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• Mercedes-Benz is warning all owners of 212D, 312D and 214 Sprinter vans fitted with Continental LS23 or Semperit M733 tyres to have them checked as they may be unsafe.
• The "Well Driven?" code has received 10,000 calls from the public since it bec:an, says the FTA; a third of hem were in praise of truck driving standards.
• John Amos, fleet administration manager at the Tibbett & Britten group, has been elected national chairman of the Institute of Transport Administration.
• Shell UK has completed a deal to buy the marketing operations of Gulf in the UK. This includes Gulf's 445 retail stores and its commercial fuels and lubricants business.
• A truck containing computer equipment was hijacked at a service station on the A508 in Northampton. Its 42-yearold driver was tied up, blindfolded and later dumped, in Wrexham.
• A fork-lift driver sacked for smoking in his car in a company carpark has lost his case for unfair dismissal—an industrial tribunal found that the driver broke a strict nonsmoking rule.
• At a In, s, of Commons seminar Mary Williams of Brake, Lord Berkeley of the Rail Freight Group, policemen and academics have urged the Government to make road safety a priority in its white paper.
• The Association of British Insurers has announced that 3% of the 5.7-million motor r once claims made in 1997 were fraudulent.