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'blacking' Lifted In Manchester
container stuffing dispute by Anthony O'Toole Aliens' agreement with URTU acceptable to TGWU • An 11th-hour settlement of a container stuffing dispute in Manchester on Wednesday......
Transport Tribunal Reduces Meachers Penalty
• An appeal by Meachers Transport Ltd against the decision of the South Eastern LA to curtail the company's licence from 66 to 47 vehicles (CM July 27) has been allowed in part......
New Hgv Exemptions Next Week
• From Monday (August 13) drivers of under-3-ton-ulw recovery vehicles "fitted with apparatus designed for raising a disabled vehicle partly from the ground and for drawing a......
Tanker Danger
• Bulk tankers carrying corrosive or dangerous substances were involved in 14 serious accidents reported to the Inspectors of Explosives in 1972. The worst involved oleum (a......
Women Truck Drivers
• The Road Haulage Association is to encourage women to become heavy goods drivers in a move to alleviate the acute labour shortage. Both RHA and FTA members are in need for......
Tozer And Mazda
• Tozer Kemsley and Millbourn (Holdings), one of whose subsidiaries is to import MAN vehicles, has taken a 30 per cent interest in Mazda Car Imports (GB) Ltd, whose imports......
Costs Up
• Operating costs of Britain's major road hauliers have risen by over 50 per cent in the past five years, says Midland British Road Services managing director, Mr Kenneth Cook.......