£500 To Break Gate Pickets

BOSSES AT Gate Gourmet are paying drivers a £500 bonus to brave the picket and take meals from its kitchens to planes at Heathrow as the dispute rumbles on. A spokesman says:......

Consultant To Challenge Senior Tc Over Advisers

SENIOR TRANSPORT Commissioner Philip Brown confirmed this week that he has received a solicitor's letter challenging a new rule on how Traffic Area Offices deal with......

Framework Fails

Glasgow-based Framework I ntermodal Limited went into compulsory liquidation on 22 August; a creditors' meeting is due to held in Edinburgh on 23 September.......

Ripponden Crisis

Elland, West Yorkshire-based firm Ripponden Carriers has gone into administration with Begbies Traynor. Ripponden had been in business for about 80 years.......

Kosovo Call

Humanitarian aid charity Hope and Aid Direct urgently needs a truck driver to deliver aid to Kosovo i n four weeks' time. Contact: Charles Storer on 01277 350660 or charles@sto......

Pay Strikes

The Transport and General Workers Union will consider another day of strike action at DaimlerChrysler unless management meets the union to discuss concerns over pay and......

Burns Q&as

As part of the Burns Inquiry into freight taxation more than 100,000 questionnaires are to be sent out within the next fortnight to establish the impact that high fuel duty and......

Action Ends

Al! industrial action has been called off at car delivery firm Ansa Logistics after compulsory redundancies and wage cuts were removed from the company's deal.......