Gloom Over Rail Grants

by Karen Miles • Disappointed intermodal operators are this year facing a much smaller increase in railfreight grants than they had expected. As the Government concludes its......

Check Tax Bills

• Hauliers may be paying National Insurance needlessly on the expenses they pay to drivers for subsistence and overnight accommodation, say tax specialists. Staff cuts at the......

Air Valve Move For Trailer Safety

• Trailers drawn by tractors and drawbar prime movers registered after April 1989 will soon have to be fitted with selfsealing air valves (CM 21 December-3 January 1995). The......

Munro Transport Holds Its Fire

• Lancashire-based Munro Transport is set to issue a formal statement within the next few days on drivers' hours allegations made against it by The Observer (CM 26 Oct-1 Nov).......