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• Greenwich Borough Council is to review its six month han on HGVs using Romney Rood on 6 November. The ban will depend on noise and pollution measurements.
• Denise Edwards of Dudley is asking truck drivers to pin up posters of her
daughbl: in cafes. Kim Edwards and her friend Nicola White have been missing since 11 September.
• Police will not release details of a rood rcruo incident between a truck driver and car driver in Crwbin, Carrnarthenshire on 18 September. A 26-year-old man has been released on bail after arrest on suspicion of making threats to kill.
• Little Bentley, near Clacton, Essex is inning trucks of more than 17 tonnes. Local councillors are calling for restrictions in nearby Thorpele-Soken, which will bear the brunt of the diverted trucks.
• Rood Safety Minister John Bowis is asking local authorities to bid for a share of £1m set aside to create urban 20mph zow, . after a six-year study showed they cut accidents by around 60%.
• Transport group ,
Holdings has bought car distribution and wheel clamping firm Arcade Traffic management for £2.02m.
• Truck drivers spend less than 1% of their time in motorway traffic jams and average mire than 50mph on two thirds of the rood network, says the DOT.
• United Transport is the Institute of logistics' Logistics Company of the Year.