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Coliseum Repeats Success
• Coliseum Coaches won the Coach of the Year award at last weekend's Sealink British Coach Rally at Southampton with its Setra S215HD to notch up an impressive double after its......
Driver Faces Crash Barrier Repair Bill
• A lorry driver who crashed into a motorway central reservation is facing a High Court action to make him pay for repairs to the crash barrier. The Department of Transport is......
German Boycott
• Dutch opposition to the German truck tax, due to come into force in July, has spread to include a boycott of Germanmade vehicles. Operators feel that there has been......
Poor Trading
• More than 13% of international hauliers are now trading at a loss, according to the latest ICC Financial survey. But 76% of 325 international firms surveyed • say their......
Biggest Order
• Loughborough-based tachograph analyst Synergy Transport Services has won its biggest order to date, worth over £70,000 a year, from Tankfreight. STS will check 260,000 charts......
Bredbury Dealer
• Volvo truck distributor Manchester Truck & Bus has spent 22m on a new dealership in Bredbury, near Stockport. This is the 15th new site to join the Volvo network in the past......
M20 Traffic Rise
• Transport minister Michael Portillo predicts that the Channel Tunnel will boost M20 traffic by 6,000 vehicles a day by the year 2008. "We are confident that this level can be......
Judicial Training
• A call for more special training of magistrates is made in the preface of the latest edition of Stone's Justices' Manual, a volume used by magistrates throughout Britain. "The......