• The Transport and General Workers Union's general executive will
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decide this week whether to black nuclear cargoes on trucks and at ports. Its road transport and commercial section is concerned about nuclear waste being driven around without the knowledge of drivers (CM 24-30 November).
• Road Haulage Association director general Bryan Colley (see profile, page 27) has met with EEC transport director-general Eduardo Pena to discuss the trade association's policies towards the 1992 Single European Market (SEM). The association's new headquarters in Weybridge, Surrey will be opened on 14 February by the Princess Royal.
• The new "life long" HGV and PSV driving licences will only be valid until the age of 45-after which they must be renewed every five years following a medical examination, said the Government last week. After the age of 65, drivers will also need annual medical checks.
• New registrations of maximum-weight artics in October were up 38% on October 1987: CVs over 1.5 tonnes were up 21%. In the 12 months to October, registrations of all goods vehicles were 18% with maximum-weight HGVs up 32%.
• Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley, speaking at the opening of a weighbridge off the Al at Sawtry near Peterborough, has slammed overloaded trucks as dangerous to other motorists and damaging to roads and bridges.
• Daf BV president Aart van der Padt handed over the first British-built Leyland Daf 1900 to Robson Distribution managing director Simon Banger on Tuesday of this week. Next year, says van der Padt, Leyland Daf will build 1,000 right-hand-drive 1900s in the UK.