Wages Council Halves Unions Claim

• The road transport trade unions' application for a general increase of £3.20 a week was rejected by the Road Haulage Wages Council last week. The Council intends, writes John......

Crime Squad Wraps Up Hijack Racket

• A special team of "Softly, Softly" detectives on Monday closed their files on one of Britain's largest-ever hijack gangs. The racket was run on a nationwide scale by......

Abc Guide New Edition

• The January-June 1972 edition of the ABC Goods Transport Guide has just been published, listing town by town the haulage services available. The book is obtainable by post,......

Freight Rates

• Freight Information Services' next survey. Movement of Freight Rates, to be published in January. will report on rates over the last six months of 1971 and will include a......

Voucher For Erskine

• From January 3 1972. commercial vehicle drivers using Erskine Bridge will be able to pay their tolls, at present 50p each, by vouchers. Books of 40 vouchers. available from......

Eec Seminars For Transport Managers

• The FTA is to run a series of seminars specially designed to prepare transport and distribution managers for the likely changes which will affect them when Britain joins the......

'season' Tolls For Mersey Tunnel?

• A case for concessionary tolls for intensive users of the Merseyside Tunnel will be presented to the Joint Committee in January by the Transport Committee of the Merseyside......

New Tilbury Zeebrugge Container Service

• The PLA and Comar Container Line have completed an agreement for a new container service between Tilbury and Zeebrugge to begin in January 1972. The service will operate .from......