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• A campaign to stop drivers hogging the middle and outside lanes of motorways has been requested by Conservative MP John Butcher in parliamentary questions to Transport Secretary John MacGregor.
• The winner of the CI Oma-year Courage Breweries' off-trade and supermarket deliveries contract is expected to be announced "imminently'.
• The Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators says it will send the Office of Fair Trading a copy of the letter from the RAC which AVRO claims threatens its members with a loss of RAC business: the RAC welcomes the move.
• A bill introduced into the Commons by MP Cynog Dafis on Monday (July 11) aims to force the Department of Transport to publish a yearly plan of how it will reduce traffic levels by 10% by 2010.
• Roads minister Robert Key has rebuffed a plea from Teeside hauliers for
the t, A66 to be dualled: last week there was a five-truck pileup on a single-carriageway section of the A66 in Cumbria.
• Truck driver Norman Coventry of Victoria Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, has pleaded guilty to stealing almost £10,000-worth of diesel fuel from his employer Quantock Transport.