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• Accident investigator, are asking for the driver of a two-axle blue tipper travelling east on Stainton Way, Marton, Middlesbrough at 14:10hrs on Tuesday 12 October to come forward. Contact PC Jordan: (0642) 301558.
• Up to 20 hauliers a minute will be held up as
anti-truck c plan weekly one-hour road blocks in Thetford High Street, Norfolk. More than 50 locals called for a complete High Street truck ban in the town.
it A legal challenge to efforts by the Netherlands and Belgium to rescue truck manufacturer Daf is being launched by the EC—it is asking the two Governments to explain .tate subsidies to Dal.
New goods vehicle registrations did better in the year to September than motor vehicles as a whole. LGV registration rose 13% in eight months to 32,000 compared to a 9% rise for all tax classes.
• Carlisle-based haulier Eddie Stab' is looking for a buyer For a depot at Burton on Trent. It moved its haulage business to neighbouring Fradley, Staffordshire, three months ago.
• A Spanish truck driver who bashed a bridge in Herne Hill, south-east London, last week blamed the difficulty of converting feet into metres for his accident. He was not hurt and has not been charged.