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• Eighty-nine people died in
OCC■C LGVs during 1994, says the DOT. There were also 222 serious and 436 slight accidents involving trucks for the same period. Road deaths for all vehicles fell by 164 to a record low of 3,650.
• Exel Logistics is to ski .f Cambridge de.bot in mid August with the possible loss of 40 jobs as part of "restructuring" its Newsflow division. Exel says it will try to find work for drivers based at the depot.
"Eurovignettes" for motor way tolls are at the Customs House and Total service station on Baron de Maerelaan in Zeebrugge, as well as the Freight Lines office in Ostend.
• Ivan Couchman, former chief executive of Hammond Group Holdings, has issued a High Court w.1 against the firm claiming substantial damages for breach of the settlement contract negotiated in April.
A House of Lords select Committee on Sustainable Development has called for drastic on nci as a vehicle Fuel to encourage its use and development in the UK.
More than 300 of Scotland's business leaders have called on the Government to set up and coordinate a Scottish trinsport policy. They have set out a nine-point plan to improve Scotland's transport infrastructure.
EU tachograph legislation will be stalled for at least six months because Spain has taken over the EU presidency and is not interested in reforms that would burden hauliers with extra costs.