Btac Backing For Lost Wheel Study

• The industry is putting solid support behind Commercial Motor's Wheel Loss Campaign, with cheques arriving daily at the CM offices. The Brewery Transport Advisory Committee......

Truck Stop Hopes Dashed

• The campaign to persuade the Government to use tax payers' money to improve lorry park and rest facilities on trunk roads has been stalled by ministers. Transport Secretary......

Weighting Dropped In London Pay Deal

• Transport and General Workers Union leaders in the London area have dropped calls for London weighting in annual pay agreements, and have settled on an £11 a week rise for HGV......

Transit Shutdown

• Production of the Ford Transit at Southampton has been halted by industrial action in support of a wage claim. Ford says it halted production at the plant and laid off 2,000......

Failures Rise

• More than 10,000 trucks were found to be running overloaded in 1988/89, says the latest Licensing Authorities' annual report. This figure, up a startling 60% on 1987/88,......

Export Ban Hits Cattle Carriers

• Redundancies among British livestock hauliers are feared following an EC ban on the export to the Continent of live cattle over six months old. The regulations, due to be......

Wilcox Bought • A Management Team Has Bought Trailer...

Wilcox Engineering Group for £10 million. Former Blue Circle director Malcolm Llewellyn and James Ross led the successful buy-in team.......

French Blockage • French Drivers Are Blocking Some Border...

in protest over delays by the French government in reviewing sub-contracting laws. The trade union Unostra is behind the action, which began last Sunday. It is not supported by......

German Deals • Cave Wood Transport Has Signed...

with three operators in Central Germany: Emons Spedition near Frankfurt, Intertrans in Ludwigshafen, and FJ Meyer in Koblens.......