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      <title>Rack safety inspection partnership</title>
      <description>The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has joined with the Storage Equipment Safety Service (SESS) to provide a rack safety inspection service.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Freight operators and lorry makers clean up</title>
      <description>Vehicle manufacturers and lorry operators have made great progress in cleaning up London's air, according to the Freight Transport Association.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dangerous goods shipping guidance welcomed</title>
      <description>New guidance aimed at shippers and logistics providers in the retail distribution sector dealing with dangerous goods in 'limited quantities' in their supply chains has been welcomed by the FTA.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Freight transport manifesto for Scotland</title>
      <description>The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has published 'A Freight Transport Manifesto for Scotland' outlining the transport and distribution needs within Scotland and for import/export.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/fei/fei114.html</link>
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      <title>Recorded driver time reminder</title>
      <description>Lorry drivers carrying out work away from the vehicle between 06.00 and 08.00 hours BST, must record the work into the digital tachograph as work carried out between 05.00 and 07.00 hours UTC.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Budget effects on freight transport</title>
      <description>Information, analysis and reaction to the Chancellor's statement and its effect on industry's transport operations was provided by Freight Transport Association.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
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      <title>No truck fuel duty harmonisation in Europe</title>
      <description>Freight Transport Association has expressed disappointment at plans by the European Commission not to properly address the competitive distortions created by wide variations in diesel duty.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
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      <title>Bouyant road freight market suggests optimism</title>
      <description>Freight Transport Association's quarterly market trends survey suggests that the domestic road freight market remains buoyant so far this year after the busiest festive season since the survey began.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
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      <title>Improved rail freight paths to the Humber ports</title>
      <description>Improved rail freight paths to the Humber Ports have been welcomed by The Freight Transport Association.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
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      <title>Road pricing natural inevitability</title>
      <description>The Chief Executive of the FTA has said that success is dependent upon ability to deliver goods on time and that road congestion is a very serious and growing threat to individual companies.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
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      <title>Freight costs affected by rail charges</title>
      <description>The Office of Rail Regulation has issued its advice to the Government on the setting of track access charge caps.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
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      <title>Network for freight quality is aired</title>
      <description>The Freight Quality Partnership Network is to be showcased at the Freight Transport Association's Freight Summit, intended to improve the operation and management of freight deliveries.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/fei/fei103.html</link>
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      <title>Association for freight transport</title>
      <description>Road enforcement efforts on major trade routes should be reinforced, according to the Freight Transport Association's Freight Transport Council.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/fei/fei104.html</link>
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      <title>Liability plans for freight operators questioned</title>
      <description>The Freight Transport Association has told the Department for Transport that making operators absolutely liable for all offences committed by their drivers is unacceptable and unworkable..</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
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      <title>Transport facilities urged by association</title>
      <description>The Freight Transport Association's National Council claims that the Highways Agency should see the provision of adequate facilities as fundamental as creating roads.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
      <link>http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/fei/fei106.html</link>
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      <title>UK conference to discuss freight transport</title>
      <description>Efficient transport and delivery of goods - covering all transport modes - will be discussed and reviewed at the Freight Transport Association's 2007 Freight Summit conference.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Freight Transport Association</category>
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