• Pickfords driver Malcolm Solway helped save a motorist's life
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earlier this month, thanks to a first-aid course his employer put him on in a move to clinch a contract with British Aerospace.
Green eagles • Perkins has won Euro-1 certification for its Eagle TX engines. The 325TX is replaced by a 335TX; the 350TX is dropped and peak torque on the 400TX goes up from 1,810 to 1,890Nm.
CIT boss • Eurotunnel chief Sir Alastair Morton is the new chairman of the Chartered Institute of Transport.
Limehouse link • The Limehouse Link in London's Docklands is on target to open in May 1993. The 1.8km road tunnel will improve access to the Isle of Dogs and reduce bottlenecks in Limehouse. Today (Thursday) a convoy led by Inner Cities Minister John Redwood will become the first vehicles to drive the full length of the tunnel.
Tacho charges ▪ Bakewell magistrates
committed several drivers employed by Barlow & Hodgkinson, of Biggin, Derbyshire, for trial at Derby Crown Court last week. They face a total of 78 alleged falsifications of tachograph charts.
Nuclear loads • The UK's 10 nuclear power stations are attempting to take their waste in 70 truck loads a year to Winfrith in Dorset to compact the drums before ,moving them to Drigg in Cumbria for burying. They need the agreement of Dorset's planning committee.