More Firms Go On Short-time Work

AS THE RECESSION worsens, more manufacturers are laying off employees — some are resorting to redundancies while others are concentrating on short-time working weeks. Crane......

Hush-hush Complex

THE FIRST STAGE of a El 5m Garonor road/rail freight complex is being built on a 40-acre site on the M1 south of Leeds. But precise details of the project are still shrouded in......

Road Test Preview

THE Cummins turbocharged 14-litre engine, the NT240 or 250 Turbo, as Cummins prefers it to be called, first became available just over a year ago. Since then CM has tested the......

A Lower Traffic Forecast

THE GOVERNMENT has revised its lorry traffic forecasts for the rest of the century, and lorry traffic could decline. According to the Department of Transport, previous forecasts......

Sounding Us Out...

THE Freight Transport Association supports the Government's proposals to reduce the noise levels of heavy goods vehicles although the Association says that such reductions......