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• The Department of Transport plans to introduce credit-card size driving licences displaying a photograph of the holder by July 1996.
• Truckwatch—the theftbusting fax ring scheme pioneered by the Road Haulage Association in the West Midlands—is to be extended to northern England this auturnn.
• Beck & Po(!Pzer says it will use 21 of 25 subcontractors it discussed rates with for its three-year contract with the Courage Beer Company, worth an annual £10m (CM 28 July-3 August).
• The Government may introduce VAT on parcels and franked post if it goes ahead with plans to privatise the Post Office this autumn.
• A British truck driver found carrying 45 cases of beer was fined £170 by Custo, and Excise and had his drink confiscated after a roadside check on the A34 at Marcham, Oxfordshire on Monday (8 August).
• In a bid to beat )nrcensed haulier Senior Licensing Authority Ronnie Ashford wants the Department of Transport to look at ways in which customers of road hauliers could be made more responsible for the operators they hire.