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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11007
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) transport

New salvo against mega-trucks crossing borders

Brussels, 29/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - A number of transport associations have warned that inter-modality is being threatened by the revised directive on the weights and dimensions of lorries (96/53/EC). There is a growing mobilisation against the mega trucks, whose authorisation to cross borders is envisaged as part of this review. Voting on the revision is due at the European Parliament transport committee (TRAN) meeting in February, on the basis of the draft report by Jörg Leichtfried...

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