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• A renewed application has been made to build a service station on the outskirts of King's Lynn Norfolk. It includes a truckstop, motel, self-service garage forecourt, and HGV overnight parking.
• A £500,000 detector is being installed at the B(ackwall . Only vehicles under 134 4in 4.06m) tall are allowed in the tunnel.
• Staffordshire County Council says it might bring in 7.5-tonne ban.. on 1,000 kilometres of country lanes because of worsening road surfaces.
France has been ordered by the European Commission to loosen restrictions on cabotage operations of hazardous cargo The EC says the rule that drivers must speak French and hold French competence certificates discriminates by nationality.
• Norbert Dentressangle is recruiting 40 LGV drivers in the latest stage of its fiveyear British expansion. The French-owned group expects its fleet to grow from 150 to 1,000 tractors by 2000.
Motorway service operator (._.7ranado is the biggest in Britain after this week's purchase of rival Pavilion In a deal worth £125m Granada bought all nine Pavilion sites, bringing its total to 37.
• MAN Truck and Bus has launched its own vehicle finance scheme, which will be run on its behalf by Barclays Mercantile in a joint partnership.