BROADER BACKING FOR BRAKE • Road haulage trade associations have
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endorsed some aims of a campaign to impose tougher controls on hauliers. The Freight Transport Association and Road Haulage Association said at the launch of the lobby group Brake (CM 2-8 February) that they agreed with its aim to toughen enforcement and introduce impounding of unlicensed operators' vehicles. But they stopped short of !Docking Brake, which industry sources say is likely to be seen by the public as anti-truck, though they accept this is not the intention of the campaign. The Labour party, road transport unions and truck accident victims have already given their support for the campaign, which is headed by journalist Mary Williams. The launch was attended by shadow transport secretary Michael Meacher; LibDem MP Matthew Taylor; Labour MP Alice Mallon; Labour peer Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis; director general of the British Safety Council James Tye and truck accident victims' families.