Waste Rules Crackdown

• Carriers of hazardous waste face a ban on mixing different loads in a Government crackdown which also puts the onus on hauliers to ensure that consignment notes are registered......

Rtitb Backs Pargeter

• Home-study courses on the transport of dangerous goods by road came under fire again this week. Last week they were attacked by Eddie Pargeter of EP Training Services as......

Major Calling

• 'I'he Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has called on Chancellor John Major to bring the UK's Vehicle Excise Duty rates into line with the rest of Europe.......

Chieftain Move

• Vanguard Engineering of London moved a 55-tonne Chieftain tank for the Army last week, when a five-axle trailer was needed instead of the Army's standard twoaxle type. The......

Parkinson Stands Firm

• Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson has rejected calls to speed up the bridge strengthening programme. "The Department considers that 15 years is a realistic timescale, given......

Ec Calls For Fuel Harmony

• In an effort to iron out national differences in fuel costs, the European Commission wants all EC states to adopt a harmonised range of excise duty charges by 1 January 1993.......

Trailer Winner

• United Rentals sales director Gerald Wavell (centre) presented a 12.2m, air-suspended trailer to Steetley depot managers Tony Starling (right) and Dennis Ellan (left) this......