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• The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders blamed the first commercial vehicle sales downturn in almost three years on N-reg fever as July sales fell 10%.
4 North Wales Euro MP Joe Wilson is urging the Government to name terries which fail to meet new design and safety standards after a House of Commons transport committee said many risked being capsized in heavy weather.
October. But Welsh Trading Standards Officers say almost half the service stations they surveyed are unprepared for the change, which will force them to display conversion charts on each pump, * More than two thirds of the 63 lorries stopped on the H in a police
last week were faulty and nine of them were so dangerous they were taken off the road. Cambridgeshire police say the defect rate was higher than their last check in June.
• A transport of the future exhibition to be staged on the old iroyclon airport site has been approved in principle. The tri-annual exhibitions, proposed to start in 1997, will look at transport and sustainability in the environment.
• Sweden's second largest
freight group is bidding £1 74m for cold-storage chain Frigoscandia