Tgwu To Fighl Or Drivers Duty Time

• Drivers hours and restperiod rules could become a thing of the past if Britain's transport unions win EC backing for the introduction of duty time. At its conference last week......

Quality Code For Wreckers

• The RAC has teamed up with the British Standards Institution in what it calls "a bid to raise the standards of recovery firms". A code of practice has been drawn up as part of......

Rha Is Blocked On Rates

• The Road Haulage Association will not be able to publish benchmark rates for its members. Director-general Bryan Colley (right) has just met the Office of Fair Trading, and......

Free Ban Maps Are To Stay

• Hauliers will not after all be charged for lorry ban maps issued by the London Boroughs Transport Committee (CM 11-17 July). "We will continue to give out free maps as a......

No Cover-up • Due To A Printing Error Our July/august

issue of Workshop (No 58) is missing its cover lines. Rest assured; all the latest news for service managers and fitters is definitely inside, alongside a Workshop Ways on the......

Tree Talks • The Rha's South Eastern Office Is Meeting

with several councils over the problem of overgrown trees which can be hazardous to bus and truck operators.......

Early Start • Onyx Uk Has Started To Clear Liverpool's

backlog of rubbish more than two weeks before it officially takes over the city's refuse collection contract.......

Auction Profit • Despite A Drop In Commercial Vehicle Sales,

Central Motor Auctions has turned in a pre-tax profit of £861,000 for the six months to 30 April.......

Concrete Move • The National Owner Drivers Association...

dispute between one of its member drivers and concrete supplier Tilcon has been resolved. According to NODA, Tilcon had tried to charge one of its drivers for delivering poor......

Five Down • Eezee Euro Has Closed Its Dundee Depot.

This is the fifth closure among the nine depots it took over when clearing house Transworld collapsed.......

Social Attack • The Ec Social Charter Protecting Workers...

across the Community has been attacked by FTA director-general Garry Turvey as "unacceptable".......