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Dip Moves Oil
consignor liability • The Department of Transport has taken the first step towards agreeing to a consignor liability defence against overloading prosecutions. It has sent forms......
Livestock Hauliers Face New Attack
• The RSPCA is awaiting a High Court verdict on its attempt last week to stop the export of live sheep to France while the farmers' violent protests continue. The High Court......
Buyer Found
• Bus Parts Eastleigh and Hampshire Body & Paint, the two remaining parts of Bus Engineering Group which went into receivership four months ago, are thought to have found a......
Nha Takes Stock
• With all members now working normally, the National Hauliers Association executive meets this week to consider the next move in its fourweek-old rates dispute with Derbyshire......
Trade Group Aims To Set Standards
• The Road Haulage Association's new quality assurance manager wants to set up an accreditation company within the RHA which would be able to award hauliers BS5750. John Jubber......
Watchdog's Wrongs
• The BBC's Watchdog programme, which slammed aspects of the transport in dustry last week, sacrificed balance for viewer impact, says the RHA in a letter to its editor (see......
Mere Invests
• Daimler-Benz is investing over t2bn in its truck operation over the next five years.......
Cutting Tape
• The European Commis sion is to cut red tape at borders by freeing internal imports worth less than ,C3,360 from the need for papers from the exporter country's Customs.......
Truckers Safe
• British truck drivers Dennis McGrath and Geoff Guy have been freed after being trapped in Baghdad for two months. They are now safe in Turkey. McGrath works for Purfieet......
Coming Down
• Following dery price cuts by Shell and Texaco (to 44.9p/lit) and Esso (to 43.9/lit), the other oil corn panies are expected to make similar reductions.......
Lit Lanes
• All new four-lane motorways will be equipped with overhead lighting, including the entire M25, and parts of the M1 and M6.......
Setting Terms
• The National Owner Drivers Association plans to lobby the Government for fixed minimum terms and conditions for its members who are contracted to one company.......
Chemical Block
• The M1 was blocked near Junction 9 for most of Tuesday morning, when a tanker carrying chemicals overturned.......