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Lamb Ban A Step Closer
• The RSPCA has moved a step closer to winning a ban on the export of live sheep to France with its High Court victory last week which could seriously hit livestock hauliers.......
Work Upturn Is Not An Indicator
• Work has been picking up for owner-operators in Cornwall and small areas of the West Midlands over the past month, according to the National Owner Drivers' Association. But......
Finance Cover
• The Government should introduce a licensing system which ensures freight forwarders are of good financial repute, and will protect hauliers against non-payment of fees,......
Smoke Screen Call
• Environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth has called on European Commissioners to impose tough new anti-pollution standards on trucks to bring Europe into line with......
No Harmony • Europe's Ministers Have Failed To Agree On
a move by Brussels to harmonise dery excise duty at about £180 per 1,000 litres. The ministers meet again later this month.......
Stock Swap • Volvo And Renault's Share Swap Scheme —
in which each manufacturer will take a 45% stake in the other's commercial vehicle operation — was finalised Last week.......
Fuel Fury • Oil Price Rises Since The Gulf Crisis
began are "indefensible", says EC Energy Commissioner Antonio Cardoso e Cunha. Environment , Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana could be considering a Green tax on oil as part of......