• Leyland Daf plans to spend 150 million in the
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UK over the next five years, partly on a new van range for the 1990s — with or without a partner.
• 1RTU secretary-general Pieter Groenendijk, has appointed Arend Jan Westerink as his successor. Westerink is director of the Dutch road transport organisation SNIWO.
• Claims that the Government is short-changing road users over highway spending have been denied by Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley who says English road spending will cost 22.9 billion this financial year, compared with 22.3 billion paid in road tax.
• Coaches pay far too little in road tax says Timothy Yeo MP. In the Commons, Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley replied that coaches cause about 8% of wear and tear on all roads and amply pay their way in tax — but Robert Adley MP replied that a 53seat coach pays less tax than a Fiat Panda.
• Gerald Knowles, managing director of Knowles Transport of Wimblington and Wisbech Roadways died this week after a long illness. He was one of the best-known hauliers in East Anglia (CM 29 October 1987). He is survived by his sons, Gerald Junior and Tony, and his wife Flo. The funeral will be at 12.45 on Monday 5 December at Wirnblington Parish Church.
• As Commercial Motor went to press on Tuesday, 1,000 French soldiers were going into action in Paris to maintain a public transport system after the city was paralysed by a transport strike called as part of a two-month-old pay dispute. As a fleet of 400 army trucks took to the streets, a spokesman said: "The government has assumed responsibility for giving passengers the transport they need."