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A future Labour Government is unlikely to back 44-tonne lorries, says I ony Blair. It would threaten a fifth of rail freight traffic and add 60m lorry miles a year, he claims.
• Weekday and weekend LGV driving test fees will rise from 1 April by E3 to 265 and £83 if proposals from the DSA go ahead.
Dutch driver Theodorus Sterrenberg was this week at Canterbury Crown Court after admitting smuggling hashish worth over £1m.
Sweden has delayed joining the huro Vignette system until July 1997 or January 1998.
• Slough reefer operator Logistl has bought Colnbrook-based Pan
Express International Transport for an undisclosed sum. The firm runs 32 vehicles and had a turnover of £3.2m last year.
• Repair work to Hammersmith Bridge, expected to last a year, is to be delayed six months after it was closed to all traffic for safety reasons this week.
• PO Ferrymasters is to axe 19 drivers jobs at its Calais depot in France.
Robert Kean of Reepham Road, Norwich has been
cleared of 11 charges after a two-week trial at Harrow Crown Court. Kean denied smuggling 390kg of cannabis resin.
• The Vehicle Inspectorate wants to expand the number of privateiy owned garages approved to hold annual tests (designated premises) by an extra 10 this year.
• Details of weighbridges in Wiltshii0 are included in Haulage Factfile (page 17) as they were omitted from the recent weighbridge guides (CM 2, 9, and 16 January).