Wages Council Plans Higher Pay Rates

• Proposals to increase the statutory minimum wages for road haulage workers and to grant extra holidays have been circulated by the Road Haulage Wages Council this week. • If......

Peyton Against Road-rail Powers

• If the Government were to take powers to divert heavy freight traffic from road to rail it would probably involve a costly and cumbersome bureaucratic machine and unacceptable......

New Bedfords On The Way

• More new Bedford trucks are coming along to widen the range soon, Mr Alex Rhea, managing director of Vauxhall Motors Ltd, said on Friday. He was host at a press dinner given......

Turnbulls Of Plymouth Join Unigate

• Unigate, on behalf of its subsidiary Wincanton Garages Ltd, has purchased all the share capital of the Turnbull Group of Companies based on Plymouth. This latest acquisition......

Transportel For Perth

• A Transportel, a seven-acre protected parking centre for haulage operators with a full range of ancillary services, is now under construction at Perth. It is being sponsored......

`tremcard' Rule On Dangerous Loads

• The Government was last week urged to encourage road haulage firms to follow the example of the P and 0 Group which "has switched 500,000 gallons of dangerous liquid from road......