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Strike Action Vote 'next Step'
• Dairy Crest staff—including transport workers—could be voting for industrial action after they turned down a 2.5% pay offer. The Transport & General Workers Union says the......
Falsified Records Lead To Prison Cell
I Eight drivers who work for the ;ame Hexham-based haulage firm lave all been jailed for two months 'or falsifying tachograph records :yen though the judge accepted that hey had......
Tan And Vi To Merge
11 The Traffic Area Network and Vehicle Inspectorate are to merge on April 1 next year after a shock announcement made in Parliament last week. Senior Traffic Commissioner......
Truck Crime Desk Grows
I The National Stolen Lorry Load )esk (NSLLD) will be expanded later his year in an attempt to cut the ;oaring rate of lorry hijackings and hefts. This autumn the Metropolitan......
Wheel Loss Driver Gets Jail
• A lorry driver is beginning a year-long prison sentence after a wheel came off his truck on the M6 motorway, killing a passing motorist. The wheel bounced along the......
Driver Strikes Likely To Rise
• More drivers will be willing to take strike action over pay if they are not valued properly in the future, according to the Transport & General Workers Union. The union made......