Dot Looks At Traps For Smoke Control

by Miles Brignall • Hauliers will face bills of £3,000 per truck if the Department of Transport forces them to retrofit a particulates trap to reduce harmful diesel emissions.......

Piggybacking Is On Railtrack Agenda

• The widespread use of rail by hauliers has been brought sig. nificantly closer this week. "Piggyback" operationsallowing operators to place standard trailers on to rail wagons......

• Leyland Oa F Was Just Two Units Behind Ni Lead

for top-selling truck marque last month; third was lveco Ford which is year-on-year sales leader, says the SMMT......

Former Eddie Stobart Supervisor Reginald Motley Of Great...

was fined 250r: for aiding and abetting one of the company drivers to falsify a tachograph chart.......

Leeds-based A One Has Agreed To Pay Its 150 Drivers

at eight depots a fixed rate of iL4 an hour from 1 January: night allowances are among details not yet finalised.......

About 90 Truckloads A Week Could Be Transferred

from k ra by St Austell, Cornwall-based English China Clays as the DOT gives the green light to a rai If rei8ht line from Wenford to Bodmin.......

Fifteen Trucks Were Found To Be Running Without 0licences...

on the A 1 2 at Springfield, Essex which stopped 197 vehicles. The 124 alleged offences, including 29 for hours, eight for tachos and five for weight, led to A) immediate and 21......

• Police Warn Hauliers That They Cannot Flout A Truck

ban in Brassington, Derbyshire although signs enforcing it have been sawn down.......