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• The Drivers Action Movement and the British Diabetic Association presented a 1,500-signature petition to 10 Downing Street this week protesting against legislation that restricts some diabetics from driving LGVs.
• A working group of the European Counc is to meet this week to try and resolve the row between the French government and the EU over the length of trucks used in Europe (CM 30 May-5 June).
• The case against Cumbriabased livestock haulier T Bell & Sons was adjourned until 12 July at a Carlisle court hearing last week. Bell directors Ian and Mark Bell and 11 drivers face nearly 100 tachograph, hours and record summonses.
• LGV drivers can get free for the next six weeks at 24 motorway service areas. Results from the tests will be used in a study by Vauxhall and Aston University researching standards of drivers' eyesight.
a Increased demand has enabled ERF to return to a working
Workers had been on a three-day week for several months.
• Last year] 30 CV drivers were killed in road accidents, up from 105 in 1994.
• Agricultural haulier Redpaths of Wooler, Northumberland, a subsidiary of Blyth-based Fergusons Transport, has bought Ash ington-based Bells. Red paths now runs 200 vehicles and 400 trailers.
Express parcels carrier has increased its
operating by 14% to £50.1m.