Staging Dropped In Icence Switch

• Changes to the HGV and PSV licensing system announced this week by transport minister Robert Atkins have been largely welcomed by the industry. The unified driver licensing......

Lowland In Buyout

• The big Scottish Bus Group sell-off is now underway. SGB, which is owned by the Scottish Transport Group, has sold Lowland Scottish to its management and employees, in line......

Gathering Gloom At Nfc Prospects

• Gloomy prospects have forced the NFC to slash its final year profit forecast by 28m to 297m after announcing a £3.5m drop in operating profits for the half-year to 24 March.......

French Coach Crash Prompts Safety Calls

• Last weekend's coach crash near Paris has prompted calls for a tightening up of safety measures. Transport secretary Cecil Parkinson is set to urge coach operators to......

York Chief

• Ruberoid chief executive John Roberts is the new chairman of York Trailer Holdings, following the retirement of Peter Tahany.......

Training Team

• Britain's 82 Training and Enterprise Councils (l'ECS) are forming a working party to lobby the Government on issues such as funding.......

Sea Log

/ Sealink says it has cleared a backlog of freight on its Dover-Calais and Newhaven-Dieppe routes caused by the continuing French engineers' strike over pay and conditions.......

Korberlimey

I Gerd Korber (Phoenix MAN 19.4) won the French Truck Grand Prix at the Paul Ricard circuit this week. Steve Parrish, (Mercedes 1450 S) was second.......