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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * UK -
* FTA tells government it backs LHV trials
London,UK -Motor Transport/Road Transport, by Roger Brown -13 March 2008: -- The FTA has reiterated its support to the government of on-road trials of longer, heavier vehicles (LHVs) in the UK... Theo De Pencier, FTA chief executive, in a letter to transport secretary Ruth Kelly, says "some of the largest logistics businesses in the country" are willing to invest in controlled and monitored trials... The letter comes as the government has once again postponed the publication date of the long-delayed Transport Research Laboratory/Heriot-Watt University 'desk-based' study into the feasibility of LHV operation in the UK...
* 'Dog ate my tachos' story leads to suspension
Dunfermline,Scotland,UK -Commercial Motor/Road Transport, by Mike Jewell -13 March 2008: -- Vehicle maintenance problems, along with drivers' hours and tachograph breaches, have resulted in two of the three operational vehicles belonging to Ronald Mentiplay, trading as Murray Mentiplay, being suspended for eight weeks, and his LGV driving licence for four... Mentiplay appeared before the Scottish Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken. He blamed a failure to produce tachograph records on their being eaten by his son Gary's dog, which had died as a result of ingesting them... The TC was told that five immediate and four delayed prohibitions had been issued since 2002. There had been five refusal to clear and variation notices... Mentiplay was required to produce charts for 7 August to 29 November, which he did following a reminder. An analysis of those charts revealed 3,243 kilometres missing, and he claimed these charts had been destroyed by the dog...
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