Labour Policies Unveiled

• Fifty-tonne trucks on special lorry-only highways could be introduced under Labour, says shadow transport secretary John Prescott. Speaking at Freight '89 in Torquay last......

116 Police Swoop

• A combined police and Department of Transport operation on the M6 motorway led to six foreign lorry drivers, three Frenchmen, one Dutchman, a Czechoslovakian and an Irishman,......

Fta Fights Ban

• The Freight Transport Association is to fight a proposed night-time ban on motorway routes in Austria. It says such a ban would seriously hamper the free movement of goods.......

Brenner Blockade

IN Hundreds of British truck drivers were stuck in a 24km tailback when Italian lorry drivers blocked the Brenner Pass motorway last week. The fourday blockade followed a......

Mayday Transport Ltd

• We have been asked to point out that Mayday Express of Bristol, which we wrote about in last week's issue under the headline "Mayday rises from Slick ruin", is not in any way......

Lining Up For The Livery Honours

The 1989 CM/ICI Autocolor Livery awards were presented at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu this week. See page 52 for details. Tim Harrison (left) and Chris Stairs, from......