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• Police investigating the M4 coach crash in which 12 pensioners were killed are appealing for the driver of a blue flatbed lorry to come forward after eyewitness reports of pallets strewn on the road.
• Exel Logistics has
increased its hold on the £18 million annual Ford parts distribution contract by linking with northern-based haulier Archbold to handle Ford parts in the region.
• Ballot papers for the general secretary's post of the TGWU are being sent out this week as both candidates, Bill Morris and Jack Dromey, pledge to improve the status of the union's 100,000 truck drivers (see pages 40-41).
• The European Commission is allowing Portugal to give £50m in grants to hauliers to buy new trucks. The Five-year programme is intended to give family-owned firms more financial muscle.
• Dutch cobotage in Germany jumped 71% in 1994, part of a trend in which Dutch drivers increased their cabotage in most EU countries.
• Express parcels delivery firm ANC has completed a £50m management buyout from its parent company Securum AB. It was led by the managing director of Newcastle-Under-Lyme ANC, Andrew Callaghan, and funded by Montagu Private Equity and The Royal Bank of Scotland.
• EU agriculture ministers in Brussels have failed to decide what journey duration limit should be imposed on
stock hauliers. hauliers. A decision should be made at the next Council of Ministers meeting on 9 June.