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7th December 1989, Page 7
7th December 1989
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Cabotage Scheme

ird clause, which will be mered if more than 30% of total cabotage operations concentrated in one coun, when the EC Commission y take "appropriate safety asures". ',:abotaging......

Atkins Hours

• The Department of Transport is reconsidering its interpretation of the drivers hour's regulations. This follows the decision at Burnley Crown Court in the Mayfield Chicks......

Gone Under

• Specialist bodybuilder CB Cottingham has gone into receivership. Receivers Ernst & Young hopes to sell the company as a going concern. Cottingham manufactures bodies and......

Truck Stops

• Plans for a chain of 20 new UK truck stops have been launched by Norfolk House, the petrol station and sales promotion group, which this week bought the Truckers truck stop......

Deficit Up

• Britain's trade deficit in commercial vehicles increased by almost 25% during the first nine months of the year — the value of exports exceeded imports by ,2735......

Oxford Profits

• The Oxford Bus Company, in its second year of operation since deregulation, has boosted its profits by 36% to 2919,000.......

Shared Blame 11 Uk Food Retailer Asda Blames Distribution...

for some of the 25% fall in its interim pre-tax profits in the first half of this year.......

Rl Branches Out 1 The Vehicle Inspectoite Is To Provide...

ationally for heavy lorries the new year, paving the ay for further private en:rprise services to the aulage industry as the chicle Inspectorate exbits its semi-privatised ex......

Tecruits Warning I Hauliers Must Change Le Image Of The

tuck inustry and start paying be er rates to attract school ..avers to the industry, cams David McLintock, resident of the Scottish 4otor Trade Association.......

Iuro Licences

1 Transport minister tobert Atkins says new :C-style HGV and PSV [riving licences will be inreduced from 1991.......

Vaste Deals

UK Waste Control has con three local authority caste contracts, together earth 21.27m, with Tenring District, Three Rivers nd Lliw Borough.......

Fewer Deaths On Uk Roads Last Year

• The number of deaths on Britain's roads last year was 5,052 — the lowest since 1954. The number of HGV drivers and passengers killed last year was down from 75 to 73. A......

Imperial Merger Move

• Imperial Tankers plans to merge with another UK tanker operator by 1990, and the strongest contender is thought to be Sadler Tankers of Thornaby in Cleveland. Sadler Tanker's......

Ec Demands Vocational Certificate

• Drivers of vehicles carrying dangerous goods must hold a vocational training certificate valid for five years, say EC transport ministers. The certificates will be compulsory......