Briefs

• Ulster-based Trevor Cathers has become the first UK haulier to settle a claim against the French authorities for November's truck blockade. One down, I ,l 07 to go... •......

Check Your Charts Or Face Conviction

by Michael Jewell • Operators who fail to check tachograph records can be convicted of permitting drivers' hours offences, the High Court has ruled. The judges decided that......

Overloading Could Cost Your Licence

• Hauliers heavily fined for offences such as overloading could lose their 0-licences under a European Commission proposal to make it harder to enter the haulage industry. The......