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27th April 1989, Page 6
27th April 1989
Page 6
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Ganging Up

• P&O and Sealink have renewed calls to merge their Dover to Calais services to prepare for competition from the Channel Tunnel. This coincides with a Centre of Economic Policy......

Rail Road

• The Railway Conversion Campaign this week told the House of Commons Transport Committee that British Rail only uses its route network to 3% of potential capacity. RCC says......

Cellular Code Ii Seven Major Cellular Equipment Retailers...

a code of practice to clean up the image of cellphone suppliers. All of the retailers will have to conform to recommendations by the DTi.......

Brass Muck

• BFI Wastecare has won a 25 million contract with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for refuse collection and street cleaning.......

Laidlaw Stakes Adt

• North American waste disposal company Laidlaw Transportation has bought a 22% stake in security and auction group ADT.......

Vauxhall Booms

• Vauxhall Motors made record net profits of £151.9 million last year on a turnover up 22.8% to 22,048 million. Bedford van registrations reached 40,321, the highest level since......

British Drivers Loso European Pay Race

• British HGV drivers are among the lowest paid in Europe, according to a survey of drivers' working conditions, hours, and rates of pay. The survey reveals that the average......

Building Up To Runnerthon

• Penman Engineering has fitted the Leyland Daf 8.15 Roadrunner participating in the Commercial Motor/Leyland Daf Runnerthon competition with its first body: a sliding-sided......

Cab Call From The Um

• Truck drivers deserve a proper workplace, and that means proper cabs, says United Road Transport generalsecretary Frank Griffin, launching a campaign to block any moves to......

Walking Wounded

• A DTp campaign to reduce Britain's annual pedestrian death toll includes plans for more 'sleeping policemen' speed-control humps.......

High Jump • Yorkshire Police This Week Closed The File

on a case which hit the national headlines about a woman in Leeds who appeared to jump from a 20m high footbridge onto the busy Leeds inner ring road. It seems she fell......

Tnt Buys Klm's Xp Iii Tnt Express Has Now Bought

Dutch airline KLM's international parcels subsidiary, XP, which will retain its brand name and product range International consignments will go through TN - Fs air network.......

Air Miss

/ An appeal by Freightliners against the London Lorry Ban requirement to fit air brakes silencers has been rejected.......