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• = will not exhibit at the NEC show or the IRTE show in Telford next year, because it believes that the UK should have one unified truck exhibition. Instead, ERF will concentrate on distributor-based shows such as Truckfest,
The Government is to form a 12-man taskforce to examine how pricing and taxation can encourage people to buy and run cleaner vehicies.
• English Welsh & Scottish: Railway has finally acquired Rai'freight Distribution after months of negotiations between the Government, the EC and the British Railways Board.
.f A French lorry driver has been given a,suspended prison sentence after admitting falling asleep at the wheel and killing a Dover man. Canterbury Crown Court heard that Jean Boileau had been awake for 26 hours.
Since the Skye Bridge opened in October 1995, 192 drivers have been convicted of non-payment of tolls. A further 220 complaints of non-payment were not pursued.
, The Freight Transport Association's has been re-elected president of the International Road Transport Union.
• Davies Turne is to double the size of its freight terminal on the Crossways business pork in Kent.