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Iveco Rhapsody • Iveco Is Forming A Joint Venture With
Hungarian haulage firm Hungarocamion Spa. Teherauto Service Kft (Euro Truck Service) will provide Iveco with a sales, service and parts distribution in the country.......
No Deal
• Takeover talks collapsed between 430-truck rental firm Rockfield Contracts and Topmark Vehicle Contracts when both sides "failed to agree contractual terms".......
Out Of Africa • Leyland Des African Subsidiaries In Ghana,
Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe are to be sold off. They assemble, distribute and service vehicles.......
Black Mark • Replacing Tachographs With Airline-style...
prove ineffective and could cost the transport industry £100m, warns the FTA.......
Safer Link • A Dangerously Twisting Stretch Of The A36
in Wiltshire is set to be replaced with a new £8.5m dual carriageway. The road will link up the Codford and Heytesbury bypasses.; construction starts in 1995.......
Jobs Go • Up To 60 Drivers Will Be Made
redundant in September at the Manchester branch of Security Express. Union officials are meeting with the company to thrash out the final number.......
Definition Please • The Aa Is Lobbying The British Standards
Institution for a code of conduct to govern engine reconditioning, with a definition of the term "reconditioned".......
Hauliers Scorn Rail Plan
by Grant Prior • Hauliers in Kent are dismissing the local council's plans to lure 400,000 truck movements a year off the roads and on to rail. A consultation exercise began......
Tir Will Be Back In September
• International operators carrying tobacco and alcohol will have to wait until 1 September before moving their goods again under 'FIR carnet, the United Nations has decided.......
T He Ec Commission Has Agreed To A New Law Giving
member states more power to deal with counterfeit goods, including truck spare parts from nonEC countries. Community Customs Commissioner Christiane Scrivener says that......