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Page 6
Irish Trail • Irish Trailer Builder Dennison Trailers Is To
start building trailers in this country in Lancaster. The 929m 2 production plant will begin operations in the second half of the year producing around 500 in the first year.......
P&o Unrest
• There is industrial unrest at P&O European Ferries in Portsmouth where union leaders are seeking the support of French seamen to oppose the line's plan to introduce a foreign......
Prest For Action
• Faber Prest has announced a major overhaul of its transport services division following the acquisition of trans-shipment specialist Duncan TransRail. The newly-acquired......
French Clean Up • French Company Sitaclean, Which...
refuse collection contracts for local authorities in France, wants to expand in this country when tendering becomes compulsory on 1 April. Featured on this week's BBC Panorama......
Leigh Leaver
• The chairman of waste disposal firm Leigh Interests, Bill Pybus, has resigned. He says there is a conflict of interest with distribution company AAH of which he is also......
Training Poll Paints 'sad Picture'
• Almost three quarters of British hauliers do not bother to train their staff, judging by a new survey by Commercial Motor (see page 38). In a poll of 200 hauliers, 91% had no......
Massive Move By Mersey
• A massive transport operation is being mounted on Merseyside where a giant steel mill is being dismantled piece by piece and packaged for shipment from Liverpool to China.......
La's Report: Doing Much Better
• The year ending on 31 March 1988 was a good one for the road haulage industry, judging by the latest Licensing Authorities annual report, with more operators, more HGV drivers......
Wasting Away
• Waste removal hauliers face having to register their trucks by the end of the year as part of a new crackdown on fly-tippers. Joan Ruddock, the Shadow Transport Minister,......
Italian Haul
• Italy's northern border posts are clogging up because of an overtime ban by Italian customs officers. Queues of 14km have been reported with clearance procedures restricted......
Scania Stolen
• A six-month-old Scania P113, belonging to County Antrim-based Gary Lyons Haulage Services, was stolen last Saturday morning from the company's premises at Mallusk Road in......
Chart Hire Hit For 6x4 Erf E8
• ERF's high powered 6x4 E8 rigid, launched last September, has made its first entry into the contract hire market through Chart Hire Services. The 182KW Cummins powered truck......