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• The cost of many international haulage permits is being halved from 1 January. The price of annual multilateral EC/ECMT permits, for example, will now cost £40 against £80.
Prices are being reduced because increases in quota permits mean the Department of Transport gains more revenue for little additional cost, says Roads and Traffic Minister Christopher Chope.
And in the New Year bilateral permits with Portugal are being scrapped and from 1 April with the Soviet Union.
"This is more good news for UK hauliers," says Chope. "It is important that our hauliers should be able to pick up and deliver loads freely anywhere in Europe. When permits are ended throughout the EC in 1993, British hauliers will be able at last to travel to most countries without the unnecessary bureaucracy of permits."
Other half-price permits include an annual period permit at £20, a three-month permit for £5 and a three-month multilateral permit at £10. I/ Nine coaches overloaded with duty-free beer belonging to trippers returning from France have been hit with immediate prohibitions after a spot-check outside Dover. A further 19 verbal warnings were given to drivers whose coaches were between five and 10% overweight and eight other offences were logged, ranging from drivers' hours to vehicle defects.
A total of 66 coaChes were put over the weighbridge at the A2/M2 Brenley Corner junction. "There still seems to be some confusion over' what weight these coaches can carry, but a 50-seater was never designed to carry huge weights," says chief inspector Stuart Donaldson, of Kent police.