• Tony Gilroy, managing director of Land Rover, is leaving
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the company in the New Year. He will be temporarily replaced by Land Rover director of manufacturing, John Towers. Gilroy's move is part of a number of changes in personnel at the top of the Rover Group.
• The Transport and General Workers Union's general executive has decided against blacking nuclear cargoes on roads, but it will continue to monitor the situation.
• Leyland Daf says that its quality-improvement scheme is continuing to bear fruit and last week chief executive George Simpson presented six company awards. So far 3,500 employees have been trained in American-style, market-led quality improvement schemes. In the past two years Leyland Daf has reduced warranty costs by 70%, doubled production, . cut warranty claims by 59% and also slashed the amount of manufacturing scrap by 60%.
• The north-eastern district of the Road Haulage Association is running a major campaign to attract new members into the organisation with the slogan "You don't just run trucks — you run a business."
• The Vehicle Inspectorate national training centre in Bristol, complete with stores and workshops, was due to be opened today (Thursday) by Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottornley.
el Because motorway traffic has shot up by 8% in the past year, Transport Secretary Paul Channon has abandoned plans to restrict the proposed M40 extension north of Oxford to two lanes instead of three.
• Approach roads to the Channel Tunnel in Kent are to benefit from an 287.5 million EEC subsidy aimed at improving transport infrastructure in the region.