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DARKEST cloud hanging the Howell 38-tonner is a sport and General Workers In threat to black them once appear in haulage yards. iWU national commercial lp officer Gary Oram coned that union policy is still net a weights increase, and aid the union would advise nembers not to co-operate employers who intend to 18-tonners into service.
s told CM: "I believe that t of the country is opposed aavier lorries, apart from one ito lorry operators." r Oram explained that the n is bound by a biennial gates' conference decision n last year to oppose a ihts increase, and that this d not be changed until iches bring forward resolu
proposing a change. In tion, he added, there is no ,ed wage rate for heavier cies.
Road Haulage Association kesman condemned the for being "motivated by 1-sighted self interest" and that heavier lorries would Britain's economy to resr and create more jobs.
a added that wage rates for tier lorries were a matter for re negotiations.