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Fta Repeats Call For Fuel Duty Cut
• by Mlles Brignall The Freight Transport Association is appealing to Chancellor Gordon Brown to reconsider a reduced fuel duty scheme for hauliers. The request appears in its......
Scots Will Spend 1100m To Encourage Rail Freight
• More than .£100m is to be spent by the Scottish executive in a bid to encourage a greater use of rail freight in central Scotland. The pledge comes amid fears that congestion......
Strike Vote Boosts Pay
• Oil tanker drivers who deliver for Shell are to be offered a new pay deal after backing strike action by more than seven to one. The Transport & General Workers Union balloted......
Fta Boss Slams Fuel Protests
• Richard Turner, the new chief executive of the Freight Transport Association, has slammed last September's fuel protests, claiming they did nothing to help the industry. He......