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• City Truck Group has made the biggest ever UK civilian order of Renault trucks, spending more than 213m on 218 Premiums.
• Eddie Stobart has placed the biggest single tractor order ever received by MAN in the UK—for 128 F2000s.
• Manufacturing companies in the North and Midlands bore the brunt of increasing corporate failures in July. Deloiite & Touche says they were up 20% on June.
• The Government will conduct a survey of food suppliers, retailers and hauliers in October to examine supply chain efficiency.
• Drivers using the A531 between Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe face a 22-mile diversion for three weeks because of roadworks—but locals have discovered a one-mile short cut along New Road.
• Lucas Varity is to sell its heavy vehicles braking systems division.
• Parcels and logistics firm Nightfreight has changed its corporate livery to a golden eagle on a blue background.
• Vehicle rental firm TLS has promised not to pass on the £25 new vehicle registration fee to its customers.
• Quarrying firm ANC has offered Staffordshire haulier Chris Buffon a six-year franchise—the first in the county for more than 10 years.
• An employee of a Liverpool haulage company has been charged with 10 offences of handling stolen CVs. Joe Glanville will appear before Huyton magistrates on 20 August.