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M-way Refusal
• A local authority-backed plan for a 370km east-coast motorway running from Newmarket to Cleveland has been ruled out by the DOT.......
Henry Sells
• Foden Trucks has appointed Bill Henry as its Northern region sales manager.......
Nfc Stateside
• NFC has bought US transport company Trammell Crow Distribution. The Dallas-based company's assets amount to £4.2m, and its turnover in the past financial year was £27.6m.......
Carmen's Merit
• General Logistics — inventor of the Trafficmaster motorway traffic monitoring system — has won the Worshipful Company of Carmen's Award of Merit.......
Alcock Leaves
• George Alcock, production director at East Lancashire Coachbuilders, is taking early retirement at 56, ending 54 years of his family's design and engineering input at the......
Buyer Sought
• A buyer is being sought for £1.8m-turnover removals firm Overs of Camberley, Salisbury and Addlestone which called in the receiver last week. Its troubles are blamed on......
Stobart's Supreme
• Cumbrian-based Eddie Stobart is Motor Transport's Haulier of the Year. Stobart beat finalists Archbold Freightage and Beck & Pollitzer.......
Animals Charter Threat
• EC officials are drafting new regulations for livestock transport which the RSPCA claims could put many livestock hauliers out of work. The regulations, whose shape will be......
Managers For Hire?
• Traffic Commissioners are to meet next month to discuss the Freight Transport Association's proposals to offer a transport manager service to its members. The FTA saw an......
La Slams Pcv Offence Quirk
• Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh has slammed a quirk in the law which makes it harder to prosecute PCV operators than hauliers. A goods operator can be taken to court......
Ta Rings In Bell
• Peter Bell, managing director of Mahon, North Yorksbased SA Bell, has succeeded Ian Ramsay as chairman of the Transport Association. The association was founded in 1952 and......