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Hazard Labels Start New Safety Scheme
FIRST steps towards a comprehensive system of statutory controls for the carriage of dangerous substances by all types of transport come into operation on March 28,1979. Road......
Fight The Good Fight
IN THE latest of a string of anti-Price Commission report speeches, Road Haulage Association national chairman John Silbermann told Kent hauliers to fight a "serious threat". He......
More Roods Built
SPENDING on road maintenance throughout the country next year will be increased substantially over this year, promised John Horam, Under Secretary for Transport, last week.......
Cv Licence Totals
LICENSED in Septembet this year there were 2, commercial vehicles, same number as in the r five years. Giving this figure in House of Commons, Jc Horam, Under Secretary......
Tax Travel
IN 1977 15 per cent of pet was sold for commerc vehicles said John Hora Under Secretary for Trai port, in the Commons. Eigl per cent was sold for car an per cent for other uses.......
Austrian Tunnel
A £190m road tunnel on t Paris-Bucharest internatiot route was opened last week. The nine-mile tunnel unc the 5,910ft Arlberg mountz _connects St Anton and Lang in Austria.......
Regulations Prosecutions
IN 1976, the last year wh( figures were available, the were 83 prosecutions for ove length lorries in England ar Wales. Transport Secretar William Rodgers, who said th in the......