Road forward • The UK will fall behind its Community
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partners in the Single Market unless at least four more major motorways are built, warns the British Roads Federation. It wants an east coast motorway, a London orbital outside the M25, a south coast route and a Binningham-Manchester link.
Ulster move • The Road Haulage Association plans to set up an office in Northern Ireland: its Scottish district currently looks after members' interests in the province.
Job offers • Hauliers due to take over London newspaper delivery work from TNT Newsfast next month have been approaching redundant Newsfast drivers with job offers.
Fees threat • Members of the TGWU face increased subscriptions because of cash difficulties at the union.
Teledac fined • Teledac of Enfield, which makes tipper bodies, has been fined £2,000 with £500 costs following an accident in April in which an employee lost two fingers while working on a machine.
Green threat • More trucks and bigger warehouses after 1992 will lead to increased pressure on the transport industry from environmentalists, warns a new book, European Logistics — Markets, Management and Strategy.
Scots' promise • Scotland has the most to gain from the Channel Tunnel, says Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind.