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A news digest of road transport reports from all sectors
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• The European Community is introducing mandatory anti-lock braking for artics plated at 26 tonnes gross combination weight and above from 1 October, 1991. Under a Directive, member states will only grant type approval after that date to tractive units plated at over 16 tonnes, semi-trailers over 10 tonnes and passenger service vehicles over 12 tonnes if they have ABS systems.
• ROADS is offering credit facilities in its credit card for fuel bunkering; lubricants; breakdown and recovery; roadside tyre repairs; new and reconditioned spares; windscreen replacements; tail-lift services, and ferry services. The Roads Operators Associated Delivery Services is based at Westgate House, 39/41 Romsey Road, Winchester, Hants S022 5BE.
• Vehicles with spray suppression equipment that does not fully meet British Standard AU200 — a legal requirement — will fail the MoT annual test from the beginning of next year.
• The Friends of the Earth, which wants Europe to adopt US environmental standards, holds a Dirty Diesels Day of Action on 1 April to highlight the health hazards of diesel smoke.
• Smiths Shearings will spend 22 million on 66 Tiger chassis from Leyland Bus as fleet replacement.
• Truckline plans to increase Portsmouth/Caen freight capacity by 60% by chartering my Stena for three years.
• NFC newspaper distributor Newsflow is considering using aircraft for longhaul routes in Britain.
• Private electricity generating company National Power unveiled plans to dig a 10km canal to deliver coal to Eggborough power station.
• The RHA is setting up a task force under Econofreight md Tom Llewellyn to investigate weighing and overloading. • Distribution specialist Christian Salvesen has launched a "Service Plus" contract-hire operation, offering UK customer A a roadside recovery operation within lhr of breakdown.
• Davis Magnet's fifthwheel assets have been bought by Cheltenhambased M L Douglas Equipment following the group's collapse.
• Big business, reports The Guardian, is likely to demand that freight trains are run along the new highspeed Channel Tunnel rail line in Kent, if it is to be financed by the private sector.
• HDL Engineering is expanding its workshop at Chippenham just five months after the opening of the 2500,000 premises. It is one of 12 workshops run by the company, part of the commercial vehide maintenance and repair division of Hillsdown Distribution, which plans to double this number within two years.
• Crane Fruehauf has joined its Continental partners in setting up Code Rouge — a European breakdown service for semitrailers.
• Roads minister Peter Bottomley, rejecting an appeal in the Commons to replace vehicle excise duty discs with a thief-beating alternative, said only 150,000 discs are lost or stolen annually and since theft of discs is a crime, there is no need for finther legislation.
• The SMMT's bodybuilding committee is talking to the Department of Trade and Industry with a view to haying the UK's quality code adopted as a panEuropean standard.
• Spoon bender Uri Geller opened the Rosemor International showroom at Caversham Park, Reading, and demonstrated a portable vehicle washer.
• Workshop's conference and exhibition will be held at Telford Exhibition Centre, 11-12 October, 1989.