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union recognition • Tarmac Quarry Products won a High Court injunction last Friday to stop members of the National Hauliers Association striking for higher rates at its......
Jwq Leaves Debts Of More Than £6m
• Reading-based JWQ Transport & Storage has gone into liquidation with debts of more than £'6m, after nearly 30 years in operation. About 50 staff have been made redundant, and......
Tax Men Chase Charts
• Hauliers could be made to keep tachograph records for up to six years for tax purposes despite the fact that the Department of Transport only requires charts to be held for a......
R Permits Please
• Hauliers with surplus Yugoslavian transit and terminating permits are asked to return them to the International Road Freight Office in Newcastle which has exhausted its quota......
Hold-alps
• The Italian-Austrian border was closed to HMIs from midnight Tuesday on orders from the Italian government. Italy's Customs men are working to rule, and are only on duty from......
Driver Praised
• The heroism of United Carriers' driver Terence Doling should win him an award, says Godalming police, who are publicising details of how he rescued Sarah Rand from a burning......
Party Lines
• Increasing numbers of Labour and Tory activists are becoming sympathetic to road transport, says Garry Turvey of the Freight Transport Association, whose body held fringe......
Death Charge
• Panic Link managing director Eric Norman has appeared this week before Coalville Magistrates Court, charged with causing death by reckless driving. Norman, who was also......