Quality shift • Truck bodybuilding quality code QAS 352/161 has
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been taken over by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association, allowing quality assessment by non-BSI bodies.
Paris purchase • London-based Lex Service has bought the Parisian truck contract hire company Seltra SA. Lex already owned 50% of the French company and has now bought the remaining share in a £5.7m deal., Smoke line • Dundee Council is setting up a hotline for complaints about pollution from trucks, vans and buses. Information will be passed to the Department of Transport.
Faster mail • The Royal Mail has introduced four computer systems to speed up its road distribution by planning routes, beating traffic jams and tracking a vehicle's position, course and speed.
Cabotage first • The DOT's priority in road haulage during the UK's six-month presidency of the EC, will be to "secure agreement on cabotage", Patrick Brown, the top transport civil servant, said last week.
Multicar move • Multicar UK, the UK's sole distributor for the east German-made Multicar municipal vehicles, has stopped trading. Multicar's range of two and four-wheel drive 3.5-tonners will now by distributed by Scarab Sales of Marden, Kent.
Moving in • Removals firm Brewer & Turnbull has recruited two franchisees to its operation through teaming up with six-vehicle operation Barlows Removals from Prestwich and similar sized company Ferriday and Alder from Reading.