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Used Truck of the Day is a Iveco Eurocargo 75 refrigerated vehicle. The 4x2 rigid has a 14ft body with barn doors and one side access door. There’s also a one-tonne tuckaway tail lift. Registered on a 16-plate it has driven just 230,000km and is said to be in an excellent condition. You can see the full advert here. Licence curtailment after fitness “severely tarnished” 26 May 2021 Compliance An Essex operator has had two HGVs cut from its licence after the traffic commissioner expressed concerns at its lack of compliance regarding drivers’ hours management, defect reporting and maint...

27 May 2021 Product TIP Trailer Services has placed an order for 1,000 new SDC semi-trailers, continuing a 20-year relationship between the two companies. The order is for a wide range of trailers, including curtainsiders, box vans, skeletals, platforms and drawbar trailers, and will be delivered over the next six months. It consists of a mix of both TIP-specified builds for its rental, lease, and contract hire fleet, and customer-specified trailers. Many of the latter will be built to TIP’s UK and Irish customers’ own specifications, and finished in their dedicated liveries. Karl Davies,...

26 May 2021 Compliance A director who failed to disclose he had a conviction for conspiracy to supply cocaine and who then committed various driver offences and compliance failings, has been disqualified. Gary Ewen, who ran Eye-based Eagle Haulage, “blatantly undermined” trust in the licensing regime according to Eastern area traffic commissioner Richard Turfitt. Concerns about the haulier arose when one of its lorries was stopped twice and the driver was found to have been removing his card from the tachograph. The director himself was also found to have been driving without his driver�...