Public Baffled By Smoke

• Traffic Area Office staff are confused about how to pass on public complaints about trucks and buses with smokey exhausts, according to the National Society for Clean Air. The......

Hempsall To Stand Down

• Road Haulage Association vice-chairman Barry Hempsall will not be standing for re-election. This follows his withdrawal from haulage over a year ago to concentrate on his two......

Truck Blitz At Dover

• A 48-hour crackdown on 1,800 trucks and coaches leaving Dover last week ended with 60 operators and drivers receiving summonses for overloading. A total of 15 foreign drivers......

Hauliers Thanked

• Hauliers who ran the gauntlet of picket lines during the 1984-85 miners' strike have been thanked by British Steel chairman Sir Robert Scholey. Speaking at Tipcon in Harrogate......

Health Rejections

• The number of would-be truck drivers who had HGV licence applications refused on health grounds rose from 1,735 to 2,391 between April 1989 and March 1990. However, licence......