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Marker Trials To Beat Rear Collisions
• Starting this week, a new form of marking for commercial vehicles will be tried out on 16 Metropolitan Police vehicles, for an experimental period. The experiment, which......
The Bill: More Regional Lobbying
• Last week's meeting of the Northern division of TRTA with the Northern group of Labour MPs was a highly successful operation, I understand. More than half of the 30-strong......
Towards Angry Deadlock On Wages?
by our industrial correspondent • There may be angry strike demands from Britain's 200,000 lorry drivers if their claim for E1-a-week all-round rises is rejected by the Road......
Hauliers Will Provide Half Of Freightliner Loads
• Hopes that the success of the Freightliner system would be achieved not by political direction but by customers choosing of their own volition to use the most economical and......
Test Stations Won't All Be Ready
• Determined to start the heavy goods vehicle testing scheme on July 1 as planned, but faced with the fact that some official stations will not be completed in time, the......
French Could Beat Scots
• French potatoes could be sold in London at a lower price than the Scottish product if the Transport Bill is passed (writes lain Sherrill). Reason: the "wear and tear" tax......