The week that was
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ON THE ROAD
Truck & Driver magazine is conducting the Great British MSA survey, and last week some of the CM staff helped out by dropping in at various sites with clipboards in hand. We were particularly impressed with the way that Welcome Break appears to be gearing up for the Olympics Games – it seems to have built an Olympicsized swimming pool in the entrance to the truck park at its London Gateway site! Editor Will Shiers spent a pleasant morning in Lincoln, talking to Dick Denby about Denby Transport’s history; deputy group news editor Chris Druce was in Birmingham with Palletline; and technical reporter George Barrow was in the Far East doing something top secret...
QUESTION TIME
Should cyclists be forced to take a test before heading out on the roads?
Yes No
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Perhaps preaching to the converted, but users of Commercialmotor.com would like to see cyclists receive mandatory training before they are allowed to hit the tarmac.
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TOP CM.COM STORIES
• ERF legend Peter Foden dies • Hungarian LGV driver ploughs wrong way down M6 • Eddie Stobart to trial Iveco EcoStralis • Drunken foreign lorry driver banned within hours in virtual court • Lorry driver hijacked at knifepoint in New Forest
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