price. Handling can also be improved...

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Lorry drivers know that drinking and driving is wrong and

likely to cost them their job. But how many have a few beers at a truckstop the night before and are unwittingly over the limit...

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Recovery time

Dr John Mundy is an expert in blood/alcohol analysis at the Forensic Science Laboratory in London: "Calculations are always...

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Unhappy families

I n any haulage business blood is thicker than money, but if the balance between family and commercial issues tips the wrong...

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roub at

ow fuel stocks, Middle East ension and green demands room Europe have led to ramatic fuel rises. Duty is et to rise again in...

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T he pound is at its strongest for nearly two years,

and getting stronger by the day. In little more than two months, sterling has climbed more than 7% in value against the German...

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ECU Oft HOT CU.

Large operators say it may be year before they con move to ecus—or the euro as it will be after the single European currency is...

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'Industry has become ever more dependent on our roads'

4 en years ago Margaret Thatcher T opened the last stretch of the M25. The resultant steep rise in traffic density should...