NOVEMBER|2018 IN THIS ISSUE > Ups and downs in UK truck sales figures > EU gets tough on truck CO2 emissions TRUCK SALES DRIVES GOING TO WASTE DFT TALKS SENSE AT LAST ON OLD TYRES egular readers of Commercial Vehicle Engineer will know that we have not R hesitated to highlight much of the nonsense that has come from the government’s Department for Transport (DfT) in recent times. They may also EDITORIAL & DESIGN recall that eight months ago we were especially sceptical about the news that transport Immediate Network Ltd 6 Wey Court, Mary Road, Guildford, minister Jesse Norman had commissioned a Surrey GU1 4QU twelve-month, £250,000 study by TRL (still better known by its original name, t: 01483 546500 Transport Research Laboratory) into the precise effects of ageing on the safety of w: inl.co.uk e: cvengineer.com tyres. Nobody was being fooled, we maintained, by what looked like yet another government delaying tactic in the aftermath of an horrific 2012 fatal coach crash EDITOR caused by the catastrophic failure of a steer-axle tyre that was nearly 20 years old. Tim Blakemore Humble pie time. Judging by a House of Commons written statement from t: 01428 605605 Jesse Norman this month, just as this edition was being finalised, our judgment e:
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