BRIEFS
Page 6
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
• A Private Member's bill introducing a national vehicle register showing if a truck is on finance, stolen, is an insurance write-off or is clocked (CM 21-27 April 1994), is due for a second reading in parliament on 10 February.
Prime Minister John Major said earlier this week that he hoped rail privatisation would remove Britain's railways From the "comedian's joke book and turn them into the envy of the world."
• Rail track charges for rail freight users are expected to remain around or above current levels, following publication this month of guidance on charges from the independent rail regulator.
• West Sussex County Council is trying to reduce the impact of the truck by publishing a map indicating the most ..)itable roads for trucks and spending £50,000 on road repairs, footways and kerbs.
• The car transporting arm of Tibbett & Britten, :Axial, has been appointed by Honda UK to deliver cars built at its Swindon factory. 11,000 Accords and Civics will be delivered to Southampton docks a year.
• A lorry driver who knocked down two hitch-hikers in June 1993, killing one of them, has been convicted of ....the less driving and fined 2250 together with 2148 costs at Wells Magistrates Court.
The family of Derbyshire lecturer Susan Williams, killed by a rJnaway fru( with defective brakes in 1992, have criticised as unfair a public inquiry into the truck's operator (see page 11).