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A DATE for the meeting of EEC transport ministers which will decide the next issue of deferring the introduction of the eight-hour driving day and tachographs in Britain has been fixed. It will take place on October 15 in Luxembourg.
AN unlimited mileage 12-month warranty is now being offered on Simca vans sold in Britain. The warranty is part of a new sales campaigni which includes a free breakdown service, free replacement for certain parts which wear out during the warranty arid a new system of vehicle preparation at dealers.
A CALL for a ban on heavy vehicles using A591 through the Lake District has been made by an environmental pressure group, called Friends of the Lake District. The group says hgvs damage walls, buildings, bridges and verges.
CONSERVATIVE peer Lord de Clifford is to ask the Government in the Lords next month what progress has been made in the research programme into the problem of sheets of dangerous mud and spray thrown up by multiwheeled vehicles travelling at high speeds. He also wants to know whether they have any proposals to mitigate the . danger during the coming winter.
FROM MONDAY the Freight Transport Association's head and South East region office moves from Croydon to Hermes House, St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 9UZ (tel 0892 26171).
THE operating profits of United Transport group, British Electric Traction subsidiary, at £11,676,000 for the year ended March 31 were again a record. Road transport activities at home contributed to this but the bulk of the activities are overseas; the main growth was in freight and passenger business in Africa.
But group profit for BET — 54,000 employees in spheres from TV to oil exploration — contracted to £37.75m after seven years of growth.