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Hgv Check Nabs 78
• A traffic check last week on the Al in Cambridgeshire unveiled 78 offences including one of using a vehicle exceeding permitted lengths. The offending over-length Dutch......
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air hits roads harder • Top scientists at the Government-funded Transport and Road Research Laboratory have discovered that airsuspension systems can be more damaging to road......
Rtitb Cuts Training Le
• The 1989/90 transport training levy has been cut by 25% to 0.6% as the first stage in the phasing-out of the Road Transport Industry Training Board. Pamela Marshall from the......
Police Plan Truck Seizure
• Police plan to confiscate trucks in a crackdown on flytipping. A test case will be heard at Tower Bridge Magistrates next month after two drivers were caught dumping 20 tonnes......
Ec Slams German Road Tax Plans
• The EC Commission has slammed West German plans to slap a special tax from next year on lorries above 18 tonnes, Legally, the Germanscan still go ahead with the project — but......