'ghost' Drivers Fined

• Eighteen drivers employed by Jos. Walsh (Darwen) Ltd. were fined on charges of forging logsheets with intent to defraud at Darwen magistrates' court. Two were fined £5 and the......

Haulier Loses Overloading Test Case

• When a firm of haulage contractors discovered that 69 of its lorries were over loaded with gypsum they decided to drive them to their destination at Cocklakes and unload them.......

Walsh Take-over

• The takeover of two A licences and a 8 licence operated by Joseph Walsh (Darwen) Ltd. by a new company, Walsh Transport Services Ltd., has been granted by the North Western......

90-ton Low-loader Switch

• On an undertaking being given that the pattern of work would remain unchanged and only one low-loading trailer, capable of carrying 90 tons, would be in use at any one time,......

• Fta On The Act

; Two one-day conferences to explain the • provisions of the Transport Act and their • implications are to be held next spring by the Freight Transport Association—the amalgams......