Haulier

But Peter Carroll, a former haulier leading the FairFuelUK campaign group, said the move might be enough to buy off truckers agitating for fuel blockades. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was told they were empty - simply because the haulier who handed them over, unmarked and undocumented, had said so. ❋ Johann Hari (2011)

If this haulier doesn't have the moolah, shouldn't Lord James come up with someone else? ❋ Hugh Muir (2010)

No, we must conclude that Lord James of Blackheath, the Tory peer who raised the possibility in the House of Lords a few weeks back, took the former haulier to see a cabinet minister and who told us that it was all cast iron, was duped. ❋ Hugh Muir (2010)

Jean-Paul Grard, president of the UPR truckers' association, told a press conference, that the government had to do something to ensure that French haulier companies survived in business. ❋ Helen (2004)

` We've got a few names: an Essex-based haulier, a Turkish gang in Rotterdam ... ' ❋ Rankin, Ian (2004)

Only two out of 27 vehicles owned by haulier KGB Holdings passed roadworthy tests ordered by Gauteng transport MEC Khabisi Mosunkutu on Wednesday after a KwaZulu-Natal vehicle testing station owned by the same company declared them roadworthy. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The stone-haulier's tools are simple and can often be manufactured locally. ❋ Unknown (1992)

However, where tractors, cranes, elevators, lorries, etc. are not available, or where such mechanised methods prove too costly or poorly adapted to local conditions, the techniques of the stone-haulier are called upon. ❋ Unknown (1992)

In many quarries, the know-how of the stone-haulier has been replaced by mechanised techniques. ❋ Unknown (1992)

He'd fallen in love with the lorries themselves, with the whole business of them, so he'd saved, got his HGV licence, bought himself a lorry ... and now was the largest independent haulier that Rebus could think of. ❋ Rankin, Ian, 1960- (1992)

She knew the pay of the forest men, from the haulier to the princely axeman and river-jack. ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)

A Northern Ireland based haulier had been contracted to collect the container. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Britain's Traffic Commissioners license every UK haulier - and revoke licences where safety standards are breached - but have no powers over foreign lorry firms. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While Britain can ban imported toys for failing to meet British safety standards, banning a foreign haulier for persistent offences would risk breaking rules on free trade and movement of goods. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In a statement, they said he was a well known local haulier and businessman who was very active in the local community and a devoted family man. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Stobart, which was created by the merger of the Eddie Stobart haulier and Westbury Property Fund, also said it would pay a final dividend of 4p, bringing the full-year dividend to 6p a share, the same as last year. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Paul Raymond, the Liverpool-born son of a haulier who became one of London's richest men. ❋ Jonathan Prynn (2011)

Similar to so many other boys in the South Wales coalfield, Linton went to work underground at the age of 12, in his case as a door-boy at the Treaman Colliery, before later becoming a haulier at the age of 18. ❋ Unknown (2011)

However, the haulier said it was no longer interested in the machine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can't stand it, that [haulier] off loaded a seventeen [pounder] on my [door step]! ❋ Bensonpup (2008)