New Basis For Wages Council

from our industrial correspondent • The field of operation covered by the Road Haulage Wages Council is to be redefined. The use to which a vehicle is put will replace the......

Bank Recalls Allisons Loan

• The chairman and managing director of Allisons Freightlines Ltd., Dundee, Mr. James Allison this week put forward proposals which he hoped would protect the interests of......

Less Overloading

• Although fines totalling £1.295 were imposed following 149 summonses issued for overloading in Cumberland last year, there was a "noticeable reduction" in overloading......

First Noise Offender Fined £10

• Haulage Contractor Arthur George Simmons, of 320 Sutton Common Rd., Sutton, Surrey, was one of the first to be prosecuted under the new excessive-noise laws. Simmons pleaded......

Ministers Study Road Pricing

• A report on a specific system of road pricing for urban roads was considered by the council of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport in Paris last week. The......

Threat To Haulier

• An Order which would limit the use of certain Welsh roads by goods vehicles weighing more than 6 tons laden and more than 7ft 6in wide was confirmed last week by Pontypridd......