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Are you prepared for the HVUT/2290 filing deadline?
Filing the appropriate taxes on your vehicles is key to keeping your fleet in compliance and on the road working for you. One of those taxes is the federal heavy vehicle use tax (HVUT). The new HVUT tax year began on July…
Daily Infographic: 5 surprising railroad jobs
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Bring Back Collectible Glasses, You Cowards
McDonald’s ads for ‘The Great Muppet Caper’ featured a different character on each glass. McDonald’s Just do it without the lead this time In an era where seemingly any scrap of intellectual property can be turned into a…
Mules up on the year to average £178 at Thame Sheep Fair
Farmers Weekly A stronger trade for breeding ewes defied the weaker lamb market at the recent Thame Sheep Fair, with both average prices and numbers up on the year. More than 18,000 head were entered in the two-day sale, with…
Mixed global forecast for beef sector as prices soften
Farmers Weekly Ample global supplies of beef and weaker demand in Europe and Asia are putting pressure on beef prices. In its latest report the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts global beef production to rise by…
Harvest 2023: Late-sown OSR surprises in Dorset
Farmers Weekly Very late drilled oilseed rape came up trumps in Dorset this summer with one crop sown in the last week of September yielding almost 4t/ha, helped by a long crop rotation and good plant nutrition. Grower and…
July import volumes continue to mirror pre-COVID ‘normal’
“Imports still plunging, down 14% year on year” sounds alarming for the U.S. economy. But July’s percentage drop is an artifact of the COVID-driven import boom, a one-off event that ended in late 2022 that is no longer news.…
PM urged to make U-turn on oil boiler ban, or risk losing rural vote
Farmers Weekly Prime minister Rishi Sunak is being urged by senior conservative MPs to scrap the net-zero ban on new oil boilers, or risk losing the trust of rural voters. The ban on new oil boilers, which is set to come into…
FleetCor Technologies’ Q2 fuel transaction revenue up 6% to $399M
FleetCor Technologies saw improving stability in the services it provides to trucking businesses across North America and its international units, helping the company to a better-than-expected quarter, officials said. “It’s…
Teagle bins old Tomahawk design for new 8200 bale processor
Farmers Weekly Teagle’s popular mounted 7100 and trailed 8100 Tomahawk bale processors are to be superseded by a new-look two-model range. The simplest 8200s use a combination of bed chains and crossbeater to break up silage…
