Awd's First Year Cheer

• AWD has announced profits of 25.6 million in its first full year of operation. For the 14 months up to the end of December, AWD's turnover was 2125.8 million — 232.4 million......

Capital Deal

• Capital Commercials, a subsidiary of the Bus Engineering Group, has taken over Seddon Atkinson's London distributor at Edgware Road, Hendon.......

Rent A Freeze

• Booming demand for temperature-controlled vehicles has led BRS Northern to invest a further 21 million in its freezer rental centres at Hull and Bolton.......

Freeze Buying

• Industrial refrigeration specialist Grenco Matal has taken over Transfreeze, which installs commercial vehicle refrigeration equipment. Both companies are based in Camberley,......

Going Dutch

• Ocean Transport and Trading is swapping some of its UK-based road freight businesses with Dutch transport firm Nedlloyd in an 211 million deal.......

Renault Quintet

• PLG has bought five Renault G260-24D 6x4 tippers with Meiller 4293 front-end tipping gear and a split tailgate from Praiden Commercials of Hereford.......

Volvo Duo

• Wincanton Vehicle Rentals has signed a contract with Job's Fast Food Distribution for two Volvo FL6.17 refrigerated units.......

Charlesworth Fights On?

• Charlesworth Transport Engineering of Newark is expected to announce tomorrow (Friday 28 April) that it has been taken over, following a series of financial difficulties. The......

Bosses Win Cleveland Bid

• The management buyout bid at Cleveland tanker haulier Sadler Transport has been successful, despite bids from a number of UK tanker operators and European firms. The company......

German Parcel Plan

• A franchised parcel operation is being set up in West Germany next Tuesday (2 May), by Interlink Express Parcels. More than 100 franchisees have already signed up to Interlink......