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• P&O Ferrymasters faces a four-week trial on more than 100 charges of -c,chograph
. Eleven of the firm's 170 drivers face a similar number of charges. The case is due to begin in April.
Pay in bodystiops will increase by 2.7% under the latest National Joint Council deal between RMI/SMTA employees and unions.
• Goode Durrant, the vehicle and equipment hire group, has announced interim results showing operating profits up 17% to 217.9m on turnover ahead 28% at £70.2m.
• A £370m contract to upgrade and operate 120km of tl 1:ine motorway between the M6 at Carlisle and the A74 at Millbankthe first privately financed Scottish motorway—has been awarded to a three-company Anglo-Scottish consortium.
• Coach operator ,tional Express is one of the six shortlisted bidders for Welcome Break, the motorway services business being sold by Granada for an expected 2370m.
0,0 Tolls for the Frejus Tunnel between France and Italy will increase this year in line with inflation. Return tickets will cost FF I 474 (2169) for vehicles with four or more axles; and FF1,106 (£126) for three axled vehicles.
The European Commission has granted £1.7m to 18 projects studying ways to improve the safe transport of tadioadive material.
Hundreds of American truck drivers who are members of the -,:imsters Union are striking against Sainsbury's decision to subcontract US deliveries to nonunion drivers.