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Temporary Tir Trailer Decision For Lords
• "Some tens of thousands of vehicles might be affected" by a decision to be sought from the House of Lords on whether commercial goods trailers which regularly travel between......
Southampton Haulier Wins 'defective Handbrake' Appeal
• Conviction of a Southampton haulage company for allowing a lorry to be used with a defective brake was quashed on Wednesday of last week by three High Court judges. The......
Weight In Question
• An official weighbridge gave an incorrect weight reading, it was alleged recently at Taverham. Norfolk. magistrates' court when Aldridge Haulage Ltd, of Dereham Road,......
Safe Loading Code Coming
• Disquiet at the practice of tying . 10-ton containers on to lorries just with ropes was expressed in the Commons last week by Mr Leslie Huckfield (Labour, Nuneaton). He......
Tacho Charts For Log Sheets
• Legislation making tachograph charts acceptable in lieu of log sheets, and Ministerial encouragement to operators to fit tachographs voluntarily, are two steps which the......