Brussels is the start!
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STARTING the 1981 season of commercial vehicle shows the Brussels event — from January 15 to 25 — will feature a new layout to highlight the activities of Belgian suppliers to the road transport industry.
Importers — and this is a market which has always attracted makers from almost every vehicle-building country in the world — will support the show with a wide range of chassis and equipment exhibits. Belgium has not experier the severe drop in cv regi; tions which other Europ countries have recorded in 1 For the first six months of year 20,000 new registration: presented a reduction of aril) per cent over the same peric 1979.
Over the same period number of companies operators, with only one vel has declined from 4,185 to 2 and the average fleet size gone up from 4.05 to vehicles.
There are now 518 compa engaged in road haulage in gium with 21 or more veh per fleet; this marks an incr of over 100 per cent over 193 The total payload capacil all vehicles in the V-permit tor of hire reward haulage shown a similar expansion tor from the 1970 figurE 292,000 tonnes to 609, tonnes ten years on.