Chunnel claim
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• Eurotunnel says its Le Shuttle Channel Tunnel service will take a quarter of freight traffic from Dover to Calais during 1994; its revenue forecast for the service is .£119.7m for the year.
Freight figures • Freight moved by LGVs over 3.5 tonnes last year dropped 3% compared with 1991, but the quantity of goods moved by road rose by 34% between 1982 and 1992.
Drugs appeal
• An Essex trucker jailed for seven years for importing £686,000-worth of cannabis in two spare tyres has been granted legal aid to appeal against conviction.
Garage survey
Most garage servicing leaves vehicles with a catalogue of faults, says the Consumer Association, which found that only two garages gave a satisfactory service out of 36 surveyed nationwide.
Track costs
• Western Express, part of the £90m Walsh Western Group, has acquired a controlling interest in Coventry-based parcels carrier Track 29.
Inquiry call
• The labour Party has called on the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the sale of a third of haulage training firm Astra Training Services' skills centres to entrepreneur Patrick Doyle.
Death claim
• An Essex woman is suing two truck drivers in the London High Court following her husband's death in a crash on the Al in North Yorkshire. The two drivers both deny liability for the accident.