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• Italy Rates
Italy's road hauliers say tough new government measures to deal with speeding offences, overloading and tampering with tachographs in commercial vehicles will mean higher......
• Brazil Ethanol
The Brazilians have been experimenting with alternative fuels for some time, including ethanol from sugar cane which has proved successful in diesel engines. Several experiments......
• Russia Production
The 750, 000th Karnaz truck has roiled off the assembly lines at the Kama association plant in the Soviet Union. The plant was commissioned in 1976 and specialises in......
• S Africa Gm Quits
General Motors has joined the growing list of corporations to pull out of South Africa in protest at the apartheid regime. GM chairman Roger Smith noted that business factors......
• Europe Piggy-back
In 1985 the volume of traffic handled by the nine European "piggy-back" transport companies increased by 13%. The major company in this sector is Kombiverkchr AG which handles......
• Germany Trucks
Turnover for the commercial vehicle sector in West Germany totalled 31,000DM in 1985. Truck manufacturers accounted for 20% of all sales in the German motor industry. The labour......
• Germany Faults
Rhineland police noticed an increase in the number of faulty vehicles when they analysed the results of recent checks on trucks; 31.2% of the vehicles examined in June this year......
• France Man Sales
In the first half of 1986, MAN sold and delivered 425 vehicles in France, 120 more than in the same period for 1985. The company expects to reach its sales target of 750 to 800......
• France Megabus
Because standard bus capacities of 100 or 155 have become inadequate in several French cities, Renault and Heuliez Bus are collaborating in the Megabus project. Market research......
• India Tariffs
The India-Pakistan-Bangladesh Conferences are to introduce phase two of the restructured UK inland haulage tariff from November 10. The maximum increase on any individual rate......