Ban Row

THE Freight Transport Association is to fight plans by the West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council to impose a system banning lorries from A650 at East Ardsley. They are also......

Keeping Cool

SPD has formed a new distribution company to handle Birds Eye frozen food distribution needs. The new company, Unicold, is expected by the SPD group to react more quickly to......

Eastern Fire

DENNIS have won a Elm order to supply fire-fighting vehicles, tankers and municipal trucks to the Middle East. The order was won by the export sales manager David Stephens and......

Cost Spiral

DRIVERS' wages rose by 10.1 per cent in the six months from March to September last year, according to a Freight Transport Association report out this week. The average wage......

Growers Must Set Example

LACK of preventive maintenance and workshop facilities led to a public inquiry into the operation of the Sandwich and District Growers fleet at Maidstone last week. And they......

Pallet Wastage Survey

THE Department of Industry is to survey pallet wastage in an effort to reduce the unit cast of handling goods. The survey is to be carried out at the National Materials Handling......