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3rd March 1994, Page 4
3rd March 1994
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• John Moore, national secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union's road transport group is retiring in May, and not resigning. Moore, 63, joined the union 31 years ago.

• P&O Distribution has lost primary distribution work it previously carried out for Kellogg's: 12 vehicles and drivers based at Manchester were dedicated to the work.

• Negotiations on AL,strIct's EC member ship have been stalled by the country's ecopoints system for truck transit. The negotiators want it to end three years after Austria joins the EU, but Austria insists that the original date two years later should stand.

• A motorway so!'ety barrier, designed to minimise damage to vehicles which hit its Four wire ropes, is being installed on the near Swindon, between junctions 16 and 18.

• Tory political opposition and a lack of Parliamentary time before the next election, point to an imminent back-off by the Government over full-scale privatisation of the Post Office.

• Truck driver David Ritchie, charged of bringing nearly £2m of cannabis into Britain from Italy, has been refused bail from Canterbury prison and his case is being committed to a crown court.

• Eden District Council, Cumbria, is on the look out for land near to the

which could potentially be developed into a truckstop, to help its "important" haulage industry.


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