• Traffic in London grew at a rate of 1%
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a year between 1976 and 1987, but heavy goods traffic has fallen since the beginning of the 1980s because of the M25, says the London Transport Monitoring Report from the Department of Transport.
• Municipally owned Taff Ely Transport has been sold to rival bus company National Welsh (CM 18-24 August). The majority of staff have been retained by National Welsh, but Taff Ely's transport depot at Glyntaff will close next month.
• The Government is being urged by businessmen in London and Birmingham to drop plans to restrict the "missing link" of the M40, between Waterstock and Wendlebury, to four lanes. The Department of Transport claims traffic projections do not justify the extra cost of providing six lanes.
• TNT, the Australian international transport group, more than doubled its pretax profit in the year to June, to £127 million (Aus $267 million) from Aus $126 million the previous year. The group plans to continue to expand its European freight operations.
• Spanish police are questioning 12 Britons on the Costa Brava after a £100 million drugs haul at a warehouse belonging to international removals firm Pickfords Espana.
• More than 25% of truck drivers break the motorway speed limit, according to a survey in last weekend's Sunday Times. The survey of 100 lorries on five motorways — the M25, M2, M20, M4 and M26/27 — found 27 travelling over the 961on/h (60mph) limit, with 12 going faster than 112km/h (70mph).
• The United Road Transport Union has relaunched its newspaper Wheels as part of a campaign to raise its profile in the road transport industry.