GARDAÍ were last night searching for a heavy-goods driver who fled after his tanker full of oil overturned on a busy bypass at rush hour yesterday morning.

Hauliers are demanding a place at the discussion table of the Minister for Transport’s forthcoming road safety summit.

Truck drivers who transport waste without a special permit could have their licences revoked.

Hundreds of Irish hauliers are stranded in France after French lorry drivers blocked channel ports when talks for better pay and conditions collapsed.