European Transport Commissioner says that UK hauliers are paying more
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to use the roads compared with other European countries. He is calling for better enforcement with sterner penalties.
• An Austrian lorry driver has been fined £2,000 after pleading guilty to three motoring offences following the death of a 15-year-old girl who was knocked off her bicycle and killed in Canterbury, Kent.
• Southampton Crown Court has cleared company directors James Alford and Peter Payne of Southampton-based JF Afford Transport on nine counts of aiding and abetting drivers to tamper with tachograph records.
• Ferry operators, local council officials and MPs are calling for the return of freight trains in North Wales following an increase in the amount of container traffic passing through Holyhead.
• Groeme Crombje chairman of publicly owned ferry company Caledonian MacBrayne has resigned after only a year in the job.
• Welsh Secretary William Hague will give the keynote speech at a seminar at the Copthorne Hotel, Cardiff on Friday (26 January(, addressing the future competitiveness of the automotive industry.