• West Yorkshire Waste Management expects to join with Shanks
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& McEwan to bid for a £4m transport contract it was forced to put on the market under the statutory tendering rules.
Failures slow
• Company failures have dropped to their lowest level since 1989—seven transport firms went into receivership last month, says accountant Touche Ross.
Pricing pilot
• The first UK pilot scheme to test road pricing was launched last week in Cambridge—if successful, it could be up and running by the end of the century
More for AI!truck
• Midlands-based Alltruck Hire is increasing its fleet by 120 vehicles following a • 250,000 buy in by Scottish finance group EFT.
RHA plea
• Keeping the 40% capital allowance for a further year; a VED freeze; and reduction in duty to the EC average are being called for by the RHA in its Budget submission.
P&O job cuts
• P&O European Ferries will cut about 240 jobs by the end of the year on routes between Felixstowe to Zeebrugge and Rotterdam and between Larne and Cairnryan.
Austria swaps
• Davies Turner has started a swap body service from Kent to Austria running six days a week from its recently opened £5m site at Dartford. Next February the freight forwarder will open a similar depot near the Trafford Park, Manchester rail terminal.