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Cab Choice For Erf Tractor Launch
by Brian Weatherley ERF plans to launch two brand new tractive units by September: one with a steel cab, the other made from SMC. Speaking at last week's Birmingham CV Show......
• A Plan To Base Five Trucks On A Farm
near Gloucester is being opposed by English Nature because vehicle movements could disturb swans on nearby meadows. Bewick swans winter on Walmore Common near Westbury-on-Severn......
• A Department Of Transport Cabotage Survey Indicates...
"cabotage penetration rate of foreign operators in the UK" is just 0.06%—a figure which some British hauliers are bound to question. The survey, carried out earlier this year by......
Car-rac Set To Move Cars On Rails
• Nationwide trials are under way to test an ,ntermodal car transportation system. Freightliner subsidiary Autoliner is tailing the Car-Rac system which uses a single container......