BRIEFS The RHA s recent meeting of iivestock haulier s
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to discuss the industry's future was such a success that RHA national livestock chairman Eddie Harper plans two similar meetings in Scotland.
Pontefract driver Toni Askew, who killed four people last July after hitting a railway bridge and crashing into a minibus, has been jailed for fr and banned from driving for six.
More than 25% of transport companies expect to take on more staff over the next three months, according to Manpower's latest employment survey.
Cutting the drink-driving limit would make only a slight difference to road safety, according to a House of Lords select committee report.
Profits for Lex Service's HGVrelatedoperations, Multipart, Transfleet and Commercials, fell 17% to 212m "because of the weak truck market".
The Highways Agency says speed was a factor in 41 out of 69 injury accidents last year on the A40.
• Two Portuguese lorry drivers caught at Dover with more than five mill Tette, hidden behind their loads have been acquitted of duty evasion charges at Canterbury Crown Court.
PHH is to provide accident management for fleet of 1,500 CVs.
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