• The managing director of Vauxhall Motors in Luton, Paul
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J Tosch, has been appointed vicepresident of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
• Tolls for the Dartford Tunnel will rise in September. Light and medium goods vehicles will have to pay £1.10 (up 10p); HGVs will pay £1.80 (up 20p).
• Vehicle manufacturing has now ceased at Scammell's heavy truck plant in Watford. The company says that "final tidying up" activities will keep a skeleton staff busy until the end of this year, when the factory will close down completely.
• Freight Rover is expected to launch a high-roof 200-series Sherpa van later this year, in time for the Birmingham Motor Show. The company is currently involved in talks with a foreign manufacturer (possibly Honda) and a jointly produced replacement for the Sherpa is expected by 1990.
• Textile and hanginggarment haulier Daly Transport of Hornsey in north London has won a Road Haulage Association certificate of commendation, as part of the 1988 Lloyds Bowmaker awards.
• Foden Trucks has delivered seven Improved Medium Mobility Load Carriers to the Ministry of Defence for validation trials. The test programme is scheduled to run for 24 months, but Foden hopes for an early decision to allow full-scale production to begin late in 1989.
• Under Secretary of State for Transport Peter Bottomley has opened a new Department of Transport weighbridge on the A40 dual carriageway near Ross-on-Wye, Hereford and Worcester. The weighbridge was manufactured and supplied by Central Weighing in Kidderminster.
• North Sea Ferries is operating a new freight service from Middlesbrough to Zeebrugge on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.