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* A handful of hauliers have finally received compensation payments from the French for losses suffered during November's blockades—but hundreds more are still waiting.
* Forty-tonne trucks may now travel from the Swiss border to areas close to the cities of Kreuzlingen, Laufental, Schaanwald, St Margrethen, Tessin and Unterwallis. The rest of the country is still covered by the 28-tonne national limit.
A Operators interested in buying a family-run French haulier, which runs 51 vehicles with 74 staff, should contact Jacques-Henri Garban, secretary-general of the AFTRI in Paris on 00 331 5353 0240.
* The German trade association BWV has warned that drivers can be fined for speeding over 80mph, even if the infringement shows up on old tacho charts.
* The Dutch government plans to allow its hauliers to reclaim its increase in fuel duty of five cents a litre for vehicles over I 2 tonnes for purchases of over 100 litres.
The Road Haulage Association reminds operators that the Italians have no legal basis in forcing foreign operators to carry Italian speed stickers. This follows another report of a driver being wrongly fined for not displaying the stickers.
Motorway tolls on Hungary's MI have risen to 3,200 forints (210) for the Gy6r-Hegyeshalom section and 4,000 forints l£12.601 on the M5 between Budapest and Kecskemet.