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Commercial vehicle and car components distributor announced this week twill float on the Stock Exchange this Spring. The company expects to raise £20.7m.
Hauliers bucked the downward trend in receiverships as 11 transport operators went to the wall in January. Seventy four went under in the whole of last year.
Truck drivers are facing £20 on-the spo: if they are caught in the pedestrianised area of Birmingham city centre. Vehicles making deliveries are allowed in between 18:00 and 10:00hrs, Van driver Darren Turton of Walthew Lane, Platt Bridge, near Wigan who caused a woman motorist's death by dangerous driving in Essex has had his driving ban cut from five to two years.
The Niddrie area of Edinburgh and the Partick
area of Glasgow are to
introduce 20nv,i Li , and other traffic calming measures to help lower the number and severity of accidents in the districts.
North Sea Ferries has doubled capacity with a second superfreighter on its
itaite.t oum . The ferries' schedule allows drivers to reach their destination, load or unload and return on the same ship that night,
The Transport and General Workers Union's bus and coach expert Graham
Stevenson is ,ig national offic.pr for the road transport commercial group until the union decides how to fill Victor MacGeer's farmer post long term.