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Loaded Gv Tests
again at the issue of laden test vehicles, but claims: "There are sound reasons to continue to require unladen vehicles for driving test purposes." But the Road Haulage......
Cardiff Currie
III Specialist transport group Walter Runciman has bought Cardiff International for £3.8m, giving Runciman's Currie Line new depots in Caerphilly and Zeebrugge, and warehousing......
Ballot Passion
• Police have received a complaint over an alleged irregularity in the balloting procedure for the Transport and General Workers' Union national executive ballot, being re-run......
Crash Pad
• Europe's first crash pad able to test 40-tonners is to be built in NeumOnster, West Germany, on land belonging to the German motor vehicle monitoring association Dekra.......
Labour's Safety Switch
• A Labour government would introduce tough legislation making transport operators corporately responsible for the safety of their operations. Accidents would no longer be......
Single-minded Progress
• There will definitely be a Single Road Transport Market in Europe by 1993, says EC transport director-general Eduardo Pena — but he warns that the opening-up of Eastern Europe......
More Artics
• There was a 20% increase in the number of five-axle HGVs on Britain's roads last year, but three and four-axle artics fell 11% and 4% respectively.......
Cement Deal
• Scunthorpe-based Clugston Distribution has won a three-year, £10m contract to deliver cement products for Frodingham Cement of Scunthorpe.......
Dutch Deal
• TIP Europe has acquired Mobiel Beheer, the Dutch mobile office leasing specialist, for £6.3m.......
More Jail
• Cheshire haulier Stanley Femyhough, who was jailed for 15 months last September for stealing part-loads of grain (CM 5-11 October 1989), has been jailed for a further nine......
Rates Slammed
• Distribution specialist Exel Logistics has slammed the Government's plans for a Uniform Business Rate as "patently unfair and inflationary".......
Motorway Link
• The Department of Transport has won its High Court battle to build 3km of M1 link road through the Colne Valley, Hertfordshire.......
Urban Artics
• AWD's first new urban artics have gone into operation with Mansfield Breweries. Two of the 2.5m-wheelbase Perkins Phaser turbo dieselpowered TL21-26 tractor units plated at 21......