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• Tolls could make motorways more dangerous, according to a survey by the Association of British Drivers. It says the death toll per kilometre is much higher in countries with motorway tolling.
* Hull-based North Sea Ferries is likely to relocate all its combi and RO-RO vessels to Riverside Terminal One when new stability rules make them too wide to reach Hull's King George dock.
• Fear of failing to find suitable distribution channels is a major problem for small UK exporters, says a
NatWest review.
• New regulations to simplify and reduce the cost of producing company reports and accounts come into force on 1 September.
• The growth in pods vehicle traffic stopped in the second quarter of 1995 but light van traffic grew by 2%.
• Debt and interest burdens kept Central Transport Rental Group 235.7m in the red in the year to 30 April although sales rose 7% to C151.2m. Useage of the trailer fleet rose from 74% to 81%.
• The International Rood Transport Union is to train 500 drivers in eastern Europe. It is subsidising 80% of the 250 cost per driver.
• Lord Atiee has been appointed honorary president of the Heavy Transport Association; Jon Hugill has been re-elected chairman.