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Private Escorts
• The move to contract out escorting of wide loads to private companies would not be scuppered by the need to change the Road Traffic Act to give operators powers to direct......
M6 Relief Fee
• Hauliers can expect to pay at least £3.30 when Britain's first toll road around the north-east of Birmingham is opened in 1998 to relieve congestion on the M6. Plans detailing......
Not Guilty
• George Devlin of Shepherds Bush was found not guilty of carrying an insecure load but was fined £80 for defective brakes prior to a compensation award of £800 after claims......
Money Lost
• The 55 hauliers owed around £95,000 by defunct bulk diesel supplier, Fuel Management Supplies, will be told at a creditors meeting today, Thursday 17 June, how much of their......
Hgv Prisoners
• The proposal to use convicted prisoners with HGV licences to make deliveries between prisons has been condemned by prison governors and the Prison Officers Association as......
Stobart Drivers Fined
• Twenty-eight drivers employed by Carlisle haulier Eddie Stobart are to pay nearly £12,000 fines and costs for falsifying tacho• graph records. Following a two-year......
• "ile Leyland Trucks Name Is Back On The British
haulage scene after an absence of six years following the takeover of the Leyland Daf manufacturing operation in Lancashire. The buyout, led by former Leyland Daf joint md John......
To Draw Up Code
III Pressure group Transport 2000 is planning a meeting for the autumn at which it will formulate green codes of practice for hauliers and freight users (CM1117 Feb). Director......