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Three Haulage Firms Blacked 'for Life'
Drivers and dockers still clash in retaliatory picketing from our industrial correspondent • Although it is some six weeks since the dock strike ended, blacking and picketing at......
More Weighbridges Off-the-shelf And Less Overloading
• A reduction in incidents of gross overloading from 60 per cent before the implernentation of the Road Traffic (Foreign Vehicles) Act 1972 to 25 per cent now among vehicles......
Body Kits
• Under a scheme initiated by the British Aluminium Co Ltd a tipper operator will in future be able to phone a bodybuilder as soon as he knows that chassis are to be delivered......
Handling Engineers' Autumn Meeting
• A technical visit, a talk with a Customs and Excise man about VAT and dinner with a senior official from the Department for Trade and Industry are some of the highlights of......
Geest-grounds Transport Merger
• The road transport division of Gee Industries Ltd and Grounds Transpoi Services Ltd, both of Spalding, Lincoln shin merged under the name of Gee Transportation Ltd on......
Volvo Comfort Package
• A "long-haul package designed t increase driver safety and comfort is no , being offered by Ailsa Trucks Ltd on th full range of Volvo F86 models. The packag comprises Bostrom......
£75m Containers Hip Service Launched
• On Tuesday the 25,000 dw containership Australian Endeavour saile from Seaforth terminal at Liverpool t inaugurate the new £75m independer container service between the UK,......