Pickering Gains Support

• Owner Operators UK is cautiously backing haulier Mike Pickering's campaign to set up a network of haulage companies to fight for better pay rates and conditions (CM 7-13......

West Midlands

drivers win ▪ 6.7% • Thick drivers in the West Midlands will get a 6.7% pay rise from 1 April, following an agreement between the Road Haulage Association and the Transport and......

Cannon Is Let Off

• A man who sued TNT after losing an arm following a collision with one of its trucks, has been ordered to pay for the damage to the vehicle. David Cannon of Camberley, Surrey......

Shell Sponsorship

• Oil giant Shell is sponsoring 10 HGV training places for jobless applicants from ethnic minorities. "Almost all our job candidates are white male drivers," says the company.......

• Kdenbridge, Kent-based Haulier Hr Goodale Is The Proud...

of a new Ultra 92 tri-axle curtainsider trailer courtesy of Commercial Motor and Southfields. HRG's vehicle and building maintenance manager Robin Gilmour (far right) came up......