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either be installed on motorways or at the exits to one of the county's ports. Once the system has identified an overweight truck the council could pass details to a central......
Administrators In At Roadexpress
• Administrators have been called in to Roadexpress, the Coventry-based courier which handles much of the road deliveries for British Rail's parcels subsidiary Red Star. This......
Key Rejects Mirror Pleas
• Roads minister Robert Key has ruled out introducing legislation forcing operators to fit close-proximity mirrors on older vehicles. Pressure has mounted for action following a......
• Operators Could Pick Up Hundreds Of Truck Bargains In
the next year courtesy of the Department of Transport. Manufacturers working to a 1 October deadline for the Euro-1 emission standards are likely to give the go-ahead to a DOT......
Draft Delay • Hauliers' Hopes That Forthcoming Draft...
44 tonnes would allow wider use of such vehicles were dashed this week. Draft regulations will be published in a week's time.......
Unfettered Hire • The European Commission Wants To Remove...
remaining restrictions on the hire of goods vehicles without drivers. Next Monday (6 September) it will hear representations from interested parties, including the International......
Sallow Six • Six Men Charged With Truck Theft Offences
as part of the Metropolitan Police's "Operation Sallow" investigation were remanded on bail last week to appear at Tower Bridge Magistrates Court on 6 January.......
Twenty Scotched • Twenty Drivers Were Served With...
during an FIGV spotcheck at Scotch Corner on the Al in Yorkshire last week. Alleged offences ranged from excessive smoke emissions to tachograph breaches.......
Ferry Plea Iii The Father Of A Missing Man Appealed
directly to cross-Channel truck drivers at Dover on Tuesday this week, handing out leaflets asking them to look out for his son who has not been seen for two weeks.......
Truck Boost • Number Of New Trucks Registered In The
UK during the past 12 months jumped 4% on the previous vean according to Department of Transport figures.......