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No Plans For Direct Action
• Hauliers are to be offered an alternative to direct action as the Road Haulage and Freight Transport Associations launch attacks on the Government's fuel tax policy. The RHA......
Mfi Slashes Staff As Profits Slump
• Furniture group MFI is to lay off 1,500 staff this year after pre-tax profits slumped 14% to £.60m. Jobs will be lost in all areas, including distribution. However, new......
More Diesel Price Misery
by David Craik • Three more established hauliers, one with 100 years' trading behind it, have been hit by the recent diesel price hikes. One is selling up; a second is in......
French Unions Threaten Hours Action
• UK hauliers should prepare for more French lorry blockades. At last week's Franco-British Transport Forum, Joel Le Coq, general-secretary of the French transport union CFDT,......