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• Tom Llewellyn of Econofreight Transport and member of the Road Haulage Association's national council was ed an OBE in this year's New Year Honours For his services to the road h-cinsport industry.
cind van production enjoyed a year-on-year rise
of to 21,914 vehicles last November, according to the latest figures from the SMMT.
• French truck driver Bruno Daniel Desbois has been fined E5,000 for drink-driving in the UK after his 38tanner crashed into a wood off the Al 1 in Norfolk.
• ERF made a pre-tax loss for the six months ending 2 October 1993 of £479,000 compared to a loss of £2.7m in 1992. The company says it has undergone "improved operating efficiencies and stringent cost savings measures".
• Twenty new motorway service areas are currently being planned following last year's MSA deregulation. But none of the sites, which are on the AIM, MA, M5, M6, M18, M20, M40, M25, M54, and the M56, is exclusively for LGVs.
• An independent survey by the National Audit Office found that 35% of drivers and 25% of those who kept vehicles reported that there were one or more errors in their records at the DVLA.
• A temporary 'ruck ban in the Nottinghamshire village of could be lifted next week. Council chiefs will decide whether to allow 70 vehicles a day through to service the nearby British Gypsum plant.