• The European Commission has produced a draft directive to standardise annual truck inspections throughout Europe.
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• AWD has launched a contract-maintenance scheme for its trucks operated by Contract Care Plan 'of Leeds. The scheme offers fixed monthly payments, indemnifying operators against servicing and nonnal repair bills.
• Hauliers in York fear that businesses will close if the council increases its city-centre traffic ban from -41/2 to seven hours a day.
• When the price of dery was increased by a penny per litre in October, the road transport industry's extra cost was £80 million !estimates the Freight Transport Association, which is also predicting that = the industry can expect further increases during ; November.
• Shering Weighing is supplying weighbridges to the Ports of Larne and Dover, now that all ports have to weigh trucks in the wake of e Herald of Free Enterp • disaster.