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Fly-tipping Crackdown
• The Government has announced tough new regulations to stamp out fly-tipping. From May operators who carry waste will be obliged to apply to their local authorities for special......
New Boost For Cm Wheel Loss Fund
• Waste haulier Hales of Hertfordshire has boosted Commercial Motor's wheel loss research campaign by £250 this week, taking the total raised by the industry so far to over......
Controversial Plot
• British Rail's choice of Wakefield as the site for its West Yorkshire rail freight terminal has contradicted plans which last year identified Stourton in Leeds as the main......
Exel Exchange • Exel Logistics Has Set Up An Exchange
scheme to help Russia alleviate its food distribution crisis. UK distribution managers from major UK supermarket chains will work with Russian companies and managers from the......
Arctic Quiz • The Fta Is Surveying Its Members To
see how they coped with the recent severe weather. The association is concerned that, although the bad weather was forecast, HGVs and PSVs were stranded on motorways and trunk......
Rha Slams Somerset Proposals
• Somerset County Council's national campaign to restrict trucks over 17 tonnes to motorways (CM 13-19 December) is "a ragbag of halfthought-out ideas", says the Road Haulage......