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• The DOT is expected to announce this week that the French authorities now accept the use of belly tanks, providing they hold no more than 1,000 litres and drivers carry a certificate issued by the DOT.
• The move to
0-licensing, as proposed by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill, was approved by MPs this week.
• The first freight train service through the Channel Tunnel is expected to go in a 'matter of days". It will carry Rover cars from its Longbridge and Cowley plants to Italy in a contract worth C5-7m a year to rail.
• ARC Central's 130 contracted hauliers will receive a rates rise from June 1: the company refuses to say how much they will get for the first uniform ARC rate across East Anglia and the east and west Midlands.
t Around 200 Air Products drivers voted 2:1 in favour of transferring in house nationwide distribution of gases to Wincanton in July. There will be no compulsory redundancies.
Trucks over 7.5 tonnes exceeding the noise limit of 80dB(A) will be banned from night driving in Austria From 1 July.
• The Transport Committee is calling for written evidence for its inquiry into transport-related atmospheric pollution in London and its effects.
• Derbyshire village Brassington wants police intervention to enforce a ban on lorries over 7.5 tonnes.