ROUND-UP OF THE HOTTEST NEWS IN HAULAGE!
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WINGANTON WINS Wincanton Logistics has won a £99m contract to supply Scottish & Newcastle outlets for the next seven years.
ERF LIGHTWEIGHTS Following the recent sale of ERF to MAN, the Sandbach-based truck maker is to build lightweight trucks below its current 14-tonne weight limit, and it will maintain its commitment to Cummins engines.
MI= EMS Express parcels company Hays has bought two Spanish-based overnight delivery businesses. DUN and Driver Pack.
GOING DOM Wolverhampton-based driver Alan Jones, who was stopped by the VI and found to be driving while disqualified, has been jailed for five months.
DAUER SUCCESS
Essex Police arrested four men and recovered an HGV stolen from Wickford-based drainage company Dial A Rod in just two-and-a-half hours using the truck's Tracker vehicle recovery system.
FAML ACCANNT A Northamptonshire coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death after two teenage sisters were killed on the A45 near Earls Barton. Truck driver Neil Treanor had failed to see the sisters' broken-down car and smashed into the back of it.
CPC SUCCESS Ten drivers at Safeway's Bristol Regional Distribution Centre have won the CPC as part of the company's transport learning initiative.
HUNGER STRIKE Essex truck driver Steve Bryant has started his second week of a hunger strike in Rabat prison in Morocco: he hopes the UN will intervene.