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Foreigners Fined / A Total Of 40 Vehicles, Out Of
103 checked, have been issued with prohibitions in a combined police, DOT and Customs check on foreign vehicles in Staffordshire. Nineteen drivers were fined a total of £6,455.......
Truck Hero / Truck Driver Alastair Insch From St Helens,
who used his LGV to stop a runaway car on the M53, has been presented with a bravery award by Merseyside police. The car's driver had suffered a heart attack.......
Tax Rap • Kent Councillors Are Split Over Plans To
slap a £.3 charge on trucks heading for the Continent. Council chairman Brenda Trench has slammed the proposal as "outlandish", and says: "I do not think there is any chance of......
Driver Jailed / Truck Driver Vincent Parsons, Who...
a line of traffic on the M42, killing six people, has been jailed for three years. He was described in court as a "menace".......
Swede Fa • Scania Is To Stop Selling Premium Weight
(Class 8) trucks in the United States at the end of the year, blaming lack of profitablility in a market where it has sold only 50 trucks since 1988.......
Rieger Resigns / Tip Rental Division Managing Director...
resigned this week in a deal described as "amicable". Rieger, 45, is the last of the three managers who led a management buyout of the company in 1986 to leave the trailer......
French Renew Truck Blitz
• A British truck was attacked by farmers in the South of France on Sunday while local police stood by and watched. A mob of 200 farmers hijacked owner-driver Thomas Scott's......
Better Deal On Weights
/ The Department of Transport has relaxed the conditions under which "road-friendly" six and eight-wheelers may run at higher weights. Hauliers operating six-wheelers with......
Rha Acts Against London Lorry Ban
/ The Road Haulage Association is urging London boroughs to ditch the capital's lorry ban because it is a waste of money and simply doesn't work. It says a study by the London......
Vandals Hit Dery Storage Bunker
/ Haulage firm FD Cooper Transport is counting the cost this week after 27,000 litres of diesel literally went down the drain. Vandals opened a tap on a storage tank on the......