BRIEFS • Cheshire haulier [le, Ham and SOH has ordered
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more than 700 new Leyland Dafs, boosting its fleet to 230.
Newport police are seeking a tanker driver responsi
ble for a on the A48 at about 19:00hrs on 30 January which caused six accidents.
Contact: 01633 245276.
Hauliers working abroad should be aware of the new Statutory Off Road NotifiCC' "1 rules (CM 18-31 Dec 1997). Before leaving the UK they should declare SORN on vehicles which will be untaxed in their absence.
• Tolls for vehicles with more than four axles using the
e,us Alpine Tunnel have been set at 950FF single and 1 ,524FF return.
*Tolls on the Severn Bridge have increased to £12.10 for HGVs and £8.10 for vans.
• The British Diabetic Association says the
Government is discriminating against diabetic drivel! by banning them from vehicles over 3.5 tonnes (see Driver's News in next week's issue).
A truck driver fined £100 with £80 costs for failing to use a ,actlograpi correctly said his employer had never shown him how to use it.
• Tony Eyres owner of Fewston Transport whose vehicle killed six people in 1993, has been ban lied from being a company diraciar for Five years following a prosecution for accounting irregularities.