Can Drivers Cope With New Docks Hours?

• Concern that road hauliers may not be able to cope with the longer working hours at London docks, presaged by the probable implementation of Devlin Plan Stage II next month,......

Brsl Joins South Western Co-op Unit

• The South-western division of British Road Services Ltd has become a shareholder and a member of South Western Traffic Ltd, the co-operative unit formed in 1958 by 25 hauliers......

'good Workman' Fails

• A haulage contractor who tried to start up business on his own failed because of his lack of business sense, it was said last week. At his public examination in bankruptcy in......

Trade Plate Amendments

continued from page 12 definition of a recovery vehicle (now embodied in the 1970 Finance Act) which is based on "construction" is completely artificial. It does not, says the......

Northern Hauliers Lose Their Wool

• Hauliers in the North of England are feeling the effects of containerization of Australian-UK traffic. The ports of Liverpool and Hull have lost 90 per cent of the Bradford......