Contracts

• Ryder has won the contract to move steel drums for Van Leer UK out of its Ellesmere Port, Burton-onTrent and Hull plants. 29 tractive units and 174 trailers will work on the......

Loads Up To 13% Over

by Peter Swingler • More than 60 0 1 of trucks weighed during an investigation last month were found to be overloaded— including one 38-tonner which was found to weigh more than......

Irish Wait On Tesco Bids

• Hauliers in Ireland face an uncertain rime as they await a pre-Christmas Tesco announcement on the winners of its distribution tenders for the Republic. Tesco is to switch......

Drugs Concealed In Cross-members

• A lorry driver has been found guilty of smuggling £180,000-worth of cannabis. Canterbury Crown Court heard that 54.4kg of the drug was concealed in the chassis of a flatbed......