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Premium Tax Hits Costs
by Jane Sayer • The taxman will be dipping deeper into hauliers' pockets when the insurance premium tax comes into force on Saturday (1 October). It will be charged at 2.5%......
• The Insurance Premium Tax Comes As A Further Blow
to hard-pressed hauliers who are trying to control their costs. Dr Clive Car-foot, managing director of Preston, Lancs-based Walter Carfoot & Sons (Transport), operates a......
Brs In Hire Move
• As predicted (CM 23-30 June), NFC has announced that BRS is to concentrate on contract hire and truck rental, leaving Exel Logistics to focus on logistics and transport......
Rail Grant Stops Road Move
• Hopes of 125 extra truck movements a day for Derbyshire hauliers have been dashed by a £2.6m government grant to keep quarry stone on the rails. Buxton Lime Industries will......
Hard Shoulder Hazards
• The police, haulage groups, motoring organisations and tyre distributors will meet next month to seek a way of avoiding accidents at the scene of motorway breakdowns. The move......
Mercia Truck Blitz
• West Mercia police are setting up a specialist team to check LGVs, following a campaign in the summer which found 94% of the trucks stopped were defective. In the three-month......