Tacho Fees Rise

/ Proposals from the Department of Transport to raise the tachograph calibration fee by 7% have come in for a mixed reception from the industry's two trade associations. From......

Transport Workers Slam Fleet Sale

/ Britain's largest refrigerated vehicle fleet, operated by Birds Eye Walls, is to be sold to an independent distribution company. Birds Eye management has decided that savings......

Tdg's `excellent' First-half Results

• A 37% increase in profits by the Transport Development Group in the first six months of 1986 reflects favourable conditions in the road transport market, says company chairman......

In Brief

BET profits down • BET's worldwide transport operations increased their profits on paper by 37% for 1985/86 compared to the previous year although currency movements reduced......

Truck Stop Row

The Department of the Environment is being called in to settle a row between two councils over a transport site development. The dispute — between Northumberland county council......