Merger Tacho Fears

VEEDER-ROOT'S General Manager Alec Dawson is protesting to the Department of Transport about the "near-monopoly" which he claims will result from the merger of the tachograph......

Not Us: Daf

A SUNDAY newspaper report that Oaf Trucks is buying shares in ERF has been hotly denied by Daf, but ERF admits that "someone" is buying its shares. Responding to a report in......

Mersey Deal

FOUR Merseyside haulage cor panies have agreed a cm.; basic wage rate for drivers of tonne lorries. Transport and Gener Workers' Union officer Bc Robinson confirmed on Month......

Training Levy Kept Level

A TRAINING levy of 0.8 per cent — the same as last year — is being proposed by the Road Transport Industry Training Board for 1983/84. The proposals were agreed late last month,......

Albert Booth Loses Seat

THE GENERAL ELECTION has taken its toll of some of the bett known transport-minded MPs, but most have returned for the ne Parliament. The Labour Party must appoint a new......