Fuel Costs Ris

In price sting • Higher diesel prices are matched by a dramatic change in pricing strategy, says market analyst John Hall. "Oil companies have dropped their strategy of 'deep......

Irish Driver's Lucky Escape

• Trucker Michael Robinson of P J O'Kane Haulage of Garvagh, County Derry, had a lucky escape when his Scania smashed through the side wall of a bridge and landed upsidedown in......

Getting Heavy • The Transport Committee Of The European...

has passed a resolution that Britain should accept 40-tonne trucks by 1992. The resolution will now be put before the next Council of Transport Ministers meeting in June.......

Safer Hazards • There Were 68 Accidents Involving Trucks...

hazardous cargoes last year, compared with 101 incidents in the year 1986/87.......

Road To Rugby • Work Will Begin Next Month On

the new road link between the M1 near Rugby and the Al at Huntingdon. Total cost of the 60km link is expected to be 2166 million.......

Bigger And Better • Sales Of Commercial Motor Have Risen

by 4%, reports the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Now the only major paid-for weekly in the UK road transport industry, CM last year sold an average 31,867 copies per issue.......

Diesel Alert

• Friends of the Earth has launched a 'Diesel Alert' campaign to monitor truck emissions in 60 UK cities. The environmental pressure group says it will report offenders......