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Wincanton Transport Ltd 70s. 80s, 90s The Changing Years Publisher Gerald Box Author Gerald Eox Contact 01963 32865 Available Dired from author ISBN 978-0-948699-80-9 Price 13.29 rc P amp P This is the second in what the author Gerald Box promises will be a trilogy of the infamous West Country transport operator Wincanton. This book, as the title suggests, covers the company over three decades - the 1970s. '80s and '90s, which might be seen as its greatest years. Wricanluii liad a lucialive...
Wynnstay Group August 2010 No 315
RENAULT PREMIUM LANDER 410.32 vs MAN TGS 32.400 few years have passed since we last visited Llansantfraid-ym-Mechan to look at a pair of trucks from the Wynnstay fleet. The company has a wide range of activities in the agricultural and rural sector, with many of its fleet devoted to delivering animal feed from its own mils to customers over a wide area. Narrow country roads and difficult farm accesses are all part of the job, and despite an increasing tise of steer-axle artics, the 8x4 rigid is...
Rhodes Control
The late Arthur Rhodes founded the family haulage firm back in 1965 and the present group of companies, which comprises A Rhodes Haulage Ltd White Rose Transport Ltd and Grange Cabins LLP, are all headed by MD and son of Arthur, John Rhodes. John's son Martin heads White Rose Transport operations, while his brother, Paul, who only joined the family concern 14 months ago, works alongside transport director, Jon Prankitt. Using bigger and heavier vehicle-mounted cranes has been an important part...
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Tacho Tampering
A truck driver found to be li falsifying his digital tachograph reoDrdings by using a high-powered magnet has been sentenced to two months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months and ordered to undertake 200 hours of community service. Patrick Rees, of Carmartnen, pleaded guilty to fraud by presenting a false record to police when he appeared before Swansea magistrates. He vas ordered to pay 85 prosecution costs. The court was told that Rees' articulated
Renault Kerax 41032 Highway Premium 42032
ack to 8x4 tippers again when we visited Mid . Beeby, a long-established Leicestersliire-based tipper operator, to compare a latest-generation Kerax 8x4 powered by the 410 bhp version of the 10.8-litre DXi engine with an older version. This revised version of Renault's well-established heavy-duty eight-wheeler is something of a rare choice for aggregate work. Most operators would probably go for the new, lighter Premium Lander. But this operator was looking for a tough vehicle that would give...
Changing Times
' Forklift trucks themselves have changed out of all mmrecognition from the early machines. Now they SfaateaHBBS w i come in all shapes, sizes and capacrties from faygy TtLJfrBSgfip1 l straightforward counterbalance trucks powered by LfcjJif - 3 diesel, electric or gas. to specialist ult'a high-reach flrlCf machines used in automated warehouses and the L-A ' HKst. ultra heavywe'9ht container material handlers that GSh IlB - can Irft in excess of 50 tonnes. Gomewhat ironically forklift trucks...
Ems
The Long Haul Pioneers Ashley CoghH In this bock Ashley Coghill celeorates Astran arid its drivers. He has interviawed many of the people involved, incljcSnq one ol the company's founders. There are m ni-biographes of Astrar's drivers arri sub-contracto-s. An abundance of tine photographs continues throjgh Ashley s descriptions of the earty, middle and later years of Astran, Hardback bock. 320 pages, inc. 345 ptatos. 29.95 CP Productions A collection of five archive fims feat jring tho men and...
Photography Hardstaff
Hardstaff. It sounds like a good name for a transport company, implying such qualities as dependability, solidity and commitment. And while East Midlands-based Hardstaff undoubtedly embodies such virtues, there is a lot more to tliis innovative enterprise than simply moving freight. The company's beginnings are conventional enough, delivering wares to wNottingham markets and shifting agricultural produce. When the gypsum mines opened at the end of the 19th century, Hardstaffs horse-drawn cans...
The Flying Dutchman
Ferry crossings to the UK are an all-to-real feature of Sebastiaan Klerks' trucking life German, French and Italian, but my English is best ' Living in Nootdorp with his girlfriend, Sebastiaan drives for Mera Trans a fresh fruit, vegetable and flower transport specialist based in Waddinxveen, which, like his hone town, is situated on the outskirts of Rotterdam. The UK has become a regular destination for Sebastiaan since he decided to become a truck driver diree years ago. I was previously a...
Daf Lf55250 Volvo Fl240
e stuck with tippers again for our next Trial a well-matched Volvo FL 18-tonner and a DAF LF from the extensive fleet of the Day Group. This large company has a wide range of activities including the supply and transport of aggregate, sand and odier materials from locations throughout the South Fast. The company operates 20 18-toiwe tippers which are used to access the scores of delivery points that cairnot accept larger vehicles. The niicks have to carry a clear 11 -tonne payload and are...
Hx77
This HX77 is distinctly different from UK-spec vehicles. It sits on bigger 1600R 20 tyres UK SVs are MOOR 20 which have a central tyre inflation system CTIS , and the UK-standard 12-speed MAN TipMatic gearbox is replaced by a ZF Powershift fully automatic gearbox. The German Bundeswehr is rather slowly renewing its tank transporter fleet, and around four years ago and following the elimination of Iveco and Mercedes-Benz, MAN was selected to supply the new tractor unit. TWo HX81 8x8 tractor...
Photography Richard Simpson 1
o e trucks than ever before are passing their annual Ministry tests first-time, according to figures from VOSA. The 2009 10 Effectiveness report from the Vehicle amp Operator Service Agency indicates that while the British haulage industry is running fewer and olcer vehicles, they are being presented for testing in better condition than ever before, since figures were first published in 1992. VOSA figures show the nurrber of vehicles presen.ed for annual test fell by 4.2 per cent compared to...
Making Progress
The Low Carbon Vehicle conference has come on in leaps and bounds in just a matter of a few years measure of how quickly technology is developing, as this year's LCV conference was a very different animal from the original edition in 2008. Back then the distinctly eco-emphasis was on batteries and electric power, but within two years progress with various types of hybrid trucks means even heavy goods fleet managers are starting to take notice. The gathering is organised by Cenex, the government...