On-site Hgv Tests Are On The Cards

• The Vehicle Inspectorate wants to introduce HGV testing at approved operators' sites, with tests conducted by VI examiners. Hauliers would have to bring their equipment up to......

Scottish Bus Group Plans To Sell Off Its Final Subsidiary

• The Scottish Bus Group is expected to put Highland Scottish Omnibuses on the market this week — it is the last of the company's 10 subsidiaries to be sold (see page 20). The......

Rna Support!

• Readings given by controversial dynamic axle weighbridges are fair, the Road Haulage Association has conceded. The RHA's acceptance of the consistency of the weighbridges......

Wilcox-seadyke Bought By Sesr

• Crane Fruehauf s parent company SESR has bought part of the Wilcox group's tipper manufacturing operation. Bodybuilder Wilcox-Seadyke, which has been in receivership since......

Budget Boost

• The Road Haulage Association's South Eastern district has received 12 letters from MPs supporting its Budget call for legislation to aid business debt recovery.......

Beware Boffins

• Theorists and academics who lack transport experience must not be allowed to dominate the transport debate, FTA director-general Garry Turvey told a members' dinner in......

Coasting North

• A 380km east coast road from Cambridge to Teesside has been proposed by seven county councils in eastern England.......

Retro Rejection

• HGV speed limiters should be an integral part of new vehicles and not a "bolt on extra", says the FTA, ° opposing retrofitting in its reply to the DTp's consultation paper.......