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his week Roadtransportcorn bloggers and TruckNet UK users tackle all nanner of issues from drivers' medicals to keeping tachograph records.
ROAD 0 RANSPORT.com !!..)g the Industry ['HERE'S A NEW look on the Roadtranspori.coin horn epage his week: we've made the News irea bigger, to highlight the most nteresting stories of the day, and ve've pushed our 'Buy & Sell' ection thousands of vehicles or sale in our classified ads ight to the top of the page so it is !asier to find.
And don't forget you can sign go for an e-mail news alert every donday -just go to any page on he site and click on Subscribe. This is an ideal way to find out vhat's breaking between issues 4. Commercial Motor.
While the BigLorryBlog ontinues to impress us with nassive oillield trucks and the ike, it's also worth looking at Vill Shiers' entries on the Truck ndVan Blog: this week he offers .s the ugliest van ever built (a 7W Transporter/Ford Cortina ybrid that Will dubs the franstina'), mystery trucks 70M Lapland and the top 10 Van nd Truck Jumps (on video).
On a more serious note: over t the Transport Law Blog, alicitor Tim Ridyard of Barker Gotelee reminds us about the new requirements for keeping tachograph records: "The Transport Act 1968 has been amended so drivers are now required to return their paper tachograph records for whom they have been working within 42 days of the records having been created (previously the rule was 21 days but the requirement in force since 1 January 2008 to be able to produce records for the previous 28 calendar days was in conflict with this).
"Digital download: transport undertakings must ensure downloading of vehicle unit and driver card data so that none is lost, but in any event must do so for vehicle unit data within 56 days and, for driver card data, within 28 days."
And Oliver Dixon can always be relied on for a contentious piece at his World 'Rucks Blog like this: -We note that Renault Trucks is still trying to offload sorry find a buyer for its spare parts business.
No surprise here; after all, if you don't sell many trucks. you're unlikely to sell many spare parts for them, either. Where does Renault go next in the great AB Volvo experiment?"
Ouch!
• You can find direct links to all the stories mentioned at CM's own weh page, www. roadtransport.comkm