Excise Changes But No Down-licensing

A STREAMLINED vehicle excise duty structure is being proposed by the Department of Transport, but it is still displaying no enthusiasm for down-licensing, writes ALAN MILLAR.......

Prescott Shadows Ridley

JOHN PRESCOTT, Labour's new Shadow Transport Secretary, will bring a new punchiness to Labour's approach to transport. Although he is a newcomer to the Shadow Cabinet, at sixth......

Fta Tilts At The Government

IT WILL be up to the transport industry to persuade the Government to adopt downlicensing, Freight Transport Association operations controller David Green said this week. He was......

Costs Rise

HAULIERS' OPERATING COSI rose by 4.3 per cent in the fir nine months of 1983, accordir to the Road Haulage Associ tion. It points out that this figure an average and individu......