Services signs • The Government will allow existing services on
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the Al to be signposted as the road is upgraded to motorway standard—work has just begun on the first 21km (13-mile) stretch to be converted between Walshford and Dishforth, North Yorks.
Safety sell-off • The Government body responsible for road safety research is expected to be sold soon. The information technology arm of the DVLA is expected to be privatised by the end of the year.
Better sales • Nearly 29,000 commercial vehicles over 3.5 tonnes were registered last year, which equalled the total registered in 1991, according to the Department of Transport.
Trunk call • London's key roads should be made into trunk roads, says Freight Transport Association director-general Garry Turvey. He believes this would reduce hauliers' journey times as they face increasingly strict delivery times.
Cash caution • Owner-drivers and small operators are particularly vulnerable to failing as the economy comes out of recession and increased business dries up their cashflow, warns credit control specialist Barclays Commercial Services.
Flight protest • A truck was being used to trap a van belonging to Hoover for a fifth day as Commercial Motor went to press. Cumbria-based carriage builder David Dixon is protesting at Hoover's delay in giving him two free flights to America as part of a promotion which has cost the company .£20m.