In Deep Water

Dr Foster, you may recall, went to Gloucester in a shower of rain. Because of a cut in public spending and consequent neglect of footpaths, he stepped in a puddle right up to......

Sunk Without Trace

As if the British tax system were not already complicated almost beyond comprehension, Prof Foster, an economist to his finger tips, wants the track costs of "each category of......

Beating Cheating

I gather that the New Zealand Government is opposed to a fuel tax because it believes that it will give rise to widespread cheating. W. Knox, of the National Roads Board, is......

Spike Thieves' Guns

Thieves are still attacking lorry tyres with two 6in nails in a piece of wood. Three Roadline drivers have recently beaten attempts by this means to steal their loads. The......

About Turn

The Road Haulage Association, which lost appeals to the Transport Tribunal against the grant of licences to three applicants whose operating centres were regarded as dubious,......

Citizen Smiths

Publication of the Foster repor recommending that roadsidE checks of lorries should be madE by night as well as by da coincided with the wors weather for 15 years and mus have......