We"ve joined forces...

We"ve joined forces with the RAC Foundation to launch National Motorway Month, a new initiative aimed at highlighting the problems of the network and how they could be solved.

David Johns, editor in chief of Auto Express, believes National Motorway Month is one of the most important schemes the magazine has ever been involved in. "We approached the RAC Foundation at the beginning of the year about a joint venture that would really grab people"s attention," he said.

"Nearly every British driver uses the motorways, but how often do you get frustrated at the simple things - the lack of information available on the overhead gantry signs, other motorists" recklessness at the wheel or lane-hogging? The new campaign is all about bringing change."

This week, the growing menace of tailgating comes under the spotlight - there"s an exclusive survey revealing exactly how widespread this dangerous practice is. And we have discovered a cheap way of helping prevent it which has won amazing approval at the highest level - and has since been largely ignored. There"s a clue to what we"re talking about in our picture.

National Motorway Month is backed by driver training group BSM and the Institute of Advanced Motorists. There"s top-level support from the Highways Agency, too, as well as from transport minister David Jamieson. "We"re constantly striving to design safer motorways," said Jamieson, "but motorists need to take care, follow the rules of the road and use common sense."