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Dynamic Weighing
weigher to the truck specifically because he hauls from sawmills where there are no self-test weighbridges. When the driver was stopped the first reading showed a train weight......
Parcels Firms May Go Via Post Office
• Private parcel firms could soon be allowed to use the Royal Mail's network for a fee, under plans being considered by the Post Office. This would allow large courier companies......
Truckwatch Is On The Road Up North
• Road hauliers in the North-East are joining operators in East Anglia and Kent in the theft-busting Truckwatch scheme. The Road Haulage Association's North East district office......
Urban Dereg 'soon'
• Britain's remaining local authority-owned bus companies look likely to be privatised if the Tories win the next election. Prime Minister John Major is believed to be......
[! ' Irrucicfest 91
• Some top hauliers lined up for Commercial Motor Truckfest this year are: owner-driver and last year's best new vehicle winner Graham Cordiner (pictured); Neil Bartlett Haulage......
Salisbury Pain
• Loughborough-based dealer Yeates Bus & Coach will close its Salisbury depot next month, making 10 staff redundant.......
Late Payers
• The plight of small firms, including hauliers, who face going bust because of late payment of bills is being studied by the European Commission.......
Cambs Check
• More than 10% of the 107 trucks stopped for a weighing check on the Al near Sawtry, Cambs last week were given immediate prohibitions.......
Alexander Cuts
• Coach maker Walter Alexander is to make 44 staff redundant and put the remaining 420 on a three-day week at least until the end of June.......