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Trailer tax?
TRANSPORT MINISTER Dr John Gilbert is considering whether trailers and articulated lorries should be counted as separate units for the purpose of road tax.
Announcing this in the Commons last week, the Minister said he was looking at the subject in the context of current discussions in Brussels on the taxation of commercial goods vehicles.
Take it away
DR GILBERT told the Commons last week that vans failing the normal MoT test CAN be driven away from the testting station for repair elsewhere (CM January 30).
He said : " Vehicles . . are not specifically prohibited from being driven elsewhere for repair, although the legal obligation to comply with the roadworthiness regulations continues to apply."
Union promise
THE absence of a trade union nominee will be taken into account when the next United Kingdom members of the EEC Advisory Committee on Transport are appointed in January, 1977.
This promise was made in the Commons last week by Mr Roy Hattersley, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, who said that of the five UK members appointed for two years from January 1, 1975, two were Government officials and three experts in the inland transport industries.
Ocean waves
TOWNSEND Thoresen ferries are to increase their services to the Continent by an extra three sailings •a week from Felixstowe.
The new sailings are at 10 am on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with an 11 am sailing from Zeebrugge on the same days. They are additional to the 14 return crossings already on the route to Zeebrugge.