Lorry Ban Plan Foi Private Roads

• Trucks and coaches could be banned from toll roads built by private road contractors eager to make their motorways more attractive to car drivers. Under June's Green Paper on......

October Wait On Judicial Review

• The road transport industry will have to wait until October to find out if the London lorry ban's insistence on air-brake silencers is illegal. The judicial review, before......

Special Changes

• Special types vehicle braking standards are to be relaxed because current regulations cannot be met by existing braking equipment, says the Department of Transport, but wheel......

Dock Strike Abandoned

• The Transport & General Workers Union's docks committee has voted to instruct its members ti abandon their official picket lines outside ports and return to work. After the......

Capital Freight

• The Department of Transport is backing a research project designed to keep key London routes clear for commercial vehicles. Working with the County Surveyors Society and the......