• BRS Midlands has taken over the total transport operation of Leaderflush, the Nottingham-based door manufacturer.
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Under a contract hire agreement, BRS has bought the company's existing 28tonne Dal tractor units and three curtain-sided demount bodies and hired them back to Leaderflush.
It has also bought two Daf 2100 rigids with demount bodies, a 7.5 tonne Leyland Roadrummer with curtain-sided body. and 12.2m curtain-sided trailer for the firm's deliveries of doors, frames and complete doorsets nationwide.
• Federal Express Priority Services, the express parcels division of Federal Express 'UK, is to open two Scottish depots in Edinburgh and Perth, giving it further coverage of the United Kingdom.
The Edinburgh site will create an extra 65 jobs, while the Perth depot will employ a futher 60. The vehicle fleet will be divided, with 20 door-to-door delivery vehicles based in Edinburgh and 17 in Perth. Nine overnight trunking vehicles will operate between the new sites and FedEx's parcels hub at Nuneaton, • Lease Plan Group has increased its after-tax profits by 40% from £3.2m to £4.5m. The group's annual report shows it now has 56,000 vehicles out on lease in Europe with all nine European subsidiaries expanding.