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22nd June 1985, Page 31
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LORRY racing may not be everyone's idea of A desirable pastime but Pirelli takes it seriously enough to provide TH20 and LS97 radial tyre, for nine top drivers in this year's European Truck Racing Championship. Two of them, Richard Walker (Leyland Roadtrain) and John Powell (Iveco 190.38), are British.

The seven-race .programme concludes with the Italian Truck Grand Prix at Monza on October 19-20, The vehicles will reach speeds of up to 130kph, which the tyres are capable of • maintaining under full load.

THE holocaust in Brussels tended to over-shadow the European Court of Justice's reprimand of the EEC Council of Transport Ministers for failing to harmonise transport policy after years of argument. But if the citizens of two friendly nations cannot watch a so-called game of football without fatal consequences, the inability of 10 fiercely independent states to Overcome differences of a highly complex subject should not occasion surprise.

With Britain's standing in Europe never lower, it is not perhaps the best time to be demanding the revision of regulations on drivers' hours and records. Even so, this country's probity in enforcing EEC regulations, not least on safety, is an example to some other states. This alone should justify the action that the United Kingdom requests.

TACK SCOTT, the television ‘veatherman, scored a double success in Associated Tyre Specialists' 11th annual pro-am golf tournament at

Stoke ['sages. He forecast the

. thunderstorm that held up play for an hour and helped his four-man team to victory with A 19-under-par score of 121.

Prize money totalled :.12,500. Proceeds of the event went once again to Sportsmen Pledged to Aid Research into Crippling, (SPARKS).

SPECIAL attractions are planned to mark the Commercial Vehicle and Road Transport Club's 20th anniversary at the Classic Commercial Motor Show at Holdenby House, Northampton, on July 21. Charles 1 was a prisoner there before his premature retirement from the throne, but that means nothing to enthusiasts for road transport from the days of steam to the 38-tonner.

Several entries, I ant told, have not before been shown in public. Apart from full-size vehicles there will be an exhibition of models and, for those with an itch for memorabilia, a flea market. I am assured that the fleas have nothing to do with the rare farm animals that it is hoped will keep the children quiet.

THE National Freight Consortium Has had to change the name of a

new company formed to sell liquid petroleum gas because the registrar of trademarks thought that the chosen title, National Gas, might be confused with British Gas. use name has been amended to Britannia Gas. Britannia may rule the waves hut cannot waive the rules.

To avoid the need for altering the name of the dubious beverage served at motorway cafes, the Milk Marketing Board and the Tea Council are combining to try to make it as recognisable as tea. This is thought to be easier than persuading the public to pay about 20p a cup for something which the Trade Descriptions Act, interpreted strictly, would require to be called swill.

MY old friend Dick Farmer, president of Atlas Express until its acquisition by United Carriers and ;) plihr of the Road

Haulage Association, is into LEGS! No, he has not become an agent for dancing girls, but in semi-retirement at 13a South Grove, Highgate, London. he has set up the Loose Ends Gathering Service — a name that occurcti to him while wandering around Australia and New Zealand.

His aim is to solve irritating business problems that one hopes will go away but have a habit of hanging around, accumulating paper and sometimes illwill. Examples :night be tactful recovery of disputed debts or difficulties with the disposal of premises. Alternatively, the need might simply be for information that the client had neither the time nor the specialised knowledge to gather.

If the subject is suitable, Dick will assign a capable "runnerto it and he will come up with the answer. By replacing the "pendingtray with one marked "LEGS" the pile or stationery stationary might be shifted painlessly, and Dick assures me. "at acceptable cost."

THE police really must wonder why they bother sometimes. A report in the regional Daily Post tells this story A jury at Caernarfon Crown Court had heard the case of i 25-year-old who drove a car pulling a trailer \vhich had no brakes. I It' was drunk, with twice the permitted level or alcohol, nil lie caused an accident in which A woman in another car was killed.

He had been caught driving when drunk three weeks before, and subsequently convicted and banned (after the fatal accident).

Verdict? Not guilty of causing death by reckless driving, guilty of careless driving. Penalty 050 fine.


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