Union Unrest Increases As Fight Against Freeze Grows

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT C OINCIDING with the improved financial position of the nation, transport trade unions are showing increasing intransigence. A work to rule by......

25,000 Must Answer Rtitb Quiz

AUT this week from the Road Transport Industry Training Board went 25,000 questionnaires on remuneration and numbers of employees. This is a compulsory return authorised under......

Freightliner Appeals Dates

THE APPEAL by hauliers against the Freightliner vehicles grant to Bri tish Railways in Manchester will come up for hearing by the Transport Tribunal on April 12, having been......

West Riding R Ha Fears Control By Big Groups

CRITICISM continues to be voiced in RHA areas about the growing influence over the Association exerted by the big groups. Latest evidence of this is a resolution from the......

Us Approves Customs Container Convention

THE US Senate has approved the Customs convention on freight containers which provides for duty-free temporary entry of re-usable van and tank containers. Also approved is the......

Takeover By Tdg

TRANSPORT Development Group Ltd. has acquired the issued share capital of 1. M. Burgess Ltd., of East Percy Street, North Shields, incorporated in 1935 and operating a fleet of......