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• A Freight Transport Association survey has found that three quarters of trucks are washed every weel<, while most cars are washed just once a month.
A driver was killed and another injured last Thursday when ,ro lorries c-i head on and burst into flames near junction 4A of the M6, after the northbound vehicle crossed the central reservation.
Express parcels carrier Parceline recently signed up
its 200th ovvnel franchisee, after just a year of running the scheme.
• Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh will be among the speakers at an Licensing Seminar for the Western, West Midland and South Wales regions to be held on 4 September at the Stakis Puckrup Hall Hotel, Tewkesbury. Contact: 0121 608 1029 The number of on London and South-East trunk roads and motorways has risen by 30% in recent weeks, according to the British Roads Federation.
• Fuel quality standarc are to be examined by the new Environmental Industries Commission. It will consider the costs of pollution against the costs of reformulating fuel and adjusting duly levels.
• Commercial Motor has been asked to point out that
the West Yorkshire V T lg Centre, which went into voluntary liquidation on 24 June, is not connected to the nearby West Yorkshire Training Group, which is running as normal.