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• Keep on running. Robert Dods-Brown, seen here on the starting blocks behind CM editor Brian Weatherley, is second of the five operators chosen to take delivery of the 7.5-tonne Leyland Daf Roadrunner in the Commercial Motor/Leyland Daf charity Runnerthon in aid of Royal Manchester Children Hospital.
• Trucks of 7.5 tonnes and above are threatened with a curfew at the Brenner Pass linking Austria with Italy, under a proposal put to the Austrian government by the Tyrolean authorities. The Tyrolean Diet (local Government) is demanding a ban on roadbuilding in the region: an environmental surcharge on road tolls, and a limit on the permits issued to foreign operators carrying hazardous loads through the pass. The Diet wants the curfew to be followed by a week-end ban on CVs and the treatment of local roads with noise-absorbent surfacing.