Milk Blockades Escalating

PROTEST GROUP Farmers For Action is stepping up depot blockades in an attempt to get dairy companies to pay more for milk; Shropshire haulier Pentons has become one of the......

Loophole Is "rubbish"

TRADE ASSOCIATIONS and lawyers have hit back at claims that a legal loophole allows nonmobile transport workers to side-step the 48-hour week (CM 4 Sept). Non-mobile workers in......

Stop Press ■

REPORTS FROM Germany indicate that the proposed introduction of the controversial LKW-Maut motorway truck tolling system could he put back past its previous 2 November deadline.......

Reward Offered

Dixons Group is offering a £25,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the killers of a Currys delivery driver. Ian Jones died when he was run over by thieves as......

Stopping Power

Northumbria police has become the first police force in the UK to give Vehicle and Operators Service Agency (VOSA) officers' powers to stop trucks and cars for spotchecks.......

Contact Truckpol

TruckPol. the Metropolitan Police's new intelligence unit dedicated to truck crime, can be reached on: 0207 230 7775.......

Project Pulsar

Safeway and Wincanlon are launching a E6m software system this week in a bid to eliminate empty running. The Integrated Transport System (ITS) — which has been in development......

"cartel" Raids

European Commission officials launched dawn raids on crosschannel berry company P8r0 and tunnel operator Eurotunnel last week, amid concerns that operators have been involved in......