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SECURE PARKING IN ITALY • A 24-hour guarded lorry park in the Quadrante Europe of the international freight depot in Verona can now be used by TIR operators running into Italy. The site can accept up to 200 heavy trucks. It has restaurants, showers and shops and is equipped with a computerised electronic security system.
For further information contact Raffaello Vinco, Direttore, Consorzio Zona AgricoloIndustriale (ZAI), 1-37100 Verona. (045) 59 65 77.
ST GOTHARD TRANSIT DETAILS • The International Road Transport Union has given the times that HGVs can use the St Gotthard tunnel between Switzerland and Italy, whose approach roads have been severely damaged by recent bad weather.
A general prohibition on heavy lorries remains between Amsteg and Wassen with the following exceptions: 0 For light and heavy passenger transport vehicles (coaches).
0 For heavy vehicles up to 16 tonnes GVW.
0 For heavy trucks up to 28 tonnes GVW/GCW at the following times, from 05.00 to 08.00hrs and from 17.00 to 21.00hrs.
BUYING DIESEL IN HUNGARY • New diesel purchase vouchers (for five and 20 litres), which can be purchased in convertable currency have been introduced in Hungary. Vouchers of the old type may be exchanged against the new ones at exchange offices up to 31 March, 1988. From the beginning of this month diesel oil will be sold exclusively against the new vouchers.