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Coronary Figures Affect Licences
HEART ATTACK statistics may be used by magistrates to help decide heavy goods vehicle licences following coronary attacks, a High Court judge ruled last week. Mr Justice Hodgson......
Two More Seminars
FOLLOWING the success of the first three Freight Transport Association/Institute of Road Transport Engineers transport engineering seminars held in 1983, the series will......
Load Safety Code Soon
The Department of Transport is expected to publish its revised code of practice on safety of loads in vehicles in the near future. The code will concentrate on load restraint......
Police Appeal
POLICE are looking for a Lockerbie Transport Ford D-Series box van stolen a month ago, and loaded with colour televisions and audio equipment worth £25,000. Dumfries and......
Duty Fraud
RETIRED haulage contractor Andrew Geddes of Aberdeen, was fined a total of £990 by Sheriff Muir Russell at Stonehaven on May 10. Mr Geddes admitted using an articulated lorry in......
Mod Contracts Go Private
PRIVATE hauliers and garages could benefit next year from the proposals contained in a Defence White Paper released last week. Defence secretary Michael Heseltine told the House......