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7th October 1993
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Owner-driver leaves Tarmac with a truck

by Juliet Parish • An owner-driver who won a battle to keep his truck after quitting Tarmac believes he has found a loophole...

ANC trio expected to bid

• Three key directors have resigned from ANC amid speculation that they make up one of at least two groups interested in buying...

DOT plans fo Ifetime 0-licences

by Amanda Bradbury by Nicky Clarke • Law-abiding operators are to be spared the burden of applying for an 0-licence every five...

Toll boost for roads

• Cash raised by motorway charging may be spent on the roads, but there is no question of this principle—known as...

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Most T&L directors Dairy Products Transport

recruited from Exel slashes depot network • :\ n Exel-dominated bi)iird of directors is to run NFO's newly merged BRS-Exel...

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Met targets top thieves

by Amanda Bradbury • A single gang of truck thieves is responsible for most of the truck thefts in London, Essex and Kent. The...

Stormont for sale • Receivers KPMG put Stormont Vehicle Hire

up for sale this week. The Kentbased company has a £10m turnover and around 2,200 trucks, municipals and cars in the rental and...

Red rover • Red Star Parcels director David Burton has

left the firm to rejoin Network South East in the run-up to privatisation. Production director Richard Eccles takes his place.

Toll time • Truck tolls on the Cleddau Bridge in

Pembrokeshire have risen to £1.50. Extra cash is needed to pay for strengthening work for 44 tamers.

Debt dismissed • Newbury-based Silverlink Transport held a creditors meeting this week after the courier company went into liquidation.

Hunmanby heave-ho • Trucks could be banned on a busy route between North Yorkshire and Humberside. Plans are being considered...

Super six • Six door-to-door services a day between Britain

and France are being offered by Transmanche Intermoclal Logistics. The firm has been set up by CNC, Challenge International and...

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Truck makers going to blazes

by Bryan Jarvis • The row over firemen's pay and whether there are enough Green Goddesses to cover brigade commitments...

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Electronic overhead cat

EXCLUSIVE by Steve Sturgess • As predicted by Commercial Motor, Caterpillar has launched its all-electronic overhead...

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Leigh drivers win 1.5% after freeze

• Sixteen Leigh Environmental drivers have won a 1.5% pay rise following a four-month fight against a wage freeze at the...

Rental demand rises in Tyneside

• Tyneside truck rental specialist Barlow has spent more than £2 million on new vehicles for general haulage work as the area's...

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Kingswood expands to deal with demand

• Southampton haulier Kingswood Transport plans to recruit up to 40 employed and dedicated sub-contractor drivers for work...

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£3,250 awarded after sacking

II A driver given no warning that he was to be made redundant because of his health has been awarded £3,250 cornpensanon for...

'There were plans to screen the area with trees'

with drivers watching television and cooking meals. They also complained about some of the 'unhygienic habits' of a number of...

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Philipsons suspended

• A failure by Haltwistle hauliers Richard and Janice Philipson to attend a Leeds disciplinary inquiry was described as "a...

Fined for livestock neglect

• An animal haulage driver from Oxon has been fined a total of £300 with £269 costs following a mutine check of livestock...

Licence granted

• Staffordshire haulier Peter Hailstones has been granted a new two-vehicle licence despite environmental representations from...

New company

• At an Eastbourne public inquiry, Hancock Packaging of Balham succeeded in its bid for a new five-year licence. Managing...

lime allowed

• Disciplinary proceedings involving Ronald Latcham of Tonypandy (CM16-22 Sept) have again been adjourned because he is...

No jurisdiction

• A Leeds industrial tribunal decided it has no jurisdiction to consider a claim by driver George Lee that Linkman Tankers had...

Big increase

• PLC Haulage of Leyland has won an increase in licence authorisation, from three vehicles and six trailers to eight vehicles...

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SAVINGS AT A PRICE

There it is — a buff-coloured window envelope. Joe smells trouble. Inside is a letter from the local Traffic Commissioner:...

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M-B revises Ti vans

• iercedes-Benz has rejigged irs T1 van range, introducing variants at new weights and wheelbases and discontinuing most of the...

CM reveals the latest Ducat°

by Toby Clark • Commercial Motor has the first pictures of Fiat's new Ducat°, to be launched at the Turin Motor Show next...

Initial buys 64 Dais

• Initial Textile Services is to buy 64 Leyland Daf 400-based route delivery vans. Fitted with bodies by Cartwrights of...

VW cuts price of Golf Vans

• Volkswagen has changed the specification and reduced the price of its Golf Van. The 1994 model is powered by a naturally...

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Daf time travelling with FCV

by Danny Coughlan • In 1989, Europe's truck industry rode upon a rising tide of sales and profit. Economic growth was strong,...

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i 0 copy of Pulling Pints, a history of brewery transport by

former Whitbread transport manager, Robert Coates, goes to three readers who knew that CAMRA is the organisation which fights...

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While international reefer law is bogged down in red tape, retailers like Tesco set the toughest of standards H armonisation...

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I plan to convert a Saxon armoured personnel carrier to

a camper van. It weighs about eight tonnes unladen. I intend to remove six of its 10 seats and replace them with two beds. What...

I hold both HGV and PSV licences. When I renewed

my HGV licence I received one of the new type licences. In the minibus section it was marked 'category 1 restriction'. This...

Correct tax rate

I operate a 38-tonne two-axle tractor with a tri-axle trailer and the road tax I pay is .E3,100 a year. I was stopped in a...

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L aunching a new truck is a bit like bungee jumping:

it's an interesting experience but it has its risks. How much of a risk depends on the manufacturer. Sometimes they hide a new...

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L ike the redundant steel men thrown on to the job

market, Cardiff Transport has struggled to find work north of the border since the giant Ravenscraig steel mill shut in...

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MARKET REVIEW

STEEL INDUSTRY down rates." He says a trip from Stirling to Cardiff carrying Caberboard, for instance, paid only £305; a...

H auliers who t depend on steel industry face a simple choice: diversify or die.

That stark warning from Gary Dawson, commercial manager of Middlesbrough based AV Dawson, is based on experience. Dawsons moved...

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Curing the killer

I t has been called the British disease. Not football hooliganism, but the late payment of debt. In the UK, the average delay...

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Fair deal gets fair response

W ell done for standing up for drivers' unions (CM 23-29 Sept). What some employers don't seem to realise is that if drivers...

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i L ir f F JJ N ew "mini-tests" for goods vehicles are

to be introduced by the Vehicle Inspectorate. These abbreviated vehicle checks, known as "Partial Clearance" tests, should...

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1.11.1 1 Th t.t.) fuli iJiJliJWi U f:_;111UM 111'd

pcUillbinU1.1 NEIL CUMMING: VI, BRISTOL The Vehicle Inspectorate booklet which sets out the categorisation of defects and...

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-----Any defendant is entitled

to see physical evidence' c are I suppose—and I speak as a motorist — uneasily aware of the increasing range of electronic...