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• A new "weigh-in-motion" system, designed to crack down on overweight lorries, may soon be used by London boroughs. The system, using piezo-electric cables, can record the speed, weight and class of road vehicles. At the moment legislation would not permit this equipment to be used as evidence for prosecuting overweight lorries, but it could be used as a "screen" to direct vehicles to an existing fixed-site dynamic weighbridge. The first of these systems is expected to be installed on an experimental site in Greenwich in the spring.
• Leyland Trucks should be disposed of "within 60 days" — possibly by the end of this month, says Rover Group chairman, Graham Day. Discussions are continuing both with Dutch manufacturer Oaf Trucks and Paccar, the US parent company of Cheshire-based Foden trucks, and should be completed within two weeks.
IN The REA will continue to welcome owner/drivers into its membership, according to national chairman Glyn Samuel, who says they are an essential part of the haulage industry. Samuel claims owner/drivers provide the "often specialised, flexible services which are so vital in the complex mosaic of freight distribution." Whatever the nature of their particular businesses, he says, owner/drivers form a large and important section of the total RHA membership.
• Swift Transport Services, the national contract distribution company based at Northampton, has 1,400 "live" customers on its books and not 14,000 as reported in last week's issue.