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Toleman Hit B: Strike Over Pay Cut
/ Car transporter Toleman Automotive was hit by strike action this week when union leaders accused it of breaking an agreement to restore a 25% wage cut. And pickets gathered at......
Tarmac Faces Rates Demand
• Tarmac Roadstone (Scotland) is facing demands for a rates increase from two dozen of its regular hauliers, many of them owner-drivers running in the company's livery. The......
Truck Sales Fall By 34%
• Sales of trucks and artics last year were 34% down on 1990, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. A total of 32,184 trucks were bought, compared with......
Czechs Bar Uk Drivers
/ British hauliers trying to get into Czechoslovakia faced a New Year shock when they were refused entry. The Interior Ministry had failed to tell border guards that permits are......
Daf .loom
• Daf has reported a 2,600 sales slump in 1991 with production down 6,000 on the previous year. The Dutch truck manufacturer predicts a "very considerable" loss for 1991 and......
Brs Talks
• BRS has started pay talks with the Transport and General Workers' Union but neither side would comment as CM went to press.......
Howard Sentenced
• Michael Howard, director of Scarborough-based Howards Transport Services, has been given a nine-month suspended jail sentence for tachograph offences and defrauding the Inland......
Horne Deal
• Tibbett & Britten's Fashion Logistics has held on to its distribution contract with menswear retailer Horne Brothers, which has been bought out by its management from the......
Rail Decision
• More of Britain's warehousing and distribution firms see rail as a viable alternative to road transport and many are interested in opportunities from a privatised rail......