Roadtrack Plan To Reduce Jams

by Rob Willock • Radical plans to privatise the roads network were proposed last week by leading academics and economists as a means of solving the UK's growing congestion......

Lynx Workers Accept 3.5%

• A 35% wage offer to staff by parcels firm Lynx has been accepted by the RMT union. A row which had escalated after the RMT had rejected the 3.25% offer (CM 19-25 June) was......

Road-tax Dampers Miss Truckers

• Not one truck has been clamped as part of the DVLA's recent wheelclamping campaign to catch road tax dodgers (CM 7 - 13 August). The scheme, which was launched in London on 18......

Driver Who Killed Two Gets Five Years

• A drunk truck driver who killed an AA patrolman and the driver of a car when he fell asleep and ploughed into the breakdown vehicle has been jailed for five years. Anthony......

Disc-lock Offer

• Insurance premium discounts are being offered to hauliers in a scheme to promote a new wheelnut design and improve vehicle safety. Under the agreement with Lloyd's insurer......