Hauliers Fac Irban Road Charges

/ By the year 2000 hauliers will be charged for every mile their trucks cover in towns. Road pricing will be introduced in cities throughout the UK as part of a package designed......

Doubt Over Ec S Eed Limits

• The European Commission looks set to abandon its plan to impose EC truck maximum speed limits. EC Commission officials have drafted a proposal for a general 80km/h limit for......

Road Loses Out To Rail In Limestone Contract

• Environmental uproar and a price cutting exercise by British Rail has removed any chance of hauliers being able to bid to move 350,000 tonnes of limestone a year in North......

Vi Campaign • Unions Representing Workers At The Vehicle...

are expected to campaign for the retention of the VI in its present form. They believe that any move to allow the private sector to carry out annual CV tests would hit......

Key Dismissal • A Birmingham Tribunal Has Ruled That Two

White Arrow Express drivers, whose vans were stolen after they left their keys in them, were fairly dismissed.......

Roads Money • In Its Submission For The Chancellor's Autumn

Statement The Freight Transport Association has recommended government investment in the roads programme, which it says would help revitalise the construction industry.......

Repair Con Mi A Fleet Manager Who Arranged To Have

other people's vehicles repaired at the cost of his employer has been jailed for 12 months. Steven David Benson of Bradford, a former employee of Redhead Freight, pleaded guilty......

Erf Expansion • The First Continental Erf Dealer Is Due

to open in Spain next month; it will be followed by sites in France and Portugal. They will be supplied with ERF parts and trucks directly from the factory.......

Smoke Cost • The Dot Says The Cost Of Annual

LGV tests should rise by £1.68 to cover the new smoke emission test — but the FTA dismisses this figure as being "grossly exaggerated".......