Cit Plans To Boost Rail Freight By Cuts

• by Karen Mies Proposals to slash the cost of rail freight while cracking down on cowboy hauliers are being considered by the Commission For Integrated Transport (CIT). Last......

Alternative In The Cotswolds

II Residents in a Cotswold village are winning their battle to have trucks diverted away from their homes. A total of 203 villagers from Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire,......

Call Minder Steps In For Owner-driver

• A new national call-minding service for small businesses is targeting hauliers as potential clients after signing up Leedsbased owner-driver Don Robson. Farwood Lodge says its......

110,000 Duty Bill

• Durham truck driver Allan kirtley has been given a four-month jail sentence for the attempted evasion of nearly £10,000 excise duty and VAT on some 80,000 cigarettes. Kirtley,......