Leyland Daf Hits Financia Crisis • The Truck...

was left reeling this by the announcement that Leyland Daf, the UK's market leader, is on the brink of receivership leaving thousands of jobs and some of the industry's most......

C/wwins Licence Battle • More Than 100 Truck And Bus

drivers denied vocational driving licences since April 1991 because they suffered childhood epileptic fits have won the right to work again. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing......

Green Group Calls For Road Controls • The Department Of

Transport's bias in favour of the roads must end if damage to the countryside is to be reduced, a leading environmental group declared last week. he DOT is one of mmendations of......

Tax Call • Mick Binns, Generalsecretary Of The National...

Association, is calling on drivers who spot expired tax discs on working trucks to report them to him. NODA wants the Traffic Commissioners to clamp down on illegal operations.......

Heavies Rise • Registrations Of 38tonners Increased By...

year but growth in the overall truck parc remained flat, despite a 5% year-onyear rise in December.......

Road Row • The New Ec Transport Commissioner Abel Matutes

has said that new infrastructure may have to be financed by "direct payment for road use". But RHA international representative Bob Duffy has warned Matutes against increasing......

Stiff Sentence?

• Truck racing champion Steve Parrish will appear in court this month for possessing an obscene number plate. Police told him the characters PEN 15 on his Mercedes sports car......

Peak Prices • Peak Pricing Of Tolls On The Forth

Road Bridge is among the options for improving transport links around the Firth of Forth set out in a new Scottish Office consultation document, Setting Forth.......

Fees Fall • Fees For Heavy Good Vehicle And Bus

driving tests brought in almost £3.6m for the Department of Transport last year —a fall of over £1m on 1990-91.......