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IT IS ONE YEAR since CM allowed truck manufacturers to fit their standard aerodynamic equipment to road test vehicles. Since then, there has neen hardly any significant improvement in fuel consumption, at least not until we tried out Scania's P92MA with the 8.5-litre DSCO9 engine.
Without any of the dramas experienced with the earlier Scania drawbar road test, it demolished our fuel consumption record for 38-tanners, held by Bedford's TM3800.
Bryan Jarvis reports in next week's CM.
• Night trunking is mostly associated with time-sensitive goods, like milk being taken to dairies or next-day parcels. But other companies have adopted night work for purely financial reasons — the harder you work the lorries, the fewer you need to run. CM looks closely at one such haulage contract involving night trunking, and reports on the views of leading operators.
• Do you know the first thing about The Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances Regulations 1984? week CM spells out what they mean for lc operators and asks if these regulations, anc similar laws covering tankers, are really w the red tape critics say they are wrapped ir