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• France
FERRYMASTERS Ferrymasters' French Division intends to continue its diversification into specialised services during 1987. One example is its small fleet of specially designed......
• W. Germany
CLOSED PARKS Truck drivers using the motorways through Bavaria are warned that several of the smaller car parks at motorway services are closed for the winter season.......
• Italy
PIGGY BACK The Italian railway plans to introduce a piggy-back road-rail system for trucks in the near future, over long hauls such as Milan-Rome (8 hours), and Tu rin-Naples......
• Spain Pro Scania According To Scania. Spain Has Become
one of its leading European customers buying around 700 trucks in 1986, twice as many as in 1985. Scania buses are popular in Spain, too. Sales of these increased to more than......
• Denmark
HGV SAFETY Higher technical standards and measures to reduce driver fatigue would help improve the safety record of heavy goods vehicles on Danish roads — one fatal accident in......
• Hungary For Shell
A new Shell dery and petrol filling station has been opened near Mosonmagyarovar in western Hungary on the M-1 near the Austrian border.......
Nussr Methane
Experiments in the USSR on improving the economics of long-distance vehicle operations have shown that a methane-diesel combination is the best fuel to use. Extensive tests with......
• Usa Forwarding
To reinforce its North American presence, New Yorkbased Alltransport, a subsidiary of DaNzas, of Basle, Switzerland, has acquired the assets of forwarder and customhouse broker......
• Usa Deregulation The Initial Enthusiasm Over The...
the US haulage industry has faded, now that some of the major companies are beginning to squeeze out the competition. Around 17,000 new firms have entered the industry since the......
• Nbc Harrop Sir Peter Harrop Has Been Named As A...
Until his retirement last year, Harrop was Second Permanent Secretary in the Department of the Environment. He entered the civil service in 1949.......
• Infotacn
BLOXSOME Trowbridge-based tachograph specialist Infotach has appointed a former Department of Transport officer to the board of subsidiary lnfotach Data. Bernard Bloxsome, who......
• Leyland Allison Ian Allison Has Been Appointed National...
service manager for Leyland Trucks. He will oversee after-sales support for major accounts, reporting to national sales and service director Brian Smith. Allison has been with......
• Brs
EDWARDS David Edwards has been promoted to run vehicle operations at BRS Midlands' Birmingham branch. He was previously manager of BRS Midlands' Leicester branch and will now be......
• Meadows Wright David Wright Has Been Appointed Manager Of
freight forwarder Thomas Meadows' Greenwich depot. He will be responsible for customer service in Essex.......
• Go-ahead Ben I Lson Neil Renilson Is The New
operations manager of the Gateshead NBC subsidiary GoAhead Northern. He has been with the NBC since 1977, and succeeds Alan Jackson, who is retiring after 36 years in the bus......
• Carrymaster Jennings Sid Jennings Has Been Appointed...
manager for Carrymaster. He will be working with three new regional sales managers: Jim Sherry (Scotland), John Soffe (Midlands) and Ian Ashby (South of England).......
• Smith Bros Gearing Bob Gearing Is The New Sales Manager...
designer and manufacturer of automatic vehicle washing systems.......