Government's Showcase Haulier In Financial Crisis

• by Sally Nash Brian Yeardley Continental, the haulier held up by the Government as evidence that UK operators have low costs compared with Continental firms, is in dire......

Bolton Jobs Go

a More than 30 drivers have been made redundant as a result of NWF Group's decision to close Wigan-based RN Bolton. NWF. which also owns Boughey Distribution. bought family......

Greens Want Higher Haulage Tax

iv Hauliers are up in arms over suggestions by a Scottish pressure group that they should pay more tax, not less. Transform Scotland claims hauliers are not paying the full cost......

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The House of Commons' Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has accepted that different fuel prices north and south of the border have "become a means of funding for paramilitaries......

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Fresh Service, based in Dartford and Tilbury, has no connection with Fresh Service (Scotland) which was featured in last week's issue.......

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Aegon NV has acquired Transamerica Corporation, but the Transamerica brand and logo will stay in use.......

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Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has bought a "significant" shareholding in Kensington Freight Services as part of an expansion plan for Hellmann Perishable Logistics (HPL).......

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Three farm workers suffered breathing difficulties and firemen used protective suits and breathing apparatus after 1,000 litres of an industrial chemical leaked from a tanker on......

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A Yorkshire truck driver was trapped in his parked cab for 14 hours after his back seized up. Brian Gainsford from Rotherham finally managed to make a call for help on his......