Dot Plans 50mph Limit

by _Ian Wylie • Hauliers fear a 50mph rushhour speed limit, announced last week, could increase accidents and reduce traffic flow instead of improving it. Roads minister John......

Haulier Counts Cost Of Charity

• A Christmas mercy mission has left a Cambridge haulier £1,200 out of pocket after it helped a charity. CDS Transport proprietors Glynis and Vernon North were so shocked by the......

Smoky Diesels In E Midlands Blitz

• Smoky diesels in the East Midlands are to be targeted in a vehicle-spotting blitz on 1 February. Environmental protection officers based in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and......

Contracts

• Axial, formerly Silcock Express and Toleman,have retained only the southern half of a Volkswagen vehicle handling and delivery deal by VAG UK starting on 1 January. The......

• Hastings, East Sussex-based Owner-driver Barry Hodd...

limit will make motorway driving even more hazardous. "The slower you are forced to go, the smaller the gaps between vehicles becomes," he says. "Lorries will be clogging up the......