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• A House of Lords Select Committee hears evidence this week on the implications for the waste management industry of the European Commission's proposals for a directive on landfill of waste.
• The northern office of the Road Haulage Association is moving from Darlington to new premises at Junction 26 of the M62 this week.
• Six-week evaluation trials allowing operators to order by phone and pay by credit card will begin next week with three national operators.
• Freightliner is in profit for the first time. It has announced six-month profits of around £500,000.
• A lorry driver on the M27 at Bursledon, Southampton checiA death when vandals dropped a rock on to his windscreen. Police are looking for two teenage boys, possibly wearing school blazers, in connection with the incident.
• Chichester District Council is to switch to low-sulphur Teen diesel for its 23 refuse vehicles and 26 vans.
• An unmanned Volvo 17tonner, operated by Thetford haulier Brian Cater which killed a 15-year-old boy after rolling downhill in Highcliffe Dorset earlier this month has been given a can bili of heaith by police examiners.
• Renault VI has announced a management restructure which will include the appointment of a group quality manager. Technical management in trucks and components will be consolidated under executive vice-president Pierre Lecog.