• A Birmingham youth who caused more than £90,000 worth
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of damage to. buses has been sentenced at Warwick Crown Court to six months youth custody. Simon Bremman, 17, of South Yardley vandalised at least 200 buses by spraying or writing his nickname on them.
• Senior Shell executives may be asked to give evidence under oath to a Cornmoos committee this week, :7 following allegations of petrol price fixing by big oil companies. Members of the all-party trade and industry committee are claiming that )` they have been lied to by the oil companies.
• Sealink is to launch a new route for driveraccompanied freight from Southampton or Portsmouth to Cherbourg: the new service is designed to compete with the Channel Tunnel. Sealink's freight sales manager Ray Tednaan says: further west you go, ess likely you are to lo affic to the Tunnel."
Nissan is planning to make trucks in the United tates, in a joint ventur
.th Navistar Internatio hich is believed to be the st joint project of its type
in the US. Nissan hopes to begin production of trucks in the four to eight tonne range in the autumn of 11.989.
• A new set of storage conditions has been introduced by the Road Haulage ,1 Association's Express Parcels, Warehousing and Distribution Functional Group. The increasing numbers of hauliers offering warehousing space at their depots led the group to draw up the conditions.
• The Fiat Group made a 1.41 billion profit in 1987. veco, Fiat's commercial vehicle division, contributed 1h a 25% increase in sales o 117,800 units, taking 19.8% of the European arket. Wee° Ford lost .4 million, however (CM 1-27 April).