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• ERF boss Peter Foden has denied industry rumours that the firm is about to be bought by MAN.
• The proportion of freight carried by road :qv-eased by 15% to 85% between 1965 and 1994, Parliament was told last week.
• Essex police have launched a four-week crackdown against -)eeding drive, on all roads across the county. A similar campaign in September caught 6,234 speeding drivers.
• A 1.8-million-tonne sand and gravel extraction scheme is being considered by Barking and Dagenham Council: it has triggered massive local objections.
• The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has halved the price of some of its N-prefix range of per sonaiised number plates.
• British Transport Police are hying to trace the driver of a truck which was left on a railway track near Wakefield and was hit by a 100mph train. The flatbed rigid is thought to have been used on an attempted break-in at a sewage works.
• Next summer Securicor Omega Express will open a £30m parcels hub at Hatfield on the Al. The 18acre centre will join sites at Coalville and Vauxhall.