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Tests: Fee Up 12pc?
ANOTHER 12 per cent increase in heavy goods vehicle test fees is looming this summer, before the test stations are sold to Lloyd's Register of Shipping, reports ALAN MILLAR. The......
Dtp Rigid On Downplating
OPERATORS will get no reprieve from the Department of Transport if they cannot have their 38-tonne tractive units downplated to 32.5 tonnes before May 1 — even if heavy goods......
Norfolk Line In The Clear
HEAVY GOODS vehicles registered abroad will not be required to have sideguards as a condition of operating in Britain. Transport Secretary David Howell told Shadow Secretary......
Ground Room
A RESTRICTION is to be im posed on the minimum grounc clearance of lorries to avoid thc risk of grounding at level-cross ings, says the Department a Transport. British Rail is......
Brs Rental
BRITISH ROAD Services opener another truck rental location at Bridgwater, Somerset — las week. Eight vehicles, rangint from Transits to an ERF 32.l tonne tractive unit, are or......
Howe 'wrong', Says Mp
A WARNING that hauliers' profits could be slashed by the new rates of tax on heavy lorries has come from an MP. Selly Oak Tory MP, Anthony Beaumont-Dark, told CM that an......