Budget Bluesp Details Of Gordon Brown's Budget Statement...

from 18:00hrs on 7 March on the roadtransport.net web site. Sponsored by MAN, the coverage will highlight any road transport-related announcements and their implications for......

Yellow Obon The Federation Of Small Businesses Wants Road...

to tie yellow ribbons round their vehicles aerials to show support for lower fuel taxes.......

Immigrant Trial A Dutch Truck Driver Has Gone On Trial

charged with the manslaughter of 58 Chinese people found dead in the back of a reefer in Dover last year. Perry Wacker of Rotterdam denies manslaughter and attempting to smuggle......

Skills Certificate

A certificate-level qualification has been launched by the Institute of Logistics and Transport in a bid to beat the industry skills shortage. Contact: www.iolt.org.uk.......

Fuel Convoy

About 120 Welsh truckers took part in a go-slow protest from Cross Hands to Swansea on 24 February to renew their campaign for lower fuel taxes.......

Penalty Munn

A Government taskforce is demanding stricter penalties on companies who fail to ensure safety after recent figures showed that up to 33% of road accidents involve employees......

Few Point

A driver registered on the former First Point Truck Drivers' Programme wants to heap from others who were among the first batch of green card applications. Contact Robin Clewes......

Drivers Forced To Quit Over

minimum wage complaints by Charles Young Drivers for a wealthy Scottish haulier were forced to quit after they complained about being paid less than £3 an hour for working......

Macaskill's Denial

• In a statement from his lawyers Colin Macaskill, who currently runs about 25 trucks, admits his company was investigated by National Minimum Wage Investigators in June 2000.......

Contracts And Wage Slips

• When the former drivers started work with Macaskill there were no formal contracts—they were simply told that their hours were "as and when required" and there was a flat rate......