Arc Brings Down Rates

• Aggregates company ARC Southern is cutting its rates to drivers in Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset by 6% because of the recession. About 120 drivers are affected by the......

Haulage Failures Decreasing First

• Optimism over the economic prospects for the transport industry was boosted last week as it became clear that the level of business failures in the sector is falling ahead of......

Tanks For The Rise

• Seventy tanker drivers are among 124 warehouse distribution workers at Courage's John Smith's Tadcaster and Newark depots who have accepted a pay rise "in line with inflation"......

Drivers' Job Fear In Post Office Layoffs

• Drivers' jobs could be axed as part of the Post Office's decision to shed more than 16,000 jobs over the next five years in the run-up to its likely privatisation. trunking......

Flour Power • Ranks Hovis Mcdougall Has Appointed...

the next four years to distribute its flour out of Manchester, Selby and Hull. The NFC subsidiary has taken 25 drivers and about 20 trucks from RHM, which decided to contract to......